I dont understand the reason for the +1 and -1 in the equations. Explain please.
I dont understand the reason for the +1 and -1 in the equations. Explain please.
You mean in the Crit Multi equation?
I think that's simply because instead of each crit tier just multiplying your critical damage, DE wanted to scale it by slightly less than that. So what they did was take your crit tier, multiply it by your crit multi, and then subtract the crit tier from that:
However, notice that for yellow crits instead of dealing damage multiplied by your listed critical multiplier it's actually one less than your crit multi. So, the 1+ was added to keep things consistent:
This of course simplifies down to the equation we know today as:
So the reason there are seemingly arbitrary plus ones and minus ones is because they are arbitrary. They're a result of DE wanting a specific scaling pattern, they don't actually come from any mathematical properties.
Isn't it a mere product of the depiction they chose (multiplier vs bonus damage)? For example, a 1.5x crit multiplier deals +50% bonus damage on a yellow crit and only the bonus gets increased on subsequent tiers (+100% for 2x on orange, +150% for 2.5x on red, etc.).
Ah, that might make more sense. I never thought of it as being a percent bonus. I'm which case, they do come from mathematical properties.
Yup, most of those seem to be related to % value translations (like +50% of x = 100% of x + 50% of x = x + 50% of x = x(1 + 50%))
Ps. Overgeneralisation and bad math (show what fit there much better) aside, I think that should explain the point.
Ps. Ps. Take into account this factor in especially when counting in warframe scaling, as for example it is: BaseHP + 200% * BaseHP + Mod's Bonus * BaseHP. So for 100->300 HP warframe you would have: 100 HP + 2x 100 HP (at 30L) + 4.4x 100 HP (maxed mod)