Yes. I know. The question is what the game does to calculate tooltip dps.
The easiest way I could think of is this:
Hit once; divide damage by attacktime → skill dps
Take one of each ailments which can be applied; multiply damage by chance and by effect and then get the damage over 1 second
the sum would yield an estimate to you skill dps which is uneffected by duration
As we know. Duration does not increase the damage per second of an ailment put only extends its duration resulting in a damage increase in a fight; not a single hit.
That is not technically correct. It increases effective DPS for ailments, e.g. for ailments with unlimited stacks 2x duration doubles number of stacks on the monster, doubling effective DPS. Currently this is not accounted for correctly in the game itself, but devs noted it and hopefully this will be addressed in the next update.
No. Technically it does not increase the damage per second of an ailment in a single hit scenario. It only increases the damage in a fight with more than one hit.
Edit:
The easiest way to calculate an estimate of dps is to apply one instance of a skill and scale all its damage to one second
Hit: hitDamage / attacktime → skill damage per second
Ailment: totalAilmentDamage / duration → ailment damage per second
If you now increase the duration you get the same damage for the ailment as the increase cancels out in nominator and denominator.
Of course it should be done differently but this would be a valid way to calculate an estimation which would result in no change for increased duration.
Of course it should show effective dps! But the arising question then is allways what is the assumed duration of the fight used for calculation. As through ramp up the effective dps can differ a lot for different durations.
For some builds this can probably done by easily calculating the stationary point. Just considering ailments would make this very easy. But the resulting effective dps would be really missleading as it can not reached in short duration fights due to ramp up.
For buffs like aspect of the shark (with stacking), which have some form of quadratic scaling, as more stacks result in more speed resulting in more stacks this would even be a more difficult question.
I would aslo be interested if we really know what the game tooltip should show? Any comments from the devs what the assumptions are? I found no information in the tooltips or the game guide.
I mean, my rive bleed paladind shows a tooltip dps of 65k but has a dps of around 400k for a 60s fight. Considering a 20s fight the dps only gets to around 320k.
Current in game tooltip DPS for DoT is: base damage * [total increased] * [totalmore] * (1 + increased effect) * (1 + increased duration / base duration) * (1 + penetration) * chance to apply, where base damage is total damage for the whole duration, e.g. 35 Fire for Ignite.
And this bit (1 + increased duration / base duration) is buggy, it was reported and should be fixed in future updates.
As for the ramp up time - yeah, it’s difficult to account for. In general ramp up time = duration * (1 + increased duration) until somewhat constant number of stacks on target, but of course fights can be much shorter.
It is more or less the point where you reach your maximum stacks. Not considering buffs this can be calculated easily but gets way more complicated in other situations.
I just think that a single tooltip dps never will be a good estimation or a build.
Elemental Nova is now also in the list of skills that show DPS and all skill damage/dps breakdown. Currently in the game itself Elemental Nova tooltip DPS is completely incorrect, because it uses default skill data, not specific X nova skill data. In planner you can see correct total DPS, plus DPS and damage breakdown for particular X nova skill.
Fixed incorrect/missing mastery bonuses for Void Knight, Forge Guard, Paladin and Marksman
Fixed DPS calculation for non-stackable ailments (it now properly accounts for APS, lowering actual DPS significantly compared to in-game tooltip DPS)
I dunno if it’s me but on opera and firefox the planner is messed up now. cant put in passives in mastery trees past a certain point and the icons on the skill tree has missing icons.
