Quote (TSBoyer @ 18 Jun 2013 16:59)
It isn't a Diablo 3 DPS calculation
No, and it isn't a Diablo 2 DPS calculation either...
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It's merely showing what the damage is when it criticals
and states the % chance that the critical will happen
The image displays a figure (5608) which is taken to be the theoretical average damage of critical hits but stated as the
Average Damage With 72% Critical.
If chance of critical damage is increased from 0 to 72%, the percentage increase to Average physical attack Damage is 72 ( 100·(72 - 0)/(100 + 0) ).
That is, a multiplier of (100+72)/100, or 1.72.
Using a multiplier of 2 (corresponding to critical hits only) in subsequent calculations is also misleading, because you discard the remaining (28%) non-critical shots.
Both of the Average Damage figures after .17 PvP and 50% DR are based on 5608 alone.
Quote (lilith0 @ 18 Jun 2013 17:16)
even with 1% chance of critical strike, average physical dmg of critical strikes are twice the average physical dmg of non critical strikes.
Yes, theoretically (in practice you would need an uncanny number of shots to approximate those figures, unless normal damage variation is almost zero).
The problem with the video is that it specifies an exact chance of critical damage (72%) and uses this number to present the average damage of critical hits (which is theoretically the same with any non-zero chance).
Rather than:
Average Damage With 72% Critical (...) it should have read:
Average Damage of crits (...)This post was edited by Quorra on Jun 18 2013 11:55am