does D2 roll the dmg on the base range and then amplifies the number by ed/min/max/skills/synergies/masteries/... or is the base range modified first and the dmg rolled in the second step based on the extended range?

example: consider a short sword (base dmg: 2-7) and equip with 200%ed
scenario 1, dmg rolled on base range and amplified later: you start with possible dmg numbers (2 3 4 5 6 7), after considering %ed you end up with dmg numbers (6 9 12 15 18 21)
scenario 2, range gets extended first and dmg is rolled second: range is 6-21 and possible dmg numbers are (6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ... 20 21)

scenario 2 is sort of continuous (on the set of integers) while scenario 1 only allows discrete values

does anyone know which is implemented in the game? have there been any studies on this???

Persons who knows things like this have stopped to viewing this site long time ago probably knows things like this i think, but he have been offline awhile. maybe can answer to your question or

This post was edited by Soppamies on Feb 19 2024 11:15pm

https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Damage

1. Base wep
2. Etheral
3. Enhanced wepon damage% / enhanced max wep damage%
4. Minimum / Maximum / adds damage
5. +damage
6. % damage
% damage undead/demons
7. Deadly strike / critic strike
8. Unit critical chance
9. Fire / Psn / Cold / Lightning
10. Magic skill damage %
11. Conversion of physical damage
12. Source damage penalty

As for defenender its rolls in this order:
1. Unit modifier(player forexample 17%)
2. Bone armor / Cyclone armor
3. %Energy shield
4. DR / MDR
5. % Resists
-% resists
6. Absorb %
7. Absorb
8. MDR/DR overflow

Crushing blow on a melee/ranged attack happens prior to direct damage.
Every part is rounded down (floor'ed)

This post was edited by gel87 on Feb 20 2024 12:44am

aware of that, but thats not the question. i am wondering at which point the RMG comes into play

damn it sadly that technically makes a difference, so i have to calc a larger example to see if it matters for larger numbers

Okay, well.
I would guess output of damage calc would roll. I kinda dont see why they would have an extra roll first for base damage or wepon damage. Cause what if u have 8min damage ring, and 3 max damage SC and so on...
But im not sure.

All i know is:
To get correct numbers one need to calc it like this:
FLOOR(WepMin * (1+(wepEd%/100))+OtherMinDamage) * FLOOR(1+((AuraEd%+Statbonus%+SkillBonus%+GearEd%)/100))
FLOOR(WepMax * (1+(wepEd%/100))+OtherMaxDamage) * FLOOR(1+((AuraEd%+Statbonus%+SkillBonus%+GearEd%)/100))
Here +damage will be added both on min and max.

So i guess it rolls for hitchance first, then it rolls for blockchance, then CB/OW, then FinalMin/Max, then it roll's for critic, then it rolls for deadly,
Then it adjust according to unit, then bone/cyclone, then es, DR/MDR, Resists, Absorb%, absorb integer, MDR/DR overflow.

Anyhow, not 100% sure.

i've recently come upon this repository, which is an open source c++ reimplementation of d2 lod libraries based purely on assembly. there's lot of things you can verify in there but can take a bit of time to trace through each function

https://github.com/ThePhrozenKeep/D2MOO/tree/master/source

tyvm, now i just need to learn basics for c++