Power Calculation Formula?
Is there a formula to calculate Power?
How exactly is power determined?
How exactly is power determined?
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Thought I had it - Didn't!
Power seems to be fairly irrelevant. Look at how low EP's unmodded power is versus Rey's unmodded power versus somebody like First Order Stormtrooper's power. FOST's power is fairly considerable yet he sucks. EP is obviously a very strong character but he's fairly low so not well represented by power, at least in my inventory, and Rey is low as well yet she has the most powerful single-target damage in the game. Honestly, it's one of those stats that after 9-months I don't feel is all that important. Synergy between characters and now mod-implementation matter a whole lot more.
I dunno. My team is like 42k a couple others are right about that too and we have a couple guys with squads in the low to mid 30k's that come in and manage to snipe at payout. LOL! I'm not sure what a good gauge would be.
What specifically do you find that Power tells you?
I'm just curious because maybe I'm missing out on something. If you had a 5th spot open on a team and you needed a DPS, how would you figure out who to put there? Go with the highest power DPS? I just struggle with trying to figure out how to use a metric that is not clearly defined. It's like agreeing to marrying a women you've never met or talked to.
And that's fine to have a theory, that's all one can have when something is unknown. Me I look at how a character works and what benefits them most. For instance Aayla, benefits a lot from crit chance is an obvious stat that's good for her. SunFac has horrible Tenacity and can't afford to be stunned because his counter and debuff are too good, so buffing his Tenacity as best I can makes sense and works fairly well. Somebody like RG benefits well from Health, Protection, and Potency. Rather than power I look at mods that compliment a strength or improve a weakness or both if I should be so lucky with my secondaries. That's my theory on how to mod.
It's possible for sure. I don't know if having the most balanced approach is always the best way. You can try and keep a character balanced or you can really focus on their strengths. It's like the difference between being good at something and being an expert at something. Not to mention finding the right balance within your team. Droid players balance their speed very very specifically so certain characters always go before another character and it creates a very specific synergy, it has nothing to do with power. My current squad I have a certain setup and order for my characters too; it just depends on what you want to do I guess.
Devs, if you're out there. Please put power onto the mod equip screen stats.
And Damage is not logically tied to any reported stat, ie. a character can have a lower Physical Damage stat than another but still do more Physical Damage. It's a non-reported stat that plays a big role that we can't account for.
Likely a multiplier for that skill based off of damage stats.
The game is sloppily thrown together to make a quick buck. No sense in overly analyzing something that's simply a cluster **** that the devs probably don't even understand.
If you want to max the "power" number of a character use all health mods with protection primaries. Health and protection seem to make largest difference in this number.
This is nonesense. I looked deeply into the Defense stat and it's effect on armor % and was impressed. The complexity and forethought were surprising. Definitely not thrown together. While i didnt look into the stats responsible for damage, i will soon and expect similar results.