Attempting to have all weapons maxed out is the road to (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Monday, December 22, 2014, 10:00 (3865 days ago) @ someotherguy

madness.

I know, I tried it.

Unfortunately, this is the reason my PvE post never marerialised. Other people covered a lot of it (things like Perks, elemental modifiers, etc), so I went looking deeper into how Attack and Impact interact in PvE.

It didnt go well. Every time I thought I'd found a formula, I'd find a new way I was wrong. Very tiring.

In the end I decided that I was spending more time recording data than I was playing the game, and I didnt like it. So uhh, my bad guys/gals/amorphous blobs. I just didn't have it in me.

That's what I was afraid of. Thinking about it some more and reading that, it seems like there's an underlying system, it just has a ton of exceptions-- which would answer the other big question I had, which was why Bungie didn't explain the damage system to us. I suspect it's because it's not so much a system, especially now, as it is an arrangement of calculations tweaked to feel right and make things more or less balanced, and I doubt anyone outside of the team in charge of changing damage values fully understands it. If only I could pick Sage's brain/beard about this....