How do damage bonuses work?

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StefanProdan

Dalayan Beginner
I have a quick question.

Say you see, like, "Magic DMG: 3" on a weapon that has a damage of 5.

Does that turn it into a damage of 8 weapon, or does it just add "3" non-melee damage to each of your attacks?
I'm assuming it's the latter because if it's the former, that's a huge amount of damage. I just wanted to make sure so I can be a more educated shopper.

Thanks!
 
If you get a weapon thats 5/25 with +3 disease damage, then its basically an 8/25 weapon assuming the additional disease damage isnt resisted. So if you fight a disease resistant mob the +3 bonus may be resisted often resulting in lesser damage, however if you fight a mob suseptable to disease damage then your damage will be based off the 8/25 again resists still come into play but your overall dps would be higher =)
 
Uh, wow, so at say level 10 if you had a 5/25 weapon with say +7 cold damage you could go from doing 12 damage to like 30 or something?
 
StefanProdan said:
Uh, wow, so at say level 10 if you had a 5/25 weapon with say +7 cold damage you could go from doing 12 damage to like 30 or something?
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If you had a 5/25 weapon with +7 cold dd you would go from doing 5 dd to 12 dd (12/25) on mobs that had low/no cold resists.
 
StefanProdan said:
Uh, wow, so at say level 10 if you had a 5/25 weapon with say +7 cold damage you could go from doing 12 damage to like 30 or something?
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There is also a damage cap on sub level 20(?) I believe that prevents hitting for over 20 points if I remember correctly. Not sure if a damage bonus will let you exceed that or not, so don't think that is possible at level 10.
 
Dmg cap

My monk has the Feral Scepter and I can tell you that the damage cap is not 20dmg before level 20. It could, however, be 20 dmg before level 10 or something, because I remember a jump from about 20 damage to about 30 on one of my levels, but can't remember for sure what it is.
 
I wasn't certain and didnt find much on a forum search (but I remembered it and a search did show someone else posting that some time back) but I still wasn't positive if that held true. I guess I could always get a decent 2 hander on my 17 ranger and test it out. I wouldn't doubt it you can exceed the cap earlier than 20.
 
The point of my post was that like +7 damage pre-multipliers is very different from +7 damage on the end or whatever.

Like, if you have a 5 damage weapon, you certainly aren't going to do 5 damage withi it, you're going to do at LEAST ten.

And so on.
 
kineldar said:
Wiz said:
Damage cap doesn't exist anymore.
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Of course, with all the new level restrictions on weapons there really isnt a need for a dmg cap. :roll:
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That's the point, yes. When did you turn into such a shitty poster?
 
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