Does anyone know the difference in damage between weapon damage and flat damage?

Tigeracer · June 2023

I'm creating a bow stamblade build and wondering if hunding's or marksman will be better, but I'm not sure if 300 weapon damage is better than 8% flat damage.

MudcrabAttack · July 2023

Weapon damage:
%buff= 100 x (extra weapon damage) x (1+ total weapon damage multipliers) / (total buffed weapon damage + total stamina/10.46)

If you already have 5000 weapon damage + 30000 stamina without the 5 piece set bonus, (and 20% major brutality is active, 7 pieces of medium armor for 14%, 1 fighters guild skill slotted for 3%):

The 300 weapon damage from Hundings Rage adds:
100 x (300 x (1+ .2+ .14 + .03)) / (5000+ 30000/10.46) = 5.2%

Damage Multiplier
If you have Long Shots active (6% for standing 12m away), Hawk Eye active (25%), Master at arms (6% for a skill like lethal arrow), minor berserk (5%), minor slayer(5%)

%buff = 100 x (damage bonus) / (1 + Hawk Eye bonus + Long Shots bonus + Master at Arms + minor berserk + minor slayer)

The 8% buff from marksman is really more like 5.4%

It’s all the same damage-wise, but at least Hundings would buff your self heals

Janni · June 2023

'Better' is subjective. Raw damage like hundings will affect all skills including healing. Depending on your base damage before the modifier the % bonus will usually give you stronger damage with the skills affected by it. But if your base damage was very weak then it might not.

Necrotech_Master · July 2023

i believe the conversion rate is roughly 1% dmg per 100 weapon/spell dmg

but your final weapon and spell dmg can be higher when affected by buffs (+10% minor buff and +20% major buff)

realistically if you want maximum dmg, you would want both if possible as they stack

marius_buys · July 2023

I would seek extra damage in crit

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Does anyone know the difference in damage between weapon damage and flat damage?

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