How do I check damage?

TheUrbanWizard · July 2016

People say they 25k damage or whatnot, but how do I check?

I mean different enemies, skills, heavy/light all affects damage output.

What's the standard way of measuring it?

Sorry if this is a stupid question!

vyndral13preub18_ESO · July 2016

There isnt an agreeded standard. Since there are no test dummies to beat up on. Usually though when stating your dps people usually are talking about a dungeon boss of some sort. Even though those can vary wildly.

xerasia · July 2016

Turn on combat text in options, then beat up on some NPCs

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

On Consoles just turn on the Damage Numbers or whatever from Options in Gameplay I believe is where it is.

On PC they use add-ons.

starkerealm · July 2016

FTC and other addons will often include a DPS readout, and as Xerasia said, you can turn on your combat text crawl.

TheUrbanWizard · July 2016

OK yeah but I mean when people say they get 45k, fine, but in what scenario.

I get like 43k damage on one of then echel things in Orsinium, but I'm stealthed, using Reapers Mark and Rally and with a heavy attack.

Similarly if I use rally and reapers mark in a dungeon and spam Surprise Attack I get anything between 5k and 15k.

I have no idea if these numbers are any good for a NB damage dealer..

starkerealm · July 2016

TheUrbanWizard wrote: »

OK yeah but I mean when people say they get 45k, fine, but in what scenario.

I get like 43k damage on one of then echel things in Orsinium, but I'm stealthed, using Reapers Mark and Rally and with a heavy attack.

Similarly if I use rally and reapers mark in a dungeon and spam Surprise Attack I get anything between 5k and 15k.

I have no idea if these numbers are any good for a NB damage dealer..

43k from stealth is respectable. I can't remember the math for Reaper's Mark off hand, but I usually use Rally and Wrecking Blow as my go to, from stealth, option.

Surprise Attack has always been underwhelming to me. Especially in comparison to the movement buff from Concealed Weapon.

TheUrbanWizard · July 2016

@starkerealm is Concealed Weapon the other morph? Might give it a go thanks

starkerealm · July 2016

TheUrbanWizard wrote: »

@starkerealm is Concealed Weapon the other morph? Might give it a go thanks

Yeah, it's the magicka morph, so you're strictly slotting it for it's passive effect, not to actually attack with it. If you're running a stealth build, and including something like Nightstalker's Footsteps, Shadowdancer, or Night's Silence, you can move at ridiculous speeds in stealth, combine with judicious cloak use, and you can really mess with the game's expectations of where you'll be when an encounter starts.

altemriel · July 2016

TheUrbanWizard wrote: »

OK yeah but I mean when people say they get 45k, fine, but in what scenario.

I get like 43k damage on one of then echel things in Orsinium, but I'm stealthed, using Reapers Mark and Rally and with a heavy attack.

Similarly if I use rally and reapers mark in a dungeon and spam Surprise Attack I get anything between 5k and 15k.

I have no idea if these numbers are any good for a NB damage dealer..

there are addons on pc, like FTC for example, that display numbers of your actual attacks, so if you hit somebody or something in one hit for 21 000 damage, then it says "21k", and next time when you hit someone with 10k damage, it says "10k".

So to say I hit 45k, means either usually or that one time I hit something/somebody with 45k damage.

caperon · July 2016

TheUrbanWizard wrote: »

People say they 25k damage or whatnot, but how do I check?

I mean different enemies, skills, heavy/light all affects damage output.

What's the standard way of measuring it?

Sorry if this is a stupid question!

The standard way of mesuring is using addons like FTC or Combat Metrics, that count all the damage (and healing, and more things) you do, so you can know the average damage you dfo per second. Obviously only works for PC users (teh master race!).

For console, there is a post explaining how to do tests on the bloodspawn so you can have an aproximation (known hp/time).

Ghost-Shot · July 2016

45k is for all but a handful of people in the world only going to be achieved in a raid setting were boss resistances are debuffed down to basically nothing and you have every group damage buff available to you. And even then you are still looking at the best players in the world hitting those numbers. Realistically you want to aim for 30-35k on vet raid bosses, 25k should be like you minimum dps in a vet raid. Always keep in mind there are some bosses that are very difficult to get a high dps parse on, its not that you aren't doing good damage there are just some spots where you are forced off of a boss, going down the portal on Mantikora for example.

ValkynSketha · July 2016

Bloodspawn is what most test on, you need a tank that keeps him in one place.

DurzoBlint13 · July 2016

on PC I think there is an add-on that shows the breakdown of how much damage the group does and each person's average DPS for that fight. I could be wrong since I play ps4 but I think that is close to how it works. On console the only way to know your DPS is beat up a dungeon boss- Bloodspawn is most popular because he has 1.5 mill health and it is an easy calculation from there to determine your DPS as a group. But there is no real way to see your own individual DPS unless you are PC. You can easily see how much damage you do per hit with SCT but no measure for actual Damage Per Second (DPS) unless you do the math yourself

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