2015-06-13, 10:17 AM
hadriel Wrote:Yoz.
DPS is heavily dependent on skills and buffs used, summons, DoT, the monster etc. The concept of a real-time DPS display is next to impractical, not simply because of the conceptual difficulty and implementation challenges, but also needs to be easily accessible and have sufficiently detailed breakdown without having e.g. 10 lines of different things. Range by itself isn't a bad thing. We all know why damage calculators don't exist readily. I won't bet on Nexon to have a good implementation of it, but lets wait and see.
I suspect they will either have a new UI window, with some form of expandable/collapsible breakdown (this would be ideal, and extremely useful in fact). Let's assume it applies to bosses only i.e. it shows up only when it hits a boss monster. The alternative... would be a new readout on the tooltip when hovering the cursor over the skill.
Hadriel
What I'm talking about (or what I'm imagining) is not a calculator but a reporter. Like the gas consumption display in your car, or the FPS display from your video recording utility, it will show you how much damage you did in the past X minutes or seconds. Just adding up all the hits you did on all enemies, in a moving time window.
Use it when you mob, use it on various bosses, get an idea of what is happening.
If they see that, say, a level 140 Hero in clean gear does twice as much damage in one minute of mobbing as a level 140 Paladin in the same gear on the same map, then obviously there's a balance issue here.
Or if you see that using a certain skill sequence on your Zero ends up with more damage than using some other skill sequence, you can optimize your own fighting techniques. (Some classes are actually complex enough that people can argue about the most effective attack patterns)