The Spirit Realm

Every now and then I get the urge to start a project just to keep myself busy. My latest venture involves building a database for all known weapons in EverQuest and a proper interface for sorting through them. One of the things I'd like to be able to sort by (the major one, actually) would be a "Projected DPS" - PDPS if you will. Some sort of formula that, given class, level, attack and weapon, would calculate an approximation of that weapon's DPS.

Now I have no problem putting the database/interface together; what I need help with is the actual formula used to calculate the PDPS. I was hoping someone who knows more about that part of EQ could give me some pointers. Cheers!

Wouldn't the weapons' PDPS vary based on mob level and AC?

Or would you just use some fixed value for average projected damage per second (APDPS)?

Exactly. It'll be more like a comparison-based thing; compare weapon X, Y, and Z, given level, class, worn atk, haste and maybe (future addendum probably) some AA's.

I'll assume a white-con or some such, assume a normal mitigation, etc. But I'd still like to get it as close to the "average" DPS one could expect as possible.

On that note, I've had some luck when looking through goberserker and steelwarrior forums regarding this issue, and got some reading material to catch up on.

Have you tried looking at this, i should save you a lot of time on the 2h side of things.



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Parse your average hit then use:

k = (AvgHit -WeaponDB)/WeaponDamage

Compare using:

WeaponValue = ((AvgHit*k) + WeaponDB)/WeaponDelay

The higher the WeaponValue the better the weapon ought to peform. This isn't perfect, monks have found that delay rounding after haste can cause very different weapons to perform exactly the same though that may be less of an issue due to our weapons generally being a higher delay.

Also, if you can be bothered you can download an item database from http://eqitems.13th-floor.org/ and only insert weapons in your own.