Attack Rating Formula

[BlushNine]

Does anyone know the formula that calculates Attack Rating from items, skills and stats? The Facts and Formulae from the Strategy Compendium only has a limited version of this. I have a feeling the Germans have it but I can't read their stuff and I don't want to actually calculate AR, I want to see the formula to figure out how much is contributed from each.

[Alecz]

If I correctly understand your question, the answer shouldn't be too hard:

first you start with some AR.... very little and doesn't really matter...
You get 4 AR pts for each pt in dex. This is you base AR (DexAR)
Then you get from items that give + to AR (Add this to DexAR before other calcualtions)
Add these two and you get the basic AR which is used on all other AR bonuses.

Skill AR bonus, +% AR bonuses from items are applied on the Base AR individually then added together to give the total AR.

An explanatory example:

consider 100 Dex => 400 AR (+ some more from base... say 100) => 500 (i could be wrong with the 100... not at home right now, so I can't check)
consider charms, items that give +100 AR

Base AR = 500 + 100 = 600
Say you have passive skill that gives +75%AR, attack skill that gives +120% AR, and item bonus that gives +20% AR
Total AR = 600(base) + 450 (passive) + 720 (attack skill) + 120 (item bonus)
Total AR = 1890 (roughly) but this is the main idea.

However.... the % chance to it depends on your char lvl vs Monster lvl, and your AR vs monster def rating... so AR is not everything :wink3: