Question about damage calculation

[Dreamghost]

say i want to make a zealot pala using zeal with sinergy sacrifice and fanaticism as aura. how is the damage calculated? is it: weapon damage*[(100+strength bonus)/100]*[(100+zeal+sacrifice)/100]*[(100+fanaticism)/100]???
cos that would be good, u could achieve nice damage. or am i wrong?

[lionheartthebrave]

From the strategy compendium: http://strategy.diii.net/news.php?id=551 (http://web.archive.org/web/20070808072323/http://strategy.diabloii.net/news.php?id=551)

EDIT:

Look under "Weapon Damage"

[Dreamghost]

im sorry, i didnt find there what i was looking for.

[Nimbostratus]

All off-weapon ED is treated as the same, and added together. This includes:

Attack skills (ex: Zeal, Whirlwind)
Auras (ex: Fanaticism, Might)
Strength/Dex bonus
Non-weapon enhanced damage (ex: "Fortitude" armor)


So the calculation is
Weapon damage * ( (100+[sum of all those things]) / 100)

Any elemental damage is just tacked on at the end.

[Dreamghost]

oh, now its a lot clearer. thanks a lot.

[Dreamghost]

then again i was pretty sure that the strength bonus is aplied first and then the bonus from skills.

[krischan]

No, the %ed from strength (or dex in case of missile weapons) is added together with all off-weapon %ed as nimbostratus wrote. Absolute +dmg values (e.g. from charms) are added the weapon damage before multiplying it. BTW, %ed to demons/undead is added to off-weapon %ed as well, even when it's on the weapon.

BTW, the mentioned link leads to a web archive page which is a bit broken. Here's the correct link: http://strategy.diabloii.net/news.php?id=551. Click on "weapon damage" at the top (hit ctrl-f and enter "weapon damage" if you cannot find it).

[Dreamghost]

oookey, thank you.