P5R Skill Damage source?
1pwny opened this issue · 2 comments
Hey there, I was looking through your skill damage numbers and couldn't find them anywhere else. Where did you get them?
The reason I ask, by the way, is because I think yours might be wrong. When I did testing at level 99 with max stats, God's Hand dealt about 2x as much damage as Thunder Reign. If their base powers were really 800:200, you might think that this could be explained by taking the square root of the skill's base power.
However, this doesn't actually work. Phys skills scale with sqrt(St), while magic scales with (1 + Ma/30). Level 1 Arsene with 2 Str deals about 1/7th the damage of a 99-str persona when using a physical move, while he does about 1/4.3 (or about 2/9) the damage when using magic.
Going back to God's Hand/Thunder Reign with 99 St/Ma, let's look at those multipliers. God's Hand gets a 9.95x multiplier, and Thunder Reign gets a 4.3x multiplier. This means that if the skills had the same base power, we'd already expect God's Hand to deal about 2.3 times as much damage as Thunder Reign. When God's Hand deals only twice as much, that's actually a sign that God's Hand has lower base power.
Did some more testing. On the plus side, it looks like your numbers are right.
On the down side, every single wiki for this game across all languages has the damage formula wrong. Magic skills scale with sqrt(Ma), just like Strength skills do.