@staff, does LA damage increase over comp 50 as it should?

Staff, please help me with this.

A post in these forums claims that anything over 50 LA is not increasing damage, as far as I know it should continue raising damage til comp 70.

What's the deal here?

Cheers!

Sun 10 Mar 2019 1:12 PM by phixion

Bump...

Asked in Discord, asked in /advice, asked in /appeal. Was told to ask here again

Sun 10 Mar 2019 1:26 PM by Bradekes

I would like to know this as well. From replies in other posts from devs it looks like only the %dmg from LA like %Offhand swing in CD/DW increase not the actual style damage like it should. both LA and CD/DW should continue to grow in damage for styles atleast past level 50comp LA should increase in both style damage as well as base MH-OF %dmg

Sun 10 Mar 2019 4:46 PM by

gruenesschaf

LA is / does 3 things, it's a normal style line if you use styles from it, here any amount of spec makes a difference. Then it's the base weapon spec for the offhand and as such affects the base damage up to enemy level + 2. And then comes the special LA mechanic / penalty that increases main and offhand base damage, for cd / dw this would be offhand swing chance, that's also uncapped.

The LA penalty / bonus does not affect style damage other than the change of the total damage due to the base damage change. LA is, next to PA/BS/BS2, one of the few mechanics to see that styles are not actually a flat multiplier to base damage but instead a fixed bonus on top of base damage based on spec and swing speed that's affected by the same things base damage is also affected by and hence for normal styles on normal characters it also works out as a multiplier.

Mon 11 Mar 2019 2:55 AM by phixion

gruenesschaf wrote: ↑
Sun 10 Mar 2019 4:46 PM
LA is / does 3 things, it's a normal style line if you use styles from it, here any amount of spec makes a difference. Then it's the base weapon spec for the offhand and as such affects the base damage up to enemy level + 2. And then comes the special LA mechanic / penalty that increases main and offhand base damage, for cd / dw this would be offhand swing chance, that's also uncapped.

The LA penalty / bonus does not affect style damage other than the change of the total damage due to the base damage change. LA is, next to PA/BS/BS2, one of the few mechanics to see that styles are not actually a flat multiplier to base damage but instead a fixed bonus on top of base damage based on spec and swing speed that's affected by the same things base damage is also affected by and hence for normal styles on normal characters it also works out as a multiplier.

So can you please confirm that we are gaining benefit to damage over composite 50? At which composite level do we stop getting benefits?

It has been tested by someone on these forums and they've stated that damage did not increase over comp 50.

I'd love to test but I can't afford it, it would be nice to get assurance that LA is working as it should. I've read your reply and I still don't understand whether we are infact seeing more damage overall after comp 50.

Mon 11 Mar 2019 3:32 AM by Afuldan

phixion wrote: ↑
Mon 11 Mar 2019 2:55 AM
gruenesschaf wrote: ↑
Sun 10 Mar 2019 4:46 PM
LA is / does 3 things, it's a normal style line if you use styles from it, here any amount of spec makes a difference. Then it's the base weapon spec for the offhand and as such affects the base damage up to enemy level + 2. And then comes the special LA mechanic / penalty that increases main and offhand base damage, for cd / dw this would be offhand swing chance, that's also uncapped.

The LA penalty / bonus does not affect style damage other than the change of the total damage due to the base damage change. LA is, next to PA/BS/BS2, one of the few mechanics to see that styles are not actually a flat multiplier to base damage but instead a fixed bonus on top of base damage based on spec and swing speed that's affected by the same things base damage is also affected by and hence for normal styles on normal characters it also works out as a multiplier.

So can you please confirm that we are gaining benefit to damage over composite 50? At which composite level do we stop getting benefits?

It has been tested by someone on these forums and they've stated that damage did not increase over comp 50.

I'd love to test but I can't afford it, it would be nice to get assurance that LA is working as it should. I've read your reply and I still don't understand whether we are infact seeing more damage overall after comp 50.

The LA/CD/DW formula does indeed scale all the way to Comp 74.