Damage Scale

Overview

The Damage Scale (also referred to as damage scalar) is a form of comparing attacks across archetypes (usually at level 50). The base damage modifier of an attack is compared with the Blaster archetype's original damage modifiers of 1.0 for both Ranged and Melee, though Blasters have since been buffed to 1.125 for ranged.

This is a player and developer created concept, not an actual game mechanic. What the game actually does is each power has a scale for the effect, and an attributes table that it pulls the value from; the damage scale of the attack is multiplied by the value pulled from the attribute modifiers table (determined by archetype and level) to get the actual effect of the power.

What the Damage Scale comparison does is if a level 50 Blaster did 50 points of damage from a melee attack, it would then be multiplied by the modifier for another archetype to find out how much it would do for that archetype. For instance, a Brute's Melee scale is .75; a level 50 Brute using the same attack as the level 50 Blaster (who did 50 points of damage) would do

50 * .75 = 37.5

37.5 damage at base, though keep in mind a Brute's Fury and a Blaster's Defiance allow greater damage.

It is important to note that no melee archetype actually uses their ranged scalar for any powers. All primary, secondary, and epic powers for melee characters still use the melee damage scale. Additionally, temporary powers ignore these scales; they do the same damage for each archetype.

Needs fleshed out further!

• Needs further explanations, including Melee_Damage, Ranged_Damage, and Melee_SSDamage and Ranged_SSDamage

--possibly explain all that in another article and link it?

• in addition to majorly rewording the above paragraphs

--second paragraph was basically copy/pasted from Fleeting_Whisper's post[1]

Damage Scale by Archetype

Heroes
Archetype	Melee	Range
Blaster	1.000	1.125
Controller	0.550	0.550
Defender	0.550	0.650
Scrapper	1.125	0.500
Tanker	0.800	0.500
Peacebringer	0.850	0.800
Bright Nova	N/A	1.200
White Dwarf	1.000	N/A
Warshade	0.850	0.800
Dark Nova	N/A	1.200
Black Dwarf	1.000	N/A
Pet	1.000	0.800

Villains
Archetype	Melee	Range
Corruptor	0.750	0.750
Dominator	1.050	0.950
Mastermind	0.550	0.550
Henchman 1	0.450	0.350
Henchman 2	0.550	0.450
Henchman 3	0.650	0.550
Brute	0.750	0.500
Stalker	1.000	0.600
Arachnos Soldier	1.000	1.000
Arachnos Widow	1.000	1.000
Pet	1.000	0.800

External Links

Power Data Standardization v2.0 (Issue 7) by iakona.