User talk:DarkMasterMan

Welcome...

to this wiki. And happy improving! Naturelover (talk) 07:10, 13 March 2025 (EDT)

- Thanks Naturelover! Not sure how to properly format a reply in a user talk section but oh well. :p I was finally able to log in to AB on my PC this morning, so I can finally do some proper editing instead of dinking around on a tiny mobile screen haha. -DarkMaster

Fire Gollum ;)

Howdy!

I was under the impression that sunder charms do not work in PvP. So fire absorb in PvP is still redundant, even in d2r. Confirm/deny?! ;) Naturelover (talk) 17:24, 26 April 2025 (EDT)

In case you're not watching my talk page: You add 4 tildes after your message when on a discussion page, like this: Naturelover (talk) 13:09, 27 April 2025 (EDT) ;)

Grim Ward

Trang Oul actually added the D2R Find Potion synergy on 21 June 2024, I just removed |SS=None since this had put it in Category: Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls (now empty). Since I've no plans to buy and play Diablo II: Resurrected, I'm unlikely to add any D2R information myself, so any contributions are likely to be limited to patrolling edits and things like this (form rather than substance). Onderduiker (talk) 17:36, 5 August 2025 (EDT)

Ah, I gotcha. DarkMasterMan (talk) 18:50, 5 August 2025 (EDT)

Blaze and fire damage per second

Thanks for your recent work on the Blaze page! I'll see if I can shed some light on the comments in your edit summary, particularly calculating damage formulae and fire duration.

Mana cost = 10+slvl was an error based on applying manashift 7 (2⁷/2⁸ = 128/256 = 0.5) from Skills.txt to mana 22 (11), but inexplicably not doing so to lvlmana 1. So Mana cost = 10.5 + (0.5*slvl), and corresponds to that displayed. Thanks for the correction!

Also from Skills.txt, where Blaze has HitShift 4 and EType fire:

EMin	EMinLev1	EMinLev2	EMinLev3	EMinLev4	EMinLev5	EMax	EMaxLev1	EMaxLev2	EMaxLev3	EMaxLev4	EMaxLev5
4	2	3	4	6	9	8	2	3	4	6	9

If damage is expressed as 1/2⁸ = 1/256 (formerly referred to as bit damage), then multiply by 2 ^HitShift = 2 ⁴ = 16:

Level(s)	1	2-8	9-16	17-22	23-28	> 28
EMin	64	32	48	64	96	144
EMax	128	32	48	64	96	144

So EMin levels 1-8 = 64 + (32*(slvl-1)) = 64 + (32*slvl) - 32 = (32*slvl) + 32.

Level	1	8	16	22	28	> 28
EMin total	64	64 + (32*7) = 288	288 + (48*8) = 672	672 + (64*7) = 1120	1120 + (96*6) = 1696	1696 + (144*(slvl-28))
EMax total	128	128 + (32*7) = 352	352 + (48*8) = 736	736 + (64*7) = 1184	1184 + (96*6) = 1760	1760 + (144*(slvl-28))

So EMin levels 9-16 = 288 + (48*(slvl-8)) = 288 + (48*slvl) - 384 = (48*slvl) - 96, and so on. Back in the day, I think I had a spreadsheet set up to calculate these values based on EMin and EMax values input.

Fire duration = 90 + (25*slvl) frames, or (90 + (25*slvl))/25 seconds, corresponds to that displayed, and is derived from Range 90 and LevRange 25 for blaze in Missiles.txt. However, although I cannot confirm it right now, you should definitely consider the possibility that the displayed values are actually wrong: as far as I remember, LevRange = frames at level 1, and LevRange is what's added with each additional skill level (so level 1 = 90 frames, level 2 = 90 + 25 = 115, and so on). This could be easily tested by modifying LevRange (to say, 90), and seeing if it has any effect on actual fire duration for level 1 Blaze.

The reason the previous formula was 64 + (25*slvl), not 90 + (25*(slvl-1)) simplified to 65 + (25*slvl), is because fire collision damage isn't inflicted in a missile's first frame of existence. This should already have been applied to all skills displaying fire damage per second. Onderduiker (talk) 18:55, 23 October 2025 (EDT)

Oh hey Onder, thanks for the info on the bitrate calculations. Yeah I actually did that exact test for the fire duration, I set Range to 1 and LevRange to 200 and at level 1 the fires would deal damage to stuff for ~8 seconds, at level 2 they'd deal damage for ~16 seconds, etc. I was under the same impression as you regarding Range/LevRange but it seems at least in this particular case it does sum them together for level 1. Ahhh, that makes sense regarding the non-damage in the first frame, I actually remember seeing that on the Molten Boulder page but it didn't occur to me that the same thing was happening here, I'll edit that. Thanks! DarkMasterMan (talk) 23:48, 23 October 2025 (EDT)

Actually, I still don't get some of the bitrate stuff. I don't understand where you're getting the -384 from in the second step, I understand that you're getting the 288 from the total bitrate of level 8 Blaze and you're adding that to the -384 to get the -96, I guess I need it spelled out heh. That spreadsheet certainly sounds useful, I suppose it's been lost to time though eh? :P DarkMasterMan (talk) 01:26, 24 October 2025 (EDT)