Optimizing Skill- and Synergy-Levels

[GenericKen]

HitShift: 8
EMin 1, EMinL: 0/0/0/0/0
EMax 40, EMaxL: 11/13/15/15/15

What exactly does this mean?

Also, you might want to do a check for certain skills who's prereq is also a synergy. If a skill has say 4 prereqs and 2 of those prereqs are synergies to that skill, the synergy skill level must be at least 2. That's assuming you aren't automatically calculating those.

It would be nice if you would add a +skills option, as well, so you can see what the damage levels will be like with +skills gear.

Well, I don't think we'd need the calculator to told your hand for you or anything. The optimal skill point distribution is a relatively simple system: whichever skill would give you the most damage boost (including bonuses it recieves from other skills) is the skill you should drop points in.


In the case of addative bonuses, the best skill to invest in is of course always the one that has the biggest +% per level in it (presuming an initial point in all skills, of course). This is the case with many combat skill synergies and with multiple synergies with different +%s per level.

In the case of multiplicative bonuses, the best skill to invest in depends on the effective bonuses recieved from the skills it multiplies with. The effective multiplicative bonu of a skill with +% (a) multiplied with another +% bonus (B) is (1+a)*(1+B). It's fortunately a very stable system, as the higher b gets, the more effective points in a would become, and vice versa.


Calculating for +skills is surprizingly simple. Simply treat non-synergy skills as though you had invested them up to where they are with +to skills. As a consequence, nterestingly enough, having +to skills generally makes investing in the synergy more effective.