Combat formulas and shard limits

Combat and character formulas#

• Melee hit chance: skills, HCI and DCI
• Swing speed, stamina and SSI
• Weapon damage: calculation order and caps
• Armor, elemental resistance and direct damage
• Parrying with shields and melee weapons
• Spell damage: rolls, Intelligence, SDI and resistance
• Resisting Spells: resistance floors and resist rolls
• Casting success and skill thresholds
• Faster Casting, FCR and cast delay
• LRC, LMC and resource consumption
• Stats, health, stamina and mana limits
• Equipment tiers and effective caps
• The full difficulty formula
• Exact ordinary loot budgets
• Crafting success and exceptional quality

Reading formulas#

Values describe the configured Endless Journey branch and the shard’s custom changes. Integer truncation, ordering and caps matter; each linked article explains the sequence and exceptions.

The acronym LCD does not identify a standalone item property in the audited code. For casting delay, see Faster Casting and FCR; for resource reduction, see LRC and LMC. Hit Lower Defense is a separate combat effect.