Post by vastin on Jul 16, 2008 10:37:28 GMT -5
BTW, I've made some good progress on building a number of excel worksheets that let you calculate various aspects of your character build in Portralis.
The best parts of it so far are an AC calculator - enter your items, stats, skills and character/level, and voila, it spits out your final AC. You can also see a lot of the intermediate steps and multipliers and see how they are affecting your AC - what gets calculated as BaseAC, what comes out as +to_ac, and so on. Great for optimizing your defense.
I've also got one that works well for calculating Wisdom Casting %'s and another that works ok for Spell Damage calculation, so you can see what your risk/failure chances are as well as how hard you're going to hit.
I have an old melee damage calculator, but it needs to be reworked pretty heavily at this point...
I'm also trying to get a HP calculator working, but the formula offered in the help seems to be wrong, and I haven't figured it out yet. It should be dirt simple, but this one keeps evading me...
Anyway, once I get some of the garbage in it cleaned up I'll find a way to post the excel file if people are interested in playing with them. They're also a very fast way to explore basic game balance issues at any stat/level range.
The best parts of it so far are an AC calculator - enter your items, stats, skills and character/level, and voila, it spits out your final AC. You can also see a lot of the intermediate steps and multipliers and see how they are affecting your AC - what gets calculated as BaseAC, what comes out as +to_ac, and so on. Great for optimizing your defense.
I've also got one that works well for calculating Wisdom Casting %'s and another that works ok for Spell Damage calculation, so you can see what your risk/failure chances are as well as how hard you're going to hit.
I have an old melee damage calculator, but it needs to be reworked pretty heavily at this point...
I'm also trying to get a HP calculator working, but the formula offered in the help seems to be wrong, and I haven't figured it out yet. It should be dirt simple, but this one keeps evading me...
Anyway, once I get some of the garbage in it cleaned up I'll find a way to post the excel file if people are interested in playing with them. They're also a very fast way to explore basic game balance issues at any stat/level range.
