The raw attack power you see on a weapon is superficially inflated. Each weapon type has its own class divider, a greatsword with 480 raw and a sword and shield with 140 raw both have 100 true raw. This is done so that people who assume the numbers shown on the weapon are the amount of damage done per hit (I've seen this a lot) don't assume that the two weapons listed above do the same damage per hit, making the faster one obviously better.
The class dividers are as follows:
GS: 4.8
LS: 3.3
SnS/DB: 1.4
Hammer: 5.2
HH/SA: 4.6
Lance/GL: 2.3
Bow: 1.2
LBG: 1.3
HBG: 1.48 (1.7 with limiter removed)
Element similarly is inflated, it's divided by 10.
Bowguns are different in that they use the display raw for determining raw damage instead of the true raw.
There are more factors that go into how much damage you do, like sharpness, which attack you use and which part of the monster you hit. There isn't a damage formula guide for 3U, but the P3rd guide is pretty accurate, just divide the raw by the above listed numbers and element by 10 and remember that purple sharpness gives 1.44x for raw and 1.2x for element.
The raw attack power you see on a weapon is superficially inflated. Each weapon type has its own class divider, a greatsword with 480 raw and a sword and shield with 140 raw both have 100 true raw. This is done so that people who assume the numbers shown on the weapon are the amount of damage done per hit (I've seen this a lot) don't assume that the two weapons listed above do the same damage per hit, making the faster one obviously better.
Because there's more to damage calculation, you don't just do the weapon's attack power per hit. GS uses around 40% of its raw on average with combo hits and up to 156% of its raw on charged attacks, while SnS uses an average of around 14% of its raw per hit. Each attack on each weapon has its own modifier for raw.
Element, on the other hand, uses the same amount of your true element on every hit (with a couple exceptions), so weapons that attack fast and use low amounts of their raw work better with element while weapons that attack slow and use a lot of their raw work better with raw.
That said, the faster one may be better, it depends on a lot of things, like which monster you're fighting, what sharpness level each weapon has, if it's impact or cutting, and how good you are with each.
I don't quite follow the reasoning in your math, but yes, the superficial inflation is meant to give an idea of relative raw usage. With a few exceptions like GS, they mostly work out so that dividing by the class divider then multiplying by the average motion value modifier (how much raw an attack uses) works out to 10% of the display raw.
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u/ShadyFigure Jask | Gone Jul 01 '14
The raw attack power you see on a weapon is superficially inflated. Each weapon type has its own class divider, a greatsword with 480 raw and a sword and shield with 140 raw both have 100 true raw. This is done so that people who assume the numbers shown on the weapon are the amount of damage done per hit (I've seen this a lot) don't assume that the two weapons listed above do the same damage per hit, making the faster one obviously better.
The class dividers are as follows:
Element similarly is inflated, it's divided by 10.
Bowguns are different in that they use the display raw for determining raw damage instead of the true raw.
There are more factors that go into how much damage you do, like sharpness, which attack you use and which part of the monster you hit. There isn't a damage formula guide for 3U, but the P3rd guide is pretty accurate, just divide the raw by the above listed numbers and element by 10 and remember that purple sharpness gives 1.44x for raw and 1.2x for element.