Hello...no poll this time

Is it me being a dumb ass or I feel that the computaion for weapon damge for D3 is utterly confusing. For eg, say

Weapon: 100 dps
Range from 50-150.
+min 20
+max 20
+50-150 Holy Damage
+ 33% damage

Now normally, we just see the dps and we take the figure. Is DPS accurate, be all end all? I guess the DPS is the average from the weapon damage range ie 50-150.
However, what confuse me is the + affixes. I mean from the eg above +20 min or plus 20 max will it push the range to 70-170? Or it is already included in the stats of 50-150?
Also, +50-150 Holy damage...does it mean it will give additional damage, say making total range of 100-300 (being physical damge 50-150 plus 50+150).
Lastly, +33% damage, is it 33% extra damage after adding all damage, or the extra 33% damage is built in the weapon already. Eg you get extra 33% from the 100-300 or actually the 33% is included in the 50-150 damage?

I am confused....any sifu can help?

In before just take the DPS and forget about the rest!!

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this.

all the elemental damage, min damage max damage, attack speed, etc, already calculated into the dps number

Ah..then Blizzy should just do away with all those dumb + affixes. Just put DPS ..settled. No need to put +50% damage la or +500-1000 Fire damage to impress/konfuse people

those affixes are being rolled ma when an item drop, so it ma add there up lo

only focus on the xxx- xxx amount

the higher the number, the harder it hit on every single hit

Those number you pulled out of thin air one or they're based on real "virtual" D3 items.

I belip weapon DPS number already take into account all it's positive affixes. So the +33% dmg, +50-150 Holy whatever, +min and +max all accounted in the DPS already together with the weapon attack speed (include +IAS).
Doesn't take into account +stat (e.g. Str, Dex, Int) coz those are class specific.
So normally those stats are redundant, just DPS is enough

the details don't make sense. especially to those who play other RPG, this could get confusion.

for example - fire element 2 hand sword with 180 atk.

does 180 dmg (assuming 0 armor) on neutral element creature.
does additional 75% on earth element creature.

in D3 it's like "Screw that!! we just lump elemental damage into DAMAGE" - like that then what's the point of switching from one element to another?

all elemental dmg deal no bonus dmg. ( depend on monster resistance level for the specific element )

Element dmg will add different effect on atk :
Poison - slowed move speed
Holy - heal on death
Arcane - Knockback?
Fire - burned

this is what i remember.

simply
total dmg amount X spread/2 x atk speed = DPS

no la. elemental is just for you to decide what color you want the enemy corpse to be.

poison = green
arcane = purple
fire = red
ice = white

so on so forth ...........

Sadly, D3's weapon elements are merely a cosmetic feature...

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This post has been edited by VinluV: Jul 11 2012, 05:48 PM

your sword glow different color

[edit] except cold, cold got an additional slowing effect. sos: devs say one but I dunno where is the link liao.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Jul 11 2012, 05:53 PM

only cold damage retains its slowing effects but for a lower damage than other elements

srsly mang, i donno if my monk holy element rune actually does more damage on any creature.

Ignore the <Holy> and read it as <Damage % Bonus>