Weapon Damage

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The second step toward rifling through a dead monster's pockets, after hitting them, is dealing damage. There are two damage formulas that are used by players, depending on what type of weapon is being used. Monsters have a separate formula.

A Moxie class's Moxious Maneuver uses Moxie for damage calculations instead of Muscle.

Weapon Damage Formula

Total Damage =

( Player Muscle - Monster Defense) rangeadj + 10% to 20% of Weapon Power * (crit) * (tsfactor) or 1 if barehanded + 10% to 20% of Offhand Weapon Power * (crit) if double-wielding + Bonus Melee Damage * (tsfactor) + Bonus Ranged Damage (only when wielding a ranged weapon) + Elemental Bonus Damage

Where

• rangeadj is 1 for melee attack, 2 for ranged attack, and 4 for barehanded (no weapon equipped).
• crit is 1 for a normal hit, 2 for a critical hit; and
• tsfactor is 1 for a normal attack, 2 for Thrust-Smack, 3 for Lunging Thrust-Smack. (You must have a melee weapon equipped for TS or LTS)

• Against monsters with high enough defense or physically resistant monsters (or if you really like fake hands), damage is reduced to its minimum: 1 + Elemental Damage.
• Until the KoL dev team alleviates some semantics problems, Bonus Melee Damage always applies even when using a ranged weapon.
• When using Thrust-Smack, Lunging Thrust-Smack, or Lunge-Smack, only the mainhand Weapon Damage and Melee Damage are doubled/tripled, not the Total Damage.

Monster Damage Formula

Raw monster damage is given by

Total Damage = (Diff + 20 to 25% of Monster Level - Damage Reduction) * AbsorbFrac * ElementalFrac

where

 Diff = (Monster Attack - Player Moxie), minimum zero

except for Heroes of the Half-Shell who are wielding a shield and have more Muscle than Moxie:

 Diff = (Monster Attack - Player Muscle), minimum zero.

and

 if Damage Absorption < 10, AbsorbFrac = 1
 if 10 < Damage Absorption < 1000, AbsorbFrac = 1 - (√(Damage Absorption/10) - 1)/10
 if 1000 < Damage Absorption, AbsorbFrac = 0.1

and

ElementalFrac = 1 - (Elemental Resistance)/10

where Elemental Resistance is a number 0 to 8 depending on the element of the monster's attack and your appropriate resistance rating

Notes

• Your damage will be followed by n Sound Effects, where n is equal to the square root of melee damage (not counting enchantments) rounded up to a maximum of 10.
• The monster's damage will be followed by n Sound Effects, where n is equal to the square root of the monster's damage rounded up to a maximum of 10.