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Edited by Dyze:
10/25/2019 8:56:28 PM
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Power Level, Artifact Boost and Enemy Scaling.
So I've been trying my hand at shattered throne solo and banging my head against the wall with the Keeper boss.
After watching a few guides and videos of people just decimating the boss in one phase and strangely surviving a lot more than me, I began questioning Power Level and especially Weapon Power Level and the artifact boosting our Overall Power Level.
I'm currently at 956 overall Power and my weapons and armor are around 945-950.
I've been trying to get information how Power Level and Weapon Power Level effects damage.
From what I understand, Overall Power Level determines the damage of ability, supers and enemy damage etc
While Weapon Power Level determines its damage against enemies or rather their defense against them.
If this is the case, does that mean that the Artifact, which boosts our overall Power Level, actually nerfs us?
Because doesn't enemies scale to our Overall Power Level?
If so the increase to overall power level should make our weapons constantly inferior to the enemies we're fighting, making weapons consistently weak, which is our primary dps.
If that's the case, weapons will always be trailing behind our overall power level because of the artifact boost messing everything up.
Makes me wonder if it's better to intentionally lower our/my armor Power Level, in order to even out the artifact boosting our overall Power Level and get to equal levels with our weapons. Seems like it's the only way to keep weapon power level from being inferior.
Or was this already addressed in the shadowkeep patch? since I believe a lot of weapon types got PvE damage buffs? Was that to also counteract the artifact nerfing us?
Even if it was, it still seems like intentionally lowering armor levels to counteract the artifact boost would yield better damage results..
but maybe I'm just stupid and missing something?
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1 ReplyI did some testing in shattered throne, planet/lost sectors and Nightfall. Was kinda interesting, seems like the area level cap is still in effect, so things aren't really scaling. Was trying weapons from 750 to 950 in shattered and doing the same exact amount of damage with 750 and 950 with the same exotic. So it seems even at 750 i'm above the cap for shattered, same thing on planets. But Nightfall 920 showed what I was getting at. Using two static quest Rose, one at 930 and one at 912. The 930 was doing 2.300 crits and the 912 was doing 2.000 crits on 920 barrier enemies. That's about 12% increase in damage. That means that the Artifact that boosts us, will consistently nerf us going forward when dealing with top end content. Since your weapons will most defiantely be lagging behind your overall Power level. probably somewhere between 5-10 levels. Sure that might just be 5-6% in damage, but that's still a nerf from an item that's suppose to help. In a raid of 6 people at the recommended power level? they'll be doing 30-36% less dps. That should be noticeable.
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There is a level ∆ of -100/+50 that determines your damage resistance and your damage against enemies. Your weapon power also makes a difference but to a much lesser degree. So you definitely aren't making it harder by being overleveled.
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I have been playing patrol on EDZ for example and when my guardian dies it says which enemy killed me and the recommended power level and it shows my overall level 937, which includes my +8-9 artifact my highest weapon is currently ~932. I has always seemed the more power I game the easier I die in the EDZ. and the harder it is to take down the low life's on Earth.
