Octopath CotC (global): Explaining the full Damage Formula

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[@Lacsap231]

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[@oxc513]

Insanely informative video
I wasn't aware you could actually get >=100% mitigation for defense, as I thought they used a seperate formula :O

[@thanderhop1489]

I cannot believe that "attack up" is literally the same thing as "damage up" except being different multiplier buckets. Extremely odd for the things to be named that way.

[@floodj3230]

Thanks for doing all that work Chaz!

[@unovarydrake]

This is really cool to have thanks for making this video! It's funny to see people surprised about how atk/def buffs/debuffs just give a multiplier to damage since that's exactly how it worked in the original Octopath. Although this game's damage formula overall seems much more complicated than the first game's lol

[@zanderhill9842]

Very nice to have all this info in one place finally. Just wondering about a few things -- is the random variance on damage rolls the same ~0.98-1.02 multiplier as in the original? Also, for physical damage, do we understand how exactly crit RNG works, or is crit still the black sheep of the stat family? And a bit of an unrelated question, but I've seen a few cases of the damage cap basically increasing past 99,999. Is that something that comes up in the formula somewhere, or is it just a JP exclusive passive/feature?

[@mrsmokestack1129]

ur a real one

[@khanhnhi5105]

This is very useful. Thanks alot. Would you happen to know how crit works. It's such a confusing stat that could be useful for Tikilen

[@butterssss]

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[@theodoreyoung7354]

according to the formula the % of damage increase goes down once we get better weapons

[@________________________9]

still too hard for me xd.all i wanna know is how potency calculated.what does it mean.

[@EmpyreanSky]

This is such a needed video! Thanks for explaining it in an understandable way! So the stat buffs don't actually affect stats at all, it's just a pure multiplier in the formula? It makes it much easier to calculate. Will you put the video on reddit? I'm sure it'll be valuable as a resource for theory crafters out there.

[@chazhang]

Thanks! Yes. The CotC devs just did whatever they wanted to for the damage formula in this game. Posting it on reddit now!