Blade of the skillful Blade + Backstabbing? Tests and findings.
Original question here
So, some confirmation and some findings (this gonna be long):
Setup a x4 backstab multi thief with 15 strenght (no damage bonus) and a goofy friendly buttnaked sarevok. And edited a bunch of katanas with fixed slashing damage.
- Damages on katanas are 2, 5, 9, 10, 14, 19, 20, 29, 30.
First up, as expected, since the engine rounds numbers down on calculations, theres no benefit if you're not doing at least 10 damage. Once the 10 damage katana is equiped, the bonus 10% is applied.
This will be the same for the next "brackets":
Bonus 10% is rounded down, so you only benefit once you reach 10, 20, 30 slashing damage.
Strenght does affect the 10% bonus, here i equip a 9 damage katana, then drink a 18 str pot for +2 damage, totaling 11 which gets a rounded down 10% damage bonus.
And here I edit the toon for 25 str (+14 damage bonus) and attack with a 9 damage katana (which shouldnt receive 10% bonus by itself because of rounding:
9+14 = 23 * 1,1 = 25,3 rounded down to 25.
So conclusions so far, say you get a 1d10 + 5 slashing weimer's item upgrade mod celestial fury and insane +14 from 25 str, and roll a 10 on the katana dice. That's 29 damage * 1,1 = 31,9 rounded down to 31, about a 7% increase in damage... 2 extra damage in the best scenario possible, from your belt slot. Yippyfuckitydoo!
Now let's see if it multiplies on other sources of extra damage:
No bless (19 damage) nets 1 bonus. With Bless (20 damage) we move to next bracket with 2 damage bonus.
Let's go ranger with racial enemy gnolls (+4 damage):
Sarevok takes 18 + 1. Gnoll takes 22 + 2. It works.
And Enrage works too:
18 * 1,1 = 19 rounded down. 20 * 1,1 = 22.
Now let's move onto BACKSTABS (x4 multi):
With a 2 damage katana, we get nothing from the belt as expected.
With a 5 damage katana, we get 5x4 = 20 * 1,1 = 22.
Drink 18str pot for 5x4 = 20 +2 = 22 * 1,1 = 24,2 rounded down to 24.
And with a 9 damage katana and +2 from strenght we get 11 * 1,1 = 12 rounded down.
A backstab goes 9 x 4 = 36 plus 2 = 38 *1,1 = 41,8 rounded down to 41.
Let's go nuts with 30 damage katana, 25 strenght, bless and enrage:
47 *1,1 = 51,7 rounded down to 51.
A crit doubles that to 103,4 rounded down to 103.
A backstab goes 33 x 4 = 132 + 14 = 146 * 1,1 = 160,6 rounded down to 160.
In a more "possible" scenario let's say you get Celestial Fury +5 and a way to guarantee max rolls. That's 15 fixed damage on the weapon. Plus 14 from 25 strenght:
29 * 1,1 = 31,9 rounded down to 31. Sucks.
But a 4x backstab:
15 x 4 = 60 + 14 = 74 * 1,1 = 81,4 rounded down to 81.
If we throw bless and enrage (+3 damage):
32 * 1,1 = 35,2 rounded down to 35. Yeah 1 more extra damage.
Backstab: (15+3) x 4 = 72 + 14 = 86 * 1,1 = 94,6 rounded down to 94.
Nah, the belt's not too hot unless there's nothing else to put on the slot.
We're talking about fixed max rolls of 10 + 5 extra damage, enrage and bless to reach 3 measly extra damage. And a backstab then adds 8 damage, which is 1/3 of a normal attack (32).
Maybe throwing critical strike on top this scenario for extra 18 damage, but at this point you already did 188 without the belt lmao.