Booster and Defender Drones Damage Calculations

[thunderhunter123 741]

Can you give the calculations of how the Booster and the Defender Drone do extra damage, and give extra protection?

I would like to know the exact damages they provide, and reduce.

 

(The drones, and their percentages, are activated WITH the usage of Double Armor and/or Double Damage. So this should be included in the calculations.)

Assume we could do 1000 damage on the enemy, and we have the Booster Drone equipped (Max Level, 200%). How much damage does this go to?

Assume the enemy could do 1000 damage on us, but we have the Defender Drone equipped (Max Level, 100%). How much damage does this go to?

 

Also, assume we have the Defender Drone equipped (Max Level, 100%), the enemy has the Booster Drone equipped (Max Level, 200%), and the enemy does 1000 damage. How much is the final damage, here?

 

Thank you!

[Hex 11,522]

• Base Damage: 1000hp
• Double Damage Activated Damage: 2000hp
• Booster Drone Mk8 Activated Damage: 4000hp

Conclusion: Damage increase is 4x as much.

 

Defender Equipped: No

• Base Damage: 1000hp
• Double Damage Activated Damage: 2000hp
• Booster Drone Mk8 Activated Damage: 4000hp

Defender Equipped: Yes

• Base Damage: 333hp
• Double Damage Activated Damage: 667hp
• Booster Drone Mk8 Activated Damage: 1332hp

Conclusion: Double Armor can be renamed to Triple Armor.

 

Here are some values from an in-game test using Hammer-Mammoth:

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567 - Base Damage

1134 - DD Activated

2268 - Booster Activated

 

820 - Base Damage

1641 - DD Activated

273 - Defender Activated

547 - Defender Activated; DD Activated

 

[Tidebreaker 1,669]

Allow me to chip in as well. As you know, Booster applies 200% additional damage throughout the 3-second duration. Obviously, there's your turret dealing 100% damage, and then the effect of Double Damage stacking another 100% on top of that.

So far, 100% + 100% + 200% = 400%. We're not done yet, though. The passive 5% gets multiplied and not added (note: this used to be the case around 1.5 years ago, exactly the same time when the JGR health was glitched and capped out at the Mk7 value, 16471. This meant that it would always be a oneshot from a Heavy Capacitors blast with Booster, as even just with 405% it could deal 16706.25 damage. When the fix for the health came gradually, so did the calculation of Booster, with the 5% finally being fixed to be a multiplier instead of a flat bonus (something that I'm really hoping they do with Adrenaline, as it's underwhelming at the moment).

All of that translates to today's Booster, getting 420% () damage during its regular duration. So, assuming your base damage is exactly 1000 HP, you will damage for 4200 HP with Booster active.

Now, Defender is a bit more tricky to tackle, but it's OK once you get the hand of the calculations involved there. This time, instead of 420%, it'll actually be 100% + 100% (DA) + 100%, making for a total of 300% defense for, well...pretty much eternity.

How can this be put into perspective? Well, instead of multiplying it like we did for Booster, we'll actually be dividing it by the set amount, meaning that you'll deal 333.34 damage against Defender.

There is one last thing to cover, however. The 5% bonus doesn't just apply to offensive power, but also to defensive power as well. This means that whenever you go up against another drone user, their own drone will absorb a certain amount of the damage you output. If you go up against another drone user while using Booster, you'll be dealing exactly 399% damage for those 3 seconds. This means that Defender also has additional armor on top, making the actual defense multiplier go up to 315.78947368422% (not 315%, as you use a 0.95 multiplier instead of a simple 1.05 one like you would with Booster. It's a bit difficult to explain). So, in summary:

If the normal turret shoots for 1000...

Double Damage shoots for 2000...

You'll damage someone with Double Armor for 500...

with Booster for 4200...

against Defender for 316.67...

with Booster, against another max drone that isn't Brutus for 3990...

against Defender, with a regular max drone that isn't Brutus for 332.5...

with Booster, against Defender for 1330 exactly.

That was quite the mouthful, huh?

[Spy 14,870]

Answered, closed.