Damage Formulas that scale to level.

[Mordridakon]

I've looked at the tutorials for formulas and my eyes glaze over. Math is not my forte, at all. I don't even know where to start with this.
So I'm looking for magic damage formulas for player and enemy skills that scale to level of the player and enemy(since enemies have levels in my game due to Yanfly's Enemy Levels Plugin).
What formulas would I use? How would I construct them and fool around with them to balance?

Thanks in advance, this is really critical for my game.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

For players, you would simply use a.level to get their level and implement it in the formula

example

(a.mat*4)-(b.def*2)+(a.level*10)

This adds user level x10 to the damage done by the normal formula

Practically, you just really need to do the math for it and test a lot to balance them out. You need to learn/know some basic math else any formula given to you wont make sense and you'll find it hard to adjust them.

 

[Mordridakon]

Practically, you just really need to do the math for it and test a lot to balance them out. You need to learn/know some basic math else any formula given to you wont make sense and you'll find it hard to adjust them.

I do know basic math(I was in accounting for awhile), its just that I'm not sure where to start with the formulas. I'll use yours for a baseline and go from there.

What do I do for enemies?

 

[Heirukichi]

Enemies do not have a level on their own. You could create a sort of level by assigning them an element rate to use as a level. If you do their level would be 100 times that element rate.

EDIT: The complete formula would be this one.

(a.atk*4) - (b.def*2) + (a.elementRate(your_element_id)*1000)

Of course feel free to change "your_element_id" to be your element real ID. And the formula itself doesn't have to be exactly like that, I just built it on the previous formula.

 

[Silva]

I presume you're using a plugin to give your enemies levels. If the method used by the plugin for referencing an enemy's level is ".level" then the above will work for skills used by both actors and enemies. Test it and if it doesn't work you'll have to tell us what plugin you're using so we can help further.

 

[Mordridakon]

I presume you're using a plugin to give your enemies levels. If the method used by the plugin for referencing an enemy's level is ".level" then the above will work for skills used by both actors and enemies. Test it and if it doesn't work you'll have to tell us what plugin you're using so we can help further.

I am using Yanfly's Enemy Level Plug-in fyi.

 

[Silva]

From the plugin description:

Here are some new JavaScript functions that have been added by this plugin.



enemy.level

- This will return the enemy's current level.

The original formula should work, if it doesn't let us know.