The amount of research, details, time and effort you have put in while all of us are just waiting and sitting our damn asses. Thank you my dude!

What a MADMAN !!!! You are always presenting the info in a well organized manner with slides and formulas, which takes a lot time and hard work to figure out. Awesome work !! The neverwinter community is very lucky to have you.

A sincere thank you for the work you put into crunching the numbers from a min-maxer who has little free time to do so but finds enjoyment in this part of the game. I just became a patron and will be looking forward to future content and playing with the character builder. Thanks!

those graphs and % plunged me into a hypnotic induced coma so i will have to watch all over again... thank you rainer for the awesome work and effort.

Rainer, The Hero We Deserve AND The Hero We Need!

Spot on analysis. Wow, thank you. Your detail in showing close relationship between Crit & Crit Sev for DPS makes decisions in building a toon much easier. Thank you again.

Awesome work man!! Keep it up much respect. Was curious with everything you have compiled up. If you could make a video of a dps build, so we can see it all in action. Would be amazing to see.

Time stamps for lazy people 0:00 Intro 0:50 General 3:12 combined rating 6:50 total item level 9:08 power 11:44 deflect 13:04 Accuracy / Deflect severity 15:29 Combat advantage / Awareness 16:57 Critical strike 19:32 Critical severity / critical avoidance 21:26 Defense 22:58 Forte 25:17 Control bonus 26:16 Control resist 26:52 Incoming healing 27:28 Outgoing healing 28:38 Damage formula (average) 29:57 Damage formula PvE (average) 30:39 Healing formula (average) What stats to focus on: 32:15 DPS 36:47 Healer 38:44 Tank 41:24 Outro

Excellent video. It's exactly the kind of presentation we need of the new system. Thanks for clarifying what this all means for us.

Hi Rainer, Always top quality video, and very clear explanations!!! Thx for your help of the comprehension of theses new mechanics ;)

Very very much the info I needed. Thank you so much for explaining how the stats work!

Finally, ty so much. It was a real mess taking information from all the videos i saw

DUDE!!! great video!! you should totally have this front and center on ur discord for sure. i love it. thank you so so so much

Feels like u need to be a rocket engineer to build your character with the new system

Started playing again on PS4 a month ago after only playing the Beta years ago on PC, and so much has changed it's unrecognisable. Thanks for breaking it down, this is excellent.

playing neverwinter recently... this video is the best neverwinter stat explanation and the main content you need to play the game

The long awaited video finally

Thanks, very helpful video. Still have questions, not 100% understanding but certainly a lot further forward than I was before. Cheers!

Thanks a lot for sharing it. It will help me a lot explaining the new system to the guildies

Thanks so much for this! Helps me plan for the release coming to console.

nice calcutations and very good explanation of new combat system. thank you.

wow Rainer, you're really really the best, together to Janne obviously ahahah 💛

This is amazing, thank you Rainer.

Thank you very much, effort appreciated!

Feels like a college level Statistical Mathematics course. I feel just as lost. LOL

Great valuable content for hardcore NW players!

great video, Im sure everybody will use this as a reference once the changes are out. only thing bothering me was your pronouncement of accuracy :)

The work you put in to getting all this info into a easy to follow step by step explanation is incredible always can count on ya for the best info, just wana know 1 thing after watching ya vids for a while, is this change actually gonna improve the game? Like key aspects that were either vastly over looked or just straight up broken in other game mechanic changes weve had

Thanks for the hard work

Great video! Very informative. 1 question: didn't you forget the incoming healer of the recipient in the heal formula ? Or is that part of buffs/debuffs

You'r a genius thnx a lot it's very well displayed and explained cheers .

So in the brief free time I have after work. A 40 min lecture from Rainer is needed to understand WTF cryptic did now, it seems pretty straight forward 🤦‍♂️. P.S. Rainer once again TY for taking the time to navigate us through the madness

Thank you for all the work you do to help us I only understood 10% of what you said because I'm bad at math but thank you 😅

You are the best!!! A question, how will the debuffs work? Ex:Vistani Set. Will they be defense reducers?

You doing great job for all of us. Thank you. English isn't my native language, but I understand that priority of stats for dps-class is: 1) power (which boosts everything including your artifacts damage and any additional damage even w/o critical chance) 2) critical chance/critical severity (they works well just combined) 3) combat advantage (when you have it - it works the same as power) + control (which gives you combat advantage even if you facing the enemy). 4) accuracy (the lowest efficiency stat). Right? (Sorry for my poor English)

Very informative video gonna have to favorite this to reference later goodness knows I'm gonna be using this a lot. On the other hand why do heal dc's get a forte boost to accuracy? What does that stat do for a healers? I really hope they change that.

tnx for the vid was waiting for this one. Do all bosses have 100% CA uptime? Like will tic bosses also have 100% uptime?

Rainer, great breakdown! Curious what you think of Flaming weapon enchantment. Seems like Bronzewood, Dread, and Frost are getting all the love due to Defense debuff or increase to damage taken. If Flaming tooltip can be trusted, I feel that it can be a nice budget option. Plus more likely to stack in well equipped groups. Feytouched may be a sleeper pick too. Thoughts?

Bro .....Speachless you should be a NW Professor. But on a serious note if you research like this pro gaming teams should hire you man, for game analysis as a manager.

Fantastic job - I have been looking for this type of info for a long time. Just a question from where do you get the formulas ? Is there any public "official "source of information for this formulas ?

So appreciated...Love your work and TY Rainer, my thoughts... gaming it should be pleasing...but lately its not... still lots of problems and new things put on top...old school here.. everyone is near the same...same weapons (just the shape different) same gear...no one takes u on runs cause u dont know the dungeon... what happened to dying...and learning more you play and die the better you get? have to have expert to run whatever dungeon...(Said in LFG yesterday) :( just sad it is becoming really mechanicical x

edit: You mentioned the Forte Stat distribution chart in your comments so I deleted that reference.... I would also note that Deflect Severity of 60% is much harder to achieve than what your video suggests unless you play Rogue or Paladin (even then, as Drow or Renegade Drow) as currently there aren't any items or companions (that I am aware of) that grant deflect severity adie from Foehammer's Elixir. Overall, however, nice video that should really help folks who don't have access to preview server.

Hey Rainer, thank you very much for your past and present work! Could you explain what CA Adavantage Uptime is? Thanks!

You are the best!!! Ty :)

This is so good ty, I was worrying about the wrong things in a few spots. I so wish you would talk about how to make a sun elf wizard (thatumargist -whichever one isn't arcane- more powerful or is the arcane path better in the end game. I am almost 70,000 but in damage dealt I am rarely first and it needs to improve. Forte is For-Tay smile.

Great work

Thank you

Rainer, thank you for taking the time to make such an instructional video. I have one question...I'm working on a ranger and can't find any help on the order of stats (both off and def) I should concentrate on. Any help would be lovely.

It is possible to get 90% accuracy, but is it worthed to sacrifice other important stats? Also Hunter paragon has deflect in forte, not awareness as in video :p (or i dont know about that they will change it but for now it gives deflect)

Rainer as a Justicar are there stats I need to focus on to maintain aggro. Not including my gear, feats, etc. Strictly from a stat stand point. Can you break that down please?

Okay, I'm reviewing notes from your descriptions on what each of the stats actually do... and it seems to me that high deflection stat on a paladin is actually bad, as it will reduce the number of times we are struck therefore reducing our divinity gain. Similarly, having low accuracy would also be bad, as we would then miss more swings if that was our chosen divinity return source. As I'm understanding it, if possible we want as high of health and defense as possible, while having as low of deflect as possible. Also, I'm noticing now dps that previously did not care about the accuracy stat, will now want to stack that more to land more hits.

I wonder though, if arm pen is gone what happens to the armour pieces that have arm pen on it? And the ebonized one that gives 5% arm pen?

ohh, i guess I will stop playing another 4 years, every time I come back, I get excited and then, after few months boooom, system change..I always too behind because it take much time and work to adapt...Anyway, thank you, i ve been using for a while your wiki pocket. Thank you for your dedication and time effort, I wish I could donate something but out of jobs but looking...this pandemic has been hard...Best regards and be safe

lets say i go into tomm as a healer with these changes, do i then need to cap power, crit, crit sev, defense and crit avoid? and what about tanks? all offensive stats plus defense, deflect, deflect severity and maybe awareness? how do you even begin to cap everything? (i was told awareness was still not that important) its all very confusing

i am a little bit confused about the forte stat. maybe i am wrong but i think that's an old list for the stats you are showing there. www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1258800/official-combat-changes-forte thought they already changed it to this one the link is showing. or is it something they want to change in the future? sry for bad english ^^

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Thank you very much for that awsome work. I notice ,what I think, an error in the damage formula. For accuracy multiplier it should be: (Accuracy%-EnnemyDeflectSeverity%). And I wonder if that had an effect on the Accuracy curve in the chart

Hi, 6Blade9 here...I was thinking about coming back to neverwinter (fully). I noticed they are doing what i talked about change the stats and remove the one that make no sense. As i watch your video I hear stuff about caps...did they state the caps (offical ones) or is the coomunity's agreement on caps the norm? Cause my guild back in mod 16 came up with some random stuff so I am wonder if everyone still going with that, or if the dev actually stated the caps.

I'm late to the game with my question but I am confused about a specific portion of the damage formula. If the damage formula is from the perspective of the damage dealer, why is part of the formula / (1+ Deflect Chance x (Deflect Severity% - ENEMY Accuracy))? Why would the enemy's accuracy factor in the amount of damage that I'm doing to it? Am I misunderstanding? The combat advantage and critical stat formulas make sense because they are the attacker's stats being offset by the enemy's corresponding stats; e.g. (CombatAdv% - Enemy Awareness%) and (CriticalSev% - Enemy CritAvoid%). Why isn't the attacker's Accuracy being offset by the enemy's deflect severity?

if we have a item thats adds power such as "when you are 25 closer gain 5000 power" that bonus is doing nothing for us?

If a boss have more crit avoidance than your crit severity, does that make your crit hits do less dammge than non crit ? And if they equal does that make your crit and non crit hit do same dammge ?

Rainer pulled out the big brain

Thanks for doing this, but I still don't understand the difference between a stat rating and its percentage.

I know that I'm a bit late on the comment, but I just started to respec my dps build (play heals mostly). You have probably checked the formula, but I can't stop thinking that deflect and defense "modifiers" could also be in the form "multiplied by (1 - def%)" instead of "divided by (1+def%)". From my professional experience, this type of formula that has variables in the divisor can give "interesting" results in certain cases, to say the least.

Love the vids and all the work you do. And I know you do all the math, so I'm trying to wrap my head around why accuracy is so bad now. Ran a few different build combos on Janne calc - 50k IL, maxed power and CA. Then I started at 60% in crit/critsev/accuracy. I added 30%, and adding more accuracy always was better. Not necessarily by much, but always better. 90 Acc, 60 crit/critsev, damage was 12265. All at 70, 12095. 60 Acc, 75 crit/critsev, 11978. This makes sense to me as the deflectsev-accuracy is sooo early in the formula, but am curious what I may be doing wrong.

Great detailed explanation. Kinda weird the game itself doesn't explain how the game works.

Hello Rainer, i have a question...for barb dps, wich stats Is more important in order?

I am still not totally grasping something. Can you explain which SPECIFIC things give to the OTHER contribution category so I can focus on getting above 50% to 90%. I am guessing one is Companion bonuses. What other things give to the OTHER category?

Rainer, can u clarify, why there are our deflect &deflect severity in damage formula? So, dps is nothing to do with received damage.

Hi Rainer! So, I'm trying to understand what is the importance of accuracy in total damage, and looking at the damage formula, I don't see it. And makes me wonder, is the formula correct? I mean: accuracy is the counter of the enemy deflect severity, so at the formula, it makes sense that it is written like: / ( 1 + (EnemyDeflect% x (EnemyDeflectSeverity% - Accuracy%) ) ) Therefore, if NPC deflect severity is 90%, and your accuracy is 90%, then you divide by 1, which means that damage is not reduced. Right? or am I missing something?

Hi, do you know if buff formula is still the same ? (1+sum of all buffs )?

Hello rainer .. can i ask something? In this video u said pve npc have zero crit avoidance. TR has a bonus using stealth in Wicked Reminder encounter skill that debuffs target with -10 crit avoidance. So will that bonus even do anything for example, to halaster in tomm, if he already have 0 crit avoidance?

I heard someone suggesting that rank 4 marks of potency will go down a lot in value when the new content comes out. It is the 1st time I heard anything like that. What do you think about that Rainer?

if I'm understanding this correctly, as a Rogue I want to get my Crit Severity to 90%, and then balance Power/Critical Strike/Combat Advantage and try to get them at LEAST around 75% ?

keep class stats balanced then. shouldnt be too difficult. thanks for the info. will be interesting to see how stats on gear get rearranged. like armor pen or comp inf since those wont exist anymore

Question: Tooltip says that for every 1k of stats missing from ilvl cap you loose 1% of bolster, so does that mean if you have 40% from stats and 50% from other sources, does that mean you loose 10% bolster dispite seeing 90% on your character sheet?

Why is stat 1 of the devouted cleric accuracy??? That makes no sense for me.

What the top 2 race you would recommend for a rogue?

Nothing says fun game like math.

Ty, in future, i would like to se all within the stronghold area get a big update: treasure Mines is needed, rewards or a reason to build your own guild or to donate to a guild needs a heavy update, guild boons is very expensive compare how little influence they give,... Glory is impossible or so stupid to get that it should be remove or balance pvp and make it fun...there is buildings in stronghold you cant build only because you need glory which cant be earned easy or cant Even earn cause no queue pop, that is so stupid i believe some politician have had an influence on how glory function.

this is the most convoluted BS i've ever seen in game. does the devs expects us to learn all this? it's a good thing we have people you.

Is there a cap on movement speed? Action point gain? Recharge speed?

Ive been always told power then advantage, but it not seems entirely the way..

Slight issue. Control Bonus and Resist are still useless. Cryptic was asked several times on the forums on these and the mods usually opted to delete the posts and devs conveniently don't answer about them.

Me over here trying to figure out why we needed to change the stat system at all, it wasn't broken why fix it

I still don't understand how you get above 50% on stats....but thanks for your time and explanations.

Will loadouts even be needed anymore? Sounds kinda like we won't be able to have a lot of wild wacky builds anymore

why "Magnitude /100" in the formulas? Thank you !! Great video!

So... what $ can I get for selling endgame account with 10 toons?

I gave up on Neverwinter today. I played it because I had fun with it. Now it's something else. The leveling is stupidly broke and pretty much so is everything else. OOh thanks so much for giving us back to back events. No one can get anything because it's all still broken. I am not allowed to comment in any of the forums. I find anything attached to the Dungeons and Dragons' names to be full of elitists jerks.

Has this changed happened yet? And do you know when this weed ill happen in x box?

I thought we were playing a game. This is out of control! Ugh. Thank you. Not looking forward to this huge waste of time.

Do you know what the top 3 stats a tank should be aiming for?

this game and how it works makes no sense to me anymore, returning playing from mod mod 16/19, i played on console and recently started on PC, i was extremely sad to see all the old leveling zones removed and replaced with fast progression to lvl 20 max, took a lot of the fun and exploration in the beginning of the game away, spending a while lvling helped me learn how to play any new characters i created and better feel them out to see if i liked their playstyle and mechanics, thats now gone and i think puts newer players at a strong disadvantage from before. They said we wanted to make it simpler for new players to understand, and deleted bondings from the game. i understand how these stats work but its definitely not easier than before, also why do i need to max out 10 mounts and 10 companions to reach maximum bolster when i only ever need 5 of each for bonuses, or 6 if i use a companion/mount as a main summoned one or for a specific power, also the item lvl has near on doubled in my absence and the required item lvl for trial Q is a mammoth of a farm away stopping newer players progress to get their RAD daily. not an issue for me as in less than a week i already had 3million rough ad, but for a new casual player its definitely harder. it sounds like making it easier was actually just making it more expensive, they dont seem to care about new players just making money as the games not making as much as it once was. Thats just my opinion. all these changes have just make me not want to play, shortly after my return. not to mention the zax backlog of 6 months on pc is a pure turn off for a player that loves to grind time away and doesnt have a lot of money. this was the main upside to playing the game for me as i could grind my time and still progress without whaling out all be it slower it was possible to keep up before. l Love this game but its sad to see what its become. sorry for rant, and an old ish video but thought i would chuck my 2 cents in here. Great video as always, helped me re understand all these changes, keep up the great content and all you do for the community.

the combined rating part makes no sense how can it ever have lower combined rating than it's own item level if each item gives x15 item level combined rating? e.g. if item level has 100, that's 1500 combined rating, when would that ever be lower than the item level? or what am i missing here?

I think we need a 356 page manual and a degree in applied mathematics to understand the new combat system. I only have a piece of paper an a pen ;)

Which is better? 90% offensive stats or damage % bonus?

I don't have time to look at this in detail (just looked at the curves at the end, and I agree with most of them), but I have different results for Defense and Awareness (Awareness being much better, and giving better and better results as you put points in it, contrarily to Defense). And it's much better to have Deflect = Deflect Severity until both are at 50%, then capping Deflect to 90% before putting more points into Deflect Severity is better. I've shared my conclusions here : www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/khiivm/stats_on_preview/.

This is after the changed to opposed rolls of mod 16? {:o:O:}