What is the damage calculation formula in words?

What does this mean? Within each bracket, you get diminishing returns. The higher the %, the less dmg gains you get.

For example, going from 100% to 200% is a 100% increase. But 200% to 300% is only 50% increase.

Therefore, to maximize our damage we should avoid focusing all on 1 bracket, and try to raise all brackets somewhat equally.

Why does each bracket have a base% ? If there's no base%, then the whole equation would = 0 if you had no damage modifiers.

How we calculate the total dmg % depends on your attack's attribute. See the bottom of this sheet for more explanation on attributes.

In each bracket, you need to add "regular" dmg % + all the dmg % of the attributes. For example, for the "all global dmg" bracket, you would add global dmg + global skill dmg + other sources of global dmg.

For skysplitter, we mostly care about skill, physical, chi, and basic atk (only for Ailoren + Leonardo). Attacks can be multi-attribute, and attributes are not mutally exclusive (e.g. a skill can be both skill and physical).

For example, sword chi is regular dmg + skill dmg + physical dmg + chi dmg + conditional dmg (such as boss dmg when facing boss, dmg to shield when facing shielded enemies etc.).
Basic attack is regular dmg + basic atk dmg.

How do you know the attributes of your different types of dmg?
1) Learn to use discord search, there's a lot of FAQ/guides and most likely the answer is there already🙂
2) If you don't want to break the skysplitter sterotype by learning how to use the search bar, check "Dmg breakdown" sheet, it has a pie chart of some basic attributes: skill vs basic atk dmg, physical vs non-physical dmg

Use the "1000% dmg cap" sheet to figure out how far you are from the 1000% cap. Just know anything above 1000% is useless to you.
So don't ask "is this X dmg % good?" when you are already capped at 1000% dmg. You're contributing to the skysplitter stereotype which goes against our goals here.

Figure out how far you are from the 500% crit dmg cap. Just know anything above 500% is useless to you.
So you know when to stop asking "should I use bone club brand" when you are already capped at 500% crit dmg.
Here is a breakdown of an easy way to cap your crit dmg (mythic judgement ring gives 2% skill crit dmg for each 1% skill crit rate):

Generally, increase all your brackets somewhat equally to maximize your dmg. This is because of diminishing returns I mentioned earlier. If you're too lazy to do math, use some of the spreadsheets here to calculate for you.
tldr, if a bracket has low %, it's more valuable to increase that. That's why global, in-battle, final dmg is valuable, since we have less sources of it.

So, stop asking "should I use X dmg % or Y global dmg %". Global is almost always better. Same applies for in-battle and final dmg.
If you ask "is final dmg good" or "is in-battle good", that means you didn't bother to read, or your reading comprehension skills needs improvement. Either way, you're directly contributing to the skysplitter stereotype.

If you're wondering to yourself, why is my dmg so low? It's probably that your % in one or more of these brackets is too low.
Use some critical thinking skills (hopefully you have those) to figure out which bracket is lacking, and work on raising that number.

Lastly, if you hopefully learned something, go out and educate other skysplitter players on how dmg works, so we can break the stereotype together 🙂

Attacks in the game are coded as different attributes. If there is no attribute, it's simply your atk stat × dmg increase %. Every attack is affected by dmg increase % regardless of attribute.

Attributes include (not an exhaustive list): basic attack, combo, counter, skill, physical, chi, dagger and so on. Attributes are not mutually exclusive, meaning an attack can be multiple attributes. E.g. sword chi is chi, skill, and physical.

Multi-attribute attacks have their stats calculated together towards the 1000% dmg cap. It works similarly for damage reduction (DR), all the attributes' reduction stats are added together and subtracted from the total dmg %.

For example, combo attack formula = dmg% + basic dmg% + combo dmg%. And it's damage reduction formula = dmg% + basic attack dmg% + combo dmg% - DR% - basic attack DR% - combo DR%

How do you know what attribute(s) each attack is? By looking at the in-game description, learning a bit of game knowledge (it's not always intuitive), and using the search bar in discord. These questions have been answered before :)

Attributes we are about and how they are calculated:

dmg% + skill dmg% + rage skill dmg% + [all other attributes] (for Ailoren, add chi dmg on top for the chi coefficient, or basic atk dmg on top for the basic atk coefficient]

dmg% + physical dmg% (almost all physical attacks in the game are also skill, so we also usually add skill dmg% here)

dmg% + skill dmg% + artifact dmg% + [whatever attribute the artifact has] (for example, Heaven's Mark is sword chi)

dmg% + skill dmg% + adventurer dmg% + [whatever attribute the adventurer has] (this one gets complicated, each adventurer has multiple attributes. You should search discord to find out)

Attributes we don't care about, since we don't use them in our build or they are a small % of our total damage: