I’m not a math whiz, but wouldn’t each item you get that’s one ilvl above your last item make you about 6% stronger than you were previously since there’s 16 item slots?
How would I get the total power increase for each ilvl compared to my current ilvl since one item is 6% between 2 consecutive ilvls?
Like I said not a math whiz so can someone help me clear this up?
The one percent stronger per ilvl as mentioned by Blizzard seems like bs though.
no. item level is a relatively consistent measure of power but it’s completely arbitrary.
No, that’s not how numbers work.
then give an example of how they do work?
Higher ilevel with stats or effects that don’t help you is not an increase in power.
assuming you’re wearing an item thats for your spec all items help you in some way.
just assume you’re wearing your top stat pieces.
In your example, if you upgrade one item one level it’s an 6% increase in damage, thus if you upgrade all 16 slots one item level result in a 100% increase in damage.
Going from an average item level of 11 to 12 would be 100%. I don’t have Excel on my iPad but if I did, you could map it out fairly quickly that an increase from ilevel 10 to 400 would be, I don’t know…in the billions? Trillions?
6% of 1%, if that mentioning of Blizzard’s is correct.
item level is not a direct measure of an item’s contribution to your damage or healing or survivability. it measures the total stat budget allocated to the item. that’s all. depending on how the secondary stats are distributed, it might be an upgrade for you over another item of the same level or it might not.
According to Ion it’s 1% per 1 ilvl on a piece of gear.
My best interpretation: Whatever value your chestpiece is making up of your total power, if you go from 437 to 441 ilvl, increase that value of your power by 4%. So if your chest is worth 1000 dps and it goes up 4 ilvl, it should now be worth 1040 dps.
So how much power would 4 ilvls be on all gear if it was just upgraded gear and not different gear?
Roughly 4%, since you’re talking about your total gear.
Somethings not adding up. The dude above said 1 ilvl on 1 piece of gear said that’s a 1% upgrade so how could 4% on each of 16 slots be 4% upgrade?
Each ilvl increase on a piece is a roughly 1% increase per that item’s contribution to your DPS. It is not a total DPS gain of 1% per chest ilvl, bracer ilvl, etc.
One full ilvl level increase on your total average is 1% total dps increase. So for example if your gear is currently 435 average you need to get all your gear combined to ilvl 436 average to gain 1% but things like weapons carry more potential weight than say a waist.
I believe you are misunderstanding what is being said. The intent can’t be 1% per iLvl on each piece of gear. It is more likely what they were saying is that 1iLvl on a piece of gear is +1% increase in the power that piece of gear provides. So that +1 TOTAL iLvl could be +1% total power.
So, going from a chest 500 piece to a 503, would increase your overall ILvl by something like .18. If you did that for all 16 slots then your power would increase by 3%. Does that make sense?
Not that I’m certain that 1 iLvl = 1% power. But if it does, that would HAVE to be the composite gear level and not 1% increase for each piece.