Celtic Heroes

Your formula doesn't take into account attack. And also the fact the armour given. Solo may be better without. Also soon new helms will come so is it worth it was the question. I say no

True, the formula is for calculating base damage. The amount of damage done to your opponent will depend on your base damage and your opponent’s resistance to the type (s) of damage you deliver. For example, a Lure of Assassins increases your effective piercing damage by reducing your opponent’s resistance to pierce.

While I agree attack scores are important, your relative attack vs. your opponent’s defense score play a role in determining your chance to hit. (I believe you posted a nice data set showing the linear relationship between attack and defense scores as a function of your % chance to hit.) It is true that you can’t do any damage if you don’t land a hit, but attack doesn’t factor into base damage.

A point of clarification. I don’t want to give the impression that I derived the formula for calculating base damage. This was a joint effort among a number of contributors and I believe Mdimarco derived the formula.

I recently switched from bloodlust to scavenger helm and the difference is minuscule for me, but I run a 225STR build at the moment. The more strength you have the better bloodlust will be and the greater the gap will be, but at 225 Strength Bloodlust was giving 61 damage compared to 50 from the scavenger helm. I got the fire version because for me and my clan the mobs I fight are most likely to have fire lure than any other lure making the fire scavenger helm, along with the extra attack, and with my build at the very least an equal set up.

Everything is situational an you really have to gear for what is best for your situation.

Slightly off topic but while we are talking about helms, would Radiant Earthstone Helm ever be better to use than bloodlust for PVP?

I have both helms and I always use bloodlust, just wondering if the extra 500 hp is worth the trade off in damage.

I think radient is better in all situations. I am full vit and find it better then bloodlust in pvp