AC substracts from Base or Total

[Amidala]

Does Monster AC substract damage from my Weapon Damage or Total Damage:
Example:
Weapon: 1-100 (Skills high enough for tripple damage)
Total: 3-300

Does the AC make a Total of 3-150 or 3-250 out of it ?

[__________Archimedes]

I like to know that too.

Is the weapon damage reduced from 1-100 to 1-50 and then trippled (Skill 800) or is it trippled to 3-300 and then substracted by 50 ?

This can make a big difference.
Another Example:
Wield 2 Pistols 1-100 with a speed of 1/1 and 800 Skill in Pistol.
They will fire 8 times in 8 seconds for 3-300 damage .
If they fire at a target with 1000 AC the maximum damage would change to:
100-100=0 => minimum damage 1=> 1*3*8=24
OR 100*3=300 => 300-100= 200 => 200*8=1600.

So what is the answer ?

[_____________Nakomis]

I am curious to know where you got the info that having a much higher skill requirement than the weapon will allow you to increase damage by up to three times. As far as I was aware of, that isn't the way it worked, otherwise you would have people who could just "grow into" a gun. Essentially, your newbie pistol could do triple it's amount of damage once your skill got high enough. Please clarify this for me, and clarify your weapon info a bit too please.

For example:

Pistol A
1-100(50)
1/1
req. 250 pistol
req. 130 fling

Pistol B
1-50(200)
1.2/2.5
req. 400 pistol
req. 220 fling

Also please include your initiatives, and any crit buffs that may be running.

For hypothetical situations, include the monster's approximate level and AC

[______________Krneki]

He got it from the dmg formula that currently works for everything except MA. (min-max)(1+ams/400) = (afective min-max), so yes, 800 ams triples your dmg output.

As for the AC question...AC reduces the dmg by 1 dmg for every 10 AC, which gets subtracted after the AMS has been aplied. so with a 1-100 weapon and 800 AMS, you'd be doing 2-200 dmg to mobs with 1000 ac.

[_____________Nakomis]

Wow, I never caught that formula before Krneki. Thanks for clearing that up.