Gaming Calculator

When you lose to someone who clicks faster but hits you fewer times it might seem like you’re getting cheated. This is likely due to not understanding how combat work in Java Edition. Speed alone is not rewarded anymore. Now, it’s about patience and knowing when to strike. Each time you take a swing before … Read more

When you dual-wielded stilettoes in Pillars of Eternity, you expected them to strike like lightning … but they were sluggish loops of animation. That’s the gap between what you expect and what it delivers. That’s where build optimization starts. Speed isn’t one stat in this game. It’s a layered equation made up of dexterity scaling, … Read more

You might feel sluggish during teamfights when your attacks don’t line up with your skills. That’s because you’re building gear without knowing what Riot’s formula for attack speed are. The game doesn’t just throw bonus numbers at your base stat. Instead, it take your base stat, multiplies it by a champ-specific ratio, and finaly caps … Read more

A lot of times you get mad because “your attack speed isn’t making you hit fast.” Your build up has all these stats, you’re just hitting super slow. Maybe the guy dies really quick but you see his health bar drop slower then what it should be. And its not realy due to the item … Read more

Anyone who’s played an action RPG knows this feeling: you’re gearing up for battle, pressing that button… and watching as your character lazily swipes the air. It’s less of a lethal attack then it is a leisurely pastime. Always, everyone experiences this same phenomenon in a multiplayer title. As enemies move toward you, you watch … Read more

It was act four. It was a checkpoint in the middle of a dense crowd. Golden chests swarm across your screen, and purple enemies swirl around them. Everyone’s swinging their characters. Yours swing faster then everyone else. You’re untouchable. Or so you think. And then you see yourself up close. How many hits per second … Read more

But when you’re staring down at a chest of raw iron and your furnaces runs dry, you know that panic. The stone cools and those hours spent mining vanishes before your eyes. That’s when it begins; the switch from casual gameplay to logistics. Once you’ve constructed an automated smelter array, Minecraft’s smelting no longer feel … Read more

Rather than guessing if it’s okay to sacrifice some of your damage potential in exchange for additional speed (and therefore faster skill charging), simply input your own numbers into the calculator above and let it do all the work. This becomes especially helpful when fighting against enemies that stack up as time goes on, such … Read more

With this in mind, I wrote a calculator (above) to run through it for you. It break out the individual skill-specific bonus and total modifier provided by gear, letting you know actualy how far away your next frame drop is. That’s also why we refer to these as “dead zones”… Most builds suffers from them. … Read more

In Rust, there’s always this fear of running out of wood and having more ore than needed. You’re stuck staring at your resources as they gathers dust while your furnace burns through its own supply of wood before the sun sets. This smelting calculator gets rid of that worry. Resource management become a simple math … Read more

The furnace is up, the ore has been collected. In Vintage Story, smelting isn’t just a matter of pushing a button, it’s about understanding chemistry and thermodynamics. Overshoot the ratio or the temperature and you waste your resources on an unsuccessful cast. Underfuel the batch and your metal will never melt. This tool does the … Read more

Your inventory’s almost maxed out. You’ve got three thousand units of raw metal from some nasty place. All this effort suddenly hangs on whether you can get it smelted fast enough before the raiders come, or your dinosaur companion wanders away and dies. It’s a situation that demands careful preparation, not blind chance. Knowing the … Read more