Fragsworth: worth the hero soul investment?

[4D]

Each level up increases click damage by 20%, but if the upgrade costs more than two hero souls (a 20% damage increase by themselves), aren't I losing damage?

[greedy_pathetic]

Its a Multiplicative vs. Additive thing. I've seen the question asked on the Clicker Heroes subreddit many times. I just did a search over there and the following seems to be one of the more succinct explanations (even though it is 5 years old):


https://old.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/comments/2jupdj/is_it_worth_it_to_level_up_fragsworth/
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It's due to multiplying the bonuses. Ex. you have 400 hero souls for 4000% bonus hero dps/click. level 1 fragsworth multiplies click damage by 1.20. So:
(base damage 100%) + (4000% HS) * (1.2 fragsworth) = 4920%

If you trade 2 hero souls for 1 more fragsworth you get:

(100% base) + (3980% HS) * (1.4 Fragsworth) = 5712%.

Most ancients will function as multiplier of each other so there will always be a point where leveling them is worth the HS expense. Morgulis is an exception as he simply makes each HS spent on him count for 11% more damage instead of 10%.
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[4D]

Man, there is way more math involved in this game than I was anticipating...

But I guess that's to be expected with the utterly massive amount of numbers the game employs!

[★ ANON ★]

the best way is to use a calculator :)

Ancient Calculator:
Load your Save and choose your playstyle

https://graceoflives.github.io/fluffy-garbanzo/

[Theldras]

this calculator is more up to date:
https://kepow.org/clickerheroes/

the one anon linked is the goto calculator for the root2 version of the game.

[★ ANON ★]

Originally posted by Theldras:

this calculator is more up to date:
https://kepow.org/clickerheroes/

the one anon linked is the goto calculator for the root2 version of the game.

Where is it different? Im using it all time since start until now hze 400k

It's working!

[greedy_pathetic]

Both of the above calculators are valid for the current version of CH1... as I understand it both are based off of the same math and the only difference is the user interface:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/wiki/calculators#wiki_calculators