How do scaling gear work?

[meiam]

I'm trying to figure out how gear that scale with skill work exactly, since for some reason I can't find the effect in game I looked around and one of the wiki has some formula.

https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Metaphysics

At the bottom there's some formula for some gear that scale with metaphysic, looking at cardhu scalth it says "(metaphysic * -0.0025)+0.95". Which makes no sense, since you'd need a metaphysic skill of 381 to start seeing the smallest effect possible. So I'm obviously not understanding how this formula work, any help?

[CrackeR]

It's a game..... for fun, relaxation and enjoyment! Does it REALLY matter ????
I saw in the Chromoprismatic Quarterstaff description that its effectiveness is multiplied by metaphysics skill, but really it is an insignificant number in my opinion, since the staff kicks furry little ballsacks anyway!!!! ;)
But, as far as your question goes, no clue because i play, use weapons/ armor that work effectively for me and leave math class out of my gaming fun...

PS: Just enjoy the great game and have some fun ;) <CHEERS>

[meiam]

Figured it out, in case anyone is wondering the same, the bonus is a multiplicative applied to the damage. So with 0 metaphysic you get 95% applied to whatever damage you receive, with 10 metaphysics you get 0.0025 * 10= 0.025, 0.95-0.025= 0.925, 92.5% of the damage received.

So its not quite as garbage as I though but it's not that great, since the difference between ignoring he skill and going all in is 5%

[Halfinger]

Originally posted by CrackeR:

It's a game..... for fun, relaxation and enjoyment! Does it REALLY matter ????
I saw in the Chromoprismatic Quarterstaff description that its effectiveness is multiplied by metaphysics skill, but really it is an insignificant number in my opinion, since the staff kicks furry little ballsacks anyway!!!! ;)
But, as far as your question goes, no clue because i play, use weapons/ armor that work effectively for me and leave math class out of my gaming fun...

PS: Just enjoy the great game and have some fun ;) <CHEERS>

Some people enjoy the maths of a game and that is part of their enjoyment. It is irrelevant if it is something you or I would not do:) I don't get why people use game cheats but I do not care one bit if they want to.

@Op: I find in these games stats outside the core ones are often fairly useless as the devs are worried they might throw off the game balance or it was hard to give them equivalent values (what's better, 10dps or 5% damage reduction?) So I am not suprised the stat is not as good as you might expect.