What is the definition of 100% affinity?

[KennyT]

Does it mean I can deal 100% of my weapon damage minus the monster defence?
Because I got weakness exploit 3 and there's already 50% affinity, plus other skills it's like 110%.
Does it work this way?

[Reborn]

affinity is just crits

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Affiity is your chance to crit and do 20% extra damage than normal (before other modifiers). If you have negative affinity you have chances to do feeble strikes, attacks that do less damage.

Edit: So yes, if you have 110% affinity, your attacks will always crit if you don't get hit by dragon blight.

[KennyT]

Originally posted by Reborn:

affinity is just crits

So if i got 100% means i can deal crit at a 100% rate?

[Dongerino]

affinity is critical chance

you will deal 25% more damage up to 40% if skilled with crit boost

if you have minus affinity it just does the opposite, chance to deal -25% damage

[Silphone]

Originally posted by KennyT:

Originally posted by Reborn:

affinity is just crits

So if i got 100% means i can deal crit at a 100% rate?

yes, but for most weapons and parts of the game, 40-70 is more than enough

[KennyT]

Originally posted by Dongerino:

affinity is critical chance

you will deal 25% more damage up to 40% if skilled with crit boost

if you have minus affinity it just does the opposite, chance to deal -25% damage

Is it the normal critical multiply is 25%?

And if I use critical boost 40% does it deal 65% more of 40% is the limit?

[KennyT]

Originally posted by Silphone:

Originally posted by KennyT:

So if i got 100% means i can deal crit at a 100% rate?

yes, but for most weapons and parts of the game, 40-70 is more than enough

Oh I see~

[Dongerino]

Originally posted by KennyT:

Originally posted by Dongerino:

affinity is critical chance

you will deal 25% more damage up to 40% if skilled with crit boost

if you have minus affinity it just does the opposite, chance to deal -25% damage

Is it the normal critical multiply is 25%?

And if I use critical boost 40% does it deal 65% more of 40% is the limit?

yes 25% is the base number

no it's not 25%+40%, Crit boost skill increase your crit damage by 5% per level, maxed at 3 levels gives you 15% more

so, 15+25 = 40% more damage

[Vanessa]

Without any crit modifiers (i.e, no Crit Boost), 1 point of affinity = 0.25% extra effective damage.

So if you have, say, 50 Affinity, that's +12.5% damage. If you also have Weakness Exploit x3 (+50 Affinity on weak spots), you'll have +25% damage to weak spots and +12.5% damage otherwise.

The reverse is true. Having a negative affinity still gives you crit chance, but your crits will be negative-crits, they'll do less damage. So an Affinity of say, -20 is 5% less damage.

If you have a slow-attacking weapon like the Hammer or Horn, RNG may affect these numbers, but in general, luck evens out.

[Silphone]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Without any crit modifiers (i.e, no Crit Boost), 1 point of affinity = 0.25% extra effective damage.

So if you have, say, 50 Affinity, that's +12.5% damage. If you also have Weakness Exploit x3 (+50 Affinity on weak spots), you'll have +25% damage to weak spots and +12.5% damage otherwise.

The reverse is true. Having a negative affinity still gives you crit chance, but your crits will be negative-crits, they'll do less damage. So an Affinity of say, -20 is 5% less damage.

If you have a slow-attacking weapon like the Hammer or Horn, RNG may affect these numbers, but in general, luck evens out.

Sure that affinity rate affects the damage? afaik it is only the CHANCE to crit for 120% damage (or up to 140% with the skill)

*edit: wiki says "Affinity in Monster Hunter World (MHW) is the weapon's chance to deal more or less damage on attacks. Affinity is determined by the weapon and skills that are being used. This works on a percentage so for example at -100% you will always deal less damage. At 100% you will always do more damage."

[Skiptro]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Without any crit modifiers (i.e, no Crit Boost), 1 point of affinity = 0.25% extra effective damage.

So if you have, say, 50 Affinity, that's +12.5% damage. If you also have Weakness Exploit x3 (+50 Affinity on weak spots), you'll have +25% damage to weak spots and +12.5% damage otherwise.

The reverse is true. Having a negative affinity still gives you crit chance, but your crits will be negative-crits, they'll do less damage. So an Affinity of say, -20 is 5% less damage.

If you have a slow-attacking weapon like the Hammer or Horn, RNG may affect these numbers, but in general, luck evens out.

the amount of affinity does not effect crit damage only crit chance, so 3% affinity does exact same amount of damage as 50% affinity, your chance of activating is just less, same with weakness exploit. Crit is always 1.25 damage unless you have crit boost.

Also for slow weapons like gs, you crit less but when you crit you make up for it in damage since 25% of 400 (pure charge) is way more than 25% of 50 or 100.

[Dongerino]

I think that person just talk in a statistic sense, not literally

[Vanessa]

Yeah, I mean like, effective damage as in the GLOBAL amount of damage you do. In total.

The weapon you use doesn't matter - affinity is no more valuable to my Wyvernheart/Pierce bowgun than a Hammer. It's still an average of 0.25% damage increase per point of affinity.

[Silphone]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Yeah, I mean like, effective damage as in the GLOBAL amount of damage you do. In total.

The weapon you use doesn't matter - affinity is no more valuable to my Wyvernheart/Pierce bowgun than a Hammer. It's still an average of 0.25% damage increase per point of affinity.

okay but the way you worded it made it sound very different - but you're right, when you could get a perfectly reliable 5% crit proc for the entire quest, the damage at the end of the quest could be calculated that way, but your wording was decisive indeed ;)

[McFuzz]

You do 25% extra damage 100% of the time :3