Got confused about damage calculation

1. Attack abilities say their damage is "[Number]% of DPS".
But spell damage don't have a "DPS", so what it mean?
The average of main attack DPS? Then what's the use of spell damage ID?

2. The "soft cap" of Rage (Earth powder special) is +300% Earth damage.
My damage is almost all earth damage and all my armors have Rage V, so I think when I'm at very low health it should increase my DPS about 3 times of that when 100%HP. But it didn't, and the DPS data from WynnBuilder (Rage set to 300%) only increased 0.4 times (also the case in game). Why?

Thanks a lot!!! I'm still learning about the combat system :D

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https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...1007Z611B336100036100036100036WW337D-lNO-vwV1
This is my build

 

I don't know about #2, but for #1, spell damage calculations use main attack dps(along with other things like raw spell damage, % spell damage, and % elemental damage)

 

Thanks! That does solve my first question

 

I think the earth dmg bonus of rage gets added to your normal earth damage which means it increases the damage less (percentage wise) if you already have high earth damage identifications on your items but it still adds 300% earth damage to your stats

 

Oh sorry but I found I'm still confused
For example, Uppercut says its total damage is 280% of my DPS (200% neutral, 40% earth, 40% thunder)
I have about 15k DPS (almost all earth; no thunder at all), and Wynnbuilder says (also the case in game) my Uppercut deals 7.6k average total damage, in which earth is about 5/6 and thunder 1/6 (neutral damage can be ignored).
But 15k * 280% = 42k, much higher than 7.6k. Also, I totally fail in figuring out how do these element conversion happen.

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If there're formulas WynnBuilder uses XD

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I found a guide explaining it, let me see

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It's a outdated one :(

 

I really found it and looked carefully
Now I'm thinking about turning to TierStack if I didn't misunderstand

 

To calculate the dps you need to look at the attack damage of your weapon (for each hit it selects a random number out of your weapons damage range) and multiply it with the amount of times the weapon can hit per second without attack speed modifiers. The exact amount of hits per second for each attack speed can be found in the weapon article on the wiki. The game then takes the Dps of the weapon and multiplies it with your other modifiers like spell damage%.

elemental conversions just take that percentage of your weapons dps and adds it as damage of that element to the damage of the spell before the multipliers are applied. For example if you have a weapon with a damage range of 10-10 earth damage (to make it easier to understand) and super fast attack speed the game calculates 10*4.3=43. so if your spell deals 200% neutral and 100% fire damage it takes 43*200%=86 earth and 43*100%=43 fire damage and then applies your other damage multipliers.

 

1. When abilities say "Damage: 200% (of your DPS)", it means the "Average DPS" value that is written on your weapon. This is calculated using the damage per hit and base attack speed of the weapon, but the value written on the weapon is all that matters.

2.The bonus elemental damage from powder specials is not multiplicative, it just adds to your existing stats. Imagine that your gear had a +100% Earth Damage ID on it, essentially. So, when taking all of your buffs into account it might not actually increase your damage by a full +300% at the end.

 

OK now I finally understand how to calculate them!!!
Thanks for you all :DDD