Deepwoken Scaling Formula -

Damage is significantly higher against non-player enemies. Many mantras and weapons have a massive "PvE Multiplier" (sometimes as high as 9x or 10x) to ensure PvE content remains manageable.

Being "In the Zone" or having "Power Surge" active applies a temporary multiplier to the result of your base scaling formula. Summary for Build Making To maximize your damage using the scaling formula: deepwoken scaling formula

A weapon with 40 base damage and three 10% damage talents will almost always outperform a weapon with 50 base damage and no talent synergy. Damage is significantly higher against non-player enemies

Deepwoken has a hard cap of 150 Investment Points (excluding bonuses from Shrine of Order, etc.). To maximize the scaling formula, you should aim for the "Soft Caps": Summary for Build Making To maximize your damage

There are three main scaling tiers for weapons. The numbers below represent roughly you get at specific stat breakpoints.