Forum:Damage Data

I was wondering if it'd be good to add info on how much damage Link's various items and abilities cause to enemies. This would be great for knowing when ammo or magic based items are worth using, how much your sword needs to be upgraded before it overpowers other items, etc.. As far as where to put the info, you could have it in each items page, either in the text or as its own row in the info box. Another useful way to show damage data would be to have a chart for each game, with the rows sorted by damage dealt. That way people could see the whole arsenal at once.

I think (this is just off the top of my head) that it'd be good to have the damage stated in each page, and have a link in that statement (i.e. "Arrows deal 2 damage") that goes to a page called "Damage". The damage page has a complete chart for each game, listing of all Link's damage dealing items and abilities, how much damage they deal (with 1 being the damage for the weakest item(s), assuming that other items deal damage in even multiples of that number), and any limitations or other notes (Jump Attacks deal 2x damage, some enemies are only stunned by an item, some enemies resist certain elements, etc.).

There are some things that would need to be worked out here, bosses for example should probably be ignored in the comments column as some boss or another is immune to pretty much every item. Also one needs to be scientific about collecting the data; some enemies are resistant or weak to specific items, some have a transition which may not count all the damage (if an Iron Knuckle is 1 damage away from losing it's armor and you deal 4 damage, what happened to the other 3?), etc.

By the way, I already have an almost complete damage chart for Majora's Mask, that I made a while ago just cause I wanted to. I have every game to date other than the DS ones, so I can help with gathering this data.

What do you think?--Fierce Deku (talk) 08:52, November 30, 2010 (UTC)