DPS Calculator
Benchmark your builds by combining base damage, crit stats, and attack speed
Damage Per Second Calculator
Combine base damage, critical chance, and attack speed to benchmark your builds.
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Critical Hit Multiplier
Summary
Average Hit Damage: 125
Damage Per Second: 312.5
Hit Breakdown
Critical Chance: 25.0%
Critical Hits / sec: 0.63
Non-Critical Hits / sec: 1.88
Tips
- Use this calculator to compare gear swaps or rotation tweaks.
- Remember to factor in buffs or debuffs that modify crit chance or damage.
- Attacks per second can be derived from weapon speed or GCD rotations.
Master Your Damage Output with the DPS Calculator
Whether you are raiding in an MMO, pushing ladders in an ARPG, or optimizing your rotation in an action RPG, damage per second (DPS) is the metric everyone watches. It highlights the balance between raw attack damage and the speed at which you deliver that damage. Understanding the math behind DPS helps you compare weapon choices, talent builds, and buff combinations objectively instead of relying on gut feeling.
The core formula multiplies your average hit damage by attacks per second. Average hit damage is itself a blend of your base hit, critical chance, and critical damage multiplier. By adjusting form inputs to mirror your character sheet, you can see exactly how crit chance caps, bonus critical damage, or haste-type stats shift the overall outcome.
Critical chance increases the frequency of spikes, while critical multipliers determine how significant each spike becomes. Many games provide unique passives that modify either attribute, so isolating your multiplier in a calculator reveals whether investing in additional crit chance or crit damage will deliver the best returns. Always ensure the combination stays within game-specific caps.
Attack speed or haste accelerates how often you apply damage. In some titles, haste also affects resource regeneration or global cooldown windows. Testing different attack speed breakpoints in the calculator can uncover thresholds where your rotation becomes smoother or where additional speed provides diminishing returns.
Hybrid builds and procs complicate the picture. Consider calculating DPS for both your sustained rotation and burst windows separately. You can duplicate the inputs in the calculator to experiment with temporary buffs, short-lived consumables, or cooldown phases—helping you map out opener sequences before stepping into a raid.
Finally, remember that survival, utility, and mechanics win encounters alongside raw DPS. Use this tool as a benchmark, then contextualize results with encounter movement, target uptime, and your team composition. The best build balances throughput with consistency, enabling you to execute under pressure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Damage per second multiplies your average hit damage by attacks per second. Average hit damage blends non-critical and critical strikes based on your crit chance and crit damage multiplier. The calculator performs this math automatically when you enter your character stats.
Ideal crit chance varies by game because many titles apply soft caps, diminishing returns, or class-specific bonuses. Use the calculator to see how closing in on the cap affects your average hit damage, then weigh the gain against other stats like attack speed or base damage.
Haste effects increase your attacks per second, raising DPS linearly. Some games also let haste shorten global cooldowns or resource tick rates, indirectly improving uptime. Enter the buffed attacks-per-second value to model the benefit inside the calculator.
Yes. Create separate scenarios with and without the buff. For example, input your base rotation stats, note the DPS, then duplicate the inputs with temporary multipliers or bonus crit chance to understand burst damage potential. Comparing both values helps plan cooldown timing.
Real encounters involve movement, downtime, target switching, resistances, and human execution. The calculator provides idealized numbers based on average values. Use the difference to identify where mechanics or rotation adjustments can close the gap between theory and practice.