WildStar: Expedition Prime Scaling Data

Knowing how items scale is helpful, but you need to get the items from somewhere. One place you can get items from are the expeditions. However to get items with high item levels you will need to run high prime content. Thus it's interesting to know how this content scales.

How To Go About This

So, for now, I'm gonna ignore the influence of hero into this by expecting you to have at least the amount or more hero than the prime level of choice. So what we want to know now is how the prime levels scale. For this, we just go into the prime levels at different difficulties and look for changes. I think many people already know that you'll notice two big changes.

• The enemies take longer to defeat
• You die faster

These two aspects should instantly bring up a few questions in our minds. The simplest of all those questions is the why. If the enemies take longer to defeat it means one or several things. For example, they could have more health or we do less damage. It could also be both. For the second aspect, it's most likely because the enemies deal more damage.

So let's compare the health and damage of the enemies on the different prime levels starting with prime level zero. Once we got our data we start to compare it to prime level zero and additionally we could also look at the steps between each prime level.

Collecting Data

Okay, so no joke. I literally went into the infestation expedition on prime level zero to 15 and checked the health of the same mob over and over again and let myself getting hit by the same attack of this enemy over and over. The enemy of my choice was the Lashing Terror. I noted down all the values in a spreadsheet. So you get two tables, one of the

Enemy Health

Prime Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Health	36533	41648	45302	49320	56627	61742	67222	73433	84024	91700	100102
Prime Level	11	12	13	14	15
Health	109236	124946	136271	148693	162210

and one of the

Enemy Damage

Prime Lvl	Avg. Dmg	Damage...
0	1231.4	1298	1212	1284	1270	1278	1196	1206	1170	1143	1257
1	1430.8	1388	1443	1369	1370	1456	1488	1440	1447	1427	1480
2	1531.5	1623	1561	1552	1563	1542	1528	1455	1428
3	1652.82	1715	1622	1722	1652	1614	1716	1652	1694	1589	1599	1606
4	1910.92	2002	1955	1884	1997	1911	1977	1902	1917	1815	1873	1852	1846

A bit weird that I only collected data on the damage from prime 0 to prime 4. Well, it's not just random but more on that later.

Evaluation of Data

So the next step is to evaluate our data. So we want to know how the prime levels scale. To figure this out we assume prime level zero is our base health and damage. So 100%. To determine how prime level 1 scaled we divide its health through the base health. We do the same with the damage.

This means in prime level 1 the enemies have 41648 / 36533 = 1.1400 or 114.00% the health.

Doing the same with the average damage we get 1430.8 / 1231.4 = 1.1619 or 116.19% damage.

So let's do this for every case we divide its health and average damage through the health and average damage on prime level zero. Now we get the following table.

Prime Level	Health	Percentage	Average Damage	Percentage
0	36533	100%	1231.4	100%
1	41648	114.00%	1430.8	116.19%
2	45302	124.00%	1531.5	124.37%
3	49320	135.00%	1652.82	134.22%
4	56627	155.00%	1910.92	155.18%
5	61742	169.00%
6	67222	184.00%
7	73433	201.00%
8	84024	229.99%
9	91700	251.01%
10	100102	274.00%
11	109236	299.01%
12	124946	342.01%
13	136271	373.01%
14	148693	407.01%
15	162210	444.01%

You may notice that I realized after prime level four that the damage most likely scales just like the health of the enemies do. It's too similar to be a coincidence. Even though to be certain one should've done it through this is enough evidence to me. Aside from knowing now that on prime level 13 the enemies do almost 4 times the damage and have almost 4 times the health.

Next, let's see if it scales linearly. We can do this by dividing the current enemy's health on the prime level through the previous one. So for prime level 2, it would be 45302 / 41648 = 1.0877 or 108.77%. We want the increase between the first and the second unrelated to the previous one. So we need to get 100% out of it. We can simply do this by subtracting one. Which means we get 1.0877 - 1 = 0.0877 or 8.77%

Prime Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Health	36533	41648	45302	49320	56627	61742	67222	73433	84024	91700	100102
%	-	14.00%	8.77%	8.89%	14.82%	9.03%	8.88%	9.24%	14.42%	9.14%	9.16%
Prime Level	11	12	13	14	15
Health	109236	124946	136271	148693	162210
%	9.12%	14.38%	9.06%	9.12%	9.09%

As you can see the increase is not linear. Now the question is raised whether or not this is fixed percentages set by the developers or if they use a non-linear function. To figure this out we need to find a pattern. Though that's not something I'm gonna do today, because I have to get ready for the flight to Paris and stuff.

"So hope you enjoy the data, GreenyNeko out!"

~GreenyNeko