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How does the Elemental Stone, Elemental Staff & Enhanced Elemental Staff work?

Submitted by Nevo , May 15 2015 11:33 PM | Last updated May 15 2015 11:36 PM

Each of the items gives stats to the hero that holds it.. if the owning player gets a kill
The Number of Stats gained is calculated by the following algorithm:

PRIMARY_STAT_GAIN_BONUS = 3
SECONDARY_STAT_GAIN_MODIFIER_STR = 0.7
SECONDARY_STAT_GAIN_MODIFIER_AGI = 0.85
SECONDARY_STAT_GAIN_MODIFIER_INT = 1.3
diff_real = game_difficulty * 0.04 // scale from 1-5 to 0.05-0.25
air_real = air? * 0.06 // 0-1 to 0-0.07
invis_real = invisible? * 0.03 // 0-1 to 0-0.03
sum_mode_real = 0.55*(diff_real + invis_real + air_real) // in range 0 to 0.35 currently
// count all 3 types of elemental stone items
count1 = 0.6*count_elem_stones + 0.9*count_elem_staffs+ 1.55*count_enhanced_elem_staffs
// apply weights and take number of recent kills in to count
count = count1 * 1.3 * kills * (1.15 - (sum_mode_real) )
//calculate the effect passage of time has on stats awarded
count = count*( (udg_GameMinutes / (16.5 + (10*sum_mode_real)) )+(0.6 - sum_mode_real) ) // make sure that last bit wont go negative!
//apply primary stat modifier PRIMARY_STAT_GAIN_BONUS
//apply stat type modifiers SECONDARY_STAT_GAIN_MODIFIER_STR, SECONDARY_STAT_GAIN_MODIFIER_AGI, SECONDARY_STAT_GAIN_MODIFIER_INT
//take in to account carry over from previous gains (if you gain say 1.2 stat then we save that .2 and apply that later)
// apply bonus and store new carry

The algorithm is subject to change arbitrarily as it has mayor balancing implications.
Equation has been changed for 6.43, will update answer when we officially release it.
From 6.43 onward you will be given different amounts of STR, AGI and INT + you gain more (x3) of the main stat
The fractional parts of earned stats will be remembered and carry over.
The overall stat gain rate has been drastically decreased (spec in the beginning of the game)