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A Visceral Attack is defined as the special critical attack performed after backstabbing (using Augur of Ebrietas or a Charged Attack on an enemy’s back to put them into a vulnerable state) or parrying an enemy (using Augur of Ebrietas or gunfire to stagger an enemy during an attack and put them into a vulnerable state), in which the player shoves their hand into the enemy’s torso or head and rips a large hole in the victim. This form of attack has very high damage potential and is terribly deadly. Visceral Damage Is Determined By A Variety Of Factors ► Blood Level increases the AR of your visceral attacks at set level-breakpoints. ► Skill multiplies your visceral AR by a factor that scales with your Skill stat. ► Some gem types multiply your visceral AR (Tempering, Nourishing, Adept Thrust, Fool’s, Poorman’s, Beasthunter against Beasts, and Kinhunter against Kin). ► Clawmarks Runes multiply your Visceral AR. ► Visceral damage is reduced by an enemy’s Thrust Defense and Natural Defense (the defense stat that increases when a player levels up)

How Does Visceral Damage Scale With Level?

Here, we have estimated the AR of Visceral Attacks as they scale with level (no increases made to the Base Skill stat of 9, no Clawmarks Runes used, and no Blood Gems equipped):
Blood Level 4-14 = 300AR Blood Level 15-29 = 381AR Blood Level 30-44 = 451AR Blood Level 45-59 = 637AR Blood Level 60-79 = 712AR Blood Level 80-99 = 797AR	Blood Level 100-119 = 822AR Blood Level 120-139 = 848AR Blood Level 140-159 = 863AR Blood Level 160-199 = 878AR Blood Level 200+ = 893AR* *Viscerals stop scaling with level after Level 200, not including Skill or the effects of scaling gems.

How Do Viscerals Scale With The Skill Stat?

Skill multiplies your Visceral AR by a factor that scales with your Skill Stat. These multipliers may be used to find your approximate Visceral AR without Gems or Clawmarks:
9 Skill = 1.0000* 10 Skill = 1.0123 11 Skill = 1.0325 12 Skill = 1.0526 13 Skill = 1.0728 14 Skill = 1.0941 15 Skill = 1.1142 16 Skill = 1.1344 17 Skill = 1.1557 18 Skill = 1.1758 19 Skill = 1.1971 20 Skill = 1.2172 21 Skill = 1.2374 22 Skill = 1.2576 23 Skill = 1.2777 24 Skill = 1.2979 25 Skill = 1.3191 26 Skill = 1.3393 27 Skill = 1.3595 28 Skill = 1.3796 29 Skill = 1.3998 30 Skill = 1.4199 31 Skill = 1.4412 32 Skill = 1.4614 33 Skill = 1.4815	34 Skill = 1.5017 35 Skill = 1.5218 36 Skill = 1.5420 37 Skill = 1.5633 38 Skill = 1.5845 39 Skill = 1.6047 40 Skill = 1.6249 41 Skill = 1.6450 42 Skill = 1.6663 43 Skill = 1.6865 44 Skill = 1.7066 45 Skill = 1.7268 46 Skill = 1.7469 47 Skill = 1.7671 48 Skill = 1.7884 49 Skill = 1.8085 50 Skill = 1.8287 51 Skill = 1.8343 52 Skill = 1.8376 53 Skill = 1.8432 54 Skill = 1.8477 55 Skill = 1.8522 56 Skill = 1.8578 57 Skill = 1.8611 58 Skill = 1.8667	59 Skill = 1.8712 60 Skill = 1.8768 61 Skill = 1.8802 62 Skill = 1.8858 63 Skill = 1.8903 64 Skill = 1.8959 65 Skill = 1.9003 66 Skill = 1.9048 67 Skill = 1.9093 68 Skill = 1.9149 69 Skill = 1.9194 70 Skill = 1.9239 71 Skill = 1.9283 72 Skill = 1.9339 73 Skill = 1.9384 74 Skill = 1.9429 75 Skill = 1.9474 76 Skill = 1.9530 77 Skill = 1.9575 78 Skill = 1.9619 79 Skill = 1.9664 80 Skill = 1.9709	81 Skill = 1.9765 82 Skill = 1.9810 83 Skill = 1.9854 84 Skill = 1.9899 85 Skill = 1.9955 86 Skill = 2.0000 87 Skill = 2.0056 88 Skill = 2.0090 89 Skill = 2.0150 90 Skill = 2.0190 91 Skill = 2.0246 92 Skill = 2.0280 93 Skill = 2.0336 94 Skill = 2.0381 95 Skill = 2.0437 96 Skill = 2.0470 97 Skill = 2.0526 98 Skill = 2.0571 99 Skill = 2.0627 *We used the data from the lowest possible skill stat as our point of reference, hence the 1.0000.

How Do Viscerals Scale With Gems And Clawmarks?

The answer is simple: Clawmarks, as well as all gems that increase Thrust Attack by a percentage, multiply your AR. Clawmarks multipliers: 10% Clawmarks = 1.1 20% Clawmarks = 1.2 30% Clawmarks = 1.3 10% + 20% Clawmarks = 1.32 10% + 30% Clawmarks = 1.43 20% + 30% Clawmarks = 1.56 10% + 20% + 30% Clawmarks = 1.716 Gems can multiply Visceral AR in much the same way (Tempering, Adept Thrust, Nourishing, Fool’s, Poorman’s, etc). Striking, Finestrike, Bloodtinge, Elemental, and other such gems DO NOT multiply visceral AR, so only apply the gem formula below to the effects given in parentheses.

The Gem Multiplier Formula (As Applied To Viscerals)

[1+(Gem Effect A%/100)] * [1+(Gem Effect B%/100)]*[1+(Gem Effect C%/100)]*Visceral AR Ex. Three 10% Tempering gems on the same weapon = 1.1*1.1*1.1 = 1.331 Scaling Gems are rather strange gems in that the damage they offer toward Viscerals is apparently NOT multiplied by the Skill Modifiers calculated above (base skill and 99 skill yielded the same damage increase when a scaling gem was added to a gemless weapon).

Putting It All Together

Say you have a Blood Level 100 character with 50 Skill, a 30% Clawmarks Rune, and three 27.2% Tempering gems and you want to calculate your approximate Visceral AR. The base AR we calculated at 822 AR is multiplied by the factor calculated from the Skill stat (1.8287), the Rune (1.3), and the Tempering gems (1.272^3). 822*1.8287*1.3*1.272^3 = 4821.8 We estimate actual damage in PvP to be about 40% of your Visceral AR on average. The Maximum Visceral AR that can be attained in the game is about 8856AR, according to our calculations (99 Skill, Level 200+, Full Clawmarks, and Three 25.2% Thrust+12.6% Poorman’s Gems from the Labyrinth Madmen with low hp to make the secondary gem effects activate). All testing was performed against Celestial Mob, who have negligible defense against Thrust. Damage values were taken for empty-handed viscerals with no Clawmarks runes. Thanks go to all of our supporters, who make this work worthwhile.