The damage per icon is based on cautious attack because when you use cautious attack, you do the same amount of damage as you would when you use an ability like burrow or fiery gaze which don't affect the amount of damage that you do. The actual amount of damage that you do to your opponent (assuming they don't use any defense weapons) will vary according to which attack ability you use and which attack ability your opponent uses. For instance, if you use fierce attack, your weapons will hurt your opponent more than if you used cautious attack. If, on the same move, your opponent also uses fierce attack, the amount of damage that you do to your opponent will be even more. I found that when I used certain abilities, the amount of damage that I did to my challengers changed and this is by how much. If you use: Defend your damage per icon will be: 80% Cautious Attack 100% Normal Attack 120% Jump & Attack 130% Fierce Attack 140% Berserk 150% For instance, assuming your opponent uses cautious attack on all of his moves, if you do 50 damage using cautious attack, you will do 40 using defend, 60 using normal attack, 65 using jump and attack, 70 using fierce and 75 using berserk. Some people will say that using fierce or berserk doesn't increase the damage per icon but actually increases the number of icons. Counting icons doesn't always work especially when you consider that when you use the defend ability, your weapons don't do fewer icons. Using these percentages you will be able to determine how much damage you can do right down to the last hit point, which, if you've fought a lot you know, can be critical. The damage done to your opponent is increased or decreased based on the ability that they use and is based on the same percentages. If your opponent uses: Defend your damage per icon will be: 80% Cautious Attack 100% Normal Attack 120% Jump & Attack 130% Fierce Attack 140% Berserk 150% For example, if you used cautious attack every move and did 50 damage to your opponent when he used cautious attack, you would do 40 damage if he used defend, 60 if he used normal attack, 65 if he used jump and attack, 70 if he used fierce and 75 if he used berserk. To calculate how much damage you can do to your opponent you can use the following formula: # of icons from your weapons x Damage per icon (based on your strength boost) x % of damage based on attack ability used by you x % of damage based on attack ability used by opponent = Damage to your opponent Remember that this works both ways so the amount of damage your pet suffers is based on the ability you use. A couple of notes here – The defend ability always decreases your attack by 20% and reduces the amount of damage done to your pet by 20% regardless of whether your pet's defence is 1 or 1,000. If your opponent is frozen, the damage that you do will be the same as if he used cautious attack. Certain weapons do less than a full icon of damage even though in the battledome it may show as a full icon. For example, a water muffin does more damage than a radioactive muffin even though they both do a constant 15 icons of attack. A radioactive muffin will only do the damage of 13.5 icons while a water muffin does the damage of 15 icons. These calculations do not always hold true in 2 player fights. Sometimes you (or your opponent) will do much more damage than you should based on your strength and the number of icons - I don't know why - it just happens sometimes. Just to throw a wrinkle into all of this, some pets have a resistance to, and some are more vulnerable to, certain types of attacks. Species Resistance/Vulnerability Blumaroo 10% less damage from attacks Bruce 20% less damage from attacks Buzz 20% less damage from attacks Chomby 20% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks Cybunny 20% less damage from attacks Draik 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks Elephante 20% less damage from attacks Eyrie 20% less damage from attacks Grarrl 20% less damage from attacks Grundo 30% less damage from attacks Ixi 30% less damage from attacks 20% more damage from attacks Jubjub 20% less damage from attacks 30% less damage from attacks 20% more damage from attacks Kau 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks Korbat 30% less damage from attacks 30% more damage from attacks Nimmo 20% less damage from attacks Peophin 20% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 15% more damage from attacks Poogle 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks Pteri 40% less damage from attacks Scorchio 30% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks Shoyru 20% less damage from attacks Skeith 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks Tonu 15% less damage from attacks Tuskaninny 20% less damage from attacks Usul 20% less damage from attacks 10% less damage from attacks 10% more damage from attacks I hope you have found the information on this page useful and that it helps you win more battles. If you've read this far, drop my owner a note and let him know what you think. If you discover any errors or have any updated information, please let him know. Thanks to garet_jaxx for pointing out a couple of errors which have now been corrected. If you want to learn about defence and some weapon stats, check out Grephun's pet page. Les caractères, logos et noms NEOPETS et toutes les appellations qui y sont liées sont des marques déposées de Neopets, Inc., © 1999-2009. ® denotes Reg. US Pat. & TM Office. Tous droits réservés. Politique de Confidentialité | Astuces Sécurité | Contactez-nous A Propos de Neopets | Plaquette de Presse Utiliser ce site implique que tu acceptes les Termes et Conditions