13 Black__Melody Member 106 posts Report post #1 Posted March 19, 2018 Title Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
415 dieselhead Member 1,160 posts 11,077 battles Report post #2 Posted March 19, 2018 damage per minute. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
713 [BLESS] Rina_Pon Member 1,312 posts 11,727 battles Report post #3 Posted March 20, 2018 If all the shots you fire hit the target and you shoot as fast as possible. There's some wiggle room when it comes to how the damage is calculated, I assume it's counted as regular penetrations. The higher your DPM, the more likely you are to win an extended engagement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
279 [NFB] PeterMoe1963 Member 1,337 posts 15,329 battles Report post #4 Posted March 21, 2018 Damage-Per-Minute is used to compare the damage-output ships can do. Considering ships have different numbers of guns, different calibers and different reload times, that’s not straightforward. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
50 [SLAVA] _SA9E_ Member 198 posts 13,221 battles Report post #5 Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) Damage per minute (DPM) can be defined as the ship's theoretical maximum damage output in a minute, with the assumption that all shells land on the target and inflict full damage. For example, we have a battleship with nine guns dealing a max AP dmg of, say, 12 000 per shell, with a 30-second reload: 12 000 dmg/shell x 9 shells x (60s/30s) = 216 000 dmg This means the hypothetical battleship can deal 216 000 damage per minute. In the case of WoWs, DPM is more suited to calculating AP dmg rather than HE, because HE shells can also deal DoT damage (Damage-over-time), and this value highly depends on the target ship's max HP pool and ship type. So for HE, we have something called Fires per minute (FPM) to calculate damage potential. Higher FPM = more fires = higher DoT dmg Edited March 21, 2018 by seiji09 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,801 icy_phoenix Super Tester_ 7,897 posts 10,411 battles Report post #6 Posted March 21, 2018 And, DPM doesn't mean much in the game tbh. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites