What is the difference between increased and more damage?

Increased modifiers are summed together and applied once, so two 50% increases give +100%. More modifiers multiply on top of everything, so two 50% more multipliers give 1.5 times 1.5, or +125%. This tool treats them separately, which is why more is so much stronger.

How is average crit damage handled?

Average hit equals the normal hit times one plus crit chance times crit-multi minus one. A 35% crit chance with 150% multiplier raises average hit by 0.35 times 0.5, or about 17.5%. The tool folds this into DPS automatically.

Why does my in-game tooltip differ slightly?

Tooltips often show only attack damage and may exclude ailments, area overlap, or conditional buffs. This calculator gives a clean single-target hit DPS so you can compare gear and passives on a like-for-like basis.

What should I put for attacks per second?

Use your final attack or cast rate after attack speed bonuses, which your character sheet shows. For spells use casts per second. Multiplying average hit by this rate converts per-hit damage into sustained DPS.

Does this include damage over time?

No. This models hit-based DPS, the most common comparison point. Damage over time like bleed, poison, or ignite scales differently and is not added to the per-hit number shown here.

Path of Exile DPS Calculator

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Comparing two Path of Exile builds by eye is misleading because the game treats two kinds of damage bonus completely differently. This calculator applies the real formula so you can see your true damage per second and judge whether a gear or passive change is actually an upgrade.

How it works

The damage model follows Path of Exile’s actual order of operations:

hitDamage  = baseHit * (1 + increased/100) * (1 + more/100)
averageHit = hitDamage * (1 + critChance * (critMulti - 1))
DPS        = averageHit * attacksPerSecond

All of your increased modifiers are summed into one additive bonus, while the more multiplier compounds on top. That single distinction is why a more source is usually worth far more than the same number printed as increased.

Crit and attack speed

Critical strikes multiply your hit by the crit multiplier whenever they land. Averaged over many hits, your effective damage rises by `critChance * (critMulti

1)`. Multiplying the average hit by your attacks or casts per second turns a single-hit number into sustained DPS.

Example

A 400 base hit with +180% increased, +40% more, 35% crit at 150% multi and 1.8 APS yields a modified hit of 400 * 2.8 * 1.4 = 1568, an average hit of about 1843 after crit, and roughly 3317 DPS. Swap the +40% more for +40% increased instead and DPS drops noticeably — proof of why more wins.