Average Gear Score not calculating properly

[Skaev]

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• What is your character name in New World: Skaev
• What server/world did you experience your issue on: Lerna
• Describe the issue you are experiencing: Average Gearscore is not correct
• Is this a bug or an exploit: Bug
• (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay: it means that when pushing mutations the damage taken is increased and your damage is reduced because the gear is not correct
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[DalaiLama]

I am fairly certain that shield slot is counting against the total despite not being in use for most characters.

[Skaev]

People have done pretty extensive testing on it and say the shield is not a factor in the slightest.
But I concede that it is entirely possible that they broke something related to shield this patch and now it does count.

But even then the maths is wrong.
616 *9 +617 = 6161
6161 / 10 = 616.1

616*9+617+610 = 6761
6761 / 11 = 614.6

So if it were counting the shield it should display me at 614 not 615

**edit
It’s not rounding either. I upped two pieces from 615 to 616 earlier, expecting it to go to 616 overall when i did, but if you rerun the maths with the two 615’s it comes out to:

616 x 7
615 x2
617 x 1
600 x 1
total 6759

6759 / 11 = 614.4
so rounding would pull that to 614. but the image of it here clearly shows it is still listed as 615 gear score

[Skaev]

Other things considered:
Weapons not equipped having their expertise affect it - debunked
weapons, armour and jewelry counting their own averages, then averaging against 3 - debunked

Getting anecdotal reports of people with higher than their average gear score reported as well, via various methods. That I will attempt to replicate the next set of umbral shards i get.

[Skaev]

Update:
Taking my second weapon to 617 put my average gs to 616.

I’ll provide another update of what it takes to get to 617 while i test various things

[MixedNuts]

There’s a weighted system for averaging your gearscore.

Use this to know what to upgrade next.

https://exiledagain.github.io/probable-broccoli/

[Skaev]

it makes interesting choices, do we have a write up of the algorithm that controls the weighting anywhere?

[dano7986]

for those interested in the numbers, I scraped this from the calculator listed above.

‘Weapon 2’,‘Weapon 1’ 22.5% ea

‘Amulet’,‘Ring’,‘Earring’ 6.66% ea

‘Chest’ 12.25%
‘Legs’,‘Head’ 7%
‘Hands’ 5.25%
‘Feet’ 3.5%

Weapon total 45%
Jewelry total 20%
Armour total 35%