The math on upgrading titan damage modules

Leveling Titan weapons increase their DR bypass tho

I think its best to go with the balanced approach. I didnt do any math but looking at the stats and cost, Im doing sth like this:

1. All weapons to lvl 2 (you get 2% mitgation plus dmg for only 20 platinium)

2. Antimater reactors to 16 lvl and +18% dmg

3. Weapons to 15 lvl, alpha gets 90% DR mitgation

4, Max Antimater

5 Max weapons

The higher the weapons level, the more durability it has too.

What do you mean by weapon durability? Like how likely a weapon will fall off a bot when getting low on HP?

That's not related to the level of your main weapon, but because it is not possible for you T-falcon to lose its main weapon.

Interesting theory. Way back when I ran a Mercury, my Heavy weapon would always get blown off first. I think the light weapons I was using were at a higher level so this very well could be true. If so, ensure that the big guns have the highest level and to not evenly level weapons of the same type so one lower level one can be the sacrificial limb.

War robots wiki

Also, modules don’t get blown off.

Bay It’s more efficient for damage out put too.  Once your modules are maxed, every weapon upgrade will be worth 54% more as well.

Starting with modules increases your damage output on a steeper curve.  Don’t make me break out excel spreadsheets!  Please!

But hey to each their own.  If you are happy with your progress,  no one can argue with that!

Im shouting!

No.  The whole point is that you increase damage FASTER.  That’s it, I’m posting a spreadsheet...

You are not thinking about the incremental costs, and they are what is important.

I’m upgrading an Arthur so my math is based on 1 Alpha and 2 Betas, and the math with change for Kids, Ao Mings and Nodens. So keep that in mind.

Each upgrade on the reactor gives you +1% on three weapons systems for a net +3% increase in firepower. Each upgrade on a weapon gives you, roughly, +2% firepower and increased ability to overcome resistance, although it seems to be significant only for Alpha weapons as far as I can work it out.

Each upgrade progressively costs you extra platinum. Going from level 1 to 2 costs roughly 20 platinum but going from 2 to 3 costs 22 platinum and so forth. So taking a reactor from +25% to +26% costs 70 platinum and gives you +3% increase in firepower. If your guns are down at level 1 you can spend that 70 platinum to upgrade each of your guns once for a net +6% increase in firepower, (i.e. double the bang per platinum than upgrading the reactor at those levels) and still have some loose change to put towards other upgrades later.

For the Arthur my quick estimate of bang per platinum is that I should keep my Alpha weapon at about 1/2 to 2/3s of the level of the reactor and the Betas at 1/3 to 1/2 of the level of the reactor. Then Only look to upgrade the guns above that ratio once I’ve maxed the reactor.

Old-Cat is write to mention the defense points point.  Only the Alpha weapons start at 75% and max at 100%.  The Betas start at 50% and max at 75% (unless you have a Kid or Nodens which gives extra DM%).  Knowing this, you then need to determine what you plan to target with your Titan.  If it's other titans, all of them have some level of Defense points and so upgrading weapons will have an exponential effect on how quickly you kill them.  If it's regular old Leos and Griffins, well the Module upgrades will be most efficient.  However, the higher you go, more and more bots have Defense points and you'll want to DM to be as high as possible.

Using the example that Old-cat gave, a Leech has 900 defense points.  If you mitigate only 75% of that with a base level Alpha weapon, the Leech still has 225 defense points which means it has a higher damage resistance % than a t-falcon!  It comes out to almost 70% DR.  Now how effective is that Alpha weapon with 54% more damage?  Not as much as you thought it would be, I'm guessing...something to consider.  Beta weapons are even worse.

The defense points are taken off the top though.  And there is an incredible diminishing return on defense points.

Level 1 alpha 75% leaving 225 defense points (69% damage reduction)
Level 10 alpha 85% leaving 135 defense points (57% damage reduction)

Once the module is upgraded weapons will will then be just 10 levels behind for the rest of the upgrade process.

For a trade off of 12% the portability of firepower via modules suits this commander just fine.  And this is only if there is 900 defense points.  If platinum comes easier to other folks than me, then transferability may not matter as much.

Defense Point Table below is credited to war robots wiki:

ints Damage Reduction [%]
0 0%
5 4.8%
10 9.1%
15 13%
20 16.7%
25 20%
30 23%
35 25.9%
40 28.6%
45 31%
50 33.3%
55 35.5%
60 37.5%
65 39.4%
70 41.2%
75 42.9%
80 44.4%
85 45.9%
90 47.4%
95 48.7%
100 50%
105 51.2%
110 52.4%
115 53.5%
120 54.5%
125 55.6%
130 56.5%
135 57.4%
140 58.3%
145 59.2%
150 60%
155 60.8%
160 61.5%
165 62.3%
170 63%
175 63.6%
180 64.3%
185 64.9%
190 65.5%
195 66.1%
200 66.7%
205 67.2%
210 67.7%
215 68.3%
220 68.8%
225 69.2%
230 69.7%
235 70.1%
240 70.6%
245 71%
250 71.4%
300 75%
350 77.8%
400 80%
450 81.8%
500 83.3%
600 85.7%
700 87.5%
800 88.9%
900 90%