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It starts out x2 compared to Normal Mode during the Start of Expert Mode at 1st, but after Hardmode Starts, the Weaker Enemies have 200-300 Health that doesn't seem to be a consistent increase. (The Green Slime has more Health than Purple Slime during Early Expert Hardmode) Then these enemies get another stat increase after Plantera is defeated I believe.

yeah I know about that but I'm curios as to the ratio values as they don't seem to be consistent . I haven't been able to find the stat formula used anywhere...

This Thread: http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/expert-mode-multiplayer-boss-health-scaling.27345/ Is an attempt to analyze Expert Boss HP Scaling, but we haven't been able to find a consistent pattern among boss scaling so far. I'm also curious about these ratios as it seems like something the Wiki should have.

Glad to see I'm not the only person interested in how expert mode scales enemy stats. I mean there has to be an overall formula they can't have just done it manually for each enemy right? I also want to know if defense or damage are altered by this scaling... I mean there should be some just increasing hit points doesn't increase the difficulty... (I can't see any defense/damage buffs though)

Indeed. I always enjoy studying the "Monster Guides" in games and learning everything about an enemy's attack/defense, HP, and other stats. The Wiki is the closest thing to a Monster Guide in Terraria's Case. I believe Enemy Damage is buffed at the very least in Expert Mode as I remember a Long Armed Zombie doing ~60-80 damage to me at one point during Hardmode. Can't say about Defense.

Good to know I haven't gone back to early game equipment to check precisely perhaps I should use a set standard armor and weapon to check
naked charecter w/ terrablade maybe? Do you have a good estimite as to how many iterations it would take to account for damage varibility? (has never taken statistics) I think its a sqrt of somthing...

I'll perform a quick test in my endgame world, I had 0 defense and got damaged by a regular zombie in a Post Moon Lord Expert World and it consistently did around 50-52 damage. I'd guess it takes around 9-10 damage iterations to account for damage variablity.

According to the wiki a Zombie normally does around 26-32 damage on Expert Mode (40 with Long Hand) So it looks like damage certainly gets higher on Hardmode.

was it the same type of zombie though? I know prehardmode I've been hit for 48 damage on my expert playthrough from a zombie arm zombie pretty early on