You seemed to miss the point that by dividing by the sum of all your items in the scale, it CREATES a baseline. Otherwise its just arbitrary.

Lootzor is an awesome weighted search tool for equipment. It does one tiny, but significant, thing different than Pawn - it makes all the scores relative so the numbers are easy to compare no matter what scoring you put in. Most things will be in the double digits, with a few truly terrible items in the single digits and a few amazingly good items in the triple digits. No matter what values you put in!

The total score is calculated by dividing it by the sum of all the weights.

For example, take two very similar scales: (Pawn: v1: "Healing 1": Intellect=0.65, Mp5=5, Healing=1, Stamina=0.05) (Pawn: v1: "Healing 2": Intellect=65, Mp5=500, Healing=100, Stamina=5)

Although the numbers are different, each point of healing is worth the same compared to a point of intellect, etc in both scales. Yet the second one will produce a score that would suggest it is 100x better than the first!

Check it out with this item: Mask of Penance Binds when picked up Head Plate 922 Armor +27 Stamina +30 Intellect Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 68 Equip: Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 66. Equip: Restores 10 mana per 5 sec.

"Healing 1" would say it is worth 136.9 "Healing 2" would say it is worth 13685

The solution is to divide both scores by the sum of all the scale values (7.7 for "Healing 1" and 770 for "Healing 2") producing the same result: 17.7

Make sense? Then people can compare items of various scales and big or small numbers but they're still comparable.

If its still hard to understand, just think of each value as a percent of all the values you care about, instead of an arbitrary number.