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Just curious to know, what is the typical wing loading used for base ?

"Textbook" wingloading is .75.

Shotgun Ray's Rule seems slightly better. Take your naked weight, add 100, and that's your "standard" canopy size. Add a size for bad landing areas, subtract a size for high winds.

A search for "wing loading" on this forum yields many threads, including:

Wing Loading

Wingloading for Dummies, which is really just a reference to this BLiNC thread

wingloading??

and a couple more. Try searching around and reading the other threads on the subject. There's probably more information than you need already on this forum.

Dude that sounds about right..
100 sq. feet over your body weight.
Just think the opposite of Skydive / speed is not your friend in BASE as a rule. Your jumping in tight City or Wooded areas your usually coming steep and aggressive.
If your Big Wall tracking or wingsuiting it, with big open landing, that's a different story.

Plus on opening if there is something kind of funky or bad happening, the slower it going to fly forward and much slower to drop precious altitude.