Messages

1

Shadow Knight / Re: Sk's can't tank.... defensives by the numbers.

« on: September 28, 2016, 06:15:50 AM »

As of Aug 17th you probably wanna keep Skin on all the time according to DBG changes to mitigation


- The way that spells and abilities that protect against a percentage of incoming spell or melee damage has been adjusted to more accurately calculate the amount of damage each buff will protect you from and select the best option.
- - Previously, the buff with the highest percentage was always considered better, but this behavior did not account for the amount of damage being done by the hit relative to the maximum per-hit protection that these buffs offered.
- Corrected an issue where spells that modify the body type of their target would cause problems with subsequent spells with the same effect.

2

Shadow Knight / Re: AE Aggro spell sets

« on: September 23, 2016, 11:36:37 PM »

I know this post is a bit old, but I can clarify that hitting taunt when you're already top dog on agro will not reset you back to only +1 over the mob. "How do you know this Xdev?" Well what I did was drop Explosion of Hate, Explosion of Spite, Stream of Hatred, and a couple lifetaps on a trash mob, hit taunt on my sk. After this I hit the mob with Five point palm on my monk (which is a metric *sston of agro, and the reason you see monks jump up on agro so fast) and it didn't even bring me to 50 on the little agrometer thingy. If I was just barely on top of the hate list on my sk, five point palm would've taken it from my sk no problem at all. Although i do agree that you should be spamming taunt, but only because its bad form to do so.

3

Raid Performance / Hdex vs Hstr. The results may surprise you!

« on: July 12, 2016, 03:44:06 AM »

I have to get to work soon, so this post won't be as detailed as I hoped it would, but here's the breakdown. I did two sets of parses one was just autoattack and forget, and the other was a "burn" fight. The burn fight was with a full raid burn going, minus things w/ counters (BP), or things that would throw in a variable (Crane Stance, Five Point Palm). The first set of parses was with slot 5 hstr augs, and the second set was with slot 5 hdex augs.


 Stats:          HStr.       Hdex.

 Attack:       11536     11366

 Hstr:           1213       1024

 Hdex:          959         1148

 Accuracy:   172         179

 C. Effects:   104         105


 I ran all of these parses while  full adps running. However, I did not have scarlet cheetah, group bestial, or group guardian of the forest going. 



   Parse one, this is burn, w/ hstr augs in:
Combat Dummy Azia on 7/10/2016 in 182sec

Total
--- DMG: 100693178 @ 553259 sdps (553259 dps in 182s) [100%]

Xdevlx
--- DMG: 100693178 @ 553259 sdps (553259 dps in 182s) [100%]
------ Total: 100693178 -- Crush: 51896029 -- Kick: 37240741 -- Strike: 6918059 -- DirDmg: 4269126 -- Punch: 369223
------ Normal rate: 57.2% (38.8% of DMG) -- Critical rate: 42.8% (61.2% of DMG)
------ Attempts: 4479 -- Hits: 4245 -- Misses: 234 -- Defended: 0 -- Accuracy: 94.8%

Special: 2: Infusion 6: Staunch 7: Intensity 9: Armor G: Glyph M: Secrets K: Kiss X: Slain $: Saved by DI
Produced by GamParse v1.5.1.7

 

    Parse two, no burn, no spam abilities, full adps, w/ hstr:

Combat Dummy Azia on 7/10/2016 in 851sec

Total
--- DMG: 279082821 @ 327947 sdps (327947 dps in 851s) [100%]

Xdevlx
--- DMG: 279082821 @ 327947 sdps (327947 dps in 851s) [100%]
------ Total: 279082821 -- Crush: 249301389 -- Strike: 19284950 -- DirDmg: 10496482
------ Normal rate: 55.6% (33.6% of DMG) -- Critical rate: 44.4% (66.4% of DMG)
------ Attempts: 15666 -- Hits: 14756 -- Misses: 910 -- Defended: 0 -- Accuracy: 94.2%

Special: 2: Infusion 6: Staunch 7: Intensity 9: Armor G: Glyph M: Secrets K: Kiss X: Slain $: Saved by DI
Produced by GamParse v1.5.1.7


  These next two parses are with hdex......

    Parse three, full burn, w/ hdex augs:


Combat Dummy Azia on 7/10/2016 in 181sec

Total
--- DMG: 101037384 @ 558218 sdps (558218 dps in 181s) [100%]

Xdevlx
--- DMG: 101037384 @ 558218 sdps (558218 dps in 181s) [100%]
------ Total: 101037384 -- Crush: 52456527 -- Kick: 39274827 -- Strike: 6618404 -- DirDmg: 2614380 -- Punch: 73246
------ Normal rate: 55.3% (37.6% of DMG) -- Critical rate: 44.7% (62.4% of DMG)
------ Attempts: 4376 -- Hits: 4169 -- Misses: 207 -- Defended: 0 -- Accuracy: 95.3%

Special: 2: Infusion 6: Staunch 7: Intensity 9: Armor G: Glyph M: Secrets K: Kiss X: Slain $: Saved by DI
Produced by GamParse v1.5.1.7


    Parse four, no burns, no spam abilities, full adps, w/hdex:


Combat Dummy Azia on 7/10/2016 in 853sec

Total
--- DMG: 283197727 @ 332002 sdps (332002 dps in 853s) [100%]

Xdevlx
--- DMG: 283197727 @ 332002 sdps (332002 dps in 853s) [100%]
------ Total: 283197727 -- Crush: 250587017 -- Strike: 21594648 -- DirDmg: 11016062
------ Normal rate: 53.4% (31.8% of DMG) -- Critical rate: 46.6% (68.2% of DMG)
------ Attempts: 15470 -- Hits: 14615 -- Misses: 855 -- Defended: 0 -- Accuracy: 94.5%

Special: 2: Infusion 6: Staunch 7: Intensity 9: Armor G: Glyph M: Secrets K: Kiss X: Slain $: Saved by DI
Produced by GamParse v1.5.1.7



 Basically what all this is saying is: While burning hdex is about .9% better than hstr, during non burn situations, its about 1.2% better dps than hstr. In conclusion, it really doesn't matter which heroics you decide (for monk anyway). All that matters is proper adps, good disc rotations, spamming the correct shit, and paying attention. A well skilled monk could stack up on hcha and still beat a decked-out-dex-dbag that isn't hitting his discs in the right order. I think I'm gonna stick with hstr, for magelo purposes, as my epeen can't take the hit #hstr4life