Hello people of Southperry. Since I'm bored, didn't know how to distribute my SP, and like lots of numbers; I decided to use my very limited programming skills to calculate with a given amount of SP, which SP distribution would get me the highest damage. And since I have nothing better to do, I decided to share it with you guys.
WARNING: Because of my very limited programming skills, the use of Wolfram Mathematica instead of a proper programming language, and the possibility of me misunderstanding some formula's, I won't claim that these calculations are accurate. To be fair, I don't expect them to be accurate, but they will give me some insight about which skills is better damage-wise. Don't sue me if you use these calculations to distribute your SP, and they turn out to be far below optimal (you can still praise me if that doesn't happen
).
Also, I only included the skills Hurricane, Sharp Eyes, Bow Expert, Maple Warrior, Concentrate and Marksmanship. The other skills (Vengeance, Phoenix, Dragon Breath, Hamstring and Hero's Will) are usefull for other things, but not damage.
Since there are some boring calculations, I've hid them in the spoilers.
And now the results, also in a spoiler because it's a loooooong table.
Some results:
Some reasons why the calculations can be off:
I hope there is some useful stuff in here for you, and I hope you liked it. =)
WARNING: Because of my very limited programming skills, the use of Wolfram Mathematica instead of a proper programming language, and the possibility of me misunderstanding some formula's, I won't claim that these calculations are accurate. To be fair, I don't expect them to be accurate, but they will give me some insight about which skills is better damage-wise. Don't sue me if you use these calculations to distribute your SP, and they turn out to be far below optimal (you can still praise me if that doesn't happen
).Also, I only included the skills Hurricane, Sharp Eyes, Bow Expert, Maple Warrior, Concentrate and Marksmanship. The other skills (Vengeance, Phoenix, Dragon Breath, Hamstring and Hero's Will) are usefull for other things, but not damage.
Since there are some boring calculations, I've hid them in the spoilers.
Spoiler
And now the results, also in a spoiler because it's a loooooong table.
Spoiler
Some results:
- First start with 1 point in Hurricane, Bow Expert, Sharp Eyes and Concentrate, in that order; since they give already a great boost with only 1 SP. (see note 4 about 1 point in SE)
- After that, put points in Hurricane till it's 17.
- After that, Hurricane and Bow Expert give almost the same damage boost, which corresponds to every time you level, you put 2 points in Bow Expert and 1 in Hurricane.
- When Hurricane is 30 and Bow Expert 29, you put points in Maple Warrior. The reason that every odd level a skillpoint appears at Bow Expert is because Maple Warrior only increases in power at odd SP.
- Now something strange happens, the table continues with maxing Maple Warrior, and then stats maxing Sharp Eyes. But at 104 SP, it goes from 13 SE, 1 Conc, 29 MW to 1 SE, 26 Conc, 17 MW. After that, it starts maxing Maple Warrior again, and then maxing Sharp Eyes.
- After that, the remaining points are put in Concentrate, and at last Marksmanship is maxed. The reason why it is so low is because we used a monster with only 10 PDRate, which are most training monsters. Marksmanship gets SP earlier at monsters with higher PDRate (see table below the SP table).
Some reasons why the calculations can be off:
- I used my own attack range, which can be quite off of other BMs.
- I didn't use the fact that I have a Critical Ring, since I don't know how it will work post-BB (CritDamage doesn't exist anymore, it's now CritMinDamage and CritMaxDamage).
- Don't forget that damage isn't everything. You may have the highest possible damage, but your chances to get in a party without Sharp Eyes are quite lower. And you won't train faster if you die every time because you didn't spend points in Marksmanship.
- I don't take into account that some buffs have a time till they run out. Therefore you'll see that it keeps Sharp Eyes at 1 for a while, while it only lasts 10 seconds. Therefore 1 Sharp Eyes isn't recommended, otherwise you're too busy with rebuffing SE.
- I'm a bad programmer and make mistakes. =P
I hope there is some useful stuff in here for you, and I hope you liked it. =)