2010-12-09, 12:06 PM
Just want to take a look at how effective this is.
- 25% boost to Avenger, Drain, etc. - confirmed ingame to be a 1.25x multiplier, which is a really nice damage boost.
- 20% chance to recharge 1 star, cause next attack to be critical - confirmed ingame to replace normal star consumption with +1 star, works with any throwing star attack
So. What good is that 20% chance of recharging a star?
Well, it means 1 in 5 attacks, instead of consuming stars, regenerates 1.
So 5x TT goes from 30 stars to 23 stars. Same for Avenger, which also consumes 6 stars with SP.
Maxed Shadow Stars lasts 3 minutes, and replaces all star consumption with 200 stars.
So if you're attacking more than 44 times in 3 minutes, you use less stars with Shadow Stars.
Low level Shadow Stars lasts 95~ seconds, same consumption. So now it's 44 times in a minute and a half.
At a boss, 100 TT/min = 1380 stars per 3 min with Expertise, 1296 with CO/expertise. So basically 20 sets lasts at least 44 minutes, or 46 with CO.
Then there's the damage to take into account.
You basically have 1 in 5 TTs getting 100% crit rate, instead of 55%+ (I have 65%).
So if the base is 5*65% = 325% worth of crit, it increases that by 35% to 360% of crit in 5 attacks. With a base average of 42.5% damage on crits, that's an increase from 27.625% damage added to each attack to 30.6% damage added to each attack.
So it's about a 2.3% overall DPS increase for TT, in exchange for using 1200 extra stars every 3 minutes (or about 550 extra every 95 seconds).
- 25% boost to Avenger, Drain, etc. - confirmed ingame to be a 1.25x multiplier, which is a really nice damage boost.
- 20% chance to recharge 1 star, cause next attack to be critical - confirmed ingame to replace normal star consumption with +1 star, works with any throwing star attack
So. What good is that 20% chance of recharging a star?
Well, it means 1 in 5 attacks, instead of consuming stars, regenerates 1.
So 5x TT goes from 30 stars to 23 stars. Same for Avenger, which also consumes 6 stars with SP.
Maxed Shadow Stars lasts 3 minutes, and replaces all star consumption with 200 stars.
So if you're attacking more than 44 times in 3 minutes, you use less stars with Shadow Stars.
Low level Shadow Stars lasts 95~ seconds, same consumption. So now it's 44 times in a minute and a half.
At a boss, 100 TT/min = 1380 stars per 3 min with Expertise, 1296 with CO/expertise. So basically 20 sets lasts at least 44 minutes, or 46 with CO.
Then there's the damage to take into account.
You basically have 1 in 5 TTs getting 100% crit rate, instead of 55%+ (I have 65%).
So if the base is 5*65% = 325% worth of crit, it increases that by 35% to 360% of crit in 5 attacks. With a base average of 42.5% damage on crits, that's an increase from 27.625% damage added to each attack to 30.6% damage added to each attack.
So it's about a 2.3% overall DPS increase for TT, in exchange for using 1200 extra stars every 3 minutes (or about 550 extra every 95 seconds).