2010-12-12, 07:50 PM
Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:Plus Heaven's Hammer always did a huge chunk of Maximum damage 199,999 (new post-BB has yet to be accurately calculated since the damage cap was increased) to every monster on the field. This meant every 20 seconds a Paladin could smash a huge chunk of HP off a boss where normally damage was going at 55,000 ~ 100,000 points even with rapid firing techniques. Plus HH has one nasty and sneaky ability less known. It cuts through and bypasses two skills used by monsters... Damage Reflection and Damage/Magic Block.
HH is a fixed amount of damage, and that is its weakest point. Upgrade your gear and HH still does 200k damage.
Also, sanity check - HH takes 3.3 seconds to cast (base) + 20 second cooldown (when maxed)
Blast takes 0.84 seconds (base). ACB takes 0.8 seconds.
That means you get 3.92 blasts for every HH, or 4.12 ACBs.
Pre-BB, this meant 51k Blast or 49k ACB per target was the minimum necessary in order to discard HH entirely. I don't know about you, but I've been dealing that kind of damage for a while on elemental targets, and even on single neutral targets, 51k is a pretty easy target.
Post-BB, it's tougher - it's possible 255k per Blast is the minimum to disregard HH entirely, if it's actually able to hit the new damage cap. But still, once every 20 seconds is not a good damage bonus. And I suspect I can hit that 255k mark in a party situation, especially with GMS gear and apples.