Shadowers Misrepresented on DPM Charts

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165,943% Damage Per Minute

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Calculated with respect to criticals with level 30 Sharp Eyes, 50% Defense rate, an added 30% Boss Damage, and Savage Blow/Meso Explosion as main attacking skills. Some have told me that alternating Boomerang Step and Savage Blow results in even higher DPM than simply using Savage Blow and Meso Explosion. I haven't gotten around to calculating that myself, but I will soon, and I'll have the results posted here.

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Shadowers on DPM charts are said to attack using boomerang step and assassinate. This is because meso explosion is supposedly impossible to represent, because it doesn't follow any sort of pattern. It is possible to represent - it just took a little bit of braining and logical thinking to figure it out. There is a ratio, whether a shadower knows it or not, that will always exist between Savage Blow and Meso Explosion:

1.5625 : 1

That is the number of Savage Blows that must take place per Meso Explosion. All bossing will revolve around this ratio; when the shadower is out of mesos, they will no longer explode. When there are lots of mesos, the shadower will explode them. While there will be some deviance from the above ratio since nothing is ever perfect, over time, the shadower will hold to that ratio. When the boss casts Super Weapon Defense, the shadower's DPM will simply increase, since, while other classes sit idly by, shadowers are preparing for a gruesome torrent of explosions at 281,739% DPM.

9.6 is the theoretical number of mesos generated with Savage Blow + Shadow Partner and maxed Meso Mastery, and 15 is the number of mesos exploded per attack (so, -15 is added).

.72x + .69y = 60
9.6x - 15y = 0

x = 51.6529 = Savage Blows per minute, y = 33.0579 = Meso Explosions per minute

Now, to calculate the percentage of damage per minute. Keep in mind:

- With maxed Boomerang Step, Savage Blow is 112.5% damage, 6 times
- Shadow Partner is 1.625x damage
- Maxed Meso Mastery: 80% chance to drop mesos per hit, 240% damage per unit of mesos exploded

((.25(51.6529*112.5*6*1.5*1.5*1.25)+.75(51.6529*112.5*6*1.5*1.25 ))+(.25(33.0579*3600*1.5)+.75(33.0579*3600)))=x, .5x+.3x

165,943% DPM

For reference, a Bowmaster achieves 168,889% DPM: ((.65(1.575*200*500)+.35(200*500))+(.65(150*200*1.575)+.35(150*200))+.65(20*1.575*330)+.35(20*330)) = x, .9x =

I hope this helps.

Possible fix for possible errors:

 Spoiler

According to some apparently very well versed players, I'm calculating this wrong. For now, I'm going to leave this section at the bottom until I know it's correct. Things to fix:

- Boss damage is calculated prior to PDR, then added to total damage, meaning 50% of damage + 30% of damage = 80%
- Shadow Partner is affected by Boomerang Step's buff when using Savage Blow or Assaulter (or steal)
- Boomerang Step's buff is multiplicative, not additive
- Meso Mastery's upgrade to Meso Explosion is multiplicative, not additive (assumed since skill description states +60%; +__% on other skills has meant +__% of the skill's preexisting percentage). Seems somewhat radical to me, but, whatever. Easy to fix if I'm wrong. 288% Meso Explosion.

I can't find my graphic calculator, so I've resorted to using Wolfram Alpha and some systems of equations. Here's the link to the math: .72x + .69y = 60, 9.6x - 15y = 0

Now, to calculate what I anticipate to be a staggeringly high and incorrect DPM using only Savage Blow and Meso Explosion:

((.25(51.6529*112.5*6*1.5*1.5*1.25)+.75(51.6529*112.5*6*1.5*1.25 ))+(.25(33.0579*3600*1.5)+.75(33.0579*3600)))=x, .5x+.3x

165,943% DPM