2011-03-24, 07:35 PM
MysticHLE Wrote:Oh really? If a buff lasts for 2 seconds (Combat Orders, for example), that's 2/60 seconds or 1/30 minutes gone. 10% extra damage per minute with 1/30 of the minute gone is quite a lot if you add up everything - that 10% extra per minute essentially then becomes only 6.3% extra per minute. Granted that we don't rebuff the same skill every minute, but you kinda see where I'm going, I hope.
And besides, the buffs are just an example of one of many things that people don't consider in these calculations - Paladins in particular have a huge set of buffs that aren't exactly fast except done on a rope.
I'd like to know how many calculations out there honestly take into consideration of Threaten effects/probability and other skills which ignores monster PDR such as Combat Mastery. What about a Paladin's 94% mastery compared to a Hero's 70%? Skills like Guardian repelling a monster away? Your own character's knock-back rate and thus DPS changes due to Stance level differences with and without CO? Chances of attack stunning/freezing a mob so that the mob does not attack back and lowering the probability of your character being KBed/attacks being interrupted? The characters' mobility and mobbing ability (e.g. Monster Magnet used in conjunction with Rush vs. no Monster Magnet, etc)? What about Heaven's Hammer (although not killing the mobs) aggroing the mobs towards you and essentially used as an AOE mobbing skill while rest of the map may be dealt with normally?
Yeah sure, class X does game breaking damage if you consider the perfect scenario in which everything is mobbed together or if you consider single target DPS only...
Like...really? What's the point of doing these calculations again if we aren't going to be practical?
No model is perfectly accurate, yet some are useful - but only if applied practically. And I dare say that very few of the above factors I listed are negligible.
Do you play the same game? We are playing MS where all the skill needed to play is to hold down 1 button. Have you ever bossed?