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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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If you are confident about the DPS boost, you need to show your work. I will be happy to admit I am wrong if you can show the DPS numbers.
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My numbers (the ones I acknowledged were insufficient in that I didn’t occupy the camp long enough to log enough hits) showed a 16% difference. I was more than happy to exclude my parses from the discussion. My findings were TOO GOOD to be real. They supported my hypothesis to an unbelievable level. The fights were too short and Lady Luck obviously skewed the data. I needed a sample size at least 5-10x larger to be even remotely confident of anything.
I was planning on repeating my testing on a mob that wasn’t a level 5 green, but you somehow took my findings (flawed though they were) and managed to twist it in your mind as somehow being consistent with your findings and supporting your argument when they did the exact opposite.
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It was at that moment I remembered how it doesn’t actually matter whether opposing evidence is given to you. You always either shift a goalpost or wildly misinterpret what is given to you.
So yeah I gave up on wasting 4-8 hours of my life when the data you provided from Mr Turtle was perfectly sufficient (flawed though it is) to drive the point home.
YOUR numbers showed the 4.3% DPS boost from 20 under cap strength difference. For the purposes of discussion and to give you the benefit of the doubt, WE have been referencing YOUR numbers for several pages now.
Using YOUR evidence that YOU provided …
It’s a choice between:
A) At least 4.3% more damage and 20lb more hauling capacity 100% of the time you’re not overcapped str
B) A mana pool larger in size to whatever degree 20 intelligence will help you at whatever level you are and your intelligence relative to the pre/post 200 intelligence returns. At 60 this could be as high as 200 more mana or as low as 80 more mana. The returns on mana are exponentially lower the lower your level - the amount of mana per int (or wis for priests and their hybrids) scales with level.
A represents an always there benefit - whether you’re in combat or hauling weight.
B represents the possibility of a benefit at some point between level 1-60 where an extra 20-25 mana (low levels) to scaled up 80-200 extra mana (level 60) where that extra mana might have let you accomplish something you otherwise might not have been able to that would have made a meaningful difference. It requires the SK find themselves in not only an extraordinary situation … but also find themselves otherwise out of mana at the point in time that 20-25 (lowest levels) scaling up with levels to 80-200 extra mana (level 60). It doesn’t let you cast more spells over time. It just makes your maximum reserve a wee bit bigger.
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You got so caught up in the weeds of having “evidence” and “data” to “prove a point” that you missed out on the most important part of it all: the practical discussion.
Unfortunately I think when you see posts like this (ones with lots of paragraphs and complete sentences) you tend to focus on individual trees you find objectionable and miss the whole god damn forest around you.