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Originally Posted by Troxx
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Bingo. Higher or lower strength will not affect how often you riposte. A riposte is simply an extra potential swing at standard damage tables. If the only different variable is strength, ripostes don't matter from one parse set (Gamparse set) to the other from a comparison standpoint. Assuming you have sufficiently long parses or a robust enough compilation of individual fights ... riposte rates will average out over time.
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You are correct that STR doesn't affect riposte rate. That isn't my point, nor did I make that claim. If you have 15 ripostes in fight A with 200 STR, and 5 ripostes in fight B with 230 STR, your DPS has been skewed on the fight with 200 STR, because you got more hits in Fight A than fight B. That is why it is important to screen out variables like ripostes when looking at DPS specifically. You also want to check if the mob dodged/parried/riposted more in one fight than the other, because that also affects DPS. You are incorrect that things like ripostes do not affect parse sets. This is especially true when we have seen STR generally doesn't provide an extremely large bonus to DPS. When the difference is only a few DPS, that can easily be skewed by other factors like riposte.
I have had long parses where there were significantly more ripostes in one data set as opposed to the other. Eventually everything evens out over a long enough time, but that doesn't mean it will even out in the data sets you have.
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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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When investigating the impact of strength on damage looking at damage per hit removes more variables than looking at dps, especially as Dps can be extrapolated as a factor on damage per hit.
Looking at damage per hit you don’t need to worry about variance in hit rate, parries, blocks, dodges, ripostes, etc. As such ripostes actually just give extra data points rather than taint the data.
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If you want to do this you need the logs instead of a DPS parse. That is why I ask for logs instead of parses. You can use the data from logs in multiple ways.