To celebrate getting a Swiftblade of Zek and completing my tunnelquest weapon collection, I did some parses. I had three goals: 1) Determine if SBoZ is an upgrade over Fellspine's Tail, and get a sense of the ranking of my weapons; 2) Try to see if there's any scenarios where comparing a low-level target (Bloodmaw) against a raid-level target (Shady Swashbuckler) results in a different order in the rankings; 3) Investigate whether the Call of Fire proc rate is different from weapon procs.
First I did some short parses with all my weapons against Shady to get a lay of the land
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Weapon, time in seconds, DPS, hit %
bfg no disc 95 29.48 72.06%
bfg with disc 101 44.91 71.62%
fellspine 96 23.51 67.66%
rev whip 93 23.55 71.36%
swarmcaller 95 16.43 61.70%
wurmy 86 21.31 65.79%
zek 90 23.01 66.87%
I was surprised by how good the BFG is. Even without disc it does substantial damage. Also a little surprised that fellspine/rev whip/swiftblade of zek were so similar. But 90-second parses are going to be noisy as hell, after all.
Next I ran some longer parses against Bloodmaw. I was running 9 minute parses because I didn't want Call of Fire to fade; I'll get to procs in a bit. For the rest of the parses I'm showing both time in minutes and time in seconds.
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bloodmaw_bfg_disc 0:02:06 126 102.23 88.27%
bloodmaw_bfg_no_disc 0:08:49 529 72.36 89.74%
bloodmaw_fellspine 0:09:48 588 59.80 94.59%
bloodmaw_fellspine2 0:09:02 542 63.26 94.79%
bloodmaw_infestation 0:09:02 542 68.53 95.12%
bloodmaw_rev_whip 0:08:18 498 63.08 97.90%
bloodmaw_wurmy 0:09:29 569 65.75 95.13%
bloodmaw_zek 0:07:22 442 74.49 93.70%
It's impossible to run longer tests for BFG with disc, but it's the clear winner. I accidentally parsed Fellspine's Tail twice, but that usefully shows just how much impact RNG can have even on 8-9 minute parses. Zek is pulling away, and a I'm little surprised that the Wurmslayer performed as well as it did.
Next I went back to Shady for some longer fights. They're still super short, but I can't quite kill Shady without in-fight healing, which would obviously throw off the DPS calculations without careful data cleaning. For both SBoZ and Fellspine's Tail I forgot to buff with Greater Wolf Form for parse 2.
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shady_fellspine 0:01:28 88 24.82 83.41%
shady_fellspine2 0:02:02 122 20.21 82.62%
shady_fellspine3 0:01:47 107 20.02 83.71%
shady_fellspine4 0:01:41 101 21.21 82.35%
shady_fellspine5 0:01:17 77 21.40 78.97%
0:08:15 495 21.38 82.31%
shady_zek 0:01:01 61 25.72 78.29%
shady_zek2 0:02:03 123 22.99 83.79%
shady_zek3 0:01:43 103 26.85 81.89%
shady_zek4 0:01:40 100 29.76 87.28%
shady_zek5 0:01:04 64 21.41 78.29%
0:07:31 451 25.52 82.59%
Seems clear enough that SBoZ is an upgrade over Fellspine's Tail. Snaggles was getting 47-48 DPS against Shady, but he had 91% haste and I only have 40% haste. If I had 91% haste I'd be getting over 34 DPS. A clear gap in performance, which makes sense when comparing raid-geared level 60 against tunnel-geared level 57, but I'm encouraged that I'm still able to do some decent damage.
One question I was curious about was if Call of Fire procs at a similar rate to weapon procs. I had about 143 dex. This table shows the total Call of Fire per weapon-set with Procs-Per-Minute, plus the weapon-specific procs for the Fellspine and Infestation
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bloodmaw_bfg_disc 2 0.95
bloodmaw_bfg_no_disc 7 0.79
bloodmaw_fellspine 25 2.55 10 1.02
bloodmaw_fellspine2 28 3.09 20 2.21
bloodmaw_infestation 28 3.09 12 1.32
bloodmaw_rev_whip 13 1.56
bloodmaw_wurmy 25 2.63
bloodmaw_zek 12 1.62
Total excluding BFG 131 2.47
Sure looks like Call of Fire procs ~50% more often than weapon procs. Also looks like it doesn't proc with BFG. Eventually I'll do a longer parse with just BFG without Swiftwind to confirm. At 10-30 procs per cast, that's 650-1950 damage per cast, or 13-39 DPM.
Conclusions:
* When compared to tunnel weapons, BFG is really good even without Trueshot
* Swiftblade of Zek is a clear upgrade over my other weapons
* At 50-100pp, Fellspine's Tail is a great value
* Excluding procs, Infestation and Revultant Whip are comparable to Fellspine's Tail
* Call of Fire procs more often than weapon procs, perhaps 50% more