Weapon Ratios

[curtischoy]

Originally Posted by Synthol

The topic I'm trying to gain insight on is whether ceteris paribus, do equal ratio weapons truly produce the same average damage output?

i did not read any other posts after you said this because this is a very easy question to answer. All you have to do is take something like, as you suggested, a 10/20 wep and a 15/30 wep and parse them.

Parse them on the same type of mobs, or if you can, the same mobs from a static spawn. (Brutes in WW caves near dalnir will always spawn at the same level, meaning that in the room with 3, the one on the left will aways be lvl x, middle will always be lvl y, right will always be lvl z) Parse them and look at the data by using a two sample t test for means to see if they are statistically different or not.

This method completely eliminates any other varaibles and it does not care how ac is calculated etc. It only cares about the number of swings, mean, and standard deviation of each sample. The only variables that have to be controlled are the weapons you are using, your skill using those weapons, your class, and the level of the mobs; all of which are very easy to control.

Problem solved.