Gearing a ranger

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by bcbrown [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your combat model is neither useful nor accurate. The difference between your estimate for the FM giants (34 vs 34.34) and your actual parsed results (30.67 DPS vs 31.5) is larger than the difference between the two sets of weapons. You also need to use the actual results (when you scale your Coroduth numbers by 30.67 / 55.7 to find that "mitigation offset" number). Any approach that needs the actual results when making an estimate is, to use a technical term, fucked beyond redemption.

It's both simpler and just as accurate to just calculate (2*damage + damage bonus) / delay as a way to compare different weapons. And if that gives you a result where two weapon-sets come out within a DPS or two, you can either treat them as equivalent or do the actual parsing to confirm.

You need to re-read my post, as you clearly didn't understand it. Please do not let your obvious biases cloud your ability to think, as you so often do. It doesn't help the conversations, or your understanding of the game.

Each mob has a different AC value, which isn't known to anybody but the devs of P99. Of course you need to get the actual results from each mob, because they have different AC values. These AC values will change the final result that skews the dice roll that determines which damage value to use (the mitigation offset).

Level difference is also a large factor in the equation. This is why Corudoth is a good mob to start with. A level 5 mob has a 55 level difference compared to a level 60, which will heavily skew the mitigation offset towards 1.0.