I made a P99 DPS calculator for melee classes based on EQEMU code

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

While it was a distraction from your thread, I feel you accomplished a huge task. For years this person has been claiming people who don’t offhand swap melee every couple seconds are lazy and unskilled. Turns out they were just basing this on outsourcing the labor to programmable hardware.

Agreed. Thanks! Since I am probably a masochist, I did do a test on my Monk to show what Offhand Swapping would look like on P99 using the legal method. No scripts, no special mice, no special hardware, no eye tracking (lol), etc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH304a1EIjQ - Watch the first 10 minutes for the swapping. Second half is the test without swapping.

I was using TStaff in my Main Hand with 34% worn Haste. I was swapping to Addy Club on my Offhand between TStaff swings. Not saying I am great at it since this was my first time trying:

DPS with Offhand Swapping: 34970 over 604 seconds = 57.9 DPS
DPS without Offhand Swapping: 32121 over 598 seconds = 53.7 DPS

I did get like 4 DPS more with swapping to Addy Club. Monks do have much better hand to hand damage compared to every other class though, so I doubt a Warrior would even get a positive DPS boost by doing this. My DPS was probably being helped a decent amount by Monk Fist Damage with the Epic Fist modification.

The offhand swapping took way too much of my focus away from the game. It was tough to do anything else. You can see a few times where I messed up the swaps because I got distracted by something. This strategy is really not worth doing on P99 in my opinion.

I'm sure Zuranthium will call me a bad player or something. But he will probably never provide real evidence of himself doing this offhand swapping, so it's my evidence vs. his word now.