Consistency in weapon DMG/DPS

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

No. You're conflating average dps and dps consistency.

Consider extreme examples. If you rolled 1000 6-sided dice, the expected sum is 3.5*1000=3500. It effectively is a normal distribution. On the other hand, if you rolled one die with 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, & 6000 on the six sides, the expected value of one roll is also 3500. While the expected values in both cases are 3500 (i.e. the average dps), the standard deviations (i.e. dps consistency) are wildly different, about 2 vs 2000.

Great response man, when I get home from work I got a couple of weapons I am going to parse out with a template to show if the distribution shows as you explained it.

Gonna try out:
1x Lammy
1x Wurmy
1x Wrapped entropy
1x Jade mace
1x Venom axe

With different combinations to see what some parsing says.