Some interesting results on strength buffs and (charm)pets

[DMN]

So I've been pretty bored lately and wanted to test this for awhile. my first series of tests is going to involve low level newbie mobs. I chose them becuase the stat buffs should have their biggest impact on those mobs and so if I saw little to no benefit from low level mobs I certainly wouldn't see them in higher level ones. Anyway...

Two different tests with many. maybe even thousand + but at least hundreds of sample sizes. i chose level 1 mobs and made them exclusively fight level 2 mobs.



So first the control group with no buffs versus group with savage + storm, somewhere around +80-90 str. And yes I tested if they stack first.

The buffed group actually had a very slightly lower hit rate (40%, versus 42% -- which is prolly not statistically significant), strongly suggestive that str buffs do not increase hit rate. i was pretty disappointed when i first calculated this as i thought for sure it was going to show the buffs doing absolutely nothing. But then I calculated the average damage and the buff mobs did around 155% more damage than he controls.


When I have time and I'm bored again I'll be testing some higher level mobs and possibly regular summoned pets, either necro or enc I'm not sure yet.