Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
- 6.2K All Categories
- 3.1K Everything Achaea
- 1.5K North of Thera
- 26 Archives of the Terraformer
- 257 The Matsuhama Arena
- 885 The Golden Dais of Creation
- 299 The Scarlattan Theatre
- 149 The Blank Canvas
- 2K Getting Help
- 412 General Questions
- 258 Quick Class Questions
- 1.3K Tech Support
- 313 Client Help
- 486 Curing Systems and Scripts
- 841 Off-Topic
- 255 The Wander Inn
- 586 The Universal Membrane
- 298 Class Discussions
- 298 Individual Class Sections
- 20 Alchemist
- 9 Apostate
- 30 Blademaster
- 9 Depthswalker
- 14 Druid
- 4 Infernal
- 20 Jester
- 19 Magi
- 34 Monk
- 11 Occultist
- 8 Paladin
- 7 Priest
- 29 Runewarden
- 18 Sentinel
- 26 Serpent
- 20 Shaman
- 9 Sylvan
What is the best colour for Dragonform bashing in any given scenario?
I'm sure @Penwize could answer this if he came around anymore, but I'm curious as to opinions on the best Dragon bashing colour for any given situation. In coordinated groups, alone with weak NPC's, alone with strong NPC's, etc etc and preferably with hard numbers. I'm being told that it is loosely considered red or gold, but am unsure of the specifics. Any help would be appreciated!
1
Best Answer
-
Aerek
East Tennessee, USA
Red, Gold, and Silver, I've been led to believe are the best by my experience and public opinion.- Red is good by itself because Dragonblaze is its "big" Battlerage damage attack, but its damage-over-time nature means a high critical rate can make it do more damage than the other dragons' upfront attacks on average. It also has the Inhibit affliction, which is -supposed- to stop NPCs that heal themselves from doing so, which I find theoretically strong, but its duration is short and I've heard it's always been bugged and non-functional anyway. Still, when I bash, it's usually in Red.
- Gold is good because its Aeon and Amnesia afflictions help handle big-name NPCs that actually do hurt you. Amnesia is the stronger, the NPC will lose about 3 attacks on you, (I don't know if it's just a set duration, or it actually counts the number of attacks they forget) but that's enough to catch your breath when you're throwing down with some of the big name and honors mobs. Aeon isn't as good, but it still hits their DPS, and you can use it while Amnesia is on cooldown. This just gives you the flexibility to use Overwhelm/Psiblast for damage, or Psidaze/Deaden for survivability.
- Silver I've heard/thought is good because theoretically you can micromanage it to give the NPC sensitivity right before one of your big attacks. It sounds good on paper, but I've admittedly never bothered with it because I don't really bash enough to put that kind of time and effort into it, and I haven't actually tested to see if a sensitivity/Dragonspark/Gut combo actually does more damage than just using Dragonspark/Overwhelm/Gut for the same amount of rage.
-- Grounded in but one perspective, what we perceive is an exaggeration of the truth.6
Answers
It may be the case that the DoT battlerages have increased damage in exchange for the delay. I've only tested red dragon damage though, so I don't know how it compares to others.
The amount of time it takes for rage to build up to the point where you can do that combo honestly makes it not really worth it in rage management unless your Gut is significantly more powerful than the baseline (i.e. you're packing +3 STR gauntlets, Jera, and another +2-3 on top of that).
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
I'm referring to the modifiers noted in Announce #4538, for anybody not aware.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
Learned rapier/scimitar, mastered both. These are rough numbers as the test server is down, but it was pretty clear Tfang was superior by far.
L3 Scim (Jab) - 7.5% - 2.0s
L3 Rapier (Jab) - 7.2% - 1.9s
L3 Dirk (Jab) - 12% - 1.85s
Out of curiosity, what were you testing on?
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
Without crits, psiblast takes 10 uses to kill and dragonblaze takes 13.
Doing a simulation of 10,000 kills, here's how many times the denizen died in N uses of psiblast (which roughly matches what I calculated for 1-4 hits):
[spoiler]
1: 597 ( 5.970%)
2: 1042 (10.420%)
3: 1749 (17.490%)
4: 1405 (14.050%)
5: 1590 (15.900%)
6: 1768 (17.680%)
7: 1066 (10.660%)
8: 578 ( 5.780%)
9: 178 ( 1.780%)
10: 27 ( 0.270%)
[/spoiler]
Average psiblasts needed to kill: 4.606
And for dragonblaze:
[spoiler]
1: 169 ( 1.690%)
2: 955 ( 9.550%)
3: 2130 (21.300%)
4: 2118 (21.180%)
5: 2126 (21.260%)
6: 1501 (15.010%)
7: 763 ( 7.630%)
8: 196 ( 1.960%)
9: 39 ( 0.390%)
10: 3 ( 0.030%)
11: 0
12: 0
13: 0
[/spoiler]
Average dragonblazes needed to kill: 4.387
The consistency made a bigger difference than I thought. So dragonblaze is about the same as psiblast even if it has 80% of the damage. Since this is just a simulated run rather than actual calculations, and the numbers used are very approximate, the only thing I can say for sure is that dragonblaze and psiblast are pretty close in effectiveness.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."