Llewrend
01-04-2009, 11:37 AM
I ask that you read this post by Hakon_Stormbrow (http://forums.lotro.com/showpost.php?p=3543411&postcount=1) first. If you wish to contribute, and I hope you do, please use this template:{Name}[Average DPS]
[Weapon age]
[A short description of your DPS skill rotation, like Brutal-clobber-auto-wild-swift-auto]
[A list of DPs numbers
300
301
290
.
.]
Today is the last day we can collect any data pre-book 7 so I hope you take a half hour or so to do some testing. Cstats can be found here (http://www.codeplex.com/cstats). If you have questions about using it, I'll be glad to answer.
Pre-book 7
{Llewrend} [Average DPS 388.44.]
3rd age; my bow, traits and stats (http://imgur.com/DAEC4.jpg) 4BM/3HM
I used Needful Haste, Intent Concentration and Snare trap as often as I could which is about half the time. I also started all fights from ~35m range and full focus. Shot rotation was roughly [QS PS SB PS QS PS MS BS PS SB PS] etc. Once I started with a crit Heart-seeker which is quite clearly seen in the data. I used Fire-oil because I hate the pause in SB.
(I did a quick test with Swift Bow crit dmg number to see if dmg-type made a difference, Beleriand and Fire both critted 625, and deva 854, so only the fire dot from oil had any impact, I'd estimate only a ~1% at max. Additionally, I noticed I used about 1-1,3k power per Pulpûm. Average dmg taken was roughly ~850.)
http://imgur.com/DARGC.jpg
3BM/4HM S:P quick test (http://imgur.com/DBLJO.jpg).
Post-book 7
{Llewrend} [Average DPS 282]
Everything same as before. I noticed I used about 1,4-1,6k power per Pulpûm, ended up spending more time regening and used Snare trap on almost every mob. Had to use IC and NH more also. I had a feeling they BPE'd a bit more too but it might just be some bad RNG luck.
http://imgur.com/E0JP0.jpg
Conclusion
Not very nice to see but there you have it. Overall solo DPS for my experiment saw a ~27% drop*. I believe this is a fairly good experiment and gives a rough estimate of a general loss in DPS to be about a quarter, -25%. I hope we don't see "omfg, i lost halff my dps!!11" after this.
Normal mobs drop almost as fast as they used to and the difference is a bit smaller but still easily noticeable.
Further, I plan to test different trait setups to see how viable they are. I will parse tomorrow's Watcher raid and compare it with another I did earlier.
*(388.44-282)/388.44=0.274.
Disclaimer: This is not a competition! Individual stats, items and traits matter quite a lot. I am only trying to find a change percent in solo DPS for the sake of interest. Also, I know the US hunters have already done their own testing but I want to test stuff too. :)
[Weapon age]
[A short description of your DPS skill rotation, like Brutal-clobber-auto-wild-swift-auto]
[A list of DPs numbers
300
301
290
.
.]
Today is the last day we can collect any data pre-book 7 so I hope you take a half hour or so to do some testing. Cstats can be found here (http://www.codeplex.com/cstats). If you have questions about using it, I'll be glad to answer.
Pre-book 7
{Llewrend} [Average DPS 388.44.]
3rd age; my bow, traits and stats (http://imgur.com/DAEC4.jpg) 4BM/3HM
I used Needful Haste, Intent Concentration and Snare trap as often as I could which is about half the time. I also started all fights from ~35m range and full focus. Shot rotation was roughly [QS PS SB PS QS PS MS BS PS SB PS] etc. Once I started with a crit Heart-seeker which is quite clearly seen in the data. I used Fire-oil because I hate the pause in SB.
(I did a quick test with Swift Bow crit dmg number to see if dmg-type made a difference, Beleriand and Fire both critted 625, and deva 854, so only the fire dot from oil had any impact, I'd estimate only a ~1% at max. Additionally, I noticed I used about 1-1,3k power per Pulpûm. Average dmg taken was roughly ~850.)
http://imgur.com/DARGC.jpg
3BM/4HM S:P quick test (http://imgur.com/DBLJO.jpg).
Post-book 7
{Llewrend} [Average DPS 282]
Everything same as before. I noticed I used about 1,4-1,6k power per Pulpûm, ended up spending more time regening and used Snare trap on almost every mob. Had to use IC and NH more also. I had a feeling they BPE'd a bit more too but it might just be some bad RNG luck.
http://imgur.com/E0JP0.jpg
Conclusion
Not very nice to see but there you have it. Overall solo DPS for my experiment saw a ~27% drop*. I believe this is a fairly good experiment and gives a rough estimate of a general loss in DPS to be about a quarter, -25%. I hope we don't see "omfg, i lost halff my dps!!11" after this.
Normal mobs drop almost as fast as they used to and the difference is a bit smaller but still easily noticeable.
Further, I plan to test different trait setups to see how viable they are. I will parse tomorrow's Watcher raid and compare it with another I did earlier.
*(388.44-282)/388.44=0.274.
Disclaimer: This is not a competition! Individual stats, items and traits matter quite a lot. I am only trying to find a change percent in solo DPS for the sake of interest. Also, I know the US hunters have already done their own testing but I want to test stuff too. :)