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Why the pet morphs of abilites are useless, compared to other morphs!
Dracane
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I was taking some numbers today. I wanted to see, if the Daedric Prayer morph of Daedric curse gives any DPS benefits combined with pets.
I can tell you, it does not. Using the normal velociouse curse morph, together with pets offers more damage than Daedric Prayer combined with pets. I will also give solutions, how to fix this.
Here some numbers with the Twilight pet. (all tooltip or tested on 0 resistance enemies to show clear results, there will be no difference when attacking targets with resistance. Because the difference stays the same, only with lower numbers)
My daedric curse hits for 7920 damage, both curse morphs deal the same explosion damage.
Velocious curse after 3,5 seconds: 7920:3,5 = 2262 DPS
Daedric Prayer after 6 seconds: 7920:6 = 1320 DPS
Twilight Zap damage without Daedric prayer buff: 2917 damage
Twilight Zap with Daedric prayer 30% buff : 3792 damage
The main problem with the twilight is its low attack speed. it fires 1 attack every 2,5 seconds, so:
Normal damage 2917:2,5= 1166 DPS
Buffed damage 3792:2,5= 1516 DPS
Now simply do the math
Daedric curse DPS+ unbuffedTwilights DPS = 3428 DPS
Daedric prayer DPS+Buffed Twilight DPS = 2836 DPS
And also important is, that the normal daedric curse explodes almost 2 times, when daedric prayer only explodes 1 time, so the crit chance for daedric curse is basically 2 times better.
The obvious solution is to give the twilight more speed. It really should attack 1 time every second or at least 1,5 seconds, so that it can do a few more attacks during the duration of Daedric Prayer. Or simply buffing the damage from 30% to 50% or so. Another solution would be, to fix the explosion damage of Daedric prayer, to be more in line with the DPS of the 3,5 second version.
However, there is no point in using the pet morph for Daedric curse. Empowered ward shares similar problems. You either have to respec between pvp or pve, which is not very satisfying and feels bad, or you will get some more damage out of your pets, or risk to be 1 shotted in pvp. So also the damage buff of Empowered ward should be significant enough, to justify taking it.
Edited by Dracane on July 4, 2015 1:50PM I can tell you, it does not. Using the normal velociouse curse morph, together with pets offers more damage than Daedric Prayer combined with pets. I will also give solutions, how to fix this.
Here some numbers with the Twilight pet. (all tooltip or tested on 0 resistance enemies to show clear results, there will be no difference when attacking targets with resistance. Because the difference stays the same, only with lower numbers)
My daedric curse hits for 7920 damage, both curse morphs deal the same explosion damage.
Velocious curse after 3,5 seconds: 7920:3,5 = 2262 DPS
Daedric Prayer after 6 seconds: 7920:6 = 1320 DPS
Twilight Zap damage without Daedric prayer buff: 2917 damage
Twilight Zap with Daedric prayer 30% buff : 3792 damage
The main problem with the twilight is its low attack speed. it fires 1 attack every 2,5 seconds, so:
Normal damage 2917:2,5= 1166 DPS
Buffed damage 3792:2,5= 1516 DPS
Now simply do the math
Daedric curse DPS+ unbuffedTwilights DPS = 3428 DPS
Daedric prayer DPS+Buffed Twilight DPS = 2836 DPS
And also important is, that the normal daedric curse explodes almost 2 times, when daedric prayer only explodes 1 time, so the crit chance for daedric curse is basically 2 times better.
The obvious solution is to give the twilight more speed. It really should attack 1 time every second or at least 1,5 seconds, so that it can do a few more attacks during the duration of Daedric Prayer. Or simply buffing the damage from 30% to 50% or so. Another solution would be, to fix the explosion damage of Daedric prayer, to be more in line with the DPS of the 3,5 second version.
However, there is no point in using the pet morph for Daedric curse. Empowered ward shares similar problems. You either have to respec between pvp or pve, which is not very satisfying and feels bad, or you will get some more damage out of your pets, or risk to be 1 shotted in pvp. So also the damage buff of Empowered ward should be significant enough, to justify taking it.
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