The DPS Dummy

Mic1007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo1WKmv4jUQ

Don't bash my DPS too hard, now. I know I need improvement.

skiptomyluau

Does it not tell you your dps #s?

OrphanHelgen

You could start your improvement by zooming out the camera and stand more still. The overview and the video was terrible to watch.

Glurin

skiptomyluau wrote: »

Does it not tell you your dps #s?

Doesn't look like it. Still handy nonetheless.

Glurin

OrphanHelgen wrote: »

You could start your improvement by zooming out the camera and stand more still. The overview and the video was terrible to watch.

Yeah, I was getting a little sea sick watching that. Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...

Mic1007

I hardly realize I am doing it, sorry. Just a weird habit I formed. I'll try this again, paying more attention.

bigted209

Patch notes stated the dummy had health/resistance on par with Bloodspawn. Quite handy for us console plebs as that's who we've been using for dps metering

mb10

Mic1007 wrote: »

I hardly realize I am doing it, sorry. Just a weird habit I formed. I'll try this again, paying more attention.

@Mic1007 No need to apologise. Just another forum pessimist hater lol he would have found another thing to moan about if it wasnt that.

Sigtric

That back and forth, or side to side habit, is something more people end up with in this game than they realize. Some do it and don't even know.

raidentenshu_ESO

skiptomyluau wrote: »

Does it not tell you your dps #s?

You would need to have a DPS meter to tell you the results... FTC is highly recommended.

susmitds

raidentenshu_ESO wrote: »

skiptomyluau wrote: »

Does it not tell you your dps #s?

You would need to have a DPS meter to tell you the results... FTC is highly recommended.

FTC is so 2015! In the great year of 2017, Combat Metrics is the way to go!

johu31

Thanks for the demo!

Cryptical

Sigtric wrote: »

That back and forth, or side to side habit, is something more people end up with in this game than they realize. Some do it and don't even know.

Ever been standing still and see a red circle, and have that half-instant of confusion when your character isn't moving even though you are giving it that command?

Yeah, sometimes in the scrum of mobs one will throw a crowd control effect that wasn't noticed because of the many other things being watched onscreen.

I choose to do a bit of side to side so if my feet get nailed down its immediately noticed, and easier to time the roll dodge to my liking. Not to mention, a cone aoe needs to be constantly adjusted to hit the most mobs possible. Also, if the tank misses a taunt or the boss ignores it, I'm prepared to circle around it, spinning it in place.

Asmael

3m health? That's... low. Very, very very low.

There is a way to get one with higher HP?

bottleofsyrup

Sigtric wrote: »

That back and forth, or side to side habit, is something more people end up with in this game than they realize. Some do it and don't even know.

I do it too and I have no idea why or even how to get myself to stop.

pattyLtd

Oh i really like this dummy even if it's not perfect.
It will help me memorize my rotation without embarassing myself to much with other people around

bebynnag

@Mic1007
what did skelebeob ever do to you?

re moving around: i annoy the hell out of people cause i have a habit of rotating around bosses avoiding AOE's, other people who are apparently roleplaying a character with worms who are incapeable of standing still even when out of combat, annoy the hell out of me.
what im saying is something annoys everyone, you will never please everyone so never apologise over something as simple as this

that said zooming out will improve your DPS as you will be able to view your surroundings better

& @bigted209 speak for yourself - this console pleb prefers to kill a world boss, unsupported to asses my DPS

Rev Rielle

Thank you for the video, nice to see how it works (Much how it was expected)

However:
That movement is madness. You don't need to do that in PvE. NPCs aren't PC's: they don't have to aim at us. The movement back and forth does absolutely nothing.

You're not the worst though I've seen. Goodness it's a silent epidemic in the game at the moment; all the players that think their character has to be moving around 'all the time'. It just makes zero sense.

I realise it can be very difficult for some, especially when they're out in Cyrodiil mostly where movement is extremely important. However, a good guide is to move when you have to move, i.e. in response to NPC combat telegraphs, otherwise standing still is easier on everyone in your group, and makes fights shorter/simpler.

susmitds

I have the exact same habit of moving back and forth and occasionally sideways with Flurry. Gives you the feel that you are stabbing harder.

Voxicity

I also find myself moving around frantically when dpsing... I think it's a habbit I picked up in pvp since if you stand still there you're putting yourself at a disadvantage right away

DRXHarbinger

Moving back and forth makes you weave harder iirc. Left and right for stam and forward and back for mag, makes force pulse hit 10% harder. True story.

Myerscod

Out of curiosity, why do you turn away from the mob when reapplying crit surge and hurricane?

Wollust

I wish there was different tiers of dummies. With much higher health pools and stuff.
But I am grateful for this.

failkiwib16_ESO

OP thanks for the information.

A little tip for future videos, put the camera angle in a place that makes the view clear. It's weird to keep track of constantly moving action behind tree branches...

Have a nice day ^^

Cryptical

Again, shorter:
Movement provides an immediate alert when something nails your feet to the ground. With many things on screen at once, a simple non-damaging effect that doesn't do anything other than halt movement can be unnoticed until you try to move and the red circle kills you before you could roll dodge away.

GrigorijMalahevich

Rending slashesh and poison arrow mate, don't forget light attack between skills. Get dps meter addon

AtAfternoon

Nice video.

Also guilty of moving around. I blame the fact I'm using a controller so using both hands at the same time gets you in a rhythm.

Junipus

So many people have that insane habit of continuously moving when doing dps. It's even worse when it's the tanks and healers doing it and it drives me nuts when it's done to the extreme and people are running around the place like hyperactive toddlers.

Some fights it can't be helped and there's constant moving if you're melee, but other times like in the video the target is perfectly still constantly yet people still move around like it'll improve their dps somehow.

Anyway, was a very interesting video to see it in action. Now we just need to know how attainable they are.

bigted209

puffytheslayer wrote: »

@Mic1007
what did skelebeob ever do to you?

re moving around: i annoy the hell out of people cause i have a habit of rotating around bosses avoiding AOE's, other people who are apparently roleplaying a character with worms who are incapeable of standing still even when out of combat, annoy the hell out of me.
what im saying is something annoys everyone, you will never please everyone so never apologise over something as simple as this

that said zooming out will improve your DPS as you will be able to view your surroundings better

& @bigted209 speak for yourself - this console pleb prefers to kill a world boss, unsupported to asses my DPS

Right.... what I am referring to is dps testing for end game raid groups/trials guilds testing its members to see if they are good enough to take in to trials. You can "test yourself" however you want to... I'm referring to the console community dps testing standard.

Mic1007

Myerscod wrote: »

Out of curiosity, why do you turn away from the mob when reapplying crit surge and hurricane?

Err... I'm not sure. This video has enlightened me as to how weird I do things.

Kutsuu

I tend to move back and forth while DPSing because when a red AOE starts, I am already moving away and just don't move back in the other direction like I normally would. If I'm standing still, my reaction time to red is consistently slower.

Plus when I have boss agro I like to surprise my friends with their frontal attacks and laugh maniacally if they die