Merlin13KAGL wrote: »(Would you be happier if they doubled the chance but halved the damage, or would this not change enough in the grand scheme of things?)
Merlin13KAGL wrote: »(Would you be happier if they doubled the chance but halved the damage, or would this not change enough in the grand scheme of things?)
Higher chance(even guaranteed proc) with reduced damage is highly preferable. I hate randomness in pvp. A 5% proc for 10k is just as frustrating when I get hit with it as a 10% proc for 10k. Don't use low proc chances to balance anything in pvp.
If I were to give rough estimates of the weapon and spell damages equivalents of the proc sets Viper, Selene, and Skoria, it would be at roughly 900, 1900, and 800 unbuffed.
Merlin13KAGL wrote: »Perhaps I'm oversimplifying this, but with the cooldown in mind, the DPS equivalent of these sets at Legendary are:
- Viper: +1680 (6720 once every four seconds)
- Selenes: + 2100 (in conjunction with rapid strikes 4.6 chances per second @ 15% chance x 12k damage every 4 seconds)
That's ~70% chance of 3k dps, less if used with other melee skills.- Skoria: +900 ( that's 9000 damage every 5 seconds @8% chance per dot. Assuming you've got 6 dots going full time, that puts you @ 48% proc chance to get 1800 dps...thus the +900 equivalent)
While I realize it's not the DPS that kills you so much as the burst, when broken down as DPS they seem less impressive?
(Would you be happier if they doubled the chance but halved the damage, or would this not change enough in the grand scheme of things?)
Legit asking here, not trolling...
If I were to give rough estimates of the weapon and spell damages equivalents of the proc sets Viper, Selene, and Skoria, it would be at roughly 900, 1900, and 800 unbuffed.
The crazy thing is that this is for sustained DPS. In pvp where it is all about burst, these sets are really worth MUCH more than these amounts of spell/weapon damage.
My rough estimate would be that viper is around 600 weapon damage, buff-able by major brutality, but not affecting critical hits. I guess that coincides with your considerations.
But that's not the point of viper; point is that you can kill folks in one click and then wait for the cooldown.
There is a set I like, spriggan's, and it is really great if you want to build stats and use ultimate, but in small scale it does not compare to viper; for steady dps reliant on crit, spriggan outperforms.