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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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I think you're heavily underestimating the damage of both the Mage pet and DS here, and the Mage is still nearly double the Shaman DPS. That really says it all, IMO.
If someone is able to perform the test I suggested in this post, I think it will be very apparent how much more DPS the Mage is actually doing.
Proposed test: |
In the videos I posted I showed the average hits that got through, unslowed. The problem with DS is it loses a LOT of DPS if you want to talk about mobs dying in 30 seconds. The mobs just don't get a lot of hits off hehe. A Mage would have only gotten 3.7 DPS from my video.
If you want to say I am underestimating Mage pet DPS, you need to bring logs. Troxx's logs show a level 60 Water pet unfocused with Enchanter haste doing 56 DPS on average. I would love to see more Mage data, but people are trolling instead of spending time gathering it.
His extended grouping parse only showed 40 DPS for his pet, which probably includes pet control time, but I will be generous and keep the 56 DPS number. The other Mage who posted said her Epic Pet was doing 47 DPS on Stanos, and 45-50 on Vindi (not sure if this was an Epic pet or not). From all the data given, Mage Pet average DPS is realistically somewhere around 45-55 DPS. We would need more data to solidify the exact number.
As I keep saying, the difference in DPS matters. Saying "double" sounds nice, but it's only a difference of 30. That is saving you 6 seconds per kill hehe. If you are killing a mob with 8000 HP in 36 seconds, your group has a DPS of 222. Changing that to 192 increases the time to 42 seconds. However, a Shaman can do other things to help the group, so they can help save time in other ways.