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Originally Posted by Kich867
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I was addressing this:
In response to your initial parse against a mob ~8 levels lower than you.
My point is that you do, even at that level, lose a pretty noticeable amount of DPS. Maybe not if you're as geared as your character is, perhaps having enough Strength offsets it, but I don't think a single parse demonstrates that well enough.
The difference between being 3, 4, or 5 levels above a mob is pretty substantial. Being consistently 5 levels above this mob my average TTK was ~70s, being somewhere between 3-5 levels above this mob my average TTK was ~85s, and if I were to filter it to the ones I can confirm are 3 levels below me the TTK is much closer to ~100s.
The amount of times I miss a mob 3 levels below me compared to a mob 5 levels below me is significantly higher when it's 3 levels below me. And the amount of times I hit is significantly higher, indicating that I'm hitting for far less on average against these mobs because I'm not high rolling them as often.
I think it's misleading to suggest that you don't lose much DPS fighting things only a few levels below you, especially since you can have some seriously swingy fights--some of my parses involve lucky strings of crits that are counterbalanced by unlucky fights where I miss a lot over the course of 100 or so parses. In your own parse you did substantially more DPS against a higher level enemy than you did against a low level enemy, which to me would suggest thats an outlier.
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I have shown that I didn't lose a large amount of DPS, and not enough to be below the charmed pet, which was the point. Even if the average shakes out to something closer to 19 DPS, that doesn't mean the charmed pet has some sort of heavy advantage.
I 100% agree more data would be better to get the true averages, but the same argument can be made for the pet DPS. It will have highs and lows too.
I am just giving out some quick data that I acquired to disprove obviously silly claims like a low level charmed pet is going to "massively" out-DPS a low level Warrior. If the warrior has low gear like yourself, this may be true. But the reality is most people can afford some minor twink gear (2k is a small sum of money), so I think it is not reasonable to make this assumption unless the thread is specifically talking about making a "self-found only" group.
The reality is I have given out way more data than all of the opposition combined, and it's never enough. They will not believe hours of parse data or a single parse hehe. It's much easier to just say "I am right because other people agree with me".