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Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are you certain it would be a similar proportional difference? Obviously str influences the size of the Di component and weights the d20 in favour of rolling higher, but it doesn’t improve damage bonus. Proportionally how much of dps is db for something like a greatspear (excellent) compared to a hate 1hander (good)?

I’m not certain at all. I have suspected you are correct due to the DB being static and favoring 2handers. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible. DSM has a deficiency in basic abstract thought and reasoning. You can’t simply say that two parses “showed almost the same results” when the high DPS weapon from NTOV went up by 3 total dps (up 4%) and the crappy 1 hand dps from hate (which does closer to 2/5 the baseline damage … possibly less) had a 4 raw dps improvement (up 16%).

Those findings were nowhere near the same thing - but DSM looks at 3 and 4 and says “oh gosh-jee golly 3 and 4 are both numbers, small numbers and are numbers next to each other!! Huzzah your parse says the same thing as mine!!’

I would prefer to parse with my 2 hander but fights would have been over 2-3x as fast unless I picked a mob with much higher hp. Additionally it has that nasty 725 dmg dot over 6 ticks - my skeleton (top sekrit area where you hunt VP key piece) would have died. I tried to do the dark blue giants in FM at the bottom of the fort but it was camped by 2 59s.

I honestly think Kael arena mobs might be perfect for this with a shaman/knight duo. If the knight is not hasted there is a good chance the regen on the mob keeps pace with a solo knight whacking away.

Regardless, as previously posted I’m disinclined to believe that any further tests would be productive. DSM so wildly ran in the wrong direction with my very bad data … what’s the point?

… unless the point is that we want another 475 pages lol