Video: Why Red Wood Wands Got Nerfed (#1 DPS Character Serverwide)

[Jibartik]

This is classic everquest good job guys!

Sad to see this powerful magic go, it's just like that movie Onward. Oh well, off to the mindless grind and unicorns eating trash we go. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Vizax_Xaziv]

They HAD to go. Even if we ignore the trivializing of raid mobs people were gonna use them to power level to 60 the night Kunark came out giving a...certain subset....of individuals an undeserved advantage.

Next step should be an experience rollback of all toons leveled using this EXPLOIT!

[Castle2.0]

Theorycraft all ya want bro, I actually did it.

Oh now we are talking solo on the same mob/level as your woodelves huh, well a bard easily can do 2,500 per tic solo or 25,000per minute.

PS. your theoryquest aint even right.. You shoulda done your math, or if your British do your maths, that's okay too. Bard at 50 aint hitting 100/hp tic per mob PBAE. level 2 + level 18 song with best instrumets in classic is 70 dmg/tic and with 66% nerf to DoTs while moving thats ~45 dmg/tic, or half of you claim, which is (~11,250) still short of what I did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, that is assuming the bard gets 0 resists and executes perfectly.

So you should be #1 solo clickie DPS on woodelf guards in Gfay
A wizard nuking a single mob with ice comet is over 10k damage per minute, 30k in 3 minutes.

Bard does more and it's still short.

My 25,000 projection is a conservative estimate.

How much did I actually do in 2 minutes from start of first cast to last end of last cast?

The level 38-42 guards have ~3500 hp according to wiki. Killing 8 of them was ~28,000 actual damage. That's 14,000 per minute, or 233 DPS.

Looking forward to your videos of your bard and wizard for second/third place. As it stands, I'm 1st place solo DPS and got the video to prove it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[ChooChoo Train]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Theorycraft all ya want bro, I actually did it.


PS. your theoryquest aint even right.. You shoulda done your math, or if your British do your maths, that's okay too. Bard at 50 aint hitting 100/hp tic per mob PBAE. level 2 + level 18 song with best instrumets in classic is 70 dmg/tic and with 66% nerf to DoTs while moving thats ~45 dmg/tic, or half of you claim, which is (~11,250) still short of what I did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, that is assuming the bard gets 0 resists and executes perfectly.

Bard does more and it's still short.

My 25,000 projection is a conservative estimate.

How much did I actually do in 2 minutes from start of first cast to last end of last cast?

The level 38-42 guards have ~3500 hp according to wiki. Killing 8 of them was ~28,000 actual damage. That's 14,000 per minute, or 233 DPS.

Looking forward to your videos of your bard and wizard for second/third place. As it stands, I'm 1st place solo DPS and got the video to prove it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pbaoes do full dmg and your forgetting about bards third dot at lvl 48. They very easily hit 100hp per tic. and congrats you can wand down woodelf guards that required zero skill. And your first nuke to last kill was over 2.5 mins lol

PS I’ve seen people wand more woodelves to death at once so they beat you too

[Castle2.0]

Question 1: When 1 of 25 guards resists your 48 DoT.. do you

• A. Keep running ahead of him and retry on all 25 after 1-2 tics when it wears off the other guards?
• B. Let him hit/bash/stun on you as you stay in range of the other 24 guards that will 1-2 round you, so you can hit them with next DoT?

Correct Answer: A

Question 2: How many times out of 10, are you going to land your 48 DoT on 25 of 25 mobs?

Correct Answer: 1-3 out of 10 if you're lucky

Question 3: How will that impact your DPS calculation?

Correct Answer: Worse than just twisting level 2 + level 18. You just don't use the 48 when swarming unless you plan to tank it - 1 mob ruins that pulse if you plan to use any other DoTs. Hence, the numbers I provided. The DoT nerf applies to PBAE DoTs - can you show otherwise? - and even if not, you'd only be 71dmg/tic if you win 500 out of 500 resist rolls. Good luck!

You're theorycrafts are ignorant and overly optimistic.

When you got video proof (bard, wiz, others, whatever), feel free to post it. I've also done more DPS (DPS you saw others do + 1, to be exact) - but this is the video proof I got.

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P.S. My theoretical monk can theoretically solo a theoretical Nagafen, but alas, outside the scope of this thread