Alright, the reason I was asking about your current hits is that if you want to compare DPS, then for a realistic comparison you can take Dhuumfire as a 5 second burn every 12s, and Close to Death as a 10% multiplier to your damage. So if a 5 second burn every 12s is > 10% of your DPS to all targets around you, well, there’s your answer.
So first, 5 second burn with 0 condition damage (your described stats) is 1640 damage. Since that’s every 12s and we’re assuming you’re not managing to Epidemic that, we can re-state it as 136.7 dps, single target. We’ll call it 140dps for now because less digits and this is far from an exact analysis.
Now, for 140 to be worth the same amount as a 10% boost, that means you’ll need 1400 dps, counting all targets, before near to death. This is where your dagger auto comes in. I’m going to do ~magics~ here and announce that the last hit of the dagger chain is about 43% of the total damage of the chain. I’m also going to make the (somewhat questionable) assumption the dagger-1 chain takes 2s to complete, including after-cast.
Thus, your average necrotic bite, divided by 43%, divided by 2, is your average dps while auto-attacking. You gave 1976 as your highest critical without Close to Death traited. Thus, at peak, you have 2298 dps. (2300 because Ugh Digits) which is far more than our 1400 threshold mentioned earlier. But that’s at peak.
To normalize your dagger damage, we have to take into account that your 228% damage critical strikes only happen 41% of the time. So it’s sort of like an effective 150% damage multiplier overall. As well, since that may have been from the high-end of the random distribution that weapon strength has for damage, I’m going to assume that strike was about 103% of the median damage.
So we’ll take 2300 / 2.28 / 1.03 to get your ‘flat’ damage, then multiply by 1.5 (2.28 * .41 + 0.59) for 1469 dps. Or 1470 because I have a rounding addiction.
So you are just eking out enough damage from using dagger 1 on a single target for Close to Death to be better than Dhuumfire.
Now again, I have been dropping digits everywhere, so all I’d take from that similarity is that they’re nearly equivalent, for the limited scenario of only using dagger 1 in a single-target fight, where you are fighting the same target from 100% health to 0%.
Edit: For the love of Grenth… ArenaNet. ArenaNet, “as__a__5s__burn” is not me trying to sneak butts by you.
Edit2: This is not the conclusion I expected, so I suspect I missed something. I realize the situation is limited (what about multi target, and this guy is probably using Deathly Perception! And what about when the target it already burning and yours doesn’t go through for a long time?) but still, did I make a major mistake with the form of my calculations or something?
Mixing insults with your post is like pooping in a salad.
It’s pretty obvious, and nobody’s impressed.
