So i pugged fractals today. And ended up getting accused of using a macro because I dodge jumped. I didnt know it was hard to press two buttons at the same time. When I said I dont i got a “yeah sure….” response. Made me laugh.
Despite this it was a very smooth and fast pug so i guess its ok.
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Well theres not really any other choices in air magic and seeing as you are going 30 points then you should take that trait. So if you then go earth you get an extra perma 10% + the 10% while attuned to air. And seeing as dmg multipliers are multiplicative having two 10% is better than one 20%. Plus earth gives condi dmg which is a bit more dmg than vitality and healing power.
30/30/10 also gives you the flexibility to swap to d/f fresh air build. Which incredibly useful in less than optimal conditions.
Putting it simply 30/30/10 does more dmg than 30/30/0/10.
Ele is one of the more tricky classes to get used to. But they are pretty rewarding once you do. They feel really weak while leveling until you get the lightning hammer. Although thats a rather simple and boring way to play. If you decide to give ele another go I would refer you to zelyhns or DEkeyz guides in the ele subforum.
Anyway goodluck on finding a class to level all the way.
When we talk about min/maxing we mean we are trying to be as efficient as possible. This means squeezing as much dps out of the classes as possible and minimizing wasted stats and traits. What dalanor meant was that necro isnt the best class if you want to min/max for pve because its a very selfish class and is one of the least efficient classes in pve. However you can min/max the necro to be as efficient as possible even if another class would be better. Essentially if you really want to play necro because you enjoy the class but you still want to be efficient then go for it, but just be aware that other classes are better for maximizing efficiency. Sorry if that seemed a bit wordy. Hope that answers your question.
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If you want comparable survivability to AH. Then you should go 10/25/0/25/10. Its not meta but it gives you a hp sponge which is more than enough to keep you alive plus it has more supportive traits. AH is bad, stay away from that trait and the selfish traitline it resides in.
Ideally you should just learn to play with 10/25/0/10/25 or another meta variant. You will become a much better player because of it.
ps. Im enjoying reading crapgame ignore the question about dps though. I guess noone likes being wrong even when a mathematical example is given to them to prove how silly they are being.
Like a little kid poking a stick at a dog behind a fence. I’m not ignoring you or your hypothetical question. 5 enter, 1 or more dies, dead people don’t dps. Do we need pretty graphs, charts, or anything else to help in the disagreement? In all fairness maybe we are talking apples to oranges because dps is Damage Per Second…
I believe Swift’s comment was something like"
“What if for example someone does 10 dps in 20 seconds but is dead for the last 5, and another person does 1 dps in 20 seconds but is alive the entire time. Who did more dps?”
Let us change this a bit because we all know even us keyboard turners do more than 1 DPS. Anyway, 10 DPS (damage per second) * time alive (15 seconds) = 150. Second player did 10 DPS (damage per second) * time alive (20 seconds) = 200. I don’t know, looks like the second fella did more damage over time because he or she was alive longer. But barring me changing it – math is funny that way – its a moot point because we really don’t have a reliable way of knowing how much each party member contributes. We just know, or assume to know, that when one or more people dye the fight will last longer because whatever amount of damage the others did is no longer present.
Again, it doesn’t matter to me what trait line up you bring. I said I don’t have a dog in the fight. I do, however, believe that we don’t deal damage when dead. Tell you what, I’ll send you a dye too.
Nice that you completely ignored that the alive person in this example is using a bad build and so has less than 10% of the dps as the person who died. Going back to your example seeing as you completely missed our point.
10 DPS (damage per second) * time alive (15 seconds) = 150. Second player did 2 DPS (damage per second) * time alive (20 seconds) = 40. So yeah seems like the dead player did more.
Who does 2 dps? Its hypothetical data. If you want to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic go ahead but the ship is still going to sink? Now change the duration of the engagement to 90 seconds or longer.
Its been proven that meta builds do over 50% more damage than various other crap builds. Are you intentionally being dense?
Your math above is greater than 50% and you still didn’t address the duration part. Maybe we should party up in game and give this a test? I’ll be the one to live the duration of the fight and you can be the DPS who dies 15 seconds in? Or I can die and you survive. Or we can rock, paper, scissor it.
Or, we can both do the right thing and just end the conversation. We agree to disagree.
With 50% difference the dead person still does more.
10 DPS (damage per second) * time alive (15 seconds) = 150. Second player did 5 DPS (damage per second) * time alive (20 seconds) = 100.
Disagreeing with maths? This is amusing. Please keep going.
Err, you should have better used 30/30/10/0/0 on staff ele and 25/25/10/10/0 on S/X. Persisting flames is a must have to not let the staff ele deal awful dps.
Aside of that and a few mistakes a pretty clean run.PS: Spoj, dat rotation ._.
I could have them mixed up. xD
Wasnt really a whole a need for rotation seeing as my job was blind and clear blossoms. I assume you’re talking about the wardens before the tree anyway, that was messy for all of us.
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