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Old 08/10/06, 2:14 AM   #1
Forcena
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Okay, I got the idea from the warrior thread. Here's my example.

Okay, I understand that +15 agi on gloves is the clearly superior winner, as well as the ZG enchants. However, with the new change to the way they drop, I find the odds of me ever getting one increasingly bleak. So... With my gear ( http://ctprofiles.net/62905 ), and 'Goose/Giants pots, I theoretically get about 600 dps. We're rounding to that for easier math. Using Chalon's spreadsheet, I get about 3.30 more dps from +8 agi on one slot.

Running meters, I usually get around 60% of my damage as white attacks. So if around 360 of my total 600 dps is white, then isn't, based on the 1% enchant, that a 3.6 dps increase? Which makes +haste better than +agi at that gear level?

You'd think the benefit of +haste would also ramp up as more and more +hit is acquired, since it's pretty much only going to my white damage nowadays as I add more anyways, and thus the overall percentage of my total damage would shift closer in favor of my white damage.

A quick run through of gear far superior to mine seems to favor +haste scaling better than +8 agi as well.

Are my calculations true, or is this all just a waste of bandwidth?

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Old 08/10/06, 2:21 AM   #2
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Uh...you mention the spreadsheet, but why didn't you just check what it says for 1% haste :P. For my gear level, 1% haste is about 1 DPS more than +8 agi.

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Old 08/10/06, 2:33 AM   #3
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I think I must be using an outdated version. The only enchants I see are Death's Embrace, +8 Agi, +8 Str, and +100 HP.

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Old 08/10/06, 2:58 AM   #4
exog
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Originally Posted by chalon
Uh...you mention the spreadsheet, but why didn't you just check what it says for 1% haste :P. For my gear level, 1% haste is about 1 DPS more than +8 agi.
so whats your gearlevel? I have AQR/Iblis, ddhead/legs, shadowflame boots, gloves of enforcement, rest is more or less bf.

Whatever i did, i couldnt get the +1haste to outperform neither 8agi nor zg enchant.

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Old 08/10/06, 3:08 AM   #5
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The reason 1% haste is a viable choice for warriors is that their ZG enchant is defensively-oriented, whereas the other two classes' (rogues, hunters) zg enchants are offensively-oriented and strictly outperform 1% haste (at least at the current gear level).

At some point (in the expansion?) 1% haste will again outpace the static enchants, because it scales.... but at that point there'll probably be better head/leg enchants anyway. :P


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