Seconded if possible please. I also noticed that on the Settings tab, the Custom Target Armor "default" value is 138083 instead of 13083 that is on the Overview tab. I'm guessing this isn't actually used anywhere and is just a typo but I'm just noting it here for posterity's sake.

It usually the Armory not returning what it is supposed to. Or timing out.

Shandara, does the currently implemented sheet take into account that Aspect of the Beast actually gives 21% boost, and from what I hear the Beast Glyph gives 4% boost on that? I can't seem to find the pet AP.

I think Shandara has been ignoring this since no one has sat down and confirmed exactly what the mechanics are. I'll sit down and mess with some thigns and see if i can pin down exactly what's going on.

So.....Testing the ap given to a pet from beast.
My findings are that aspect of the beast increases the pets component in his AP by 21%.
The glyph increases that 21% to 25.5% approx. Tested this with several pets and the numbers come out to be very close.

The hunters component of the pets AP is only derived from the hunters ranged AP never from his melee. I concluded this because I added a scroll of str to my hunter which never changed the pets AP.

Now aspect of the beast increases the hunters benefit to the pet from 22% to 26.5% unglyped and from 22% to 27.5% while glyphed.

Reasoning behind this madness? No clue, but that seems to be what I'm seeing consistently. Shandara, If you don't want to incorperate this current information about beast could you give us an unlocked spreadsheet so I can make the changes and model beast to see how it compares to dragonhawk?

Can anyone else test this and see if you see similar results?

Thank you

I was already working on this and it is in the next release. My test results are the same as yours.

Well, Aspect of the Beast increases your melee AP by 10%.. so that alone will boost the pet's AP up some past what you'd expect.. it's not just a flat 10% increase.

Edit: Nevermind, I am seeing that pets don't gain anything from Melee AP.. interesting.

My raw numbers:

WITHOUT Aspect of the Beast Glyph:
1478 Pet AP before AotB
1789 Pet AP after AotB
311 (21.04%) gain from AotB

WITH Aspect of the Beast Glyph:
1478 Pet AP before AotB
1854 Pet AP after AotB
376 (25.43%) gain from AotB

Has the Hyperspeed Accelarators glove inchant been calculated under the "item calculations” on the Calculations tab of the spreedsheet?

I tried to do a search and I havent found any info on this.

Thanks
G

So for fun, I basically entered best gears for each slot with T7 shoulders and legs.
With all raid buffs, it's sitting at 6019 AP, 42.9% crit, 99.83% hit, and some haste, ArP etc.
Now, the spreadsheet is indicating that 2 AP > 1 Hit, which I've never seen before (2 AP = 1, 1 Hit = .97, 1 Agi = .88, 1 ArP = .686, 1 Crit = .545).
Do we scale that well with AP? We might not even have to hit cap if this is true.
I also see that scorpid is about 400 dps higher than cat at this AP. A big nerf bat inc?
I know that scorpid poison dps is situational (i.e. if we can maintain the poison on one target the whole fight or not), but it still seems way too good.

Ah good to see some results on the Beast issue, it is definately strange at this time. But that calculation in the FAQ thread was pretty damn convincing, I guess it was just a coincidence.

sihyunie, that's a tough question to answer since the spreadsheet doesn't take into account the pethit that only jumps in full percentages. That means the closer you get to a percentage in Hit, the more valuable Hit becomes. Conversely, as soon as you pass a percentage, Hit takes a nosedive of epic proportions. So Hit should always be applied in large chuncks.
AP scales pretty much the same all the time so it is always a dead given value.

With Hit and AP that close, and you have the best gear in that setup, how many options are really around where you will sit and look at 20 AP vs 10 Hit? It is going to be hell of a lot more varied. So for ease of 'stacking' calculate them even. Though I would say that Hit holds another advantage that the spreadsheet can't factor in. Tranq might yet become highly important, don't want misses there... And, a miss to a Kill Shot might just be that last little loss of hitrating. Only one shot... But what a shot to miss with. The AP loss for a Kill Shot isn't that much (20 AP on a Kill Shot is hardly worth mentioning), but the miss itself is. AP is even across the board, misses aren't.

So when the variance is that small I wouldn't go and say AP is better. What does surprise me is the value of ArP though. Especially compared to Crit (of course at 43%, Crit is hardly that important anymore, most procbased talents are filled to the brim by then).

I'm not sure what your problem is with Hawk and Dragonhawk.

Aspect of the Hawk is rank 1-8 and ends at level 68 with 155 AP.
Aspect of the Dragonhawk is rank 1-2 at level 74-80 with 230 and 300 AP.

You can select rank 9-10 Hawk (from before the addition of Dragonhawk) in the sheet but if you do that's definitely 'user error'. Both hawk and dragonhawk use the same table of spell values on the "Spell Values" tab. This was the easiests way to incorporate Dragonhawk into the sheet since it is purely a cosmetic name change and none of the effects actually change.