this is fun
youo knwo what deadly strike is?
screendamage does not tell you something about your character.....
my Fanazealot did 18k average damage/strike while only having 5-13k screen damage (93% deadly strike ftw)
deadly strike is the key.. don´t trust your charscreen
1st up: throw all your dupes away
I mean getting botd,coh,phoenix and so on and you´re not able to find a reaper`s?
you gotta be kidding me
the Um in the gulli is probably wasted
BK does not help you with the build.. pick a decent bloodcraft or rare ring
atmas will only help you in the death slot, botd cannot really benefit from it
phoenix means 40% chance to cast the druids firestorm, now the druids firestorm has a castdelay of 0,6 seconds
in those 0,6 seconds a fanazealot does 3 attacks
so phoenix is massive damageloss
how do I get around 8k ar.. simple:
use maxdam/ar charms
now we come to Death versus BOTD
the best choice is the ettin but let`s keep it simple and use death BA versus botd BA
we use a fanazealot lvl 85 with might merc lvl 85 --> 200% off weapon ed from might
highlords+ herald for +skills so basiccally lvl 23 fana, lvl 25 zeal and 142 str for the BA
this means we have ~ 1100% off weapon ed
385% ed death=344 average damage
400% ed BOTD=355 average damage
in this setup, the BOTD user has 61% deadly strike (gulli,gores,highlords) and 50% crushing blow
the Death user has 103% deadly strike and 100% crushing blow --> we are better off using war travellers (additional 20 average damage
this means
355 average damage, 61% deadly strike,50% crushingh blow
versus
364 average damage 88% deadly strike 50% crushing blow
(maxspeed is easily achieved with gulli ias,nossi,lord and loh or loh+lord+ias gulli ias herald)
death is the winner
now we can go on and pretty muchg start to kick phoenix into the trashbin
as first mentioned, paladin has ~ 1100% off weapon ed
now if you wanna use phoenix on the botd zealot, you loose ~ 50% off weapon ed from not havong your herald
so you`ll have
355 average damage, 1450% off weapon ed and 61% ds, 50% crushing blow
without phoenix it is
355 average damage 1100% off weapon ed 50% crushing blow
versus our herald using death zealot
364 average damage, 1100% off weapon ed 88% deadly strike, 85% crushing blow
but let´s go on
deadly strike= chance to deal double physical damage
so we take a series of 100 strikes with each weapon
[355*(12*39)]+[355*(24*61)]= overall damage for 100 strike swith botd+ herald / 100 = average damage/strike with botd+herald
166140+519720=685860/100 = 6858
[355* (15,5*39) ]+ [355*(31*61)] = overall damage for 100 strikes with BOTD+phoenix /100 = average damage/strike with botd+phoenix
214597+671305=885902/ 100 = 8859 damage/strike
now we do the same for the death setup
[364*(12*12)]+[364*(88*24*]= damage for 100 strikes with Death + Herald / 100 = average damage/strike with death+herald
52416+768768=821184/100 = 8211
so we see
that Death is superior to BOTD+ Herald
but death+herald is also easily superior to BOTD+phoenix:
reasons:
1. the higher the level, the mroe deadly strike, the more damage death gains
2. the more off weapon ed ( torch,anni,more strength,fortitude armor, higher might lvl from merc) the more the deadly strike on death makes that thing shien
3. phoenix has 40% chance to cast a delay spell= disrupts the zeal series and 0,6 seconds waiting = 3 attacks lost = lots,lots,lots of damage lost
This post was edited by Ancalagon on Apr 7 2009 04:34pm