Thie... Treasure Hunter ideas

[Laphine]

I only checked the last few posts before replying. The discussion at hand was about 4/5 af vs 5/5 vs mix match (nusku's). Sure it was't the objective of this thread, but you know, discussions evolve. As long as they don't go towards something negative (which would probably need the hands of moderators), it's all good, no? And this is not to say this topic wouldn't benefit with its own thread. Of course it would.

Anyway, if you are going to compare melee damage increase with melee damage increase, ok. But to compare the gain from something that only affects our melee damage (af bonus), with something that affects our whole damage (haste), you need extract from the melee damage increase its compromise to our overall damage. To illustrate:

Taking a 60% melee 40% ws split, if we do 600 melee damage we will do 400 ws damage. Now if we boost only our melee damage by 10%, making it 660 damage, it will provide an increase of (660+400)/(600+400) to our whole damage. 6% instead of 10%. Haste acts on our whole damage, an increase of 10% from haste would affect the 1000 damage, making it 1100.

So to effectivelly compare the af bonus increase with haste, which is a real trade-off by using 5/5 af, we need to factor this concept.

edit: @ Karb
it might have killed the mob before the 3rd proc? lol I wouldn't doubt. A full 3 hit proc can easily damage 50% of a normal mob hp.