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    Kitru Kitera
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hachiko View Post
    First, both circle of Scorn and Spirits Within work out to 25 Potency per 2.5, so I don't know where 20.8 comes from.
    Did you not read any of the explanations I did for the math beforehand? I used 250 for Spirits Within instead of 300 because, if you're using it on CD, you can't guarantee you'll always be at max hp. If you wait until you're at max hp, you're not using it on CD and, as such, are getting less out of it.

    Second, you're not normalizing sword oath and instead adding 50 potency to the auto attacks which you've normalized to 2.5 seconds. Using Curtana as an example, that means an additional 50 potency attack every 2.32 seconds, not every 2.5.
    You don't have to normalize for attack speed. The attack speed math already does that. Sword Oath doesn't provide any more for a fast weapon than it does for a slow weapon. Potency is a percentage increase to damage dealt. 50 additional potency means that you're dealing 50% more (additional). If you swing twice as fast for half of the damage, getting 50% more damage adds up the same. The only way that you would get *more* damage out of a fast weapon rather than a slow one is if the damage added is flat, which Sword Oath is not. As such, regardless of the weapon you're using, Sword Oath increases the contribution from your auto attacks to 133 from 83.

    I'm not sure why you were multiplying by 1.05 (Fight or Flight is a 10% buff, averaged out).
    FoF provides 5% over time, not 10%. It's 30% while it's active with a 16.67% uptime (30 seconds every 180 seconds). Multiply that out and you get 5%.

    Edit: Just realized that the wiki I was using for info was using out of date stuff. The CD on FoF is 90 seconds, not 180, which is why it's 10%, not 5% like I was using.

    I've done the DPS math for WAR and PAL twice. First was done for tank stances, and second for DPS-mode. I suggest you read up on them because I explained everything I did explicitly.
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    Last edited by Kitru; 09-20-2013 at 05:08 AM.