Flame Sergeant's Spear VS Ifrit's Harpoon

[Silvano]

Seiken doesn't even count trials when he tests. We use a different method of data collection for MIN and MAX. Most other testers just find some arbitrary trial # and use the average. We only document the MIN and the MAX until:

(MAX - ((MAX+MIN)/2)) / ((MAX+MIN)/2) = 7.8% or greater

Because this gives the true average via calculation. The number of trials to achieve this true min/max depends on how high a damage you're dealing and luck. Could take 2 trials, could take 1000. The point is we're finding the true average instead of leaving it up to chance.

Is there a cap on this percentage where it is no longer effective for comparison? I've been trying to keep it around 8%, but for instance, Ifrit had an 86% deviation for my auto-attack lol.

[Tango]

Is there a cap on this percentage where it is no longer effective for comparison? I've been trying to keep it around 8%, but for instance, Ifrit had an 86% deviation for my auto-attack lol.

Your deviation is skewed when you incorporate skills like power surge/blood for blood etc. You can only use deviation if all other actions are controlled. Thats why its so hard to test stats on NM's since we all want to optimize and in order to test you have to pretty much not use any skills at all.

[Tango]

http://www.fileswap.com/dl/rtATjxSD4...sCrit.jar.html

my most recent parser link, this includes a stat caps tab which calculates the deviation for you.

this shows the stat caps tab for crit only(this is why you see zeros on many of the skills, no crits landed) on Garuda


1. start parser
2. /echo stats:STR:255 (w/e your stat is that your going to modify can go here, its just informational)
2a. /echo statscrit:STR:255 (if you want to only look at the crits in the stats cap tab use "statscrit:")