Bards and BL and Crit and RoB

[EasymodeX]

The simulation ran over the course of 360 seconds (6 minutes), with a base crit rate of 15% (~500 crit), and assumed IR usage.

100000 trials were run, and here are the results:

Trials: 100000 Procs: 6034321 BLs: 6556674

So if I'm interpreting correctly, your 15% crit rate simulation resulted in 360 * 100,000 / (6556674) = 0.1821 bloodletters per second.

The assumed uptime for both WB and VB is 100%? And the simulation is based on 2 chances to crit simultaneously every 3s? 100% Straight Shot uptime for 10% more crit?

[pandabearcat]

So if I'm interpreting correctly, your 15% crit rate simulation resulted in 360 * 100,000 / (6556674) = 0.1821 bloodletters per second.

The assumed uptime for both WB and VB is 100%? And the simulation is based on 2 chances to crit simultaneously every 3s? 100% Straight Shot uptime for 10% more crit?

Yes, the assumptions are

• 100% uptime for VB, WB, SS.
• 2 simultaneous proc chances.
• You only BL during offGCDs

Actually for the last assumption, I also, on a whim, tested what would happen if you assumed you could BL every 10th of a second, ignoring all other attacks and all animation locks.

Guess what happened? You gained between 0 and 1 BLs over the course of 360 seconds.

Safe to say, you lose no dps by only using BL on off GCD windows.

I hope that finally puts that discussion to rest.

Also: informative chart and effect of increasing Crit on RoB procs in a minute, once I get them uploaded.