The Ninja Superthread

[Best-MNK-NA]

[A]n opener will almost never extrapolate into 10 DPS at the end of a 3 minute parse

As I said, there may have been some user error. If it was a clearly superior opener the dot timings would've lined up for significantly greater damage but it was a negligible difference.

I disagree that buffs are multiplicative, though - or a MNK wouldnt get anywhere nearly as high damage. (27% + 10% more + 11% more, etc.. that's like only 32% more damage compared to their +48%..)

Different kind of multiplicative. 100 potency + 27% + 10% + 11% = 155.067 potency if multiplicative (55.067% increase) vs 148 potency if additive (48% increase). I haven't done enough testing to confirm this is how it works (though it seems true), just read many people reporting it as such. Regardless, a Mutilate with xpot + b4b + TA is obviously more damage than mutilate with just b4b + ta but I do think it's possible to get the opening Mutilate in under TA with some good latency.

So the difference is 2 PPS.

Still a difference of ~4 dps. Not bad. How accurate is potency parsing and does it take into account buffs?