Thread: 4.05 - Tank DPS comparison

Originally Posted by Quor

Ah, good to know.

And the rest of my post?

Originally Posted by Quor

Yes, you pay the MP cost towards TBN instead of DA, but it's not a gain of 400 vs 440, because you can choose to delay your BS as long as you're not at 100 blood. This means you still get the 300 potency from the non-DA SE, then on top of that you get a further 400 potency from BS.

Leaving aside for the moment the fact that the rest of your post is a novel about a job that you have not yet gotten to 70, you're disregarding math in favor of... well basically nonsense. People are telling you that over a given number of GCDs using TBN+BS is a potential loss against not using it over the same number of GCDs, and you're basically saying "well, yeah, over that given number of GCDs, but after that you still get the potency yadda yadda..."

Saying "Well, you can just delay using a GCD for this and then use that afterwards" increases the data set. If you use Bloodspiller instead of Souleater, and then you come in and say "well, we can use Souleater afterwards!" then you've increased the data set. We're talking about 4 GCDs now instead of 3. And it doesn't matter because you still spent 2400 mana and gained *nothing*, because you spent 140 potency (2400 mana) to gain roughly the same amount against your PPGCD, on average, spread across any number of GCDs in an encounter. Spending that 2400 mana on a Dark Arts is a direct potency increase, because it is off the GCD and doesn't delay your resource generation, over your base Souleater combo.

You can't increase the data set for one set of statistics and leave it the same for the other. If the given number is 3, 4, 5, or 100 GCDs, it doesn't matter, it still at best only breaks even.