MCH Rook Autoturret Hypercharge damage is lower than stated in the description

[Kitfox]

Date & Time: 2/5/2018
Frequency: Always
World name: Odin
Character name: Lynn Nuvestrahl
Retainer name: -
NPC name: -
Monster name: Striking Dummy
Class/Level: Machinist / 70
Party or solo: Party and Solo
In-game time: Always
Area and coordinates: The Fringes ( 30.0 , 11.3 ) Z: 0.4
Housing: -

Steps:
1. Be level 70 Machinist
2. Start Sky, Stone, Sea - Sigmascape V4.0 (Savage) trial
3. Summon Rook Autoturret
4. Attack Striking Dummy with right mouse-click
5. Use Hypercharge
6. Record damage done by turret during Hypercharge
7. Record damage done by turret without Hypercharge
8. Exit trial to reset Hypercharge cooldown timer.
9. Repeat 41 times.

Rook Autoturret tooltip states that the attack potency of Volley Fire is 80 potency and Hypercharge potency is 160. From this we can expect the Charged Volley Fire to hit for double damage compared to Volley Fire or a +100% increase in damage.

I did a small trial run 106 Volley Fire hits and compared the damage to 118 Charged Volley Fire hits ignoring critical hits and direct hits.



Here's a paste of the recorded Volley Fire hits.
Here's a paste of the recorded Charged Volley Fire hits.

The average damage of Volley Fire was 1604.
The average damage of Charged Volley Fire was 2399.

The expected average damage according to the ability description should be around 3208. However, the difference is closer to a 50% increase, which would correlate to a 120 potency attack, not 160 as stated by the ability description.

It seems that either the damage done by Rook Autoturret under Hypercharge is much lower than intended, or the ability descriptions are incorrect.


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[Iluvoratin]

Greetings, Kitfox!

We have reviewed your submission and need some additional information. If you could respond with that information here then that would be very helpful!

The gear you were wearing when testing

Weapon:
Head:
Body:
Arms:
Waist:
Legs:
Feet:
Ears:
Neck:
Wrists:
Right Ring:
Left Ring:

*Please also include Materia that you have melded into these items if any.

Did you only auto attack the striking dummy once in order to have the Rook Autoturret have the appropriate target, or did you continue to auto attack as well?

Prior to resetting the trial, did you spend 20 seconds doing the regular attack to match the 20 second duration for Hypercharge?

Thank you for taking the time to provide all of these details for us! Please feel free to ask any questions in your response as well that you may have.

FINAL FANTASY XIV Support Team

[Kitfox]

Testing gear:

Weapon: Diamond Musketoon (Savage Aim Materia VI x2)
Head: Diamond Helm of Aiming (Savage Aim Materia VI, Heavens' Eye Materia VI)
Body: Diamond Coat of Aiming (Heavens' Eye Materia VI x2)
Arms: Dai-ryumyaku Kote of Aiming (Heavens' Eye Materia VI x2)
Waist: Diamond Tassets of Aiming (Savage Aim Materia VI)
Legs: Dai-ryumyaku Jui of Aiming (Savage Aim Materia VI x2)
Feet: Diamond Boots of Aiming (Savage Aim Materia VI x2)
Ears: Genji Earrings of Aiming (Vitality Materia VI)
Neck: Carborundum Necklace of Aiming (Vitality Materia VI)
Wrists: Dai-ryumyaku Bracelet of Aiming (Vitality Materia VI)
Right Ring: Carborundum Ring of Aiming (Vitality Materia VI)
Left Ring: Dai-ryumyaku Ring of Aiming (Vitality Materia VI)

Total attributes were:

Critical Hit 1779
Determination 1270
Direct Hit 1766
Attack Power 2821
Skill Speed 814
Average item level 365

Testing procedure:

Auto-attack was used to activate turret attacks. I would then drop the target, although I would sometimes get another attack in by the time I had activated Hypercharge. Attacks without Hypercharge were roughly matched in hit count but not the main focus as normal turret damage was something I tested prior to this on a normal dummy (not SSS) and the damage spread was the similar. SSS was used to speed up gathering data points for Hypercharge values without waiting for the full cooldown. There was some extra variance in attacks because of 5% Vulnerability on the target and there was no attempt to normalize this because the magnitude of potency discrepancy was large enough to be easily observed (5% error vs 50% potency gain vs 100% expected potency gain).

Here's a video example of the procedure: https://youtu.be/6jAO0nHxbA4

If the sample size of normal turret attacks is a concern, here's a record of 330 hits in the same testing gear. Testing location was The Dravanian Forelands ( 32.8 , 24.7 ) Z: 1.0 Striking Dummy. Critical and direct hits were again excluded.

Hit count 330
Min 1480
Max 1634
Avg 1557

Multiplying the max hit 1634 with 5% Vulnerability modifier, we get 1715, which was the max hit from the SSS recordings. From this we can assume that the damage spread in both cases should be the same.