Quote Originally Posted by Lisotte View Post
To get this derailed thread a bit more back on topic... everyone and their cousin likes the +1 bow glow, it got me to make that my first myth buy even though I knew the ring or pants were better.
I'm not even sure we can confidently say those pieces are better.
Certainly not from a simplistic auto attack damage formula.

Limit break damage is based on an average of everyone in the group's weapon ilvl. This potential extra damage is ignored in this thread's comparison.
Which food can you eat and remain at accuracy caps if you upgrade one piece over another?
How much Vit you need to survive certain phases of intense aoe damage, and would extra Vit on a piece you're upgrading matter?
Crit carries extra weight due to River of Blood procs (again, not modeled in this comparison).
There are SO many more mechanics to consider than auto attack damage when considering which piece is "better".

What we'd need is a full 3+ minute damage model that includes all the intricate mechanics such as food, river of blood procs, tp starvation if you're having to keep rain of death up, current gear, etc... that can actually be verified in-game against a few gear levels (as everyone knows sometimes tooltips don't match up with the formulas actually being applied behind the scenes).
To my knowledge, no-one has taken it this far yet.

So the best we can do for now is approximate.
But when you compare two approximates, you can only draw conclusions if the approximates show a notable variance, such as what we see with bracer.