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The (Second) Great Taming Nerf

Discussion in 'Release 41 Dev+ Feedback Forum' started by Jaath Windsong, Apr 20, 2017.

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  1. Jaath Windsong

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    I present to you not my opinions, but the output from the finest piece of software I've written yet today, NerfHerder v0.1.0!

    NerfHerder parses and analyzes chat logs to produce several interesting reports of dubious veracity. The reports we will be looking at are 1 hour (each, QA and Live) of me following my Ferocious Brown Spider Fluffy around Ulfheim and watching her kill Elder Wolves. All data that was not Fluffy attacking an Elder Wolf or vice versa was discarded.

    The format is as such:

    Stat: QA / Live

    The top half of the report is Fluffy's outgoing damage (DPS), the bottom half is her incoming damage (defense). So, for example, the 'Number of Melee dodged: 53 / 0' stat toward the top is the number of times a wolf dodged Fluffy on QA (53) / the number of times a wolf dodged her on Live (0). Similarly, the 'Incoming blows dodged: 0 / 0' stat toward the bottom is the defensive equivalent, or how many wolf attacks did Fluffy dodge on QA (0) / how many she dodged on Live (also 0).

    Code:
    NerfHerder v0.1.0 Pet Report
    
    
    SotA Version: Release 41 QA - QAStandaloneWindows_485 / Release 40 Live - Steam_EarlyAccess_Win64_587
    Time Parsed: 1h 2m 43s / 1h 1m 24s
    Selected Enemy: Elder Wolf / Elder Wolf
    
    Pet Name: Fluffy / Fluffy
    Pet Type: Ferocious Brown Spider / Ferocious Brown Spider
    Pet Effective Level: 104 / 104
    
    Offense
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    Number of Melee misses: 0 / 0
    Number of Melee dodged: 53 / 0
    Number of Web misses: 0 / 0
    Number of Web dodged: 0 / 0
    Number of Poison misses: 0 / 0
    Number of Poison dodged: 0 / 0
    
    Number of melee hits: 473 / 425
    Lowest melee hit: 6 / 9
    Highest melee hit: 17 / 25
    Average melee hit: 11.33 / 17.26
    
    Number of melee crits: 164 / 105
    Lowest melee crit: 7 / 26
    Highest melee crit: 35 / 50
    Average melee crit: 25.03 / 37
    
    Number of melee glancing blows: 12 / 0
    Lowest melee glancing blow: 1 / 0
    Highest melee glancing blow: 5 / 0
    Average melee glancing blow: 3 / 0
    
    Number of web hits: 112 / 92
    Lowest web hit: 3 / 5
    Highest web hit: 8 / 13
    Average web hit: 5.68 / 8.3
    
    Number of web crits: 33 / 29
    Lowest web crit: 8 / 13
    Highest web crit: 17 / 25
    Average web crit: 12.94 / 18.79
    
    Number of web glancing blows: 2 / 0
    Lowest web glancing blow: 2 / 0
    Highest web glancing blow: 2 / 0
    Average web glancing blow: 2 / 0
    
    Number of poison hits: 815 / 686
    Lowest poison hit: 2 / 2
    Highest poison hit: 17 / 25
    Average poison hit: 4.47 / 5.41
    
    Number of poison crits: 58 / 34
    Lowest poison crit: 17 / 27
    Highest poison crit: 34 / 50
    Average poison crit: 24.55 / 38.38
    
    Number of poison glancing blows: 3 / 0
    Lowest poison glancing blow: 1 / 0
    Highest poison glancing blow: 3 / 0
    Average poison glancing blow: 2.33 / 0
    
    Total number of attacks: 1725 / 1371
    Average damage per attack: 9.07 / 12.8
    
    Melee miss percentage: 0% / 0%
    Melee dodged percentage: 7.55% / 0%
    Melee hit percentage: 67.38% / 80.19%
    Melee crit percentage: 23.36% / 19.81%
    Melee glancing blow percentage: 1.71% / 0%
    
    Web miss percentage: 0% / 0%
    Web dodged percentage: 0% / 0%
    Web hit percentage: 76.19% / 76.03%
    Web crit percentage: 22.45% / 23.97%
    Web glancing blow percentage: 1.36% / 0%
    
    Poison miss percentage: 0% / 0%
    Poison dodged percentage: 0% / 0%
    Poison hit percentage: 93.04% / 95.28
    Poison crit percentage: 6.62% / 4.72%
    Poison glancing blow percentage: 0.34% / 0%
    
    Defense
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    Incoming blows missed: 245 / 262
    Incoming blows dodged: 0 / 0
    
    Incoming hits taken: 45 / 66
    Lowest incoming hit taken: 5 / 6
    Highest incoming hit taken: 25 / 29
    Average incoming hit taken: 10.2 / 12.58
    
    Incoming crits taken: 40 / 54
    Lowest incoming crit taken: 12 / 16
    Highest incoming crit taken: 48 / 62
    Average incoming crit taken: 21.32 / 28.02
    
    Incoming glancing blows taken: 0 / 0
    
    Total incoming attacks: 330 / 382
    Incoming hit percentage: 13.64% / 17.28%
    Incoming crit percentage: 12.12% / 14.14%
    Incoming miss percentage: 74.24% / 68.59%
    Incoming dodge percentage: 0% / 0%
    Incoming glancing blow percentage: 0% / 0%
    
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    I leave you to your own opinions, but it looks to me like Fluffy's DPS (at least vs. Elder Wolves, which she dramatically out levels) is significantly reduced. Defense does seem to be slightly better, but not nearly enough to make up for the loss in DPS. Targeting for Heal Creature (which you will be using a lot, if you don't just leave your pet in the bank) seems flaky (at best). The only positive I see in this entire train wreck is the sheer comedic joy of watching a spider chase wolves around Ulfheim.

    I am not an expert, but I don't think any of this is going to lure a lot of new tamers into the ring...
     
    Last edited: Apr 20, 2017
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    Great data man!
     
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    This would be nice to use for ranged combat skill.
     
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    How much dps would 300 focus and a good neck piece add i wonder. (Forget millions of xp and decay costs)

    Worth it?
     
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