Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Thaellyn - Mage DPS testing

Thaellyn (blood elf mage - self-buffed with AI and Molten Armor):

No cooldowns = nothing but spell spam

With cooldowns = mirror image, icy veins, arcane power (when arcane spec), presence of mind (when arcane spec), cold snap (when frost spec). No mana restoration cooldowns used.

OOM = tested until I ran out of mana, length of time is listed after total DPS

Frost (18/0/53):
No cooldowns, OOM - 2984.5 DPS (4m 36s)
- Frostbolt: 109 hits, 615615 dmg, 87.7% total dmg

Crit - min 5886, avg 7391, max 8867, count 60, 55.0%
Hit - min 2825, avg 3513, max 4574, count 49, 45.0%
- Fireball: 20 hits, 84493 dmg, 12.0%
Crit - min 4079, avg 4833, max 6632, count 12, 60.0%
Hit - min 2583, avg 3313, max 4319, count 8, 40.0%
- Fireball (DoT): 63 hits, 1707 dmg, 0.2%
Tick - min 23, avg 27, max 29, count 63, 100.0%
 
With cooldowns, OOM - 3430.8 DPS (4m 2s)
- Frostbolt: 99 hits, 648899 dmg, 91.4%
Crit - min 5891, avg 7605, max 9959, count 73, 73.7%
Hit - min 2855, avg 3605, max 4749, count 26, 26.3%
- Fireball: 14 hits, 59473 dmg, 8.4%
Crit - min 4831, avg 5360, max 6535, count 7, 50.0%
Hit - min 2605, avg 3136, max 3627, count 7, 50.0%
- Fireball (DoT): 45 hits, 1268 dmg, 0.2%
Tick - min 23, avg 28, max 33, count 45, 100.0%

Arcane (57/3/11):
No cooldowns, OOM - 3254.5 DPS (1m 56s)
- Arcane Blast: 38 hits, 232337 dmg, 63.0%
Crit - min 5293, avg 8219, max 12028, count 17, 44.7%
Hit - min 3146, avg 4410, max 5965, count 21, 55.3%
- Arcane Missiles: 45 hits, 125556 dmg, 34.1%
Crit - min 4133, avg 4565, max 5384, count 11, 2.4%
Hit - min 1743, avg 2216, max 2872, count 34, 75.6%
- Arcane Barrage: 1 hit, 10651 dmg, 2.9%
Crit - min 10651, avg 10651, max 10651, count 1, 100.0%
 
With cooldowns, OOM - 4133.2 DPS (1m 54s)
- Arcane Blast: 39 hits, 278879 dmg, 62.2%
Crit - min 7211, avg 9554, max 15163, count 19, 48.7%
Hit - min 2899, avg 4867, max 8087, count 20, 51.3%
- Arcane Missiles: 50 hits, 169488 dmg, 37.8%
Crit - min 3674, avg 4790, max 6502, count 19, 38.0%
Hit - min 1880, avg 2532, max 3698, count 31, 62.0%
 


The results of the test are slightly misleading: this was against a heroic test dummy (boss level ??) with the full hit cap on gear. However, the test dummies are not immune to being frozen, so the damage from Deep Freeze does not come into play with the DPS scores. Frost should be a little higher DPS than where the tests bring it in at.

I usually see Deep Freeze hit for about 9k and crit for about 17k. Let's assume a 50% crit chance. Calculating that in with my frost results means a DPS gain of 409.4 (9 times [5 hits, 4 crits] in 4m 36s = 113000 dmg, over 276 seconds) without cooldowns, and 466.9 (9 times in 4m 2s with Cold Snap [5 hits, 4 crits] = 113000 dmg, over 242 seconds) with cooldowns.

As it stands, arcane is approx. 22% more DPS with cooldowns, and about 8% more without. The average is close to 15%. With the loose Deep Freeze calculation added in, frost's DPS becomes 3393.9 DPS w/out cooldowns and 3897.7 DPS with, making frost actually *higher* DPS without cooldowns. Frost still comes in under arcane with cooldowns, however--about 18% under.

These results support what I have read about the state of arcane and frost at this time. With the increased spell power scaling of frostbolt coming in 3.3.3, I expect these results to change somewhat--at the very least, frost should close the gap.

Or at least, that is what I hope. I'm well aware that I'm no master theorycrafter, but it's a start.

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