The Death Strike Glyph test - yes, I didFollow

Ok, so a question has been raised regarding the Death Strike Glyph and how accurate the tool tip for it actually is. Since nobody else is willing to test it, I did a quick one. Kiz went nekked (well, tux pants and lumberjack shirt, she is a lady after all) armed only with her trusty Rune Edge and the DS glyph.

Results in full color picture form as follow:

Death Strike at Nil RP - avg. hit 708


Death Strike at 50 RP - avg. hit 777


Death Strike at 130 RP avg. hit 856


Seeing that 50 RP result and full RP result are not the same, I propose that the tool tip is in error and should read "for every 5 RP" instead.

Quick and dirty, I know. But regular sources seem confused and I'm not entirely sure this isn't a result of bad data from Blizzard and some conjecture in the theorycraft community (wowhead data mines, wowwiki doesn't iirc). I haven't seen a full analysis of this particular bit of info and I feel sorry for the poor sucker who would have to perform such a series of mundane and dull tests. But the above should be good enough for simple discussion.

Comments?

Cheers =)

Excellent work.

But why 50 runic power then? 50 runic power would give 10% extra damage, not 25% which is the max. You would need 125 runic power to get the 25% bonus to Death Strike, right?

1% = 5 RP.
5% = 25 RP.
10% = 50 RP.
20% = 100 RP.
25% = 125 RP.

Guess I need to pop some points into Runic Power Mastery and keep it topped off.

I only dump RP when I am out of runes and are unable to do anything else for a few seconds. That said, I'm not sure the bonus damage from death strike would exceed the damage you would do through a death coil, especially once you get the new sigil and some t8 bonuses. It adds a little extra DS damage, but to be honest even if the glyph didn't do much, I'm not sure there's a better choice for blood.

I'll test it out too (tomorrow). My only concern is longer term testing, and a null spec comparison.

And to allow for some of the variation, what where you hitting? The level 73 mob target dummy or a lvl 60 one?

Armor is important, since DS is a physical melee attack. I'm sure the 25% bonus is before armor.

It IS interesting that you get a higher average with more than 50 RP though...


::EDIT::

I'm proposing that I start naked, with 0/2/0, and my own epeen. And hitting on a lvl 60 target dummy for purposes of keeping as little armor as possible on the target (maybe i'll ask a warrior to help).

Edited, Jun 1st 2009 1:01am by devioususer

Complicating the test is pointless imo but have at it. As far as mine, I'm quite satisfied with the results.

Armor and target level are irrelevant constants as it wasn't a test of how to improve damage. It was a comparison of damage output between different RP levels. Nothing more. It was only important that each hit have consistent similarity to each other hit in each class. Remember what Gene Simmons tells us kids: Keep it simple, stupid!

If anyone wants to "take it to the limit" they should probably look into a very large sample pool of consistant hits to calculate a more exact RP to damage bonus ratio (which my test was not intended to do). In my mind that would take a lot of time testing for any feasible results to be had.

But if I were, I'd start with 100 hits per 10 RP levels with 0/0/0, only the DS glyph, and no gear other than a grey (no stats) weapon. But honestly, performing this test would make me want to punch baby pandas with it's monotony and I'm not sure of the value of it. Any deep Blood build will tend to have full RP at the DS portion of the rotation unless they're very good and interweaving Coils. But, of course, if you know how to interweave Coils you're going to know to stack RP before blowing DSx2. =)

Sure you did. GG

The DS glyph works in conjunction with Death Rune Mastery for more Heart Strikes. If you're not using Heart Strike the DS glyphs' value is diminished.

You should probably start a new thread for your other questions. You'll get more response most likely.

If GoD wasn't so buggy, it could be a competitor.

You would lose one HS in favor of a DS, but then get 6 HSs the next cycle.

So, instead of IT>PS>DS>HS>HS>DS>HS>HS>HS>HS (not including RP dumps), you could have (after placing the diseases and going through one normal rotation:

Pest>DS>DS>HS>HS>HS>HS>HS>HS>HS

So, in the first scenario, you'll get:
1 IT
1 PS
2 DS
6 HS

And, in the second you get:
1 Pest
2 DS
7 HS

If the HS does more damage than the IT+PS+average bonus damage for DS, it is a better choice. And, considering RP ONLY GAINED here, your DS would only get 4% damage on the first one and 11% damage on the second, if you don't dump it before hand.

So, who knows.