Friday, May 26, 2017

Boss3 Test: Beast Tamer

I ran a Boss3 test for Beast Tamer last night.  Given how much damage he does, and the fact that Grizzly cannot be given Scatter to pull the last-hero-scatter trick, I decided to run three heroes for the test: PD, HQ, and BT.  Adding a third hero has the downside that the boss will run out of hitpoints. 

I have previously tested just PD+HQ; that test can be found here.  So, with that result in hand we proceed to the BT test.  My BT normally crests Slowdown 4, but I removed it. 
I feel naked.
HQ has her talent, scatter 8, and her normal crests (berserk 4).  That should be enough scatter to keep the boss from proccing.   Here's the setup:
Let's kill a boss.
I did the run and it worked smoothly -- no procs.  The result?  As expected, 120m damage exactly: killed the boss before time ran out.  I knew this would happen, and so was carefully watching the time.  There were 18 seconds left when it ended.

18 seconds left out of 180.  So, 162 seconds spent.  But some of that was spent when PD was ramping up.  As in previous boss3 tests, I assume PD ramps in 3 seconds, non-berserk-8 heroes in 5 seconds. 

So now we can compute what BT got.  Over a run of 162s, PD should have gotten 159s of damage, and HQ 156s.  Thus, they should have totaled 27825000 damage and 28350000 damage respectively.  Total: 56175000 damage.  The remaining damage is BT's: that is 63825000 damage.  This was done by BT in 159s (effectively), so his DPS is ~401415.  We divide by 35000 to convert this to HPS: ~11.47.

How does this compare to what we'd expect?  Well, each of BT and Grizzly get 5.0 HPS individually from their autohits.  In addition, Grizzly has Heavy Blow 8, which gets another 1.25 HPS.  Then are their procs: BT's proc has a 12s cooldown, thus .0833 HPS.  Grizzly's proc has a 5s cooldown, thus adding .2 HPS.  [see comments]  Total expected hits is 11.333 HPS.  

The test confirms the prediction.

2 comments:

  1. Does Grizzly's proc actually deal damage? (Jeeterhawk from Reddit)

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    1. Hmm, I think you're right. OK, knock off the .2 HPS. It is still 11.333, which is not as great of a fit but within tolerance.

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