Vaultaccount wrote on Jan 14^th, 2019 at 1:35pm:


higher skulls increase chance at reaper/mythic gear, but not in the way you are thinking. reaper/mythic bonuses never increase in probability, but due to the 1% named droprate increase per skull you have a higher chance of pulling a named item....that has reaper/mythic.

Justanotherlurker wrote on Feb 10^th, 2019 at 4:24am:

BAB 4, so just push it to level 6. adjusted the feats.

ZooperDooper wrote on Feb 10^th, 2019 at 9:45am:

On bosses if no one else has Fetters, then Calamity beats anything else in your offhand. You could just use Flow for the purpose of getting Fetters stacked and replace EWP:K.

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 9^th, 2019 at 7:05pm:


I wonder if you are scourge and have action points to spend, a set of house J maces do more DPS. I feel they don't, but would be intresting to know if someone tested

Vaultaccount wrote on Feb 10^th, 2019 at 10:32am:

Might be worth trying out. The scourge crit multi and knight training crit threat make the Beacons come out to have the same critical profiles that Calamity, Whelm, and Razor have on Tempests in LD. 16-18 x4, 19-20 x7.

The difference comes down to dice, razor is 52 total damage, Whelm is 37, and Beacons are 45. This is unadjusted damage so it gets higher once scaled through critical profiles and melee power. Razor wins out if stacked with 20 mp and 20 damage, because 20 damage is huge. Obviously once razor is supercharged nothing beats it.

Otherwise, Beacons might just be higher due to 15% offhand doublestrike, and 15 melee power. Which should be enough to beat the larger base damage on Razor and an extra OC feat from Whelm.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 10^th, 2019 at 2:33pm:

Hotkeying the weapon swap is feasible as long as the offhand weapon is being swapped out only. Swapping the mainhand out with filigree can cause delays.

I go through Dust swap every 6 to 8 seconds, I time it with exposing strike's cooldown. This allows 6 to 8 seconds of higher weapon dps and ensures enough time for Dust to proc a stack and some slight lag.

Vacuum can't be swapped out due to low countdown and losing stacks. So for dps testing Vacuum should always be a permanent offhand weapon, only getting swapped out shortly for maintaining dust stacks.

For kobold tests ; it probably ends up being start test with Vacuum in the mainhand and Dust offhand. Then swap to Razor mainhand and Vacuum in offhand after the first 4 seconds of attacks (haste boosted) build up the Vac + Dust stacks.

As for offhand lower hit rate of 1.35, my tempest had these results with Dust and Vacuum stacking :

 
Dust 1 stack on hit, no icd. Drops all 5 stacks after 11th second.
TWF offhand rate 100% + 35% offhand doublestrike.

4 to 8 seconds to fully stack.

Haste boosted 3 to 5 seconds.

Fetters 2 to 6 stacks a hit, but lower proc % than Dust, no icd. Drops 1 stack every 2 seconds.

6 to 14 seconds to fully stack.

Haste boosted 4 to 7.

5 Foot Step wrote on Feb 11^th, 2019 at 12:01pm:

Falconry version gets more trash dps by trading killer for helpless. Combine it with horc and it becomes the highest trash dps tempest version possible, by far.

DWS still wins out on boss damage from crit threat, exposing strike, sneak dice, bonus damage to favored, and bonus damage to injured enemy. Should edge out on long raid boss fights.

Man 14 AP.

kozmo wrote on Feb 10^th, 2019 at 1:21pm:


could become a thing if sharn gear break the set

5 Foot Step wrote on Feb 12^th, 2019 at 11:53am:

Horc needs to be 18 for 20% helpless. Probably end up dropping the crit range from dws core. Horc over 1 threat is still way more trash dps.

The falconry tempest seems alright if it combines horc helpless. Should win kill counts if you're counting those as this is anywhere from 20-50% higher helpless dps. The gear set is pretty much what I would run on the Str setup. Necklace has 20 wisdom. Just swap ins str on trinket, swap q str on slaver.


There are only a few optimal choices for races on a Tempest, imo.

Scourge gets a permanent 6% melee power, and a 5% doublestrike bonus, plus str nodes.

Aasimar gets 3 to damage vs evil, 10% mp, wis/str nodes, and a clicky for 1 minute of 5 str and 5 doublestrike. Scourge is probably the highest sustained dps over time on long fights that take longer than a few minutes. Aasimar are better for quest dps where clickies get replenished often and are more effective vs non-raid boss hp.

Horc gets damage bonuses, helpless and str nodes. Easily the best trash dps. And Elves for the accuracy increase for the highest to-hit.

And I'm not changing shit on my gear until Sharn 

Except weapons of course.

If they dump a bunch of melee/ranged power on us, or a ton of hide, then ethereal will pull ahead in sharn. If they give us more base damage, better crit profile, or more PRR debuff then arborea will probably pull ahead. In the long run arborea should pull ahead since it simply scales fucking everything. This just has to do with how things scale.

It's comedically possible that the other scion of "spellpower-damage" feats could pull ahead if they dump 1000 easy spellpower on us. Then there's Celestia for 150 hp. But dodge is what's keeping us alive now---not really massive hit point pools.

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Ethereal scales with:
- hide (so skill bonuses + dex) 
-150% melee/ranged power
- attack speed/doublestrike

Arborea scales with:
- base damage
- base sneak attack damage
- PRR reduction
- crit range and multiplier bonuses
- 100% melee/ranged power
- attack speed/doublestrike

Earth/Air/Fire/Water/Feywild feats scale with:
- spellpower (so spell power bonuses + skill bonuses + int)
- attack speed/doublestrike

Celestia has 150 hit points.