So, what are we thinking? This is to mean a player using the IK set with Council Rises rune for insane pet DPS and another using the might of the earth set... In theory pets have a higher effective DPS and give more survivability, but are they just to dumb to be reliable meaning that although earthquake does do less dps the fact you can target it makes it better?
What do you all think, atm i'm leaning toward quake but i'm still having trouble deciding :P.
The pets are single target (for the most part), and Earthquake is a fairly large AoE.
Ancients do 360% of your DPS times their attack speed (not sure what this is, but probably about 1), so maybe 1080% DPS. This could easily be ~1600% with Tasker and Theo, and possibly more (I don't know their attack speed/how their skills impact their DPS).
Earthquake + Leap does, potentially, 4650% of your weapon damage (not DPS) 3 times per 10 seconds, or about 1395% DPS. This assumes you hit all your leaps, but it's also in an AoE. Additionally, you have your 'extra' Earthquake to throw in for more damage, which gets refreshed fairly fast if you're fighting large swarms, and your Cooldown Reduction will also increase your effective DPS.
Seems pretty comparable to me. Personally I find leap-quake more engaging than summoning pets.
As both sets are only 4 pieces and don't share every slot, it may be theoretically possible to wear both.
For example: Lut Socks, Ring of Royal Grandeur, IK Belt, IK Armor, IK Gloves, Earth Helm, Earth Pants, Earth Shoulders
If you want to use Tasker & Theo, you could use the IK Mighty Weapon instead of one armor piece.
This does cost you Andariel's Visage, Cindercoat and Magefist, so maybe not worthwhile.
I am wearing both. But dont have much + fire dmg items and have to wear Immortal kings 2h which is good for earhquake dmg but bad for pets and for paper dps.
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What do you all think, atm i'm leaning toward quake but i'm still having trouble deciding :P.
Ancients do 360% of your DPS times their attack speed (not sure what this is, but probably about 1), so maybe 1080% DPS. This could easily be ~1600% with Tasker and Theo, and possibly more (I don't know their attack speed/how their skills impact their DPS).
Earthquake + Leap does, potentially, 4650% of your weapon damage (not DPS) 3 times per 10 seconds, or about 1395% DPS. This assumes you hit all your leaps, but it's also in an AoE. Additionally, you have your 'extra' Earthquake to throw in for more damage, which gets refreshed fairly fast if you're fighting large swarms, and your Cooldown Reduction will also increase your effective DPS.
Seems pretty comparable to me. Personally I find leap-quake more engaging than summoning pets.
As both sets are only 4 pieces and don't share every slot, it may be theoretically possible to wear both.
For example: Lut Socks, Ring of Royal Grandeur, IK Belt, IK Armor, IK Gloves, Earth Helm, Earth Pants, Earth Shoulders
If you want to use Tasker & Theo, you could use the IK Mighty Weapon instead of one armor piece.
This does cost you Andariel's Visage, Cindercoat and Magefist, so maybe not worthwhile.