I took off Cindercoat and put on my FB chest and put on my Hexing Pants and went from 2,200,000 to 2,500,000 dmg (after buffs). The only problem is running out of resource if I try to spam Blizzard. I usually only run Explosive Blast and Black Hole most of the time. Blizzard is used only if I cant kill them quickly with that combo.
I use both Glass Cannon and Force Weapon to boost dmg. How is Pants a higher boost without them?
Funny thing is that within 20 mins of play I got another Hexing Pants, which was a slight upgrade. I am paragon 570+ and previously only got 1 pair of Hexing Pants, but as soon as I put them on I got another pair in 20 mins, lol!
I did a couple runs with no buffs/ gems/ etc against Ghom. I recorded them and analysed each individual tick and any time they would change while my wizard was in motion, not in motion or casting.
1) DOT dynamically updates yes
2) As soon as you cast a spell, the DOT will drop, counting it as a "stop", the drop in damage looks like it is determined by how many frames you are stopped for. So it does help to cast your spells faster to reduce the amount of your DOT drop, but it does indeed drop, and is calculated at very small intervals. So any type of stoppage will reduce your DOT. I believe BDF was saying 6 frames per second, this sounds about right. My DOT with hexing debuff was 10M and with it up was 22M. The DOT i saw after a spam of Blazar was 20M.
3)Versus a Cindercoat it is not consistent enough to warrant its use, especially consider that Cindercoat has +30% reduction as well. Versus Magefists, it poses an interesting trade off. The damage from Hexing is better then 20% fire in most set ups, but it is less consistent. Magefists would probably what I would choose if I had the choice to go that route..
Its a trade off of potential DPS versus consistency. As with most things, consistency is usually what I would recommend.
Sigh I had a long reply written out but I guess it didn't accept my post.
@Blay
I agree that considering over concentrating on a single stat is not the best strategy for gearing and optimization.
I do not agree about the 1:10 rule, that is often misinformation even to give to new players, it is pretty much inaccurate.
The 60 FPS is your personal FPS, I believe the game calculates at 6 FPS this is what I remember.
An interesting not that while casting hydra my DOT tick was reduced more then casting Black hole, this leads me to believe that hydra takes more frames to cast.
To accurately determine average damage, I think we need to figure out how much damage we are losing per cast and how much casts of each spell we are performing in a given te. This is obviously too tedious to do.
I would have liked to do a test on the FPS / damage lo molten impact since that would apply to this thread.
In summary I can agree that Cindercoat is a must wear if you can wear it. Hexing pants is competitive with Magefists as a secondary item to use, although less consistent it offers more damage upside. I prefer Leoric's Crown for some utility for T6. Arguments can be made for Gloves of Worship as well as a fun item to use for T6.
I took off Cindercoat and put on my FB chest and put on my Hexing Pants and went from 2,200,000 to 2,500,000 dmg (after buffs). The only problem is running out of resource if I try to spam Blizzard. I usually only run Explosive Blast and Black Hole most of the time. Blizzard is used only if I cant kill them quickly with that combo.
I use both Glass Cannon and Force Weapon to boost dmg. How is Pants a higher boost without them?
Funny thing is that within 20 mins of play I got another Hexing Pants, which was a slight upgrade. I am paragon 570+ and previously only got 1 pair of Hexing Pants, but as soon as I put them on I got another pair in 20 mins, lol!
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Ok i'm pretty conclusive in my findings.
I did a couple runs with no buffs/ gems/ etc against Ghom. I recorded them and analysed each individual tick and any time they would change while my wizard was in motion, not in motion or casting.
1) DOT dynamically updates yes
2) As soon as you cast a spell, the DOT will drop, counting it as a "stop", the drop in damage looks like it is determined by how many frames you are stopped for. So it does help to cast your spells faster to reduce the amount of your DOT drop, but it does indeed drop, and is calculated at very small intervals. So any type of stoppage will reduce your DOT. I believe BDF was saying 6 frames per second, this sounds about right. My DOT with hexing debuff was 10M and with it up was 22M. The DOT i saw after a spam of Blazar was 20M.
3)Versus a Cindercoat it is not consistent enough to warrant its use, especially consider that Cindercoat has +30% reduction as well. Versus Magefists, it poses an interesting trade off. The damage from Hexing is better then 20% fire in most set ups, but it is less consistent. Magefists would probably what I would choose if I had the choice to go that route..
Its a trade off of potential DPS versus consistency. As with most things, consistency is usually what I would recommend.
Anyway, thats too bad for hexing pants.
Sigh I had a long reply written out but I guess it didn't accept my post.
@Blay
I agree that considering over concentrating on a single stat is not the best strategy for gearing and optimization.
I do not agree about the 1:10 rule, that is often misinformation even to give to new players, it is pretty much inaccurate.
The 60 FPS is your personal FPS, I believe the game calculates at 6 FPS this is what I remember.
An interesting not that while casting hydra my DOT tick was reduced more then casting Black hole, this leads me to believe that hydra takes more frames to cast.
To accurately determine average damage, I think we need to figure out how much damage we are losing per cast and how much casts of each spell we are performing in a given te. This is obviously too tedious to do.
I would have liked to do a test on the FPS / damage lo molten impact since that would apply to this thread.
In summary I can agree that Cindercoat is a must wear if you can wear it. Hexing pants is competitive with Magefists as a secondary item to use, although less consistent it offers more damage upside. I prefer Leoric's Crown for some utility for T6. Arguments can be made for Gloves of Worship as well as a fun item to use for T6.
Good theory crafting!
Heres some more hexing pants talk on our clan site. http://www.forum.vizjereiclan.com/index.php?/topic/602-what-is-the-best-way-to-test-hexing-pants/#entry10858