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"Oh Nooo! Dps class is topping the DPS chart" Lolz, let me explain.
berbes
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In most, if not all, games there are different classes and what they specialize at. The popular classes and their rolls are:
Tank, defender: Guess what? they can take damage, or withstand damage. Think of them as a punching bags with intelligence.
Healers,clerics, etc: Wow, healers heal? Yes, yes they heal; that is they are the nurses and doctors in the game. If you get hurt, you got to a medical practitioner of some sort to heal your wound.
Strikers,Damage Dealers, etc: Yep, they will twice kill your dead body which they killed a second ago. Marines, Seals, Commandos, Assassins, Ninjas, just to name a few.
Other Derived classes combine these role to achieve their goals. Example, the paladin combines tanking and some healing, etc.
Terms, Jargon, Acronyms, etc.
Based on what each class does, the gaming community came up with "words" to easily describe a class. but the younger generation of gamers seem to have missed that class therefore they misuse these great words in the gaming world. The effects? Strikers are killing me, they are OP nerf them. Tanks are withstanding my damage, they are OP nerf them, you get the drift.
I will do my best to explain some of the most common terms related to this game and its classes:
1. DPS: This is the most misunderstood and misused word on this forum, in my opinion.
DPS= Damage Per Second. Meaning if you get 10000 damage in 10 sec, then your DPS is 1000. That is, you deal 1000 damage every second to that particular target. This scenario assumes the target is naked; no resistance, defense, etc. If all those are factored in, then DPS starts to vary depending on the opponent.
2. DPH: Now, i see this phrase less and less on gaming forums. What DPH means is "Damage Per Hit". This is independent of time. If each of your strikes does 10k damage to a target, it doesn't matter how long you hit, your DPH will be 10k.
3. APS: "Attacks Per Second" is the number of hits you can give in a second, and it's independent of damage although it is closely tied to DPS. In a scenario of 2 classes A and B. Class A has APS of 10 and Class B has APS of 5. the table below emulates the possible results each class can get, assuming all necessary conditions are the same.
Class A
Class B
Class A
Class B
Damage Per Hit/Attack
10k
10k
5k
10k
Attacks Per Second
10
5
10
5
Damage Per Second
100k
50k
50k
50k
Total Damage Output After 2sec
200k
100k
100k
100k
In classic RPGs, those with the big bad-*** weapon has a ton of DPH but are slower than molasses, where as the classes with lighter weapons with low DPH, are faster than light.
thus the conclusion for this class; before you call for a nerf because an AOE class has more mob kills than a Single-target class who tops the DPS chart, think about their roles and their specialty.
In-game, i play a control wizard and in dungeons i mostly rank 2nd or 3rd on damage chart depending on the number of TRs in party. On the mob kill counts, the only times i drop from 1st rank is when im looting chests and other stuff.
PS: LEARN TO PLAY YOUR CLASS
Tank, defender: Guess what? they can take damage, or withstand damage. Think of them as a punching bags with intelligence.
Healers,clerics, etc: Wow, healers heal? Yes, yes they heal; that is they are the nurses and doctors in the game. If you get hurt, you got to a medical practitioner of some sort to heal your wound.
Strikers,Damage Dealers, etc: Yep, they will twice kill your dead body which they killed a second ago. Marines, Seals, Commandos, Assassins, Ninjas, just to name a few.
Other Derived classes combine these role to achieve their goals. Example, the paladin combines tanking and some healing, etc.
Terms, Jargon, Acronyms, etc.
Based on what each class does, the gaming community came up with "words" to easily describe a class. but the younger generation of gamers seem to have missed that class therefore they misuse these great words in the gaming world. The effects? Strikers are killing me, they are OP nerf them. Tanks are withstanding my damage, they are OP nerf them, you get the drift.
I will do my best to explain some of the most common terms related to this game and its classes:
1. DPS: This is the most misunderstood and misused word on this forum, in my opinion.
DPS= Damage Per Second. Meaning if you get 10000 damage in 10 sec, then your DPS is 1000. That is, you deal 1000 damage every second to that particular target. This scenario assumes the target is naked; no resistance, defense, etc. If all those are factored in, then DPS starts to vary depending on the opponent.
2. DPH: Now, i see this phrase less and less on gaming forums. What DPH means is "Damage Per Hit". This is independent of time. If each of your strikes does 10k damage to a target, it doesn't matter how long you hit, your DPH will be 10k.
3. APS: "Attacks Per Second" is the number of hits you can give in a second, and it's independent of damage although it is closely tied to DPS. In a scenario of 2 classes A and B. Class A has APS of 10 and Class B has APS of 5. the table below emulates the possible results each class can get, assuming all necessary conditions are the same.
Class A
Class B
Class A
Class B
Damage Per Hit/Attack
10k
10k
5k
10k
Attacks Per Second
10
5
10
5
Damage Per Second
100k
50k
50k
50k
Total Damage Output After 2sec
200k
100k
100k
100k
In classic RPGs, those with the big bad-*** weapon has a ton of DPH but are slower than molasses, where as the classes with lighter weapons with low DPH, are faster than light.
thus the conclusion for this class; before you call for a nerf because an AOE class has more mob kills than a Single-target class who tops the DPS chart, think about their roles and their specialty.
In-game, i play a control wizard and in dungeons i mostly rank 2nd or 3rd on damage chart depending on the number of TRs in party. On the mob kill counts, the only times i drop from 1st rank is when im looting chests and other stuff.
PS: LEARN TO PLAY YOUR CLASS
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How SINGLE TARGET class outdamages ALWAYS AoE classes in game where every trash pull is about AoE and don't get me started on bosses.
who cares?
I want this class in NW.
First off, CWs are not AoE focused. Most of our encounters are single target unless Spell-mastered. even then, the burst and cd are not favorable for AoE style of play.
LOLZ.
Actually before you wrote this I thought your first post was misguided but serious. Now I realise it was actually a parody........
What is your post even about? At no point do you make a coherent explanation that ties your post together. You're going off on tangents trying to explain class types, damage types, etc but then make a conclusion that's out of left field. CW/TR probably do need a nerf in PvE as well as PvP(desperately). When the best setup for the endgame raids is 1-2 TR, 2 CW, 1-2 DC there is an issue. Damage classes should get absolutely annihilated the second they gain aggro, if their damage isn't reduced than their survivability needs substantially decreased.
he was referruing to Great Weapon fighter, dumbass.