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Ioun Stone vs Owlbear Cub

mantera47mantera47 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 70 Arc User
edited January 2016 in PvE Discussion
So I was wondering how much of a difference using the Owlbear Cub (purple) vs my Ioun Stone of Radiance (blue) would be.

Using my Prot OP, I did 3 runs of Witch Fen with the Ioun Stone active and then I did 3 runs with the Owlbear active. I ran through the dungeon in the same path and fought the same groups in the same locations to try and minimize differences. The only difference with companion gear is the Ioun Stone used a Girdle of the Loyal Master vs the Owlbear used a Talisman of the Loyal Master; everything else was the same (runestones and other gear).

My Crit chance is currently 45.2% and I didn't make any changes for this test:
http://imgur.com/KlfssGg

Here's the ACT logs:

Ioun Stone runs:
http://imgur.com/Pls0GtJ
http://imgur.com/CkxaGlt
http://imgur.com/JQOaf70
Avg combat time of runs from ACT: 3:19

Owlbear runs:
(Infantile Compensation seems to be the Owlbear active damage)
http://imgur.com/WVyFrqJ
http://imgur.com/33Yuwhy
http://imgur.com/EJJM5SV
Avg combat time of runs from ACT: 2:51

The Owlbear cub runs were shorter by about 14% than the Ioun stone runs.

Edit: Added avg times info.
Post edited by mantera47 on

Comments

  • zekethesinnerzekethesinner Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 805 Arc User
    U kinda cant compare it like that. After all all mobs have same amount of hp so in each run all dmg u will deal is all mobs hp + what u will obershoot. Difference shows on timer, when certain comapnion will make u have higher dps, even if dmg stays same.

    Since u didnt post any time-ish numbers, all what i can say from those acts, is that owlbear dealt 12% or so of ur total dmg, and assuming u didnt got some critical dps loses for sloting it, it prolly also made run faster why those 10% or so. With, overall, is a rly good thing.

    Without owlbear ur average numbers of DJ used was 27, with it, it was around 23 or so, if use this as indicator run was 15% shorter (coz u had no time to trow those additional DJ)

    Thats just quick analize i can give, and it seems owlbear is pretty damn effective dps wise.

    (Sin)cerly
    Kain


  • mantera47mantera47 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 70 Arc User
    You're right. I thought about the time afterwards but didn't feel like rerunning everything again at this time; the owlbear runs definitely "felt" faster. I also found it interesting that it produced the 3rd/4th most damage. I can certainly see it hitting a lot more if I reduce my crit.
  • mantera47mantera47 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 70 Arc User
    zekethesinner said:


    Without owlbear ur average numbers of DJ used was 27, with it, it was around 23 or so, if use this as indicator run was 15% shorter (coz u had no time to trow those additional DJ)

    Thats just quick analize i can give, and it seems owlbear is pretty damn effective dps wise.

    (Sin)cerly
    Kain

    Your calculations were spot on. I redid this and the runs with the Owlbear turned out to be approx. 14% shorter than the ones with the Ioun Stone.
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