Swarm vs Tenser's Combat Power

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• karamekos Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 47 Arc User

  July 2018

  My original post was not that useful, so perhpas this analysis will generate feedback.
  
  The swarm looks to be a 1-3% damage increase over Tenser's when facing a single target. Here's the way I got to this:
  
  Tenser's power increase works on buffed power:
  120,000 buffed power
  +12,000 for Tenser's power buff
  +1,536 power for Tenser's +2 Strength buff (based on a 27 Strength score)
  From base 120,000 power adding 13,539 is a dps increase of 8.5%
  
  The swarm gives you a personal damage increase of +5% and adds +5% more damage to the target (I assume from all sources, which benefits the party more than a Tensers) for a +10% total damage increase yielding an increase of 1.5% over the swarm.
  
  Tenser's does add 2% more HP, so assuming 180,000 HP in a party with an OP running AoC:
  
  +2% HP = +3600 HP increase from Tenser's CON buff
  AoC increase = +36 radiant damage (1800 vs 1836)
  
  If AoC is buffed by the swarm +5% damage that would be a increase of 90 radiant damage which is better than the damage increase from Tenser's HP buff.
  
  My final thought was that the swarm tooltip "Your target will...take %5 more damage" implies a single target versus all targets. Given that, my thought is that the Tenser's is better when working through mob clearing because all targets are affected and you have 2 additional seconds of buff. The swarm would be better for bosses because the entire party benefits from the "take more damage" effect but the effect is limited to a single target.

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• micky1p00 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,594 Arc User

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  Tenser is base power, not buffed
  
  Swarm will be better if just for the direct 5% buff.

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