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Perfect Terror vs Regular Plaguefire
lamminatboden
Member Posts: 51 Arc User
Hi,
I know there are some threads about this comparison, but they are month old and I didn't want to reopen them.
I am mostly playing PvE with my friends, and we adjusting our builds to each other. We wanted to get as much team enchants as possible. One of us has already a Greater Plaguefire, so I went for Terror. But recently I noticed two things:
1. The usual know calculation goes the following:
Regular Plaguefire:
- 5.5% weapon damage + 3 ticks of 1.8% each second. You usually hit more often than every 3 seconds, so the total weapon damage increase is somewhere in between 6% and 11%
- three times 10% defense debuff, increasing total damage by about 6%
Perfect Terror:
- 12% of weapon damage
- one time a 20% defense debuff, increasing total damage by about 4%
2. Greater and regular Plaguefire stack (!)
3. A Greater Plaguefire is only half the cost of a Perfect Terror, let alone a regular one
Now as a PvE GF I can stack those three PF stacks quiet well on 5+ mobs. So it looks like, that a regular Plaguefire is only a little bit weaker than a Perfect Terror (and better than a Greater Terror already) and way cheaper. Now the question is:
Should I replace my Terror with a Plaguefire? (because even upgrading my Terror to perfect someday won't lead to a noticeable difference in team overall dps)
I would stay with a regular PF then, because we already have GPF in our group. But looking at this data, the obvious answer seem to be: yes.
Or am I missing something / went wrong somewhere?
Thanks
EDIT: made it a bit more readable
I know there are some threads about this comparison, but they are month old and I didn't want to reopen them.
I am mostly playing PvE with my friends, and we adjusting our builds to each other. We wanted to get as much team enchants as possible. One of us has already a Greater Plaguefire, so I went for Terror. But recently I noticed two things:
1. The usual know calculation goes the following:
Regular Plaguefire:
- 5.5% weapon damage + 3 ticks of 1.8% each second. You usually hit more often than every 3 seconds, so the total weapon damage increase is somewhere in between 6% and 11%
- three times 10% defense debuff, increasing total damage by about 6%
Perfect Terror:
- 12% of weapon damage
- one time a 20% defense debuff, increasing total damage by about 4%
2. Greater and regular Plaguefire stack (!)
3. A Greater Plaguefire is only half the cost of a Perfect Terror, let alone a regular one
Now as a PvE GF I can stack those three PF stacks quiet well on 5+ mobs. So it looks like, that a regular Plaguefire is only a little bit weaker than a Perfect Terror (and better than a Greater Terror already) and way cheaper. Now the question is:
Should I replace my Terror with a Plaguefire? (because even upgrading my Terror to perfect someday won't lead to a noticeable difference in team overall dps)
I would stay with a regular PF then, because we already have GPF in our group. But looking at this data, the obvious answer seem to be: yes.
Or am I missing something / went wrong somewhere?
Thanks
EDIT: made it a bit more readable
Post edited by lamminatboden on
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Enhanced Mark creates 2 stacks of plaguefire. Threating rush 2 on the main target, 1 on every thing else that is marked. Every other AoE spell creates 1 as expected.
New plaguefire stacks do not refresh the timer, which means it is indeed a bit challenging to maintain the stacks on all targets.
Since in every hard encounter there is usually a Singularity ready, you can get 3 stacks going for the beginning of the fight with cleave and threating rush, followed by Enhanced Mark and Frontline Surge.
Still, you are right, the target cap of GF abilities makes it harder to stack plaguefire on every mob there is, let alone to maintain it.
So for a GF, I maybe should prefer a perfect terror over a regular PF damagewise. Leaves only the fact, that a perfect terror round about 4 million AD more expensive than a regular PF...
But the calculation is correct so far?
Terror leans more towards DPS while debuffing
GPF leans more towards debuffing while also dealing some damage
they're almost identical, but I may be wrong.