WTD parse?

[karue]

can anyone post a parse for the TSS WTD with all the pet crits/flurries etc maxed? trying to get an idea of the dps on it to decide if its worth getting yet , thanks :D

[Jebasiz]

That's a difficult thing to parse really. On raids they really don't live the full duration(most of the time), and if they do..they're not attacking for all of it(which skews the dps/parse).

To further complicate things, we often use Swarm of Death and our Epic pets on anything that would give reliable parses for this(and they're all labeled "Your pet").

Kiting, we're too far away for melee parses(in most cases). I think they hit for 60-70's(on tss red con raid targets) most of the time, crit and flurry. It's not a ton of dps heh.

[Xislaben]

In addition, the WTD pets take the level of the corpse you 'wake', so their dps on a target 'may' be altered based on the levels of mobs you wake, I wonder if level difference affect hits in accuracy and DI.

[karue]

ok well thanks :D

[Yinikren]

The level of the pet woken affects accuracy and the strength of their specter lifetap (level +1).

With Zombie outbreak maxed, theres 5 mobs summoned that quad/flurry for 65 a pop - it does add up. wtd 1-3 however, is not really that much dps (1 mob that hits for 79) and aotd 1 only summons 3 mobs that hit for 47.

It's a good set of aa's, but you need to finish them to see the true value. ZO5 is parsing at 250-300ish dps on exp mobs (as a rough estimate).

[karue]

thanks Yini, good ammount of a dps boost when nothing else

[Mortticia Addams]

Besides the DPS I find the biggest advantage for them is on caster mobs. They do a great job of interupting spells. Soloing healers this comes in real handy.

[Xislaben]

I used the latest version of army on Veldyn's Shade and they did, along with the epic pet, about 80 DPS or 20k worth of damage in 4.5 minutes. I'd have to look to see if any died early and see how many of them I actually got... Odds are it was not 5.

My regular war pet with tss pet foci did 40k dmg in the same amount of time (about 150dps), and I pulled him off at 11% so he'd live.

I know more than a few necro eschew using regular pets on raids, but really as long as you're not using spell gems to keep them alive (which I would contend is a waste in most circumstances) they're just another source of damage for you. On some raids they'll just get wasted, but on quite a few they are useful as persistent dots. On shade I had 60k+ damage from pets alone in 4.5minutes, and I didn't use the goofy archers and probably didn't have 5 wtd pets.

edit: The ZO mobs don't stay alive for the full 4.5 min encounter, so the actual DPS from when they were alive would be higher. They only last for 90 seconds, so, the dps would really be roughly 220 DPS, if the epic pet wasn't up at the same time.

Pets level 75, mob level 85, and the mob though permarooted has a periodic gflux type mechanic which would lower dps.

[Zandramadass]

Originally posted by Yinikren@Feb 18 2007, 02:15 PM
ZO5 is parsing at 250-300ish dps on exp mobs (as a rough estimate).
Would you mind posting your parse of this?

[scrat]

Here's some inconclusive data on rank 1 of zombie outbreak, in Katta, soloing, over my last 3 game sessions over the span of 24 aa points. A rough guess (I'll be precise later when I get a summary parse before buying rank 2) is that 5 of the uses only took advantage of 4 corpse, and 2 only used 3 corpses due to the start-up camp process & RNG being unfair with expendable loot. This should though reflect a respectable low base-line for non-raid expectations where the AA duration gets wasted often.

Imoloch`s Pet (hits)
132016 damage
101 total kills
29 uses of Zombie Outbreak
Mobs: Shissar Herb Tender, Shissar Alchemist (73-75)

00:23:02 combat duration
95.53 DPS
366 Max hit
41.32 Ave hit
16 Min hit
59.80% Accuracy
1.72% Evasion
0.69% Defense
3195 Hits
2111 Misses
0 Blocks
25 Dodges
0 Magic
12 Parry
0 Riposte

The bolding is just to make it easier on the eye to separate the lines.

On a side note, the 1.5 pet parsed 67.89 melee slash DPS and the Swarm of Decay archer pets at 58.26 non-melee DPS.

There is an extra 7 DPS attributed to kick & bash, but I haven't sorted out what belongs to epic, what belongs to zombies.

My parses spanning levels 71-73 AotD (233 kills in Icefall & Katta) average 65.14 DPS. So Zombie Outbreak is a great buy IMO.

Additionally, since there was no improvement on Swarm of Decay pets or the 1.5 pet, I can roughly assume the difference in total Imoloch`s Pet damage pre-ZO to current would estimate the DPS increase of ZO over AoTD. Oddly enough, the total damage increase is 30 DPS, which is within 0.3 DPS of what direct parsing reveals.