07-19-2005, 05:31 AM
Ruvanal,Jul 18 2005, 06:22 PM Wrote:One thing to keep in mind is that most of the data collection I have seen happening on this so far has been using warriors and priests for the testing. That factor of *3 on healing that I used may in fact be a factor only for certain healing skills or only for priest healing skills. I could easily see them setting up different factors depending on the source of the effect, but I doubt they did that. Most likely there is a database table that has 2 fields (or more) for giving a scaling factor for the variable part of the effect (*3 for healing, *8 for physical melee damage, etc.) and another for a flat +hate from just using the skill on the target (sheeping, Mind Control, Thunder Clap for the slowing effect that is not damage, etc.). Also keep in mind that many of these tests are usually getting done with the capped characters that frequently use the highest rank of a skill; the lower ranks may have different +hate effects on them.Remedy on the Blizz forums did some tests that clearly showed no aggro difference between the various priest healing skills (pw:s excepted but that's not really a true heal). I think I recall seeing priest untalented heal aggro being shown to be identical to druid heal aggro, but my memory is fuzzy as to the source of that one.
Would be nice to mix up the classes on tests a bit to be safe. Good point about ranks having different bonus values - Shield Slam rank 1 had the same bonus value as rank 4, but that's just a single case. I would be surprised if rank 1 revenge had the same bonus as the final rank revenge. Just figuring these things out for the sake of capped chars is a start, at least for folks like me who are reaching a majority of their "played" time on a capped char. :D