The Shadow "knows"

[GenericKen]

I gave the specs on the + to skills and said that 3 syns were maxed, not 2, which taken with prereqs & 1 point syns gives a total of 107 points spent without an aura or blade fury.

I read it wrong at first, with skill contributing 1/3 and warrior contributing 1/2, but it doesn't throw my results off very much at all. I'll elaborate on this later.

I was very wrong, however, in my calcs, forgetting parenthesis in the average damage. 22k is about 50% too high.


Anyway here's the calc:

+16 to shadows isn't hard (+2 helm, +2 armor (arcane's), +2 rings, +2 ammy, +6 claws with a touch of automod). +16 to traps isn't at all hard either with a few charms.


3 full syns at (36/2 + 36/3)=30 -> 3*30*.09 = +810%
3 single point syns at (17/2 + 36/3)=20 -> 3*20*.09 = +540% {Previously, this was (17/3 + 36/2)=23 -> 621, a difference of 81%}

avg 985 dmg at 36 * 14.5 = 14.2k. You do 6.3k yourself.



If we were to twink this out hardcore, you could completely change equipment to get the shaddow master as high as possible. That would give:
Shadow: (+3 helm, +3 ammy, +2 armor, +2 rings, +12 claws with max automod, +11 charms, +2 boots, +1 belt, +1 from BO from CtA)=+37
Traps: (+3 helm, +3 ammy, +2 armor, +2 rings, +3 gloves, +6 katars, +11 charms, +1 belt, +1 from BO from CtA)=+32

3 full syns at (52/2 + 57/3)=45 -> 3*45*.09 = 1215%
3 single point syns at (33/2 + 57/3)=35 -> 3*35*.09 = 945%
3 automods on each claw +3 to syns -> 3*6/2*.09 = 81% {note that fireblast automods can't spawn on +3 traps claws, so syns are the optimal choice}
Each additional + to traps from warrior will net -> 6*1/2*.09 = 27%. Ignoring this for now.

avg 1977 * 23.41 = 46.3k damage per blast. You yourself do something a little above 12.7k.

No idea what sort of damage the warrior lightning sentry does, though.

I do get the feeling the sorc maybe gets better milage with fireball at 60 (~32k with fewer spent points and no eq switch hastle).