04-22-2014, 07:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-22-2014, 07:56 AM by FireIceTalon.)
The thing is though, profile numbers are pretty misleading, since they don't include buffs from skills, set bonuses with dmg reduction/+elemental dmg, or paragon points. I have only 2.5 mill profile toughness on my wiz, but in game with buffs I'm at near 11 mill toughness @_@
If one looks at Elendra, they would probably think to themselves "man, he must die alot". Nope, very rarely in fact (on T1-T3 at least). Elendra has 24 hours playtime, and has died exactly ONCE. Now in HC, i realize that's all it takes - but my point is that many people stack their vitality to (unintentionally) inflate their paper toughness which is not a good thing. My "sheet" toughness is low because I have prioritized mitigation over vitality, which is what you are supposed to do whether you play SC or HC (though the extent you do this is quite different in both for obvious reasons). I only have 280k life, but I have 2400-2800 all resists with Prismatic armor and Unwavering Will proc, along with about 9k armor. Additionally, I am getting the 3 set bonus from Aughilds set, which grants me -7% dmg from both melee and ranged attacks, as well as -15% dmg from elites AND +15% dmg to them. Further, using Deflection on Magic Weapon and Blur passive really bolster the amount of punishment I can take. Add 6k loh and 11k life regen, 12k life per kill, 49k health globes bonus and 10 yards pickup radius, which makes my lower hp value effectively higher than someone who has more life. Too often in public games I have seen people with 50-100k more life than me die, because they either lack mitigation or they have "too much" life that makes their current healing numbers inefficient and thus they cannot sustain themselves as they continue to take damage.
All in all, Elendra is a resilient little cookie despite her low profile toughness. I survive better than most other wizards who have double my profile toughness, cause they think stacking vitality over mitigation is going to save them. It won't.
My dps is also pretty misleading (though 800k profile dps is still somewhat relatively high even in SC - I've seen a few people break 1 mill profile dps but this is extremely rare still), since in game buffs give me 1.2 mill sheet dps, and that number doesn't even include the substantial amount of + arcane skills dmg/+arcane torrent dmg I get from gear and skills. T3 elites melt like butter in a microwave.
I wish Blizz would fix the profiles though, so that they give us a more accurate picture of where a particular char is in terms of both dps and ehp. Right now, it's just incredibly unreliable since it doesn't tell us much.
If one looks at Elendra, they would probably think to themselves "man, he must die alot". Nope, very rarely in fact (on T1-T3 at least). Elendra has 24 hours playtime, and has died exactly ONCE. Now in HC, i realize that's all it takes - but my point is that many people stack their vitality to (unintentionally) inflate their paper toughness which is not a good thing. My "sheet" toughness is low because I have prioritized mitigation over vitality, which is what you are supposed to do whether you play SC or HC (though the extent you do this is quite different in both for obvious reasons). I only have 280k life, but I have 2400-2800 all resists with Prismatic armor and Unwavering Will proc, along with about 9k armor. Additionally, I am getting the 3 set bonus from Aughilds set, which grants me -7% dmg from both melee and ranged attacks, as well as -15% dmg from elites AND +15% dmg to them. Further, using Deflection on Magic Weapon and Blur passive really bolster the amount of punishment I can take. Add 6k loh and 11k life regen, 12k life per kill, 49k health globes bonus and 10 yards pickup radius, which makes my lower hp value effectively higher than someone who has more life. Too often in public games I have seen people with 50-100k more life than me die, because they either lack mitigation or they have "too much" life that makes their current healing numbers inefficient and thus they cannot sustain themselves as they continue to take damage.
All in all, Elendra is a resilient little cookie despite her low profile toughness. I survive better than most other wizards who have double my profile toughness, cause they think stacking vitality over mitigation is going to save them. It won't.
My dps is also pretty misleading (though 800k profile dps is still somewhat relatively high even in SC - I've seen a few people break 1 mill profile dps but this is extremely rare still), since in game buffs give me 1.2 mill sheet dps, and that number doesn't even include the substantial amount of + arcane skills dmg/+arcane torrent dmg I get from gear and skills. T3 elites melt like butter in a microwave.
I wish Blizz would fix the profiles though, so that they give us a more accurate picture of where a particular char is in terms of both dps and ehp. Right now, it's just incredibly unreliable since it doesn't tell us much.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)