Planar Orb still worth it? - Page 4

Jayad · 10-25-2007, 07:42 PM

Well, you need to have long delay weapons to not miss proc chances and spam your CAs for more proc chances..

Chix · 10-25-2007, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Chox

It no longer procs procs off the proc....ya that makes sense

RONG!

Procs procs off the procs just fine still. Had just about all procs I have go off from both first and second, and third proc hit, in less than 4 mobs tested.

Orb is da bomb.

EDIT: Oh right, us eurotrash are one GU behind right now. It was nerfed in GU39?

Steelbadger · 10-25-2007, 08:08 PM

When I use it it ranges from 15 dps on group encounters (really hurts its ZW) and up to 40 on solo mobs.

Well worth having.

Chox · 10-25-2007, 09:51 PM

Yes they nerfed it...and stop trying to have near the same name as me.

Gonzo · 10-26-2007, 02:10 AM

Well, did a raid and it ended up giving me 19 ZW DPS while using iy and I maintained relatively the same parse when I took the earring off for the Tunare Earring. According to what has been said about the orb that shouldn't be right but I am tired.

Jayad · 10-26-2007, 02:34 AM

I'm not saying it's a huge difference, but a dmg proc is pretty damn good. It depends a little on how much STR you have, too.

Steelbadger · 10-26-2007, 11:41 AM

You cannot see a difference of 20-30 dps between parses. It is FAR too small to be obvious with all the other random changes in your dps. But, if you tested over a long enough period of time, it would show up.

No-one said it was a WTFPWN button, just that it is better than most other items in that slot.

Try raiding with Kithicor's Boots, then swap to better footwear, bet you wont see much difference then either.

min/maxing is all about how those little numbers add up :P

Gonzo · 10-26-2007, 02:13 PM

No, I did it compared to between 2 entirely different runs of the same raid. The difference wasn't the DPS, I wouldn't be able to tell any real significance. The difference was in the Average Damage on everything else which was increased (sorry for confusing it with saying parse). That is what isn't making sense. My guess is its a STR thing and maybe because I dont have access to increasing it much over 750. I dunno.

Jayad · 10-26-2007, 02:35 PM

If you're parsing high, a 20 dps change won't be obvious. However, if you fix 4 or 5 of those types of things, they will begin to add up noticably.

Gonzo · 10-26-2007, 04:24 PM

Yeah I have only been 70 for 2 weeks now and I have not yet acquired all the pieces I need to hit a High STR. Also Raiding isn't giving me much on the STR side so the Orb doesn't show me much right now. maybe once I get to that place the added DPS will become a better bonus. I definitely now see in potential once you cross the diminishing return curve enough to where STR really doesn't matter. Does anyone have an idea where the knee (or peak) of the diminishing return curve is on stats?? My guess is somewhere around 500, maybe 600 but it's a guess.