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Old 01-24-2008, 03:11 PM  
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ok I've been googling and attempting to compare for the last hour and cant find an answer so I'll leave it up to the trolls.

I'm getting close to the point of no return and want to make sure I take the right path. I currently have a 65 assassin and do a fair amount of damage, BUT I also play alot with a wizard that appears to be able to out dps me any time she feels like.

My goals are to raid, its what i enjoy the most, so we can ignore all the questions about soloing and stuff like that.

my question is this ... with equally equiped characters played with equal skill which one deals more dps? I dont care about utilitiy or buffs or any of that crap, which one does more damage ... period.

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Old 01-24-2008, 03:38 PM  
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Obviously you know that they are both different damage types and different mobs will eat more damage based on the encounter... so your completely useless answer from me is play both, your wis might find more raid time but, when the raid needs melee bring your ass.
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Old 01-24-2008, 03:42 PM  
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Old 01-24-2008, 04:48 PM  
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if target_zone!=VP then return assassin else return wizard

simple as that.
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if target_zone!=VP then return assassin else return wizard

simple as that.
Since not everyone speaks computer, I'll translate.

In raids, against yellow con and lower mobs, assassins have the most dps potential. Against orange con mobs (i.e. VP at level 80), it shifts to wizards due to a sharp drop-off in melee hit rates compared to a minimal drop-off in spell hit rates vs. raid-debuffed orange con mobs.

On a related tangent, this disparity in drop-offs is widely regarded as indicative of broken mechanics which may or may not be fixed at some point. The only dev comment we have seen on the matter thus far doesn't directly express an opinion on the issue, but seems to indicate that either they don't fully grasp the situation or somehow don't see that it is a problem, and so a fix in the short term to this seemingly obvious problem is far from certain.

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Fighters are worse off than preds and rogues. Preds and rogues put more emphasis on combat art damage in general so really aren't in that bad of shape. Fighters put more emphasis on auto attack so take the bigger hit. The mechanics haven't changed with the expansion we are just using higher level mobs so its a slightly lower hit rate than what it was with the previous avatars.

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Old 01-24-2008, 05:02 PM  
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Assassin all the way up to VP. Then those casters who bitch and complain they can't beat an Assassin on a parse are suddenly out parsing you by a marginal amount.
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Old 01-24-2008, 05:50 PM  
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Thanks for the input all, I played a wizard in eq1 and loved being the king of damage, but it just seemed by comparing spell lines that with the decreased reuse timers of wizard nukes compared to our bigger back stabs that wizards had a bigger advantage, and if a fight is longer than 20 secs seems like I'm just waiting for ca's to pop while wizards are still dropping the bigger nukes. I'll just keep fighting for every point of dps i can get I guess.

I really appreciate it folks.

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Old 01-24-2008, 06:27 PM  
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in my guild the parse between me and the wizzys is still pretty close on orange con mobs, including silverwing and phara etc, and i guess they are ok skilled :p

imo you should keep lvling the assassin if you like it
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in my guild the parse between me and the wizzys is still pretty close on orange con mobs, including silverwing and phara etc, and i guess they are ok skilled :p

imo you should keep lvling the assassin if you like it
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