oh I forgot about this lol...If you got a dummy parse that would be best....pretty difficult to compare boss fights, too many variables. Unless Thrasher is in there I'll check
Edit: actually it is but u were on sniper duty so that one can't be compared, try and get a dummy one and we'll compare those
Another Edit: Ok so for now I’ll use Cartel Warlords since that fight is decently comparable. I’ve trimmed mine down to when I kill the last boss and yours down to the same length as mine for comparison. Another thing to keep in mind is I’m using the 2pc/2pc set bonus in this parse so I should theoretically be using 2 more rapid shots/min than yourself if you’re using the old 4pc with -8 heat to rail shot.
Link: You
Link: Me
Ok so first, the good thing I see is that you’re very aware of the cds on HSM and Rail Shot and using them right away. Where we differ is here:
Your APMs: 31.58 Mine: 33.13
1.5 APMs in itself would not lead to significantly different parses, but if you look further you’ll see that 4 of your Tracer Missiles were cancelled to use your proc’d unload. Torparse incorrectly counts those in APMs. Also I use 4 DFAs and 2 more unloads than you. So in order to compare our APMs we have to factor all that in, so removing 10 abilities from the 4.4 min parse gives your relative APMs as 29.3 compared to my 33.13.
So now we see that in reality I’m getting in 4 more GCDs worth of damage per minute than you’re getting. I don’t have time to show you all of them, but if you look closely at your log from the link above, search ‘gains barrage’ and jump to all of those. For each of them, look at how much time was between the last TM you activated before the barrage and the unload you activated after the barrage. I see anywhere from 2.1 – 2.9 seconds on just about all of them. 2 seconds would be tolerable as long as you’re not losing time when you ‘do not’ proc barrage. It’s evident you’re either pausing and waiting for barrage or double casting TM and cancelling if barrage procs. Double casting and cancelling can be an efficient way to fish for barrages, but pausing is not good. Reason is, you’re gonna have a delay between abilities regardless of if you proc barrage or not, whereas by double casting/canceling method will only have a delay when barrage does proc. But keep in mind you really have to be on the cancel quick to avoid long delays. I personally don’t use that method cuz it takes more focus and keystrokes/mouse clicks but it’s very doable.
In the end what I’m getting at is those delays you are having between abilities is allowing you to dissipate more heat and use less rapid shots but lowers your overall dps. You’ll see I used more than 5 additional rapid shots/min than you did and it only should have been 2. So I’m basically getting 3 more rapid shots plus 1 of something else, likely TM or ½ an unload extra every minute…that adds up in the dps.
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If you could actually link the parses and list exactly which relics they are then we can take a look...most of us don't have spare relic tokens lying around to test for ourselves and may never have tested the one you're talking about when we did have tokens.