by Wyvernwill » Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:26 pm
I swear the reaction to this is absolutely silly, anyone really looking at it logically... it's not a 'nerf', if anything, it's stronger than before.
Let's take a few points into consideration:
Raid Side - 60 second burn, roughly the same overall damage. Why? 300ppm puts it at about 3-4 procs per minute.. everything I've seen... I tend to see 5 procs, on average, before my 60s burn ends. Considering all hits are 1000% accuracy (versus only one on the previous incarnation) and the hits are stronger than the lowest three hits (the ones with the highest acc mods)... your average damage in a 60 second burn is going to be better, short of tripping all five hits and good rolls of damage (not always typical early on in fights since less debuffs are in).
What isn't included... what happens between the 61-180 second burn area? With the old form... nothing. This form is still producing damage output. It's making more use out of pureforge... which will be down by the next time you click the instant form. I wonder which form is generating more damage?
180+ You get to click one more time... It's most likely behind the new form by 5-15 procs... it's playing catch up without any form of boost... again, the old form falls short.
On the group side - This is a bit different. It becomes more of Passive damage output that's spread across mobs. Yeah, it doesn't have the "Let's instantly shave 15-40% off an undead mob's health" flash to it. You're still going to go through all of the procs, chances are, it's going to increase your damage output against more mobs overall than the normal form does. Again, this is a very simple thought process, you can RI the first mob, but do you only kill one mob per 180 seconds? I tend to go through 3-5 mobs in that time, again it will be more consistent, sustained increase across more mobs than RI was hitting one button every 3 minutes.
What truly makes me chuckle is that people actually act like RI hit all five hits, every time, without fail, for mondo damage. Most of the time, it wasn't all that impressive except in certain instances where you managed to hit a lot of good rolls together at once. The new form is as accurate as the lowest hit of RI, and only short in potency of the highest two levels (it's better than the lower three).