Thursday, June 19, 2008

Agi vs RAP

What is the idea of any hunter in raid? Right... high DPS numbers! What is the main idea of a survival hunter? High DPS numbers! What is the way to get bigger numbers then? RAP is what makes our damage bigger. But for a survival hunter Agility is what counts, RAP is secondary! And now I'll prove it with maths.

Let's take 10 agility into account. 10 agility is actually 11,5 agility with lightning reflexes, which is 11,5 RAP as well. But that's only the pure RAP, we also take into account 11,5*0.95/4 (0,95 is a 95% debuff uptime) from Expose Weakness, which is additionally 2,7 RAP. Agility is also a crit chance, with 2,23 crit damage multiplier we have about 11,1 more RAP (actually it depends on your real stats, this i've counted based on my own). What we have now is 24,9 RAP. What if we have Blessing of Kings then? We get 1,2 more agility... Which gives about the same as 110% from agility based RAP, so we have 27,4 RAP.

This is very rough calculations, but they show that 1 agility point is more than 2 RAP! If you happen to see 2 items one have 30 RAP more other have 10 more agility, don't even think, take the one with agility, it will burst you over that 30 while buffed in raid.

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