Softcaps discussion

[Fraser]

(02-08-2012 05:31 AM)CaseyTheRetard Wrote:  

(02-08-2012 04:48 AM)RuQu Wrote:  To me, a burst-recover rotation is a sustained healing situation where the damage comes in waves, with peaks and troughs you can align your own burst healing to.

Viewed as a sustained fight with non-constant damage, total HPS should be a valid metric.

I would look at modeling one peak - player does whatever is necessary to maintain some target HPS threshold - and one trough - player does as much healing as possible while recovering resources. If player state at the end of a full wave is the same as initial state, results from the model naturally extend to fights with an arbitrary number of waves.

Would you then compare one setup to the next with raw throughput, the hps of the wave, the comparative hps of the peak and trough or some amalgamation of them all?

Something I might add to that would be the sustain cycle you run between the end of a recovery period and the beginning of a burst cycle. Without knowing the effect a given stat has on all 3 analysis of the remainder is of little importance.