All Hands On Deck! Hunter Questions!

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“BRK!!!”

AAH! What? what! Hello? Who’s screaming at us?

“Have a 24 level hunter “Bazooka” with ravager pet “Joe” and my question is, where in the h3ll does one train rank 5 and 6 gore at? … That aside, in your opinion, is gore an equal skill to claw? … Great site! I it were not for you I would still be running around with a spider thinking I was doing well for myself.

Bazooka on Korialstraz
US Navy

Alright, just a sec, the ole ear drums need some time to recover.

…

Thank you. So the Lieutenant has a good question about Gore, unfortunately he’s not gonna like the answer: there are no known sources to train Gore ranks 5 and 6. None, nada, nope. Sorry, thank you for playing.

As for Gore vs. Claw, let’s take a quick look at em.

Gore Rank 9 - Gores the enemy, causing 37 to 61 damage. This attack has a 50% change to inflict double damage, costs 25 Focus, instant cast.

Claw Rank 9 - Claw the enemy, causing 54-76 damage, costs 25 Focus, instant cast.

Since they use the same Focus mechanics, we can easily exclude that aspect of our calculations. /crinkle /crumple /toss

Now we just want to see what the Gore-double-damage looks like over time.

A Claw attack will inflict, on average, 65 damage. A Gore attack will inflict, on average, either 49 damage or 98 damage. Since the proc rate for Gore is 50%, we’ll just average those two numbers and say that a Gore attack will inflict, on average, 73.5 damage.

Gore = 73.5 damage
Claw = 65 damage

Over time, Gore will do more damage than Claw, won’t it, Sir. Heck, the entire purpose of getting a Ravager is to get Gore. But, as we previously covered, a Ravager comes with the cost of extremely low health. Boars can also use Gore, but their white damage DPS is extremely low; a Boar with Gore will not out-dps a Cat with Claw.

Is Gore equal to Claw? BRK says it certainly is the bomb-diggety dps-wise. Would we turn in Hobbes for a Ravager? Never; we detest the super-low health they bring to the party.

OK Lt? Can we go ashore now?

Pets | April 27, 2007

Comments

8 Responses to “All Hands On Deck! Hunter Questions!”

  1. Bobflintston on April 27th, 2007 5:05 pm

    Check out Petopia for how to train your best buddy in some of the more obscure skills. BRK is kind enough to have a link.

  2. Anonymous on April 27th, 2007 8:39 pm

    Wait…

    One has a focus cost of 25 and the other of 35 when your max is 100.

    Yet…

    “Since they use the same Focus mechanics, we can easily exclude that aspect of our calculations. /crinkle /crumple /toss”

    Is the difference really that trivial?

    or are we just getting too lazy to do the math?

  3. Damh on April 27th, 2007 9:16 pm

    Too lazy to do the math? No. It was a typo and has been corrected; Gore really does cost 25 Focus, the same as Claw.

    Anonymous would have earned +5 BRK Cool Points had he simply said, “Thottbot says it only costs 25 Focus, yet you say it costs 35, and then go on to say they cost the same. Typo BRK?”

    http://www.thottbot.com/s35298

    Sacrificing BRK Cool Points for snarkiness? Whatever floats yer boat, anonymous. :)

  4. Wowpeon on April 28th, 2007 1:23 am

    I guess I should have asked the second part of my comment on the previous post over here instead… that’ll learn me for reading chronologically instead of down the page. :)

  5. Vorn on June 7th, 2007 8:29 am

    Hey i love my level 47 spider
    He’s great for DPS and keeping the mobs off
    :)

  6. Anonymous on June 12th, 2007 2:43 am

    How does a Boar’s Charge factor into your calculation of Gore damage?

  7. Anonymous on November 26th, 2007 11:38 pm

    Something you don’t seem to be considering is with the 50% crit chance of gore… Frenzy and Ferocious Inspiration is pretty much up all the time during a fight.

  8. Anonymous on November 26th, 2007 11:58 pm

    It’s not a 50% chance to crit, its a 50% chance to do double damage, which is crit like, but is a different mechanic. Note that you can also crit on the double damage too, which can put out some impressive numbers. My big red boar never loses aggro :p

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