Eugh - the first section is terribly written, and would confuse anyone who doesn't already know how these things work, IMO.
He talks about DPSer A having an innate threat reduction, then his first set of numbers are talking about "threat generated", when clearly what he means to compare is damage done, since the threat numbers quoted do not include DPSer A's threat reduction.
He also doesn't explain how the statement that DPSer A stopped "92 threat short of pulling aggro" is calculated, and I don't think it's right.
If DPSer A has a 29% threat reduction, he should be able to incur 1099/(1 - 0.29) = 1547 "unmodified" threat before pulling aggro, not 1099 x 1.29 = (edit, just ran that through the calc, I assumed it would be 1392 and it's not, now I have no idea where 92 threat came from :D )
I'll accept that I may be misunderstanding how Blizzard actually implement a threat reduction of x%, but the calculation above is certainly how I'd interpret a "29% threat reduction", in the absence of evidence to the contrary. Even if I'm wrong, he should show how he gets those numbers.
Then there's the downright peculiar
Quote:
DPSer A generates 1300 threat on the mob in five seconds (260 DPS)
followed by
Quote:
if DPSer A generated 1400 threat on the mob in 5 seconds (400 DPS)
Eh? DPSer A somehow upped his DPS by over 50%, for an 8% threat increase?
Even ignoring the way that the original A vs B comparison is unclear as to how A's threat reduction is taken into account, I can't see how the quoted numbers can both be correct.
If anyone can explain to me why those numbers are correct, I will gratefully accept that I'm talking out my ***, and go back to school :)
Edited, Feb 12th 2008 7:47pm by zhaharik - I have a nasty feeling I'm going back to school, but looking forward to finding out why :) Edited, Feb 12th 2008 7:48pm by zhaharik