A Call to Arms - MoP Mechanics Testing

[theckhd]

Did you have focused shield glyphed?
<edit> And are those damage values you've given the weapon's tooltip damage or your character sheet damage?

[Fetzie]

Character sheet damage, with focused shield glyphed.

weapon used for the naked test was http://www.wowhead.com/item=851
weapon used for the non-naked test was http://www.wowhead.com/item=81061

[Klaudandus]

Got a question, do you want us to use the 1.6 white weapons normally used for testing?

[theckhd]

My own data:
15868 AP
8512 AP
2052 AP
All using Maki's Mashing Mace

AS seems consistent with a flat 1.5x boost to both base and AP scaling, but since there's a bit of a range and my data set is limited, I"m going to wait for more data to fine tune it. For now we'll assume they just multiplied everything by 1.5.

Holy Wrath's base damage didn't change, but the SP scaling was doubled (was 0.91*SP, is now 0.91*AP) :

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General model:
     f(x) = a*x+b
Coefficients (with 95% confidence bounds):
       a =        0.91  (0.9099, 0.9101)
       b =        4300  (4300, 4301)

Goodness of fit:
  SSE: 0.3593
  R-square: 1
  Adjusted R-square: 1
  RMSE: 0.3461


Censure's formula is consistent with an 80% nerf (was 107+0.094*SP per stack, is now 107+0.094*SP total for all 5 stacks):

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General model:
     f(x) = a*x+b
Coefficients (with 95% confidence bounds):
       a =     0.09404  (0.09392, 0.09415)
       b =       106.6  (106, 107.3)

Goodness of fit:
  SSE: 0.206
  R-square: 1
  Adjusted R-square: 1
  RMSE: 0.262

It looks like SoT was reduced from 12% weapon damage to 2.5%, which is only a 79.17% nerf instead of an 80% one!

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General model:
     f(x) = a*x
Coefficients (with 95% confidence bounds):
       a =     0.02449  (0.02385, 0.02512)

Goodness of fit:
  SSE: 6.749
  R-square: 0.9964
  Adjusted R-square: 0.9964
  RMSE: 1.837


[theckhd]

Got a question, do you want us to use the 1.6 white weapons normally used for testing?

I think I have SoT down now, so it probably doesn't matter about the weapon. But it can't hurt to stick with the 1.6 white weapon that has a narrow damage range.

I mostly need AS data now, the rest seem fairly well-characterized.

[Klaudandus]

It looks like SoT was reduced from 12% weapon damage to 2.5%, which is only a 79.17% nerf instead of an 80% one!

Good! I feel so much better now that I know that I am 0.83% less nerfed than Blizz said I was gonna be!

[theckhd]

The following attacks proc Battle Healer:

Melee Swing (obviously)
Crusader Strike
Hammer of the righteous (also splash damage effect)
Shield of the Righteous

Judgement, Avenger's Shield, Holy Wrath, Consecrate and Hammer of Wrath do NOT proc Battle Healer.

Using the crude, yet effective method of standing at a training dummy and seeing what makes a green number appear over a city guard.

Was it 100% proc chance?

[Fetzie]

Looked like it. I only hit the dummy for a minute or so, but the abilities that caused the heal appeared to do so every time. I fired off HW, Cons, AS and J from outside melee range/with my back turned to eliminate the chance of mistaking a melee swing proc for an ability proc. The ShoR, CS and HotR procs were identifiable by the amount of healing they did (was a different amount to the melee swing) and when I got 4 consolidated hits of HotR I got 4 consolidated heals going out too.

Combatlog incoming, I'll try to find an isolated place with a guard to get the heal.

Here you are. It isn't long, but should have enough info in it to either add weight to my hypothesis that it is a 100% chance, or confirm that we need to do more testing (i.e. I am wrong).
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/oxcqo2z5irvfo8xl/

[Klaudandus]

updated the spreadsheet with my data. used the white club (1.9 speed)

[theckhd]

Using all 3 data sets:
AS minimum damage:

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General model:
     f(x) = 0.975*x+b
Coefficients (with 95% confidence bounds):
       b =        6113  (6075, 6150)

Goodness of fit:
  SSE: 1.884e+004
  R-square: 0.9999
  Adjusted R-square: 0.9999
  RMSE: 48.52


AS maximum damage:

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General model:
     f(x) = 0.975*x+b
Coefficients (with 95% confidence bounds):
       b =        7263  (7174, 7352)

Goodness of fit:
  SSE: 1.062e+005
  R-square: 0.9997
  Adjusted R-square: 0.9997
  RMSE: 115.2

0.975 is exactly 1.5 times the old coefficient (0.545*AP+0.21*SP = 0.65*AP). The base damage range is consistent with twice the old base damage (4488*1.5=6732) within error, so we can reasonably say that AS was just scaled by a flat factor of 1.5.

[Klaudandus]

Is there anything else you need me to test later today?

Also, it felt weird, but does SoI has a hidden threat component? I had an easier time keeping large groups of mobs with SoI than I did with either SoR or SoT.

[jere]

The ShoR, CS and HotR procs were identifiable by the amount of healing they did (was a different amount to the melee swing) and when I got 4 consolidated hits of HotR I got 4 consolidated heals going out too.

Something to try for the future:
In Wrath, you could turn your character sideways enough to where your special attacks could hit a target, but your melee wouldn't. I haven't checked to see if that is still the case since testing in Wrath though.

[Fetzie]

Also, it felt weird, but does SoI has a hidden threat component?

The Healing?


That trick with standing next to the dummy worked, see following log without melee swings
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/fia51pqqg0q7t2j4/

[Klaudandus]

Also, it felt weird, but does SoI has a hidden threat component?

The Healing?


That trick with standing next to the dummy worked, see following log without melee swings
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/fia51pqqg0q7t2j4/

I thought they had removed threat from healing. Or maybe I'm just dumb.

[Fetzie]

They removed it from resource generation, but healing threat is still in the game.