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  • Tichondrius
  • 180. Re: Devastate - Quit QQ'ing. Learn it, Love I   02/15/2007 10:21:19 AM PST
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Q u o t e:
I read the first page and then jumped to this page... So if I missed the answer to my question I'm sorry. Please point it out to me.

My question:

Is Devastate better once you consider armor? I notice all your calculations and comparisons were done assuming creatures have 0 armor... Referring back to your comparison of Bloodlord's defender devastate and Sunder. If you factor even the smallest amount of armor into that calculation Bloodlord's defender falls behind.

I guess I'd like a realistic comparison including events that I see everyday tanking, i.e. non 0 armor mobs.

For instance, in Shattered halls with my 2.6 speed 71dps claw my devastate hits for ~90 on creatues pre-sunder. Is this really better than the static sunder threat value?


Going off the description of it, I think it's useless unless you apply 5 sunders. If you don't have 5 sunders, keep sundering. Once you reach 5, you can devastate. It also does a lot more damage (thus causing more threat) on a sundered target anyway.

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  • 181. Re: Devastate - Quit QQ'ing. Learn it, Love I   08/22/2007 11:42:36 AM PDT
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This is some thing that deserves a bump with all the new tanking questions. This is very well written
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  • Earthen Ring
  • 182. Re: Devastate - Quit QQ'ing. Learn it, Love I   08/22/2007 01:04:38 PM PDT
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It's also terribly, terribly dated. :(

The best (and updated) answers are in Armstrong's Devastate guide:
http://www.tankspot.com/index.php?pageid=ArmstrongDevastate

http://ciderhelm.tankspot.com/
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