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There are two main purpose for this post. Firstly, to make a title with a pun. Secondly, to advance the theorycrafting on when to use Radiant Oppression.
In the PTS 2.3, the tooltip of Radiant Oppression is accurate so long as no points are placed into Elemental Expert or Thaumathurge. As a reminder, the tooltip of Radiant Oppression looks like
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/bb2af34e89a6b4bfdd6c3f47ddfa16a9.png[/img]
The damage is done over the course of 4 tics.
The ideal time to execute Radiant Oppression is when the DPS of Radiant Oppression exceeds the DPS of the pre-execute phase. To help understand this, let us consider the DPS in the pre-execute phase, the DPS during Radiant Oppression and the ideal transition between the two.
Pre-Execute
For most abilities, the tooltip value can be calculated with the following equation
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/4068e9d5741b0fd2e64fdca4d441b7b3.png[/img]
where a is a variable that depends on the skill in question and b is approximately 10.5 for most abilities.
If one were to consider all the abilities used it is reasonable to assume that
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/2d81ac1a3690f3c76c895c7ae305f748.png[/img]
where a’ can be thought as the average coefficient for all abilities used. Since this coefficient is used to represent DPS it also includes the effect of champion point bonuses, mitigation and critical damage.
Similarly, the DPS during the execute phase is
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/f68972a16a3b57a034421707ae140088.png[/img]
where a” is the coefficient for Radiant Oppression but modified to include the effect of champion point bonus, mitigation, critical damage, bonus damage for low health targets and bonus damage proportional to current Magicka.
Thus we want to find the point where a’ and a” are equal and that is when the execute phase should begin or in terms of an equation
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/fce06ae2228db8a7ed3013b41b905847.png[/img]
An interesting observation arises here in that we note that the Max Magicka and Spell Damage terms can be removed from both sides of the equation without too much trouble. In the next section, we attempt to determine a”.
a” of Radiant Oppression
The base damage of Radiant Oppression is
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/b79cbb7dc78064c8c7a07c03f40d957a.png[/img]
The average damage of Radiant Oppression when taking into account champion points, mitigation and critical damage is
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/8c5193777ca620b5765f58b4e9c9b450.png[/img]
Now the ideal champion point distribution in the Mage is 100 in Elemental Expert, 12 in Thaumathurge, 46 in Elfborn and 9 in Spell Erosion. This assumes the use of a nirnhoned weapon, Julianos and the Thief mundus with all divines. This distribution was calculated by optimising the function
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/87a128b2f8a55e7b827c47e3fa578e21.png[/img]
where a Base Critical Modifier of 0.6 was assumed and an Elemental Ratio, DoT Ratio and Staff ratio of 0.6, 0.4 and 0 was used, respectively. This ratio was determined empirically with a Bloodspawn parse by @nifty2g. With this champion point distribution, the variable Champion Point in the equation above is 1.307. The critical modifier is 0.75. If we assume a boss with 13k spell resistance (this is after Major Breach), Mitigation is estimated to be around
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/2f0d78412d3d7508901d6e53fc8d3fd6.png[/img]
The flat penetration is the sum of 9 points in Spell Erosion (587), Concentration (4884) and base flat penetration (100).
Putting all these variables into the equation, we arrive at
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/dd767bf198c003d2e7c53615e85fbf85.png[/img]
We can now formulate the Execute DPS as
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/3c9b3414630f9e716542144c23fbca6c.png[/img]
a’ = a”
Let us assume that a’ is 20k then a” needs to be
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/fa017a799aa73bac953f413483df05b8.png[/img]
or equivalently we want to find where the bonus from low health and current Magicka is equal to
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/9caf6d0595dc4f6666c2aea04876c315.png[/img]
To help visualise this, I’ve drawn a surface plot of
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/af45a2d6f42915ea6fb4e46c1396300b.png[/img]
which is not immediately helpful since it is clear that the bonus damage increases with decreasing enemy health percentage and increasing current Magicka percentage.
[img] https://i.gyazo.com/17425be5ee884c4d5337612af4abf067.png/img
A more helpful plot will show when this bonus is above 1.73, which is shown in red in the plot below, as this is the execute regime.
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/91c852bf9596e7ff66a1a35895870771.png[/img]
Summary
From the final plot, we can conclude that you want to execute when the target has between 40-45% Health remaining depending on your current Magicka Percent. This is in contrast to the ESO wisdom I have heard of executing at about 20-25% Enemy Health Percent. Hopefully, this will convince some of you to execute earlier or even better to create your own plots to determine your ideal execute transition or ideally for an addon developer to make an execute now pop-up for Templars!
As a reminder, some assumptions used to reach this conclusion were
- Champion distribution of 100, 12,46 and 9 in Elemental Expert, Thaumathurge, Elfborn and Spell Erosion, respectively.
- Pre-execute DPS of 20k
- Radiant Oppression tooltip of 18k
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This topic was modified 7 hours, 1 minute ago by
Asayre.
