3.3.3: Starfall by the numbers
by Sunfyre on Feb.25, 2010, under General
The co-efficient to Starfall is being changed in 3.3.3. That’s where the real boost in damage is, not the flat rate. The values posted from Ghostcrawler are below:
Main star
Old coefficient: 4.8%
New coefficient: 37%
Splash damage
Old coefficient: 1.2%
New coefficient: 13%
This is a huge buff. I ran some numbers which I feel are fairly accurate, although I don’t claim to be a theorycrafter:
Givens:
Moonkin form, 4000 spellpower
Current Starfall:
Main star: 687.5 – 764.5 damage
Splash star: 138.6 damage
3.3.3 Starfall:
Main star: 2247 – 2346 damage
Splash star: 683.1 damage
As you can see, the main star component of Starfall was nearly tripled, and the splash star damage went up by nearly 6 times. This will be a huge boost to Starfall, especially in an AoE situation. The [item]Glyph of Starfall[/item] will be a definite must have.
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February 26th, 2010 on 5:02 am
NERF MOONKINS.. I hear the other dps say
But this sounds too good to be true tbh. Wonder if they will keep it that way. sounds pretty wicked.
February 26th, 2010 on 8:38 am
sounds promising then. Hopefully theyll keep it like this but i been playin too long to know that they will probably bring it down before it goes live.
February 26th, 2010 on 9:46 am
Like GC said : Rather than adding another nuke we thought it made more sense to make the 51 pointer something that really delivers on damage
February 26th, 2010 on 1:07 pm
this is, in fact, too good to be true. What GC Said:
Main shot
Base points 432 -> 562
Coefficient 0.21 -> 0.37
Splash damage
Base points 77 -> 100
Coefficient 0.12 -> 0.13
for those less math minded folks thats a 76% increase i spellpower scaling on the main shot and an 8% increase on the splash. Not a 750% increase that Sun used in his calculations. Don’t have time ot math it out right now but my guess would be the about 1-1.2k hits and 250 splash.
Considering that with the glyph starfall already makes up 4% of my overall damage typically, sextupling the damage of starfall would amount to a 20% increase in my overall dps. A buff like that is unheard of.
February 26th, 2010 on 1:36 pm
Go to the link, Orrak. GC corrected himself once Hamlet again proved to know the coefficients better then the developers. The numbers I posted are correct and supplied by Ghostcrawler.
February 26th, 2010 on 3:01 pm
Thank you sunfyre, I stand corrected. I just updated my PTR client so i could try it out, that really is an incredible buff. Average main shot was at about 2.5 with 500-600 splash crits for 3.5-5k and 1-1.2k respectively. While GC may not know what the coefficients are he certainly wasn’t wrong when he said we wouldn’t be disappointed.