Ice Rose
Ice Rose is pretty useless now. I made the mistake of starting to upgrade her to Max before the patch and she was pretty bad then. Since the patch though, it takes a millennia to actually freeze someo...
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She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support!
Re: Ice Rose
JamesRivera88
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03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
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I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...
JamesRivera88
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03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
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I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...
@ActiveMe4U2 wrote:
Re: Ice Rose
JamesRivera88
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03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
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I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...Scientist does the same dmg as Sunflower in a 10 second time period. Scientist does less dmg over a 10 minute time period. Math has been laid out in another thread for viewing.
@Rhendyr wrote:
@ActiveMe4U2 wrote:
Re: Ice Rose
JamesRivera88
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03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
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I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...Scientist does the same dmg as Sunflower in a 10 second time period. Scientist does less dmg over a 10 minute time period. Math has been laid out in another thread for viewing.
Math is all fine and dandy if everyone hit their target 100% of the time and the targets never moved, but you'd need to land every shot with a sunflower... and nobody is capable of doing that. I'd much rather need to land 3 high damage shots than 10+ low damage shots.
@AWMaxSterling wrote:
@Rhendyr wrote:
@ActiveMe4U2 wrote:
Re: Ice Rose
JamesRivera88
★★★★ NOVICE
03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
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I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...Scientist does the same dmg as Sunflower in a 10 second time period. Scientist does less dmg over a 10 minute time period. Math has been laid out in another thread for viewing.
Math is all fine and dandy if everyone hit their target 100% of the time and the targets never moved, but you'd need to land every shot with a sunflower... and nobody is capable of doing that. I'd much rather need to land 3 high damage shots than 10+ low damage shots.
That's when personal skill and preference comes into the equation, which are things that mathematically I really can't represent in the equation. There's several factors that can change things up, such as the Sunflower can start firing those shots from much further out, dealing dmg long before a person can get on top of them from a safer distance, while the Scientist has to get on top of their target to start dealing damage.
I mean, one might be able to write an algorithm to somewhat accurately represent all of these other factors, but I only got up to Calculus, Finite Mathematics, Calculus w/ Analytic Geometry and Advanced College Algebra. Might need someone with a deep background in Advanced Numerical Analysis w/ Finite Elements and/or Semidefinite Optimization.
Since my background isn't deep enough in those subjects, I wont even attempt to quantify all of the actual variables. But, I feel confident in sticking with raw DPS, showing that the sustained DPS of the Sunflower is roughly the same as the burst DPS of the Scientist over a short time, and due to the number of reload attempts, the Sunflowers sustained dmg potential is higher than that of the Scientist.
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Re: Ice Rose
Rhendyr
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03-14-2016 07:02 AM
ActiveMe4U2 wrote:
Re: Ice Rose
JamesRivera88
★★★★ NOVICE
03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
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I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...
Scientist does the same dmg as Sunflower in a 10 second time period. Scientist does less dmg over a 10 minute time period. Math has been laid out in another thread for viewing.
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I know you are smarter than this reply.
Do I really need to point out the fact this information is irrelevant? The burst damage is what really counts here.
There isn't a single plant that will last 10 seconds vs a scientist at close range. The Sunflower won't last 3 seconds vs a scientist it will take 2 shots.
@ActiveMe4U2 wrote:
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Re: Ice Rose
Rhendyr
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03-14-2016 07:02 AM
@ActiveMe4U2 wrote:
Re: Ice Rose
JamesRivera88
★★★★ NOVICE
03-13-2016 07:52 PM - edited 03-13-2016 07:54 PM
She isn't supposed to be a terror with DPS, she is a support
_______________________
I was just talking to the scientist at close range, he sends his regards...
Scientist does the same dmg as Sunflower in a 10 second time period. Scientist does less dmg over a 10 minute time period. Math has been laid out in another thread for viewing.
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I know you are smarter than this reply.
Do I really need to point out the fact this information is irrelevant? The burst damage is what really counts here.
There isn't a single plant that will last 10 seconds vs a scientist at close range. The Sunflower won't last 3 seconds vs a scientist it will take 2 shots.When the Sunflower does 40 DPS (dealing 400 dmg over 10 seconds), and the Scientist does 40 DPS (200 dmg over 5 seconds), which one is doing more damage per second?
