Re: Warrior Threat Testing, Stress Test Feb 1, 2015
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:22 pm
"impressive" is the right word
boomerjp wrote:This kind of test can be performed very easily with some code allowing for a GM account player to use an in game command to view current threat on a target. Probably not even that hard to implement for a test server.
Armilus wrote:Unfortunately that does not test the research of the dev team. They aren't just writing code and making up class mechanics. The goal is to replicate the same threat mechanics that existed in vanilla retail and that means they have to do a LOT of research to find out how those mechanics worked. In fact, the majority of the work involved in fixing Mangos bugs is figuring out how it should be working.
The dev's can easily test their own code, that wasn't the goal of this test at all. The goal was to test their research on the threat mechanics and their thoroughness in looking for mangos bugs. If I didn't think something was working correctly and I simply said "hey dev's, demo shout is broken". That is pretty much useless to them. But if I can say "Demo shout is causing the correct amount of threat; however, it is being divided among all targets in combat instead of being applied to each target affected. You can see that it should not be divided by watching this video of a warrior kiting a crap ton of mobs with demo shout. This would not be possible if demo shout worked with the current mechanics". Now that is something they can work with!
Battle Shout generates 55 threat for each player that is buffed; up to 5 people in your party and their pets, as long as they are on the relevant mob's threat list. For example if you buff a player that is out of combat, no threat is generated. Therefore in a tightly packed group, Battle Shout can rival Sunder Armor for threat, but as a buff the threat is split amongst all the mobs that are aware of you. On the other hand, Demoralizing Shout gives 43 threat to each affected mob. As long as there are 6 or more mobs affected, it will hold aggro as well or better than Sunder Armor.