Vengeance vs.
Conviction Is it better to add a point to
Vengeance or to Conviction? This is the question I hope to
address. First we need to discuss what we mean by “better”.
Are we asking if one way adds more damage or if it is more
mana-efficient? Let us try to answer both questions.
To begin with, here is some information about
Vengeance:
1 2
3 4 5
6
4 4.2
4.5 4.7 5
5.2
70 76 82
88 94
100
The first row is the skill level. The
second row is the mana cost (note that it goes up in
alternating increments of .2 and .3). The last row is the
percentage of Elemental damage added for each element (Fire,
Cold, Lightning) which goes up in increments of 6.
Here is some information about Conviction:
1
2
3
4
5
6
30
35
40 45
50
55
The
first row is the skill level. The second row is the amount
that the enemy’s resistance is reduced by.
For the
sake of convenience we are going to use a weapon which does
100 pts of Physical damage and there will be no other sources
of damage included. We are also assuming that the monster has
base 0% resistance across the board.
The following
(1:1) will be used below with the first value referring to the
skill level of Vengeance and the second value referring to the
skill level of Conviction.
1:1
100
210
273
2:1
100 228
296
1:2
100
210
284
5:1
100 282
367
1:5
100
210
315
The first column represents the
respective skill levels. The second column is just to remind
the reader that we are using a 100 pt damage weapon. The third
column shows the Vengeance damage (which is 3 times the listed
damage for that level) times the damage increase caused by
Conviction. The last column shows the total Elemental damage
caused.
From this table it should be clear that, in
general, it would be better to place additional points into
Vengeance rather than Conviction if the intent is to maximize
the damage.
Now we need to look at damage per mana
1:1
273/4
68.25
2:1
296/4.2
70.48
1:2
284/4
71.00
5:1
367/5
73.40
1:5
315/4
78.75
The first column is the same as in the
previous table. The second column is total Elemental damage
divided by the mana cost of Vengeance at the specified level.
The final column is the result of the second column.
As we can see, it is more mana efficient to place
points into Conviction than into Vengeance.
We leave
it to the reader to decide which form of “better” that he/she
prefers.