02-23-2005, 08:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-23-2005, 07:07 PM by MongoJerry.)
Olon97 and I did some tests today to verify whether the priest spell Power Word: Shield affected a warrior's rage generation. Other people had done some tests reported on the official forums that concluded that rage generation was not affected by PW: Shield. However, there was a problem with their tests in that they were fighting low level mobs that only generated one rage point per hit. Olon97 had a theory that one could only generate one point of rage per hit with the shield on. Basically, his theory was that if you got hit with 0-90 damage, you'd get 1 rage point, 90-180 damage, 2 rage points, and so on. So, we made sure to find a mob that could damage Olon97's level 55 warrior enough to consistently give her two rage points per hit to test on.
![[Image: pwsragegenerationtest.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/pwsragegenerationtest.jpg)
After trying out out a few mobs in Un'Goro Crater, we finally settled on using an elite Stegasaurus to test on. Most hits by the Stegasaurus caused roughly 150 damage, meaning that they caused about two rage per hit. Sometimes one, sometimes two, but most often two without PW:Shield. And what happened when PW:Shield was on?
*drumroll*
No perceptible change. We tested with PW:Shield both on and off for several minutes and the difference was negligible. Olon97 wanted to believe that there might have been a small reduction with the shield, but even he had to admit that it was less than the error bars/lag allotment of the experiment. There really just doesn't seem to be any difference in rage generation with the shield on.
After trying out out a few mobs in Un'Goro Crater, we finally settled on using an elite Stegasaurus to test on. Most hits by the Stegasaurus caused roughly 150 damage, meaning that they caused about two rage per hit. Sometimes one, sometimes two, but most often two without PW:Shield. And what happened when PW:Shield was on?
*drumroll*
No perceptible change. We tested with PW:Shield both on and off for several minutes and the difference was negligible. Olon97 wanted to believe that there might have been a small reduction with the shield, but even he had to admit that it was less than the error bars/lag allotment of the experiment. There really just doesn't seem to be any difference in rage generation with the shield on.