What Henches With Racway

I don't know about other people, but racway have served me well. Only NF mission were it didn't work was Jennur's Horde - and that was only because the "only" tactic for it that i master well, is the rush to stairs -> kill the harbringer there, etc. etc. -> flag your heroes on the first bridge while you run lights to kill bonus harbringers and boss. No line of sight for paras, so used MM + 2 ele heroes instead.

And about hexes... When you know you're going heavy hex area, there ARE builds for those areas, in both, pvx and these forums (it's even sticky). 2x Epathic Removal and Hexbreaker Aria = no hex problems for your team.
Or in case you aren't sure, you can run the command para with the hexbuild, this will give you condition removal on skill use (from motigon) and empathic removal from comman para.

Anyway, the main hencies i use are NM: para, warrior, ele, monk HM: para, ele, monk, monk.
2 monk henchies in HM because to me the D/N doesn't count as healer. But rather as melee/adre booster with backup heals (mystic healing and vow of piety are too random to count on in thigh situations)



edit: that is on my imbagon.
Also i use mystic regen on D/N instead of dwayna's touch, which makes it require next to no healing from the healers...

MM with 10 fiends. Let's say he has OoU.
I honestly don't know a reasonable estimate for a fiends attack damage. Just been to the Isle of the Nameless, and they appear to do 15-45 damage (including crits) with an average between the 20-30 mark against AL60.
AL100 however, it's around 10-15 on average.

Let's go with the 100 armour enemy, that seems fairly average in HM.
With OoU, 15 damage will be boosted to 32, assuming constant coverage. (16 in DM obviously).
Under EbSoH (and this only works reliably with fiends, and even then...), that could be boosted to 40-47. Let's call it 45 (7 in Ebon rank).
That means, fiends will be doing around 45 damage a hit. Each fiend attacks 30 times in 58 seconds, if the wiki is to be believed. This is 1.933... seconds per attack.

45 / 1.933... = 23.27586207... DPS according to my calculator.
For 10 minions: ~233 DPS


Now, for a single buffed physical - I'm going to pick the assassin (best choice, as they have the chance for double strikes and are easily buffed).

Under a 33% IAS, an assassin will attack every 0.89 seconds - excluding double strikes.
Buffs are from: OoP/OotV @16, SoH (@10 or 12, mabye even 16), EBSoH and GDW.
OoP/OotV = 17 per hit
SoH = 18, 21 or 28 respectively (depends who's doing the buffing)
EBSoH = 13 (at rank 7)
GDW = 18 (at rank 7)

This sums up to 66 per hit. This comes to ~74 DPS.
The following is depending on their build and attack chain:

Let's say, Golden Fox -> Wild Strike -> DB -> MS -> DB -> MS (Death).
This has 2 Double Strike attacks and gives a total skill damage of 315 in 5.34 seconds.
This, on average, will deal 59 DPS. This may be higher depending on the attack chain used.
Assuming this attack cycle and the above buffs, we get a total damage 315 + 6x66 + 2x66 = 843 in 5.34 seconds = ~158 DPS.
I should note, at 16 Smiting for SoH, this comes to 923 in 5.43 seconds = ~170 DPS.

This is lower than the DPS from 10 minions (158 compared to 233).
If you disagree, pick apart my calculation and ammend my assumptions. I myself, am not concluded.

However, some notes:
A human physical (if they have any degree of competence) will attack a called target - a target the caller has decided that needs to die.
A MM has only small influence over what the minions attack. The minions may not decide to attack a target that needs killing right now. They may decide to attack a warrior rushing for your casters and totally ignore the enemy monks, or necros that exploit corpses.

If the excrement collides with the unsophisticated air conditioning system however, a physical setup is still more durable in my view. A human can be ressed much quicker than a MM army can be raised.
Besides, it's not as though the two are not incompatible.



On reflection... was it really worth my writing this up?

Oh, no, it was:

Me on Sin with max Asura
My Smiting-Orders hero on passive
Guildmate with max Vanguard and max Deldrimor. I could have run EBSoH on the Sin without problems, but it was easier to let him manage it.

I was the only one dealing damage. The Master of Damage result was all me.

It's a perfectly valid application of skills, pretty common phys buffer set.

I run that in actual combat. If I was trying to get max DPS out of it, I would have run 16 Blood and 16 Smiting.

The 'not alone' issue is ridiculous. The score is from me alone, you could have perfectly well interpreted that comment in that manner, and you still can. You chose to interpret it in the strictest sense possible, and you chose that interpretation because it favors your point.