Just a curious question to Femaledwarf

So atm FD (Femaledwarf) State's my DPS as being 9.7k, Before the patch it was 8.6k

I was just wondering is the DPS being set torwards the level 80 regular DPS Dummy? Considering the Raid target dummy is now a 88 and balanced out for 85
While I know Zeherah checks here as often as she can, it is possible she may miss a thread. There is a Feedback button on the upper righthand side of the femaledwarf site, using that ensures that she'll see any questions you might have.



As far as I know, the amount of DPS you do is the same, regardless of what target you attack. Your ability to hit the target, and its mitigation will affect the actual damage done, but the damage you produce should remain within the same range.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I've gotten that wrong.

While I know Zeherah checks here as often as she can, it is possible she may miss a thread. There is a Feedback button on the upper righthand side of the femaledwarf site, using that ensures that she'll see any questions you might have.



As far as I know, the amount of DPS you do is the same, regardless of what target you attack. Your ability to hit the target, and its mitigation will affect the actual damage done, but the damage you produce should remain within the same range.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I've gotten that wrong.

That is not what I encountered last night after hitting both. I went to Org to hit the Raid Target Dummy and I was no way near what I hit on the Regular Heroic Dummiies.

I usually burst at 10.5k and steady off around 9.6 - 9.8k DPS on the Heroic ones and last night I hit 6.7 6.8k steady on the Raid ones. I was only able to do one test on both due to my time constraints.
I think Tas's explanation might have been a little confusing for you. So here are the things that reduce your damage on a higher level target:
- hit chance (more misses = less dps)
- armor (higher armor reduces damage on physical shots, the dummies now have more armor)
- crit chance (higher level mobs have a crit chance reduction)

So for example an individual magic based shot like arcane shot, should have the same hit damage on a raid dummy versus a level 60 dummy, but your hit and crit chance are higher on the 60 dummy so you would do more dps with arcane shot in total on it. A physical shot like steady shot would do less base hit damage on a higher level dummy because they have more armor, in addition to the hit and crit damage (the shot itself will use the same math right up until the armor damage reduction is applied).

To configure the site for an 88 dummy you'd want to put in the 88 boss armor (which I believe is 11978) and set the target level to 88. The math still might be slightly off though, since I haven't done extensive testing on that huge a level gap.