WS vs BS – What to take on your Engi! Empirical Data.
There was a recent discussion with me and the lads from Damaz Kron about the use of Weaponskill on the Rifleman Engi. Thorbolt for example is an RR 80 Engi in Conqueror gear and a kruttload of WS Talis and swears on it. While I’m against it as the past analysis of the formula shows that it is always subpar to just taking more BS and just have more damage at all. Especially since BS also boosts your Corporeal Damage Abilities, like almost everything on the Tinkerer, or most Dots.
Because Mitigation of the Target is not only Armor, but also Toughness. And that can’t be reduced by WS.
But Grey is all Theory; we need some empirical tests to see how it really is in the Field.
Here is the collected Data from me. Not enough for a full analysis but enough to find some kind of a modell or break even point analysis.
But first the Description of the Tests.
I got my Engi Lesti, and shot a Chaos Deamon several times in the Chaos Wastes with Gunblast. Critical Hits were not recorded. Netto Damage (After Mititgation) and the Mitigation itself make the total Damage of the Gunblast. Also not mentioned here is that I have around 20 extra Ranged Power on Lesti. Damage wise that counts as having 20 BS more.
I make a test with my Basic BS and Basic WS.
And then I equip a +18 BS jewelry and rerun the test. And then I remove the +18BS Jewelry and take the +18WS one instead.
The last Column is then the hand calculation of what Jewelry is actually better at that moment.
Link:
http://ohrhammer.online/wp-content/uplo ... SvsBS.xlsx
Observations:
In the first tests on the Chaos Deamon you could see that taking simply more BS is still better than taking more WS. I think a break Even of WS vs BS should be around 850 or 900 BS. Up from that point WS has the same Bonus as getting more BS. I’m not sure that WS will overtake BS on 1000 BS near the Softcap.
The second tests on the Troll Champions show a higher Mitigation on the NPCs. With 46% Mitigation the Break Even point is already reached at 780 BS. Getting a Turret or not has no impact on the WS vs BS ratio.
The last Test was a duell vs Syrtank. He is a Knight of the Blazing Sun with Sword and Shield. From a quick check he is not fully Armor Toughness build but has also some wounds in. Anyway, with a Mitigation of 80% he is a tough nut. And you can see that more WS is at BS 795 already better than more BS. Overall you are doing still krutting low damage.
Conclusions:
After Testing on a BS 1050 and WS 680.
With that High BS and WS you are doing a lot of Damage. Also vs Tanks. If they are on a 800 Toughness Build your dots still tick like -1 Damage.
So here is what to keep in Mind:
Don’t start to think of getting more WS if your BS is below 850.
If you are around 500 BS or lower, more BS is a LOT better than more WS.
