/Wave Waivveen Hey Bro! This guy makes great pets by the way!

Kepp here,

I haven't had chance to send Waivveen the stats in game (due to RL as well) but here is what I have totaled so far and with me at work. I have been adding to this inbetween resource contracts and plan on getting the sample rate up quite a bit to improve the accuracy but I have about twice this much data tabulated by hand at home and these numbers are holding strong.

First off I tested four different pets on Sharnaffs on Corellia. The pets were a CL59 with Blind/Intim, a CL59 with Stun/Intim, a CL61 with Intim only, and a CL51 with dizzy only. I will list the stats of each pet below for comparision. The two Cl59's and the CL61 are very close with the CL51 having about the same or better stats with 60% resists and 12.5k HAM.

About the statistics, I used just a single pet and sent it in once I got the creature positioned so I would only have the one creature (no adds). I would then use only HS2 to attack the creatures so no additional specials were applied. I stayed at the same range with each creature about 30m so I could see the damage results spam by and monitor progress. After combat was over I would heal the pet too full with pet stims and record the total damage healed (all three pools added together). The average total damage is listed under Avg. Damage taken. I baselined off of the Dizzy only pet since I wanted to measure how much damage reduction I was getting from the different special combo's. I had a macro that I ran to engage pets in combat that cycled continuously through the specials alternating between each with a 0.5 second pause inbetween. This made sure that the specials remained on the creature as much as possible. The Sample size column is the number of creatures faced and averaged. As stated earlier I have actually increased these sample sizes quite a bit but have not had a chance to record them in my spread sheet (Which I have at work.) but the numbers have held close to the same, withing 0.02.

Summary Bull Sharnaff

                                               Avg.Damage Taken                 % Improvement              Sample size

Off Baseline

Dizzy Only(Baseline)                            1633                                     0.00                             3

Blind/Intimidate                                      854                                     0.48                              13

Intimidate Only                                       727                                     0.55                              9

Stun/Intimidate                                       579                                     0.65                             19

Summary Sharnaff

                                     Avg.Damage Taken              % Improvement               Sample size

Off Baseline

Dizzy Only(Baseline)                878                                   0.00                             9

Blind/Intimidate                        414                                   0.53                             15

Intimidate Only                         435                                   0.50                             18

Stun/Intimidate                         342                                   0.61                             18

My conclusion is that Intimidate itself is the hands down best special to have on a pet for PvE. It has a solid 50% damage reduction effect and will significantly improve uptime and reduce stim use/cost. (and also save my little friends from a beating! :smileywink The Stun gave between a 10-15% additional reduction, meaning they stacked, which makes it the second best special out there and to me the most valuable combo. I got mixed results with Blind but over all saw really no improvement over Intimidate by itself. I have not done much testing with PvP or PvPE so I can not comment on its effect there but I know when I am blinded my accuracy seems to go down.

I hope this helps a little bit, I can post the larger set of numbers when I get a chance to combine them. These findings hold true with what I have found talking to other CH's so I am very satisfied with the results and my pets. Bottem line: I would much rather have intimidate over a few extra K of HAM.

Pet Stats

                  Baseline     Blind/Intim      Intimidate     Stun/Intim

CL               51              59                   61                   59

H               12597            11520           12184             11950

A               10263            10443           10712              9832

M                11125           11376           11376             10927

Armor           Light             Light            Light                Light

Kinetic         60%                59%            59%              59%

Atk Spd       2.15               2.01             2.02               1.99

To Hit             0.5              0.6                0.6                 0.6

Damage      500-510         450-460         490-500          460-470

Sp1              None               Blind            None             Stun

Sp2               Dizzy          Intimidate        Intimidate        Intimidate

My Key Indicators:

Eff HAM

vs. Kinetic     62,985         56,195              59,434              58,293

Eff HAM

w/ Specials    62,985         112,390           118,868              166,551

Those are the basic relevent stats I believe. Each pet had solid other resists but going to keep this short as I can.

Well, thanks again Waivveen for the pets and making this test possible.  And hopefully see you in game soon.

Kepp Nodaway

Master Ranger/MCH