A question about Axe styles - havoc and plague?

[SilverHood]

Been looking over some combat logs of fighting various people...

And to me, it seems that plague does more damage than havoc...

surely, it should be the other way around?

Or is it just me?

 

[Ardrias_Mid]

Sure you didnt fail havoc?

 

[Mr TNT]

havoc does more i find

 

[SilverHood]

hmm, this was from killing teoz some time ago

Dead teoz

As you can see, plague does a lot more dmg overall...
But the style damage is about the same..
Maybe it's just damage variance, but so much? I have 51 in axe I think

 

[Eltharion]

damage variance is very huge, at least from what i have experienced with my Warrior, also specced 50 in axe...

 

[Harm]

Plague has high damage, and havoc has medium (slap me if i'm wrong).

I mostly use plague RvR, and rather look at havoc as another okay style that gives access to a better style again.

 

[Mr TNT]

Originally posted by Harm
Plague has high damage, and havoc has medium (slap me if i'm wrong).

/me slaps Harm

both high damage

 

[decline]

In my experience, plague does 10-50 more damage.

 

[Wend]

Some time ago I tested Havoc and Tyr's damage over hundreds of swings and also included Plague in the comparison and found that Havoc on average did outdamage Plague. Unfortunately I can't find the logs. If I recall correctly the difference in style damage was around 10%.

I haven't noticed any real changes in axe style damage last few patches so kinda doubt something changed recently. Could always rerun tests.

At any rate it's hard to say anything meaningful on the numbers in the screenshot above. Plague hit for 108 while Havoc hit for 111 and 99. Variance bites.

Plague has a godawful penalty to defence though.

 

[luktar]

now with end regen i use pillager. don't have to think about posistion on target and so.. just hit the bugger and make him slow

 

[Nonnier]

use slam and evernight, then i switch to vak sheild or havoc

works nice for me