New Target Dummies For Beta Testing

[Ziarre]

As an experiment, in the next beta build, you may find some new kinds of test dummies.

In order to keep them out of way in less travelled areas, they are located in Shattrath. (The Aldor and Scyers miss you!) The dummies have 50 million health, can be killed, and respawn quickly. They are spread out so you don't accidentally cleave or interfere with someone else's test. They won't turn to face you, so you can attack them from behind, if that's how you roll. The dummies also should buff you if you get near them with a full suite of temporary raid buffs, including food and flasks, and debuff themselves. These won't stack with your group buffs or debuffs, so it doesn't matter if you buff yourselves or not. (We're only talking about main raid buffs here, like Battle Shout or Blessing of Kings. If it's an individual buff or debuff, you'll still need to apply it normally.)

We are leaving this thread open if you'd like to post your DPS or link to logs such as World of Logs. It will be very easy to sandbag or cheat in this testing, so understand that we'll have to take all such numbers with a big old grain of salt. However, in order to compare apples to apples, we suggest purchasing a full set of PvP gear, including one on use and one on proc trinket, but no enchants or gems. Reforging is fine. If you use different sets of gear, please state that in your post. Also keep in mind that target dummy DPS is not encounter DPS.

Please keep this thread clear of class feedback -- it's just for numbers.

Again, the main purpose of this experiment is to make it easier for you get consistent DPS testing. It is only for beta and may get turned off at any point if it becomes disruptive.

Sounds useful!

[Kalliope]

That is an incredibly useful change, especially for the classes with execute abilities!

I'm sure the theorycrafters are rejoicing at this.

[Danielfboone]

The fact that they can be killed will make testing MM against the other two specs much more accurate since Careful Aim will work as intended instead of always being active. Isn't 50 million health too much though? I don't think you can do that much damage in 5 minutes which is what they should be geared for. Thirty million seems more reasonable and it would still take 100k dps to burn that down in 5 minutes.

[Ziarre]

The longer the encounter the better, though? Evens out spikes caused by RNG, and all that.