Gore vs. ClawFollow

Awrite, my turn to be the nublet now.

I repeatedly hear MM Hunters praise boars and Gore, and their ability to hold aggro even through heavy crits. After having tamed a boar I can verify that Gore is like a toned down Claw with +50% crit chance or something like that, except it doesn't crit, it just doubles the damage.

But what is it that makes it so good at holding aggro? The chance to do double damage? Does Gore really do more damage than Claw? Does Gore have a threat modifier?

Or is it simply because boars have +9% armor and +6% health compared to cats? Kitties have +10% DPS which should give increased damage overall and thus more threat.

I'm baffled. Is it the Boar Crusaders spreading propaganda, or are the boars really enchanted angels in disguise?

Edited, Apr 25th 2007 5:24pm by Mazra

Very tricky, Iponema, but you haven't answered my question yet.

What is it about Gore that makes it better than Claw?

Gore has a 50% chance to do double damage. Then it has the same chance to crit as claw. The two stack (i.e. if it would do 50, and procs, and crits, it will do 200, or 4x damage). Basically, for the average damage of gore (since it's same focus cost and cooldown as claw, the average damage will do), average the numbers and multiply by 1.5. For claw, just average the numbers.

We'll take the lowest and highest rank:

Gore Rank 1: 3-5 damage, average 4, total 6 when you factor in the bonus.
Claw Rank 1: 4-6 damage, average 5.

Gore Rank 9: 37-61 damage, average 49, total 74.5 when you factor in the bonus.
Claw Rank 9: 54-76 damage, average 65.

As you can see, while claw does more damage without the bonus, when you factor in the bonus as a 50% increase in damage, gore does more. The fact that gore is only available to boars and ravagers, while claw is available to like 9 different pets (including scorpids which I believe can out-DPS anything when they get scorpid poison up to 5 stacks and sustain it, and a couple of birds which can hold aggro really well with screech, warp stalkers who can warp, and cats who can prowl) gore is useful, but it's limited in it's overall use.

For burst or sustained DPS it's great, and boars/ravagers make good all-around DPSers, but for burst damage I'd go wind serpent, for sustained damage I'd go scorpid, and if the damage meter I use counts my pets damage seperate from mine and I really cared about MY DPS, I'd go wolf.

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