Originally Posted by
BigMoney
Okay, first off, thank you for making the spreadsheet. However, I do have one criticism relating to the calculations as to the "gold required." The issue arises when you need a LOT of gold to kill the boss.
Let's say I am level 73 with an attack of ~15K (cough). At this level, a level 40 boss has 880,000 HP. According to the calculator, this means it will take 59 hits to kill the boss, and 160 gold. However, the underlying assumption here is that for 10 gold, you will be able to attack 3 times, assuming you have a minute to wait. If you are using the strategy to get 13 free hits, assuming absolutely perfect timing (which in reality would be nearly impossible)...
2 hours remain. Hit boss once.
1:59. Hit boss 4 times.
1:33. Hit boss 2 times.
1:07. Hit boss 2 times.
0:41. Hit boss 2 times.
0:15. Hit boss 2 times.
13 hits, 15 minutes remaining. Now, using the prescribed gold strategy...
Refill health (10 gold).
0:14. Hit boss 3 times. Refill health (total of 20 gold spent, 16 cumulative hits).
0:13. Hit boss 3 times. Refill health (30 gold spent, 19 hits).
0:12. ... 40 gold, 22 hits.
0:11. ... 50 gold, 25 hits.
...
0:03. 130 gold, 49 hits.
0:02. 140 gold, 52 hits.
0:01. 150 gold, 55 hits.
1 second remaining - purchase health (160 gold), but only have time for 2 hits, totaling 57 hits. Not enough to defeat the boss. Even if you assume you could get 3 hits off with a second remaining, you'd have 58 hits, which is still too few.
This is again assuming absolutely flawless timing, and not taking into account time spent in the attack animation, etc. Even someone meticulously timing their attacks is likely to waste at least a whole minute doing so, and giving myself a 2 minute cushion before I start pouring on gold attacks (i.e. not waiting a minute for health to refill slightly) means that by the time I've spent 130 gold with 3 minutes remaining, totaling 49 hits, I need to spend 50 more gold (180 gold total) to get that 59th hit. Possibly one more health (190 gold) because one time when I KO'd a boss at the same time they KO'd me, I didn't "win" the battle until I got my health back to attack again.
So, at the very least, even if you assume unrealistically perfect timing, once you get above 55 hits, you need to switch to an assumption of only 2 more hits per 10 gold.
That's my opinion anyway. Feel free to point something out if I'm missing anything. Also, please excuse any typos, it's 6am here and I need to sleep.