[2.0] Damage comparison : Lioneye's Glare vs two Harbingers (a decent and a good one)

Here's a little topic to show that Lioneye's glare is still a very valid choice in the current all crit meta. It may help people who wish to play a physical crit archer but don't have the funds to get a decent harbinger, since LG is a very cheap bow.

Three bows were used for the test:

A very well rolled 354 pdps harbinger:

A random craft 298 pdps harbinger:

An almost perfectly rolled 359 pdps Lioneye's Glare (a lucky drop, and I don't have a lower one :s):




2.0 passive skill tree.

I used Puncture for single target, on 4L:

And I used three different AOEs:





For buffs, I used Hatred 20, Herald of Ash 20/20 and Ice Golem 18.
Also note that I have a rather high accuracy at 3.1k. People genraly have around 2k, which will reduce the difference between LG and harbingers further.

Dps screenshots were taken under two configurations:





Conclusion
In PoE 2.0, a very well rolled Lioneye's Glare still compare evenly to a 280-290 pdps harbinger with 8.5 crit chance. It is still a very good choice to build a physical crit bow build, especially in short league, and it's much cheaper than harbinger that give equivalent damage.

Ideally, I should have tested with Physical Projectile Attack Damage (PPAD in short) instead of Faster Attack, but I have only one PPAD 20/20 and I was too lazy to switch my gem from one setup to another and redo all screenshots (especially with the charges up).
With PPAD, LG is at 3 att/s, which is very manageable (it's my regular attack speed on my harbinger and I have no mana issue). And it does more damage than with faster attack.

edit: I've edited the first post with damage figures with PPAD instead of faster attack, for LG only.

Here is a test with LG on a physical reflect map:

http://youtu.be/j8K3lhzxRrw

And with LgoH instead of WED. I eventually died to corrupted blood which I didn't see while killing an ele reflect mob (so it's dual reflect with uncapped res because of ele weakness)

http://youtu.be/9qLC-gFRU0M

It should be safer with gear and tree properly tailored for LG. Also I properly cast enduring cry repeatedly for the rest of the map and it was much safer as I had a 2-3s immortal call.

I didn't mention that but yes, I have a lot of accuracy. The random archer is more in the 1800-2000 range.

You're wrong however on your numbers, accuracy is factored in tooltip dps.

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lourun_coria wrote:

Very good comparison overall, thanks for your efforts.

However, are you counting that the critical chance is quite higger in Harbingers than in Lioneyes?

It doesn't matter, it's also factored in tooltip dps. You trade crit for faster attacks and higher chance to hit. In fact LG is more or less equivalent to a 7% crit bow with 85% chance to hit.

Build around LG with PPAD instead of faster attack to save on mana and you will be doing great, for a fraction of the cost of an equivalent crit bow, dps wise.