Experiment: Relative kill speeds for skill combinations

[MCPWTB]

Oh no, my future has been told! As aerial said in another thread, after reaching paragon level 100 the game is pretty boring. I agree with this prognostication.

Instead of staying bored, I decided to try out killing Ghom on MP0 with various skills to find the relative killing speed of each:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...7721?page=4#74

Spreadsheet of results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...xVU8wcFE&gid=0

My character used during the test:
http://d3up.com/b/70667

I end up finding out some interesting things as presented in the OP on the bnet thread and then I found some more interesting skill combinations.

Blazing Spiders + Haunt Resentful Spirit. Who would have thought that would be a good skill combo?
Rush of Essence and Vision Quest stack? I hadn't considered that before, even though it was obvious.

So the experiment:
Kill Ghom on MP0 with various skill setups to see how skill combinations compare to each other for single target killing speed.
We all know a grain of salt is needed when playing in real situations, but this was interesting to me so I've completed it.

I pick a set of attack skills and passives, and then grind out five+ MP0 Ghom kill times to create a decent set of data.
I can then repeat this experiment for other sets of skills, resulting in a way to compare skills to one another.
I am really only interested in using mana positive skills, but I include mana negative skill combinations because it is possible someone else gets them to be mana positive with other gear selections.

[jamesL]

this was an interesting read,
still digesting it all

I've got a p level 11 WD and I'm i'm bored with him already
hopefully I can find something new with your tests

[PhoeniX Skye]

As suggested by the other thread, it would be pretty interesting to see the update after the Bleed (Skorn) has been taken out of the equation