Using my current gearset, I do /amr show, go best in bags, and it tells me to switch 2 items and some gems for 0.39%
then, I go buy a conquest neck, with that in bags I go /amr show again, copy the new string, paste in website and it gives me same exact items, but different gems and 0.91%
I’m kind of confused, please help, I will attach a google drive video demonstrating my question here
Fine, here is snapshot with 0.39
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and here is snapshot with the exact same items but I bought a necklace (which it doesnt suggest equipping) for gear 0.91
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You can clearly see from the video which one is which.
Videos and screenshots aren’t that helpful for debugging issues – we need the snapshots so that we can load your exact settings and inventory and replicate your case on our test servers.
So in this case… there are a lot of gem combinations, especially once you add in meta gem requirements and unique gem constraints. It’s simply not practical to test them all in combination with all of the gear combinations available as well.
When you get different gear, it is trying slightly different combinations in different orders, and thus arrives at a slightly different solution. This can sometimes happen as well if you e.g. lock in a gem or two – it will arrive at a slightly different solution from time to time.
This case is a little larger than we usually see, but still not that big of a difference: 0.52%. In the overall scheme of things that is insignificant, but we’ll see if we can narrow it down a bit more in this case.
No model or simulation of the game is accurate enough to really know if one set of gear is 0.5% better than another. The variance from attempt to attempt is also very high. You would have to do the exact same fight in the exact same way (length, movement, etc) hundreds (probably thousands) of times to know for sure which set was better in-game. That is why we say anything under 1% is good for an optimizer. In-game, you can’t really “feel” the difference until you get in the neighborhood of a 5% dps difference.
