Making a universal HPM reader for everyone

Hello there, I've been playing tera for a long time and, as an old tera player People has been asking me what HPM (hit per minute) they should have with their classes.

To answer this question I have made a program who reads a json file extracted from shinra meter.

For each player you have : global remarks (how many death if any, for how long etc)

then the DPS on the picture below 22 325 552dps (22,3m)

then a table with the following :

the skill name

what are your hpm compared to what it's expected to be(❌if you're below expected hpm, 🔵 if you're in the expected hpm range, ✅if you're above expected hpm range)

a comment if the hpm are above or below expected,

the hpm of the player, and the min expected and the max expected.

Below there's general remarks, here one arcan barage diden't went through the boss before exploding and some hits of tb and bombardment diden't hit

below that in green the unchained skill (technically most classes has chainning mecanics just invisible)

And here is where i need you, Please help me define what are acceptable HPM foreach class and what extra tiny things I can look at foreach class.

Added a grade base on the hpm compared to the expected hpm and their contribution to dps (for exemple lancer sheild bash dosen't contribute a lot since it deals almost no dmg, wheras assault contribute for a big amount since it deals considerable dmg)

you get a 100% grade if you match every expected hpm for important spells but you can go over if you're above expected max hpm for important spells. you also get a grade from F to Lolimagie (my sorc in seren server) based on the accuracy% of you playing the class

I've also added icons for the spells

I have made a rough translation for most of the program output, (the spells' names are still in french but there's an icon with it and for spells that appears more than once they're special mention like hit1 or hit2 when the shinra differentiate them)

To make the final note easier to understand I've added two colums, the contribution to the rank and how much a spell in the expected range contribute to it.

To get a reasonable contribution if in range for most classes I've taken the dmg % of spells in normal runs, removed the ones who contributes for 0% or less and keept the % contribution of each spells (here's below an exemple of a sample sorc run) (meteor is separated in 2 hits in the shinra contributing each separatly in the final rank but shown, as one spell)

foreach spells :

if you're higher than expected hpm you get (contribution expected * the ratio of how much you were above the expected max)

if you're below you get (contribution expected * the ratio of how much you were below the expected min), else you get the contribution

Here for exemple we've got a played who overused but neglected , as such he gets more contribution for than expected but he looses some on

(Screen of a sorc run in seren patch 101)

Of course gameplay might vary for players but if someone does great I expect the rank to be high even if the player neglected what I expected as high in dps spells but did amazingly enough on other spells to get more dps

For classes like sorc who gets a special fusion mecanic that makes 3 spells on one key the two elements fusion share the same total contribution and makes sorc ranked on 104%

as you're expected to get in the ranges for 2 fusion (look at elemental fusion's mecanics for more detail)

Here is for everyclass the sample run used for each spells' dps contribution

Archer

Zerk

Warrior

Slayer

Valk

Reaper

Ninja

If you've got better sources or reliably better hpms for at least a 2minutes fights against any 455+ bosses on official server or equivalent (AKA not menma or servers with significant changes on spells) feel free to post your hpm here and I'll change the grade contribution or expected hpm accordingly.

Using the above program a lot I've just realized now three things,

1st) some classes are a lot stronger than others by a huge margin even more than in old tera and this no matter the fight duration, I think it's due to the crystals changing the fundamental balance of the game.

2d) I've seen way less archer/ninja/reaper/slayer than valk/sorc.

3rd) I now have enough data to give a grade to many players but I guess That would be wrong to do it without their consent.

However if you're a dps or a tank (and not a brawler since their hpm are somewhat irrelevant overall with parry not beeing differentiated from main hit via shinra) and you'd want to improve, feel free to dm me on discord and send me the a '.json' of fights extracted with shinra where you feel it represent you well. You should only send fights in a 5 player dungeon and at least a 1min 30 long fight since shorter fights tends to makes hpm way higher than they should be and healers and tank buff affect your hpm.

PS

Currently I can't auto rank healer since it's not only he uptime on buffs that matters but, sometimes it's better to delay buffs and have a lower uptime to give the group a better dps.

(A good exemple of that would be waiting 3 secs for eredict of judgement to buff as enrage starts rather than cast on cd with high burst classes.)