Team Scenario Optimizer

[Thorim]

Hi all. I've been a long time lurker and finally found a way to make my first contribution to the community. I've recently finished leveling a few teams to 90 and begun the gearing process. I have found that Scenarios are fun, relatively easy and efficient means of acquiring gear and JP/VP.

However, after reading threads like this I started wondering about the most efficient means of running all characters through Scenarios. My solution is based on string combinatorics (closely related to permutations) and is rather straightforward. You enter a list of characters in the right window and output an optimized list in the left. You can export to .csv as well.

You can grab the executable and/or the source code from my Google Code repository here. The code is alpha and has been functionality tested. There might be a few bugs since I only performed cursory testing.

If there is enough interest from the community, I would love to extend this utility to include JP/VP calculations so that we know how many rotations of the optimized team list we need to run in order to get from x point to the relevant point cap.

Enjoy and have fun!

[Ellay]

Awesome stuff. Have you found if you are capable of doing heroics this still nets a positive? I've only done one scenario to gain the ilvl 450 weapon and realistically it only took 15-20 min per run while heroics wildly range in time spent from currently 25 min up to 90-120 if I'm having trouble on a boss or learning it.

[Thorim]

so uhm, downloaded the file and put some names in there. Now what?

Click "Make List" and you will get an optimized combination of characters. If you want to save to a file, click "Export List".

Awesome stuff. Have you found if you are capable of doing heroics this still nets a positive? I've only done one scenario to gain the ilvl 450 weapon and realistically it only took 15-20 min per run while heroics wildly range in time spent from currently 25 min up to 90-120 if I'm having trouble on a boss or learning it.

In short, yes. When my first team had the necesasry iLvl for heroics my skill with that team was not high enough to compensate for the barely-there item level. So I looked to Scenarios and found it was an easy to way to make progress without smashing my head into a wall.

[Lyonheart]

I'm not sure if its better in the end or not.. but I got more epics from scenarios than I did from 5 mans. MOST of them are very easy.. there are a few that just take longer because each member in a normal run would be doing separate things to get it done faster. As a boxer you cant do that so it takes longer.

[Multibocks]

so uhm, downloaded the file and put some names in there. Now what?