Hi i just did some math for my DH i wanted to make sure have a lower game per hour was worth to increase difficulty.
I'm using Marauders M4 with Magefist, 200k HP and 2Million Toughness and mara's so i don't insta die
I logged the timings at end (loading menu) of each game . I was picking all yellow and blues so that's the reason of sell run
Using online stopwatch.
1 game = 1m18s
2 game = 2m41s
3 game = 4m9s -- sell run
4 game = 6m4s
5 game = 7m27s
6 game = 8m54s
7 game = 10m14s
average game per 10 minutes = 6.840
without sell run += 7 games
kill time = 34sec average T6
Using Calamity or my hellrack provided same results since i only have 12% increase sentry damage and 52% fire dmg increase , and don't have T6 bonus, with T6 drop calamity but do your own tests will be gear dependent
Torment Bonus
T0 - 0%
T1 - 15%
T2 - 32%
T3 - 52%
T4 - 74%
T5 - 101%
T6 - 131%
This are the Torment Bonus for Magic Find / Legendaries
T4 = 17sec kill time
T5 = 27sec kill time
T6 = 34sec kill time
This are my average kill times in different difficulties
Now the game time with legendary drop factored into it .
Keep in mind we need to have below 60 games an hour so to avoid 42002 error .
Sorry about not precise math but i used it below where it matters .
T6 : 1m24 sec (7.1 games - 10minutes) = 42.85 games/hour
T5 : 1m17 sec (7.792 games -10minutes) = 46.75 games/hour
T4 : 1m07 sec ( 8.955 - 10minutes) = 53.73 games/hour
This was done under some lag so i guess i could get 58 games in T4 and 48 in T5
Anyway let's see if worth.
Highest value the better
42.85 * 1.31 = 56.1335
46.75 * 1.01 = 47.2175
53.73 * 0.74 = 39.7602
Now breakpoints in this case you can see how much games would be necessary in lower difficulty
to provide same LPH ,
x*1.01 = 56.1333 <=> x = 55.5777...
x*0.74 = 56.1333 <=> x = 75.8561
So i needed more than 55 games in T5 and 75 games in T4 . So this concludes in terms of LPH is worth to keep doing T6 with only 42.85 games hour.
Btw i'm doing this with a not well equipped DH, only M4 i believe with tweaks to trinity ( why does trinity take so much after enter game to use the portals?) and to sentry placement at start of ghom is possible to reach the 60 games as soon as i get M6.