Chivalry vs Magery
In Ultima Online, it is said Chivalry is good, but just how good is it?
In these tests, we took logs from two similar wyrms, Jorge, who is Chivalry and Zanfran who is Magery on DPS drones on test center. They both have leveled 120 skills.
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| Strength | Tactics | Int | Chivalry |
| 759 | 120 | 405 | 120 |
Damage Tests
| Jorge, Chivalry White Wyrm | ||
| Damage per 5 minutes of combat | ||
| Test #: | Damage | EoO Uptime |
| One | 37,617 | 28.3% |
| Two | 40,407 | 42.2% |
| Three | 40,185 | 42.0% |
| Four | 39,969 | 41.7% |
| Five | 47,995 | 73.3% |
| Six | 45,637 | 59.5% |
| Seven | 44,853 | 56.1% |
| Eight | 44,086 | 54.9% |
| Nine | 44,401 | 56.7% |
| Ten | 32,838 | 11.7% |
Removing the highest and lowest and averaging the 8 remaining records, on a zero resist target Jorge did an average of 42,144 damage per 5 minutes.
Consecrate Weapon on a drone is a dps loss as the formula actually makes the pet do less damage, the same with armor ignore. So the damage over 5 minutes of a chivalry wyrm is actually higher.
| Zanfran, Magery White Wyrm | ||
| Damage per 5 minutes of combat | ||
| Test #: | Damage | % Damage Magical |
| One | 33,750 | 7.6% |
| Two | 34,611 | 8% |
| Three | 33,278 | 5.8% |
| Four | 33,899 | 6.8% |
| Five | 32,744 | 6.2% |
| Six | 33,921 | 6.7% |
| Seven | 33,216 | 7.4% |
| Eight | 33,913 | 8.1% |
| Nine | 33,567 | 6.5% |
| Ten | 32,598 | Data Not Available |
The damage of the Zanfran was much more consistent, but the magery damage only equated for 6-8% of his dps. All except one test, it vastly under performed Chivalry
Removing highest and lowest, Zanfran averaged 33,536.
Results
If you skipped the tests above and just want the results, here they are summarized:
Chivalry White Wyrm - 42,144 Average Damage over 5 Minutes
Magery White Wyrm - 33,536 Average Damage over 5 Minutes
On average (without considering the DPS loss in the test of Consecrate Weapon and Armor Ignore), a Chivalry pet will do 25% more dps than the exact same spec'd animal with Magery. However, when the RNG gods are in your favor, it can be a 50%+ DPS increase.