Ilvl to Trial guideline?

[Daggot]

Has anyone seen a proposed chart or guideline for what level you should be per Trial tier? I only recently started doing Trials. I'm doing each tier twice to make sure I'm confident of my lvl before moving up. Either I need to move way up, or people are doing runs that they shouldn't be; judging from my assault dps compared to others. And, usually my Jarlaxle is higher than their 8-12%.

Except, and the reason I'm asking, is because my Jarlaxle is only 38.5% buff; well below the 200% cap. Currently I'm doing Grand Master. My assault dps is coming in at 3k after completing day 4 (sigh, and we're not even down to 50% of Tiamat's health). Most of the others are in the 2k range. There's one guy that I really hope he's just desync'd, but he's really dragging down the numbers.

How do I figure out where my tier cap is, short of being a suck that can't bring the dps?

[Hecate]

Don't be too confident over showed dps in trials window, some things aren't taken into account locally. That's the case of scrolls of assault notably, and that's important with an uncapped Jarlaxle. Because you're the only one who are credited with them on your client (and the same for other players, they only see their dps boosted) & with 5 scrolls, it's a 27.63% bonus you see for you but not for the others. I'm uncertain if they really work or not, in fact. It wasn't at the beginning, but I'ven't redo the maths since.

You can see the relative contribution of each player only at the end of the trial, and again the amounts are broken so you can't read them directly, but their relative value is accurate. If you sum up the 5 values and do a prorata of that sum on actual Tiamat's total health, you'll have the actual damage each player have done to Tiamat according to server. And the few times I tracked it, that values was right with my calculations on each player DPS.

The tier is more relative to your area wall than to your ilvl, as long as you manage to join a high enough Jarlaxle. On T10 difficulty, I'll not join a public lobby with a 40-50% Jarlaxle, I'm better waiting a few hours to find an higher one.

[Daggot]

Oh, I hadn't thought about judging it by my wall. That's a pretty good way to read it. That could mean Grand Torment is probably pushing it based on what restrictions I get. Or, Grand Legend to be safe. That helps. I can go up one more tier and probably be okay. That's what I needed.

[tdb]

My Jarlaxle gives 8.92% assault damage, yet I'm easily doing grand legend trials (as long as everyone else is completing their goals too). In my current run I pushed past area 900 on the first day, so I wonder if I could do grand torment. I'm not sure how well I fare if I don't get to use Asharra though.

I guess if your Jarlaxle has low item level it may be better to choose someone else as your assault front champion, since there's only three champions for that buff. Another player might have a higher Jarlaxle.