If I really wanted to win the windbuffet argument I would have brought up conserve TP long ago. I dont really care anymore though, so whatever.
ftfy
That might be the iffy leg you need to stand on and would terribly hard for someone to argue any math you provided.
Not really. I haven't followed the discussion, but since it's SAM I'll assume the builds in question are a 5-hit. Conserve TP will thus net you a certain average TP return that goes straight into overflow and thus weaponskill damage, so you can solve for the net impact on per-WS damage quite easily. I've actually done so previously. Either way, his argument was so specious that it's not really worth examining. Even if his conclusion
was correct (which, as noted, it's not), it would be for reasons entirely different than those he's trying to employ.