Professions and Adversaries, relative advantages and disadvantages. Share your thoughts.

Pangarban

I'd like is to hear about the relative advantages and disadvantages of Magizoologists, Professors and Aurors when it comes to combat with Adversaries and their guards. What is your experience? Which do you think is the best overall? Any comments would be useful.

I am a Professor, fully trained. I have completed the full Principles of Professorship lesson plan and all of the lessons in Advanced Adversarial Combat. Now I'm considering training up in another profession. But I think a general conversation about all three professions would be interesting and helpful.

CBG92

I'm about 7 lessons in to auror adversarial combat and I'm already more pleased with it than my first profession as professor. When I max out all the auror adversarial I'm gonna start professor again and see but I'm probably gonna stick with auror because they always do more damage anyway and from what I've been reading based on other players further into the adversary plan, auror is still the smartest choice

SparkleLikeAGem

My short answer:

Professors are best profession against Narcissa Malfoy and the worst profession against the easiest foes.

Aurors are the best profession against weakest foes and arguably the worst profession against the stronger foes.

Magizoologists are the best against stronger foes, except Narcissa Malfoy.

My reasoning:

Professors are worse than Magizoologists in almost every way; lower defense, HP, base attack, defense breach and critical damage output (96*2.11 < 109 *1.98). I'll get to Professors one advantage in a moment.

Aurors will take adversariess down somewhat quicker than Magizoologists (and a lot quicker than Professors), saving energy, and they can take the easier ones down before they need any potions. So Aurors get the advantage against the easiest foes. As foes get more difficult, due to very low defense/HP, Aurors need to use more healing potions than other professions. Against dragons there is always a small chance that they will score a triple hit which can take an Auror straight from over half health to knocked out. When lethals are released, getting knocked out may become an even greater risk for Aurors. Magizoologists have a huge HP and defense advantage while their damage output is only slightly lower than Aurors, giving them the advantage vs. tougher foes.

Professors are supposed to be balanced, which implies that they should have mid-range attack and mid-range defense/HP. Instead they have mid-range defense/HP and the lowest attack of all professions by a long shot. Assuming that an Auror doesn't get themselves knocked out, they can still take a dragon out with less energy and potions than a Professor. But, due to the higher risk of knock-out, I rank Aurors lower than Professors against the toughest foes.

For no apparent reason, Professors have more than 2x the accuracy of Aurors and more than 3x the accuracy of Magizoologists. Based on my own experience, Narcissa Malfoy seems to have a very high base evasion rate at about 45%. So she will dodge about 1/8-1/10 attacks from a professor vs. over 1/3 attacks from a Magizoologist. No other feared foe is evasive. Eventually, lethal foes will probably be highly evasive but everyone can learn lessons to make themselves 100% accurate against them which (likely*) negates the one-and-only advantage Professors might have against lethals compared to other professions. *Professors could become relevant if the top lethals get a base evasion rate of over 130%, but that is a lot to speculate about right now.