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Would that not depend on the rest of your gear though? The att boost from beserk makes a huge difference to penta since its a 5hit ws. Assuming you had 110+ dex total from base+other slots and over 100str total the att would be better yeah?
Well it does depend on your other gear, yah; I can't give you a universal answer.
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As for the stats vs att arguement. It seems fairly valid, but does that really consider SAM's B- rank in Polearm leaving the att stat much to be desired? Especially in a situation with either no att buffs (last scenario mentioned) or using full time sushi? Penta's horribly low stat modifiers (20% each of STR/DEX) doesn't really make stats as attractive unless the acc is that important from the DEX and with STR calculating twice. I guess it is hard to pin down.
Yah, it's not that easy. Hopefully you'll be /war in most situations where you're using Polearm SAM which means Berserk covers the Attack deficiency nicely.
Basically, doing horribly rough math
AF+1 hands STR7/DEX7 = ~2-3 WSC and ~1-2fSTR. Worst case scenario this is about a 3% damage increase and best case about a 5% damage increase. Let's say ~4% as an average, at what Attack (using a
very simplified representation of Attack's impact on damage) does 17 Attack give you 4% damage?
17/x = 0.04
therefore x = 425, so if your Attack > 425 then AF+1 is stronger offensively than BKotes... in reality, a bit higher since I'm ignoring level correction, different cRatio bounds and other horrible things. The accuracy is definitely useful though - it can either make you suck less or trade out other pieces for greater offensive stats than the difference between the pieces.
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I don't think I've ever seen you in-game Raen, so I doubt Mithra pics (if I had any..) would help you remember. :( I also play at really odd hours anyway. If you don't play anymore(do you?) I wasn't around waaaay back when.
I just want Mithra pics ; ; and yeah, I haven't been playing since September now... properly since late August. Been ages!
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Though, if I was able to obtain HQ Hachiman gloves that would let me drop 1 more sTP on the TP set yes?
Yup. If you want to do the calculations for yourself (Store TP is quite easy),
Base TP/hit of 480 Polearm: 13
* You simply multiply this figure by 1.(your Store TP)
* Chop off all decimals after the first, no rounding (13.29 = 13.2 etc).
This is your TP/hit, then:
* Multiply this figure by 4 [since you're working with a 5 hit build, which is 4 melee hits + 1 WS per cycle]
Calculate how much TP you need to generate during WS to make this 100%. Each extra hit of Penta Thrust gives you 1.(StoreTPamount) to 1 decimal place, remember.