String Theory: A Puppetmaster's Guide *NEW*

I like refresh if youre spamming up in arms. It makes for zero down time pup/blm warps

This time around I managed to see low Quenching Hammer damage aside from one apparent anomaly, but still not sure what conditions cause Quenching Hammer to be consistently high (maybe relative positioning of affected targets + buffs active? Autos don't have buffs with VE/VE though)

Locked equipment slots and increased MDT from -28% to -39% for this last attempt, but used Light/Fire/Water instead of Light/Fire/Wind.

331 Quenching Hammer damage would be expected to be around 485 without Mana Jammer IV (1.466x going from 136 MDB to 61 MDB), to compare with situations where Mana Jammer IV isn't used at all


For the consecutive Waterga IVs before Overdrive, 120/365 = .3287, which is consistent with Steam Jacket reducing damage by ~67.5% (Optic Fiber I/II under 1 light maneuver corresponding to +50% increase in effect, so -45% damage with Steam Jacket under 1 water maneuver increased to -67.5%)

For the Quenching Hammer damage prior to Overdrive, 198/331 = .598 (indicating Analyzer -40% took effect). Then 198 damage was further cut to 151 under Overdrive. MDB prior to Overdrive was 136 and increased to 201 under Overdrive. 1 - 151/198 = .237, which is close to the expected damage reduction of .217 (discrepancy can be due to rounding +/- dSTAT changes during Overdrive).

For consecutive Waterga IVs during Overdrive, 2/239 = .00837, which is consistent with Steam Jacket functionally reducing damage to 0 (-80% with 3 maneuvers + 75% increase from Optic Fiber I/II under Overdrive).

Again still not sure why Quenching Hammer damage was lower (Mana Jammer IV + Overdrive and using Water Maneuver instead of Wind Maneuver is not enough to bring damage down from the 1600s to 151)

I see sporadic big spikes in Quenching Hammer damage as well. Most of them hit for ~220 on my current setup but it will sometimes hit for 1800. I'd just been assuming it was the difference between a successful and failed resistance check.