Elemental Gorget Reviews?

[Callisto]

Alright, got another item I wanted opinions on: the elemental gorgets from the In the Name of Science quest. I just got sea the other night and spent some time playing around in there getting to know the place, and I have about half of the organs I need to get light/thunder gorgets. Just wondering if any of you had these and played around with them, I'm interested in trying the light one for Slug Shot and the Thunder one for Vorpal Blade.

[Taskmage]

Re: Elemental Gorget Reviews?

The added accuracy from elemental gorgets isn't known afaik, but the added damage part is. It adds 0.1 to the damage multiplier on your WS. For Vorpal Blade which has a multiplier of 1.0, it would become 1.1 for a 10% increase in your damage. IIRC, this multiplier is only applied to the first hit of the WS, the same way Sneak Attack works, so for a multi-hit WS we're not actually talking about 10% of your total damage. For Sidewinder your damage is multiplied by 5.0, so the gorget would take it to 5.1 for only about a 2% increase in your damage output. Since Sidewinder is one hit, that's applied to total damage in this case, so if you're hitting for 1000 on average with SW (number out of the air), adding the gorget would bring you to 1020 on average.