Vorpal Blade!

[Callisto]

Re: Vorpal Blade!

That's a pretty nice setup, ark. After picking up the Oger Mask/Ledelsens and Swordbelt+1, and using subs, my results went up bigtime against the Attercops. I was averaging 600~, my highs coming at 740-789 when saving to full TP. My highest was 1,010 with Souleater. I want to play with some things and then test them out against Greater Colibri at some point this weekend, but definitely seeing an improvment.

[Armando]

Re: Vorpal Blade!

Suppamomimi (Sword skill +5 = acc/attack+4)

Minor nitpick, while skill points above 200 only give 0.9 Accuracy (well, Nagamaki uses 0.92 in his calculations, so maybe that's more accurate) you get the whole +5 Attack.

[Lmnop]

Re: Vorpal Blade!

Nagamaki the monk? He proved in that thread (the DEX/crit/acc etcetera thread) that only .90 worked, actually. Tried .89, .90, .91, and .92 and only .9 fit the numbers.

Unless he realized something that debunked his own tests, I think .9 is the accepted.

My own little nitpick, though, is that the Suppa still gives you +5 attack. Only 4.6 acc.

And just because I haven't posted here yet, I feel compelled to bring up Brutal Earring. Even "some of the time" will give a sizeable boost to your Vorpal average. Though I dunno how that'd compete with DEX+2, Acc+3.

[Armando]

Re: Vorpal Blade!

I see, interesting. Thanks for the clarification.

Brutal most definetely owns DEX+2 Acc+3.

[Callisto]

Re: Vorpal Blade!

I see, interesting. Thanks for the clarification.

Brutal most definetely owns DEX+2 Acc+3.

I agree on this, the issue is more that I only have 50 coins at the moment, and my BRD could use a Musical Earring more than my RDM could use a Brutal, so it's going to be awhile before I can use one

Back to the math end, I've been trying hard to figure out which part changed for the new pDIF, if it was the cRatio cap or the 1.2 multiplier. The only way I could think of to figure it out is to see parses from right before the patch and right after under the exact same conditions with uncapped cRatio/pDIF, as if it was the 1.2 multi being shifted to 1.23 even uncapped cRatio would get it's damage boosted. At first I was thinking they would have raised the cRatio cap, but if the new Min for capped pDIF is indeed 1.58, which both my #'s and Armando's show, that would make the adjustment from Max to Min .88 instead of .8, and if they're going to make one of the pDIF changes in the conversion of cRatio to pDIF, it would make more sense to me that they would make both changes in that manner, and raise the 1.2 multi.

I also haven't had my coffee yet today so I might be totally off-base, but that's just what makes sense to me at the moment.

[arkaine23]

Re: Vorpal Blade!

Sorry, I'll have to do some tests to give you numbers. I've really only broken this out a few times vs Lesser Colibri (EP-DC mobs). I've been fighting a lot of EM-T mobs lately to cap dagger, though I'm obviously geared quite differently blood-tanking steelshells with a dagger as /BLU, busting our Energy Drains and Gust Slashes.

Seems like about 650-750 average Vorpal with no food on Lesser Colibri with Mensur Epee and no JA buffs.