December 2018 Version Update

What actually does "Damage Limit+" even do? I don't think SE ever officially told us lol. Does anyone know?

Guessing that each tier gives 2% based on the neck stats.

I was just about to say that the 1h axe is starting to look really good for a Cloudsplitter build. Already beats what I've been using, Kumbhakarna, with STR +15, MAB +15, WS DMG +4. The new weapon has Mag. Acc +30, greater Magic Accuracy Skill than the Skirmish weapon, and +217 magic damage.

For ws avg yes.

But if you consider tp phase then it may not. The delay of sword is high.

Best for closing SC IMO.

does it break the 99,999 dmg cap?

The pdl increase tier bonus to dark makes complete sense and it's a welcome addition. I wonder how strength to damage had been adjusted now. Maybe we'll be right back to the wsd accident from a few months ago.

Yeah, I picked up a weapon voucher and nuggets before reset, thinking the mab update may make the weapon useful. Guess I didn't waste my inv for them =>

Edit: swords/dagger are ex/rare so I guess ideally cor should pick up both for dw.

Think more like the 2006?~ STR change, than the WSD "bug" lol

BLU excluded again. ):









































still not as bad as MNK

consensus is that it raises the cap of pDIF

COR/DNC with Rostam Path A/Eletta Sword if shooting and call it a day.

In blm pt I frequently sit at 3000 tp if TS is up, wouldn't say rostam is ideal in such situations.

Need to math the minimium tp in a ws spam situation to see if ambuscade weapon beats stp+25 too.

He exists twice. He's the NPC in the jungle at the outpost. SE just named an NPC the same thing twice because HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.

Looking like 99% cap for h2h now. but I dont have the tools to verify main fist or both right now.

99.11% acc @ 1699 samples. will edit when i get more data.

100% acc in 100 punches~

So um... did a quick Ambuscade solo and... my melee attacks on DRK have nearly doubled. o.o

99.76% @ 824 samples
1405 ACC on Reisenjima mosquitoes.

Did you test this on Qutrub?

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The damage limit is most likely +8.5-10%

Just eye balling some Catastrophe spam and comparing them to what I did the other day (Finished R15 and was checking #s)

WS were pretty consistent. Noticing about a 4k damage increase on my current targets. So I went from doing Catastrophes from about 23,500 to 27,500 over night on Chapulis.

This isn't very accurate though and is anecdotal.

Naw, this was against the Iron Giant which in hindsight was equally dumb. Apologies.

edit- Doing 15~18K/swing on the Qutrub was fun though.


*double edit- Crits rose from 2100 to 2600 if that's at all helpful.*

/rolleyes here we go again

or we could not, like, just, not

You guys can go ahead and bawk bawk bawk like a chocobo if you want... nah jk.

I just realized we should of tried a bit of damage tests pre-update like with sneak attack then compare to post update results

As for the other thing they did with Strength being increased in player-character damage, i'm curious on that one

fSTR adjustment is the only thing I can thing of. Unless anyone noticed a substantial ATT increase.

So we were doing this together for the same reason :) Was worth it to do some ambu at 4 am I guess XD

Did a quick test on DRG before I head bed.

Spark Spear: 25DMG + 10fSTR = 35DMG

Expected damage is 131-137

Observed damage was 141-148

So, PDL3 might be ~7%

EDIT:
Sasuke Katana: 33DMG + 11fSTR = 44DMG

Expected damage is 143-150

Observed damage was 147-154

1 STR = 1 ATT it seems, at least on scythe, club, sword, staff. Switch weapons, take Ifrit Ring on/off, it goes up/down 8. Took weapon off, Ifrit Ring became a 6 ATT difference.

'bout to go beat a bunch of crap up on WHM, RDM, DNC, RNG, then DRK.

ok PDL trait (tested tier 1 and 2 with cor with subs, tier 3 with monk with Aureole and tier 5 with DRK with Aureole. Aureole has low base damage so it's still possible that some rounding could mess this by some margin). Also do numbers seen in chat are rounded up?

Gun
Bee tier 0: 1706
Bee tier 1: 1755 (+2.8722157%)
Bee tier 2: 1802 (+5.6271981%)

Gun
Worm tier 0: 1365
Worm tier 0: 1404 (+2.8571429%)
Worm tier 0: 1442 (+5.6410256%)

Aureole
Bee tier 0: 202
Bee tier 3: 221 (+9.4059406%)
Bee tier 5: 233 (+15.3465347%)

Aureole
Worm tier 0: 162
Worm tier 3: 177 (+9.2592593%)
Worm tier 5: 187 (+15.4320988%)

For me it looks like it might be like this:
Tier 1: 2.8%
Tier 2: 5.6% (+2.8%)
Tier 3: 8.8% (+3.2%)
Tier 4: ??? quesing 12% (+3.2%)
Tier 5: 15.2% (+3.2%)