Grimorel Wrote:Not sure if this was a good move. With the before potential I would be at 410% boss and 146 pdr.
The after potential would have been 345% Boss and 206% pdr. Did I make a mistake? That 12% luk really annoyed me though.
I'm really struggling with this weapon...

 Side note

I think you may have been fed the misconception by your peers that having a large amount of %Boss/%Total whatever is a "bad thing" and therefore it's best to recube your weapon potentials for %ATT, because it's not necessarily true and I believe this sort of thinking can be misleading. It's just that an additional x% Boss (when you have a large amount to begin with) will yield a smaller, diminishing %increase relative to an additional y% ATT (something that you're most likely lacking). The idea is to maintain

 a balance

where the two "+new" potential lines at legendary (e.g. +40% Boss vs. +9% ATT) will produce two ratios that are roughly equal to one another.

If you feel that the former is too high, then the remedy is to get a fix from bonus potential for the latter. Not cutting back on the former in exchange for the latter. So if I were in your position, I would have just left the "before" potential as it was, and waited to cube the bonus potentials for %ATT.

 Some stuff

It's likely +70% Boss will begin to approach an equivalence to +21% ATT (which you may have been previously aiming for). Because those two potentials are literally the same thing, the only way to get something "better", is to land on something relevant for the third potential line (e.g. %Ignore, %ATT, %Stat). At this point, I think it's a waste of funds to aim for that third line, unless you stumble upon it on incident.

 More stuff

+%Boss/%Total and +%ATT increases are uniformly effective against all mobs, which have different %PDR's. If you want to cross-examine how %Ignore (which has a pseudo-exponentially growing property of effectiveness as you go up the %PDR scale for mobs) compares to %Boss/%ATT combinations, then some math is required. But for the most part, you can use your intuition and conclude that a %Ignore combination will be most effective at C.Vellum.

Grimorel Wrote:That was really helpful! Thanks again! I still have the after potential on my whip blade though, so I'll just wait for bonus cubes and miracle time again
Currently 1% Atk is equal 4.6 %boss. I included the Demon Avenger and Kanna link skills into the calculations. (Not sure if it counts towards total damage though)

DavyJonesx Wrote:sweetpapaya; Did I say something wrong? lol

user Wrote:It's a decent potential for C.Vellum (although I find %Ignore on equipment to be unnecessary seeing how 1) Xenon can achieve ~90% multiplicative %Ignore with just skills/links and 2) it's possible to stack up on %Ignore from party skills), but not as an effective potential for other bosses (although it wouldn't really matter since you'd be able to kill them anyway).

 Side note

I think you may have been fed the misconception by your peers that having a large amount of %Boss/%Total whatever is a "bad thing" and therefore it's best to recube your weapon potentials for %ATT, because it's not necessarily true and I believe this sort of thinking can be misleading. It's just that an additional x% Boss (when you have a large amount to begin with) will yield a smaller, diminishing %increase relative to an additional y% ATT (something that you're most likely lacking). The idea is to maintain

 a balanced ratio

where the two "+new" potential lines at legendary (e.g. +40% Boss, vs. +9% ATT) will roughly be equal to one another.

If you feel that the former is too high, then the remedy is to get a fix from bonus potential for the latter. So if I were in your position, I would have just left the "before" potential as it was, and waited to cube the bonus potentials for %ATT.

qtpie Wrote:another personal thing that i follow is, never settle for pdr on a 1st and 2ndary weapon when you have a tertiary weapon available. (unless i mean you get that extra pdr line on your 3rd line.)

So realistic potential with the best effectiveness in my perspective is this: 50% boss with 9% atk bonus on weapon; 60% boss/21% atk with 9% atk bonus on 2ndary; 21% atk 30% pdr and 9% atk on bonus on the heart.

Takebacker Wrote:I think stats should be higher for weapon since it's easy to get 50% with 30% base on faf/term/sw. I say at least 80-90% total.

qtpie Wrote:result of 2 red cubes and then 3 black cubes. I guess I'll keep it like this.

Zelkova Wrote:Wooow, a black shoulder. Is that one legit?

Zelkova Wrote:Wooow, a black shoulder. Is that one legit?

MuscleWizard Wrote:Can I simply just postulate that cubes are coded to give you stats that aren't related to the job you're currently playing at a higher rate than stats for the job you are playing?
It would explain oh so very very much.

MuscleWizard Wrote:Can I simply just postulate that cubes are coded to give you stats that aren't related to the job you're currently playing at a higher rate than stats for the job you are playing?
It would explain oh so very very much.