HeavyMenace Wrote:What would a guy like you need an explorer's ring for? I have one stuck on my shadower as well and I'm just realizing how useless it is nowadays with flip of the coin. Every time I buff up I get 100% crit rate and I don't even need the ring for that. Even on a dual blade I would think it's much better to have a high atk and/or % luk ring because of shadow meld.
It isn't for the critical rate, it's for the critical damage, if I'm thinking of the right ring. It's either the Explorer's Critical or Explorer's Cruel ring that has a ton of maximum critical damage, iirc Dual Blade doesn't get any %max crit damage by default, but we get 25% minimum from Sharpness. Since Shadow Meld means we have essentially 100% critical rate, crit damage is a really big boost for Dual Blades. Should be 145% - 150% damage without any extra items or potential lines.
I just looked it up actually and it's 10/20% minimum crit damage, I thought it was max, but minimum is still useful, your crit damage should always be 150% - 150% with one of those rings unless you have a ton of max crit damage cubed onto gloves or something. If we get Tyrant gloves I'd try and cube those for %max crit damage and at that point a Critical Ring would be a really big boost, I'd probably sacrifice one of my potential rings for it, but I doubt we'll get another event for them as good as the previous ones.
Actually, I forgot about SE/dSE, which is +15%/25% max crit damage, so even without %max crit damage cubed one of those rings would still be a nice damage boost.