Onyx Ring Discussion

Hello sorry for being stupid but I don't understand how you got the values in the "vs x% stat" columns. Do you mind explaining how you got these values?

For a given DPS increase (simply called "Z", and expressed in decimals), and an independently varied %STAT (called "X", in decimals), you want to find out how much inherent %STAT (called "Y", in decimals) would cause an additional X to give a DPS increase of Z. The equation to be set up is:

((Y+1) + X)/(Y+1) = 1 + Z

Which simplifies into

X/(Y+1) = Z

You control X, and you have Z, so you want to find out Y, which simply becomes

Y = X/Z - 1

or in percentage form, it will be Y% = (X%/Z% - 1)*100%

And a sanity check and dimensional analysis confirms the case.

We have always been cubing for %STAT because most types of equipment can't get any other useful potential lines.

Indeed there are very few potential lines on armour that are potentially useful (pun not intended). People know about %cr, %ATT, %DMG, %Boss and %PDRIgnore of course, but that's for weapons. Cubing for dSI, dSE and dAB is extremely costly while maintaining the rest of the lines, and the common trend is to have them on separate equipment for rebuffing purposes. +3 allskills is worthless if it doesn't break skill cap, and utility skills like +x seconds invulnerability or %statusresist is less valued than %STAT. Probably only %drop is valued, and they are still on separate equipment.

Hence I did this math to highlight to people the need to diversify their lines and lessen the diminishing returns effect from building up %STAT only. Because of the retarded way %Boss, %DMG and Hyperskills are coded and the extreme large values that %Boss provide relative to other lines, %Boss is still the most important line for weapons, followed by %PDRIgnore and %ATT. These parts of the potential system still frustrate me as of today.

Hadriel