Flaunt your Damage/Equipment Magicians!

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Well, that clarifies it a bit, though you sorta missed the mark on what I was saying. I know that level 19x Arch Mages, like Supp3rGirl can hit the damage cap no problem. But I don't see many Arch Mages lower than high level 18x doing so.

TruffleLock hitting the damage cap that early shows that the rest of his equips are godly (and they are, considering that he is one of the top Mages on SW's Top 20 Matk thread). That's why I'm saying that Elemental Wands don't really skew damage. If I saw a level 16x Arch Mage hitting neutral 99k's fairly consistently my jaw would drop. I consider myself to be fairly well equipped and I can't even hit 99k consistently at Skeles.

I agree that posting 99k damage is quite pointless if you're level 18x+ because practically every Arch Mage will do so at that point. However, it's really impressive (in my opinion at least) to be hitting 99k neutral quite consistently at level 17x and even more so at level 16x.