Sad Indeed...

So I was playing around with numbers and I was wondering:

Because the level 130 elemental weapons will be costing 1 billion and more, and the level 163 weapon cast into the forgotten shadows...

[indent]Would it be worth it for a lukless archmage to convert to luk, just to gain a 125% increase damage in exchange for adding luk and losing some int?[/indent]

Because all archmages know that 125% in increase in damage is more much worth it than losing a "few" luk. Here are my results:

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*Note: I will not consider any scrolling for the weapons because both weapons can be "godly" scrolled.
*I may have made some mistakes in calculations; point them out if I did.

The level 163 weapon requires 165 luk and has 178 matk.
The level 130 weapon requires 0 luk and has 145 matk.

Saving 161 luk, the level 130 weapon actually has 306 matk when compared to the level 163 which only has 178 matk.

That's terribly unbalanced but the question remains: is 125% boost in damage worth the 161 int loss?

Using Crovi's calculator:

• I gave the lukless magician 1000 magic, and 570 spell attack (max meteo/blizzard).
  
• I gave the luk magician 839 magic (for being 161 int weaker than lukless), and 570 spell attack (max meteo/blizzard).

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The lukless can hit a maximum of:
68,924 with the elemental weapon
55,139 without the elemental weapon (they're using a wisdom staff or w/e).

The luk can hit a maximum of:
53,182 with the elemental weapon
42,546 without the elemental weapon (they're using a normal weapon).


As you can see, luk magicians WITH an elemental weapon can BARELY catch up to lukless that's NOT EVEN USING AN ELEMENTAL WEAPON.

There are other factors that I did not consider such as getting 15 luk from zhelm, getting 22 luk from pendant (I'm not gonna consider overall luk or cape luk because both luk and lukless can use overall/cape int). Getting an extra 37 int, would only kick that 53k to 56k. Hardly a difference.

[indent]So my conclusion is: A lukless without an elemental weapon can still outdamage a luk magician with an elemental weapon. That's how pathetic the level 163 weapon is. So the next time you see a luk magician, you fame them, you F2 them, then immediately build a medium sized shrine in front of your grandparents' lawn. [/indent]

Thank you for reading.