The revealed potential thread!

another day of black cube package.

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...

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...

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 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.

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)

Yeah, they do count as total damage. And if you want to be more precise, the Reinforce Hyper (+20% Damage to Mecha Purge) also counts toward the %Boss/%Total sum, but that number you calculated already gives you a good indication of how things are.

sweetpapaya; Did I say something wrong? lol

oh sorry, I was meant to give you a pinaple, blame my small touch screen haha

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.

That was really helpful! Thanks again! I still have the before 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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think he was referring to only the weapon's potential and not what it passively gains from base stats, buy yea you guys are making the same point.

1 Epic Pot + 2 Master cubes!
I know it's pomegranate potential, but at least I got it to unique

What. The. F'uck. And to think I spent 85m for a Gollux belt with similar stats of the right type.

Hadriel

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

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

Wooow, a black shoulder. Is that one legit?

Wooow, a black shoulder. Is that one legit?

He's not the only one:
[video=youtube_share;5q8_V1WyfVI]http://youtu.be/5q8_V1WyfVI[/video]

Wooow, a black shoulder. Is that one legit?

yeah, my friend got it for me via marvel tinker chest thing and she's the most legitimate person I know.

So I bought this for 1b to recube for drop rate, and this happens instead...

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.

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.

Story of my life.

>20x cubes on Zero weapon
>Keeps getting %-INT/DEX and %-M. ATK

Nexon, pls.

This is what happens when I'm bored and have money to burn...
Got both of them from 15% Unique to 21% Legendary in way too much NX only because the shoe was being stubborn and wouldn't give me 2 lines of % Int.

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.

Oh and %Mdef. Don't forget %Mdef.

2 more packs of Black Cubes cause idk