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A thought just occurred to me. Can anyone confirm if Purple Adventure Capes were changed post Big Bang in KMS? Because with the new damage formula, Purple Adventure Capes are going to be out of line with Pink Adventure Capes damage wise (they always were, but at the mage's disadvantage previously.)
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Wouldn't you want a higher level cape anyway because of potential? Unless capes don't get any particularly useful potential bonuses *shrug*
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KMS doesn't have PuACs.
Should be the same deal as PACs though. They're better at Rare potential level and at lower levels, but for higher character and potential levels it's better to use a 71+ cape. Godly 20+ attack ones can beat a 71+ regular cape at the Unique level, though.
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Mages get w.att bonuses now?
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Yeaaa, sorry but in kMS we don't have PAC/PuAC/ Gaia-Those.
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No you would have to be really lucky with chaos scrolls to get a Purple adventurer cape to match a normal 71+ cape with potential. Nothing OP about them, and no need to fix them in any way.
Random_Overlord Wrote:Mages get w.att bonuses now?
Purple adventurer capes add magic att. Magic att gets on par with weapon att after Big bang. Try at least.
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CarrionCrow Wrote:No you would have to be really lucky with chaos scrolls to get a Purple adventurer cape to match a normal 71+ cape with potential. Nothing OP about them, and no need to fix them in any way.
Purple adventurer capes add magic att. Magic att gets on par with weapon att after Big bang. Try at least.
Nah, it still takes something like stacking Epic +% int bonuses for a regular cape to match a 7/8 attack PuAC even at higher levels. 6/3 vs. 4/2 = 3% int difference = about 27 int at my level (150) = about 8 attack.
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With Wand/Staff's nature of high MATK, the bonus from PuAC won't make such a huge ruckus.
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I was under the impression magic att would be roughly equivalent to w att. My old 8 att Pac was not hard to beat with some % LUK. So magic att must be even better?
Kalovale Wrote:With Wand/Staff's nature of high MATK, the bonus from PuAC won't make such a huge ruckus.
This sounds reasonable.
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If you potentialed your 8 Att PAC for 2% luk, it would be better than a 3% luk cape. Same for 4% luk vs. 6% luk. Go higher than that, though, and the other cape starts to be better.
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Dusk Wrote:If you potentialed your 8 Att PAC for 2% luk, it would be better than a 3% luk cape. Same for 4% luk vs. 6% luk. Go higher than that, though, and the other cape starts to be better.
True enough I suppose.
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Don't mages have a lower damage multiplier as a result of having more Magic then a Weapon attack class would have?
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donovan Wrote:Don't mages have a lower damage multiplier as a result of having more Magic then a Weapon attack class would have?
That doesn't change the matk/INT ratio.
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Shidoshi Wrote:That doesn't change the matk/INT ratio.
No, but it does answer the OP's concern.
Clean PuACs have a lot more m.att than clean PACs have w.att (average 7 m.att on purple vs. 2 w.att on pink). Scrolling and potential aside, that represents an imbalance. The question (as I understand it) was whether they would be evened out after BB.
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SaptaZapta Wrote:No, but it does answer the OP's concern.
Clean PuACs have a lot more m.att than clean PACs have w.att (average 7 m.att on purple vs. 2 w.att on pink). Scrolling and potential aside, that represents an imbalance. The question (as I understand it) was whether they would be evened out after BB.
Nothing else had its MA balanced besides the new blessing. So no.
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Thanks for the reply, guys. My main reason for writing this is because I traded a Purple Adv. Cape for a Yellow Adv. Cape a long time ago, because it had more intelligence than the m.att/int combination, but now that seems like a stupid move.
Justin Wrote:Wouldn't you want a higher level cape anyway because of potential? Unless capes don't get any particularly useful potential bonuses *shrug*
I'm still pretty clueless about the potential, since I quit after the hacking epidemic, but I've been reading threads on here about it, so I got the gist of it. I wasn't aware of higher level capes yielding better potentials, though.
Dusk Wrote:KMS doesn't have PuACs...
That pretty much answers my question. We'll play it by ear when Big Bang comes here.
Tay Wrote:Yeaaa, sorry but in kMS we don't have PAC/PuAC/ Gaia-Those.
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What the passion fruit does "Gaia-Those" mean?
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Fumni Wrote:What the passion fruit does "Gaia-Those" mean?
There are Pink and Purple Gaia Capes that give weapon attack and magic attack respectively, and those are what the individual was referring to.
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I guess this is why my friend chaosd a cape to 16mag att UH.
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