Anyone else doing lvl 95 Arma?Follow

I plan to after I finish Death Penalty(since alex/bullet price is eating all my money), I admit I've been struggling between doing 95 arma v.s DP, 95 Arma is a slightly better for VW and costs less to finish, while DP seems only shine in dyna with double dark weather. But I want DP for the longest time, been working on it even before Arma came out, while getting free/cheap alex from friends here and there. Can't really just stop there with all the emotional attachment on this weapon. I guess 95 arma won't start until next year(planning to finish DP within this year unless I get busy with RL or something), hopefully by next year ppl would still spam VW and have enough plates on the market.

Following the QD formula:

(2 * (Gun base DMG + bullet base DMG + Corsair's Tricorne bonus)) * (1 + (MAB / 100)) * (Elemental Staff bonus) * (Day/Weather Bonus)

Assuming I have both guns 95 and QD in my max dmg set which has 32 MAB in gears(you can get 8 more MAB from ring/legs if you're really pimp though), no tricorne for recast-5 on head, and using QD bullet which is MAB+20.

And assuming using Zodiac ring+elemental Obi to match specific day instead of Aquiline, so dmg+13% but MAB-3 on that specific day.

Also assuming I use Pluto's staff for DP to boost LS dmg, and vulcan's for Arma.

DP's QD dmg on none-dark/lights day with correct obi but using pluto's staff for WS:(2*59+89)*1.52*1.13=508
Since DP has 50% dmg boost, it's QD dmg is 762 on none-dark/lights day


On light/darks day:296*1.55*1=458
687 with dmg boost.


Arma's QD dmg on none firesday:318*1.55*1.15=566

On firesday:318*1.52*1.15*1.13=628


Therefore on Firesday DP will do 134 more QD dmg, 196 more QD dmg on earth/water/ice/lightning day, and 121 more QD dmg on darksday.


In VW my QD/WS ratio is about 1:3, in outside of VW like dyna is about 1:2 with 2 TP rolls, therefore in VW arma only needs to do 40~70 more WS dmg than DP to win, and outside of VW Arma needs to do 65~100 more dmg.


Considering WF average 1.8k~2k unless mob resists, and fire shot gives extra 300~400 dmg, it's very easy for Arma to catch up with extra WS dmg unless the mob has a dispel-able effect for dark shot to land(which is rarely)

If both weapons using Last Stand, following the physical WS formula, http://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Weapon_Skill_Damage
Arma using last stand has around 112 more WS base dmg, so it still wins.

Unless you have long down time to push QD/WS ratio to 1:1 outside of VW, or unless you're not using TP rolls and gain TP like a slug, I don't see how DP can catch up tbh.


Doing DP is really nothing but an emotional attachment tbh.


Edit: If I'm outside of VW and shooting for TP, DP may win with higher /ra DPS+WS frequency, but I almost never shoot if I'm outside of VW.












Edited, Jan 11th 2012 7:50am by Afania

Edited, Jan 11th 2012 7:59am by Afania

As a COR main, I will eventually be doing this. But it will be a slow process of just doing VW and saving plates. I'll not be buying many plates unless the price drops. Hopefully by the time I get to this process, the requirement will have fallen, the price will be less or the drop rate will be increased.

In the meantime, I still have Isgebind to work on. And my next fun task is to actually level GS to 50, Alchemy to 80 and Synergy to 80 so I can synth O. Bullets. Was waiting to see what SE put out as high end ammo before committing to synergy and the other crafts. Sadly thats 25 levels of GS, 25 levels of Alchemy and 70 levels of Synergy. Fun Fun.

Is this accurate? I've always assumed that Death Penalty's 'Enhances Quick Draw' was a base damage increase like Corsair's Tricorne.

Edit: Now that I think about it, the straight damage % increase makes sense after seeing what kind of numbers DP's QD can do in Abyssea.

Edited, Jan 11th 2012 12:18pm by Chewzer

Yeah, I'm well aware of people doing it for the accomplishment factor, but usually when they do they can afford it.

Edit: My bad. None of my business what someone does with their gil. I'm just argumentative today, apparently.

Edited, Jan 11th 2012 4:44pm by Chewzer