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here's what I learned today
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weapon damage > literally any amount of stat spread difference
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Hades weapon for MNK has perfect stats and the Augmented Deepshadow weapon has awful stats
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but its weapon damage is like 1 higher
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and that means throw the hades weapon in the garbage it's worthless
Ken
Because the weapon damage is going to be multiplied by whatever substats you have, correct?
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IDK the exact math
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but 1 more weapon damage is worth more than a full set of Critical materia
thetaClysm
that... seems broken
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it just means that you always want to pick the highest ilvl option, only making distinctions when there's a tie
thetaClysm
oh i guess i thought they were the same ilvl
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nope!
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Hades weapon is 465, Aug Deepshadow is 470
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so it's BARELY higher but turns out it's enough
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if the big number does a green, put it on
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it's Edengrace and Aug DS that are the same level, which is where you get trickier choices based on item stat spreads
thetaClysm
my approach as a casual has been just "does it make my ilvl go up? if yes, put it on, if no, hawk it for company seals or slam dunk it into the glamour dresser"
thetaClysm
incl. things that are the same ilvl
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this is absolutely viable for 99.9% of the game
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but when you're dying on 0.5% enrages, every little bit counts
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Edengrace weapons are 475
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the armor is all 470
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that's why BiS lists put alternate DS or EG in those slots for armor
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If we can clear E4S before the next patch drops I will be, however briefly, gloriously maxed out
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with the best possible gear
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I haven't seen phase 3
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but I've seen much of phase 2
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by all accounts the hardest part is phase 1
Ken
Phase 1 is like a rapid fire gauntlet of insanity
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yeah the pace of it is a nightmare
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the 3x3 grid of bombs at the SAME TIME as the rocks you have to hide behind is like
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just
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fuck you, titan
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that's like a quarter second safety window if you get the worst pattern
EsperBot
The bombs are so nuts
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like if you get middle-far-close it's fine
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but middle-close-far is unbelievable
EsperBot
The way I’ve found to deal with them is to just wait for the middle set to explode and then immediately use my dragoon backflip to jump into the middle
EsperBot
But as a MNK I think you have to do it for real :/
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I have Shoulder Tackle but that's only towards so no good
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what I should do is pop Sprint
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every little edge helps
EsperBot
The only good thing about it is as long as you only get hit with one bomb, you’ll probably live, albeit with a damage debuff.
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the bad thing is that the easiest place to make the crossover is at the intersection between two bombs
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where you're most likely to get hit by multiple explosions if you fuck it up
EsperBot
Yes.
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Titan is a cruel mistress
EsperBot
It honestly might be valid to just eat one bomb instead of trying to dodge them, at least for Prog’s sake.