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Ryu Draco -> Question about Werepyre/Hybrid weapons (9/30/2023 22:44:07)
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So I've got some questions that I've been wondering for a while now, and I figured I'd just throw it out to try to get an answer out where it might be useful for someone. I apologize if the answer is extremely simple and I'm just not seeing it.
Part of the game balance is that (outside of specific skills or items dictating the meta) Warriors get their damage from just attacking, balanced around a consistent output. Mages are more of a burst build, excelling in fights that can be ended in just a few turns with high damage spells, with their damage from attacking after running out of MP being lower than a comparative Warrior doing the same. The advantage of a Hybrid is being able to combine a Mage's burst with a Warrior's DPT afterwards, in exchange for less stats in other areas.
The Werepyre armors were designed primarily for Hybrids, originally allowing players to substitute DEX in the damage and attack calcs for combining STR and INT. Following the stat update however, Hybrids no longer need to be in Werepyre armor in order to fully utilize their stats for attacking. They're still great for compressing 40% resistances into only 4 forms, one being the innate racial armor, but players have more freedom of choice for their other slots, such as anti-Shadow armor or the new class armors without hobbling themselves. My questions about the new standard are somewhat as following:
1) Does the STR/INT toggle in the Werepyre racial armor still do anything, or is that more a leftover of the armor being made before the update?
2) Are melee weapons superior for builds with equal STR/INT to magic weapons? I know that the given damage for melee/magic counterpart weapons like the FlameStop Warhammer have the melee weapon with higher damage values. However, I recall hearing something about the formula evening out the damage between the two for Werepyres. Is that a function of the armor, or am I thinking of someone refering to how Poelala is in the Giftbox exchange as opposed to Dunamis and Thernada being Z-token pakages?
3) Are there any weapons specifically designed for Hybrid builds? I believe the Werepyre weapons say something of the like, but again I don't know if that's just another artifact of the pre-update or if they synergize with the Werepyre armors somehow.
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