2012-04-27, 03:46 AM
Assuming you start with level 1 FB and level 1 ADA, which does 122% dmg, and + 11% dmg with +1MA (there is absolutely no reason not to start with 1 of each, they're all 1-point wonders). There is no reason to say that DA/ADA only gives +5% damage because BB ADDS 40% damage to DA/ADA. The only time that DA would ever be reduced to +5% damage is when you have... +100%dmg from potential lines and Neb and maybe skills.
For your next 29MA to surpass the increase in damage in FB, well, it just means that (29+totalMA)*1.2*1.22 < 1.8*totalMA*1.11, where I am ignoring your %DMG, %MA and +MA potential lines, and ignoring effects of CO and Battle Mastery (not sure where the multiplier inserts in the equation...). With a little rearrangement, you get:
If you also consider BB, which I assume you activate as soon as CD resets, then you need to weigh both calculations by 50%, which then gives you:
The only reason why this should be the case is because FB is now sickeningly powerful compared to pre-Union, when it just did 106-135% damage. For the old times, it would then need 173MA before FB pwns, which... well... for me meant that I needed virtually every single piece of EQ to have +MA (and I'm not rich so I can't afford any kind of godlies). 123 from staff, 15 from rings (the average person would have about 5-10), 8 from eye, face and shoulder (the unfunded person will have between 0 to 5), 1 from medal, 7 from cape (bargain), 11 from gloves (this was a really good bargain), 1 from shoe, maybe 5 from magic pill, and 13 from Blessing... on top of 11 from Staff Mastery and ADA1.
tl;dr just max FB first. BB only improves things, and doesn't change the outcome.
By the way, DoT does NOT work on party play monsters, or any monster with a Boss/Miniboss tag. The DoT will come in useful when killing on the move e.g. at ToT, because the DoT can do 1 or 2 ticks of damage to help bring down the mobs' HP sufficiently low for your next Teleport to kill them.
And no bumping of threads here.
Hadriel
For your next 29MA to surpass the increase in damage in FB, well, it just means that (29+totalMA)*1.2*1.22 < 1.8*totalMA*1.11, where I am ignoring your %DMG, %MA and +MA potential lines, and ignoring effects of CO and Battle Mastery (not sure where the multiplier inserts in the equation...). With a little rearrangement, you get:
Spoiler
If you also consider BB, which I assume you activate as soon as CD resets, then you need to weigh both calculations by 50%, which then gives you:
Spoiler
The only reason why this should be the case is because FB is now sickeningly powerful compared to pre-Union, when it just did 106-135% damage. For the old times, it would then need 173MA before FB pwns, which... well... for me meant that I needed virtually every single piece of EQ to have +MA (and I'm not rich so I can't afford any kind of godlies). 123 from staff, 15 from rings (the average person would have about 5-10), 8 from eye, face and shoulder (the unfunded person will have between 0 to 5), 1 from medal, 7 from cape (bargain), 11 from gloves (this was a really good bargain), 1 from shoe, maybe 5 from magic pill, and 13 from Blessing... on top of 11 from Staff Mastery and ADA1.
tl;dr just max FB first. BB only improves things, and doesn't change the outcome.
By the way, DoT does NOT work on party play monsters, or any monster with a Boss/Miniboss tag. The DoT will come in useful when killing on the move e.g. at ToT, because the DoT can do 1 or 2 ticks of damage to help bring down the mobs' HP sufficiently low for your next Teleport to kill them.
And no bumping of threads here.
Hadriel