Fist with Perfect Ruby Shard

SoulTedSu - Lost City
SoulTedSu - Lost City Posts: 29 Arc User
edited October 2009 in Blademaster
have any of you tried before ?

Would it be work if I add 2 Perfect Ruby Shard (+ 80 damage) to fist and use genie skill that reduce fire resistance. ?

Perfect garnet shard is +40 damage

want to know if someone try out before ?
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  • rhapsodus
    rhapsodus Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    don't quote me on this, but i recall reading somewhere that adding elemental damage to your weapon only increases your elemental attack. so say you're doing a wood based attack with a spell, and if you add a wood element shard to your weapon, it would only increase the damage from the wood attack. if you were attacking with a water based spell, it would not add "wood damage" to the attack.

    so i dont think adding rubies to your weapons will do anything, since its a physical based attack. maybe if you used one of those attacks that deal half fire damage or something, but other than that i dont think it will affect anything.
  • High_Lord - Heavens Tear
    High_Lord - Heavens Tear Posts: 182 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    rhapsodus wrote: »
    don't quote me on this, but i recall reading somewhere that adding elemental damage to your weapon only increases your elemental attack. so say you're doing a wood based attack with a spell, and if you add a wood element shard to your weapon, it would only increase the damage from the wood attack. if you were attacking with a water based spell, it would not add "wood damage" to the attack.

    so i dont think adding rubies to your weapons will do anything, since its a physical based attack. maybe if you used one of those attacks that deal half fire damage or something, but other than that i dont think it will affect anything.

    LOL wrong elemental shards on weapons only add to phys attack so it would work better against HA then AA
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  • Hisuna - Sanctuary
    Hisuna - Sanctuary Posts: 1,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    It would not work well against anything. 160 fire damage per hit isn't going to matter at all. Since you're a BM, you have nothing to exponentially increase that fire damage. The difference is, if you add a perfect garnet shard, that 40 extra damage can change into 300 to 400 and maybe even higher. The str your character has amplifies that 40 damage, whereas the fire damage would be 160 (with two shards) and receive no bonus whatsoever. That's why these shards continue to remain so unused.
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  • rhapsodus
    rhapsodus Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    High_Lord - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    LOL wrong elemental shards on weapons only add to phys attack so it would work better against HA then AA

    oops heh you're right. just did some searching on forums. seems like it's generally agreed that elemental shards only add elemental damage to your physical attacks.

    as for the usefulness of these shards, i'd have to agree with the above poster.
  • Esque - Lost City
    Esque - Lost City Posts: 97 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Hisuna - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Since you're a BM, you have nothing to exponentially increase that fire damage.

    Drakes Breath Bash.
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  • Hisuna - Sanctuary
    Hisuna - Sanctuary Posts: 1,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Esque - Lost City wrote: »
    Drakes Breath Bash.

    Drakes Breath Bash does not turn the 160 fire damage he would get from those shards into more than 160 fire damage. It would still be the base 160 on top of the damage drakes breath bash does. (Including the fire damage). My point in my previous post is that the stats a BM uses do not multiply elemental damage.
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  • SoulTedSu - Lost City
    SoulTedSu - Lost City Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    will it be work on low magic defend ?

    Also I mention using on fist mean DPS is high and crit a lot.

    its true garnet is nice but the price between two shard a lot different .

    Also want to look different glow then others b:laugh

    Thanks for those who replied. b:victory
  • LloydAsplund - Sanctuary
    LloydAsplund - Sanctuary Posts: 3,899 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Elemental shards only add more damage to crappy physical, auto attacks (aka. wacking the mob without skills).

    I guess it could work when you are purely grinding with fists, conserving mp. You can test it out with those cheap legendary fists. Wont cost that much in terms of wep and the shards.
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  • Telarith - Sanctuary
    Telarith - Sanctuary Posts: 1,417 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    We don't get as much damage per point in strength as casters do, and we also don't really have the option of having a high primary stat. Since we need 3 strength to get a 2% multiplier, getting even 4 times is quite far out in the realms of possible without sacrificing lots of dexterity; this is counting our mastery as well. So if it is a cheaper option, go for it.

    EDIT: Comparing our strength to caster's magic stat, not str to str.
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  • Joshcja - Sanctuary
    Joshcja - Sanctuary Posts: 3,502 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    LloydAsplund - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Elemental shards only add more damage to crappy physical, auto attacks (aka. wacking the mob without skills).

    I guess it could work when you are purely grinding with fists, conserving mp. You can test it out with those cheap legendary fists. Wont cost that much in terms of wep and the shards.

    i suppose its a good thing fist bm's use auto attack sbout 90% of the time then eh?

    on any other weapon element shards are just about useless though

    you will still get more out of high level physical shards(gave a wizzie throw frost blad on you or use drakes breath bash if you want element damage)
    but for you yes high level element shards could work
    Gifs are hard to make work here
  • Joshcja - Sanctuary
    Joshcja - Sanctuary Posts: 3,502 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    fist builds are 3:2 str dex 5:4:1 str dex vit how are these lower than the other paths? last i checked thats about the str on axe n poles hun

    fists have low vit not low str lol

    factor in masteries its more like 320 str to get that kind of increase in dmg

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  • X_Boot_x - Sanctuary
    X_Boot_x - Sanctuary Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    SoulTedSu - Lost City wrote: »
    have any of you tried before ?

    Would it be work if I add 2 Perfect Ruby Shard (+ 80 damage) to fist and use genie skill that reduce fire resistance. ?

    Perfect garnet shard is +40 damage

    want to know if someone try out before ?

    The only time sharding like this is useful is against mobs that are immune to other types of damage. Very rare.

    It does give a nifty weapon effect though b:pleased
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