Gems For pvm

Soniclllll - Heavens Tear
Soniclllll - Heavens Tear Posts: 19 Arc User
edited March 2009 in Dungeons & Tactics
ok so maybe i am missing some thing but it seams that every one uses + damage gems in weapons. this makes seance if you want to use it for pvp in my mind but if your going pure pvm. wouldn't elemental damage gems be better ?

as i understand it a fire spell on a fire mob will only be 1/2 damage and that effects the gems as well but a lvl 7 fire gem is 50 damage and a lvl 7 physical damage gem is only 25 so if i am attacking a fire mob with a fire gem i will do the same damage as with a physical damage gem.

and as for fire weak mobs i will deal 100 insteead of the 25 from a physical damage gem

and on the rest of the mobs i will receive 50 damage as opposed to the 25 as well

now i am new so i might be mistaken so f i am please tell me where and how but as far as it see it for pvm your dps will be higher with elemental gems
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  • Shamino - Sanctuary
    Shamino - Sanctuary Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    the +25 from the physical gem is effected by 2 other factors

    1. Weapon mastery this will give a passive bonus to the damage up to 60% at the max level (more for heaven/hell) which will not effect the elemental gem.

    2. Strength (and Dexterity in the case of archers) both of these work on the Damage of the weapon and will include the gem in their calculations once again giving a much better damage bonus.

    All in all with those 2 factors a +25 phys gem ends up giving close to 100 extra actual damage to the mob, where as the +50 elemental one ends up giving less than 40 actual bonus damage.
  • jemima
    jemima Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Also, your comment about doing more damage to fire weak mobs is balanced out by the fact that you do less to fire mobs.
    Also, you'd do very little bonus damage to magic resist mobs, which you'd normally like since they're extra XP for about the same difficulty, and while you'd do full to increased defence, you'd try to avoid those anyway.
  • Nevlik - Heavens Tear
    Nevlik - Heavens Tear Posts: 265 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Also element gems only work when u use a melee atk, so pretty much clerics, wizards, mage venos never will have a use for it.

    And physical atk are still better for bms, barbs, archers

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