tags: [stats] we all know: a weapon grade is important to update to go further in the game. though the damage is the same. what? you didn't know this one? see the test – its kinda fun. experiment 10: weapon grade influence on the damage purpose: to check the influence of weapon grades on the damage inflicted by these weapons. characters: attacking: feoh wizard, lvl 99 target: aeore healer, lvl 99 attacking character's equipment: magic dark eternal set homunkulus' sword (grade c) sword of valhalla (grade b) vesper caster (grade s80) blessed amaranthine caster (grade r99) target character's equipment: magic bound dark eternal set experiment: a feoh wizard attacked an aeore healer with 2 skills elemental spike (lvl.8) and death mass unleash hell (lvl.1). for the purpose of accurateness damage variation was ignored. in the first part of the experiment we compared a vesper caster (s80) with a blessed amaranthine caster (r99). r-grade weapons have additional bonuses when enchanted to +4 and more, therefore we tested a +4 blessed amaranthine caster (r99) first. we searched for an equivalent with the same m. atk. and it turned out to be a +25 vesper caster. as a blessed amaranthine caster (r99) has one more bonus, i.e. additional damage in pvp, we decided to choose a pvp-type vesper caster accordingly, in the first part of the experiment we compared 3 items: +25 vesper caster (s80), +25 vesper caster - pvp (s80) and +4 blessed amaranthine caster (r99). test results are represented in the table. {tr}weaponelemental spike (lv.8). damageelemental spike (lv.8). crit. damagedeath mass unleash hell (lv.1). damagedeath mass unleash hell (lv.1). crit. damage{tr}+25 vesper caster (s80) - m.attack 422314066401240025345{tr}+25 vesper caster (s80) pvp - m.attack 422346172901367127294{tr}+4 blessed amaranthine caster (r99) - m.attack 422346176711367128294{/tr}{/tr}{/tr}{/tr} as we see in the table, the critical damage of a blessed amaranthine caster (r99) is higher than one of a +25 vesper caster (s80) - pvp. this is caused by the additional bonus by enchanting a weapon higher than +4 increasing critical attack, when normal attack remains unchanged. in order to confirm our results, we held another experiment and compared low-grade weapons: a +5 homunkulus' sword (c) and a sword of valhalla (b). {tr}weaponelemental spike (lv.8). damageelemental spike (lv.8). crit. damagedeath mass unleash hell (lv.1). damagedeath mass unleash hell (lv.1). crit. damage{tr}+5 homunkulus' sword (c) - m.attack 1221803394071227122{tr}sword of valhalla (b) - m.attack 1221803394071227122{/tr}{/tr}{/tr} conclusion: the weapon grade doesn't influence final damage inflicted on the target.
