Aeolian EdgeFollow

It's just as sh*t as expected.

It's a Cyclone+1, appears to be aquired at skill lvl 290 (Or 292 anyway).
On EP spiders at 100TP it was doing 250ish unresisted vs cyclone's 150-180.
It's damage is the same-ish in TP gear, AGI gear and str/dex WS gear.
Like cyclone, doesn't stack with JAs.
Like cyclone, doesn't get offhand hit.


So yeah. Trash.

Edited, Jun 22nd 2010 4:29am by Noodles

/shocked

So do we know if the WS upgrade trials are permanent additions to the WS or retarded crap you have to actually use THAT weapon to get teh bonus on?

If you have to use the 'evisceration dagger' to get a boost do evis this is rerarded. Not to mention the previous trials for other weaponskills would be even more retarded.

Aeolian edge isn't worth trying to improve. When S-E added Aeolian Edge they were just keeping true to their form of past releases.




In the process of leveling up from 1-80 there will be a lot of weaponskills that are weaker than others. Viper bite is our bread and butter from 33-60 for the same reason (only because we stack SATA with it and it chains well). The mana stealing weaponskills aren't practical for damage and viper bite is better than cyclone. I doubt s-e is done with new weaponskills yet though. With 19 more levels to go we'll have approximately 100 more skill points to acquire. Judging by the dagger skill necessary to obtain past weaponskills there will probably be one or two more. But as a general rule of thumb we shouldn't ever expect too much from magical weaponskills. S-E makes them all the same way.

I will admit though that aeolian edge LOOKS cool. Even though the damage sucks it's kinda fun to throw one out if the mob is at very low HP and is about to die anyway (provided of course it won't hit something else with its AoE status).

Edited, Jun 28th 2010 8:52am by Melphina

I used it while doing lottery on Nocuous Weapon last night (゜―゜)

Might be fun for a rdm/thf to see how high they can push AE. Anyone with level 80 rdm and full dagger merits and/or love torque want to try this? Unfortunately I don't have rdm leveled.

How's resist rate on the WS?

If it's like guarantee 500 damage on any mob, it's not too bad.

There are (were?) mobs in this game has high vit and defense that we aren't event allowed to melee.

It's an AOE WS right?

Maybe use it in Dynamis or something when there are 20 mobs piled up on each other?

Doesn't seem to resist much, but it's been a hella long time since I've really used any other elemental WS in comparison...

Also..



I like where this is going....

Back before people were high level, I used to do the rank 5? Mission with the skeletons and the lich with aoe ws. When everyone uses teem they do add up quick. Maybe when we hot 90 aoe ws and 3 dd will be the way to farm dynamis.