Raider's Armlets mis-labeledFollow

Brought to my attention (thanks thiefkiller) in the achievement thread, +1/2 armlets are not labeled properly with the "Increases 'Trick attack' Damage". I figured I was on top of most things, but i missed this. So a new thread is in order to make sure it gets to anyone else that also missed this rather important change. (i already put it in all my TA macro stuff xD)

Limited test of 20 SA with and without armlets. Tested on Wron mobs as usual. Gear changes were Heca+1 gloves+Jupiter's ring to Raid+1 hands+Airy ring (to maintain the same dex). Only changes in damage stats were str-2 and atk+10 on the raider/airy set. Both of which should have zero effect on these mobs.

Stats were as such:
Str 80+24(22)
Dex 94+72
Kila+2: D43, 12 max Fstr
Crit damage: Trait only (8%)

20 SA without armlets.
High:747
Low: 650
Theoretical cap: 751(BaseD*3.15*1.08)
So far so good

20 SA with armlets
High: 822 831
Low: 698
Theoretical cap: 833 (using +15% dex if like AF+1)

Edit:Did some more (27 now) and hit an 831. I feel quite confident in the 15% dex now
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OBVIOUSLY it enhances SA, and at 1st glance matches up with +15% dex (small sample is small)

I have not checked TA to see if we lucked out and it does both as the typo says TA in english client, SA in japanese client so i cannot personally confirm any changes in TA.

TA enhance or not, this is a welcome error. I much prefer to have a SA piece with this much power than a better TA piece when we already have a decent one. SAWS beware! I love having our best WS hands across the board also be our best SA hands. <3

Edited, Dec 13th 2010 5:10pm by Banalaty

Edited, Dec 13th 2010 5:14pm by Banalaty

Edited, Dec 13th 2010 5:29pm by Banalaty

Thanks for the test. Yeah, I saw Nynja say that the FR client also says "enhances SA." Someone might want to check if it enhances TA as well. Would be a shame if it was a spelling error on all versions and it enhances both SA and TA, and we just never realized it haha.
This is pretty sweet.

Did some minor testing with SA and found that the +2 armlets most likely give a 20% boost to DEX. It was a very small sample size, 11 SAs with and 11 SAs without the armlets (also did switch in and out Antares Harness to make dex totals the same), and further testing would be needed.

Overall I hope this is not an error that the devs are going to be correcting in the emergency update, and that it is in fact a mislabeling.

bump; has anyone had a chance to test if they also boost TA?

I was thinking this item was likely to be the same as the AF+1, I.E. increases the value of your AGI(DEX) by a factor of +15%. But just playing with some numbers for a minute. But after you factor in dagger base damage and fStr, it'll increase your total SA by less than 1.15. You got a 1.2, indicating that if your sample is sufficient, these differ from the AF+1.

I did intend to ask whether your numbers were from +1 or +2, but it kinda got lost in confusion about my own numbers. I personally never got around to testing the +1 since I got the +2 done so fast, if only the feet were as easy...