Elemental Belts and WS setsFollow

Love Torque is just better than weaponskill gorgets and we have a waist option that surpasses Love Torque (Cuchulain's Belt), as well as our standard Warwolf Belt. Kulkulain (the boss of abyssea konstant) also drops the Anguinus Belt which is a really good weaponskill piece and he's pretty easy to take down. If you're using a multi hit weaponskill then the damage is only applied to the first swing, whereas accuracy is applied to every swing. That WOULD have been important at lvl 75, but if you can get an elemental belt then you probably don't need accuracy anyway, and if you DO need accuracy in abyssea you probably won't be seeing one of these anytime soon because you have a lot of work ahead of you. One of the biggest reasons people used the gorgets was for the accuracy, but now that acc problems are a thing of the past the elemental gorgets are a relic of times gone by, and the weaponskill belts were obsolete before they were even released.

Edited, Dec 22nd 2010 10:15am by Melphina

The fact that evisceration is 6 hit's (always dual wield) coupled with the critical nature makes it better than shark bite in almost every way. There are very few mobs inside abyssea which are so evasive need to use shark bite on them. Instead of mathing it I'm simply going to post some screenshots. I have to go away for a bit now but I'll be back later to further my point.

Basically this. Shark bite's 100% tp mod is 2.0 fTP, and my weaponskill set has dex 250+ dex in abyssea. Shark bite must be stacked in order for it to be useful, so you're comparing a stacked SB with a stacked EV. The first hit of SB would look something like this

(43 + 14 + ((250 x 0.5) x0.85)) x 2.0 + 250 == 586 damage critical

let's just say your attack is capped at 3.0 and you have a 1.4 crit damage multiplier

586 x 3 x 1.4 == 2461

Now evisceration would look something like this


(43 + 14 + ((250 x 0.3) x0.85)) + 250 == 370 damage critical

with the same bonuses

370 x 3 x 1.4 == 1554 damage critical

But that's it for shark bite; it ends right there. While shark bite is about 900 damage ahead evisceration gets 4 more swings to work with and the offhand hit (or hits if multi proc) which cannot critical on shark bite CAN critical on evisceration. Since we're dealing with a capped attack scenario a non critical evisceration swing will do approximately 350 damage (43 + 14 + 63 == 120 base damage on non criticals) and any criticals get the 1.4 damage boost on top of the added 1.0 pDIF.

Assuming you have razed ruins the only time shark bite is better than evisceration is if you are literally landing only one or two swings when you weaponskill, but that shouldn't be the case even on evasive things like Flame Skimmer. The result would have been the same with a lower attack rating as well.

This is just an example with RR but even without RR the massive mods still cater to evisceration more than they do SB. SB is not a bad weaponskill, but it is outclassed by multi hit thanks to enormous buffs and stats. Mercy Stroke and Rudra's Storm are another story, and I would argue those are better than evisceration, especially with the new reports that relic weaponskills have been beefed up heavily for people who have the level 90 weapon (or is it just tied to the weapon period? Actually from what I read it sounded like Mandau + Mercy Stroke is 25% stronger and the only requirement is actually owning Mandau itself)

wait has it been confirmed that the belts do the same mods as neck pieces?
has anyone tested it yet? might have diff stats

It's a *1.25 multiplier tacked onto the end of the WS. It only works for the weapon's signature WS (I wish it also worked with Evisceration)



Edited, Dec 24th 2010 6:35am by Lobivopis

They probably needed Mandau 90 for the bonus damage. SE is cool like that.