Faith Merc sucks on Physical Bowazon đŸ˜±

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Not sure what you’re watching or what setups they are using, but what we’re looking at here is that WF/Pride is only capable of 9fpa while using important gear, whereas Faith is capable of 7fpa.

8fpa on WF/Pride requires 150%ias, which would only be possible if a person ditched 300% Fortitude and went for some kind of 60/160 setup. This is a large loss in damage when you don’t have Fanat granting that additional 288% for lv15. Remember that these ed% modifiers effect all max damage charms in your inventory as well as 15-25 War Trav.

WF/Pride at 9fpa will not keep up with Faith/Pride at 7fpa.

Really what we’d be realistically comparing then is:

  • WF/Pride firing at 8fpa wearing 60/160 having a grand total of about Might 210%ed, Conc 345%ed, 45/120%ed, 60/160%ed, and let’s say 400% DEX = 1235%ed effecting the WF’s weapon damage which would be about 35 to 520 damage (avg 277) around level 90, as well as the other max damage on the character from War Trav & Charms. “Remember that all ED% and Max Damage on the weapon itself is calculated before this equation and only applies to the weapon itself”. This is why I did not include the WF’s natural damage output on the weapon itself.
  • Faith GMB/Pride firing at 7fpa wearing Fort, with the same setup build as the above only swapping in Faith & Fort, would grand total more around 1663%ed that effects both the weapon damage of Faith and the +max on War Trav & Charms. The GMB Fath’s actual weapon damage being 62 to 320 (avg 191).
  • Now let’s consider this Zon is a true pvm zon, using 7x +14max GCs, Torch & Anni stacked vertically taking up 3 slots as an 8th GC, and then 8x +3max SCs. This is a total of +122 max damage from charms. Now let’s also consider 15-25 War Trav, so this is another misc 15min - 147max flat damage to be amplified in the equation by all off-weapon ED% mods.
  • The 277 avg damage from WF with its 1235%ed will become 3420 avg damage. That 1235%ed when applied to the War Travs & Charms will make the +15-147 become +185-1815 “interesting to see how those small damage blow up after ed% mods”. The avg damage of 185-1815 is 1073. So that added to the WF avg is 4493. We are looking at a total standard attack average damage output of 4493 for the WF/Pride setup, firing at 8fpa.
  • The Faith GMB average weapon damage of 191 amplified by 1663%ed will become 3176 avg damage. And then that War Trav & Charm flat damage of 15-147 will become 249-2444, with an avg damage of 1346. This added to Faith GMB avg is 4,522. So we are looking at a standard attack from Faith GMB averaging 4,522, which is firing at 7fpa.
  • Ultimately we are looking at WF standard avg damage firing at 8fpa only achieving 4493, and then the Faith GMB achieving 4,522 which is actually higher damage AND firing faster at 7fpa.

It may be hard to believe, but the Faith GMB is just always better in the end. And those aforementioned numbers didn’t even point out the +120 fire damage on Faith or its +% to undead, or the fact that it never misses targets with Multi or Strafe, as well as the +2 all skills and +3 to bow, It even makes the a2 merc hit harder & faster as well as the valk, and it summons little skeletons all over the place to tank things in high density mob areas when you are soloing 8 player ^^

WF/Pride can keep up, but the GMB Faith is just better not only damage wise but for plenty of other reasons, such as how Faith GMB has +15 all res on it and allows you to wear Fortitude for another +30 all res and +5% to max light for 80% light vs. those Black Souls.

Please don’t take this post the wrong way. I just wanted to list the math for you so you could see what was going on here.

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