Atherion

I will essentially summarize my understanding of ac355deny's post on the vindictusmanual's forums, so head over there and read it over if you are curious for a more in-depth explanation.

First of all, I'd like to address the "There is no attack cap" statement. From what I understand looking over some data points on ac355deny's post, there appears to be a correlation between your attack over boss defense and the multiplier of additional damage. Without going into too much detail, it seems that the higher your attack over boss defense, the higher your AD multiplier will be. So depending on whether you attack cap a boss or not and how much attack limit release you can make use of, it will have an effect on your AD multiplier.

https://servimg.com/view/19754179/11
https://servimg.com/view/19754179/8

These two plots should give you an idea of what I mean. The first shows your additional damage multiplier from 7-10k over boss defense while the second takes into consideration attack limit release which goes beyond your standard 10k attack over boss defense.

But for simplicity's sake, lets assume both players are attack capped with no attack release. Both will have an effective attack of ~10,900 (this value will change depending on how much attack release a player can make use of along with the multiplier for AD).

A single point of additional damage at this point will be roughly 6.25 effective attack so the player with 1,000 extra additional damage will have 6,250 more effective attack.

Ex: player 1 has 2k ad, player 2 has 3k ad

player 1 will have an effective attack of ~23,400 while player 2 will have an effective attack of ~29,650

Leveling has become a lot faster while free level up gear lets you run level 90 raids without too much of a hassle as long as you know what you are doing. On one hand, you can get to level 90 fairly quickly now to run relevant content without much grinding. However, the difficulty will spike up suddenly as you can practically facetank your way to level 90 then get absolutely destroyed by s3 raids.

Meanwhile, the performance gap between a well geared player and moderately geared one has become much bigger with rise and is unfortunately is heavily dictated by rng due to the change in additional damage. I wouldn't consider this a huge deal unless you are someone whose extremely competitive in pve and want to minmax the crap out of your character at endgame.

V0lterix wrote: »

I do PVP at any opportunity because of a lack of things to do otherwise. Over 7 months I spent several million, possibly hundreds, on megaphones to start Free match or Siege. 9/10 times on west, I was in any given multi pvp match.

10/10, you stop cause of a 7k crit from yours truly c:

In the nuts