Hofud/Perdu main hand considering fstr

[Neosutra]

Was looking at perdu/hofud combinations, and it seems rather obvious to put hofud on the off hand since it has 2 less base damage, however I wanted to get a few people's input on a couple points:

1. Blues arent always using tp right at 100%, and spells that are cast above 100% would not get the 44 damage rating applied to them.

2. Perdu's fstr cap is based on the 38 damage rating (and thus rank3) cap of -3 to 11, while hofud would be rank 4 (-4 to 12). In cases where you can get enough str to get that extra 1 fstr difference, hofud would be superior to main hand.

Just want some input from some damage calc guru's or super blues on which should be main handed for blu (since blu isnt the typical "my point in life is to get 100 tp and ws as fast as possible" job), or someone to tell me Im doing the math wrong Q.Q.

[Suiram]

1. Blues arent always using tp right at 100%, and spells that are cast above 100% would not get the 44 damage rating applied to them.

I think there's a misunderstanding of BLU damage here. The damage rating of a weapon has no bearing on physical spell damage, it's a function of Blue Magic Skill. A spell cast with an onion sword will be calculated the same as a spell cast with a Fragarach (aside from the 4 accuracy).

As for #2, I haven't looked personally to verify what you said is true, but even assuming someone is at the fSTR cap, 2 base damage would beat 1 fSTR on main hand for regular hits and WSs (and again, only fSTR will matter for physical spells, which has its own cap independent of main-hand weapon).

Edit: Also, for the most part, in merit pts and smaller events like Salvage and Nyzul, a BLU (or at least the playstyle I subscribe to) is similarly "my point in life is to get 100 tp and ws as fast as possible", but with the additional "also cast spells to increase overall damage as possible and where appropriate."

[Neosutra]

Oh, fstr has a cap independent of weapon rank?

[Suiram]

BLU physical spells have their own fSTR cap, and it's obscenely high, something like 22 or 24.

Also, I looked over the weapon rank thing, and (I'm tired here so I'm sorry if I messed this up) but it looks like wrank of D38 and D42 are both 4, meaning fSTR for both caps at 12.

But to illustrate what I was trying to say above, let's suppose that I'm wrong and perdu is wrank 3, hofud wrank 4. Say someone had 18 fSTR before cap.
Their base damage from perdu would be 44 + 11 = 55 dmg in latent and on WS before WSC, 38 + 11 = 49 dmg over 100%.
Their base damage from Hofud would be 42 + 12 = 54 dmg on all hits and WS before WSC.
And their base damage on spells would be 71 + 18 = 89 before WSC.

So basically, switching Hofud and Perdu between main/offhands will not change melee DoT (except in the instances where you killshot a mob with the first hit, and even *then* it wouldn't matter because one will beat the other depending on whether or not you are holding your TP above 100%, and even *then* it won't matter because if that small change in base damage would have meant killing the mob on the first hit, then you kill it with the second hit in the same attack round). Physical spells aren't affected, as I indicated above. So really you are just sacrificing a small amount of WS damage by main-handing Hofud over Perdu.

[Neosutra]

Thanx for the info Suriam.

[Maxxthepenguin]

And still, just giving a shout out to my main man Koggelmander for the offhand.

I'd say Perdu/Koggel is optimal

[Suiram]

Until you are fighting beasts!

[Neosutra]

No doubt, but the wife thinks the Hofud is pretty Q.Q and it's her blu..

[isladar]

No doubt, but the wife thinks the Hofud is pretty Q.Q and it's her blu..

This trumps all math.

[Maxxthepenguin]

No doubt, but the wife thinks the Hofud is pretty Q.Q and it's her blu..

Dear god, I don't want to see her WS/phys setups considering how fugly the best BLU gear is.

[Neosutra]

Wedding dress, gay corsage, and fishing shorts ofcourse!

[Maxxthepenguin]

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[midguardian]

Time for the red carpet style team to critique WS sets. Go!

[VZX]

2. IIRC, Perdu Hanger is a rank 4 weapon, not rank 3.
Capped crit on the old day is 168 damage. I played with it pretty often on TW mob in Sauromogue

168/3.0 = 56 = 44+12

Yep, I'm sure it's rank 4