Melee skill 300+ = <3?

[Lekotas]

Okay, so I've heard the debate between torque and gorget and the obvious answer is parse it out and see for yourself. However, several people have told me breaking 300 skill results in hitting a higher damage tier than not. Ofcourse, only certain jobs can do this namely things that skill skill for one of the DM / Apoc nigh Earrings, headsmen ring etc, have a+ skill full merits and sea torque. If thats true then doesn't torque automatically beat gorget in every possible way(for those jobs only)?

I know some jobs come close like monk gets 299 skill(lol h2h), etc. but my question is dealing primarily with jobs like WAR, DRK, SAM, that have a+ skill and can actually break 300+ skill, has anyone parsed it out at all and seen a difference?

[Plow]

Reaching 300 skill would give hand to hand another point of base damage before weapons, that's all.

end h2h dmg = (skill x .11) + 3 + weapon dmg

[Cream Soda]

Edit: I have been wooshed!

wut?



Also, h2h is the only wep to get DMG+ w/ skill. The rest only get acc/attack so h2h lols back at you. Notice how weapons say DMG 18 and a h2h weapon will say DMG + 18, because it adds to the base dmg.

[Chen]

wut?

war can get 300 + with
276skill
16 in merits
7neck
3 ring

assuming thats what the wut is for

[Cream Soda]

Oh yea, forgot about that ring. Can replace the wut for the dmg+ then , since it only applies to h2h Proceed.

Is late enough though lol, gonna take that out, lmao

[orson]

I really really doubt +300 skill on War does anything but that said no one has tested and posted any results. The reason I doubt it though is skill for War is on a completely gradient scale from 1 --> 200 and again 201 --> 299. If anything it'd be more logical that once you hit 301 you only get .8 acc per skill as opposed to having some hidden tier boost (not saying that's the case just seems more like something SE would do.)

[Starr]

Blitz/Rajas only on WAR!

[Kirschy]

I've had 300+ skill on DRK for years and no noticable improvement. I can also tell you there's definetly no change in the base damage, total attack or total accuracy calculation.

If there is an improvement in damage, it would be in pdif somewhere, and I'm fairly sure the effect would be negligable if it even existed. It would also take tons of data/experimenting to prove.~

[pchan]

Pup gain 1 dmg with maxed H2H merits :

Base dmg goes from 26 to 27, with 7 acc and 7 attack so with average fstr and Hades Sainti+1 and 80% acc, the torque itself does 54/53*83.5/80*(1+7*0.3)=+8.5% damage which beats antyhing else.