PSA: Weapon Skills Do Not Stack.
I know the title seems obvious. We as a community all know about how you can’t use two of the same Hasten or Enhance.
However, it is not that which this PSA is referring to today.
Weapon skills such as Lunar Strike, Cavalry Bane, Armor Bane, and White Oracle do not stack.
As shown above, when both skills would be activated at the same, only the highest value will apply. This means Prayer Tome cannot achieve a 2.25x Damage boost vs Armored Monsters, Lunar Claws cannot achieve a 1.95x Boost vs Lance Cavs, Tutelage Tome cannot achieve a 3.3x boost vs Armors while on low Hp.
This changes the dynamic on which weapons should be prioritized. For example, with this new understanding, Solar Claws are always better than Lunar Claws, and Resolute Claws, while generally bad, are not worse than Lunar Claws.
Enclosing Dark which was the worst tome is even worse than we originally understood,
Ranged Carved weapons are functionally worthless,
Prayer tome sort of survives the new understanding but only because Monster Bane is all encompassing, but weapons with possible overlap are not as strong as they may seem.
This will be the last PSA on reddit. All future PSAs will be on Fescord exclusively. Thank you for your understanding.