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EDIT: I fucked up the process. After testing again WA pulls ahead by about 200-300 DPS. Gonna leave this up anyway because the only thing worse than making a mistake is trying to act like you didn't.

I suddenly remembered that Slug Shot got some base buffs outside of the ExtraDrive nuke, and decided to see if it was now better than ending a PA with three swings of the weapon action

Test was done with an upgraded Verschmelz Gunblade. This eliminated any variance from crit rate. Some variance still came from Downs, roughly 500 DPS.

Test target was Eldi Scythe in the ARKS Training Center.

Test method was simple. Stay: Flowing Sirius into Slug Shot, then Stay: Flowing Sirius into WA 123. Did both until the DPS settled into a small range after repeated Downs.

The result:

Ending in Slug Shot peaked at 26.2k damage per second.

Ending in WA 123 peaked at 25.5k damage per second.

As you can see, the difference is minor. Still, for those who wanted an excuse to press less buttons while playing Slayer, or those who want to min-max their DPS with the class, it's probably worth knowing.

...Honestly once the idea got in my head it wouldn't leave me alone until I tested it, but damn do I wish I could get my N-Meseta back.

On land I typically stealth my way through every fight I can. Sneaking from enemy to enemy and killing them before they can see me.

Naval battles do not afford you that luxury. Enemy ships will see you engaging their comrades and next thing you know, you're fighting three military ships simultaneously.

Then as you're wrapping that up you might have caught the attention of some pirates, and now there's a trio of them to deal with.

And because you committed murder and sunk ships there's a *misthios* with a fucking beast of a ship, that has sailed from the other side of Greece in ten minutes under Poseidon's blessing for the express purpose of fucking you up.

And none of these uncultured swine will wait for you to finish your battle with a previous group, no. So you're getting pelted with arrows and spears from all sides and rammed from multiple directions, boarding ships one after the other to restore the Adrestia's health, cutting down all manner of warriors in whatever weather the gods decided for the day while Barnabas screams his lungs out about how everyone's trying to kill us.

And I fucking love it. If I wasn't trying to find my family I'd be picking a fight right now.

Also the pay is pretty good.

Update info for the first two weeks of May. Short summary:

Kvaris Altered Realm Combat Sector gets a temporary event. Great Emperappy is on the menu, all the valuable gear drops from all the bosses(if you're lucky, obviously).

Limited Time Urgent Quest, Planetcrusher Assault D2, is making the rounds again.

New AC Scratch Ticket, "Gothic Elegance". Also has two new CAST sets, a rarity.

New mission pass.

And that's it. This'll be a filler month for sure.

Now that skill rings have have been around long enough for the first batch to sell for dirt cheap, I'm assuming most of us have settled into one or two pairs. I'm also assuming that people either picked something specifically to synergize with their EX Skills or something that's easy to keep active with the way they play. I am, above all, curious.

As for myself. I'm running Shortage HP Starling II, Turnover II, and Maintain Balance II on my weapon, with Patient Amp/Follow +5 as my Skill Rings. With Waker as a sub(and occasionally main) class I get an *extremely* tanky build at 50% HP. Gives me more room to fuck up and lets me intentionally eat attacks that would normally kill me, so that I don't have to cancel my own to avoid them. And with Maintain I have no issues staying at 50% or less to keep everything active.

Are there any Legendary weapons for an Assassin build that I should keep an eye out for?

The last month or two(or was it three?) of farming LTQs 20 times a week was just too damned much. Even if it was only an hour a day for a few days out of the week, that shit got so very, very old. I'm sick of fighting the exact same enemies in the exact same trials in the exact same spawn patterns **twenty motherfucking times every motherfucking week.**

At least with this, RNG will throw us a bit of variety. Alongside the two trials at a time.

Your "review", for lack of a better term, was so horrendously suspicious that I decided to check the book out myself. And I must say I've been enjoying it.

I was fully expecting some sort of edge lord protagonist going by the synopsis. But I find Piper to be a rather likeable protagonist. Sure she's a demon who's class is literally built on lies, but this kid would 100% rather work on a farm with the family that took her in and eat ice-cream with friends than deal with the nonsense that keeps coming her way.

I'm enjoying how not everyone who finds out her secret is dead set on killing her. Immediately every last one of them initially suspects she's on bullshit, but she's been able to win a few people over. And even some she doesn't aren't complete assholes. That Crimson Guard, Lucinia if I recall correctly, was a very honorable woman. I hope to see her again.

And her build is shaping up to be pretty fun. She was already putting in nasty work with her first class(the titular Deciever). Creating openings to get lethal strikes with her claws, tail, or bow. But where I'm at, chapter 90-something, she's now added a second class with powerful crowd control and debuffs, in addition to a bloodline skill that's gonna give her more bodies to throw at her problems. The kid's a beast, and I'm looking forward to seeing how her new class grows, what she gets in the future, and how they'll all synergize together.

On a side note, her Legendary Bow has some skills that I'd have killed for in actual ARPGs I've played. Though I can at least do the exploding arrows thing in Warframe.

So thank you. In your attempts to get people to never read this story, you've pointed me towards it. I'd have completely missed out on something I'm enjoying very much if not for your odd hate boner.