Oleg
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- Oleg Oleg McMullery
For quite a while now I've been using Baringer SR47+Dante as my long-range weapon. Sometimes I use ML-35+Dante for tougher mobs but in general I try to avoid that because I'm not maxed.
However I'm now close to the point where my damage per pec on the ML-35 is very close to my damage per pec on the Baringer. On paper and in theory, that is. I'm maxed on damage and I'm something like 84.3 Hit which shows as 9.0/10.0 HA and should tick over to 9.1 soon.
I would like to hear opinions on whether I should therefore switch over to using the ML-35 all the time. I have heard suggestions in the past that there is some kind of loot penalty for not being maxed (on top of any loss from low dpp) but I've never seen any evidence of this.
Mainly interested in hearing from people who have collected data on this or at least have substantial long term experience of something comparable to my situation. Not much interested in unsubstantiated theories or hearsay.
The ML-35 does more dps which is why I use it on harder mobs, but I'm mainly looking at this from a pure dpp perspective. At it's extreme I am thinking about whether it would be a good idea to use ML-35 even if I had 0% defence costs. I'm also ignoring enhancer effects as I don't use them (I have been experimenting with accuracy enhancers since the consumption change, but the effect of these should be proportional no matter what HA I have).
Thoughts?
EDIT: Just checked in-game and my ML-35 is now showing 9.1 HA, must have ticked over in the last day or two.
However I'm now close to the point where my damage per pec on the ML-35 is very close to my damage per pec on the Baringer. On paper and in theory, that is. I'm maxed on damage and I'm something like 84.3 Hit which shows as 9.0/10.0 HA and should tick over to 9.1 soon.
I would like to hear opinions on whether I should therefore switch over to using the ML-35 all the time. I have heard suggestions in the past that there is some kind of loot penalty for not being maxed (on top of any loss from low dpp) but I've never seen any evidence of this.
Mainly interested in hearing from people who have collected data on this or at least have substantial long term experience of something comparable to my situation. Not much interested in unsubstantiated theories or hearsay.
The ML-35 does more dps which is why I use it on harder mobs, but I'm mainly looking at this from a pure dpp perspective. At it's extreme I am thinking about whether it would be a good idea to use ML-35 even if I had 0% defence costs. I'm also ignoring enhancer effects as I don't use them (I have been experimenting with accuracy enhancers since the consumption change, but the effect of these should be proportional no matter what HA I have).
Thoughts?
EDIT: Just checked in-game and my ML-35 is now showing 9.1 HA, must have ticked over in the last day or two.
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