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I thinks it quite high, at master a can still get OHH 3 out at 1 sec with my 3.4 gaffi stick, so at footwork 4 i'd imagine it to be around 3.0.

I use a 3.6 spd gaffi and still cap out.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=fencer&message.id=10800
thats a link that will tell you how to calculate your speed, DPS, average damage, and TRUE average damage. Very Helpful post from our previous corrispondant.

Use this.

http://www.subterrane.com/swgcalcs.shtml

The way it works now, as soon as you hit +100 to your speed modifier, you're going to hit once a second with anything no matter what your weapon speed/special attack delay is.

The formula is

((100 - speed modifier) / 100) * weapon speed

So if you have a +50 speed bonus and a 3.5 speed weapon:

((100 - 50) / 100) * 3.5 = 1.75

And a +100 speed bonus with the same weapon:

((100 - 100) / 100) * 3.5 = 0 (since 0 divided by anything is 0)

While this isn't going to help you do any more damage against a normal target, since weapon speed experimentation and damage experimentation are tied together (only one experimentation bar that affects both; experimenting on that bar generally increases damage and lowers speed), it does help a TON in PvP against people with high defenses. A weaponsmith can choose to use all or most of his experimentation points in the Range experimentation bar, which affects the weapon's accuracy modifiers at certain ranges. The higher your accuracy, obviously, the better chance you have of hitting someone, and the more DPS you're shelling out even though your weapon's damage rating is substandard. Consider the following scenario:

A stun baton with +5 accuracy bonuses at 0m, 3m, and 5m, on top of the +150 (? I think, I'm not ingame at the moment so I can't check) native accuracy we get at Blademaster. That's +155 total accuracy, against a non-moving target. Now, suppose you engage another player with +150 melee defense. Since I don't have the formula close to hand and can't be arsed to find it, I'm just going to do a rough guesstimate. Here's a typical 10-attack scenario (1 attack per second, naturally):

miss
miss
miss
miss
hit for 150 damage
miss
miss
miss
hit for 140 damage
miss

That's 290 damage total, 29 DPS.

Now, say you have a stun baton that's had all experimentation points possible put into Range, resulting in a weapon with +30 +50 +20 0m 3m 4m accuracy modifiers. Here's what happens in that situation:

hit for 100 damage
hit for 110 damage
hit for 90 damage
miss
miss
miss
hit for 80 damage
hit for 100 damage
miss
hit for 75 damage

That's 555 damage over a 10 second period, or 55.5 DPS.

The reason I went on so long about this is because it is a VERY overlooked aspect of weaponsmithing and combat. People typically only care about the damage and speed stats on their weapons. While very important in many situations, those stats are not the be-all and end-all of your weapon's quality. After figuring this out, I went to my guild's weaponsmith and asked him to make me a range of weapons with maxed out Range experimentation. The only time I ever use them is when I'm fighting another defense stacker in PvP; it more or less negates that defensive advantage.

Yeah, we have pretty high accuracy, and in general it's way more than enough for any PvE scenario. But when it's time to PvP, you run into players who've stacked their defenses sky-high. It's possible to bump melee and ranged defense up around +200, I believe. That is extremely hard to hit. With our +150 accuracy on top of a +50 or +70 experimented accuracy weapon, that super-high defense turns into a disadvantage for the stacker, since he's sacrificed a lot of offensive power to get those defenses.

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Sammadet wrote:
Buy weapons in crates/large quantities and then get them sliced

Besides they're gonna fix the random slicing...

I mean how random is it if a piece of armor gets lighter (enc slice) or gets another layer (eff slice)

its just stupid =P

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I'd also like to know about this fixage of random slicing.