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Hiya all, want to get some opinions. Clearly damage is a more important stat on crystals than speed, but at what point do you personaly switch one for the other?

For example, i have a 93/0.17 crystal that's the weakestin my main saber. I have a 78/0.28 that i have in my doublebladed i use for messing around. I chose to have these this way around and even tho i know that the 78/0.28 reports a higher DPS on my saber, i beleive the 93 is the better crystal ( i know force cost is a big factor, i'm leaving it out atm as i'm just looking at speed/damage as they direcrly corelate). I checked it today and i get an extra 10 dps on the base stat with the faster one.

So at what point would you guys switch out for a faster, lower damage crystal. Clearly a 100/0.3 is better than a 105/0.05, but is it better than a 115/0.0?where's your switch out point? just how much do you value your damage over speed?

Thanks

Jingo, Master Doctor
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I'm MLS with a pretty good saber...can't check the stats the moment...but I think the answer depends on how high up the tree you've gone.

My saber has maxed damage and okay speed...I went for the damage...and I knew how the now-fixed cool down exploit worked. I just never needed to use it because I was hitting fast enough anyway that it wasn't necessary to 'sploit' in order to survive the 'sploits' by some of my attackers.

I didn't have a post-cu, lower tier LS template that I was grinding...so I'm not sure at the lower tiers how much of a difference it makes. I can only say that at MLS, you are so fast anyway that I don't think it makes that big of a difference. If anything, the speed eats your force a bit more than necessary as you play the heal/action game with BHs.

I hope that helps...I am interested to hear what others say that approached this more methodically. If I'm wrong, I'll be the first to dump my 117 damage pearls for lower dmg, higher speed pearls...

Wolf

Jingo, Master Doctor
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Zariell Lentanis - Light Jedi Knight
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I haven't really tried with a LS, but when i was swordsman, i saw that i was hitting harder with a lower max damage weapon, but with higher max DPS.

From that point, i kept the crystals that were giving me the highest dps, without any testing in fact.

Interesting questions and opinions . Gonna make some quick test this night if i have time.

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