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can you kill people with 80% kinetic helmets in pvp fast?

yeah power hammers have blast and 2 hand sword are kinetic but have AP2

It depends on what you mean by fast.

As mentioned earlier, Powerhammers are blast damage, so the 80% Resists to kinetic have no effect on the PH. This would be your best bet, depending on what their resists to Blast damage are.

The 2H Curved Sword is AP2, which would get you a 25% damage bonus (i.e., damage times 1.25) for medium AP versus light armor, but your kinetic damage would be reduced by 80%. So your overall damage would be multipied by 1.25 * .20 = .25. Thus, you would be doing only 1/4 the base damage using this sword.

However, keep in mind that bleeds ignore armor and resistences. So if you get a 1000 point bleed on something with 80% resists, each bleed will tick off 1000 points of damage even though that same damage with a Headhit would onlycount for250 points. So (assuming you can't use the PH for some reason), you can stack some bleeds with a kinetic weapon and still do some good damage to them, but bleeds only tick off every 20 seconds, and theinitial hit does not do any real damage, so it is going to take at least 20 seconds for the bleeds to start working.

From there, it just depends on what their stats are.