Teras Kasi Archive

I was running some minor combat tests to see if VK's really do have armor piercing. When I hit barefisted, the armor absorbed around 60 dmg of an 80 dmg hit. With VK's on, the results were largely the same. The only difference was I did slightly more damage with the VK's...simply because they are a more damaging weapon.

As a TK Master, I can't see ever using VK's. You get about 1.5x increase in damage for about 4x the HAM cost. Even if I want to kill someone quickly, it's not worth leaving myself that burned out after the fight. Unarmed Hit 3 with VK's off is more than ample damage.

I believe the damage you see in the chat box is before the calculations regarding armor/weapon level and resistances, but I could be wrong.

The HAM cost is a major issue though. Damage is only increased 30-60% using the best knucklers available, but HAM costs go up to over 300%. For example, without VK I top out at about 1300 damage from unarmed hit 3 at a cost of 7 mind while fully buffed. Damage tops out at about 1900 with the best VK available at a mind cost of 22.

Now, if the developers were to ever pull their heads out of their asses and give us better lootable powerups than these pathetic +20 point drops, we might someday be capable of doing damage somewhere near what the average BH can do with a pistol. The network code will still render us completely useless in PvP, but at least damage numbers would be comparable and PvE would be a little easier.

Yeah, the numbers in the combat window are pre-armor factors for sure. She was telling me how much she was taking and how much it was telling her was getting absorbed by her armor, and it was virtually no different with or without knuckles on. The only difference was the knuckles hit slightly harder just because they do that naturally anyway.

what was the vuln of the armor. kin? maybe.

Bah sorry, it was composite armor, not sure what the effectiveness percentages were. I'm pretty sure armor piercing is broken on VK's, unless I don't understand how it works, which is just as likely :/. I would think a weapon with armor piercing light would go through light armor with no penalties and no bonuses.