Equipment and stat distribution

[Winter Bard]

With the nerf to legendary equipment and the new battle strength and weakness, is multi-stat legendary still best compared to a single stat epic or maybe a main stat/weakness 2 stat epic? I've noticed it's easier to beat an attack heavy, low defense player than a balanced stat player. Should we stack defense against our weakness now?

[Bigshow71]

With the nerf to legendary equipment and the new battle strength and weakness, is multi-stat legendary still best compared to a single stat epic or maybe a main stat/weakness 2 stat epic? I've noticed it's easier to beat an attack heavy, low defense player than a balanced stat player. Should we stack defense against our weakness now?

I tend to focus mainly on my main stat, then stack weakness defense when able. Also remember that leveling your Haremettes up will also increase your ego in battle.

[Unregistered]

With the nerf to legendary equipment and the new battle strength and weakness, is multi-stat legendary still best compared to a single stat epic or maybe a main stat/weakness 2 stat epic? I've noticed it's easier to beat an attack heavy, low defense player than a balanced stat player. Should we stack defense against our weakness now?

It has been mathematically demonstrated that since the beginning of of the game, focusing on single stat equipment of your specialty is the most efficient strategy. Multi stat legendary are effectively sub-par compared to single stat of your spe legendaries.

This is likely to change in a few weeks when they will review the battle mechanics and introduce the "Luck" system.

[wthvr]

With the nerf to legendary equipment and the new battle strength and weakness, is multi-stat legendary still best compared to a single stat epic or maybe a main stat/weakness 2 stat epic? I've noticed it's easier to beat an attack heavy, low defense player than a balanced stat player. Should we stack defense against our weakness now?

this was never the case. anyone who used rainbow items after being max'd out on crit made a bad choice. not even sure why one would think that rainbow items were even remotely close to being useful before PVP system was introduced as literally only your main stat had any relevance. with the new pvp system one might argue that it has changed, but rainbow items got nerfed so I guess we will have to wait until they finalized all of the pvp upgrades
also stacking against your week sounds aweful. it might be the best to have single-main-statted items and duo items of your mainstat and the stat you are going to fight again so you can maintain high stats and still have good defense and not undergo the huge stat loss from rainbow items as crit/hp/and the leftover stat are prettymuch useless

[vem]

It has been mathematically demonstrated that since the beginning of of the game, focusing on single stat equipment of your specialty is the most efficient strategy. Multi stat legendary are effectively sub-par compared to single stat of your spe legendaries.

This is likely to change in a few weeks when they will review the battle mechanics and introduce the "Luck" system.

Didn't they change the system so that main stat no longer increases your defenses? Previously there was no point in secondary stats since focusing on mainstat gave you sufficient defense against everything, but now you will have very low numbers in secondary def if you do that. Depending on how the combat system works, it's probably still worth more, though.

Single stat legendary is obviously still the best, the comparison was multi stat leg vs single stat epic.

[Unregistered]

Didn't they change the system so that main stat no longer increases your defenses? Previously there was no point in secondary stats since focusing on mainstat gave you sufficient defense against everything, but now you will have very low numbers in secondary def if you do that. Depending on how the combat system works, it's probably still worth more, though.

Single stat legendary is obviously still the best, the comparison was multi stat leg vs single stat epic.

They didn't change the stat and combat system yet. It should land in 2 or 3 weeks if they don't suffer delay. Supposedly, it will make the secondary and tertiary stat more relevant, and make crit (renamed "luck") an important stat, with various effects depending on your specialty.