Thread: Preferred Eidolon Buffs (DMG calculator included)

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

Can you provide an example?

Typhon and Ifrit

Upcoming Medusa has a pretty unusual passive buff as well.

Medusa's also +burst, right?

Not too far away will be Rahab introducing +ability damage.
And then in the distant future Jack Frost will introduce +element resistance; free 10% damage cut against the corresponding element, I believe.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

Typhon and Ifrit

Upcoming Medusa has a pretty unusual passive buff as well.

1) Those are character ATK buffs, not elemental DMG buffs.
2) Burst streak bonus seems pretty terrible, as it only applies to a small fraction of your overall damage. So you end up with a weaker character attack bonus and a burst streak bonus that doesn't even make up for the 10% character attack you lose.

There is no damage loss when pitting it against HP.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

There is no damage loss when pitting it against HP.

I have no idea what this sentence means.

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

I have no idea what this sentence means.

ATK↑/Burst Streak DMG↑ compared to a ATK↑/HP↑ buff. There is no damage loss.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

ATK↑/Burst Streak DMG↑ compared to a ATK↑/HP↑ buff. There is no damage loss.

Depends where you are in the game, honestly. I joined a lot of raids last week where everyone was knocked out. +Burst wouldn't have done them any good.

Originally Posted by CBW

Depends where you are in the game, honestly. I joined a lot of raids last week where everyone was knocked out. +Burst wouldn't have done them any good.

Yea, in my first post of this topic I state I prefer all offense as long as I meet the HP threshold.

Regardless, raids are raids because multiple people can run it. If you can solo them, great on you but the intent is to have multiple people help each other out. It'd be like complaining how much one keeps dying in a party based dungeon in a MMO trying to solo it.

When you get to where you can solo it (or simply know what you're doing as like this user here who clearly does), having extra HP is unnecessary when deciding over it or more damage.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

ATK↑/Burst Streak DMG↑ compared to a ATK↑/HP↑ buff. There is no damage loss.

The end damage works out to about the same, but you lose the HP buff! And your damage is still less than if you'd used an elemental DMG buff, making it more or less useless outside of a Burst-hour full raid scenario where that initial Burst will constitute the majority of your final damage.

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

The end damage works out to about the same, but you lose the HP buff! And your damage is still less than if you'd used an elemental DMG buff, making it more or less useless.

End damage would be higher going ATK/Burst than ATK/HP. Your damage would be more if you chose the Element DMG over either ATK/HP or ATK/Burst because all SSR eidolons with both attack and HP/Burst are all limited to character ATK and not element DMG. My posts was just a comparison between choosing HP or Burst as I didn't see the option in the poll and there is no ElementDMG/HP to compare in the first place.

Unless I missed a eidolon with it.

Element DMG = Element ATK btw, just using DMG to make it easier to differentiate between the two types in my post.