Quote Originally Posted by DarQman View Post
Thanks for your opinion on artifacts. I mostly use Buddha, too. Only on Artillery I use Armillary Sphere for that first round extra damage.

Regarding +% dmg vs. +% ATK: I did a quick comparison between a Lvl 3 Uchigatana (72 ATK, +5% ATK) and a Lvl 1 Hook Spear (72 ATK, +5% dmg) on the same generals and the Hook Spear always did more damage. This might change with larger numbers of ATK.
I guess we have the same situation at DEF vs. Dmg reduction.

The interesting question would be: at which ATK numbers starts +ATK% to outperform +DMG%.
How large of damage numbers are we talking about here? If you did the testing with some level 1 general and the damage from infantry suppression or whatever the relevant lab skill is is a large fraction of your damage, and that gets boosted by the +5% damage, then that could explain the discrepancy. I'm not sure if that lab skill gets boosted by percentage damage buffs, however.