Physical Penetration Stat

colec74

I'm still relatively new so be gentle. I put Spriggins and NMG on my NB and didn't notice much difference in DPS between that and my Hundings/Endurace/Gladiators set. Is it overkill on the physical penetration? It's over 9k.

mtwiggz

Over 9,000!?

Penetration is great. Most bosses and the like have ~18k resists, so penetration will help you there. It's even more valuable in PvP where the meta has turned to Heavy Armor builds with 20-30k resists.

The end all be all is that penetration is good, as long as you have decent weapon damage too. If you penetrate a lot of the enemies armor but have low damage your damage will still be low. Now if you deal high damage but have low penetration you will have a similar outcome.

If you're running solo damage may be a better option for open world PvE. If you're in a PvE trial or dungeon group chances are most bosses will already be so low on resists due to group member sets and abilities that you'll be over penetrating and at a DPS loss. Penetration sets are something that need to be discussed before any trial run, otherwise your group as a whole might have a DPS loss.

I'm sure there's some forum warrior mathematicians out there that can give you a better analytical answer. There's also another post on the forums that people have been discussing penetration values for a few days now. Search is your friend.

Dyride

Supposedly Spinner and Spriggan do not stack with Sharpened so that could be part of the confusion.

Jaiden

Dyride wrote: »

Supposedly Spinner and Spriggan do not stack with Sharpened so that could be part of the confusion.

My physical pen according to harven's extended stats with sharpened weapons, spriggans and cp is 12.5k

colec74

Thank you all for the input.