Perfected Arena DD Weapons - Penetration Bonuses

Altyrann

Any chance these bonuses can be tweaked to SD/WD, Mag/Stam or Crit? Given how these will be single bar it just makes life overly complicated having pen bonuses on them.

JinMori

I do not know how they will work to be honest, they are not like set bonuses, the tooltip is different, although the spell pen is definitely not very nice, and should be changed into something more useful, like crit, or magicka or spell damage.

redspecter23

For the Master 2 Hander, I'm fairly happy with a pen bonus as I'd be using it on trash fights anyway and I'm not necessarily getting my cleverly calculated max pen for trash fights.

carlos424

Altyrann wrote: »

Any chance these bonuses can be tweaked to SD/WD, Mag/Stam or Crit? Given how these will be single bar it just makes life overly complicated having pen bonuses on them.

Thats the whole point. Pen bonus on one bar is worthless, especially back bar. They had to do something for perfected version, so they brainstormed about what would be the most, absolute most, inconsequential bonus they could add. Here you have it.

WrathOfInnos

redspecter23 wrote: »

For the Master 2 Hander, I'm fairly happy with a pen bonus as I'd be using it on trash fights anyway and I'm not necessarily getting my cleverly calculated max pen for trash fights.

Yes agreed, on a front bar Stamina weapon Penetration is a useful bonus, especially one geared toward AoE (where each enemy will not be fully debuffed with things like Crusher).

Even on the Blackrose Destruction Staff it’s not a bad choice, since that weapon is again based on AoE (clearing trash, not fully debuffed) and buffs a spammable which is typically front bar. The problem with the Blackrose Staff is that it’s completely useless because if you use Ele Ring as a spammable it never actually ticks, just constantly refreshes, but that’s beyond the topic here.

On other weapons, particularly Magicka weapons that are useful for single target and used on a single bar (Maelstrom Destruction Staff), Penetration is completely useless. Being 1.2k over the enemy’s resistance while on back bar recasting DoTs adds exactly zero DPS.