The entire argument is moot, since afaik the realms dont have a 40ias 450ed eth rep stygians.
However:
Where the ED is identical between stygians and Matri Javs, the Stygians win out
IF they have enough base IAS to reach the required breakpoint.
For a
High LVL HLD player, a
pure-dex build will show a bigger difference alot more then at lower levels, simply because of the damage bonus granted due stygians being non-class specific.
I compared my Stygians to Brainpowers Matri's though, for MLD (lvl49). I originally thought mine were better, but I was actually wrong. There is an ED difference and frame rate difference, which results in the stygians needing IAS from shield to hit a required frame. So the stygians get ias from shield while the matri's have pure damage in shield, thereby granting enough additional damage to make them better. This resulted in the stygians having around 100 more damage then the matri's, but the matri's having around 700 more min damage (thereby surpassing the stygians in my eyes.)
For my purposes, I recreated my char identically as is on the realm and the screens below show my stygians and brainpower's matri's. notice the difference in min damage.
The important thing to realise here that this is a vita build and only lvl 49, and therefore the % damage increase from non-specific javs is not as great. also the %ED is lower on the stygians by 62% and the matri's are able to gain additional str/dex from not using ias in shield. All this just proves that non-class specific javs, provided the throw frame rates match, simply beat class specific javs in terms of damage, where the % ed is identical (and especially on a dex build). we all knew that already. ALso, yes +jav skills is pretty crappy, +skills is not though.
Finally, Gep's Stygians had close to the same ed as brainpower's matri's but the damage (inscreen) was about 4700, on a vita build @49. (win!)
This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 22 2010 02:22am