aah okay good to know

i think a2 merc will be still hard to beat on travi runs mb if changes will come like a5 can wear axes (beast) or if better sword bases colososus blade or balrog blade could be used...

This post was edited by Spartacus160 on Mar 7 2022 06:39am

Here's a pretty knowledgeable content creator who's come to the same conclusion as I, that a single weapon is duplicated, and that the dps is being doubled. altho he also mentions that grief dmg is being doubled (I didn't think the bug applied to + dmg) and didn't mention any weapon swapping bugs. I'm going to be retesting the 1x grief setup, the slower times may be result of weapon swapping.

I'll make 10 runs with 1x grief. 10 runs with 2x grief. His results don't match with mine. I used 2 perfect grief pbs both times. There shouldn't be a difference if the weapon is just copied.

interesting so would only need 1 weapon instead of 2 (if u want to use dual weapon build) i dont think this remains till patch 2.4 release

This post was edited by Spartacus160 on Mar 7 2022 06:49am

I can imagine some weird thing where the +X damage or Deadly Strikes becomes "global" somehow.
Would be odd, but I can imagine it.

he has a longer video with some more explanations. +max dmg is multiplied by x3, so this may change my prior calculation a bit. headstriker might still be better.

Yeah that's what I was talking about. A5 Merc shreds with upped Headstriker

2x Headstriker or Headstriker + Grief ?

helmet gface for raw dmg better than arreats ?

life leech then from socketing amn rune or dmg jwl and go coh instead of forti ?

This post was edited by Spartacus160 on Mar 7 2022 08:06am

ran the numbers, wifi is down so can't show full results.

perfect +400 Grief Pb: 520 avg base dmg, taking into account 20% Deadly

perfect uppd eth HS with +30 max: 1055 avg base dmg taking into account 100% Deadly.

This doesn't take into account that grief is way faster, and has additional damage to demons, and the prior testing by babun didn't have +max jewels and probly not at lvl 99. still, these factors don't seem enough to make up for Grief doing nearly half the dps, yet still winning out on time vs Meph. very puzzling.

Maybe the damage to demons also is scaled x2 like regular ED on 1H weaps for A5 merc?