Int vs Magic Attack
My question is simple: Which one is better to have on equipment?
Example: You have two gloves, one with 10 INT and the second with 10 Magic Attack.
Considering that your character is level 200 with base 999 INT, when you equip one of those gloves, which one is better to your range/damage?
Also a second question: If you consider %INT on other equips, the 10 INT glove will be better than the second, right?
March 12, 2013
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I wrote a [b]long[/b] answer to this post, but just when I was about to hit the "Add my comment" - Basil went down for 5 minutes, so it's lost now.
It really depends on how much magic attack you have compared to the amount of int you have. For me, a 15% magic attack orb gives me 5k range more than a 24% int orb. But I have about 300-400 magic attack. So if you have way more int than magic attack, it would be best to use %int gear
Magic attack always. Mostly on weapons (duh), shields, and earrings (scroll or earring for int adds more magic attack). Also empress equips have magic attack that u can chaos.
If u can't scroll for attack, then scroll for int.
In terms of potentials, %int>magic attack>int.
@030999: Yeah, the person above said something like scrolling it with Chaos, but I think Chaos is a good choice only for shoes, because they come with 1 M.ATT, and there is no scrolls for shoes M.ATT..
Thanks a lot, you really helped me!
[quote=toad]So would be better getting a 100% tier upgrade glove with good % than a 100% scrolled+15stars with crap pot?
@030999 Why not scrolling with Magic Attack scrolls instead of Chaos?[/quote]
Depends on cost and luck...
As for the scrolling bit... do you mean the other way around? Because my example uses M.Atk scrolls, not chaos scrolls. The reason it doesn't use chaos is because using chaos scrolls to beat +3 M.Atk per scroll is unreasonably difficult...
So would be better getting a 100% tier upgrade glove with good % than a 100% scrolled+15stars with crap pot?
@030999 Why not scrolling with Magic Attack scrolls instead of Chaos?
[quote=AlwaysReady]On this kind of topic, should I go with a All Scrolls Will Succeed mage glove so I can scroll and chaos for m.atk, or should I just use a 100% pot tier and go for at least 12% int?
I'll have at least 250 m.atk and 80% INT. Probably closer to 100% INT, though.[/quote]
You'd have to take cost into account, and I have no idea how much either option will cost you. But assuming 250matk and 80% int now, without the glove:
If you can find 30% glove matks, you can scroll a 21matk glove. That's an 8.4% increase.
You have 80% int, so 1.8x int. 12% more would modify this to 1.92x. That's a 6.7% increase.
Of course, you can probably cube more than 12% onto the glove for less than it would cost you to scroll a better glove with chaoses. But given that I don't know prices on this stuff, or chances involved for chaosing/cubing, I'm not going to make any conclusions.
Oh alright. Now i see everything clearly thanks a lot guys! All of you
The ratio of m.atk:int is entirely dependent on your current total int and m.atk. Realistically, it'll probably be anywhere between 1:4 and 1:10 or higher, depending on your funding and equipment.
It's easiest to think about what's better this way: is 10 magic attack a larger percentage of your total magic attack, or is 10 INT a larger percentage of your total int? Whichever is a larger proportion should be better for your range. Obviously in this case, 10 magic attack will be better. And, that 10 m.atk will almost always be better, regardless of how much %int you have. Let's say you have 999 base, 300% int, and none added from equips besides the glove. That 10 int will result in +40 int. But that 300% means you already had around 4k int. Let's imagine you have 500 matk in all (a very large amount) and no %m.atk. In this case, 10 matk is still 2% of your total matk, and thus will add approximately 2% to your range. However, 40 int is about 1%...
The point of this long-winded and unnecessary example is that regardless of how much %int you're sporting, +10 int is basically never going to be better than +10 matk in a realistic scenario.
Pretty much what he said^, as you hit the cap for int, % int starts to add more than m.attk does. Compared to if you're low leveled w/o a lot of int yet, m.attk is more beneficial
I'd go with the 10 Magic Attack easily.
Last time I checked it was 5 INT for 1 Magic Attack.
This is How I see this (Anyone correct me if I am wrong):
[b]%INT > Magic Attack > INT[/b]
Of course sometimes Magic Attack could beat out %INT.