unlocking WSs

[saevel]

It depends on the base damage of the "new" 99 weapons. You can't just throw CDC onto excal and call it a day, the AM effect on Almace is pretty potent. 99 Excal barely etched out 99 Almace and only due to lack of good DEX WS gear and the abundance of STR / MND WS gear. If the gear situation ever gets solved then expect Almace to hit the top again.

[Demon6324236]

It depends on the base damage of the "new" 99 weapons.

I went with the stats they showed us from their examples, which I assume are what we are getting or fairly close.

You can't just throw CDC onto excal and call it a day, the AM effect on Almace is pretty potent.

Yeah AM is great, but when you have to choose between that and the massive 40 Attack on Excalibur, along with its higher DMG and its 2.5x that is always on, Excalibur should normally win on RDM.

99 Excal barely etched out 99 Almace and only due to lack of good DEX WS gear and the abundance of STR / MND WS gear. If the gear situation ever gets solved then expect Almace to hit the top again.

Why would gear have anything to do with that? You are saying Almace would win because CDC would win, but that's not true, as you said before, it depends on the DMG of the new weapons. So far as base weapons go Excalibur is better, so far as WSs go Almace is better, if you can learn CDC and use it on Excalibur it wins, Excalibur's biggest drawback was that KoR is still weaker than CDC even with all of our gear and the DMG boost, using CDC with it eliminates that flaw and puts it at the top.

I would stick with Uriel Blade since we are talking about unlocking WSs.

Since it's better than both by a long shot.

Well seeing as that is only in Campaign and we are not talking about unlocking any extra WSs in this thread, only the RME WSs which SE talked about, that seems like a baseless statement.