Weapon Skill Damage bug and game balancing.

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You would need a strong Savage Blade set. I've seen PLDs hit 20k Savage Blade. I've also seen PLDs hit over 20k CdC but that PLD was geared with Dark Matter augments.

In any case, 20k damage against a mob that is weak to skillchain closing a 4-5 step skillchain and you could be reaching 99999.

Another option is to fight certain delve NMs with very specific mechanics. If I remember right there is a matamata NM you can fight that you can force to take x64 damage on either magic or physical damage, so your 2k WS would do it.

yeah pretty much this it is way easier to build around savage blade then chant on pld.As for skill chain damage in my experience only mobs with specific damage resistences/absorption or mobs with elevated magic defense bonus like sava savionic or abyssdiver reduces skill chain damage (and in this last scenario if you bring a geomancer to malaise then you can actually increase the skill chain damage "back to neutral" wich i found very bizarre but worked for me other spells like increasing magic attack or decresing magic evasion didnt even faze the skill chain damage but malaise did it so i belive that those monsters do have magic defense bonus traits wich can be lowered by malaise in order to reach normal skill chain damage on then).