Quote Originally Posted by wind View Post
I also have both, or I should say had. Ended up selling my Aeolian after noticing Heavy stab's were doing 10-15 less on NMs then Longsword, and Riot was missing more with Aeolian. Its nothing to drastic since glad's aren't really there to do much DPS anyways(in a full pt). However when you duo/trio as much as I do you want as much damage as you can get while not decreasing your def/dmg mitigation.

Light Slash does about 2x the damage output on NMs that Heavy Stab does with Aeolian Scimitar.

Heavy Stab on goblin, for instance, has 95% accuracy rate and hits for 21-25 and costs 30 stamina (for a qualitative purposes).

Light Slash on goblin has ~75% accuracy rate and hits for 39-52 and costs 20 stamina.

Over 600 stamina Heavy Stab will do 20 hits, miss once, so 19 x 25 (ill just go with max...) = 575 damage.
Over 600 stamina Light Slash will do 30 hits, miss 7 times, so 23 x 45 = 1035 damage.

Also since it seems that the action itself, regardless if it hits or misses or how much damage it does, gives static threat amounts you are gaining a lot more threat with Light Slashes. This is sort of GLA's one downfall in the current system is that due to the lack of much stamina to do normal attacks, we can't gain that threat while other classes build it rapidly (esp. Pugalist).

Oh the difference is even greater on Dodore whom has less defense, my Heavy Stabs do ~40 and Light Slash does ~100. Its pretty safe to say the best weapon is Aeolian using Light Slash, not to mention it has the highest parry value (which is -the- tanking stat on your weapon anyway).