Quote Originally Posted by Penguin View Post
NQ shepard's pie for example gives me 69 attack and if your numbers were correct that would mean using shepard's pies would increase my doomspike damage by 138 points of damage, my highest doomspike without a pie is 820 damage and my highest with a pie is 832 damage.

If attack effected weaponskills in the way you say i should be seeing close to 1k with +1 shepard's pie and using my hart guisarme that has +28 attack in it and yet i haven't.

If someone can provide 100% proof of your claims i would be happy to accept them but from personal testing if it does give any extra damage to weaponskills at all the increase is extremely minimal.

Edit: It could also be that food buffs aren't providing the same buff to weaponskill damage that attack on armor/weapons do which is entirely possible, if that is the case than a 2/3 materia'd +2/3 hart guisarme will probably be higher damage than the ifrit lance.

I will try to test it when i start getting a decent amount of attack materia but sadly so far i have been super unlucky with materia and haven't had too much time to spirit bond between sleep and ifrit attempts.
Ill try an unslotted guisarme for tonight, and alternate with my one with +Attack materia in it. I'll average out the damage per WS but it might still be off with how much buffing it changes its damage output. (if I get 4x BS/RS/F one attempt, and only 3 the next... will be skewed pretty hard)

Before slotting materia my best was only 769, after slotting my best was 874 though that high was rare there were plenty of 860s, and none ever landed between 800-830. Single buffing with just RS usually got it to upper 700s.

Shepards pie NQ rose my attack from 545 to 620 = 75
HQ rose it to 628 = 83
HQ2 rose it to 640 = 95

I'm not sure what the Atk cap on it is if you are only getting 69, it might have uncapped percentages?


Also 1 attack = 2 damage is an observation, but you must remember you can't just multiply your paper doll x 2. (in my case 620 * 2 = 1240). ifrit still has defense that is worked into the calculation!

Anyways I'll try some different things today and see if I can come up with anything more concrete.