Optimized water cannon set up

• Armi wrote on 2011-03-10 00:16
  Hurrr math, thanks, I'll fix that right up.
  
  The budget for this and maintenance for a month was 5m.
  
  edit: I chose dignified over elementalist because of the low deviation from alche path as well as ease of obtaining. The difference is 1~3 crit depending on roll.
  
  It is also possible to drop suprising for tidal, as most hm mobs do not have prot over 40% but I aimed a little higher for boss monsters as well.
• radionoise wrote on 2011-03-10 10:50

  Quote from Armi;367464:

  Hurrr math, thanks, I'll fix that right up.
  
  The budget for this and maintenance for a month was 5m.
  
  edit: I chose dignified over elementalist because of the low deviation from alche path as well as ease of obtaining. The difference is 1~3 crit depending on roll.
  
  It is also possible to drop suprising for tidal, as most hm mobs do not have prot over 40% but I aimed a little higher for boss monsters as well.

  
  
  Elementalist requirements aren't too bad, chances are you will have ranked some bolts along the way into alchemy so I wouldn't rule it out completely but you do have a point... as for attainability, Elementalist is far easier to get than Dignified unless you bought that during the Mystery Box gachapon.
  
  I know people who've ran Rundal into eternity for Dignified... while I've seen others just drop Elementalist because they have no use for it. It even dropped twice in the same run for some guild-mates today.
• Omegatronic wrote on 2011-03-10 19:06

  Quote from Armi;367464:

  
  edit: I chose dignified over elementalist because of the low deviation from alche path as well as ease of obtaining. The difference is 1~3 crit depending on roll.
  
  It is also possible to drop suprising for tidal, as most hm mobs do not have prot over 40% but I aimed a little higher for boss monsters as well.

  
  
  I'm all for planning for the bosses.
  
  After a night to think about this... I would replace the ripple on the hat with burning (not flaming), make the cylinder 0~2 crit upgrades and replace both surprisings for transparents. In addition, I would R-Type lvl 3 the cylinder and wear the chain cylinder master title. That would give you a +117 water damage with max crit, while maximizing dmg per second.
  
  While S-type technically gives a couple more dmg per second if you spam, R-types are cheaper and are better if you maximize dmg per second by charging to 5.