Stimulants

• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2011-12-17 05:51
  You're critting.
  
  Oh, it could be noise from the stimulant too. If you have an 80% chance to activate it and R9 Magic Arrow, you have 3 chances of activating that 80% chance being that each of the 3 bolts counts as its own hit. In other words, it has a 99.2% chance of activating at least once per magic arrow.
  
  This isn't the case for enchant scroll buffs as they are activated upon firing, not upon hitting.
• Invertex wrote on 2011-12-17 06:07

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;695281:

  Nope, it's like 28K for the best defensive one or something.

  
  
  Well, I meant stacking all 3 Stimulants for a minute costs around 100k. It's probably closer to 80k or so, but I'm too lazy to do the math.
  
  Sure it's quite a bit, but there are people who already can't improve their gear much (like +12-14s who don't want to risk it), so they're still going to get abused. It's not going to do anything to shrink the gap between the people with 14k+ attack and 8k+ defence and the regular people with 12k attack and 5k defence, simply as it's probably those people in the first group that can afford to use these stimulants.
  
  I'd reach 23k attack with Stage 2 + Stim, which is pretty much enough to hit most bosses for the full 10k attack. Or using them seperately as the majority of this topic implies, it's like having a mini trans for money and with a 3 minute cooldown (or whatever it is). It really helps the people with good gear more then those with bad ones, mainly due to the defence part.
  
  Also hearing someone's stim proc about 50 times in half a minute is the most annoying sound ever and makes me want to cry. ;-;
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2011-12-17 06:11

  Quote from Invertex;695646:

  Well, I meant stacking all 3 Stimulants for a minute costs around 100k. It's probably closer to 80k or so, but I'm too lazy to do the math.

  
  Would probably be somewhere around that, yeah, but do you really need all three? You'd probably be better off getting 5 of whichever you prefer and having 5 minutes of that.
  
  I suppose you would do great briefly, but then three of your slots are used up.
• Invertex wrote on 2011-12-17 06:17

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;695650:

  Would probably be somewhere around that, yeah, but do you really need all three? You'd probably be better off getting 5 of whichever you prefer and having 5 minutes of that.
  
  I suppose you would do great briefly, but then three of your slots are used up.

  
  
  I suppose this is more me whining about how it simplifies solos. I rarely ever use even half my stack of Fine HP pots in my solos (usually as I die before the boss does), and I don't need my feathers for solos. That instantly frees up 3 slots (Feathers, PFeather, HP Pots), all of which can be filled with stims.
  
  And doing great briefly works. Even in parties. Colru can die in under 3 minutes (Trans + Stim abuse after), Thor can die that quickly too, every boss really just falls fast if there are enough DPS classes (Staff, Hammer, Spear) spamming 2nd Stage Trans and Stims.
• xJac wrote on 2011-12-19 03:13
  I believe trans removes hit delay, so there's no point using focus stimulant during trans. o.o (not sure, since I don't touch ts anymore)
  
  considering the cost, focus is probably your best bang for the buck, while ironhide is the most useful (like someone said, spin2win).