Claws vs edoryus

I was under the impression they changed the crits so claw crit made it roll max, and edo crit made hit hit twice. If this is true, assuming claw crit only maxes weapon roll, not silver bonus roll, and edos 2hit crit give 2 silver bonuses, it would make good sense that sedo kills significantly faster than sclaw on undead mobs, as most the dmg on undead mobs is from the silver bonus.

but then, what do I know, I'm just a knight.

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Not counting Undead Claw is best HUNTTING weapon.Edo is good for Undead/ Bosses/ PvPI use a +9 K-claw and well even vs a +8 Kedo I still will beat anyone hands down in mops killed per hour. With a notable difference

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Um I challenged that with soomie and i could kill 71f+ mobs in less or equal hits with a+7 kclaw vs his +9kedo, kedo is not for hunting but i have seen places where edo was better,but over all claw has been best. This was with constant db on both sides.

But i did add up all the numbers and even if you do the adverage mark on a edos damage with crits and all vs claw the claw still doesn't put out as much damage by alot pretty much the edo by its first base crit hit has equaled or done more than the claw has.

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Tikie and I did some pretty extensive testing on this back when he was trying to decide whether to invest his adena in a high-end claw or edo.

Our testing confirmed that when a claw crit it did max damage. It was always the same number when it crited and as far as we could tell (assuming we weren't missing something) it was the max possible damage taking into account all factors (weapon base, weapon damage plus, level bonus, strength bonus, etc.)

While testing cannot determine with absolute certainty what the edo was doing because by its very nature the crits were all different, it seemed to confirm that when the edo crits it simply roles the damage twice (a double hit with both blades).

If you operate under the assumption that the average damage is going to be right in the middle of the minimum and maximum dmage for the weapon, both should come pretty close. The difference is two low roles on the edo could be well below the one max role on the claw and two high roles on the edo could be well above the max role on the claw.

However, much of the damage is constant. The role only applies to the 15/15 (or whatever damage). The plus to damage, the strength bonus, etc. are always there and always at a set number (mitigated only by AC, which effects the set damage with either weapon).

Ultimately, my thinking is for day-to-day hunting you are better off with the claw because you are getting more consistent damage out of it when it crits and because they typically have higher base damage and higher damage bonus than does an edo.

The edo, I think, is better in situations where either plus to hit (they usually have a better hit bonus) or the possibility of a monster crit are more vauable. That, to me, means bossing and player vs. player.

I don't know if that is the type of information you are looking for or not, but there it is. 

When you did those test did you do it w/o burning excel  on cause that 1.5x damage is random and not always constant.

Yes im sure if i did max my str, that edo would be way more powerful cause every + to damage on claw is base +1 chance to 2-3 more damage if you add the bonus that spells give and edo +1 base would have te chance to 2=4=6 with spells , if we ever get to have +12 weapons or i ever max my str i would go edo .

But it seems with all the undead next epi , Im gonna be using edo more often :P.   So when an edo crits is it 2x what the attack is or is it 2 different rolls altogether?

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