Talk:Ur-Dragon/@comment-112.198.64.18-20140514131451/@comment-23878607-20140601212536

As for the MK, there it gets complicated. I use the Virge of Madness because of the way Acuity and holy buffs interact plus it boosts my strength. Asgard and I had a fairly private longish talk about a year ago that revealed some interesting things about Acuity and the Holy enchantment; keep in mind that he only ever did personal testing with STR-based min/max characters and relied on others' work for Sorcerer damage. To my knowledge, only one other person than myself ever did deliberate testing with the MK, and neither of them got deep into the advanced workings.

At any rate, here it is:

"My damage without Acuity was 8,429 or 9,302 with Holy Affinity.

With Acuity it was 8,429 or 9,492 with Holy Affinity. Acuity added nothing without Holy Affinity and with Holy Affinity, the difference made by Acuity was an increase from 9,302 to 9,492. The difference in total damage is only about 2%

But if the initial 8,429 is taken as the STR damage, the remainder of the damage should be the MAG damage (this does assume that Holy Affinity doesn't change the STR damage). Without Acuity 9302 - 8,429 = 873 MAG damage With Acuity 9,492 - 8,429 = 1063 MAG damage

The increase from 873 to 1,063 is between 21 and 22%

With Acuity increasing MAG by 20%, the damage increase can be expected to be a bit over 20% because a larger proportion of the damage will be exceeding the target's MDEF.  "

The second statement in paragraph 3 is what happens to me, consistently-- but I can only determine that empirically since my maximum damage stat was maxed a very very long time ago.