pantsaregood
Member
- Gender
- Male
From my understanding, it randomly picks one of the values between min ATP and max ATP and use that for the damage computation. Shifta will also increases max ATP (but not min ATP) if the weapon ATP is varied, making the variance even higher.
As for why there's variance even if a weapon is not varied in its ATP... I don't remember, I'll let someone else answer.
Unit-wise HUcast gets Smartlink, V502, and PoSS, which you didn't mention. Weapon-wise HUcast gets Yunchang, Excalibur, Jizai, Girasole, Daylight Scar, L&K38, Master Raven, the last three here are just listed for completion's sake. It's not that much a difference although some people like Yunchang better than Zanba due to its higher forward range, and as you said it's much easier to get decent ATA with it. Excalibur is fast and it could probably finish mobs faster than Vjaya in certain situations. Armor-wise HUcast gets Thirteen, which boosts DoB by quite a lot. Mag-wise HUcast gets Tellusis and Agastya/Yahoo.
Yeah, I'm aware of most of those exist, just don't quite see how they're significant improvements from GC, I suppose.
Jizai, Garisole, Daylight Scar, L&K38, and Master Raven seem inferior to the 80% hit M&A60 Vise I was using on GC. PoSS doesn't seem particularly useful since compatible weapons seem to be of limited use endgame. Thirteen is nice, but not particularly useful when combined with an 80% hit DoB. That said, I don't think 80% hit can drop from Gallon's Shop any more.
V502 is nice, but is using Hell on HUcast usually faster than doing absurd damage?