- Aug 10, 2017
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Group Attack 2 forces Leon to attack the division behind his current target, if possible, or else attacks the same division. In practice, this is more useful than Added Attack for softening or sweeping multiple divisions if his initial attack leaves one or two units alive since his allies can finish the job. Decimating two divisions is also better for reducing the enemy battalion's ability to hit back. But yes, it sucks that they don't stack multiplicatively.While testing out some of the stuff, with not very conclusive results because of too much variance... But I did find out one thing that might not seem that obvious (at least my assumptions were all wrong).
Group attack doesn't stack with additional attacks. Group attack 2 means it will hit 2 division total, so one more than normal. This extra hit can actually hit the same group again if you are fighting just 1 division (which makes it function kinda like an additional attack).
Now when you start adding extra attacks on top of group attack, you don't start doing multiple group hits. For example, group attack 2 will hit the extra division, then you start doing the normal additional attacks after that.
This kinda changes my initial assumption that additional attacks would have great synergy with group attacks. It has no synergy at all, and group attack already acts as a form of additional attack, so it contributes to diminishing returns.
As for the lethal + helmet vs 2 attack + 100 max power... I'm not too sure yet. It's hard to test on these damn hollows on 2 different saves. I think they have different monsters and even if they were same, they all have varying degrees of evade, deadly, fatal resists and the numbers just go all over the place.
Lethal Critical 1 vs Lethal Critical 100 doesn't really matter for DG Leon (the Defense reduction is the important part, not the crit mod), so granting him the skill using Armor negates the need for it from a title. Helmet Split is the kicker. Helmet Split 50 is equal to Max-Power Attack 100, but since Helmet Split scales better, it's superior for raw damage. On the flipside, Added Attack 2 gives Leon more opportunities to sweep, mostly if his attacks are already killing most things. It also helps him power through Recovery.
Helmet Split or Added Attack from 2H are both helpful for more consistent sweeps with BAVL title, but more attacks are generally preferred since you don't have an existing source of Helmet Split to stack on. Mathematically, Helmet Split 35 = ~1.54x damage, so it's better for total damage than 1 more attack (1.25x since he already has 4).