Build talk:W/any Seven Weapons Stance Axe

Keen chop? What about Penetrating chop/blow? Willarddog (talk) 16:50, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Well, some rough calculations (against 60 AL):

Keen Chop (always crits, 16% armor penetration from strength) will do 86 damage per use with a 3 adrenaline cost

28.7 damage/adrenaline

Penetrating Chop (28.71% crit chance, 20% armor penetration, +25 bonus damage) will do an average of 78 damage per use with 5 adrenaline cost

15.6 damage/adrenaline

Against 100 AL:

Keen Chop: 48 damage per use (3 adrenaline)

16 damage/adrenaline

Penetrating Chop: 55 average damage per use (5 adrenaline)

11 damage/adrenaline

From this, we can conclude that Keen Chop is probably better from a DPS standpoint, in a vacuum. Even when Penetrating Chop starts averaging more per use (breakpoint AL is around 75), it still takes longer enough to charge that the slight gain can't make up for Keen Chop's more frequent use.

Caveats: The actual DPS contribution of each is going to vary quite a bit based on how fast your adrenaline is building and how much you crowd out Keen Chops with other attack skill usage. Toraen (talk) 20:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

good to know! Did you take into account during when "FGJ!" is up? "FGJ!" probably leans the scale in Penetrating Chop's favor I would assume. Willarddog (talk) 21:29, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

I didn't compare DPS here, I only went as far as comparing the damage/adrenaline efficiency of each (no FGJ or other boosters). Assuming FGJ is the only boost though, Keen still pulls ahead in these simplified calculations (just divide the damage numbers by 2 and 3 instead of 3 and 5, respectively). Toraen (talk) 11:19, 14 April 2021 (UTC)