[Choppa] Weapon skill and armor penetration

[flatfoot1987]

How much WS is needed to actually hurt people nowadays? I'm currently using a rather poor man's setup of ruin with epic quest 2h with boost proc on it, 920 str with a pot, nearly 630 WS (~45% armor pen), 810 wounds. The tacs are Brute Force, I'm Da Biggest, DWLF, SYG.

I've recently started playing again after a few months break and noticed that barely any of my damage actually lands cause of mitigation. If we're talking 2h tanks they soak up about 80% of the damage. Quite a few light armored and robe wearing toons also easily sit in 50%+ mitigation range.

In comparison I also occasionally level my WL who is currently at 29/29 with devastator and r29 scenario 2h and he already seems to land more damage than a choppa even with his stats being obviously worse due to higher level. Maybe things will be a lot different in T4 though.

P.S. More Corrosion procs! My memories of playing a choppa on live (I had two mains — a choppa and a slayer, both in rr7x range or smth) mostly go back to the era when Can't Stop Da Chop was an armor debuff, obv it wasn't very strong but it was one of the key aspects choppa was better for solo playing while lacking slayer firepower (along with racial wounds tactic and m1 bubble).

I remember feeling more or less comfortable with armor debuff and 600-something WS. Now later on CSDC became a healing debuff but at that point I started using Warlord set which had a Corrosion proc (-1200 armor if I remember right) which was just perfectly fine.

Here on RoR there's a T3 mayhem set with a lighter version of that proc and it works great also.

[roadkillrobin]

Not very active in the game atm, so i don't know if anything changed. But when I stoped playing about 1½ month ago armor vallues were very much in check compared to live and DoK/WP underperforming in heals so not really playble and armor debuffs being completetly overpowered on other classes.

If you do AoE dmg then you need shitloads of weaponskill. It should be your main dps stat for AoE bombing. When doing single target damage then boost all other offensive stats before weaponskill. The chance of the target yuo attack is being Armnor debuffed is very very high aslong as you're assisting.