QUOTE(Henlor @ Apr 11 2023, 17:12)

How important is it for an equipment to have a high percentile to a attribute?
For example, is it worth it to pay an extra 1mil for a rapier of nimble with parry at 90% percentile to another with parry of the 70% percentile? Do those little differences add up to significant figures when you max forge level or as you level up?
Maybe it goes case by case depending on the attribute?
The short answer: It's dependant on cirumstances/level/budget, item world success, and your willingness to soulfuse.
More specific to the scenario you describe: Unless you are very welathy, and trying for absolute peak performance, a million difference for 10% increase in parry precentile is (IMHO) probably not worth it. The biggest impact is going to come from forging and/or soul fusing.
Longer answer:
Many attributes have a very small absolute range, and so big differences in percentiles actually mean very small differences in absolute values.
With other attributes, especially the damage attributes, and to some extent the PABs, the absolute range is larger, so percentiles are more useful to gauge the differences in equipment.
See the wiki for some theory:
https://ehwiki.org/wiki/Equipment_RangesSee the database for details collected by player scripts: [
reasoningtheory.net]
https://reasoningtheory.net/viewrangesLook at the base range for a few attributes for Legendary Fiery Rapier of Slaughter:
Attack Damage range (base):
44.08 - 51.33
Parry Chance range (base):
16.29 - 18.89
Now look at two actual rapiers:
Legendary Fiery Rapier of Slaughter Lvl500, PXP 360, ADB 67%, Parry 87%, Str 69%, Dex 56%, Agi 13%
Peerless Fiery Rapier of Slaughter Lvl447, IW 10, forged 100, ADB 100%, Parry 100%, Str 100%, Dex 100%, Agi 100%
If you look at the percentages alone, it won't tell you the full story. If you compare the base scores, and then the fully forged scores, that helps clarify what those numbers mean.
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ADB:
Percentile Base Fully Forged scalled to 500
Legendary: 67% 48.97 2766.29
Peerless: 100% 51.33 2899.22
Pary:
Legendary: 87% 18.56 30.35
Peerless: 100% 18.89 31.63
How much is the (maximum) difference between 30.35% and 31.63% parry worth to you? Are you planning to soul fuse the equipment, or attempt to resell it later? How much forging can you afford? Did you get lucky with IW, or have lots of time/credits to throw at IW retries?
Finally, it's worth noting that there are some big changes coming in how improving equipment works, and depending on your assumptions about when that will happen, what that will do to forging, soulfusing, the market value of cores and special materials/bindings, etc, you might want to only make smaller investments in equipment improvements. Or not. That will largely depend on your budget and risk tollerance, like any investment. (IMG:[
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This post has been edited by sogeth: Apr 12 2023, 03:50