Talk:Piercing and Resistance/@comment-4010041-20160509190909

I think I am still confused on how Physycal Piercing/Resistance works. Please help me out if you can!

Physical Piercing: 

I have Flamebound Boots and Warbringer Greaves. On the Equipment page when I choose Physical Pierce Gear Set it is choosing Warbringer Greaves as my best choice. From how I understand it should work from above, I would think it should choose the Flamebound Boots. How am I getting this wrong?

Warbringer Greaves: Attack 5/ Defense 3, This should give an Eff Atk of 7.1. With its +20 Physical Pierce, it should give me 20/10 = 2% extra Eff Atk, so 7.1*0.02=0.142. For a total of 7.242 Eff Atk.

Flamebound Boots: Attack 15/ Defense 8. This should give an Eff Atk of 20.6. With its +15 Physical Pierce, it should give me 15/10 = 1.5% extra Eff Atk so 20.6*0.015=0.459. For a total of 21.059 Eff Atk.

21.059 is much greater than 7.242, so what am I missing here?

Physical Resistance: 

I have Flamebound Helm (with Cloudy Gem of Earth Protection) and Mithril Helm. On the Equipment page when I choose Physical Resistance Gear Set it is choosing Flamebound Helm as my best choice. From how I understand it should work from above, I would think it should choose the Mithril Helm. How am I getting this wrong?

Flamebound Helm: Attack 80 / Defense 80, This should give an Eff Def of 136.0. With the Cloudy Gem of Earth Protection on it to give it +15 Physical Resistance, it should give me 15/10 = 1.5% extra Eff Def, so 136.0*0.015=2.04. For a total of 138.4 Eff Def.

Mithril Helm: Attack 0/ Defense 160. This should give an Eff Def of 160.0. With its +10 Physical Resistance, it should give me 10/10 = 1.0%extra Eff def so 160*0.01=1.6. For a total of 161.6 Eff Def.

16106 is much greater than 138.4, so what am I missing here?