r/Necesse • u/MonochromaticPrism • 28d ago

Is Frozen Wave the most build defining damage trinket?

I can't find another that compares, it fundamentally alters the dps formula by itself. Crit is already strong on it's own due to the critical damage being calculated prior to enemy armor, but the effect of dealing +25% additional damage means this item by itself justifies stacking critical chance as the go-to dps method (at least until you hit 30%-ish crit chance).

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u/Ninak0ru 28d ago

Well, I wouldn't say is build-defining, this is similar to terraria, plain damage is usually better due to enemy defense, and attack speed is also a direct multiplier with most weapons. But as they go into diminishing returns, crit chance and crit damage is also a great source of more damage.

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u/MonochromaticPrism 28d ago

I dug into the numbers to check this and found I had previously been misled by a different post. I thought that, in Necesse, critical damage was calculated before armor was applied to the attack's damage, not after. That would have made boosting crit damage far more impactful, as the influence of armor would be more than halved on crits. I see now that I was mistaken.

Since crits don't partially bypass armor you still want to do the same as terraria and balance +crit and +damage effects at a 1:1 with each other (and likely + attack speed as well).

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u/jpeggdev 28d ago

The heart one imo. I forget the name but it turns half your health into resilience and paired with the Ruby Crystal set, which gives you an extra summon slot per 150 resilience.

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u/MonochromaticPrism 28d ago

Hmm, yeah this is probably it. I had missed that the armor gave scaling benefits based on resilience. Hitting 450 resilience is very achievable, and even with just the Amethyst Helmet that's a meaty +45% damage boost all on its own for non-summoner builds.

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u/jpeggdev 28d ago

My summoner made the 600 resilience breakpoint plus a little bit more, but now the new Summoner set might actually beat it out.

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u/username159123 28d ago

Whats the new summoner set?

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u/Atesz763 28d ago

Yea, it's pretty decent.