Is armor piercing more important than actual damage?

Bobonga

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The codex entry on armor says that it is an percentage health increase against physical attacks. As example 20 armor are equal 20% more health going from 200 to 240 health against physical attacks.

The minotaur miners have 92 armor and 350 health giving them a theoretical health of 672 vs. physical attacks.

Galons griefmaker has 50 armor piercing, so the miner has 42 armor left and thus 497 health.

Is this correct? By simply equipping the griefmaker I reduce the enemies health vs. physical dmg by 175 points?

That would mean that it is much better to use the highest AP weapons instead of actual dmg.

As comparison the captains greatsword has no AP at all, so it has to deplete an extra 175 hit points?

In theory that would make the mace the strongest one-handed weapon dmg wise, because of 20 AP 35 dmg and the crushing dmg type alot of enemies are weak to. As well as the griefmaker the strongest melee weapon with 50 AP and the Bessy Mauler the strongest ranged weapon with 60 AP.
 
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Upcast Drake

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Armor penetration is very strong, yes. You can't really say that it's flat out better than damage tho, as base damage is what Attack Power and Crit damage scale from. With a 35 base damage weapon, +100 Attack Power gives +35 damage; With a 50 base damage weapon, +100 Attack Power gives +50 damage. Crits effectively function as +X Attack Power for weapon attacks as well.

The Captain's Greatsword is an objectively bad weapon currently. There is as sort of fetch quest in the works where you collect charms for it, each charm increasing its power. I'd expect it to probably be the strongest weapon in the game (at least of the weapons in the game currently) once you have all the charms.

In theory that would make the mace the strongest one-handed weapon dmg wise, because of 20 AP 35 dmg and the crushing dmg type alot of enemies are weak to. As well as the griefmaker the strongest melee weapon with 50 AP and the Bessy Mauler the strongest ranged weapon with 60 AP.

If we only care about raw damage numbers, this is an accurate assessment.
 

Bobonga

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Thank you very much.
 
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