Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-174.107.123.96-20130717030410/@comment-10276925-20130717225751

For reference, I'm going to be doing some testing. I have two identical x5 mtm tantrums. In the fight I just had with a windcharger L5, the longhaul equipped Tantrum survived 10 hits from the boss, and the tantrum equipped Tantrum survived 7, both survived the overall battle. This doesn't prove anything, the only number worth noting here is that the Tantrum with Longhaul's weapon survived 10 hits from an L5 windcharger. We need to learn the survival maximum for both the Longhaul/Tantrum weapons, then we can look, mathematically, at the damage dealt provided no critical hits. That *should* allow us to objectively examine the weapons relative to each other, even though the results may differ (based on boss defense, etc).

Also keep in mind that if they are relatively close, then they may have different effectiveness against different bosses. Rough (and not real life) example of what I mean is:

Say, Tantrum w/ signature weapon survives 11 turns vs L5 Windcharger and Tantrum with Longhaul weapon survives 10 turns against L6 Windcharger, so the Tantrum with sig weapon deals more damage (may not be true, just assume here)

Now, against a L6 Windcharger, BOTH tantrums only last 10 turns. In this case, maybe the Long Haul (with higher attack) Tantrum does MORE damage. Then so on and so forth, a L7 may have different results.