Meteorite bolts, crossbow and javelins.

[IGNITION Kuon]

So meteorite has a special place in melvor. Requiring a combination of astrology, mining and smithing just to get the bars, which can then be used for very exciting upgrades and equipment.

But it seems to me the 3 items in the title are quite bad. (and perhaps the meteorite shower spell aswell? i won't go into that here).

My problem is with the special abilities of these items. They deal 6x25% damage (adding up to 150% of normal damage on average) over 1s, which means that they deal 50% more damage and extends the attack time by 1 second.

It is incredibly easy (and often natural) to get your attack interval below 2 seconds in the late game for ranged weapons, which makes the 1 second for +50% damage tradeoff not worth it. It seems to me like this special ability is a punishment rather than a boost. And even if you were to go a very niche combat build, which requires putting your attack interval a tad above 2 seconds, then despite gaining a real damage boost the boost is incredibly small.

For reference, I recently unlocked the torrential blast crossbow, dealing a whopping unavoidable 4x125% (500%) damage over 2.1 seconds. Sure if you got the attack interval down low enough, this would be a nerf aswell. But that'd require under 0.4s attack interval, which is way harder to achieve end-game than under 2s interval.

Any thoughts on this?

[IGNITION Kuon]

Ah nevermind, it deals 25% of MAX HIT, so it's way more powerful than i first made it out to be. (And I'd been annoyed by this for a while, and just noticed it now after writing this lol)

If we say you have 25% of max hit added to minimum hit on normal attacks, you'd have an average damage per hit of 25% + 75%/2=62.5% damage.

150/62.5= 2.4

this means activating the meteor bolt ability gives you +140% damage in exchange for +1s attack interval. For this to be disadvantageous you'd need 0.7s attack interval or less.

I'd say that sounds pretty fair, as that's quite difficult for me to reach with a high DR. So the skill seems good enough to me so far, especially since meteorite bolts have high strength and are very cheap to produce.

[SillieBillie~]

Other than the fact that Zephyte Bolts hit hard Metorite Bolts come with their own special attack that does a lot of damage and when paired with the Meteorite Marksman ring you get more strength and ammo preservation. They're not to be looked over. They have a lot of utility until you get a Feather Storm Crossbow where then Zepthyte is just better for more damage.

Meteorite is also just incredibly cheap in comparison.