Weapon stats. Stamina cost/Focus gain

[Outbreak]

Hey, can somebody explain me, I dont fully get it. How exactly Stamina cost and Focus gain values work ? (stats when you examine a weapon).

[Zouls]

I believe that its how much stamina it costs to swing once and how much focus you gain from hitting with it.

Like greatsword says "20 stamina" which seems to fit pretty much with how fast your bar disappears.

[Outbreak]

Yea, it's what I thought. However, lets say weapon has an ability which costs 100 focus. That same weapon should generate me 60 focus on hit, but I need to hit way more times to be able to use that 100 focus power. Am I missing something ?

[Lyrel]

Ye the Focus Gain Value makes no sense to me either. I have a staff with a Gain of 90 but i need many hits to actually get anywhere near 90 focus.

[Zouls]

Originally posted by Outbreak:

Yea, it's what I thought. However, lets say weapon has an ability which costs 100 focus. That same weapon should generate me 60 focus on hit, but I need to hit way more times to be able to use that 100 focus power. Am I missing something ?

Yeah i see what you mean.

The focus is a stat for how much focus you get, how its calculated im not entirely sure.

I got almost 100 focus with an 82 focus weapon and 9 hits, with a 16% focus gain buff, which assuming that 82 focus means you get 8.2 focus per hit + the buff then it would be 95.1 focus, which seems to fit.

I tried my 60 focus greatsword and it also seemed to track pretty close to that ratio, taking me around 5 hits to get 33% of the way.

it could also be a % of damage but i dont think so.

so its definitely not on hit the focus, i just didnt realize how huge the values were, its some sort of scaling of some kind is all i can say.

basically my 82 weapon got me focus far quicker than my 60 weapon, but how much faster can only be guessed.

[Lyrel]

They really need to implement way more tooltips for the different stats and what they actually do imo.

This guessing game is not really fun.

[pponmypupu]

Originally posted by Outbreak:

Yea, it's what I thought. However, lets say weapon has an ability which costs 100 focus. That same weapon should generate me 60 focus on hit, but I need to hit way more times to be able to use that 100 focus power. Am I missing something ?

keep in mind charged strikes add more focus per hit. parrying will get you 100 instantly. as you get deeper into the game youll see more equipment pop up that increases focus gain among other things - just in general the game really opens up in possibilities once you unlock more "difficulty" tiers.

what are difficulty tiers? after each main boss cleared the map enemies reset. this is how you know you've gone up a tier and you'll notice new items dropping and requiring lv11 or 21, etc. and this is why 60 focus per hit would be crazy because right now with just normal and charged attacks I generate a ton of focus and it's largely a non issue. this is with a 1 hand sword too (regular blood stain sword) on top of that some focus abilities absolutely melt everything. being able to use a focus attack after 1 swing would trivialize the game completely.

so dont sweat the early game too much. if you really want to be shooting off focus abilities left and right in the early game start using parries more often.

[Outbreak]

Thanks for answers. Its not about shooting abilities left and right, its more about understanding how it works :) However, it seems that noone knows how exactly Focus acumulates when hitting enemies and what exactly that Focus gain value means.

[Zouls]

Originally posted by Outbreak:

Thanks for answers. Its not about shooting abilities left and right, its more about understanding how it works :) However, it seems that noone knows how exactly Focus acumulates when hitting enemies and what exactly that Focus gain value means.

All you need to understand is more is better for focus.