What is the best weapon oil?

[Anavel Gato]

There was a discussion about how best weapon oil - The unstable oil (found in Ludern ancient tomb) But look like it's only apply for Close combat weapons. So, I open this discussion again to check what is the best oil option.

Close weapon - Unstable Oil (30% trigger attack opportunity)
AOE weapon - Misty Oil (50% damage to enemy next to your target)/ Sharpening Oil (10% crit chance) / Unstable Oil
Range weapon - Sharpening Oil

What is your preference?

[Barara]

Unstable Oil to most 1 handed weapon except Ranger class along with Unstable Oil Concentrate Belt and offhand Sickle result devastate.
Ranger and Archer class i use Sharpening Oil.
2-Hand Sword to Fighter class with Perforating Oil.
2-Hand Hammer to Vanguard class with Sharpening.
Spearman use Sharpening too.
All of them use Legendary Weapon except 2-Hand Hammer, i prefer Rimsteel 2 hand hammer 3 star.

[Anavel Gato]

Originally posted by Barabara:

Unstable Oil to most 1 handed weapon except Ranger class along with Unstable Oil Concentrate Belt and offhand Sickle result devastate.
Ranger and Archer class i use Sharpening Oil.
2-Hand Sword to Fighter class with Perforating Oil.
2-Hand Hammer to Vanguard class with Sharpening.
Spearman use Sharpening too.
All of them use Legendary Weapon except 2-Hand Hammer, i prefer Rimsteel 2 hand hammer 3 star.

For ranger with dagger, I prefer unstable oil, because even with throwing knife, my ranger can trigger an opportunity attack. That's would make this class super deadly. Just keep them at close range and the attack will trigger.

[drake_hound]

Unstable Oil till it gets nerfed, simple as that , only for range characters you need different oils.. even then if you want to procs unstable oil on a range weapon move it to base contact with somebody , and it will also have a chance to trigger.

Till unstable oil is nerfed, the rest just look meh.

[drake_hound]

Even for AOE weapon, infact AOE weapons have the best chances to trigger unstable oil , if you can get into base to base contact with more then 1 Enemy.. sometimes it just multiple triggers and kill everybody in base to base contact.

Makes all other oil look like gimping yourself :P

[darenhughes58]

Unstable oil is perfect on the Nature 1h axe since it has the oil proc 100% of the time. Makes the axe warrior really deadly.

Witht he sharpening oil yes on archers since critting helps them add bleed to target. For the rest though I go with infectious oil since it does 1/2 the hit in damage to health. So you do a big hit and you can stack up some killer DOT. Imagine 200 dam crit and the oil procs that 00 damage to health at end of their turn. For most that spells their death. Infectious is also handy because its not poison so if you do it to an infected they dont get buffed. I tend to prefer doing damage and killing as many as fast as possible.

[HoboCop]

i'm just making every oil there is known to man and try them all :D

[HoboCop]

but trying the unstable oil on a 2h legendary axe with unstable concentrate i'm curious to the result :d

[Galahad]

If you play on extreme difficulty, then the best oil in the game is the oil of courage, which gives valor points.
Unstable oil and bleeding oil are the most powerful oils in the game in terms of damage. But by the end of the game, if you have straight hands and you have created characters that one-shot opponents, then the simplest oils will do: Perforating Oil and Sharpness oil giving 10% to critical damage, oils with the DLC Pits, increasing damage by 50% on bleeding, burning and poisoned targets. Simple, but effective.
I have a fist fighter with a bleeding oil for killing the boss. That's all I need to kill any boss with one Feat skill. The rest of the group is focused on killing the maximum number of targets with AoE attacks.

[Spawnling]

(It's a 2 year old necro and I think at that time the Brave's oil ("oil of courage") didn't exist.)

Yes the most powerful oils currently are (without any DLCs)
The Brave Oil: Gain 1 VP whenever you use a valor skill
Perforating Oil: Ignores 50% Guard (= 10-40% extra damage)

Pugilist and multi hitting characters:
Bleeding Oil: 50% chance to remove 25% (10% against bosses) max hp on hit

[Demolaye]

If 50% of the posts are from the last 48 hrs, it's no longer a necro, and has become a current discussion.

[ShadowFox]

For me it depends on the weapon and the role that character plays. The nice thing is you can change oils if you have a good alchemist so you could keep a few on hand to hot swap between fights or if you have multiple copies of the same weapon you could have one with one oil and another with something different