Special attack of the Sanctum Crossbows is useless?

[Rain]

So, I was just doing some short testing and I found out that the special ability of the Sanctum (Repeating) Crossbow is just meh.
I tried a Mundane Sanctum Repeating Crossbow +10, a Mundane Avelyn +10 in comparison and the Sanctum Crossbow +10. I tested everything on the Great Machete guys at the Tower Apart bonfire and the results were something like this:

Mundane Sanctum Repeating Crossbow:
Heavy Bolts: ~500 damage
Special Attack (shoots around eight dark orbs) while every orb hits the target: ~400 damage

Mundane Avelyn:
Heavy Bolts ~470 damage

Sanctum Crossbow:
Heavy Bolts: ~220 damage
Special Attack (shoots one large dark orb): ~170 damage

So a Mundane Sanctum Repeating Crossbow is a bit stronger than the Avelyn (and looks better in my opinion), but the special ability doesn't seem to be good at all. I'm not sure if these enemies are just resistant to dark damage, but it's not useful if it drains 10 durability per shot, does less damage and you even have to twohand it.

[Empress Misery]

Probably would do more damage against something weak to Dark?

[Grad]

you arent taking into account elemental resistances. Try another type of mob, and then another mob. Saying an elemental type of attack is bad on one mob without testing it on other kinds of enemies is a little silly imo. Your normal dmg may be accurate but the elemental resist stat of mobs could affect the number

[Rain]

Yeah, never really tested before. I just took the Ogres as my next target.

Mundane Sanctum Repeating Crossbow:
Heavy Bolts: ~720 damage
Special Attack: ~500 damage

Sanctum Crossbow:
Heavy Bolts: ~300 damage
Special Attack: ~650 damage

Sure, it may be that the Ogres are in fact weak to dark, so I'll try test some more (I just want to test it on big enemies, because of the Repeating's special attack). Mundane really seems to destroy the dark damage on the Repeating Crossbow, but that's not a big surprise.

I would say that for normal bolts you can use the Repeating Crossbow, but for some good damage on a single target the Sanctum Crossbow's special attack would be much better.

EDIT: If someone has some time, we could test the damage results on a human player.
~50m SM, ng+

[DeepFriedBalls]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TUPAC SERBIA:

I just got destroyed by the sanctum crossbow. Granted, it hit me when it shouldn't have due to lag, but it dealt around 700 dmg.

i think that was me lol

[Rain]

I just recognize I gave next to no information.
I have 50/50 fth, int and the Ring of Blades +2 equipped, of course that influences the regular/ dark damage as well.

And with a normal Repeating Crossbow I deal around 550 damage to the ogres with Heavy Bolts and ~800 damage with the special attack. That still doesn't change the fact that it's extremely unlikely to hit your opponent with every orb, but at least it's good for big enemies in PvE.

[Esna]

If you are going for just the Special attack, perhaps a Dark infusion would be the better choice.

[Rain]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από BenGoesGrr:

If you are going for just the Special attack, perhaps a Dark infusion would be the better choice.

I thought about that, but if I want to infuse it, it says that it still has a C in dark scaling and since the base dark damage is 0, going uninfused seems to be the better choice.

[Rain]

The Sanctum Crossbow's special attack seems to be much better than the special attack of the Repeating Crossbow.

[Azrahan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TacticalFX:

I thought about that, but if I want to infuse it, it says that it still has a C in dark scaling and since the base dark damage is 0, going uninfused seems to be the better choice.

The base dark damage of the -regular- attack is 0, I'm betting there's a hidden damage stat for the special, and it might well be increased by dark infusion. Wouldn't hurt to test that.

[Lord Tony]

I've done over 700 damage once with the dark attacks.

[Dis-member]

oh. against alonne knights it deals around 900 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=614504332
deals more in pvp. but i don't have screenshots

[DeepFriedBalls]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sjowerd:

oh. against alonne knights it deals around 900 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=614504332
deals more in pvp. but i don't have screenshots

uh dude its been 2 years already

[lpnlizard27]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=614865664