Is the crystal sage's rapier any good?

[Ivan the brass mage]

just curious about the weapon

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

For farming items?
Yeah, sure
Normal use? Nope.

[Krono]

As far as damage goes it's not spectacular, but the increased item discovery makes it handy for farming

[Ivan the brass mage]

I wanted to know for pvp

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

Originally posted by Truffle the gnome:

I wanted to know for pvp

Any r1 spam weapon is viable.
Just dont get parried.

[Krono]

Originally posted by Truffle the gnome:

I wanted to know for pvp

It will unfortunately suffer from the split damage, you're better off using crystal magic weapon on the regular rapier or estoc

[Ivan the brass mage]

Originally posted by DI ChrisKringle@YouTube:

Originally posted by Truffle the gnome:

I wanted to know for pvp

Any r1 spam weapon is viable.
Just dont get parried.

I won't really spam the weapon so much if you find me in pvp

[꧁༺tS.KIRIHARU༻꧂]

Originally posted by Truffle the gnome:

Originally posted by DI ChrisKringle@YouTube:

Any r1 spam weapon is viable.
Just dont get parried.

I won't really spam the weapon so much if you find me in pvp

Doubt it lol.
Its a rapier..

[gackie]

I used it for a while, it's quite viable in PvE.

[Skeleton]

Split damage type weapons (physical + magic in this case) are at a disadvantage in this game, since each damage type gets its resistance applied separately and usually results in a lower damage-per-hit than a purely physical weapon.

I'm going to grossly oversimplify the damage formula here: say your CSR deals 150 physical + 150 magic damage, for a total of 300 AR. If you hit something with 75 thrust resist and 75 mag. resist, you deal 150 damage - less than your 250 AR Estoc despite the "higher" AR.

Still, it's the longest rapier so that might count for something.