I'm not seeing the Garrison > Monika opinion

[Sharkbite]

I have less than 60 hours in game (I tend to explore or rerun dungeons way too much) and my characters are all around the lower 20s as I like to balance the whole team out. However I've seen many, many topics where gentlemen suggest only using Garrison for damage wherein I've had the utmost success using Red Monika for ridiculous burst damage.

She's even cleared legendary bosses between an immediate Assassinate followed up by a stealthed Execute to down them in two rounds.

Granted I have Garrison perked for carrying as much OC as I can while Monika is perked for carrying as much crit as possible. But jesus, I mean he can only utilize 60 OC with Warblade 2 for about 1200 dmg with the rare crit at my current levels while she's doing 5-6k dmg with regular crits.

What am I missing?

[lordanthrax]

Do you have all his AP increase perks/talents? Swordsman and Wanderer Overcharge I & II will send his AP SKYROCKETING with Warblade II and all the OC you can dump into it. Monika will be like a baby with a boiled spaghetti noodle by comparison. Combine that with his AP Up and Crit Chance/Damage Up perks and all the gain/retain OC perks and he is an unstoppable death god. No one else can even begin to come close. IIRC this is because it's not a multiplier of 3.4 to his AP (240% increase), it's because it's actually calculated as 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4. Which is more like 7.5 times the AP. Yes. Seven TIMES as much.

[Sharkbite]

WOW! Okay, I seriously misunderstood the Overcharge perks for his wanderer and swordsman skill trees, hell I didn't realize they worked the way they do for every character. Rearranging my perks from strictly max starting OC and bleed/bleed crit basically tripled or even quadrupled Garrison's damage.

He's now outperforming her with just regular guaranteed attacks compared to her crits that you can't depend on. And HIS crits, oh lord are his crits things of beauty! Thanks for the head's up, I'm def still rotating Monika into the party for funsies but Garrison has become an absolute murderer now.

Edit: it took all the perk points I can afford now to just get both OC tree perks, OC carryover, and a few AP bonuses. I'm sure that once I can afford the other AP and, good lord, crit bonuses things will get even more insane. Huge thanks, this has completely changed how I'm approaching the game :)

[lordanthrax]

NP. Make sure to get Rage Wave II also, as that 'ignores armor' bit turns it into a one-shot attack against most trash.