purple sharpness or Attack VI?

[Renfield]

which gives more stats for safi weapons?

[Sacred Heart]

If elemental, Purple, If raw, Attack.

[Washing Machine]

If you're good at maintaining your sharpness in fights, all Attack.
If you want comfort, slap a Sharpness in there.

Purple isn't really that amazing for raw attack.

[Fat Pigeon]

Originally posted by Washing Machine:

If you're good at maintaining your sharpness in fights, all Attack.
If you want comfort, slap a Sharpness in there.

Purple isn't really that amazing for raw attack.

For raw is purple a joke, the jump from white to purple isnt even that huge thats true, but if you want to play with elemental (like dual blade or a classic elemental sns ) , there it is actually a pretty good choice thanks to its huge jump from white to purple in its modifier.

[ChaosFred]

Depends on the weapon type and its elemental / debuff effect.

For most of the time, purple sharpness is better (Sharpness VI) for Dual blade and Insect Glaive as these weapons are kinda elemental. It also works for Gunlance (GL) so you can have more fuel for your shelling while attack VI doesn't work for shelling at all. (But who is still using Safi gunlance nowaday?)

LS, Lance, SnS, SA and CB are depending on the element and your target. So they can go between.

Hammer, GS and HH instead would go for attack as they are not that elemental/debuff type.

[Washing Machine]

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Originally posted by Washing Machine:

If you're good at maintaining your sharpness in fights, all Attack.
If you want comfort, slap a Sharpness in there.

Purple isn't really that amazing for raw attack.

For raw is purple a joke, the jump from white to purple isnt even that huge thats true, but if you want to play with elemental (like dual blade or a classic elemental sns ) , there it is actually a pretty good choice thanks to its huge jump from white to purple in its modifier.

Yeah, but we're talking Attack not Element in the topic so I didn't really care about that aspect.

It's the same deal tho, the purple bar you get for one Sharpness V isn't enough yet to reach purple, you need to slot in Handicraft on top of it just to get a sliver of purple sharpness. So you still have to mess around with Protective Polish all day to make it work.

TL;DR it's about comfort. If you want to tryhard, by all means, but the couple % of extra damage you get on paper are likely not happening in reality for most of us normies.

[ChaosFred]

Originally posted by Washing Machine:

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

For raw is purple a joke, the jump from white to purple isnt even that huge thats true, but if you want to play with elemental (like dual blade or a classic elemental sns ) , there it is actually a pretty good choice thanks to its huge jump from white to purple in its modifier.

Yeah, but we're talking Attack not Element in the topic so I didn't really care about that aspect.

It's the same deal tho, the purple bar you get for one Sharpness V isn't enough yet to reach purple, you need to slot in Handicraft on top of it just to get a sliver of purple sharpness. So you still have to mess around with Protective Polish all day to make it work.

TL;DR it's about comfort. If you want to tryhard, by all means, but the couple % of extra damage you get on paper are likely not happening in reality for most of us normies.

It is sharpness VI most likely since the counter is Attack VI. If you are running master touch build, the sliver of purple from sharpness VI maybe enough to last entire battle.

[Washing Machine]

Originally posted by ChaosFred:

Originally posted by Washing Machine:

Yeah, but we're talking Attack not Element in the topic so I didn't really care about that aspect.

It's the same deal tho, the purple bar you get for one Sharpness V isn't enough yet to reach purple, you need to slot in Handicraft on top of it just to get a sliver of purple sharpness. So you still have to mess around with Protective Polish all day to make it work.

TL;DR it's about comfort. If you want to tryhard, by all means, but the couple % of extra damage you get on paper are likely not happening in reality for most of us normies.

It is sharpness VI most likely since the counter is Attack VI. If you are running master touch build, the sliver of purple from sharpness VI maybe enough to last entire battle.

But if we're talking Elemental, Master's Touch isn't exactly an option since you're going to want TCE or Safi set bonus. At least if we're worrying about dps here.

Should just get the Kjarr weapons anyway.

But I still assume this is about raw since the OP is asking about Attack VI, so my opinion still remains Attack for damage, Sharp for comfort. Purple isn't that good for raw.

[Giallombardo]

depends on your weapon and build

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

The problem with purple sharpness on Safi is that it requires MT to maintain it. I honestly think you run get more out of putting one Sharpness V and then using whatever armor that you want to get different skill bonuses. Most of the armors from Safi and since then are skill rich, good set set bonuses, and decoration slots. You can more than make up the difference that you lose by not having purple sharpness and still have something left over for comfort.

[Kawalorn]

Generally I'd say go full Attack for raw damage and full Element for the few elemental weapons that are worth it.

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

Originally posted by Kawalorn:

Generally I'd say go full Attack for raw damage and full Element for the few elemental weapons that are worth it.

The problem with going full raw or elemental is that its really not enough white sharpness to play with without MT. Even with a Sharp deco and Whetfish+, it really borderline and will have to sharpen every few minutes. I would rather take the hit on the damage to not burn through whetfish fins every hunt. Throw in Sharpness V and it takes it from 30 to 80 hits(for HH at least) which should be plenty for most hunts to be able to sharpen between areas and not having to sharpen mid fight.

The reason I bring this up is because I made Safi Hunting Horns with all Elemental or Raw Damage. Started using them and figured out that it is such a pita to use them with only 30 hits. Went back and slotted in the Sharpness and it made a big difference. I wish someone would have told me that before.

[Xilo The Odd]

elemental focused weapon = purple sharpness

raw weapon or status weapon = attack ups.

[JPM岩]

So, doing math for it, double Sharp V to get purple sharpness does more damage than a bunch of Atk V. The problem there lies then in maintaining your sharpness. Relying on Master's Touch, or Polish.

[Cerberus]

I use purple sharpness with protective polish, and it gives quite a good amount... if you're wondering though, i gave the eq skill to a make a slot III slot IV