Weapon stat - elemental attack

[Syrin]

Does this stat matter on a weapon like a dagger for a non-magic user? There is a dagger for sale with a huge increase in elemental attack but a drastic dropoff on physical attack. Which stat matters more?

[Izzy]

The way this works is more confusing than almost any other RPG.

If you have multiple weapons with elemental attack it will only use the one with the most. You can't stack a particular stat across multiple weapons. You always want your weapons to have as much a variety of stats as possible.

Except physical attacks will obviously still use the damage from the weapon you are hitting with.

[さまよう侍]

if you give that to a wielder that concentrate on elemental attack then it does matter.

[Amateur Nitpicker]

I guess depending on the job? ***But if you are going to use it for a NON-magic user I think it is pointless

Example: Primrose is my Dancer/Scholar so having that knife good to me since I would focus on MGK than PHY

[Izzy]

There is a number of daggers in the game with magic attack and some with speed instead. The magic attack daggers are basically there with Primrose / dancer in mind and the speed daggers are for Therion / thief job. Or Warmaster as that can equip all weapon types.

The thief ultimate skill scales with how much speed you have and can only be used with a dagger so you want as much speed on that dagger as possible.

[Syrin]

Interesting, thanks

[GrandTickler]

I wish this game more properly explained how elemental attack worked on weapons because its different in every RPG, (tooltips for stats please)

in one game your elemental damage gets added to your physical attacks, in the other it only acts as a amplifier for your magical attacks. The game assumes you already know which of these 2 rules it uses.