PEE or EPE?

[A_Sheep]

On Mineral II Weapons, it seems to me that Holy + Acid Burst is the best way to go on the first two tiers, but I see alot of people going Acid + Good burst. What's the reason?

Holy + Acid Burst should be more damage versus devils which are immune to acid, right? (And more damage versus evil creatures in general)

Thanks for the info!

[Lithic]

People use to go acid/good burst on a min 2 because they would throw away all their other weapons once this was done. An Acid/Goodburst/Acid blast/Transmuting weapon use to bypass all damage resistance, and do decent damage to all monsters. It was the swiss army knife of DDO. Lots of builds on the forums assumed you would use an acid/good burst min2 for your entire career, only switching to vorpals or stat damagers occasionally.

I personally never bought into that and made all of mine holy/acid burst because I figured the few neutral monsters warranted other weapons for best results anyway. These days, I would never suggest anyone do acid/good burst.

[Baahb3]

I would say it is because the Good burst is 'good' damage, like the Pure Good property, thus it works on neutral enemies, not just evil ones like Holy does.

[Gol]

I personally do Holy + Exc Con + Exc Con on Mineral 2 (+Exc Wis in off-hand if TWF) and use Lightning 2 for raw DPS.

I figure the only time I'm using Mineral 2 these days is for Harry/Sally/Horoth, in which case the +20/40 HP from +3 Con is a lot better than 0 acid damage.

[Philam]

On Mineral II Weapons, it seems to me that Holy + Acid Burst is the best way to go on the first two tiers, but I see alot of people going Acid + Good burst. What's the reason?

Holy + Acid Burst should be more damage versus devils which are immune to acid, right? (And more damage versus evil creatures in general)

Thanks for the info!

Go acid-holy-then either(depending on the build) +4 Insight/+2 Con/+2 Wis

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[Cedwin]

On Mineral II Weapons, it seems to me that Holy + Acid Burst is the best way to go on the first two tiers, but I see alot of people going Acid + Good burst. What's the reason?

Holy + Acid Burst should be more damage versus devils which are immune to acid, right? (And more damage versus evil creatures in general)

Thanks for the info!

Acid/Good Burst would work on just about everything, since good burst works on evil and neutral enemies.

With Holy/Acid Burst, if enemies are neutral, you get no damage from holy.

That's about the extent of the reasoning behind it.

[A_Sheep]

Ok, defintiely going Holy Tier 1 and +2 con on tier 3. Gol has me thinking about the tier 2 now... I don't have any place other than dragontouched tempest for +1 excep con (currently +20% healing). This might be a good move. I can make tier 2 positive weapons for more damage than the Min II on most evil mobs anyways... Thanks for the tip!

Edit: And sorry for the lack of judgement on thread title...

[Gol]

I can make tier 2 positive weapons for more damage than the Min II on most evil mobs anyways... Thanks for the tip!

Except for the DR issue that Mineral 2 takes care of, yeah. It does, however, make for a good raise dead clicky, as well as shroud portal beaters.