Mineral II Falchion - Which of these two would be better?

[DnD3]

Crafting a Min II falchion for my wf barb and I'm wondering with which of these 2 I will end up with more dmg

Acid/Good Burst/Acid Blast
or
Holy/Acid Burst/Acid Blast

[dj.kickz]

holy does more damage to less mobs good does less damage to more mobs. since the majority of the mobs in the game are evil most people go with holy.

[tihocan]

Actually, on a falchion, it seems like acid/good burst is better:
- the extra 1d6 from holy compared to good gives +19d6 over 20 swings
- but good burst yields an extra 3d6 on a roll of 15-18 (=> 12d6), and 6d6 on a 19-20 (I'm guessing here that it scales with the FB crit multiplier increase), for a total of 24d6, so +5d6 over the holy version

If my numbers are wrong please tell me because it'd mean I need to update my planner

[DnD3]

So I have the Falchion, does doing Holy/acid/acid change anything at all visually compared to doing acid/pure good/acid? Or will it look exactly the same when equiped on the character regardless of Holy or PG?

[tihocan]

So I have the Falchion, does doing Holy/acid/acid change anything at all visually compared to doing acid/pure good/acid? Or will it look exactly the same when equiped on the character regardless of Holy or PG?

I believe the look will come from your tier 3 damage effect, so going to look like acid anyways. But I''m not 100% sure about it, you may want to do some search, as it's been discussed for sure in the past.

[Chaosium]

Actually, on a falchion, it seems like acid/good burst is better:
- the extra 1d6 from holy compared to good gives +19d6 over 20 swings
- but good burst yields an extra 3d6 on a roll of 15-18 (=> 12d6), and 6d6 on a 19-20 (I'm guessing here that it scales with the FB crit multiplier increase), for a total of 24d6, so +5d6 over the holy version

If my numbers are wrong please tell me because it'd mean I need to update my planner

You are missing the Tier 2 Acid Burst being better than the Tier 1 Acid effect. So 1d10 on each 15-18 and 3d10 on each 19-20 is 10d10 of acid bursting damage. However, just 10 Acid Resist pretty much negates this.

[tihocan]

You are missing the Tier 2 Acid Burst being better than the Tier 1 Acid effect. So 1d10 on each 15-18 and 3d10 on each 19-20 is 10d10 of acid bursting damage. However, just 10 Acid Resist pretty much negates this.

Yep I ignored acid because it's easily negated, especially on a Pit Fiend.

However, this reminds me that I should have mentioned that with 50% fortification, the 24d6 from the burst become 12d6 only, and holy wins...