Razorclaw Shifter Iconic Past Life Active Stance vs Aasimar Scourge Active PL

[Ganak]

Razorclaw Shifter Iconic past life active stance (+3 attack and damage with Melee Weapons) vs Aasimar Scourge active stance (+6% doublestrike).


What is better any why?

[Tsutti]

Razorclaw is much better at low levels, because the amount of damage per hit that you're doing is very low; +3 is a very large % increase. Later, I'd guess starting around level ~10 for most builds, doublestrike becomes better because the +3 damage becomes a smaller and smaller % increase in your damage while doublestrike stays the same. This also gets you closer to the 100% cap (effective cap, can go higher but only up to 100% will affect you) which is very good at level 30.

[Krelar]

My very quick rough estimate calculation (so possibly prone to errors) is that, assuming your not going to hit the doublestrike cap, if your base damage is more than 50 + 1/2 your doublestrike than adding more doublsestrike is better.

So for example if you already had 10% doublestrike then, as long as your average base damage is more than 55, you will be better off using the scourge past life.

[Hawkwier]

Razorclaw Shifter Iconic past life active stance (+3 attack and damage with Melee Weapons) vs Aasimar Scourge active stance (+6% doublestrike).


What is better any why?

Depends for me, speaking only from being at cap...

RC seems better if you're already hitting the DS cap, or if you need the +3 attack to get to the threshold where you miss only on a 1.

The Scourge 6% DS seems a lot more compelling now after the U49 changes to mechanics coupling DS closer to damage, particularly adrenaline, and where you're not easily hitting or at the 100% DS cap anyway.

Personally I, somewhat reluctantly, switched to Scourge from RC after U49, and find that's working out for me. YMMV.