What sort of success rate does it have? I mean I've tried it out the odd time in various DQ games, but it always seemed like it missed 90% of the time so I never gave it any consideration. The attack redirection when your target is already defeated by someone else that round does make a BIG difference too.Īs for the Defeat spell, I've never been one to use it ordinarily. Yeah, it's been years since I played the NES version of DWII, but it sure seems to me that the GBC version is a lot easier. Many of the Rhone enemies have 200+, with Malroth having a whopping 255. Most enemies do have quite low defense, however.
The Staff of Thunder/Bolt Staff is also greatly empowered in the GB version, going from 15 to 45 attack power.Ĭorrection: Most enemies do not have a Defense of 0. This is where the Thunder Sword works best. Hargon and Malroth pretty much shake off most damage dealt to them. Giving the Thunder Sword to Midenhall/Lorasia, and the Falcon Sword to Cannock is still a good idea, at least for random encounters. Against enemies with Defense, such as the final bosses, the Thunder Sword wins out. If you are fighting enemies with no defense, as you said, the Falcon Sword is better. So take your total attack power and cut it in half to find your average damage. (Attack /2) - (Defense /4) is the standard DQ damage algorithm (most enemies have 0 Defense). Level 27 Attack Power w/Thunder Sword = 202 (Str 107 + 95) w/Falcon Sword 114x2 (228). The Falcon Sword, likewise, went to 7 from 5. Interesting note, the Thunder Sword has a 95 attack power in the GB version, as opposed to an 80 on the NES. It will still take two hits to kill most of the enemies in Rhone and Hargon's castle. The two swords average damage is less than 10% apart. The highest HP any regular enemy has in the game is the Atlas at 206. Whichever sword really does not matter significantly, then. In this case the defense would only be calculated into your total damage once, instead of being taken out of each strike with the Falcon Sword. The only potential advantage I can think of for the Thunder Sword is when you're fighting enemies with extra high defense.
The only thing is it can't cast a spell when used as an item in battle, but you can still use the Thunder Sword for that. It seems that in every respect the Falcon Sword is better. Based on these numbers, the Falcon Sword has the potential to do 90 - 112 damage per round, with the added bonus that if the first strike kills an enemy the second one will be directed toward another instead of being wasted. The range is probably slightly wider than that, but I thought a test sample of 10 strikes with each should be enough to get a fair estimate of their power. My character is L27, if you're wondering. For convenience I chose the Basilisks around Beran as my target, and attacked them with each weapon around 10 times to get an idea of the damage spread with each. So much for theory, now I've tested it on the battlefield. So basically, as your character's strength grows, the attack with Thunder Sword grows by that much, but the attack with Falcon Sword grows by double that. The Falcon Sword only has an attack bonus of around 7, so it's basically your bare strength with a little boost, but you do it twice, whereas the Thunder Sword strikes with a very high attack bonus tacked onto your bare strength, but only once. The attack damage is based on your character's strength + the weapon's attack bonus, varied somewhat by a random number.
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