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This isnt bad in a certain way tho..at least they arent making old gear terrible and forcing ppl to get the new one with this, but its just so hard to find out the best gear; each person has one it seems lol
But well i guess what we just talked about applies to this as well..cant tell until you try yourself lol
I think like..in this and next patch, the best thing to do to decide what gear to get is to see how much grind/gold you want to put in that gear.
But even if you get more damage on Conf Armor, it will still be buffed pretty hard soon. That was the main reason i went from +15 Tensus to Conflate honestly, it was still a nice upgrade but i was so lazy before, but when i saw the changes i decided to get it now and be lazy for the next patch.
-Post buff Conflate armor will have higher base stats than +15 VM8. Because conflate armor has pvp mods and VM8 armor does not, it is safe to assume that Conflate armor is PvP BiS next patch.
-VM8 Weapon at +15 has a higher base damage and has PvP stats. Can't test it to confirm but this means VM8 weapon is most likely better than Conflate weapon, especially when you factor in the extra rerollable stat line.
So PvP BiS gear next patch is likely: VM8 +15 weapon / Conflate belt+gloves+boots+chest +12 / Full cold hearted jewelry
Actually, for the conflate chest, it's better because it gains the -6% given to you by boots before they nerfed it. So if you include the high defense base mod, you'll have more defense and damage mitigation from a conflate chest compared to a SF+15 chest even with that extra roll.
Just a note that the next update, the BiS is basically a mirrored version of our current one, just with the VM being the patches current VM version. VM8/8.5+15 weapon, Conflate chest +12, VM8/8.5 boots +15, Conflate glove +12 and conflate belt. Remember that conflate's stats are buffed to have very little differences to a +15 vm8 pretty much matching up to them.
And why conflate chest +12? Because of the multiplier rolls (%). If you want a comparison then our current with using VM7+15 chest vs Conflate Chest +12 for PvP since it would be basically the same concept with VM8 patch.
It's ~11890 vs ~11659 base def modifier (around ~200 difference); -6% damage vs -12% PvP damage (considering both have the same rolls: -Frontal/KD/Neutral%); 27 crit res vs 21 crit res.
If you go with VM7 chest, you're already missing out on the -6% PvP damage that could reduce incoming damage even more than the missing ~200 def mod (which is very small amount) because it's a % factor. Same will apply with VM8 chest vs Conflate.