[Spaghettimonster]

Originally Posted by Simon Redbeard

Nice work all in all. I have used the hack-slash-flourish combo with 5 points in flourish and it is indeed very effective 3 click combo. However, there is one problem with your analysis. I don't think flourish hits three times with damage between 84 and 164.

I was looking at this myself as well, and it definitely is the most important factor in the calculation, as well as the Eviscerate calculation later on. I couldn't explain why I was dealing combo damage of 400+ without assuming that this applied on a per swing basis. I did though, sometimes nearing 500 on just the flourish.

I am still looking at this myself, and again this isn't finalized until I max the skill and I am at Noteriety lvl 40. Are you certain of this?

My flourish at the moment does 148-296 points of damage and the three hits together never exceed 296 when fighting against yellow or red tag enemies.

This is very odd, because I regularly do 140 per swing against green/yellow using flourish.

But keep up with that, it would be interesting to see those types of calculations for other skills too (I'm too lazy for that ). But the "mathematically best build" for any skill is probably a bit of a subjective concept, depending on playing style and other factors.

Right, and I agree. There are some things however the game itself decides for us.
Questions like, "What can I do with the Cutlass?" This begs us to answer the question of "How can I do that the best possible way!" In this respect I don't think there is any subjectivity that plays in. People are free to not want to have the build that delivers the highest damage potential, surely, but that won't change the fact that they do less damage. See what I mean? I, and probably a lot of other people want to win in PvP and prepare ourselves to experience what this game has to offer by equipping our characters with all the best tools to accomplish that. In order to do that, you need to know a thing or two about damage.

Update: I have my cutlass skill up to 20 now and I will be revising all of these calculations again by next weekend. (2/23)

I appreciate the input.

I hate it when people do this, Try to save time and do as much damage as possible. I believe that pirates was intended as a game not a contest.
(But then again, if it's not all about winning why are we keeping score? Hmmmm?)

Not a contest? What is Pirate vs. Pirate for then?
If you wanna have a tea party they have poker and black jack at the inn, if you wanna be a vicious blood thirsty pirate scouring the high seas plundering and pillaging then you'll want to pay attention when someone starts talking about damage.