aragorn
I have been looking at Thauās viability for some time now, and I donāt think you lose firepower foregoing Pyro2 with Thau, on the contrary, you gain a huge boost in damage.
I mean I am no math wizard by any means but my current theory crafting suggest that:
Fire Ball level 5 = 145 damage x 5 hits = 725 damage
Fire Ball level 10 = 234 damage x 10 hits = 2,340 damage
Almost three times right? But then lets factor in Thau.
Swell Arm Level 5 = 68 atk + 3 x 50 (attribute) = 218 atk
While seem lackluster, this 218 is added āperā hit of your fireball
Fire Ball level 5 = 145 damage + 218 damage x 5 hits = 1,815 damage
So that is 2,340 damage vs 1,815. So is fireball 10 better? Not in a long shot, consider that those 1,815 are from just 5 hits instead of 10 hits so you are delivering the damage twice as fast and considering fireball is very position dependent, this is a really good thing to consider.
BUT WAIT! THEREāS MORE!
Swell Arm has a nifty attribute of doing 35 x attribute level extra damage to shrunk enemy (which is easy to do with linked mob) so if we recalculate the damageā¦
145+35x4+218 x5 = 2,515 <āLevel 5 fireball. So it out damages level 10 but also do this damage twice as fast.
I think Thau, like linker before, is underrated simply because they donāt have damaging spells but if you investigate it closely, they actually contribute a lot of dps.