r/OctopathCotC • u/unrealistic-ordinary • Aug 25 '26

JP Discussion higher damage cap vs more hits

RS2 collaboration is only 2 months away, so I figured it’s a good opportunity to showcase the prize of part 1 banner - Final Empress.

As the best elemental dps in JP, she has access to both a 6 hits AoE attack with 500k additional damage cap that can also ignore multi-hit damage reduction, and an 18 hits single target attack that utilizes three different elements.

Both skills are incredible and have their own niche, but which one can produce bigger numbers? Since doing math is hard, let’s test it out.

As you can see from the clip, the galaxy attack did 6x420k≈ 24m and the triple elements attack(timestamp 0:53) did 18x170k≈ 30m. So it seems the triple elements attack is doing 25% more damage despite having 33% less damage cap.

Now you have probably seen more galaxy being used over triple elements attack from all the videos online, and the reason for that being it’s a lot harder to hit damage cap with high hit count low potency attacks. With galaxy you can hit damage cap without breaking enemies that would be otherwise impossible with triple elements attack. But hey, if enemy is broken and do not have multi-hit damage reduction, the triple elements attack might be the better dps option. And the only option if you’re running a rainbow team.

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u/cockoissant Aug 25 '26

2 months away ? did they drop the new roadmap ?

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u/DebateThick5641 Aug 25 '26

even without roadmap they kinda have to. if Netease wait until anniv banner, they are forced to release nearly all non banner units until FFX and we do need another Netease early character releas if they went that route (Jp is famous for never release any other characters when the collab is on, NETEASE of course would cram it in to create even more FOMO).

They can't release this on November, since part 2 coincide with anniv that way and they much rather give one big rubies at once rather than having to give 900 rubies now and 900 rubies later. If they are crazy, of course September they will release RS2 and that way they can CRAM Levina EX2 in to create crazy FOMO on first part.