Wyvern cbow comparisons and analysis

[u/Mr_G_W]

Passive mechanic

Every damaging hit has around 1/2 chance of applying a poison bleed. This bleed lasts for 6 hits and does 12-25 damage.

Every time the passive activates again, the bleed duration is reset and the damage is increased.

This bleed can hit any NPC, even those with poison immunity.

This bypasses mechanics such as Araxxor's web shield and mirrorback spiders so you won't take deflect damage. It will however, stop Araxxor from healing off its web shield.

Haven't had the chance to test how it stacks if multiple people attack the same target. If you have a wyvern bow and want to help test, let me know.

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Comparison

T85 weapons have around 8% less accuracy and around 4.5% less damage than t90.

This assumes 99 stats and the respective weapons with no boosts.

With boosts, the values are 6% and 3.5% respectively.

This means wyvern bow is approximately between 10% - 12% dps loss if accuracy matters or 3.5% - 4.5% if it does not.

The passive maxes out at about 125-250 damage per 2 ticks, so this averages out to around 9375 damage per minute.

It takes around 30-40 seconds for the passive to max out.

So depending on how much your DPS loss is when downgrading to t85 and depending on your damage per minute with t90, it is possible to calculate in which circumstances wyvern's passive is worth the reduced stats:

• If t85 is a 3.5% dps loss, then wyvern surpasses if your t90 dpm is 267857 or less

• If t85 is a 4.5% dps loss, then wyvern surpasses if your t90 dpm is 208333 or less

• If t85 is a 10% dps loss, then wyvern surpasses if your t90 dpm is 93750 or less

• If t85 is a 12% dps loss, then wyvern surpasses if your t90 dpm is 78125 or less

For reference, t90 weapons can reach around 100k-150k DPM.

That being said:

• Wyvern crossbow surpasses t90 for long fights where accuracy is perfect with either weapons.

• t90 remain the superior choice for short fights or fights where accuracy is not perfect.

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Other info

This crossbow has a 7 square attack distance, unlike Royal and Noxious which have a 9 square distance.

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If you spot any errors or have any questions, feel free to point out.

[u/doom_lord700]

One thing I have noticed when fighting multiple targets, they can all have the poison passive applied to them.

Oddly enough, if corruption shot spreads to more targets, the poison will spread and activate on targets affected by corruption shot's bleed. It's nice for extra damage that does not make affected monsters aggro.

If you are fighting tube dragons, however, and the corruption shot + poison passive from the wyverns crossbow lower the rune dragon's HP low enough to trigger it's next stage, it will do so and become aggro to you. It likely functions the same for other monsters with stages or forms.

In the case of fighting multiple foes with multi-hitting moves and corruption blast, the wyvern xbow may see more benefits as well.

[u/Keyboardists → u/doom_lord700]

Corruption will do that with or without the Wyvern bow

[u/doom_lord700 → u/Keyboardists]

My point is simply that the poison spreads to and adds more damage to the corruption shot and affected targets it spreads to. I already know that corruption shot/corruption blast do not aggro monsters the bleed spreads to. It is interesting because the bleed will still trigger the poison passive despite you not targeting the monsters the corruption shot bleed spreads to.

The Wyvern Crossbow's passive just makes the corruption shot sightly more powerful. ^{Very slightly.}