Stardiver V Drakesbane

Hello new to drg leveling it up currently, I was looking into the pole WSs and it seems SD and DB are both pretty damn good can anyone tell me if either is better overall or are they situational? Which is a must have?

If you have a Ryu, use drakes, if not, Stardiver. There's a handful of reasons to have drakes anyway so it wouldn't be a bad idea to pick it up as well.

You should also have Camlaans Torment unlocked for self skillchain situations also.

Pretend you do the following damage with each weaponskill:

5000 stardiver
4500 drakes
3500 camlaans

Using camlaans and then drakesbane will result in a light skillchain for around 4000 in this case. The combination of both of these WSs and the skillchain damage pulls ahead of only using stardiver + stardiver.

But that is very situational.

So drakes >> drakes won't make light on its own?

Nope only relic and some empyrean weaponskills skillchain with themselves to make light or darkness.

All right , thanks.

On a last note... Don't forget to unlock impulse drive for proccing polearm in VW.

All my deep eternal rage at this. I so very much want Drakes>Drakes>Light. It'd be so delicious with Ryu WS frequency.

Although I do understand why mythics didn't get a lvl 3 property like empyreans or relics. I assume it's because they were unlockable without the mythic weapon, so SE nerfed the WS a bit by only giving up to lvl 2 SC properties.

But considering empyrean WS are no longer locked to their weapons... I feel Mythic WS are due an update. Can remove that bloody atk penalty while you're at it SE...

Doing that would buff non mythic drgs too since drakesbane has a better FTP than stardiver(though I wonder if the extra wsc would still put star ahead due to stay vomit).

Geirskogul>star for darkness is pretty strong too, love that when low manning or solo.