The 6th Ministry's Secret: A Summoner's Guide (v2)

I just picked up Indomitable Gloves (HQ2), it's going to take me a while to augment them but I did some napkin math and it looks like with BIS gear, it should surpass Merlinic Gloves for physical pacts when the augment hits +6 BP Damage. With Nirvana AM3 up, that value shifts to +10 BP Damage, with 11 being the max.

If you get the HQ1 gloves, they would need +7 BP Damage instead of +6 to beat Merlinic, and the full +11 to beat it with Nirvana AM3.

Would you mind sharing your math and which Merlinic augments you were basing this off of?

I was using the calculator I have posted on my Pastebin. It's nothing fancy, it's just for comparing BP Damage against Pet:DA. These two stats are the direct multipliers so they're what I focus on. There are some other pet stats on both pieces but I feel they're comparable.

Here's the set I used to compare, which I believe to be BIS without doing pet path augments on Nyame:

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Merlinic augment is BP Dmg +10, for +15 total on the piece. Helios are both 7 BP Dmg and 8 Double Attack.

I also checked the numbers with Beckoner's Earring +2 instead of Sroda, and it didn't change the result.