Is the 2% higher crit of the morning star better than the 20 tag damage of the Kaleidoscope?
Should I be useing the Morningstar or the Kaleidoscope in calamity where most my damage is coming from my minions and my minions have high base damage?
2% isn’t worth it unless you’re going a full lucky build
Trigonal_Planar on
Kaleidoscope. Minions don’t crit so it’s just 2% higher crit on the ship strike itself. Kaleidoscope is a superior weapon.
Squadel on
Depends on the minion, I think. Minions that hit a lot benefit more from the Kaleidoscope, while slow attacking heavy hitters prolly get more out of the morning star. (Just guessing, I haven’t actually done any testing).
TheAngerBall on
calamity makes tag damage multiplicative, instead of additive. the morning star has a multiplier of 1.11, and the kaleidiescope has a multiplier of 1.12. on average, 1% crit chance is about equal to 1% damage, which is then multiplied with your damage increases.
in total, the morning star multiplies you minion damage by 1.11 * 1.12 = 1.24, while the kaleidoscope multiplies it by 1.1 * 1.12 = 1.22. however, unless your minions have insanely high base damage, the extra damage from the kaleidoscope itself is probably gonna outpace any minion damage increase from the morning star. so the kaleidoscope would be better in most cases.
unless you know how to whip stack. then just use both.
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Correction it’s only 12 extra tag damage
2% isn’t worth it unless you’re going a full lucky build
Kaleidoscope. Minions don’t crit so it’s just 2% higher crit on the ship strike itself. Kaleidoscope is a superior weapon.
Depends on the minion, I think. Minions that hit a lot benefit more from the Kaleidoscope, while slow attacking heavy hitters prolly get more out of the morning star. (Just guessing, I haven’t actually done any testing).
calamity makes tag damage multiplicative, instead of additive. the morning star has a multiplier of 1.11, and the kaleidiescope has a multiplier of 1.12. on average, 1% crit chance is about equal to 1% damage, which is then multiplied with your damage increases.
([vanilla weapon changes on the calamity wiki](https://calamitymod.wiki.gg/wiki/Vanilla_changes#Weapons))
in total, the morning star multiplies you minion damage by 1.11 * 1.12 = 1.24, while the kaleidoscope multiplies it by 1.1 * 1.12 = 1.22. however, unless your minions have insanely high base damage, the extra damage from the kaleidoscope itself is probably gonna outpace any minion damage increase from the morning star. so the kaleidoscope would be better in most cases.
unless you know how to whip stack. then just use both.