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It doesn't bypass defense or damage reduction passives when I tested it. For example against the level 10 winged guardian boss, it did 224 damage after the 20% damage reduction thing kicked in. And 364 beforehand, when i had hunted 30 on the foe. (you'd expect it to do roughly 390 at that point) And against kinu 1 who has exactly 10 defense, the max damage it ever did after about 20 attempts was 280. Meaning that 300 was reduced 10% by kinu's 10 defense, or somehow I failed all twenty times, Or it automatically gets the -20 on non bosses at the very worst. I tested on the weaker bosses, since arena combatants proc the 99,999 akeshic damage. Which could be possible, as 280 x 1.3 is 364, and 280 x .8 (from the 20% less damage aura winged guardian has) is 224.

Alright on further testing it does seem it pierces defense, so nevermind. Seems fine. However can anyone else corroborate not being able to hit the perfect 300 ever on any non boss enemy? Even when I feel like I've done it flawlessly, it always does base 260, or base 280.

Well I managed to hit what I think to be the full 300 on somebody. Did 256, when they had saykana and ogata waraji, which would seem to reduce it to 256. Took five attempts, with most doing 205 however, not exactly sure what i'm doing wrong when I fail most of the time. But it seems most of my earlier complaints weren't true after all, so my bad.