[caliaca]

Dragon King set pieces grant the stats in addition to increasing the soft cap and are already meta pick items, Akmedis is horribly strong to compare it to currently, and Dragon King Armor has always had a high base armor stat. Is there something I am missing in people suddenly thinking it's bad? I'd like to think it's the opposite. I'll give you that on the gloves, crownbleeder is generally better for basic attackers.

I believe the archetype that Dragon King is supposed to fulfill is weaker than a few other setups, that being the melee warrior focused upon special attacking rather than basic attacking. That said I was always looking forward to if there would be a 5-set effect for the pieces, something critical and well meaning.

I'd be okay with more STR granted from each piece personally, something like bumping it up to +10% STR per piece, you can only go so far in scaled STR before the soft caps bite your ass anyway.

I don't like to be 'that asshole' but it's only a heavily picked item cause people don't do the math on it. Most who do swap off.

Quite frankly, the hand piece is never the correct option. It's not just crownbleeder it has to deal with, but also rogue's work gloves for basic attackers. For mages, it has to deal with idol as well, something it cannot hope to compete with.

Armor value wise, it's 7 physical, 0 magical.

Akmedis is 7/4. 
Bellplate is 10/5
Bodyguard is also 7/0
Halfplate, which is now somewhat useful due to ability to get resistances is 9/0
Terrasque is 5/2 so it has the same full armor values

(Something to note is that Akmedis and Terra both weigh less than DK as well, making them more able to be bouldered.)

and so on. Of heavy armor picks, it is tied for the lowest raw armor values.


The main problem with bumping each part up to 10% is it now overvalues the accessory while actively keeping the hand piece and chest piece still slightly undervalued.

Here's the calcs https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/4.../image.png

It'll leave the hand piece as a 'never use' tier in terms of stat effeciency and the chest piece as a very rare pick where it is actually more beneficial than the other options (as a 2nd piece when you're running about 52 str). 


It does make the accessory somewhat overvalued though. Which might be good since its a 9*. I'm still heavily against treating each piece as the same though, mostly due to the reasonings I talked about above.