According to your numbers which I canвЂ™t validate right now, freeze chain is 5% better than fire and ice, putting the blast proc requirement at roughly 2-3+. 3% in practice is only 1-2 blast procs, which you will always get more of solo. At that time using pre kulve builds (no at no drachen), freeze chain only pulled 3% more damage than fire and ice not factoring in blast, that means blast only has to deal 3% of a monsters hp to break even with freeze chain, and any more procs made fire and ice better. When the weapons were relevant (pre kulve) fire and ice was better. To the point that freeze chain is arguably worse. A Great Sword can deal that amount in a single swing.ДЇire and ice is bad, but so is freeze chain.

If you're lucky, you can do 5 explosions, which is measly 600 damage. Multiplayer is even worse for Fire and Ice's Blast Ailment where the Status resistance of the monster skyrockets every time you trigger an explosion. Unlike a dedicated Blast Dual Blades like Empress 'Styx' and Bazel DB's, Fire and Ice can only trigger explosions around 7-8 times on Solo Elder Dragons, while a dedicated Blast DB would trigger around 12. Even though it has an impressive 240, it's not enough to make up for the crippling Element/Status split between blades.

This means that while Fire and Ice's Ice Element is cut in half, it's Blast Status is cut far lower than half because of the lesser chance of proc'ing status with only one weapon. Obviously, elemental attacks do proc every single hit, but many don't know that Status Ailments have random chance to proc every third or so hits. ** Includes Critical Element, Frost Jewel 3, Critical Boost 3, White sharpness, 100% Affinity.Д«ut you might be thinking 'Well, Fire and Ice have Blast Status to make up for the damage, right?'. Also has 266 Raw, unlike Freezing Chain and Fire and Ice that only has 252. These are total damages of one Demon Dance move. Here are some damage numbers for the three Ice DB's. That makes Freezing Chain II, better than Fire and Ice at Ice Damage! Right of the bat, Freezing Chain look like the same weapon, just with less Ice and no Blast.ДЇreezing Chain deals 3 extra Ice damage every hit on smaller combo's, while bigger combo's does 5 each hit, while Fire and Ice, at 240 Ice, the left blade deals 3 extra Ice damage every hit on smaller combo attacks, while doing 8 extra damage on bigger combo's.Д«UT for Freezing Chain II both weapons have 150 Ice Element, so that 3 and 5 extra damage are actually 6 and 10 compared to Fire and Ice's 3 and 8. These stats can be confusing, so lets we compare real world damages with Freezing Chain II.Дў52 Raw Attack (Same raw as Fire and Ice)Д % Affinity (80% affinity with Critical Eye 7 and Weakness Exploit 3)ДЈ Augments (or 100% affinity with 3 affinity augments) So in reality, the 240 Ice should be 120 as only one blade deal 240 or Freezing Chain 150 Ice should be 300 in comparison as both blades deal 150. As an example, the Freezing Chain II have base 150 Ice Element, that means both blades deal 150 Ice, but Fire and Ice's base 240 Ice is only on one of the blades. The elemental and status ailment stats are very misleading, because in reality, the left blade that looks like Daora's claw deals Ice damage, but doesn't apply Blast Status, while the right blade that looks like Teostra's claw applies Blast Status, but doesn't deal Ice damage. 10% affinity (90% affinity with Critical Eye 7 and Weakness Exploit 3)ДЎ Augment (or 100% affinity with affinity augment)Д«ut in reality, these stats are pure noob traps, specifically, the Ice Element and Blast stats.

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