Well, I'm told veracs is best, and use godsword on crush.

 

Mk, she has pretty high defense and she's weak to crush, I can buy that.

 

But is her defense so high that veracs beats something like a godsword or hasta? Is her weakness to crush so significant that the +100ish crush beats the +150ish slash of a godsword?

 

Just curious if anyone has ever looked into it. I'm afraid to say I've done about 15 trips and... they've all been with veracs and using godsword on crush, kinda hard to go against the pack.

 

Just inb4 veracs gives prayer which is necessary - You can wear veracs armour and use another weapon. Godsword, for example, gives more prayer bonus than the flail.

No one's done a study on it as far as I know

Welp, after 99 attack I'll try go with some understanding people that will allow me to use hasta for experiement :D I feel like it'd be pretty good as I imagine it's close to 50% accurate (Which is further why I think hasta possibly beats veracs,  her def isn't extremely high, I'd say lower than graardor, anecdotally.) 

 

I'll also try maining godsword (on slash and then crush), and possibly even kraken whip if slash godsword does well.

range always far outpaced melee of any type at sara. Not quite what you were asking, however.

 

Your question I cannot answer. I used to have data like you're asking but it's been lost over the years. I compared gs to veracs to range, in variety of gears. Range always beats melee there not only in hits but in trip length.

 

Now that's not to say melee isn't more or less fun :P

 

Pretty sure it's lost but I'll try to dig up some numbers.

Huh. I find that pretty hard to believe, every time I've done a trip with maxed rangers it felt like they were pretty much leeching, sniping the rare kill but generally being rubbish. Nobody with high melee tends to range from my experience there, both in my teams and watching dozens of melee teams to every ranger while looking for an empty world.

 

The only limiting factor to melee trios is when you run out of pure sets and feel like leaving. I'm fairly sure you could stay there 24/7 if you wanted to, probable with AGS, for sure with SGS, for trip length I guess you're talking solo or duo in which case for sure range would be better.

 

I can test it out myself eventually when i bother with 99 range, but that might take years lol. For now I'll just focus on melee.

K so found jmod stated she has no weakness. Slash is just as effective as crush on her (Therefore ~150 slash godsword obviously heavily beats ~100 crush godsword)

 

I've done a few trips using slash instead of crush and man the difference is so obvious I feel silly for not noticing it earlier.

 

Clan member told me that tentacle whip comes close or beats veracs, pretty sure he was speaking anecdotally but It's enough for me to give it a shot sometime soon.

 

Unfortunately the rs thread where jmod said she's not weak to anything went down... (Why do they do that?)