Magic Power SA

I was looking at the description of it in the Library on this site, what does it mean when it gives you power 8 with a 30% chance? Empower 8 or something else?

Does it add 99 m.atk. to the base m.atk. or does it add it after all buffs and so on ?

after
which is why its not so popular
if you have a +11 weapon and get that sa it becomes meaningless

Does it add 99 m.atk. to the base m.atk. or does it add it after all buffs and so on ?

after buffs

I dont understand how a +11 would not work with Magic Power SA :/

I dont understand how a +11 would not work with Magic Power SA :/

Damage from nukes does not scale linearly together with matk. Double matk is not double damage, only 1.4 times the damage. To get double damage, you need 4 times the matk (unlike patk, where 2*patk=2*damage). So the higher the matk, the less the +99 matk from magic power SA are "worth" in added damage. What this boils down to is that if you are high lvl and have a matk > 2000 anyway, the added 99 matk add only a comparatively small amount of damage, but the +15% mp cost of the nukes actually gets worse and worse the higher your skill lvl is, because higher lvl nukes cost more anyway.

So I guess that is what he wanted to point out - if you have a high matk fully buffed anyway, the +99 matk do not really increase the damage anymore, and you are better off with a different SA.

Magic Power is pretty much for DAs, SKs and other melees that need a quick upup on MAtk on a backup weapon.