I have no idea. Billions. Keep in mind, when the possibility to make an infinite series of Mentees for getting free R-Grade shots will be removed one day, you will have much lower operating costs with an S-Grade weapon. And if you are a Tyrr Warrior, the damage of your Momentum skills comes only to a limited part from the weapon itself: http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=242409
second off. What do you mean lower Operating costs with S Grade weapons
and could you explain the Momentum skill limited part from my weapon?
Because from what i read in the thread the Damage increase form S-R wasnt that high.
Also are you saying my weapons will be **** soon??? lol because right now they are amazing but are they going to make it so its based of Weapon R-R95-R99 and nerf S80 ****..?? im lost
PS: Dont mean to portray a total scrub but havent played since p2p year's ago.
Keep in mind, when the possibility to make an infinite series of Mentees for getting free R-Grade shots will be removed one day, you will have much lower operating costs with an S-Grade weapon. And if you are a Tyrr Warrior, the damage of your Momentum skills comes only to a limited part from the weapon itself: http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=242409
Could you explain what you mean in these 2,3 or 4 things you stated not really sure what you getting at.
When your Mentee reaches lvl 86 and completes his or her 4th class change quest, you can exchange the Mentee Certificate for 40 Diplomas, and for 1 Diploma you get 5000 weightless Soulshots R-Grade. If you have an empty character slot on your account, you can make a throwaway character, level that up to 40, claim the Mentee Certificate from the Path to Awakening but pick it up at the Dimensional Merchant with your main character. You delete the throwaway character and make a new one as soon as the slot is free again after one week. An infinite series of Mentees :)
Of course this is not what the developers had in mind when they devised the Mentoring System, so this might come to an end one day.
If you regularly craft R-Grade shots you need 2 R-Grade Crystals which are more expensive than 1 S-Grade Crystal, and you need more Soul Ore (80 for 500 Shots vs. 40 for 350 Shots). R-Grade Shots are more expensive than S-Grade Shots, so using an S-Grade weapon is cheaper, especially if it is a +16 Eternal Core Dualsword.
That's the point. When you use a lot of Momentum skills, an S-Grade weapon is almost as good as an R-Grade one. So your +16 Eternal Core Dualsword will carry you a long way. If you can afford it, it would be a good investment :)
Keep in mind however that Apo weapon +5 has more p.atk then +16 (Ex)Top S84. So at lvl 95 it becomes useless. I once bought Skull carnium bow +15 but when the apo bow got to +5 it became useless for 2 reasons. 1st - Does atleast 1/4 less dmg with skill (cos the apo has the skill dmg bonus after +4). And 2nd- the pvp option is useless. In pvp i usually have 1500 atk.speed so no point to add more (that's atleast if they don't rise the limit to 2000 but i doubt it). The only weapon that's worth it from these is the Mamba edge dagger. Nice dmg + pvp and the tanks in oly leave w/o any buffs on 1 FUE :)
Keep in mind however that Apo weapon +5 has more p.atk then +16 (Ex)Top S84. So at lvl 95 it becomes useless. I once bought Skull carnium bow +15 but when the apo bow got to +5 it became useless for 2 reasons. 1st - Does atleast 1/4 less dmg with skill (cos the apo has the skill dmg bonus after +4). And 2nd- the pvp option is useless. In pvp i usually have 1500 atk.speed so no point to add more (that's atleast if they don't rise the limit to 2000 but i doubt it). The only weapon that's worth it from these is the Mamba edge dagger. Nice dmg + pvp and the tanks in oly leave w/o any buffs on 1 FUE :)
your 1st point is wrong, bow damage up SA is a joke, it adds an insignificant amount of static patk that is not multiplied by buffs.
Your second point is wrong, as the primary reason you pvp a weapon is to get the +5% pvp damage bonus. The secondary effects to the weapon are usually superfluous compared to the damage add. 5% damage is like another SA or 1/3rd a baium ring on crits / reg hits.