Percentages

[Typbrosion]

I've been playing this game ever since it came out on gamecube, though never online (didn't have internet back in the day). I've got two questions about percentages that I really should know the answers to.
First off what do they do, and second, why do they change when I drop a weapon and another person picks it up. Is there a way to change that, or should I've just given the weapon to the person before getting the tekker to look at it.

[Ketchup345]

1) Add damage against that type of monster. Hit % adds that much ATA to the weapon (hit % is not a %, it is fixed).
2) Once the item is tekked, it will stay with those %s. Unided items can be tekked +/- a certain amount away from the "base %" (the % shown on the left of the tekker screen). I forget if it is 10% or 20%.

[Jason]

A 10% increase is the most you can get from a tekker.

[Neith]

Tekking can give any value (that is a multiple of 5%) between -10 and +10 from the untekked weapon.

So for example a 30% untekked weapon could tekk to 20%, 25%, 30%, 35% or 40%, and a 5% weapon could tekk to -5%, 0%, 5%, 10% or 15%.

You just keep trying until you get the +10% tekk.

For items with a Special attack that aren't Special Weapons, you can also change the potency of the special attack through tekking. For example a Dark Laser could tekk upto Hell Laser, if I remember correctly.

As Ketchup said, the %s influence your damage against that attribute. A weapon with %s in A.Beast will do more damage against A.Beast enemies (unless it's tekked to -5%, which'll make it do LESS than normal). Hit % just boosts the weapon's ATA.

[Von Jugel]

I swear to God that I've seen weapons tekked 15% BELOW the original %. Have you guys seeen this?

[TrueChaos]

i've been playing the game for many years and i've never seen it go more than 10% each way, unless things were different on the DC.

one thing to bear in mind with the % is they only affect the weapons ATP in the calculation, so if you have a base ATP of 500 and the weapon has 200 ATP giving you 700 ATP, if the weapon has 20% on Native, it will add 20% of the 200 ATP of the weapon so it goes like this:

500 + (200 + 20%)
= 500 + (200 + 40)
= 500 + 240
= 740 equivalent ATP against Native creatures