SE 3 vs SE4 , anyone in the know on these ?

[gammik]

Compairing SE2 burn in LL A mission, it does 73 damage to the non pannon mobs in there. I just got SE3 & it only went up to 97. No I know SE4 is supposed to be freaking insanely great, but , I just hate to grind 10 more levels of bullets just to be disappointed again. Can anyone with SE4 fire bullets , go test out your rifle in LL A mission , the one with level 30 mobs there. Let me know how much your burn SE4 does to the bigger mobs , anything but the pannons.

Also , does anyone know exactly how SE works ? From my testing it seems to be a pct of the mobs HP, so in S missions you'll get the most bang for your buck. But, I can't even do S missions yet on my ranger, so I can't really test anything much else out atm.

If anyone has any info on SE , please do tell. I am totaly new to SE as of yesterday , thanks

Gammik

[Golto]

Yes for dot(damage over time) se's the damage is based target maxhp %.

Burn - dmg every 2 seconds for 10 seconds
Lvl1 - 2% every 2 seconds(total 10%)
Lvl2 - 3% every 2 seconds(total 15%)
Lvl3 - 4% every 2 seconds(total 20%)
Lvl4 - 5% every 2 seconds(total 25%)

Poison (earth) - 2% dmg every 3 seconds
Lvl1 - 12 second duration (total 8%)
Lvl2 - 18 second duration (total 12%)
Lvl3 - 24 second duration (total 16%)
Lvl4 - 30 second duration (total 20%)

Infection (darkness) - 5% dmg every 4 seconds
Lvl1 - 20 second duration (total 25%)
Lvl2 - 24 second duration (total 30%)
Lvl3 - 28 second duration (total 35%)
Lvl4 - 32 second duration (total 40%)

For monsters that take a long time to kill I like using the dark bullet. Plus you can freeze an enemy while they are infected but you can't if they are burned. Very few things are immune to infect also.

[Jey]

Also, SE4 is required to land status effects on minibosses (like SEED Vances, Gol Dova, Svaltus etc.)

I could have sworn Burn started from 3% damage, but i don't remember.

[Golto]

Rifle bullets start at SE lvl 2 so maybe thats why you noticed 3%. You can hit some of those 'big' type monsters with lvl 3 SE but it is very rare.

[DonRoyale]

On 2007-03-02 19:56, Golto wrote:
Rifle bullets start at SE lvl 2 so maybe thats why you noticed 3%. You can hit some of those 'big' type monsters with lvl 3 SE but it is very rare.

I've set a Tengogh on fire with SE3 Burn, so it's possible.

[amtalx]

Does the SE lvl increase the chance to infect or just the damage?

[Randomness]

Just the effects, I think. Chance to land is based off stats and weapon type, I believe.

[Sgt_Shligger]

It does go up.