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1 Star crumb = +5 seeking damage
2 Star crumbs = +10 seeking damage
3 Star crumbs (which means no element) = +40 seeking damage
If the weapon being forged by a ranker = +10 seeking damage
Making ranked VVS do 20 seeking damage and VVVS do 50
Seeking damage is non-elemental and it always strikes, even if your hit misses. That's what makes it useful. Even works on ghosts.
However, adding a star crumb to a forge attempt lowers your forging success rate by 15%. If you have proper stats/JL70, good forging equips (excluding god items), buffs, and stat foods you can have ~55% success rate making a VVS Elemental.
The trouble with a near 50/50 chance is that you can have quite a few failures before it works, and some weapons are incredibly costly in resources to make. You can easily end up forging at a net loss. No idea what ores are worth now, but they were getting crazyexpensive at some point, which is counterproductive for forging because just pricing them to break even makes the weapons a little too expensive for new players who would use them instead of cards.
For this reason, non-VVS weaponry is a good cheap alternative for those who can't afford it. The success rate is more around 85%, meaning you can sell it for less. If you're ranked, it has +10 seeking damage. That extra damage bump might be what you need, but some would rather save their money and get the weapons sooner so they can kill monsters and (in some cases) be done using the weapon in a matter of hours. If you want easy ranker points to get ranked, save your VVS elementals for Fists, since they only cost 4 oridecon to make (...as far as un-purchasable resources go. You need 10 rubies too along with hammers, crumbs, and elemental stones, but those are easily obtained via NPC/relatively cheaper and abundant in availability.) If you've got excess resources, make some VVS elementals to sell for a sizable fee. Also, charge more than I did, cuz that was nuts.
stilldeadthoughandkeepingmyresolutiontonotplaythegameisriggedanyway
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ohgod he's right it was
+30% success rate. I'm getting rusty.
