Matk vs Mdef Piercing Guide

[azurerogue]

Overall not a bad comparison but there's a couple of problems. You state that MDEF Piercing also works on soft MDEF but that it's not significant. It might be less significant for Storm Gust (which uses a 500% multiplies) but for Meteor Storm or Bolts (for Professors) soft MDEF can be a real pain considering some monsters 200+ INT. A monster with 50 MDEF and 200 INT will require 401 MATK to even hit for damage while a monster with 50 MDEF and 100 INT will only require 201 MATK. Thus, I think if you're going to compare raw MATK increases versus MDEF Piercing you should take soft MDEF into account as well.

Furthermore, as I began to point out above, MDEF piercing tends to get better with smaller % increasing attacks. Bolts are a perfect example since each individual bolt is subjected to hard/soft MDEF. In the case of bolts (or meteor storm which also uses individual calculations for each hit) MDEF piercing becomes pretty important pretty fast. For spells like Storm Gust (or amped Storm Gust) you can kind of just bowl over the enemies soft MDEF so it's not as noticeable.

Just some thoughts.