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BakusaiTenketsu posted...

So theoretically, Fixed Dice could do 1 damage, it's just the randomness usually had it higher? I guess I just don't understand the variance aspect. It's just a random value between two sets of numbers, right? So the tighter the variance, the more likely you'll hit consistent values, whereas a wider variance gives for a far greater degree of random values. It's more like playing the lottery and hoping for big numbers in that regard?

Think of it as you ignore the weapon and you bamf up your shotgun to spitting out elephant-killing slugs. Maybe cyborg-elephants if it's high end variance.

Variance bumps up the damage output significantly when it gets rolling with 7*.

Yuffie showed why with the dice so the damage formula got nerfed in JP.
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