Key Stats

Offense is what matters in PvE. The only defensive requirement is not dying in one hit, and endgame mechanics increasingly deal fixed damage that ignores your defenses anyway.

Most impactful

Everything worth stacking, best first. Two of these give you more hits rather than bigger ones, which raises your damage just as much but cannot be expressed per percent, so they read n/a.

Stat	Tier	DPS per 1% c	Reason
Smite	S	0.60 – 0.65%	Doubles the hit, and reaches 0.8% once you are already at 50% smite
Combat Speed	S	n/a	More swings per second, so it scales everything else in this table. Take it from every slot that offers it
Weapon Damage Boost	A	0.50 – 0.55%	Multiplies Pure Attack before defense is subtracted
Critical Damage Boost	A	0.40 – 0.60%	Base 50%. The spread is class dependent: the more your damage crits, the higher it sits
Cooldown Reduction	A	n/a	More casts of your best skills. Worth stacking to 33 – 36%, then it becomes filler
Damage Boost	B	0.35%	Every Damage Boost variant lands in one pot that is already at 180 – 200%, so each new point is diluted
Multi-Hit	B	~0.33%	1 – 4 extra hits at 5% each. Good for fast hitters like Sorcerer
Attack (per 10)	C	0.17%	The base everything else multiplies
Perfect	D	0.10%	Forces a max weapon-range roll plus a hidden ~5% on Pure Attack

c Community tested: one extensively measured KR source, cross-checked against a second tested TW source. The ordering is agreed on; the exact percentages are one player's measurements.

Why the two n/a rows have no number. Both move in steps rather than smoothly, so a per-percent rate would be misleading. Combat Speed advances in roughly 3% increments: points between steps do nothing, and the point that crosses a step is worth the whole step. Cooldown reduction rounds up on short cooldowns, so 1% off a 20 second cooldown rounds back to 20 seconds and does nothing at all, while the same 1% off a 60 second cooldown is a real 2 seconds. Neither is less valuable for it.

Ping cuts into Combat Speed. 150 – 200 ms costs 50 – 70% of your damage, measured, across all classes roughly equally.

Perfect is worth less than it looks. Most community guides still chase it. Roll it only where nothing better is on offer.

Class specific tweaks

The order above is close to class agnostic. The exceptions:

Class	Callout
Assassin	Accuracy is near worthless: back attacks cannot be parried, and that is where an assassin lives. Take every point of cooldown reduction available, since Illusive Clone cannot reach full uptime without it
Chanter, Sorcerer	Fast hitters, so Multi-Hit rolls well
Cleric	Needs exactly 34% cooldown reduction for full uptime on Earth Punishment. Condemnation already forces Multi-Hit, so rolling more of it is redundant. The Healing Enhancement passive converts 10% of Attack into healing power, which is why a healer still stacks Attack
Gladiator, Templar	No forced Multi-Hit, so rolled Multi-Hit carries its full value
Ranger	Deadshot already forces Multi-Hit; take Attack over Multi-Hit rolls

Elementalist and Brawler have no exception worth calling out yet: follow the general table above.

Two stats change value with the boss rather than the class. Multi-Hit’s extra hits ignore the target’s defenses c, so it scales up as bosses stack damage tolerance late in a tier. Smite is resisted 30% c by bosses from Dying Dramata’s Nest onward, so its tier above is a ceiling on those fights, not a constant.

c Both community tested. The client confirms Multi-Hit adds up to 4 hits and that Smite Resist exists, but gives no damage share for the extra hits and no boss stat tables, so neither number can be checked against the data.

Attack Formula

Per Kanon’s bible:

[[[(((Pure Attack x Weapon DB) x Multi-Hit x Power Shard) + Attack Bonus)
   x Attack Increase% + PvE Attack + Boss Attack + Species Attack]
  x Skill Coefficient]
 - [(Defense - Penetration) x 0.1]]
x (Damage Boost + PvE DB + Boss DB + Species DB)      <- one additive pot
x Critical DB x Smite x Perfect x Skill Added Damage  <- separate multipliers

Everything on the last row is its own multiplicative bucket, so it compounds against everything you already have. Damage Boost and its variants all share a single additive pot, so a fresh 1% is 1% of a pot that is already enormous. That single structural difference is what sets the order above.

Two consequences worth acting on:

• Attack variants do not get the percentage multipliers. Critical Attack, Back Attack, Front Attack and PvE Attack all sit outside Attack Increase%, so plain Attack beats them once you own any multipliers at all.
• Penetration is weak. In PvE, defense is a flat subtract of 10% of (Defense - Penetration), so a point of Penetration removes a tenth of a point of damage. Attack is strictly better.

Soft caps

Stat	Cap	Measured against	Reached at c
Critical Hit	80%	the target’s Critical Hit Resist	+1,200 over it
Accuracy	80% c	the target’s Evasion	+1,200 over it
Evasion	50%	the attacker’s Accuracy	—

c Community tested, not stated in the client. The client gives the 80% Critical Hit cap and the 50% Evasion cap in its own stat descriptions; it says nothing about an Accuracy cap, and nothing about how many points reach either one.

Accuracy and Critical Hit are reported to run on one shared curve, roughly 6 to 7% per 100 points of difference, with diminishing returns along the way. That comes from one tested source and supersedes the older and more widely repeated “10 points = 1%, cap at 800” model.

Where the points come from

Base attributes give 0.1% per point.

Attribute	Grants
Constitution	HP
Dexterity	Evasion, Block, Critical Hit Resist
Intelligence	Status Effect Chance
Might	Attack
Precision	Accuracy, Critical Hit
Willpower	Status Effect Resist

God stats give 0.2% per point, twice the rate. Only the first of each god’s two effects is usually what you want.

God stat	Deity	Effects	PvE read
Destruction	Zikel	Attack increase · Perfect Resist	Top pick. Raw Attack
Time	Siel	Combat Speed · Smite Resist	Top pick. Combat Speed is S-tier
Wisdom	Lumiel	MP cost reduction · Smite	Smite is the top offensive stat
Illusion	Kaisinel	Cooldown reduction · Endurance Penetration	Take early, until you clear 33 – 36% CDR
Death	Triniel	Critical Hit increase · Regeneration Penetration	Useful while you are short of the crit cap
Freedom	Vaizel	Accuracy · Evasion	Useful while you are short of the accuracy cap
Justice	Nezekan	Defense · Perfect Chance	Both halves are low value in PvE
Life	Yustiel	HP · Regeneration chance	Survival only
Space	Israphel	Move Speed · Block	Quality of life
Destiny	Marchutan	MP · Endurance	Lowest value

The practical ordering for bracelets, which always roll god stats, is Destruction > Wisdom > Illusion > Time, with Freedom and Death as cap fillers and Justice replacing them once you are capped.

Where these stats come from in practice: Soul Binding rolls them per slot, manastones add them to weapons and armor, and enhance and exceed raise the base the multipliers work on.

Not live at Global launch: Front/Back Attack Damage Boost sits second on the KR order at 0.57 – 0.65% and has its own multiplicative bucket, which is why ranged classes stack it there too. It arrives with the level 50 chapter. Ignore it until then.