Thread:-Grim- (3UDZET3)/@comment-24.165.39.84-20130322071516/@comment-5849872-20130324044301

well sir or ma'am, you kindof just opened a can of worms by asking me a question about numbers... because I am going to give you an honest answer.

All the %'s you see on the wiki are wrong. They are taken from the Rage of Bahamut Wiki and even when they are used to describe evolutions in RoB they are only about 90% accurate. First, in RoB a max level un-evolved card (90% of the time) has 2.50x the stats of the same base card at level 1. In RoD this is not true (Arawn= 3900 > 6490 = 1.66x, Athena= 2950 > 5930 = 2.01x, Necro Madman= 6100 > 8940 = 1.47x...etc etc) In addition to this, there are also differences in the Evolution power gain, RoB generally follows the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.8 progression. In RoD many of the lower rarity cards also follow that progression, but once you start looking at SR and MR cards more and more of them don't quite fit into that progression. (off the top of my head, i think Genji goes from 1.0 to 1.5x in the first evolution, and there are others)

So, generally speaking, Most RoD cards dont grow in power as much with max enhancement as cards in RoB do, and many RoD cards grow MORE in power with evolution than RoB cards do. This means that all those 96.629% numbers you see peopl post are actually Low estimates when comparing 4-7 to 4-3. (MORE ABOUT THIS IN A MINUTE)

The best thing I can say then is just to think long and hard about the 10% rule. If the two cards you are about to combine have 10000 ATK at max level, then the card you make will have an extra 2000 ATK from them. BUT if you didn't max level them and they had only 6000 ATK at level 1, you would still have gotten 6000 * 0.05 * 2 = 600 ATK. So in that situation you only actually GAINED 1400 ATK when most people would say you gained 2000. If that card you just made is not the final card, then you are only actually carrying forward a % of that ATK benefit.

So in your 4-3 evolution you really aren't losing big chunks of power because you are skipping out on the Least Contributing stages and only enhancing the Most Contributing stages. In addition, you are not losing "Everything" from those stages, because in the example above, you still took 600 ATK forward, which wil add another 60 (10% of the original value) to your final card vs. the 200 gained by the guy who did a 4-7.

The flip side of this is that because many RoD cards tend to gain more from evolution than RoB cards... there are slightly larger differences between 4 card evolutions and 6 or 8 card evolutions than the numbers people quote say that there should be. Instead of percentages I will simply tell you that the difference between a 4-3 and 4-7 is going to be maybe 60 ATK for cards that top out under 10,000 ATK... and more like 120 ATK when you start talking about MRs with 17,000 ATK.