Tonfas VS Eagles: A Breakdown

With a few recent updates, knuckles have gotten a little bit of much deserved love. Though we are still missing out on a lot of love, like an abusive relationship, this gives the knuckle user a little bit of hope. Though in time, we will most likely be let down again.

Master Tonfas and Twin Eagles make the knuckles feasible damage dealers. I will be comparing these two knucks to each other in their strengths and weaknesses.

Tonfas: These knucks are a number vultures blessing. 320 Base Damage means you can get at LEAST 1055 Damage at Plus S to your attack. It's apparent why this knuck is so damn beautiful. This is an easy way for an average knuck user to break 2K attack without breaking the bank. You can get it to Plus B and still break 2k. On top of the huge Base Damage, you are also gifted with an extraordinary 6% Atk, 24 CD and 100% Additional Melee (An often overlooked attribute). However, it comes with a huge downside, -100% Crit rate. Now, this isn't really too big of a deal. There are ways around it, by spending a f***Ton of spina and getting 100% Crit via gear and avas, or taking the easy route and using Meikyo (Or even Berserker).

Pros:
-Best base Damage and probably best damage of any knuckle for a long time
-You can hit through high defense boss monsters. (No more 1 and 2 damage vs nightmare and ulti bosses)
-Your Burst hits will really hurt the enemy now

Cons:
-Impact isn't something you can functionally use unless you are super rich and can get all that crit from gear (Note 2 slot items everywhere)
-Ampr becomes difficult. Unless you have 100% Crit from gear, Ampr and Auto Attack become unreliable to hit bosses
-100% Crit means you are pretty gear locked to a certain set of items
i. Meikyo + Berserker -> You'll need 35% Crit from Gear and Passives, so you're locked to Shaved Ice and Gespent + Passive to customize your Armor and Special
Combo 110% -> Starter + Berserker (Save) + Meikyo (consec) + Chariot (Smite) + Ender
After berserk Combo 150% -> Meikyo + Chariot (Smite) + Ender
If you go this route, you're going to drop in your stability

ii. Meikyo -> You'll need 60% Crit from Gear and Passives, so you're locked to FC 17, Shaved Ice, Bexiz, Passive
Combo 150% -> Meikyo + Chariot + Ender
If you go this route, you're very gear locked
iii. Megiston + Vulcan Shield/Empress dagger + FC 17 + Shaved Ice + Gespent + Bexiz + Passive -> 15 + 12 + 21 + 20 + 30 + 5 + 5 + Avas
Whatever combo you want
More Expensive, Locked to Shield or Empress Dagger subs, Must have Exact Gear


Recommended Stat Allocation: Agi > Str > Vit
Make use of all that base damage by getting CRIT damage and more stability. Throw vit on there to survive as needed.

Recommended Play style: Tonfas + MD
Using the Meikyo Set up, Tonfa + MD takes away the need to AMPR and gives you at least neutral proration (Positive proration with ether flare ender)
This set up arguably will bring out the best potential on Knucks. Stack up 2k MP and blast away with rush or chariot.




Eagles: Eagles 100 Crit knucks are AWESOME! They are the knuck experimenters wet dream. You can use any gear set up you want. Any skill set up you want. And you have the comfort of knowing you will hit your target. 100 Crit is equal to 340 STAT points. REMEMBER THAT. That's Huge. You can now put those stat points elsewhere and target that gear elsewhere.

Pros:
-Decent Base Damage. You can get at least 567 Base Damage at +S. But if you notice, Tonfa at Plus S Gives roughly 500 more at LEAST. That's a lot of base attack to make up for.
-It is easy to attack crit resistant bosses. As Toram introduces more anti melee bosses and becomes more finale online, 125 Crit at all times is awesome.
-You are not landlocked to a required skill (Meikyo, Berserker) or a required gear set (Shaved Ice)

Cons:
-Not as much damage as Tonfas by a huge amount
-You will need to roughly do 50% more Combos to get the same amount of dmg as tonfa.

Recommended Stat Allocation: Agi > Str > Vit
Since you're not getting as huge of a damage boost, I'd even argue go more into the vit side and make yourself a reliable secondary tank and secondary dps. Str obviously if you wanna deal more damage.

Recommended Play style: Eagle + Any Sub
That's the beauty of eagles. You can use these pretty equally with all subs. I'm biased and still think MDs are the best subs for knucks right now. But if you're really looking to brawl, get up close with a shield and grab PDef. If you wanna get more risky, grab GSW too and rock all that beautiful motion speed and get good at pdefing.
Personally Daggers are my least favorite sub. Arrows are wonderful to do double smite combos with though since you have arm break.

 

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Btw, i affectionately prefer to call them 'Tweagles'