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Tidebinder deals 285-425 Water damage at Slow Attack speed. Combine with the intelligence minimum of 80 and the subsequent boost from it averaging +10, the assumed 90 intel actually makes it deal 458-683 damage. Of course, it is more based around spells, so the -10% damage boost brings that down slightly to 412-615, but that is still a quite good amount of damage, and the Slow attack speed gives it knockback that is useful for keeping enemies off you. Along with the boost to Health Regen, Agility, and the massive 20% Fire Defense and 70% Water Defense boosts, but a massive 70% reduction to the Warrior's main spell element, Earth, means you really do lose a fair amount of spell effectiveness from the main offensive spells, forcing a sort of turtling approach. It is great when combined with other defensive items.

Idol is somewhat more offensively inclined, dealing 310-360 damage at Normal Attack speed, already generally higher than Tidebinder, but with its hefty required intel of 120 and average intel boost putting that up to 140, it's getting a hefty 78.2% boost to its damage, putting it up to 552-642 damage per hit. While it does not give as many boosts as Tidebinder, and Tidebinder's defensive boosts utterly dwarf Idol's, Idol has no negative effects, which keeps its damage high and does not give the significant thunder weakness that Tidebinder does. It also gives a massive 25% SP Regen boost, and slightly more Reflection. The 250 raw spell damage is especially useful with Uppercut and War Scream, as that is a blanket +250 damage to each hit which means you rack up damage with the multi-hitting moves much faster than you can with Tidebinder.

In conclusion, I would have to say go Tidebinder for a defensive approach and Idol for an offensive.

 

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i understand now why its still very good :D

 

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