Increasing Your Atk Power at Castle In The Sky - Flying Skateboard Treasure

One of my previous posts dispelling some of the confusion with ranger attack power and damage per second brought on an interesting discussion from one of my readers, ferro. The treasure from the Castle in the Sky area is a Flying Skateboard, which increases ranger attack power. But exactly how much does this treasure benefit attack? Since the game never likes to put actual numbers on anything, here's how we broke it down.

If you're not interested in math, the conclusion is that the Flying Skateboard increases ranger attack by approximately 45%. That's huge, so definitely make it a priority to farm all your treasure pieces in the zone. In fact, if you are having trouble with Stage 108, I'd encourage you to farm stages 99, 101 and 105 for all the pieces.

For my illustration of how we calculated this 45% increase, I began with two maxed out level 60 Sindy. Sindy's profile states her DPS (damage per second) is 17488. Sindy's attack speed is Very Fast, and she hits about once per 1.2 seconds. From this we can figure out that each one of Sindy's arrows hit for approximately 20985 damage as base damage.

Stage 25 tower after 1 hit - No Treasure

I took Sindy to Stage 25 where the enemy tower health is 90,000 HP. A single hit from her showed that her damage was 21569, which is pretty close to what we predicted. 

Stage 25 tower after 1 hit - 100% Treasure

The above pic is damage from Sindy in the same stage, but this time with 100% of the Flying Skateboard treasure acquired. Her damage from a single hit was 31373, which is 9804 higher than previously. 

A difference of 9804 damage is about a 45.454% increase between having treasure and not having treasure. Sindy's true DPS with full treasure benefit is 25437 (assuming from the math that she does 1.23336 hits per second). If you compare that to the no-treasure profile stat of 17488 DPS, it reflects also that it is a 45.45% increase of DPS. Ferro did his own experiment with a level 60 Ellin and arrived at the same result.

45% is a significant amount of DPS increase. The first time I cleared Stage 108, it was pretty much down to the wire. The second time I went back to Stage 108 after acquiring all the treasures, it felt much, much easier. I'd guess about 45% easier :) Is it worth farming for? In my opinion, absolutely. Grab your Friends, grab your Items. It's time to buckle down and farm this zone.

Section one 3 stars. We have one of her wings. Uh oh. I heard ducks like both their wings...

Section two 3 stars. And Section three is a wooden wheel [1 star], then a cart wheel [2 star], then a tire of some sort [3 star].  

Umm. We keep finding Sally's stuff. Are we even going to find her alive at the end of this adventure?! We keep trying but Sally's never at the end of the zone...