As i saw your question in the “players helping other players” section and as i remembered never having truly answered to Nuria 's request :
i decided to give it a proper testing session.
if you’re not interested in the process and results analyse, you can directly skip my whole paragraph to the conclusion that i will write at the end of this post.
Do bonus statistics coming from special weapons and armors sets have an impact on your thralls damage output?
First if we want to answer this question, we have to make sure that these bonus stats are trully taken into consideration when equiped and overall when fighting ennemies.
So i decided to test it first on my character (she has 40 points into strenght)
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naked with an obsidian 1 H sword (50 base dmg + 6% armor pen)… i need 15 light attacks FULL COMBO hits to kill the elk king and only 10 heavy attacks FULL COMBO hits.
note that if you don’t use a full combo chain, you will do less dmg. -
geared with a full dafari set and the legendary 1 H sword Khostal Khel scourge (sorry for the wonky translation into english) (50 base dmg + 9% armor pen and total strenght bonus 14, meaning theorically 28% damage bonus)… i need 13 light attacks full combo hits and only 9 heavy attacks full combo hits .
the difference is more noticeable if you only use random regular attacks (without combo chain)
So conclusion: although the impact is not as strong as i was expecting it really seems to be working. Bonus stats do affect your character’s damage output.
Now let’s apply this to a thrall:
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A naked berserker with an obsidian 1H sword will need either 12 or 13 hits to kill the elk king
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a fully equiped berserker with dafari armors pieces and the legendary 1 H sword Khostal Khel scourge will need either 12 or 13 swings to kill the dame ennemy.
For me these results were enough to not test the accuracy bonus since i assume it works exactly the same way. If someone has the opportunity to test it please come and share your results but i am 99% sure the conclusion will be the same : Stats bonus from special equipement have NO EFFECT on the thralls damage output
note by the way that a berserker cimmerian is about as strong as my character with 40 in strenght especially considering that thralls are regulary switching from heavy to light combos moves and they often times do not even finish their combo moves
Other Side note: This test also helped me realize that thralls can make more or less dmg depending on the moves they make with their weapons (light attacks / heavy attacks / combo chain). I didn’t test it in depth yet but i really think it’s the case right now.