"Trade Intelligence for base damage?"
Zong Shen frowned slightly, but after giving it some thought, he understood.
This thing was equipment that granted slaughter-based bonuses.
As long as the target killed while wearing the feathered hat was above Overlord Grade, it would increase base damage by 0.01.
Killing Epic-grade targets would grant 0.05 points instead.
It did not seem like much, but the resulting boost to final damage was actually quite significant.
The Lord System used a fairly straightforward formula to calculate damage.
It was mainly affected by attributes such as [Strength], [Weapon Type Proficiency], and [Power Strike].
The largest factor among them was [Strength].
That was easy enough to understand—the greater one's strength, the more powerful one's slashes would be.
However, [Strength] bonuses had certain multiplier thresholds depending on one's tier.
Still, once the attribute was fully stacked, it could easily be amplified by two or three hundred times.
Taking a 200x multiplier as an example, 0.01 points of base damage could become 20 points after amplification.
So, do not underestimate that mere 0.01 point. The actual benefit was far greater than it appeared.
And for the current Zong Shen, killing Overlord-grade enemies was as easy as slaughtering chickens.
If he were on some large battlefield, Overlords would be everywhere, with Epic-grade enemies roaming all over the place.
However, this bonus did not come without a cost.
He had to sacrifice his own [Intelligence]. For every 0.01 base damage gained, he would lose 0.1 [Intelligence]. To gain 100 points of base damage, he had to be prepared to lose 1,000 points of [Intelligence].
How to weigh that trade-off was up to Zong himself.
Following the path of brute force producing miracles, this [Feathered Hat of the Lord of Slaughter (Special)] was undoubtedly a good item. In any case, he