"Powerful" on iridium pickaxe

[Nachomik]

My iridium pickaxe is enchanted with powerful, but there is no actual change. It still needs 3 strikes for boulders, 2 for gold and diamond nodes, 3 for iridium nodes, etc. I haven't tried it in Volcano dungeon. Is it a bug or normal?

 

[Shart]

Without powerful enchantment, you need 4 hits to destroy iridium nodes. With it, you only need 3.
That's the only difference that I can recall, maybe there's something else.

 

[imnvs]

I believe, alongside iridium nodes, that cinder shard nodes are also take one less strike to break... but that's about it.

For that reason I find "powerful" to be a useless enchantment once you get to iridium. I'd much rather have "efficient" and spend no energy.

 

[Hoots711]

I believe, alongside iridium nodes, that cinder shard nodes are also take one less strike to break... but that's about it.

For that reason I find "powerful" to be a useless enchantment once you get to iridium. I'd much rather have "efficient" and spend no energy.

One bite of food pretty much negates all energy loss in a day. I guess neither one is that great. I need to reconsider if its worth the shards to roll the pick axe.

 

[imnvs]

One bite of food pretty much negates all energy loss in a day. I guess neither one is that great. I need to reconsider if its worth the shards to roll the pick axe.

But why use food if you don't need to?

Also, by the time I'm enchanting my pickaxe, if I want a cinder shard or iridium node broken, I attract the attention of a bad guy and kill him next to it while wearing my iridium band/napalm ring. I only use the pickaxe to clear a path for me to keep moving.

 

[Alfyna]

'Powerful' is insanely helpful when trying to reach the 100th floor in either dungeon during quests and even more insanely helpful with the rocks in the volcano, which normally take two hits. I'm never under 100 dishes of pepper poppers at any time -- I've got food to spare. What I don't have to spare is time.

 

[Elenna101]

One bite of food pretty much negates all energy loss in a day. I guess neither one is that great. I need to reconsider if its worth the shards to roll the pick axe.

Also you could get swift, which I personally prefer - less time per hit = more time for other stuff, which I assume is basically what you were trying to achieve with Powerful, if energy isn't an issue for you.

 

[Nachomik]

Thanks to all of you :) Maybe I'll test it during Qi's quest and decide to change it or not.