Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-5922049-20130702231005/@comment-6011882-20130705061852

@Acnotalpha no problem, I'm just actually basing my assesment on both my own experience and the advice of a few guildmates of mine, one of whom is top 10 on Android in the current raid. Basically, it's like this:  Raid is all about the bonus you get from you raid cards. Efficiency matters, sure, but raid skill matters MORE! In any given raid event, the highest ATK card in the game doesn't hold a candle to the weakest atk/pwr raid card at skill 10. Now, if you have UR raid cards at skill 4 or less, a solid high pwr/atk non-raid card is going to give you more bang for your buck, but once your raid cards get higher skills than that, it's no contest in the long run. And a skill 9-10 card is going to completely crush what any other card can do over the course of an event. Trust me, I have been advised by some quality raid players and have spent the time sitting through individual raid attacks, and I know that when I "skip" and see that my line has done 30k more damage than I expected, I think to myself  "Yep, Lena (SK 9) fired early.  :)"  And when it comes to raid rares, mathematically, their bonus means nothing.  Any raid rare in the game serves a better purpose being used as a feeder to skill up a raid UR than to try to use it to get effective damage bonuses.  Pay the 20 PP for a PM Abe and do your damage that way.