Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-182.178.81.77-20131126134942/@comment-24082596-20131126170855

Disclaimer: people are going to disagree with my numbers but they've worked for me so take that as you will...

Assume a 40-50% activation rate for raid skills - experimentally, this has been the case for the last raid event where I experimented with my Amara/Ninlil/Loki.

If you do the math with an assumed 40-50% activation rate, you're not going to proc all 3 skills most of the time (the max comes out to be 12.5%, going by a 50% activation rate).

But by the same logic, you can expect your raid skills to go off 9 times out of 10 if you go with 3 raid cards, which is reasonable enough. Your chances don't get a ton better if you add another raid card to the mix. So the conclusion is that yes, 3 raid cards is probably the best way to go, but 5 cards is definitely overkill since you're losing out on a lot of consistency there. The marginal probability increase of the 4th or 5th card just isn't worth the loss of consistent damage.

An obvious addendum would be to have the current raid skill card and at sk10/12 for best results.