You guys are super late to the party. +10 system revamp happened forever ago and trust me, Plenty knows.
It has a 2 attack less base and you're typically going to be a Shadower with Str because of the Dragon Khanjar anyway.
Just to note, as I've pointed out in my guide here, the Fishing Pole is not only a viable end game weapon, if you have enough attack gear to go along with it, it is actually the BEST end game weapon for Dark Knights. I'll write a little blurb about it shortly so you can just copy and paste it into your guide.
Guide in for a much needed update. Just super lazy, but I'll be sure to add that once I do get around to updating for sure.
Just going to note the information on the Fishing Pole and the math I had done earlier was actually the incorrect conclusion. This is due to me not realizing a ceiling function is applied to attack delay, which makes the spear significantly slower and therefore less powerful. While it's still true that with enough attack, the Fishing Pole -will- win out, it is not possible in the current state of Royals to get that much attack. Sky Skis, therefore, win for good.
Interesting with the Fishing Pole. Still, I wonder...why isn't Maple Impaler also in there? Is it because it cannot have as much ATT as the Fishing Pole?
After re-reading this thread regarding fishing pole being one of the end game weapon for drk due to attack speed, I got an interesting idea. Instead of using fishing pole, how about pure polearm build with perfect god scrolled purple surfboard and use crusher? Both fishing pole and purple surfboard has 5 speed. Yes I'm aware of the damage penalties of using polearm with thrust attack, but my gut feel is should be on par if not more than a fishing pole since perfect purple surfboard has 32 attack over a perfect fishing pole. I will need to do some calculation when I get home, but if the number make sense I might be making a pure PA drk!
perfect pole does not compare to ski, even if you're only using booster. I'm guessing pa is even worse but I don't know the numbers for that.