In anticipation of the 13.3 patch, I was excited to finally card my Tatacho Card into a shield. You see, I was under the impression that the in-game description of the card was incorrect:
On other RO servers, the card actually gives a 20% resistance/5% more damage to EARTH property monsters.
So, upon carding it, I ran to do some quick tests.
The first of which is on Bradium Golems/Tatacho- EARTH property monsters.
This first screenshot is of my +7 Hodremlin Bradium Shield:
This second screenshot is of my +7 Tatacho Shield:
As can be seen I take MORE damage from them upon switching shields.
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The second test I did was on Ridewords, a NEUTRAL property monster.
Again, first screenshot of my +7 Hodremlin Bradium Shield:
And second screenshot of +7 Tatacho Shield:
So it would seem that the card does actually give you less damage from Neutral Monsters (aside from a couple outliers in the 2nd screen). While this isn't necessarily a BAD thing, it was not what I was expecting. I was expecting another shield choice for Scaraba Hole dungeon aside from Bigfoot.
Because the description of this card is highly debatable, I would like to suggest that the card be made to defend against EARTH rather than NEUTRAL. I did a little snooping on the internet via google, and found this to be the correction:
bonus2 bSubEle,Ele_Earth,20; bonus2 bAddEle,Ele_Earth,5;
Given the other new world cards that have similar descriptions (i.e. Cornus [HOLY], Luciola Vespa [WIND], Centipede [POISON], Dark Shadow [SHADOW], Draco [FIRE], Aqua Elemental [WATER]), it only makes sense that Tatacho be of an actual element as well.
Edited by Snewt, 12 July 2011 - 08:29 PM.