Thread: Kamihime General Discussion + Q&A

I find it pretty hilarious that somehow no one has brought up the new SSR Bastet yet in this whole thing, when basically that's all she does (darkness/cut/barrier/damage buff) and with pretty good cooldowns/uptimes too. Because let's face it, while those are nice and all, it's just not enough to really help dark.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I find it pretty hilarious that somehow no one has brought up the new SSR Bastet yet in this whole thing, when basically that's all she does (darkness/cut/barrier/damage buff) and with pretty good cooldowns/uptimes too. Because let's face it, while those are nice and all, it's just not enough to really help dark.

Not saying that she isn't one but there's some issues with Bastet: Her parameters from her abilities are very low.

Her abi1 blind is quite weak in both accuracy and proc rate, prolly SR tier even. Dmg wise it only does 2.5x dmg.
Her abi2, 1500 Barrier aside, is a mere 15% Light cut. Also barely helpful, especially against Lv90 Light who just pretty much rip through your defenses.
Finally, her abi3, the boost from it is also.... barely noticeable unless you are at very very critical health, a state which ideally you wouldn't wanna be in especially when a whole bunch of stronger Dark himes requires eating HP for their skills.

The only thing Bastet has going for her is her passive 5% Assault 10% HP boost to your team just by being on the team. If you take another look at her skills, you'd notice all of them are to help you slightly in bailing you from / delaying your wipe when you start losing members. She's basically designed completely with the mindset that she'd be subbed.

The verdict is, for a team player, she definitely does the job. But whether she is somebody I'd run as a key player on the front.... Eh, I'm not too sure.

Originally Posted by Unregistered No.51

Not saying that she isn't one but there's some issues with Bastet: Her parameters from her abilities are very low.

Her abi1 blind is quite weak in both accuracy and proc rate, prolly SR tier even. Dmg wise it only does 2.5x dmg.
Her abi2, 1500 Barrier aside, is a mere 15% Light cut. Also barely helpful, especially against Lv90 Light who just pretty much rip through your defenses.
Finally, her abi3, the boost from it is also.... barely noticeable unless you are at very very critical health, a state which ideally you wouldn't wanna be in especially when a whole bunch of stronger Dark himes requires eating HP for their skills.

The only thing Bastet has going for her is her passive 5% Assault 10% HP boost to your team just by being on the team. If you take another look at her skills, you'd notice all of them are to help you slightly in bailing you from / delaying your wipe when you start losing members. She's basically designed completely with the mindset that she'd be subbed.

The verdict is, for a team player, she definitely does the job. But whether she is somebody I'd run as a key player on the front.... Eh, I'm not too sure.

Just adding something that slipped my mind in previous post, her Dark dmg buff is from burst, being extra frame (weapon/summoning active) clashes with Kaiser buff.

She did very recently got a rebalance on DMM, giving her an extra 'Endurance(?)' buff to her abi3 which is a Def version of Pride, further reinstating her role as a sub + bail unit.

Originally Posted by Slashley

Honestly, the biggest difference comes from Pluto's self-buffs and the fact that she's SSR which gives her the way higher base burst modifier. Again, not what I'd call a team player just because she has one ability which is capable of boosting a team, and probably not even every burst cycle.

I think you are really underestimating damage boost from attack buff. It should be around 15-20% more damage, that's definitely not negligible. And what the fuck with "one ability", which one are you counting ? Or better question: which one you don't ? Damage cut or damage buff ? I don't care what you think about "50% damage cut with terrible up-time", but this shitty skill can give you two or three turns (or even more), which may or may not be game changer.
Also, for goddamns sake, you have Kamihime with two party wide buffs (both quite strong) and said Kamihime also can keep up with rest of team when it comes to FB, how can you not call this "team player" ? She may be good, she may be bad, but that completely doesn't matter when it comes to calling someone "team player".

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

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And with regards to Pluto's point. We've been repeatedly saying that we don't really care how good Pluto's team playing is with respect to other himes. She is the only relevant dark SSR capable of team playing. --

Originally Posted by Gludateton

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Also, for goddamns sake, you have Kamihime with two party wide buffs (both quite strong) and said Kamihime also can keep up with rest of team when it comes to FB, how can you not call this "team player" ? She may be good, she may be bad, but that completely doesn't matter when it comes to calling someone "team player".

I guess we simply entirely agree on the definition of a team player ￣\_(ツ)_/￣

My view on it is probably just entirely twisted as a person who absolutely loves pure support builds in MMOs that cannot do anything for themselves - something that seems entirely extinct these days. Somebody who doesn't contribute through their own damage, but earn their spot through boosting the everliving shit out of the rest of players DPS, now that's a team player *cough*Light Nike*cough*. Not something retarded that you find in today's MMOs, who carries their share of the damage AND just happens to have a party related booster. That's not a support build, that's just a DPS build who was given a party booster by the devs to make it more appealing. Pluto is part of the latter, and I just reject such a definition.

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In other news, I really shouldn't post that sleep deprived. Christ, with zero context on what those numbers are built around makes them completely pointless.

Originally Posted by Slashley

but earn their spot through boosting the everliving shit out of the rest of players DPS

Except that light nike has no place on proper light teams kappa.

If we look at the perfect ultra-whale teams, or the "only spend MTs on Light ever" teams that lag a bit behind, yeah, true. But as somebody pointed out, the perfect Light team has no place for monsters when it's full of gods.

However, as we're leaning more and more towards "play with elemental advantage," how much can we expect everyone to have the perfect team? When the game was new, we could expect that players would have one perfect or near-perfect team thanks to just one/two MTs giving you your element's hard carries. Nowadays, does that apply?

But since "just throw Light at it" meme is about to get very serious for the next year, do we start to expect that everyone is MTing for the perfect Light teams?

At the very least, I don't think that we can start assuming that everyone has the perfect team for every element. There are players like that, but focusing discussion purely on such a premise doesn't seem productive.

Originally Posted by Slashley

If we look at the perfect ultra-whale teams, or the "only spend MTs on Light ever" teams that lag a bit behind, yeah, true. But as somebody pointed out, the perfect Light team has no place for monsters when it's full of gods.

However, as we're leaning more and more towards "play with elemental advantage," how much can we expect everyone to have the perfect team? When the game was new, we could expect that players would have one perfect or near-perfect team thanks to just one/two MTs giving you your element's hard carries. Nowadays, does that apply?

But since "just throw Light at it" meme is about to get very serious for the next year, do we start to expect that everyone is MTing for the perfect Light teams?

At the very least, I don't think that we can start assuming that everyone has the perfect team for every element. There are players like that, but focusing discussion purely on such a premise doesn't seem productive.

Light teams that you can mix and match pretty flexibly, and obtainable at any time is too whale... but having a limited edition light Nike isn't too whale?

I don't follow the logic here. The whole point of the light argument back then wasn't just to show how light Nike doesn't fit into a good light team... it's also to highlight there are several perfect light teams, none of them involving light Nike.

And besides, we were talking about... dark. Light Nike doesn't make or break the element like Pluto does.

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

-- but having a limited edition light Nike isn't too whale?

I never said that everyone should be expected to have a Light Nike.

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

I don't follow the logic here. The whole point of the light argument back then wasn't just to show how light Nike doesn't fit into a good light team... it's also to highlight there are several perfect light teams, none of them involving light Nike.

Well, example my Light team is Sol, Shamash and Frey. What perfect mix and match Light team do I get?

Again, I don't think we should expect everyone to have a perfect team in every element, no matter how much you want to mix and match.

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

Light Nike doesn't make or break the element like Pluto does.

And I don't see how Pluto literally makes Dark. She does her own thing and does alright in it. Many other Dark SSRs do the same.

Unless (true) Light Rag has seven bubbles, I simply don't know why having Pluto or not would make or break anything.

Originally Posted by Slashley

I never said that everyone should be expected to have a Light Nike.Well, example my Light team is Sol, Shamash and Frey. What perfect mix and match Light team do I get?

Again, I don't think we should expect everyone to have a perfect team in every element, no matter how much you want to mix and match.

Well then that argument just stifles any discussion at all. No point in discussing the light meta if you're going to be using your own hime pool as a comparison.

Pluto

The points have been there all along. No, really, I'm asking you to find another dark hime that does 50% cut, has decent DATA and burst dmg, supports FB spike damage the way Pluto does in a single hime. I'm serious. The only other hime that comes close to doing that is Agaliarept with her analysis stacks, but that is even more anti-light focused than Pluto is. What you're looking at is Pluto herself, I need you to look at dark as a whole.