Quote Originally Posted by Mraktar View Post
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As long as you put the effort into leveling your weapon grids, you can often just power through regular content enough to complete events, especially with a 100% eidolon. The only times you really need to worry about thunder's lack of healer weakness is in prolonged higher difficulty type battles, which in our current case is something like the Ragnarok raids, accessory quests and maybe high level union bosses, with 2 of these not even requiring to be solo.

In those cases of not having healers, you can always use a healer soul. D'art with her gun is a great soul for thunder teams but if you can clear a certain stage using a healer soul with regular sniper shot, then there's no reason not too. There's no need to tunnel yourself into thinking you can only use D'art. Although don't expect to complete future content like rank 5 accessory quests with a budget team like you can most of our current content. For the more difficult content, various specific himes are likely required and for thunder, many of them are SSRs, which makes thunder rather 'expensive' and not recommended for free players.

As for your points:
'b' isn't that important since you can just use someone who isn't a friend.

For 'd', trying to get Mammon with jewels and tickets, unless you're willing to put in 50 USDs for a miracle ticket, it shouldn't be a factor. Especially since you said you're a free player. There is no telling what you will get and in the case you don't get her or any essential thunder himes for the matter, this change would have been meaningless.

'e' seems to be the only redeeming factor in all this, as a free player. While a single SR thunder healer raid hime doesn't mean you should just down right swap over to a newly rerolled account with Kirin that has nothing else of value, the SR thunder healer hime is at least guaranteed and a good unit.