Thread: Kamihime General Discussion + Q&A

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was reading somewhere that using auto atk can screw a raid up for others. Not sure why, since I thought all skills are helpful, and should be used asap, as auto does.

Could someone tell me why I shouldn't use it?

some raids (and event fights) now have something called "Triggers". A good example of this is the recent Catastrophe fights where if special conditions are met, the boss will do a special action related to it. And a lot of the catastrophe ones can get very dangerous when dealt with wrong

in fact, Andramelech had two of them. the first is where she does an AoE nuke with a chance of debuffing you (that instant death one) when her HP is below 50%. the other is where applying drowned to her causes her to both remove the debuff AND increase her resistance to getting debuffed (making debuffing her atk and def harder too).

if you just go full auto, you could be doing something like seeing that instant death debuff hit most or even all your team, but you already wasted the ability to remove that debuff and you now have to end the fight in 2 turns or watch people die...

the most common flaw to this is the skills reducing the damage you take or the healing skills going off at the wrong times, wasting them.

plus you're lowering potential damage output as well when using buffs and debuffs that increase your atk power and lowers your enemy's def power. these will likely go out of order, doing way less damage than you should.... (like having herc's damage nuke go off before buffs are applied to raise it's damage).

but keep in mind that there's TWO auto battle functions. using the one which only attacks (auto battle or AB as we call it) isn't an issue, as it'll save your skills. the one that can use your skills as soon as they're ready (Auto Ability Battle or AAB as we call it) is the one that can cause all the problems I mentioned...

unless you can win with AB or you don't have many skills that take priority, it's typically better to just do things manually.... even when it comes to clearing content faster. doing things properly can be the difference between doing normal damage and 6 times the normal damage... or in some cases, it can prevent a fight from either becoming harder or outright wiping out your team