Thread: Kamihime General Discussion + Q&A

Originally Posted by toastedsnow

I have 122 regalia, the product of ~4 months of filthy casul play. Should I invest in Shingen's spear or Hercules' axe?

Slashley's 'Which soul should I use' is a really great breakdown on the pros and cons for all souls. Bear's points are also valid on effort required and team level capability being considerations required when picking a soul. Most of the relevant information you need to make a decision is available on the forum; you might have to hunt a bit for it.

Rather than get into the middle of the debate and outright tell you what to do (without seeing your Hime and Grid list and knowing your level of play it's very generic), I'd rather just give you some color on what I did for most of my grids. As I was trying to elevate my grids from about 40k to 50k, I started using Hercules with her Axe. It's a solid choice and if you open up completely gives you -25% DEF which is really useful. Nearly all of my elements (light being the exception) have a MLB Herc Axe as I was getting a lot of bang for my buck. At around 50k I hit a brick wall and now require phantom weapons to move past that level. The phantom axe is a sub-par choice, while the phantom lance is an excellent choice. In my current game of trying to get all teams to 60k attack and above, I've found the need to invest in a full suite of Shingen Lances with all teams running her. I am in the process of farming approximately another 300 or so regalia across elements to max out her lance 4 more times (Dark and Light are fully maxed). It would be a pain, but I'm almost able to solo all Ultimates (Water is still a pain) and so it's just a matter of time. If I focused it take me 15 days... but I can't so it'll probably take longer. Even with planning... you still might end up in my situation...


Dejnov.

Originally Posted by Dejnov

-- The phantom axe is a sub-par choice, while the phantom lance is an excellent choice. In my current game of trying to get all teams to 60k attack and above, I've found the need to invest in a full suite of Shingen Lances with all teams running her. I am in the process of farming approximately another 300 or so regalia across elements to max out her lance 4 more times (Dark and Light are fully maxed).--

Are you trying to force a Lance Grid in all elements...?

Originally Posted by Slashley

Are you trying to force a Lance Grid in all elements...?

Unfortunately... yes. It's not my preferred choice or one I'd recommend, but I do have a phantom lance and no phantom hammer. For Light, Thunder, and Fire it's straightforward and it makes perfect sense to run a Lance grid. For Dark the preferred choice is a hammer grid, but I do have two Chernobog Lances, Shingen's, Apocalypse, and an assault SR lance that makes it viable. It's actually not that bad and has been working out fairly well.

For Water and Wind I'm basically fucked. I wasn't playing (or in a strong union) for the majority of Water Union Events and so I'm deficient in either Bows or Glaives (3 or 4 each). I could do a Bow or Glaive option, but I'd need a soul's weapon to complete the needed 5. I also have to use a single off-element lance (for now) as I hunt for one more water lance (Gib Shiva!!). For Wind it's just shitty. I have 5 swords and a phantom sword, but that's a less than optimal option for a phantom weapon. I do have 3 Lances now (Shingen's, CuChu's and Odin's) but I do have to use two off element Lances. This is my worst phantom grid as it drops my assault by about 3-6% while giving me about 25-30% health (CuChu's lance isn't skill leveled yet). That's not a great trade-off, but it isn't shitty either. The Garuda Event will give me defender SR lances (which I can Eidolon Orb) to complete an on-element grid, but it still may not be worth it. I tried that initially with the water grid and it's just better to go with an off-element lance than to use the defender lance in your grid. It does allow me to run 4 offensive oriented himes and no healer for the majority of content with the wind team.

Having one of the 5 lances (or any weapon) be a soul's weapon to make a phantom grid has really helped build all my grids (even the shitty ones). It's usually easy to find your self with 1 or 2 weapons of any type and with Union Events/Hime weapons you usually will find yourself with three of a single type. Then it's one sub-optimum (or gacha luck) drop to complete the grid with the requisite soul weapon. If the phantom axe had assault, I'd have stuck with Herc for the majority of my elements. Since phantom axe isn't an option, the only other phantom weapon I need is the hammer and that's only for Dark. The gain would be marginal though as I've got a full assault lance grid already. (I'd be able to swap the SR assault lance for an SSR assault hammer and zero LBed Chernobog spears for MLBed SSR Hammers... shrug.)


Dejnov.

Originally Posted by Dejnov

Unfortunately... yes. --

I mean, if you CAN make it work, then great. Good for you.

But the problem is, most of the time you just CAN'T make it work. Because:

Originally Posted by Dejnov

-- The Garuda Event will give me defender SR lances (which I can Eidolon Orb) to complete an on-element grid, but it still may not be worth it.--

This just isn't worth it. You're paying for damage in order to get damage, so your actual gain is... pretty much nothing. If you can make do with ONE pure Defender Lance, you MIGHT end up +-0 in damage output but gain some extra HP. In which case it is technically a net gain, but rather questionable whether or not it is worth your resources (hint: it's not). If you need multiple shitty weapons? Don't. (I have made a pain in the ass to use advanced calculator which should tell you if the idea works or not, though Hammer calculations might be fucked right now since it assumes 23% Assault)

Phantom Grids are NOT be-all, end-all. They're great, IF you can make them work with 1x offensive Soul weapon, 8x Assault weapon and 1x Phantom Glaive/Bow/Lance/Hammer. If you can't get that? Then don't bother, it's best to just use a collection of whatever are the best weapons available to you right now.

Do note that in long term planning, for example Fire is in a fairly good spot since you can just use SR Assault Lances from Disasters, or better yet buy decent SSRs from Ori Shop.


And finally, don't make long term plans in regards to "but I don't have a Phantom Hammer...!" because, well, chances are high that you'll find one eventually. The "bare minimum" of Disaster Rags you're "expected" to do is 6 (elements) * 4 (SSR characters) * 60 (Magna required for unlocking SSR Hime slots) * 2 (~50% droprate per Disaster Rag) = 2880 Disaster Rags. At a 1% droprate (which I don't think we had solid data on, but it is probably around there without MvPing even once), that means ~29 Phantom weapons. Chances of there being one Hammer in there is pretty goddamn high. About 95% I think.

Unfortunately... yes.

sad story.

Originally Posted by AutoCrimson

sad story.

I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic... but, if you're not, I do have some ocean front property in Arizona that I could sell to you on the cheap!!!


Dejnov.

Question m8s...I wont be able to get the 30mil union points for the last light axe. Is there anyway I'll be able to get it mlb/flb otherwise or am I shit outta luck?

brick?

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oh, and 2 Dejnov. im being partially sarcastic ofc, but if you want lance grid that much that u even use sr def weapons, its ur choice, really

keep in mind that comes from a person that uses null gun thunder grid (no assault), and probly will use null staff for light, not to mention obvious null axe for dark (well, until last dark UE anyways, and still will need to brick that last dark raid hammer... or ue hammer, depends)

Originally Posted by AutoCrimson

brick?

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oh, and 2 Dejnov. im being partially sarcastic ofc, but if you want lance grid that much that u even use sr def weapons, its ur choice, really

keep in mind that comes from a person that uses null gun thunder grid (no assault), and probly will use null staff for light, not to mention obvious null axe for dark (well, until last dark UE anyways, and still will need to brick that last dark raid hammer... or ue hammer, depends)

We're getting another Dark UE (8/09/2019) for another Axe and Hammer woot!!! At which point I will have 7 assault Dark Hammers... Slashley you promised me a phantom hammer waah!!!

Dejnov.

Originally Posted by Nik

Question m8s...I wont be able to get the 30mil union points for the last light axe. Is there anyway I'll be able to get it mlb/flb otherwise or am I shit outta luck?

Slashley's Event Calculator has a Greed Reprint (9/12/2019) that has the Light Staff and Axe as rewards again. You'd have to wait that long to complete it.


Dejnov.