Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
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.)


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