Quote Originally Posted by Dejnov View Post
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:
Quote Originally Posted by Dejnov View Post
-- 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.