Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
I don't really believe this. It seems to give you a second slot for a weapon drop, which you will pretty much fail all the time.
This is just from my experience, and arguably not a big enough sample and I don't keep a record of every time I MVP a raid, but I have farmed roughly 1000 dark and 1000 thunder globes at this point, I MVP Aratron about quarter of the time-ish, and MVP Phul around 10% or less and have gotten over 20+ Aratron weapon drops (I stopped counting) compared to 10-11 Phul weapon drops.

Also, I am not making any value judgment as to whether it's worth MVP-racing, since usually it's not even a choice anyway. If someone stronger than you and joined earlier than you manuals in a raid, you've basically lost MVP (or if you're on AAB, you're not racing anyway.)

and even with Awakened base 15%, you're still not at 100%, despite using a... what is Fluffy's uptime, 2/10?
You can get up to 10% TA and 15% DA from accessories on top of tiara set effects. That easily gets you to GDATA even for non-AW himes.

As for fluffy uptime, the long CD often doesn't matter in dummy and tower, which is typically when GDATA matters the most. For example, if you were were trying to use the 'meta' light build for the previous dummy, it actually is important to make sure you don't have too much DA on Arty (in fact, ideally you should have no DA on her to minimize the expected number of retries if I'm not mistaken; full disclosure, I didn't run that build myself.)

So really, all you're doing is confusing a new person to the game with needlessly unrealistic and niche scenarios.
Well, this is just a personal bias, 'cos I prefer detailed answers myself that highlights exceptions. And honestly, I'm not sure why this is unrealistic when my examples use commonly available tools... Fluffy support shouldn't be that hard to come by for light mains; tiara sets should be standard by the time you're thinking about optimizing around exceed; I listed not one but four himes that can easily get you into a GDATA situation... I concede that its application is niche.