Pretty much always get the offensive Soul weapons. The 30% elemental is just too big to miss out on, even if the weapon skills on most of them suck. Or, just use Hercules like everyone else.
If you still need Joan+BP to clear content, then I wouldn't bother with a Soul weapon at all.We just had a double AQ event end. The game rotates these kinds of events about every second week:
- Raids half-off (THE heavenly time to leech Rags and Guardians!)
- AQs half-off and more entries (6 or 9 a day)
- half-off story quests + increased exp from story quests (a good time for farming for T4 Souls if you're starting to near rank 100)
- Was there one more? I think there was one more. But I forget.
So, you can expect one of the other ones after a week or two.You know that I wrote a turtling guide and it conflicts with a lot of things that you said...
First off, turtling absolutely shouldn't be your goal. It can, at best, be consired a stepping stone until you are strong enough for "kill it before it kills you". Second, Def+ is a very worthless buff. Don't ever consider that, especially if you have access to to damage cuts of any kind. The only one which will ever amount of anything is Joan's MEX, but even that one needs like 30 turns to ramp up to decent levels. Don't. Bother.
And why even turtle with Dark, when you can reach 25k+ HP with just a F2P Grid... ... oh wait, because newer players don't have access to a full Envy Grid. THANKS A LOT DEVS.
I am personally not a big fan of Ascension. The problem is it takes away from useful stats, for minor gains in a stat that will only be used by 1-2 characters in your party. Not great. CAN it work? Yes, but chances are high that you'll rather want something else if you can make that choice.
Also not a fan of Vigor, due to just how unreliable it is. Is it an amazing stat at full HP? Yes! Is it a good stat if you have lost ANY HP? Fuck no. So it's a great stat for content that is a joke to you and certain meme content like "how high can I burst during Burst Hour?" but for anything that can hurt you... just stay away.You use what you have. You have at most four SSRs. What is there to advice? Go grab your daddy's credit card and spent 10k+ dollars on the game for a chance at better teams?Double skills are way better, when both stats are good stats. Assault, Pride and Defender are the best ones in general.
About weapon skills, I've made a post explaining them here.