Thread: Help on improving team for advance content

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Use Amaterasu. Her damage is irrelevant, her skills are far more important and open up more soul options for you like Joan with black propaganda or Morded with trial. Using Balor with Morded is meaningless so she can easily be replaced. Although slightly conflicted as the next event is water.

For eidolons you have, you can use Dullahan instead of Echidna. If you want a bit more damage, sure, keep her, but this isn't about doing damage cause then I'd tell you to replace your ssr defender weapons with sr lv20 assault weapons. Or you can just use a friend with Dullahan with your Echidna and see if that's enough to last, if not double Dullahan is one of your best bets.

Being a 42k+ atk dark team, you have more than enough stats to clear ragnarok difficulty stages regardless of element. Dropping some damage for better survivalbility is a better option, until you get more kamihimes.

Adding Amaterasu and using Dullahan gimps my damage by 26% from my current setup according to Sanahtlig's calculator. Granted this is without accounting for extra buffs during battle from Amaterasu but from pure numbers it seems using a non-element with my current 96% assault and 22% hp skill weapon grid severely lowers your damage.

Originally Posted by dreadpin

My opinion if u insist on going dark team,
1st scrap off ur Echidna....1.7k stats is really low.... u got other 2k+ to replace it, also Apo is 40% dark that should be ur main....otherwise Dullahan for HP

2nd get Amaterasu into ur team, she has 3 useful skills aoe blind, def up + reg and B frame def + atk down (Apo/Echidna are fire+dark... so Amaterasu damage is not as bad)

Soul, u can stick with Andro for heals/rez but personally i prefer burst down style with Arthur/Sieg (for MVP)

Arthur able to combo with Dullahan weapon(burst effect) u get an extra atk down for survivability while Sieg can easily negate Rage bar...i'm able to stun the boss from full rage in 1 or 2 rounds without any burst

If I use Apo and Amaterasu while swapping out Echida I loss 16% of my damage according to Sanathlig this includes the 400 extra stat that I get from swapping in a higher stat eidolon. If I use Dullahan with Amaterasu instead that makes it 26% less damage, I think you guys are underestimating the effect of the weapon grid's synergy with the eidolon's element attack up. Just swapping out Echida with Apo with better stats eidolon(~+400) loses me 3% in damages (this includes the offset from the stat bonuses).

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

This can easily be settled by comparing various combinations of weapons and eidolons using my Toolbox and seeing which combination maximizes HP and ATK. I'm not doing this because it's not my team or element and the answer doesn't interest me, but those with a vested interest (i.e., the OP) should do so. But in general, Defender SSRs have such a large increase in base stats that it nearly offsets the loss in damage from assault.

My suggestion to keep Echidna is based on an analysis of Fafnir's stat scaling using stats listed in the JP wiki (these might be different from Fafnir's stats in the Nutaku version). This may or may not be applicable to the current situation, which is why I've made a calculator available for players to determine what's best in their individual situations. When it comes to optimizing one's team, there's no substitute for running the numbers oneself because every team configuration is different.

Yeah thanks, the basic damage toolbox seems to give me some hard number to compare to. I'll try to use the more advance one to min-max what kamihime would be most optimal to bring in my team. But currently it tells me damage wise my eidolon set up is optimal.

Also the reason why I don't use fire is because my grid is shit for that around 30% assault skill and 20% hp skill. I just recently got summer sol and amaterasu so I didn't start building a grid till a month ago.