Thread: [Event 45] Crucible of Combat vs Demon Pride (Rematch)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Don’t like pride weapons very much.--

DO NOT shy away from Pride weapons. As MagicSpice more or less said, they're Assault weapons that get bonus damage as your HP goes down. So don't think of them as bad in any way. They're GOOD.

... though I guess Light has the most reason to shy away from them, seeing as Ascension is aplenty in Light SSRs and Sol heals for ridiculous amounts. This will largely mitigate most of the bonus damage that Pride weapons get.

Still, even before FLB, a SSR Pride weapon is the same powerlevel as a SR Assault, like 0.5% to 1% below depending. So until you have a full SSR Light grid, you shouldn't even consider skipping out on Pride weapons. But since that is not happening before FLB gets here, even without the Pride bonus damage, the 15% base Assault means that the Pride weapons will blow everything else out of the water.

Just out of curiosity...

Does Hercules count union buffs as buffs in her first skill?

Originally Posted by Slashley

... though I guess Light has the most reason to shy away from them, seeing as Ascension is aplenty in Light SSRs and Sol heals for ridiculous amounts.

They wont have ascension if they neglect union pride weapons (the staff) cause those are the ones with FLB, which is why neglecting UE pride weapons is dumb af, and as non-whales they wont have mlb sol gun, thats just not happening.

Hmm, what are light's SSR ascension options anyway...
FLB draconic eye staff
FLB Sol gun
FLB Pride staff
Hammer from Phoenix 2nd Reprint (it's Defender/Ascension, caps at 2130 atk)
Glaive from orichalcum exchange (Assault/Ascension, caps at 1770 atk) (4 orichalcum to 3* it)
Tishtrya spear

If you're remotely interested in ascension for light, just 3* the damn staff every time Pride comes around to give yourself the option.

Oops, minor correction:
The draconic eye light staff innately has ascension (medium) as its 2nd skill after the draconic eye weapons get buffed in August. FLB raises it to large. Granted, this is a draconic eye weapon we're talking about; the only way a non-whale would have a copy would be rolling one before they were removed from the jewel gacha.

Theoretically a non-whale should be able to acquire at least MLB Sol's gun in 3 and above tower events: 3 if they perfectly clear all missions and get max points for the SSR LB set, and above accordingly.

And then there's a matter of randomly pulling Sol's gun again from the jewels, but I'm sure non-whales don't want that. Then again, the question is which kind of weapon should we really focus on MLBing.

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

Then again, the question is which kind of weapon should we really focus on MLBing.

Assuming you pulled one (or saved to exchange for one), wouldn't MLB-ing a shop weapon be a good idea? They have insane stats.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Assuming you pulled one (or saved to exchange for one), wouldn't MLB-ing a shop weapon be a good idea? They have insane stats.

It would indeed, but shop weapons are pretty darn expensive... Unless the raid eidolon shop and future competitive union events have enough to supplement the shards for non-whales to actually consider getting one.

But it isn't as viable as I think it is, is it?

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

It would indeed, but shop weapons are pretty darn expensive... Unless the raid eidolon shop and future competitive union events have enough to supplement the shards for non-whales to actually consider getting one.

But it isn't as viable as I think it is, is it?

considering there's DMM players sitting on a surplus of drag eyes and some aren't whales.... maybe... 15 drag eyes is not easy to get but if you aren't using them anytime soon, have at it. heck, i can awaken ares, susanoo, and Tyr... might not do it even though i'm at 2.6 drag eyes and shards aren't too hard to grab

but i also remembered there's those items that act like a universal break limit.... more expensive (20 drag eyes), but if there's stuff that needs catching up, there's your way to do it without using orichalcum

Originally Posted by Slashley

Ascension is aplenty in Light SSRs and Sol heals for ridiculous amounts.

i don't know about you, but even sol's current heals feel underwhelming when you get nuked for 5k+ with defenses....

so yeah, i'll take those ascensions cause later content is gonna prevent any "one-shot" and "auto" strats.... i'm gonna need the heals if the boss decides to whack you for half your HP. and considering most of my teams are packing 8k w/o trying (wind and light teetering at 10k)... that's a lot of damage

those ascension weapons can mean the difference between needing multiple methods/characters for healing to JUST ONE HEAL. and HP does become a factor later on, which is why atk/hp dual weapons get some value

Wth am I supposed to do with all these SR grail enhance mats?