Quote Originally Posted by sanahtlig View Post
I haven't seen any dedicated topics to discussing Soul (Relic) weapons. These are a massive investment, requiring 3-6 months of casual farming just to max limit break a single one. We'll likely see the final weapons release within the next month. Which ones are you aiming for, and why?

I have a perfect setup for a Berserk build (Morgan Elemental ATK weapon) with my Wind team. This team can pull off 22+ attacks per 2 turns of Berserk, for nearly as much damage as a Provisional Forest buffed Full Burst. The combination of Berserk and a PF-buffed Full Burst is a highly potent strategy to maximize spike damage. Since many encounters have spike damage checks, usually linked to a punishing Rage Overdrive (typically on a 3-4T timer), maximizing spike damage in a 3T window is a highly effective strategy for clearing many high-difficulty encounters.

Downsides of the build are that its lethality is diminished when the EX slot isn't free for Provisional Forest (e.g., because a debuff or utility skill is needed). Charm (Burst effect) and 1T defensive effects (e.g., Gaia's) don't mix well. Shingen is more versatile and doesn't need a heavily optimized team to do good spike damage.
Right, ignoring the relative ease of committal farming for regalia cause that's a point that many people have made already...

With the water meta looking as it is right now, I'd be an advocate for running Joan's HP relic and Hercules relic. Now, hold your pitchforks assault lovers, let me finish.

Water lacks offensive options, everyone knows that. Asherah is pretty much your single existing gateway between dealing close to endgame level damage, and doing basically jack shit. Therefore, if you do have an Asherah, Hercules is the option to go for since you can keep up burst gen and have an actually decent damage output.

Outside of Asherah, the only feasible option left is turtling, meaning Joan. Snow Raphy Nike Cthulhu combo (or variants, such as Ryu-Oh Belphegor/ Snow Raphy etc) are all basically the debuff meta of yester-half a year, and are unfortunately stuck as the meta outside of Asherah for half a year to come. Seriously, I don't see any other feasible option to this point.