Thread: Souls and null grids

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I like how people are talking about ascalon grids and ascalons using plural, as if they just fall off trees or something, I guess for uber space whales they might, but even then they probs prefer to use those eyes to max out all those P2Ws they got anyway.

Seriously tho, I was lucky enough to pull 1 ascalon from a ticket. OFC it's FLB. Is 1 ascalon worth making a sword grid over, or do I need many to justify the effort?

Let me be clear, in my original post I never actually advocated for 'normal' players to actually build an ascalon grid. The phantom weapon isn't one that can help tremendously in the short term and only truly starts shining if you have something like +200% assault AND fairly low DA and TA on your himes. Then it starts to be fairly substantial. For Fire it's a much better deal to do the Lance grid (with Vlad and Assault SR lances initially) and just upgrade to FLB Union Lances as you get them. That's fairly economical and something you can do in the near term and will be plenty viable in the long term.

Will a full ascalon grid be better than a full lance grid? Of course it will as Eye weapon's base assault and hitpoints are much higher than any Union or Hime weapon AND it's a double assault Eye weapon no less, but you'll have saved plenty of bricks and eyes to work on a second or third element's team which should be fairly valuable for events like tower, etc.

I put the ascalon grid into the same category as a full element eidolon; yes you could spend 150 eyes on one... but why would you? It's much better to up the power level of a second (or third) element team so that you can have elemental advantage in more situations than if you didn't.


Dejnov.


Edit: I would definitely work to leveling the Ascalon sword (as it's a great weapon) and even bricking it if you need to while running a full Fire Lance grid as your base weapon grid. You'll eventually have both phantom weapons and you have 10 weapon slots so it's not like a single ascalon is incompatible with a lance grid. If you ever find yourself with 5 comparable (or better) swords than your basic lances, you can switch, but having 4 swords and 6 lances or 6 swords and 4 lances is a small variation in what you have to build for a final grid.