Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
I, at least, entirely ignore "total power." All I use is "Atk"
Honestly, I think this is more sensible than looking at total power.

Chances are if you need survival, you're better off using Joan instead of more base HP, no?
I do that for solo content, but for raids, it's hard to (V)MVP with Joan (actually it's just hard to (V)MVP in general, but even harder with Joan...) And helping out the raid with Joan/Andromeda is sort of a thankless job >.>

Quote Originally Posted by Nik View Post
But then you have things like dark ult/rag (probably others, idk) where she doesnt even attack until od, and just dots you to death.
Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
That said, it's also possible to cap out DoTs, depending on the DoT. In which case having more HP starts being... okay... but still not great.
For dark ult, all DoT cap out at 750, so high hp actually really helps. If you're increasing your in-battle hp from 6k to 7k though, dun bother, it just makes it harder for you to heal up as Slashley stated. I went from 10k to 15k by messing around with eidolons and FLB-ing one of weapons, and it helped a lot for dark ult.

Quote Originally Posted by Tanukimo View Post
Very interesting. Would have been interesting to see the results for gacha eidos too.
Ok, maybe when I have time I'll take a look.

I'd always had the impression that event eidos with high hp got shafted on attack, but seems like that isn't necessarily the case.
Actually they kinda are - the slope of the line suggests that you have to give up about 3.5 atk to gain 1 hp, which is why high hp event eidolons always look so awful in total power. This is also why I caveat everything with if you need the hp. I actually often find that trade to be a bargain for AAB builds where the AI does a lot of stupid things so I need a bigger hp pool to offset its stupidity (I AAB AQ5 and most ults - not dark ult, actually I AAB that, too and rely on friends to clean up my mess ) If you don't find the hp useful, do what Slashley does and only look at atk (in which case Tiamat rules, by a pretty big margin.)