Thread: Alternative to total power for evaluating a stats stick eidolon

Originally Posted by Dejnov

Couple of quick questions/comments on your post Dreamlitz:

A) What is a mythical beast? I haven't heard of that Eidolon option.

B) I don't understand your corollary 3b example. Can you explain it in more depth/differently?

C) While weapons are in the 100/200 range for hitpoints they do follow the same rule you've outlined above. It's usually less noticeable since they're working from a lower basis.

D) I like the terms krill (f2p), dolphin (occasional spending) and whale (p2w) myself.

E) What I do like about the bump in phantom weapon effect (and this can be had by any assault phantom weapon) is that it eliminates the amount of unique weapons in my non-main grids. That allows for me to maintain their power, while reducing the amount of weapons I potentially have to raise. I can also afford to be more choosy on what I FLB; I'm looking for either Hime or the Assault UEs to break as I can only have 4 non-lance weapons in a phantom lance grid. This means that low return FLB or even skill leveling SSRs is not on the action list.

F) My water and wind grids absolutely suck, and I'm okay with that! I'm a Light/Dark main and those only exist just for tower/dummy events. (Though my water team can now solo Fire Ult Catastrophe so they are growing.)

G) Bricking Kaisers (any element) is an actual useful choice if you don't have a p2w Eidolon...



Dejnov.

A) I'm not sure if 'mythical beast' is the universally accepted term for these, but what I'm referring to are these:



Highlights of these are:

i. Their passive is elemental resistance, up to 50% at MLB, so if you go into battle with these as your main and you have a friend with a MLB one, too, you get 100% elemental resistance O.O Obviously you lose a lot of dmg that way, but sounds like easy solo for stuff with no time limit. AAB AQ100 will be no problem for whales
EDIT: Ok, turns out this is only STATUS resistance, so nowhere near as great as I thought...
ii. They have incredibly strong active abilities, but can only be used ONCE per battle (e.g. White Tiger's active is 100% lightning atk up at MLB. EDIT: actually, if I'm not misreading things, the 100% atk up is in its own multiplier, so just outright double the dmg... Still subject to usual caps though.)
iii. They are off-the-chart stats sticks like kaisers, but trade off hp for more atk relative to kaisers

You can read more (translate google translate) about them at the JP wiki.

B) Let's say you need barrier (to counter doom for example.) I don't think any gacha eidolons has barrier as an active, so you're forced to use an event eidolon, which automatically means you're going to lose some stats. Now you can use Tiamat or Python for barrier. You also need to kick one of your gacha eidolon to accommodate the event eidolon. What I'm saying is that to minimize stats loss, you should pick the high atk event eidolon and kick the high atk gacha eidolon in these situations (so pick Tiamat, kick Azathoth.) If you do the reverse (pick Python, kick Behemoth) you will lose more stats than necessary to accommodate the active that you want with whatever hp level you are targeting.

Now, the astute reader will point out that I can just cleanse doom with Behemoth and dun even need to add a barrier eido, but let's pretend we need that cleanse for something else... I AM sort of reaching for practical applications btw, which is why I didn't even bother with the gacha analysis until ppl shown interest in it...

C) Got it.

D) Lol, what's between dolphin and whales though? You need to be a big spender but not big enough to whale for kaisers for this analysis to be useful. Maybe cursed whale? Whale with abysmal luck so all you have are non-kaisers non-p2w eidos to work with... I'm not good at naming things...

E) I understand the motivation. Outside of tower and those event missions with 'clear this battle with some random element team (for puny rewards)', is there any reason not to use your light/dark team? I still only have a phantom axe btw, so I haven't spent much time thinking about this (I think it's been almost 200 rags since i got the axe though, RNG should give me a break >.>)

F) Wait, can't you also off-element for dummy? I hit harder with my light team than some other team with elemental advantage... If they ever have multi-target dummies, then maybe the burst streak can make up for it, but single-target, my plan was just to use light all the way...

G) Agreed. With my luck though, gacha will probably drop me a p2w once I brick a kaiser... Although, if I can bait the gacha like that, it'll still be worth it...

Originally Posted by Dejnov

-- I only know when I've been building these off-element lance grids (as that is my only maxed phantom weapon atm) in weaker element grids, my damage can go up. -- When I did the comparison, I found that the on-element defense SR was actually giving me less damage output than the off-element substitute and it was sometimes giving me less damage than the full on-element grid.--

Well, yes? There's a reason why pure Defender weapons are frowned upon generally. As said by dreamlitz, they don't actually give you any attack outside of their base Atk. So when replaced by a higher base Atk weapon... ... of course it's more damage. But, it's also pretty certain that a slvl20 Disaster SR Assault weapon would do MORE damage than your off-element FLB Lance.

However, the part that messes things up here is the Phantom Lance. Which offers you:
1. 16% Assault
2. 16% HP
3. Lots of base Atk bonus
Which is no joke. If you replace one on-element Assault weapon with a off-element Lance to activate Phantom Lance, then you lost #1. But fair enough, you still have #2 and #3. Then you can replace one on-element HP weapon with a off-element Lance, and you've lost #2 too. But hey, you still have #3, so you're STILL in the positive.

However, these kinds of things kinda drop dead once your Grid starts to improve. Like, when you have a full Grid of dual-skills (SRs or SSRs), then you already lost both #1 and #2 from a single weapon. So, again: _might_ hold water with Lance Grids. But won't be ANY good past extremely early game.

Originally Posted by dreamlitz

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i. Their passive is elemental resistance, up to 50% at MLB, so if you go into battle with these as your main and you have a friend with a MLB one, too, you get 100% elemental resistance O.O --

Hah, if only. It's 50% STATUS resistance. In other words, as useless as Kaiser passive.

Another thing of note on those things. The CD on the (one-time per battle) active gets reduced as the Eidolon gains more LBs. So unlike Kaisers, these guys are SIGNIFICANTLY worse for those who can't brick them to MLB.

Originally Posted by dreamlitz

F) Wait, can't you also off-element for dummy? I hit harder with my light team than some other team with elemental advantage... If they ever have multi-target dummies, then maybe the burst streak can make up for it, but single-target, my plan was just to use light all the way...

To my understanding, the Dummy is a different element every day. So it starts as Fire probably and cycles through all the elements per day. Expect Dark on day 6 I guess?

It's sad because I don't see any way to compete for any kind of ranks without Michael AW and Fluffy. The top50 is probably going to be taken by players who have both of those.

Originally Posted by Slashley

However, the part that messes things up here is the Phantom Lance. Which offers you:
1. 16% Assault
2. 16% HP
3. Lots of base Atk bonus
Which is no joke. If you replace one on-element Assault weapon with a off-element Lance to activate Phantom Lance, then you lost #1. But fair enough, you still have #2 and #3. Then you can replace one on-element HP weapon with a off-element Lance, and you've lost #2 too. But hey, you still have #3, so you're STILL in the positive.

However, these kinds of things kinda drop dead once your Grid starts to improve. Like, when you have a full Grid of dual-skills (SRs or SSRs), then you already lost both #1 and #2 from a single weapon. So, again: _might_ hold water with Lance Grids. But won't be ANY good past extremely early game.Hah, if only. It's 50% STATUS resistance. In other words, as useless as Kaiser passive.

Another thing of note on those things. The CD on the (one-time per battle) active gets reduced as the Eidolon gains more LBs. So unlike Kaisers, these guys are SIGNIFICANTLY worse for those who can't brick them to MLB.To my understanding, the Dummy is a different element every day. So it starts as Fire probably and cycles through all the elements per day. Expect Dark on day 6 I guess?

It's sad because I don't see any way to compete for any kind of ranks without Michael AW and Fluffy. The top50 is probably going to be taken by players who have both of those.

I agree that it's possibly phantom lance (and also by default phantom hammer) that really benefits from this situation. For wind and water, I'll take all the help that I can get!

I'm not so sure that immunity to status effect is to be frowned upon. By far the biggest thing that can destroy a fast burst team, is fucking with your ability to DATA or burst when you want to. These might not actually be totally useless passives. Don't know yet as you'll probably lose a decent amount of elemental (character) attack to field one (or two) that it means squat. Will see when they come out.

I'm wondering what you mean when you state that only those with Michael AW and Fluffy would be in the top50. That's only 1 element and you get into the ranking by all element's damage not just your light team, or am I missing something about the context in how these competitions are set up?


Dejnov.

Originally Posted by Dejnov

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I'm not so sure that immunity to status effect is to be frowned upon.--

Hey, not being debuffed is amazing. But this isn't immunity, and it simply isn't worth the loss of damage output even if it was. Unless you're literally fighting Medusa-like content.

Originally Posted by Dejnov

I'm wondering what you mean when you state that only those with Michael AW and Fluffy would be in the top50. That's only 1 element and you get into the ranking by all element's damage not just your light team, or am I missing something about the context in how these competitions are set up?--

I haven't looked into how the scoring works at all, but I'd assume that you get your top score, and that's your score. And what does by far the most damage over a time period of 15 turns? Michael AW with Fluffy.

You simply cannot compete with people who do one (or more) full Bursts than what you did, even more so if you don't have a P2W Eidolon and they do.

Originally Posted by Slashley

To my understanding, the Dummy is a different element every day. So it starts as Fire probably and cycles through all the elements per day. Expect Dark on day 6 I guess?

nah, they release the elements in a random order, at least they did on last two i ran, so can't actually speak for the first one. oh actually i had the JP wiki page open earlier :facepalm:

Day of the week Contents
Mon-Tue Lightning
Wed-Thur Water wind
Fri-Sat Light darkness
Sunday All attributes