Quote Originally Posted by Dejnov View Post
-- 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.
Quote Originally Posted by dreamlitz View Post
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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.
Quote Originally Posted by dreamlitz View Post
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.