Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
Ascension has a cap, and the only element you can build an Ascension Grid realistically is Light (unless you are a newer player, in which case, fuck you). And Light is already capped in Ascension without Olympia.
Wait, unless you use 4 light UE staffs, you're not hitting ascension cap even with the Olympia eido (4 * 37 * 1.4 = 207.2% - just barely hitting the 200% ascension cap.) As to whether ascension is useful, well that is the same question as asking whether heal is useful. If you go full glass cannon for every battle, yeah, it's useless, but I have never seen any raids survive a DRag without heal of any sort, and it can't be the case that heal is useful but 40% more heal is not (technically it's 40% more of ascension, which is something less than 40% more heal but you get what I'm saying.)

Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
I'd see Ascension boosted by Olympia be useful if it didn't have a cap, since you could slam your Light Staff Grid and boost THAT a 40% boost. But you can't.
Hitting ascension cap gives you 4,800 raid-wide heal with Andro. Bring two of these into a raid and the entire raid is practically unkillable even in a FRag after 10T (I have actually tried this with my union, 2 Andros + 2 dmg dealers going way past 10T without killing the top add and everyone still staying nice and healthy; for the record, those Andros were using LB0 ori weapons and SR weapons to get the ascension, not some whale grade draconic eye staff grid or something - you use what you have and sometimes the crappy weapons still does wonders for the raid.)

In any case, ascension or vigor or not, the Olympia eido scales with your grid, so if you're not light, your UE FLB will give you another weapon skill and scale that up accordingly.

Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
I can't help but see things like these as people applying spacewhalelogic to freaking normies, something like some omegawhale using a Thor Hammer Grid (Assault(++)/Ascension) and then soloing Water Olympia thanks to Dian (while downgrading damage output from loss of second P2W). But for 99.99% of the playerbase, it simply doesn't work in that way. Is the Olympia Eidolon an upgrade? Sure. But it's NOT a big one, simply because we don't have THAT much leeway in our Grids. You use what you have, not what would best suit the situation.
Let's use my grid as example, which is light unfortunately: Mike lance (FLB), Sol gun (FLB), 2 UE axe (FLB), 2 UE staff (FLB), Barong gun, St. Nick sword, LB2 Tsuku bow + soul weapon (will ignore since Olympia eido won't scale that one.) I don't think that is a spacewhale grid, and if I counted everything correctly, I have 150% assault, 50% defender, 111% ascension, 60%/80% exceed cap/base. With that, MLB Olympia eido will give me 60% assault, 20% defender, 44% ascension and 24%/32% exceed. MLB Heca only gives 60% assault and 20% defender, so Olympia already beats Heca and will grow more powerful as I add more FLB weapons slowly over time.

I would argue that MLB Heca is a big upgrade over St. Nick and Barong, and 44% ascension and 24%/32% exceed on top of that is nothing to sneeze at - that's basically one FLB weapon's worth of skills, and remember, the upgrade can get better since I still have 3 weapons that are not FLB-ed. Is it as big an upgrade as a P2W? No, I don't think so, but I don't think anyone is claiming that it is. I will assert though, that by the time you are ready to challenge Olympia raids, your grid will probably be around or stronger than mine, so the Olympia eido will be a big upgrade over whatever you're using unless it's a P2W.