Quote Originally Posted by kayfabe View Post
There's really no great mystery to using Despara. She's longer range than Shiho at max affection, cheap enough to be deployed as "I have no idea what I'm doing but some of these things are red..." filler and 90 of her first 116 seconds on the field can be spent with her skill up. In a very real sense it's more practical to think of her as a 1.1k+ magic damage unit who occasionally does 615 damage than vice versa. She isn't game breaking so much as she's just really practical because you can seriously just activate her skill every time it comes back online and stuff is in range. She's certainly no comparison to pre-SAW Shiho, a unit who's pretty low impact as a witch and spends more time recharging her skill than healing and so is thus more of a panic button on blind runs than a primary healing option.



Maybe most of the events don't, but you'd be wise to take it as a warning sign that three days a week we have Golden Armor G and Spirit Hunting G maps that are greatly simplified if you can throw a couple of princesses at your problems. Things will change somewhat as power creep marches inexorably forward and Nutaku receives more of the magic damage options DMM players enjoy but for right now it's still generally more rewarding to switch out a bandit or valk in favor of a princess than vice versa simply because of the difference between magic and physical damage both in terms of prevalence and mechanics. It's a big enough deal that my imperfect Unawakened Claudia still gets deployed regularly while my perfect AW Imelia spends most of her time warming the bench until some super boss needs tanking. Shit like heavy armor, liches, small golems and werewolves are collectively too common to be easily dismissed as gimmicks and princesses excel at killing those things and are only marginally worse at killing vanilla units.
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Aight, I'll train my Sherry and Themis once I AW Iris. I know y'all told to AW Spica first as the very 1st AW gurl but I had no time to train her after Gold Rush and dis event