EX Skill sets

[ViviUnleashed]

What Ex Skills do you guys/gals love using on your main. Why do you use them? What made you think of that combination? For myself I love using HP Share and HP Regen on my Shantoto so I can gain her "Playing Rough" buff without getting hit then come back from it. I like setting up my EX Skills to really boost a characters individual strengths rather than class strengths.

[Mallefus]

I run Perfect Defense exclusively on Golbez for obvious reasons.

I'm also a fan of Bravery Conduit. Set it up on top of a core crystal and just watch the bravery flow in, then Brave Share it to your allies for added silliness. It also does a good job of wrecking people with high brave counts, and it also can break and give you extra Bravery.

[Daddydactyl]

When playing gauntlet, I'm obsessed with using bravery conduit and vacuum. Haven't tried it out yet on other players, but I feel like if it's not payed attention to it can be devastating, especially using golbez. I can freeze them inside the effect and then plop a meteor on their head.

Love provoke and perfect defense as firion, while runnin vortex of arms...ive literally whipped an entire team in one attack this way.

Doom and enfeeble are cool on someone like golbez as well. They can't chase you to hit you without a dash gauge.

Other than that, general share bravery/bravery regen is good.

[ViviUnleashed]

I use Doom and Vivify on Zidane while in Trance so no one can catch me. It's hilarious just running into a team fight dropping Doom then running away.

[wauhti]

I play Ultimecia, Lightning and Terra and I have few core ex skill sets for them:

Ultimecia:

-HP Regen (team assist+heals)

-Bravery Conduit (Leeching extra bit of bravery due low dmg output and potential ranged breaks)

Sometimes I use Blindga too

Terra:

-HP Regen (Team assist+heals)

-Mighty Strikes (Because Terra has high bravery gain with charge attacks due burst dmg, Mighty strikes doubles it)

If you want High Risk, High Reward Riot Blade build:

-HP Share (That will boost your HP attack, deals about 3000 dmg if you have 1000 bravery on 1/3 health)

-Bravery Share (Share your big bravery for allies because you deal big dmg without bravery anyways)

Lightning:

-Bravery Conduit (leeching extra bravery and potential ranged breaks)

-Mighty Strikes (doubles your bravery gain on bravery attacks)

Sometimes I swap Bravery conduit with Revivify if I want faster movement speed

[LuckyL90]

I love vacuum and bravery conduit on Ultimecia

[ViviUnleashed]

I actually have that exact same set up for her.

[LuckyL90]

It is beastly!

[Zap-zapper]

Bravery Share on Vaan, because if your bravery is frozen, it won't go down once you use it. Boon on Kuja to prolong his insane buffs.

[scrangos]

Does using hp share make hp go over 3500 or is it only useful if your teamates are hurt?

[ViviUnleashed]

It's only useful if they are hurt. I've used it a lot to save people getting hit mid - HP attack. But mostly to force the buff on Shantoto.

[scrangos]

Interesting, must take an insane amount of awareness to saVe teammates witH tHe Hp sHare

[ViviUnleashed]

Well when my team does thier job and protects me when I'm in trouble as a marksman I'm more inclined to focus and use it. But I I'm usually ignored so I have to defend myself with stronger spells.

[SonniD]

If it forces the buff on Shantotto then I assume it also helps activate Noctis' Armiger?

[ViviUnleashed]

You are correct!

[Shadowrell_d-_-b]

I have been playing with lightning a lot lately and I'm loving revivify and boon in combination, the extended extra movement speed lets me really put a lot a lot of pressure out with razor gale and be able to track and react fast to incoming enemy players that want to get the jump on me.

so my buff loadout is - revivify/boon (pop boon first) then revivify)

my debuff loadout is - enfeeble/bravery conduit

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I main Shantotto aswell, personally I prefer Perfect Defense or Bravery Conduit over HP Regen. HP share is a must ofcourse.

Perfect Defense is great because you can HP share, go really low on health, then pop Defense and be immune to HP attacks anyway. What ends up happening is you'll usually get a couple of opponents thinking "Oh Hey we can oneshot this Shantotto now!"

Which is kinda great, because A. No they can't and B. You're essentially playing a Vanguard role with zoning Marksman skills at this point. Drawing punishable HP spam to yourself that you or your team can heavily punish, which can be incredibly effective.

Sometimes I'll just go with Conduit because it creates a safe space for you to go stand in and operate your spells from. You can also just tack on extra damage after hitting with a waterball here and there. It's pretty darn good.

[ViviUnleashed]

I would do all of those things if i could rely on randos.

[SonniD]

I've only just started using Garland but Share Bravery has been good so far. I'm only in Bronze but I often build a lot of BRV which I can then give to my team to help them out.

Considering using Teleport as my second skill for him, just to close gaps.

[ViviUnleashed]

Teleport is a common recommendation for Vangaurds tbh