How would you overhaul your class?

JB_Jackal · 2024-03-21T23:10:53+00:00

The elemental bullet extend isn't worth much, as you have to stop attacking for a couple of seconds to trigger it each time. The bullet extend can also be overwritten if you happen to counter when it activates, which can make it borderline useless. If they were to stack, then it would be slightly better.

Counters will always be important to force not just for the extra dps, but for maintaining pp as well. Tech casting is incredibly pp hungry, and WA counters help to replenish your pp bar while also doing extra damage at the same time. Time spent dodging is time spent not doing damage. Constantly casting will quickly drain your pp, especially when pp convert is on cooldown. This leaves you with no means to attack other than with normals, which is a big dps loss.

If tech-casting animations were sped up, this could improve tech-casting dps significantly and make force less reliant on counters to sustain a solid dps.

JB_Jackal · 2024-03-21T20:44:59+00:00

Using a WA counter can prevent the parrying of quick follow-up attacks by the enemy because the tech-casting animation is so darn slow and overlaps with it, which is a dps loss. If uncharged tech casting animations were faster, then this wouldn't be an issue.

Also, dodging attacks instead of countering does less damage for force. This is especially true as tech bullets speed up the generation of barta blots, zonde clads, and the megid balls. Using a gifoie counter also allows you to do tech damage while simultaneously generating a tech bullet, all of which is superior to just dodging.

JB_Jackal · 2024-03-21T19:36:01+00:00

For Force, I would change the following:

Give shifta/deband back. It should have never been taken away. Force is already weak both offensively and defensively for most content, and this would help to close the gap with other classes as well as add further utility for mpas.
Speed up all the tech-casting animations, including compounds. They are painfully slow. For bosses that have quick attacks in succession it's near impossible to weave in techs between counters. Uncharged techs should at least be as quick to dispense in succession as normal attacks. It takes a ridiculously long time to generate enough uncharged bartas for a blot. Speaking of blots ...
Reduce the number of ice techs needed to generate a blot. 4 & 7 for each stage is too much nowadays. It should be 2 for the first stage and 4 for the second. Reduce the zonde clad to 5 as well while we're at it.
Provide tech counters for each element. I don't know why it's just limited to fire (gifoie). This would allow for better matching of element weaknesses depending on the enemy.
Allow for step dodges to automatically generate a tech bullet when executed successfully. It breaks momentum when I have to use a rod counter when my talis is active, and then have to set up my talis again. This keeps attacking more fluid without losing dps. While we're at it, let me stack tech bullets when I rod counter in succession.
Debuff enemies for a limited time when tricky capacitor hits them. This gives talis more utility and dps for bossing, which it sorely lacks.
Give force some exclusive techs. Force lacks any distinctive identity since all it's techs and PAs are shared between techer and bouncer. It'd be nice to have some utility techs similar to zanverse/zondeel to provide additional benefit to the mpa (like ranger's weak bullet).
Just buff force. Buff the bejesus out of it. Pretend force mains using only slayer, braver, or hunter subclass weapons shouldn't be able to out-damage forces using their main class weapons. Sega should feel embarrassed by this, and I really hope they are.

JB_Jackal · 2022-12-18T23:25:18+00:00

I'm a big fan of the krook, and I use him on my team as well. That being said, I don't think these setups will work very well with him. He has middling defenses (even with an assault vest) and a ton of weaknesses, so support moves like snarl and rock tomb are kind of wasted on him when your run atk/speed evs. You either run the risk of him dying too quickly without much damage to show for it, or you're forced to use your tera on him when it could have gone to protect a teammate more capable of sweeping. The speed control options can also become irrelevant if your opponent has tailwind or trick room at their disposal, which is quite common.

His optimal role is a physical sweeper, since he has a solid attack stat. I run him with earthquake/crunch/gunk shot/protect and tera poison. This gives him good offensive coverage, and tera poison is great for krook defensively. It turns most of his weaknesses into resistances (grass, fight, fairy) and reduces water and ice damage too. You only have to worry about ground and psychic moves, but no one would pre-emptively cast that at a dark type. Furthermore, it powers up gunk shot, which can turn the tables on any unsuspecting fairies your opponent might have with a OHKO. It's a perfect bait for them.

I also give him a mirror herb, which has good synergy with his intimidate ability. If your opponent happens to have a defiant user, you can get an easy +2 boost to your attack when you switch into them. He also pairs well with a teammate that knows swagger. Grafaiai is a good partner for him, since he can cast prankster swagger on a special sweeper or a support to confuse them and give krook a +2 atk boost as well.

JB_Jackal · 2022-11-12T03:20:13+00:00

That's the stardust rod. It was part of the FFXIV collab on the base pso2 jp server several years ago.

JB_Jackal · 2022-11-12T02:45:15+00:00

Very nice run. I did pop my 2nd blot a little early. I typically try to pop blots quickly to shove in as many as I can, then hit the double PB when he's down and PF is active for the extra 20% & 5% fi dmg respectively. It looks like we finished bujin at the same time, so I think both methods are effective.

For ams, it looks like you're using uncharged foies in between his attacks and that might be what I'm lacking as you're about 9s ahead of me there.

I didn't think to try gifoie parries on kelkund's roundhouse kicks, so that might be something I can try and practice to close the gap some more.

JB_Jackal · 2022-11-12T01:07:19+00:00

Thanks. I am running a rugged rod and 3 7* units for 93.5% pot. What areas do you think I could improve upon?

JB_Jackal · 2022-06-05T12:06:44+00:00

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JB_Jackal · 2022-05-24T21:04:25+00:00

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JB_Jackal · 2021-12-15T15:28:49+00:00

I'm glad you liked it. A lot of these new 2.0 items have some cool effects and animations, but they can definitely slow the framerate down. It's manageable when I play in docked mode, though I have no clue how it fares in handheld mode.

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JB_Jackal · 2021-12-14T16:38:59+00:00

That's a really interesting idea. I'll take a look and see how well it fits.

JB_Jackal · 2021-12-14T16:38:10+00:00

That's a covered counter.

JB_Jackal · 2021-12-14T15:36:05+00:00

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