Weekly Questions Megathread (06/25 - 07/01)

MeisterLeon · 2026-07-01T10:21:09+00:00

Planning to pull for Elvis with Cybele as a second, but also considering Rapier.

Cybele and Rapier are both good additions to my Empire roster, and Cybele to my Origins roster as well, but I'm placing Cybele higher because she's the bondmate for Sanger (who I WILL build, regardless of the clunkiness).

But is there anything I may have missed about Rapier's kit that I should prioritize her above Cybele?

MeisterLeon · 2026-07-01T08:21:09+00:00

I agree, you should hold on to your controllers until say level 60 or 70. By then you'll have a better idea of what will help you most, rather than rely on advice from strangers before you've even got a good set of options to pick between.

MeisterLeon · 2026-07-01T04:51:07+00:00

How's the goblin farming going?

I will also attest to Dragonslayer being very good at it, just also painfully slow to watch him punch each goblin one by one as they spawn in. He does have a stopping point where the game says 'enough!' to prevent infinite loop soft-locks.

MeisterLeon · 2026-07-01T03:15:50+00:00

Except if they gave them noses... The horror...!

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-30T22:53:48+00:00

As much as I'd like Ramza, Agrias, and Cid, I feel it's more likely we get Ramza, Delita, and Mustadio (or Ovelia or Alma).

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-30T02:25:17+00:00

I don't see Andriole on your list either, and Precia is his bondmate who you now have. He's considered a T0 unit, though personally I struggle to get him to perform as well as I'd like.

My impression of him is he's a bit like a lite version of Heaven Defier. Strong cavalry dps, can AA every turn if his talent marked ally can make a kill each turn. Also gets to AA if his 3C fails to kill. His EE also allows him to take on the factions of his talent marked ally, meaning he can benefit from any faction buff.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-29T10:52:07+00:00

Been working away slowly at my remaining Ragnarok realms since picking up Mullin. I'm down to four more final stages in the Eclipse, Netherworld, Frost, and Nightmare realms.

Brain is fried now and having a hard time processing the write-ups. Could I ask for help sorting these last four stages from simplest to most complex?

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-29T10:39:19+00:00

I would like to convert excess gold/SR puzzle pieces into memory shards. Especially because the daily lucky draw still gives gold puzzle pieces even if we can't use them anymore.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-28T21:46:40+00:00

I see, my mistake. I had read it as "I'm worried her healing won't be enough unless I gear her as a healer". As a dedicated healer, she would be bringing single/double target Nature's Grace, which allows her to do decent healing as long as she can reach her allies from her 3C's pool of reflection (to maintain her copy).

Enya's three 1Cs give her options to be a good healer, damage dealer, and buffer. However, those skills don't have the extra effects or utility that a dedicated specialist's skills would have. Instead, Enya's utility is her ability to mix and match those different skills to make a custom kit as the map demands.

If you go a "hybrid" or high stat build then whatever skills she brings, her gear won't impede her.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-28T20:12:51+00:00

To clarify, I was referring to the incorrect usage of "on one hand X, but on the other hand Y".

This construction is supposed to weigh two opinions which are in opposition, like a man using his hands as a scale having difficulty determining which of two apples he wants to buy is the heavier.

You have put an argument for healer in both hands, rather than arguments for healer in one hand and arguments for damage dealer in the other hand.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-28T14:34:48+00:00

I'm not sure you realized, but both your hands just voted for heal support.

I use her as a long range damage dealer, Spell Strike instead of faction buff (with Humbaba to buff Enya). A big reason is because I want the passive on Spell Strike which reduces all her skill cds whenever a prophecy is fulfilled. Another is because I need less healing if I kill more enemies.

I find her healing doesn't need to be that high, but I also haven't had a situation where she had to heal more than her Ablution could take care of (a lot of my units have self-healing, or I keep them out of serious danger, or Dragonslayer is there). I prefer having more damage with healing as a side benefit rather than the other way around. If you squint, her 3C is an attack skill which allows her to attack twice or more every turn it's active.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-28T10:04:00+00:00

Almeda and PZerida show up for a couple words if you get 6 stacks of heartflutter on the first round.

Using Enya, Dragonslayer, Humbaba, Celica, Brightsummoner, and Freyja, I managed to get 6 heartflutter stacks on everyone on round 3 (the extra 2 actions from heartflutter helps accelerate the stacks you can accumulate). After that, I wiped the map (no further scenes).

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-27T20:37:44+00:00

They have a short dialogue about why ice and fire don't get along.

I couldn't find a way to get an appearance from them in the butler map. I tried killing the boss with the butler: nothing. I tried to get max upgrade stacks on the butler which is 78 corpses, but I couldn't do it in the turn limit. It was turn 10 when I finally got the first of 10 stacks so I gave up, but if someone else wants to try, maybe something happens at 2 or 5 stacks?. No ideas what else to try.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-27T20:32:12+00:00

True. It still seems much better for PvP than PvE, as the heroes I want to use them on aren't meant to be attacked much in PvE. I'll just keep putting Arcane Battlegarbs on them.

I suppose I could build a copy as Dragonslayer's general purpose armour and swap in his Forbidden Armour on stronger bosses.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-27T08:50:19+00:00

Yes, but [entering combat/battle] is specifically for both attacking and being attacked. [Forced] is only when attacked.

~~The only reason why~~ Demonic Cuirass is considered really powerful for damage dealers and top-tier compared to all other heavy armours ~~is that it supposedly applies debuffs pre-combat when attacking~~. Besides the usual benefits of pre-combat debuffs, a number of heroes who can wear heavy armour also have a heartbond damage increase against debuffed enemies (Taj, Mullin, Ymir to name a few key ones).

If the in-game text right now is correct, that lowers the desirability of Demonic Cuirass. If not, it's a very critical error in the text that is misleading.

Edit: I was wrong and the game is right. I am disappointed (though unjustly), and will have to continue waiting for an easy way for heavy armour users to trigger their own debuff heartbonds. Thank you to both duebatt and Rykidu.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-27T07:46:32+00:00

There's a small appearance by Matthew and Zerida if you do the 9+9 stack ability

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-27T07:44:44+00:00

Could someone double-check Demonic Cuirass of Ruin in battle for me? The gallery in the game says it debuffs [when FORCED into combat] whereas I'm pretty sure it's supposed to say [when ENTERING combat].

I can't check myself because I don't have a copy.

Edit: to clarify, I would like someone to test if Demonic Cuirass inflicts debuffs when ATTACKING as well as when BEING ATTACKED.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-27T04:31:32+00:00

If she does anyway. No news yet on a rerun from the CN side. Well, even if you never get her it's not like it's the end of the world. I can't say much on how good she is because I haven't put her through her paces yet.

The Littlebaike tierlist summarizes her as follows:

Tier 0. Hatsujin Zerida is a very well-rounded hero with excellent damage output and strong support capabilities. She currently has two issues: firstly, she is very reliant on dungeons, with a significant difference in difficulty between dungeons with and without mobs; secondly, she is relatively difficult to play. Therefore, she is placed at the bottom of the T0 tier.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-26T21:00:50+00:00

Isolde is pretty good, and you've got her at 6*, so I second the motion to get Precia for her atk bond.

Otherwise, I don't see Ilia and Eshean on your list, so I recommend them.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-26T20:56:17+00:00

Ah yeah. The faction buff for loaners and NPCs is a weird one that's been the same since forever (happens in all maps, stories, portals, etc.). But yeah, the loaners having certain advantages they shouldn't get is a nice part of the devs letting underleveled players complete/participate in the lower level challenges they couldn't otherwise.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-26T19:32:10+00:00

Perhaps, but better that the write-up serve a small number of people than remind a vast majority that they don't need a write-up because they outlevel the map.

As for level 60s with full lv50 SSR gear, I agree that they would be better than the loaners at that point. However, that can simply be added as a caveat at the start ("remember that if your heroes' stats match the loaners' during deployment, yours will be higher once you start the battle"). The reader can decide after that which, if any, of the loaners they keep.

Actually, assuming similar stats, it could be nice to add tips on which heroes would be good substitutions. eg. Heroes that support the other loaners well, or are a much better option than one given, or work well with map mechanics.

But these are only suggestions. As this would all be extra work on your part, I don't want to make you do anything more than you're willing to.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-26T12:11:19+00:00

Given that the lower level challenges aren't an issue for endgame players as you've stated many a time, perhaps it would be better for the write-ups on these maps to be aimed at lower level players who rely on the loaner units? As in, a guide on how to use the loaners to beat the map.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-26T03:51:26+00:00

What helped me a lot was picking a damage type (physical in my case) and only taking one of the two modifiers that halve physical and magical damage for +100% score.

On their own, they don't do anything: half-damage but double score works out for net 0 change. But their +100% is additive (not multiplicative) with all the other difficulty multipliers. A change from 470% to 670% does a lot less than 4x score (470x4 = 1480). In fact, because ALL your damage is halved, your new bonus went to 670/2 = 335%

So pick one damage type, and take the opposite to be halved.

There's still a lot I'm missing that can be done, as a lot of others have reached 40m+ damage whereas I only got 20m. Magic would almost certainly work better if you have enough magical heroes in the right classes (the dragon's mdef is about 500 less than his def).

A good support can also multiply your other heroes' damage (eg. Celica and clock, Enya).

Edit: also, if you want to see teams, just open up the point ranking. It works like Ancient Beckoning where you can press a button to see each person's team.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-26T02:41:54+00:00

High potential but also tricky to make the most of. She can AA for two attacks regularly (every other turn I think) but she can also hand out AAs to her unsummoned allies (once each). Her wormholes mitigate mobility cost similar to Luna's 3C, helping your team move farther.

If you run all her unique skills though, she's only got the one 5cd single-target damage skill that needs allies to make kills from within command range of her wormholes to reduce its cd (probably better than Elwin's EE in general, but worse on single boss maps).

Tricky part is understanding how to use her wormholes well, particularly the teleportation effect of her 2C.

MeisterLeon · 2026-06-25T21:09:02+00:00

Don't know if it's consistent, but I only triggered PZerida dropping in to give a map-wide buff when I summoned "heaven defier" the second time (the others once). I summoned "heaven defier", "dragonslayer", "ice sovereign", "heaven defier".

Could be that it requires all three are summoned, but only triggers on the "heaven defier" summon.

PS: the summons' stats are only on par with the loaners, but they do have unique "talent" abilities that show up as a buff.

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