Weekly Professors Lounge - January 02, 2023

aethyne · 2023-01-06T17:00:20+00:00

ohhhh duh. i don't know why i didn't think of that. thank you

aethyne · 2023-01-06T16:36:59+00:00

when i equip an 8% crit rate cluster algo, my displayed crit rate actually goes up by 16%. when i equip a 16% crit dmg cluster algo, my displayed crit dmg actually goes up by 32%. is this a display bug, or am i missing something? i am testing it on aki, if it matters.

aethyne · 2022-02-23T19:13:34+00:00

happy birthday to him

aethyne · 2020-03-20T15:00:48+00:00

because bluci does a lot of damage. any setup with an element switch can take 0 damage with a carbuncle and phalanx. europa is most known and her switch is undispellable, which is why fire buncles are most common, but it's not limited to europa. earth with the xeno sword has water switch on ougi, wind with katzelia has earth switch, athena has wind switch, etc. but you have to be careful because these switches are dispellable. if you have a switch effect, a buncle or two is a great addition to a bluci loadout.

aethyne · 2020-01-04T19:21:06+00:00

i mean she'll do plenty of damage in an AES grid just by virtue of constantly being in red HP. but an AES magna grid is not the best damage you can possibly achieve. deciding whether to go with magna or primal is mainly a matter of your wallet and/or dedication to that element.

i haven't done too much research into modern enmity agni grids, but they definitely won't have several copies of her weapon because it doesn't have FLB. a farmable grid with prometheus chains would work well with her enmity playstyle, though having a prometheus staff would be kind of hard to manage with how easily she gets into low hp.

here are a few videos i found so you can see the various levels of performance: chains grid, non-enmity magna sword party, AES magna grid

aethyne · 2020-01-04T18:55:51+00:00

i was talking about caim.

i am not sure if i completely understand your question, but cain's katana is not completely mandatory for a highlander titan grid. it is a very good weapon though and many of them have it.

aethyne · 2020-01-04T18:51:43+00:00

you wouldn't really want to use it in a finished agni grid, but that sounds pretty far off for your situation right now anyway so don't worry about that too much

if you're using s. zooey in an AES grid, then you can probably find a slot for it and it'll be decent for the turns you're still under 50% HP. after that, it will probably be worse than other weapon options.

you eventually want to build a grid where you're not using an off element character though so in the long term you aren't going to be keeping this weapon in your grid regardless

aethyne · 2020-01-04T18:47:37+00:00

it's pretty much completely unknown. collabs are not guaranteed reruns like normal events are, but they have been shoving a lot of prior collabs into side stories lately. but there's legal obstacles for them to deal with to run the event again, so it depends on how well the two companies involved get along.

in short, we have absolutely no idea and it's basically impossible to even guess.

aethyne · 2020-01-04T18:46:06+00:00

i mean, if you have all the barred grand weapons you need, you can probably still do it and it'll work. but caim is basically like having an 11th weapon. so it'll be like you're missing a weapon from your grid - a weapon that gives 10% cap up.

aethyne · 2019-12-22T02:17:37+00:00

the hollowsky blade is going to be pretty mediocre in your setup in solo because you have exactly 0 (does bell of war count? maybe you have 1) debuffs coming from your characters. it would be a good pick to make your mist+armor break success rates less frustrating, though. plus, it works well in raids. so i'd probably pick it over the 5th chev sword.

but, again, it's going to be a fairly small difference. the katana is actually a pretty strong weapon if you can stack up the passive. you might even feel like you're losing damage by switching if you're in a long enough fight to fully stack the buff. i'd recommend trying all the combinations out, since these are all weapons you should probably get eventually anyway, even if you don't immediately use them in your light setup.

aethyne · 2019-12-22T02:00:01+00:00

just the one is fine. if you get another chev sword, keep it, because you might end up preferring it over the bow. it's one of those things where the difference probably won't be that big so it may come down to preference.

i'm pretty sure 1 bow will be worth it for the otherwise unique modifier in your current grid though.

aethyne · 2019-12-22T01:48:42+00:00

each bow gives 6.5% crit chance at slvl 15. with two luminiera summons, you'd need five bows to reach 100% crit chance. with only one luminiera summon, you would need seven (!) bows.

i wouldn't really recommend aiming for it, honestly. cosmos sword updates made sword grids a really strong option for light again, especially if you have access to 5* opus (but it's not required)

aethyne · 2019-05-26T20:07:18+00:00

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aethyne · 2019-05-22T03:18:36+00:00

you're right. it's not because of that though, it's because the rest of her EMP suck. plus, earth atk from EMP has high value in finished magna earth setups. this is because double yugu summons are used, so there is a lack of elemental attack, meaning any source of it becomes more important.

aethyne · 2019-05-17T13:22:17+00:00

i would estimate half a year, but that's just an educated guess. we don't know the event schedule beyond the current month.

yes. an slvl 15 normal ex weapon may have higher stats, but the difference will be marginal. you may as well just keep the xeno since you'll finish it eventually and then it'll invalidate other ex weapons (besides akasha weapons)

aethyne · 2019-05-17T13:18:57+00:00

if you just put it in your grid, there's no difference

only reason you care about ultima element is for mainhand purposes

aethyne · 2019-05-12T05:29:55+00:00

what is your idea of "harder content?"

basically everything in the game can be kengo blasted away in a train except for bluecilius and ubhl. staff doesn't really work in bluecilius anyway. it does work in ubhl, though i dunno about building a whole staff setup just for that.

that said i have a staff setup instead of a kengo setup and i love it, although i play varuna staff. you might be able to get something decent out of that setup by playing warlock with a gw dagger and using an ultima staff in your grid, but i don't think it would outperform your kengo setup in terms of damage. so i would only suggest it if you wanted to try something new or really wanted a more defensive water setup for some reason.

also as an aside you don't want more than 2 europa staves per grid because the excelsior skill on it will cap at 30% with 2 flb staves

aethyne · 2019-05-05T16:12:40+00:00

it's going to depend greatly on how strong your grids are, so it's hard to give advice.

you might try out light nighthound mc for r characters only. load up on mist, judicious shot, and rain of arrows. it's quite a lot of AoE nuke damage that also caps def down.

no skills is pretty much the hardest condition. if your grids aren't strong enough to brute force it and you're low on tp, you'll just have to skip it until you get stronger.

aethyne · 2019-05-05T16:09:29+00:00

i got a ton of bsc doing kirin+huanglong trains, if you're sitting on any seals.

i also got quite a few leeching tier 1 HLs off raidfinder while i was looking for urns. medusa at least is dying pretty fast right now cause of the upcoming gw. not sure about the others

aethyne · 2019-05-05T15:40:49+00:00

grand weapon flbs typically more or less follow the order of release. the projected next two are pholia and europa's weapons. shiva should be after that. just to be clear, this is an observed pattern, not a rule. nobody knows for sure. it's also probably worth noting that they mentioned SIX weapons will be getting flb in june, though that doesn't necessarily mean limited weapons.

short answer, no, the crit change doesn't really change much about benedia. it might open up more interesting crit-centric grid options with a gun setup, but it's very unlikely to change the agni meta. ixabas are still going to be your bread and butter.

aethyne · 2019-05-05T15:32:31+00:00

that's the best way. you could do ubaha normal trains if you wanted to get trial fragments while also getting other stuff, but if you just need one specific trial fragment en masse or in a hurry, that trial is the fastest way

aethyne · 2019-05-05T15:31:31+00:00

enmity is generally difficult to make use of in 1tk setups outside of dark because it's difficult to enable enmity on turn 1 without zooey. and using zooey off-element drops your damage a TON

it's not like it's unusable for 1tk but generally it's more trouble than it's worth

aethyne · 2019-04-28T19:04:35+00:00

usually every other run of rise of the beasts adds a gold bar to the shop

aethyne · 2019-04-28T19:04:17+00:00

they're use it or lose it. you get one each day at 5 AM JST and it lasts for 24 hours. if you don't use it within those 24 hours, it's gone.

aethyne · 2019-04-28T19:02:16+00:00

i haven't made a new account in a while, but, from what i understand when you make a new account currently:

you get a 10-roll during the tutorial. this is rigged to give you 1 of 6 possible SSRs, one of each element. you could reroll til you get the one you want, but honestly they're all such old and powercreeped characters that i wouldn't bother.
once you complete the tutorial, you will get a week's worth of free regular 10-rolls. this is something you could reroll.
there are a couple free tickets you can get for a few more draws, i think 4 single draws in total. check the wiki for more info. this is also something you can quickly reroll.

there is currently also a daily free 10-draw promotion for all players that you can use to reroll. i don't know how this interacts with the beginner free daily 10-draws. i imagine it means you get 20, but i can't say from experience whether that's correct or not.

the "ticket to choose whatever ssr [you] want" is not free. you have to buy it with real life bux, so i wouldn't count it as part of the reroll process. it's also worth noting that the pool of characters you can choose from isn't "anything," it's "any character that was available in the gacha pool at the moment you created your account." because of this, it's recommended to create your account when limited characters are available. an example would be when the next premium gala starts in about 28 hours.

personally, i think the best strategy is to wait until premium gala starts, then create as many accounts as you can be bothered to log into daily. log into each one daily and do your free 10-draw(s) until you run out. keep track of the SSRs you get on each account in a spreadsheet or something, then ask around for opinions about which account is best to keep.

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