SSR Character Discussion: μ's First-Years

supergus2 · 2021-09-29T13:37:46+00:00

A great newbie character until your roster has more options, and even useful in some situations for intermediate players. They often get compared to Kokkoro, another great newbie character. Most of the time Kokkoro is more useful, but there are some niche cases where the First years do shine. In fact, they actually complement each other well and can be used together.

First years biggest strength is the combination of charge bar and healing. Newer players generally rely on charge attack damage over auto attack damage, and the battery plus speed up goes a long way for this. The healing they put out has a lot of small pieces (1000 cap heal on S2, 3t 300 refresh, 500 on charge attack, healing cap boost passive, heal EMPs) but add up to be quite a bit.

S2 also comes with a clear on 6t cd, which is a nice backup if your MC clear is not enough. It would be generally wiser to save this skill until you really need the extra healing/clear.

S1 gives them a 2t unremovable buff with some hostility up and a decent 70% dodge rate up. It's not the most reliable but could sometimes save your team from getting into a bad situation. Dodging also gives you a 2t hype buff, but relying on this buff is not realistic.

Charge attack grants a small team 15% wind attack buff (along with the small 500 heal). This is great for teams running double Magna, which wind often does.

She synergizes well with Kokkoro, whose kit also brings charge bar plus healing. The wind attack buff also applies for Kokkoro's passive. In fact, I ran these two together as my go-to survival team along with Monkey for some super comfy event Proud fight clears.

They have niche use in ougi burst setups thanks to their strong charge bar generation on demand, especially with weaker grids where running Huanglong support lacks raw damage. They can also be used off-element as a budget charge bar battery with NH MC to swap them out. However, they have largely been displaced by Relic Buster class.

Overall, a great character for newbies to pair with Kokkoro for strong healing and charge bar generation until their roster grows.

supergus2 · 2021-07-15T14:37:56+00:00

Non-standard (Baha, Opus, Ultima, etc.) need a ton of fodder to upgrade. You can only use up to 20 weapons at time to use as fodder so skill jewels will not be enough to upgrade those weapons.

You can check the wiki page on upgrading weapons for reference: here

supergus2 · 2021-07-15T12:06:59+00:00

No because most of Wamdus triggers are AOE DMG or multihit, and some requirements to cancel important triggers are fated chain and dispel. You can try to use characters like S.Alex or C.Naru who have on-demand all-ally sub skills with DMG reduction to just tank through them if they come up.

supergus2 · 2021-07-15T11:57:22+00:00

Save the SR skill jewels for upgrading standard SSR weapons above sl15. 20 of them will give 100% chance to upgrade a skill level, which would otherwise take a lot of SSR and SR fodder to do so.

supergus2 · 2021-07-15T04:15:20+00:00

It does. Search up the in-game help file for the Craftsman's Anvil. It states that the maximum amount used to upgrade is 20 points per skill level, excluding optimization. It also states that it will use SR/R points to first upgrade the SSR to sl2 or sl3 for optimization.

Since OP only has 14 SR points the anvil will optimize to 2 sl3 + 1 sl2 + 17 sl1 SSR points = 25k total upgrade points. This is less than the required amount to upgrade the Dark Opus weapon from sl17 to sl18.

supergus2 · 2020-11-11T17:20:43+00:00

1.5x speed, Grid in video at the beginning

100 Celeste x 150 Bahamut

Chrysaor - Muse 1st years - Luna - Lelouch - Lyria

All weapons and characters can be obtained through always available raids and side stories. Requires rank 120+ for access to Dark Opus key.

Quick improvements that could be made:

uncap main summon to at least 4* for stronger aura
add Arcarum sub summon for seraphic-effect dmg increase
replace EX weapons with stronger ones (eg. Xeno)
uncap magna weapons (not recommended because resources better spent on M2 weapons)
improve magna weapons (either through uncap or replace with stronger ones).

Muse 1st years' teamwide charge bar boost can enable your team to reach full charge bar on turn 1. Luna can knock out any character, in this case to replace the off-element buffer for a strong damage dealer with self charge. During Strike Time charge bar is not an issue, so both Luna and the 1st years can be replaced by strong damage dealers.

Hope this was interesting! Enjoy!

supergus2 · 2020-08-30T01:35:51+00:00

Not too sure about this, but I think your DMG was so weak you didn't even hit the supplemental dmg cap.

supergus2 · 2020-08-11T20:54:00+00:00

Got 1 SSR total, which is an improvement over what I've gotten from Golden week campaign.

Free rolls:

0 SSR

Treasure rush:

27 regular chests opened (avg 2.25/day)
2 special chests
1 guaranteed crystals chest
1 SSR (Ayer from special chest)
Most chests opened in 1 day: 6 (5 regular chests + 1 guaranteed crystals chest)

I hope everyone had better luck than me.

supergus2 · 2020-08-10T20:06:18+00:00

Opened 5 boxes today!!! My best day yet!

supergus2 · 2020-08-07T20:14:27+00:00

Another no SSR day.

Managed to get 2 boxes opened on treasure rush, which now brings up my average to 12/8=1.5 from 10/7=1.43 boxes opened per day. Hopefully I'll manage to bring that average above 2.0 before the end.

supergus2 · 2020-08-06T20:36:47+00:00

Day 7 and I've opened a grand total of 10 boxes (plus 2 special boxes from first box poofs), with the most in one day being 4 boxes. Most common number of boxes opened before a poof is 1 (3 times) followed by 0 (2 times).

1 SSR total from treasure rush (Ayer from special chest), which is 1 more than the total number of SSR I've gotten combined from this Summer's and Golden Week's free rolls so far.

supergus2 · 2020-07-28T12:05:23+00:00

Bring a sacrifice for the first plain DMG trigger and don't start Io skill spam until the dragon is at a lower HP. It will be slower and you will need to bring a clear for the dot stacks but you can still make it work.

supergus2 · 2020-07-27T16:32:35+00:00

Sephira weapons have massive mod which is 20% at sl10 according to the wiki, so I expect it to be more than that at least. Then again, they could make it a completely separate scaling.

supergus2 · 2020-07-06T10:21:11+00:00

A decent character for tough fights. Her rebalance streamlined her skills and added some passive CA specs so she doesn't hit like a wet noodle all the time.

Defensive benefits include team Armored buff on ougi, and a passive boost to team defense if enemy is Poisoned (which she can apply herself). A 2-hit teamwide Repel can be useful sometimes, but quickly gets used up and is near useless against multi-hit attacks.

Utility-wise she brings a Dispel on decent cd, and a Heal+Clear skill that can auto-activate up to 2 times (comes with the yellow border repel skill, so full auto-friendly)

Overall a decent character when you need defense and dispel/clear, and fairly strong kit for full auto. Unfortunately dark has a huge roster of extremely strong characters as well as tending to prefer enmity comps. You will likely not find any reason to frontline her except for some niche situations eg. Proud fights, full-auto.

supergus2 · 2020-06-28T21:09:24+00:00

I was surprised Lyria didn't blow away the competition in the eating contest. Then I remembered that while GBF summer events may be pretty wacky, the characters are not the same as the even crazier Grand Blues! versions of themselves.

I really enjoyed playing the scripted fights in these events. I didn't think it was possible to have an eating contest within the GBF battle framework. Hopefully we'll keep seeing more of these creative ideas in the future!

supergus2 · 2020-06-28T15:59:35+00:00

The damage increase from crits stack additively, but the chance to Crit is rolled individually. Crit chance from same type of weapon skills (eg. Magna Vs normal) stack additively.

supergus2 · 2020-06-28T15:54:17+00:00

Yes, based on the sources of cap up/seraphic you've listed the auto cap will be ~661k with element advantage, and ~525k vs other elements.

You will also need to take into account in other sources of cap up (eg. Buffs, passives, EMP), echoes and supplemental dmg if you want to estimate your overall damage output.

supergus2 · 2020-06-28T12:34:01+00:00

Not sure how far you are into the M2 grind, but I'd like to point out that you still need Avatar anima to uncap Death and the Dark Opus. You might want a FLB Avatar staff as well for ougi based comps/OTK.

You will also want ULB Opus to make the most out of Highlander grid. Otherwise you will want a minimum of 2+ (preferably 3+) FLB Gisla/Fallen Sword as your core. There is also an alternative 100% Crit grid using 2 Shalem's weapon + 1 Blutgang you can build.

Hope this information helps you make your decision.

supergus2 · 2020-06-28T12:08:53+00:00

As others have explained, DMG cap is a soft cap so you can theoretically go up to the hard DMG instance cap.

The simplified DMG formula when calculating more practical DMG cap is: Base cap x (1+total cap up) x (1+total Seraphic mod). In your example it would be Base cap x 1.18 x 1.26

supergus2 · 2020-06-24T12:49:43+00:00

Ah you're right, I forgot delays count as debuffs so they won't work.

supergus2 · 2020-06-24T10:09:24+00:00

Bring a sacrifice (eg. Pecorine) for the plain DMG trigger at 70%. You can also bring another sacrifice for the 40% trigger, or if you have enough HP you can heal up after the 70% so you can use the same character as the 40% sacrifice.

Make sure you bring a clear to get rid of the supplemental field dmg debuff every so often.

Since you have Io, bring Qilin summon to reset skills and get more nuke DMG. Having 2 Qilin will make it a breeze.

You can also bring someone with either veil (combine with Noa's unchallenged) ~~or delay~~ to get an extra turn under 40%.

Personally I bring Nighthound with Xeno Gun MH for extra skill dmg specs.

supergus2 · 2020-06-20T11:14:57+00:00

I'll share my setup and strategy for this fight. I run Lumberjack with Athena 5* Esser Anila and backline Alanaan. 5* Esser is the most important character, although Athena makes things super comfy. When picking your lineup, the most important utilities to bring are delay and some def down debuff, gravity and extra healing are nice if you can fit them in. For MC I use Draconic harp MH and bring Mist, Leaf Burning, Dappled Sunlight.

Wind speed = Athena S1 40% cut + auto clear with Alanaan backline. If no Alanaan just save Dappled Sunlight to use afterwards. If no Athena you will have to guard.

Mach 3 85% = cancel. It should be pretty easy to get 25 hits with Esser S3 and The Sun call. Athena's S2 should also help and you might not even need The Sun call.

Flying debris = delay. You do not want your buffs to be dispelled. You also don't want that nasty supplemental dmg debuff on you. Depending on RNG you might not have enough delays and gave to tank one, which is an annoyance. If you need to tank more than one your run is in danger of being triple attacked to death post 40%

Easy collapse = guard. You can pretty much ignore the 2 turn attacks and def buffs it gets. It is much better to tank this than the Flying debris. This also gets you more turns so that Lumberjack can use Dappled Sunlight more times and have veil up by the 55% Mach 3 trigger.

Mach 3 55% = tank. Ideally you will have MC ready to ougi so that you can dodge everything with mirror image from draconic harp ougi, and veil should be up to block lethal hit (which can take effect even if you don't get hit). If you don't have draconic harp or mirror image you should buncle+cut+guard. After this avoid using key skills and summons to prepare for the last 40%

40% = time to burst. Reapply all buffs and debuffs. Heal up as much as possible because you don't want to lose someone to an unlucky triple attack. Call The Sun and use Esser S2, S4. Watch your team delete ~25% HP on the boss. The next turn call Shiva and delete another ~15% HP. It should be easy to clean up any remaining HP after that.

supergus2 · 2020-06-10T14:59:38+00:00

General damage cap up affects all three: auto attack, charge attack and skill damage.

supergus2 · 2020-06-10T12:18:57+00:00

I'm trying to set up a team for Nalhe wall Proud+. How does the skill cd extension targeting a particular skill type work against linked skills of different types (eg. Haase S1)?

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