So I've read the four guides on the wiki and wanted to know which one is most viable/worth it. I also looked at all the other status effects be these look to be the best to master. Just so you know I tend to duo with a gunner. Thanks a ton!
Curse or Fire or Poison or Shock Master
Thu, 06/27/2013 - 10:01
Thu, 06/27/2013 - 13:54
#2
What about...
So what if I had Gran Faust, Combuster, Sentenza Ash of Agni/Venom Veiler, Divine Veil, Vog Coat and Crest of Almire?
Thu, 06/27/2013 - 14:23
#3
Every status is pretty situational.
Fire works best when you're up against enormous amounts of enemies. In such a situation, spreading fire across the enemies and spending most of your time kiting them is the safest.
Shock works best either for setting up a kill in Lockdown or on gathered clumps of enemies. In the latter situation, the shock damage will spread throughout the entire group for each tick on each enemy and they'll all remain immobilized and heavily damaged.
Freeze works best for setting up a slow, heavy charge attack. It will not directly help with damage much and as such loses a lot of worth as you get skilled at the game.
Poison works best with multihit and split-damage weapons. It shines the most when there are healers around.
Stun vial works best to get you out of being crowded. Stun in general works best in the same situations as fire.
Curse, due to its rarity, works best to take out priority targets.
Thu, 06/27/2013 - 23:24
#4
So if I like kiting is fire
So if I like kiting is fire the best status for me?? BTW I currently have Blazebrand, Fiery/toxic vaporizer mk2, and sealed sword. Is curse master even viable if I was a fire/curse master. For armor I have full chromatic, Omega shield, Fused demo helm, ash tail coat. Thanks a ton!!
Fri, 06/28/2013 - 00:14
#5
Or could I be a poison and
Or could I be a poison and curse master and be an assassin. I guess the rhing is I reallant to be a curse or fire master so do they synergize or not?
Fri, 06/28/2013 - 00:27
#6
@zeddy
As I said earlier, shock only "immoblizes" kats and mechas. Though I did forget about the clumping thing.
Freeze is more than just immobilization. If you have a glacius, you can freeze some of the enemies, kill others while they can't move, then ready up a charge while they thaw. People underestimate how powerful Strong freeze is, and just because you can't attack FROZEN enemies without losing the extra damage doesn't mean you can't take that time to attack something else or prepare a charge attack.
And saying "Stun is useful in the same situations as fire" is a bit misleading. Stun itself does no damage, instead it's like a half freeze. While it doesn't completely root enemies in place, it DOES prevent you from being trapped by a wall of un-pushable enemies, and makes it just as easy to kill them since it doesn't matter nearly as much which side you engage them from, plus attacking them doesn't end the status like freeze does, so you can just beat the crap out of them instead of one or two hits.
Poison is kinda lackluster without menders around
The only weapon in the game that causes Curse is the Faust line, but it's the most powerful in terms of damage. (well, against most enemies anyway)
Shock doesn't really help much except against spookats and mecha knights, the rest just shrug it off and take minor damage
Fire is probably going to give you the most dps, but it won't help if all you do is grind FSC 8 hours a day.
You could theoretically stack all four statuses.