I'm try to come up with a budget FSC loadout, something for the skilled-enough-but-paywalled vanguards-to-be. I'm assuming armor levels don't matter and weapon levels do, so maybe level 10 4* weapons:
Armor:
- Chaos Set
Shield:
- Swiftstrike
Weapon choices:
- Strike Needle - Trojan/Vanaduke
- Elemental Brandish - Primary sword choice: Compared to 5*, it loses one explosion, but it's not tangible for Voltedge/Glacius lines.
- Prisma Driver - Primary gun choice: Normal shots might be similar to Nova Driver's damage, but I think the charge for 4* has less bullets?
- Avenger - Heavy sword alternative for zombies and everything else. Compared to 5*, lacks width for the charge, so probably works better with just normal attacks.
- Electron Bomb - Zombies, prioritizes speed in killing large mobs of monsters.
- Freezing Atomizer - Pretty much just for Vanaduke, if you want to go for safety instead of speed. Lacks range in comparison to Shivermist.
Trinkets: [depends on weapon, assumed to be 5* trinkets]
- Sword based - DMG, ASI
- Gun based - DMG, ASI
- Hybrid - Gun DMG, Sword Dmg
- Hybrid/heating 5* support: (Gun/Sword) DMG, Bomb CTR
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Questions/requests (When these are answered, I'll turn this into more of a 'guide' format:
1- Up to how many people in the party can a max damage Strike Needle OHKO trojans at D27?
2- How much damage does each max damage Strike Needle charge bullet do vs. Vanaduke?
3- Solo, how many max damage Strike Needle charges (no poison or other buffs) does it take to finish off the first Vanaduke phase?
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The point of this loadout is for non-SL radiant farming/heating; The intent is to reach D28 ASAP, pretty much acting as a speed run set for a walled 'endgame' player. If 5* weapons are 'worse' than their 4* counterparts until level 8, then maybe (?) it'll be better to have at least one significant 4* item as your primary weapon - that's what this is for.
Please read the original post before responding. Tenkii is not asking for the ideal FSC loadout. He (or she) is asking for the ideal loadout for speed-running FSC with 4-star weapons at heat level 10.
Tenkii, I don't have the damage numbers you need, because I'm not going to go back and get 4-star versions of all of my weapons. But it's a nice thread. Good luck.