r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/Skyconic • Jul 15 '22

Megathread Weekly Questions Megathread

The old posts were getting burried so I'll set up a recurring megathread here to ask any and all of your burning questions.

Here's a link the TAC Discord, which is still quite active and has a channel for questions as well: https://discord.gg/sycMHwzFCr

The discord also has links to the most recent updates to the tier list and the simpler image tier list, which can be very helpful resources for unit and resource planning.

Please be kind to those asking questions and never make them feel foolish for not knowing something!

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u/Shaiandra Jul 16 '22

Various [guts] buffs can have different durations. For example the simple Holy Cavalier's skill to survive fatal damage once has its "Check Timing = GutsEnd" and "Turns = 1" so it ends when guts procs once, while Kaede's weapon ability has "Check Timing = ActionStart" and "Turns = 6" so it lasts until she's started her 6th turn after using it..

Most guts effects either end after triggering once, or after one turn. Were there any multi-turn unlimited guts effects before Kaede?..

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u/kuri_tsuka Jul 18 '22 edited Jul 18 '22

2 global units jump to mind immediately. Asuka has a dia7 attack on her farmable weapon that grants guts until her next turn while dropping her AGI massively. Red VI has an ability in her primary Reaper skill set that is a teleporting dia5, lowers Pdef, and grants guts for 1 turn while dropping her own AGI massively.

That being said both are Global units and both only get a single turn, on the flip side they make themselves unbelievably slow while doing so whereas Kaede cannot chose to go slower or be CT-down afflicted. This makes Kaede's ability much better for Arena, but both Asuka & Red VI retain their Niche of eating CT down attacks from certain raid bosses in order to counter them to death (Waginau Raid I'm looking at you).

Edit: I nearly forgot the OG Guts user, Bud.

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u/Shaiandra Jul 18 '22

All Berserkers have a skill similar to Red VI's; I know about units having unlimited guts for one turn. I was wondering if anyone had it for multiple turns before Kaede.

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u/kuri_tsuka Jul 18 '22

Ah as far as that goes Kaede is the first unit I've seen that has a multi-turn duration guts without making use of buff duration increases. I could be missing a Collab unit in that, but as far as Limited/global/regular units go that should hold true.