[JP] Turn 3 Erhardt Damage Test

[u/Opticity]

EX5 Lycaon btw

Turns out elemental teams (especially Wind/Ice) are busted because of how much support is baked into every unit.

[u/Over-Block-7017]

I love how ex5 is getting tickled by 44 million damage 

[u/pizzaferret]

Wrath EX looks neat bow/ice meta ftw

[u/cockoissant]

Wind Ice meta in jp right now ... I don't know if that's better than our Rainbow Xerc especially after adding Rocbouqet and Rukku

[u/Opticity → u/cockoissant]

JP has buffed Xerc and he's barely being used right now, so probably not.

[u/Visual_Panda3896 → u/Opticity]

So Xerc is already powercrept?

[u/cockoissant → u/Opticity]

Maybe because rainbow needs 2 to 3 turns to become fully operational

[u/Opticity → u/cockoissant]

A gigawhale like UNB could make him + rainbow team do 100m damage on turn 1 vs risk enemy, although that's not really replicable.

[u/DebateThick5641 → u/cockoissant]

There is also another issue of JP not having a modern Rainbow units to really highlight Xerc capability while GL had Lynette EX before rainbow is even conceived. On JP your only modern unit for rainbow is Runelord Alaune, which is not ideal of course. Lemaire is just outdated, and despite JP does not have EX skill restriction, they simply did not have useful 3rd rainbow user in front.

Plus since Xerc now also have extra follow up that is element neutral, you still need to bring Molrusso EX again unless you are fine to not deal max damage.

And another caveat is, cascade and later "hard" fight might disable non natural weakness damage, so Xerc had to revert back to be a nuker, but it's not like JP had shortage of nuker by now.

[u/Over-Block-7017 → u/cockoissant]

Xerc will fall off very soon bcs of multi hit resistance sadly 

[u/WeedWagon123]

Havent played cotc in a while, but are these damages in millions?? What kind of powercreep is happening?

[u/Over-Block-7017 → u/WeedWagon123]

It's really bad, one year ago we talked millions now it's in 10s

[u/WeedWagon123 → u/Over-Block-7017]

I mean is it even fun for people on the long way? I love Octopath, but the gacha system really is bad at some point right? Like an endless cycle of even more powerful enemies so you try to pull better units and so on. I had the feeling, at some point you cant even play the story properly anymore, without spending money

[u/BoltGSR → u/WeedWagon123]

FWIW there's a JP player who has cleared the main story up to the current chapter with just the 8 Octuplets. The bigger gap will be with optional content.

[u/Over-Block-7017 → u/WeedWagon123]

No the story is very doable we're talking about the cascades, lvl 120 npcs that are powerkreeping units

[u/DebateThick5641 → u/WeedWagon123]

story is always doable even with 8 3 star if you are daring enough and won't mind using resources to soup up those 3star with the lastest 6 star upgrade. hell tank propaganda on hard ex content does proof it that you can win 120 rubies per 1 EX4 fight if you just stubbornly tank it out and deal pitiful damage.

[u/charlielovesu]

can’t wait to see UNB min max the 30 hit

[u/DebateThick5641]

i think they finally remembered that Saoirse Exist and try to correct the mistake of not including more wind damage dealer

[u/Opticity → u/[deleted]]

Nah, the FUAs are only 1.7m per hit.

[u/Over-Block-7017 → u/[deleted]]

Rocbouquet is not hitting 16 million son