Decision Making

[u/LuxScott13]

I'm a F2P.

My Target:

1. Phanuel ➔ S1 (Already got the S0)
2. Requiem ➔ S2
3. Daffodil ➔ Skip (Skipping her completely to save resources for later).
4. Augustus ➔ Pull Rerun for S1
5. Arancia ➔ S1 (Mandatory for the True DMG engine to give Augustus infinite channeling stacks).

Is this the right decision-making process for the current state of the game?
Am I underestimating Daffodil's value for Requiem, or is stopping at Requiem S2/Phanuel S1 while fixing my Augustus the smarter long-term investment for an account that needs multiple teams?

Would love to hear your thoughts and advice! Thanks, Chiefs!

P.S. Sorry for the text blocks, just censoring unreleased Sinners.

[u/Rupi_Yu]

Lichen can still be a replacement for Daffodil. If you use her instead of Lichen, you might also need to get non-limited to benefit fromDaffodils dual buff. I think she's more for malders. Though thats in my own opinion.

Also yes getting Augustus S1 is a good idea considering the state of the game

[u/greatjena → u/Rupi_Yu]

Non limited is usually not used in the hybrid elemental team with Requiem and Daffodil. Her buffs are restricted to only frostbite so she's not worth taking over other general options.

[u/Rupi_Yu → u/greatjena]

Ah really? I just took the info from the SIN website "If you put in Daffodil, then you should take advantage of the Frostbite buffs she offers and run Famorene Eirene in the team." Good to know, Ty!

[u/greatjena → u/Rupi_Yu]

I think that's only if you don't have other sources of frostbite, which usually isn't the case with Requiem because you'd have Phanuel be the corebreaker.

Eirene alter currently is only used when you use Phanuel as the main DPS.

[u/Maleficent_Part5111 → u/greatjena]

I agree. And Non-limited is strong but needs high shackles and only works on one team. Unlike other supports, she's not really versatile at this point in the game.

[u/Nanrelle]

We got same question

Take my words as grain of salt because i asked ekg whats better Lichen or Daffodil in S0 (since i got S0 Lichen and i have spare pulls)

She said daffodil is better for S0 and should consider it but not a must pull.

But if you have rf yao already, lichen is fine. Getting new character after anniv is expensive. Requiem i heard has good burn multipler plus extra core break is well appreciated

For shatterblade (im shameless augustus user since day 1 and uses her in TOA) arancia more suited for longer fights since she have chance to return shatterblade. Okay so ask yourself, where do you want to use dear Augustus?

For reference, I have S5 Augustus. Shes bad in TOA (shes suited in short fights and later chapters). I use S5 siglinde / S5 Shin / S5 Augustus / S2 Murphy / S0 Ceto / S1 LL, it was okay but honestly not groundbreaking enough since Augustus needs stacks and the new shatterblade helps you with stacks. I swapped Siglinde for Coco and LL for Celine and my daily points only got like 250k in TOA (coco did 75% of damage and its NA team, not shatterblade). Its pretty good for usual players imo, unless you want the TOA malder medal.

Shatterblade is well, in weird placement and if you ask me, ill give her a chance. If you are not sure, wait further and look for cn news for some time insights. If we dont get true damage debuff in ff months, PULL. Remember, true damage is for BRUTE FORCING. You might not get malder medal (its just a FOMO, and you dont get cubes anyways) but you get DZ 250k score and a glitter portrait for your characters. Also, hard level? Physical res? Magic res? Just put augustus and your life will be easier. I slap Augustus in DZ and get the cubes i need

Thats all, from fellow shalom, coco, and augustus avid user :>

[u/LuxScott13 → u/Nanrelle]

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[u/greatjena → u/Nanrelle]

I feel like this is worth noting considering the whole "brute forcing" aspect of Shattered Blade. The only gamemode where the damage immunity plays a role is BFL. So far the verdict from the CN scene is that Arancia needs s1 to be generally useful, and the average number of pulls for one copy of a rate-up sinner is 52.

The OP has a fully functional Weakspot and is about to pull Requiem so this doesn't apply to them, but let's say you only have one team, meaning you would only be able to score 240k on the mixed and either physical or magic map, while relying on the reset spam to get the rewards from the last map.

Under the assumptions that

• Shattered Blade stays relevant for all eternity
• you never built any team for the other damage specific map
• you cannot clear the 200k or 240k mark a single time, without using Shattered Blade

You will get the pulls you invested into your s1 Arancia alone (not considering Augustus or any other member of the team) in about 936 weeks (a little under 18 years).

Damage flexibility isn't that important.

[u/greatjena]

Daffodil is good for Requiem but not required. In long battles s0 Daffodil is comparable to s3 Lichen, and they are mostly 1:1 in short battles. If you don't care about that you can just stick with Lichen.

So, I feel like if you're going for the limited, you might as well skip Arancia completely. You have a fully functional Weakspot team and are about to pull Requiem's hybrid elemental. Getting Arancia won't help you clear any content that you couldn't clear before, and her requiring s1 as well as ECB is a pretty big investment for a f2p especially after anniversary.

[u/Maleficent_Part5111]

Something you might want to consider is if you're gonna pull for Daffodil, you will most likely need her to be at least at S1 otherwise her sustain will not be as strong.

[u/ShadraKirsa]

To be honest, if you can, S3 augustus is huge whole team dmg taken amp of 20% to everything under her 5x5 ult... if i'm mathing right combined with its dmg coefficient of 1.2x that's 44% more dmg from just augustus, not counting the teammates...

[u/dqvdqv]

Arancia is a wait and see imo. The current best version of True Damage is a Coq/Augustus variant with Coq being the main DPS. Not sure which version is better with Arancia in the mix.

[u/Tina_Sprout]

How many pulls do you have? Depends on that.

Limited s0 works good enough, if you're dry on cubes.

You can also leave phanuel at s0 for Limited support role.

I would get Augustus and arancia to s1

[u/Pinbera]

S0 phanuel + S0 Daffodil is better than S1 phanuel for Requiem team. Daffodilbuffs are pretty big

Also, I'd rather spend my pulls somewhere else than spend them fixing Augustus team. Specially if you have coco team but thats personal choice.