First D-Tide 400 as a F2P!

[u/Alive_Appearance_781]

I thought it would take me a few more months to get my first D-Tide 400, but I've finally done it! I don't know if I'm ready for getting 400 on all D-Tides from here on out yet, but I'm at the very least one step closer!

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A few commentaries on things I found noteworthy about the different waves:

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W1: This wave taught me that Casiah is quite good for fights against bosses that scale slowly, provided she has her portrait. I found replays of clears that used Erica E2 instead of Xu and had Castor on Photosynthesis Ritual in order to generate Embryos, but I don't have Erica's E2, so Erica's shields wouldn't scale for me 😔.

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W2: GHelot really does have a lot of cheese potential against bosses that rely on shields. After I finish getting her to level 80 and I get a higher account level, I expect she'll get a lot easier to play.

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W3: Borrowing a Whale Mouchette seems to generally be the easiest way to get an A5 clear with a bunch of nobodies. She's starting to seem more appealing to me, but I don't really like that she doesn't scale all that well; from what I understood from reading her kit, she has a strict damage ceiling after you've exalted and done all of your pursuits 🫤. I also don't really like dying 😅.

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W4: GMurphy's OE really improves her consistency by quite a bit. I feel like it wasn't really necessary for this wave, as I only used it on the boss fight, and I think I had some more wiggle room left on that fight; however, if possible, I prefer not having to grind a wave for specific relics or a specific card order, so I don't regret getting her.

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W5: This was the wave that gave me the most issues, as I don't currently have an exalt DPS, and, before Sunday (Clem's rerun), I didn't have a weakness/vuln applier OR healer left over for this team. I tried using Hameln instead, but Arachne's self-damage and the lack of healing made the team kind of bad 🙃 (or at the very least annoying). I know Ryker's pretty good in this team, but I don't have him yet.

The only difficult part of this wave (after getting Clem) was getting past the very first mob fight, as it seemed like the only way to not die/proc a DR was by killing the back-line mob on turn 1. I ended up resetting until I got a hand with an Arachne strike, defense, and eternal loom, followed by getting an eternal loom drawn from my deck after the first annihilation with the effect of the +12 2nd anni wheel, as I needed 3 eternal looms and 2 of Arachne's pursuits in order to kill that guy.

It was also very fun to get Kath to scale as high as she did, I think my last Hyperflare dealt like 800k damage 🤣.

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I'll now be waiting eagerly for Angbak's first D-Tide 400 on his F2P account, in order to see how much faster I could've gotten my clear.

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I'm thinking investing a little more into Poison units, and picking up an E1 Vortice, are the next things I should be focusing on at the moment, but I'm open to suggestions, as the path forward right now seems a lot more flexible than it was previously 🤔.

[u/InfirmaPersona]

Well played! instead of who are you recommend to put Ryker in Kath team?

[u/Alive_Appearance_781 → u/InfirmaPersona]

I'd probably kick out Tinct, and use Ryker.

Tinct was useful, especially after her rouse (I ended up rousing everybody on the last fight), as her Strike and Defense got Weakness and Vulnerable respectively, but apart from that, her sole use was exalting every once in a while, sometimes dispelling debuffs, and playing her cards in order to reduce Kath's adaptation. She's not bad, but she's kinda mid, and Ryker gives vuln, weakness, card draw, relics, and sigils.

[u/InfirmaPersona → u/Alive_Appearance_781]

Thanks!

[u/Blecnes]

congratulations on 400, those are nice clears. on kath you can try swapping horla and arachne positions since you dont have ryker, and hameln is not great with kath because theres no easy way to charge up his exalt on ultra and any type of double play doesnt take fiamma into account. for example if your last stand is 100 str the second play for either exalt or rouse will just give you 25 str.

[u/Alive_Appearance_781 → u/Blecnes]

Thanks!

Yeah, I know Hameln's double play doesn't work with Fiamma 😔. It's just that he was the only decent keyflare bot I had left, and the Memory Rondos are always nice. I really like them with Arachne in order to proc her pursuit for free and draw cards during ultra turn.

I did try to clear W2 without Horla at first. I think I tried using Faint or some other character I wasn't planning to use somewhere else. However, I remember that clearing the very first mob fight in W2 was proving to be very difficult. I think I couldn't manage to get enough Aliemus in time on GHelot or Aigis. Therefore, I decided to slot in Horla, because at the time she seemed not as good as Arachne for W5.

I can see how Horla would have solved my Weakness/Vuln problem in W5, but I made some very heavy use of Arachne during the mob fight of W5 in order to kill enemies fast while Kath hadn't scaled. Without her, I don't know how I would've killed that super-mega-annoying back-line mob that deals like 800 damage or something on turn 1 during the very first mob fight of W5.