Playing for the Niche! (Class set ups that are fun)

[Daku]

I'm not opposed to having fun on your own time or anything.... the thing is on your own time. WHile it does sound fun I will say this... don't take this into XH (Besides Yamato anyway) In fact I occasionally kinda do so when really bored and run around a free field loligaging about.

I don't want to be incredibly harsh but in a XHEQ such as TD4, Which requires just about anyone to bring their best) and Magatsu whose just a huge DPS check where your better off running Gu/Hu or Gu/Ra. While to you it may seem odd people are focusing on their damage, alot of the content in XH will actually expect you to do so, it's designed to give meta builds something to kill that won't die in one shot. While Fo/Te may not be as flashy with their tech usage as this is, it's certain to kill a pack of Goldrahda with theirs techs far more efficiently than Gu/Bo ever can with Techs or Pas, this isn't even particular due to the fault of a lack of skill/gear, Rather how the game's mechanics are.

And the reason people worry about builds like this is players in XH or sometimes SH will often be on timed boost whose duration will tick down once a quest is 'active'. Which often pressures the community who wants the best bang for their boost into the "Meta" class combinations such as Fo/Te, Br/Hu, Fi/Hu. Nor do they want others running off-class builds because one too many players we have to 'carry' due to it often makes it more difficult to use our boost efficiently and in TD, result in an outright failure because the difference between a fun and serious build is actually a really huge gap and can mean the difference between efficient killing a pack of goldrahda 1/4th your PP bar or being out of PP by the time the goldrahda are dead.

If it seemed trivial you should hopefully understand why people naturally recoil or cringe on seeing builds like this, while you seem to at least keep it out of XH, I hope you now understand why the community does actually worry about damage so much. .w. Some of don't run the most damaging build because we want to, we just don't want to lose an EQ for ourselves and others for the sake of selfishly having fun at the cost of an other's time and enjoyment.

[TehCubey]

Shitty builds aren't fun. Good builds aren't un-fun.

You want to do long, stylish combos? Good builds allow you to do that too. Enemies die too quickly? Turn off stances or use an ungrinded weapon or something. Or go to UQ, everything takes a lot of punishment there.

[Selphea]

Got Gu/Bo to work in early Ep3 until main class bonus, TMG/Gu buffs and easy 13* happened. Main class bonus killed a lot of builds like FiBr, FiBo, RaBr and arguably nerfed TeHu quite a bit.

Anyway GuBo a fun combo and works better than GuHu in content where you get Bo's multipliers to work with Zanverse. If you're pub EQing in a quest with lots of breakables it actually works well because no one does Break Niren BoTe in a pub. If you're soloing Tokyo exploration for whatever reason, you get easy Mirage on Trains and Zanverse is huge there.

I don't play it anymore because the gearing costs are insane and most content is too easy to bother but i still keep a GuBo build in my palette for learning new content because of how difficult it is to die as one when you can fly and heal in the air and go ranged. I'll probably run GuBo in Ultimate Amdu until i figure out enemy patterns.

[Vintasticvin]

Yeahhhh this community is all about "optimal" max damage so sorry I had to see you get crapped on like that but nyeh welcome to the forum and yeah most people are on their boosters clock's soooo gotta get it done asap which is kinda redundant since most vof the better eqs can only be done once ir twice per account

[Zephyrion]

Yeahhhh this community is all about "optimal" max damage so sorry I had to see you get crapped on like that but nyeh welcome to the forum and yeah most people are on their boosters clock's soooo gotta get it done asap which is kinda redundant since most vof the better eqs can only be done once ir twice per account

Well people tend to confuse niche/specialist builds and straight bad build. I find it great to experiment with classes and weapons to find cool stuff.

Two things to keep in mind though
-Niche or specialist builds are really good when they can get their abilities to shine. I myself love BR/RA to death, but I'm aware that if I take said BR/RA in say TD1 I won't be able to play on my strengths because of the insane quantity of mobs and poor quantity of bosses present.

- As it was said earlier, you can try your own stuff but you need an objective/setup/strong gimmick that would warrant this. Ice FO/GU is super awesome, and also super stylish, and despite its fall from the meta still has chain trigger Ilbarta, so you have your setup and unique strength, BO/RA on the other hand, doesn't really have something that makes it shine in any way, so it's really kinda meh

I can agree on the fact that tech using gunslinger makes for a really classy thing to mess around with ! As long as you have fun with the build, all is well !

[Great Pan]

Nothing beats HU/FO, my friends. HU/FO best combo, 10/10.

[Shinguru]

look at all these plebs not playing BoRa

fucking elitists

[Dammy]

i did caves AQ with a FO who didnt have super treatment
because he was FO/HU ...

[ZerotakerZX]

i did caves AQ with a FO who didnt have super treatment
because he was FO/HU ...

that's a solid exscuse

[NoobSpectre]

So, in short, the general opinion is:
1) Dun do that, or dun do it in place where players are.
2) Ppl are too busy to steamroll everything so unless its speedkill/big numbers its not fun.
3) Wrong place to post.

Anything to add?