Étoile Class Discussion

[Mr3chi]

late short revew: i back to try out phantom etoilet!
overview: etoile is sega's latest attempt to show that they know the trulest thing a male wants from a game. what else can be better than being an apache helicopter? imagine it, now you can finally sexually identify as an attack helicopter in your fucking game. what time to be alive!

where am i: i'm lv 84 now. too bad, im too lazy to grind shit nowaday. but i got it! mostly! kekw

review:
ds: PH simplicated version. insteads of 2 actions in 1 PA which is seperated by shift action, now they simply merged 2 actions to a long ass PA and tweaked skill tree and JA to make it works. i think they did it pretty well. i usually don't like 5 PA classes. but when i play ds, i would say it's pretty fine. you can mix either full longass PA dpp style or short spamming accuracy style and of course without middleman shiftaction!
pros: i like it. pretty sufficient kit. (saber des + quasar) + shotting star have very good synergy.
cons: more like phantom2 than new class. shiftaction chase is short. saber destruction is stiffy. celes collide can't change direction by mouse but keyboard.

db+wand: lets be honest! to me, both are unfinished products. they don't have what ds has. very simple kits. wand is OTP, wand's focus PA is meh. about db, some PAs are too clunky. light way is aoe but with very bad hitbox (first time i did it i was like wtf st hits?). the only thing i can do with db is spamming vertical flow + dash shiftaction to meme around

overall: i like ds!

[XrosBlader821]

So has anyone figured out if wand attacks deal Tech damage or striking damage?

[Sizustar]

Spoiler!

Meme aside, I can't wait to try this out later. Having way too much fun with Et main to try it out as a sub

https://twitter.com/ponsan029/status...23211580329984

https://twitter.com/ponsan029/status...23211580329984

[Batty]

so do you guys think that lavis cannon is a good wand for et? i checked my badges and i have enough to get one to +35, but want to make sure first

[Zulastar]

I must say here some words too:

overall: i like ds!

It's a bit tough and seems have less good AoE than DB but Celestial Collide 400-500k finishers compense this too much.

DBs seems have less single target DPS but much easier to handle and good AoE too, Light Wave hit pretty long distance, for example on Elder Arms, you can hit several of them simulateously.

Wand's have the most perverted mechanics that I ever saw. But I was forced to use it much on Tokyo Bonus 'cause it have best AoE from All 3 weapons, but too much tough (this directional input after PA usage sucks) and slow for a real action, lowest DPS.

Overall about a class:

1 It's slow as fuck: Only 1 dashing PA on DS and it costs too much. Safoie 0 and Ilzonde are unusable.
As for me who used to use Safoie 0 even while moving in campship it's unacceptable thing, so it doesn't suit for a daily routine.

2 Can't use techs. Sometime it needs to: Omega Loser trigger and nobody uses Ramegid to break watch for example.

3 Incoming damage reduction seems cool, but I can't still figure out how it's class healing abilities works.

[Reilet]

So has anyone figured out if wand attacks deal Tech damage or striking damage?

Striking. It can be easily tested by using any two rings (ex: effort and crit strike strike). It also uses S-Atk by default

[ArcaneTechs]

so do you guys think that lavis cannon is a good wand for et? i checked my badges and i have enough to get one to +35, but want to make sure first

No because you dont really spam normals like you would on Te and youd also have to remember to do a 3rd normal after every 2 PAs, if you dont have a spare Atra Ex sitting around or even LS then Lavis+ would be an okay placeholder until you get something better. Optimally if youre maining Wand on Et you make Liberate with S4 Wand Clobber if you want

[ratatosk]

Wand's have the most perverted mechanics that I ever saw. But I was forced to use it much on Tokyo Bonus 'cause it have best AoE from All 3 weapons, but too much tough (this directional input after PA usage sucks) and slow for a real action, lowest DPS.

Just stay locked on 24/7 4Head. I personally don't feel like it's slow. Though i did start playing the game as hunter using mainly swords and play summoner sometimes so guess i might be used to this kind of stuff.

1 It's slow as fuck: Only 1 dashing PA on DS and it costs too much. Safoie 0 and Ilzonde are unusable.
As for me who used to use Safoie 0 even while moving in campship it's unacceptable thing, so it doesn't suit for a daily routine.

You could use wand's dash instead or find a weapon that has llzonde or safoie on it (If it even exists idk im casual)

2 Can't use techs. Sometime it needs to: Omega Loser trigger and nobody uses Ramegid to break watch for example.

Just get a better team comp 4Head. While it takes a bit longer to kill him i don't think this should be counted against it since hu/fi also cannot use techs.

Wand is my favorite of the 3 for the ability to move around while doing pa's and attacks. It reminds me sorta of wisdom form sora or tangled keyblade sora from kh3. I actually find DS to be my least favorite though that's just me and im weird so.

No because you dont really spam normals like you would on Te and youd also have to remember to do a 3rd normal after every 2 PAs, if you dont have a spare Atra Ex sitting around or even LS then Lavis+ would be an okay placeholder until you get something better. Optimally if youre maining Wand on Et you make Liberate with S4 Wand Clobber if you want

This or if you don't have an atra lying around you can use the chevel melm from collection files and use that as a sub while building up to a liberate weapon

[XrosBlader821]

Striking. It can be easily tested by using any two rings (ex: effort and crit strike strike). It also uses S-Atk by default

Thanks

[Terrence]

Striking. It can be easily tested by using any two rings (ex: effort and crit strike strike). It also uses S-Atk by default

Does this mean that despite Wand Special Ability Plus, we have to affix S-ATK on Units even when using a wand as EToile ?