[Skorpius]

I have seen it stated all over the place, and heard it talked about, but found no proof of it. Since when did IQ effect Photon Blasts? ;l
Synchro, in my experience, has altered the amount of Photon Energy gained by a mag, and the strength of it's photon blast, while the IQ determined how often a mag would use it's special abilities and how long they lasted. I would like to have proof, or know who ripped this data from the disk. >.>

[Nai_Calus]

Never seen synchro effect PB strength at all. I've done 4-way PB combos with 120% Synch, and 0% Synch, and the S/D was the same. *shrug*

[J3553]

I am pretty sure it is IQ, and thank god, because I am way to lazy to keep my Mags synchro up.

[KveerRaven]

On 2004-09-03 06:39, J3553 wrote:
I am pretty sure it is IQ, and thank god, because I am way to lazy to keep my Mags synchro up.

Here here. My mag has cast Reverser on me only one time, but has never had a problem with casting S/D even when Synchro or IQ was really low. Good for me because I tend to forget about raising those stats back up.

[Skorpius]

I just tested attack PBs.
Only Pilla on a Booma, but it was enough.

~1200 damage with 120% synchro / 0 IQ
~800 damage with 0% synchro / 200 IQ

So synchro determins attack PB strength. I heard somewhere that individual stats boost the photon blasts. I doubt this is true >.>

Anyway, about Mylla/Youlla:

On 2004-09-03 06:27, Ian-KunX wrote:
Never seen synchro effect PB strength at all. I've done 4-way PB combos with 120% Synch, and 0% Synch, and the S/D was the same. *shrug*

IQ does nothing for photon blasts, I know this. But what I theorise, about M&Y is that with each additional Photon Blast, M&Y gain a certain number of levels. Synchro, which is what effects Blasts, determins the LENGTH OF TIME the S/D lasts, not it's power. To add to that, the synchro of the M&Y caster effects the length, the other individual synchros effect the power of the other individual blasts used by each player (or amount of HP restored with Leilla).
i.e:
Golla user 0%, crap Golla damage
Estlla user 120%, awesome Estlla damage

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[Malkavian]

I dunno why I always thought Synchro was for do stronger PB attacks and IQ for do better support PBs like Leilla and Mylla&Youlla.
I know for sure that a low IQ mag does weaker mylla&youlla than a maxed IQ mag. And I think lv and lasting time of mylla&youlla goes together. They aren't independent.

[Alli]

Yeah... I've always been under the impression that the level of Shifta/Deband affects BOTH the duration and strength - so a level 30 S/D will both give you a higher boost and last longer than a level 15 S/D. So if you chain 4 PBs and get the strongest possible M&Y (I heard it casts S/D level 81?) then it should both be super-powerful AND last for a really long time. However, the rules may be different regarding the specific boosts from a Photon Blast M&Y versus the regular Technique versions of S/D. Either way, I always keep my Synchro up just in case! ^_~ Not that I get to use my PB's often, since I'm a FO and am usually trying to avoid taking any damage at all + my technique attacks don't count towards PB Meter >.< wahhhh...

[Eanae]

I've tested this out with a level 200 mag on gamecube. I didn't record my results, but I'll state what I found. I started with the mag at about 100 IQ, and watched the photon damage for each time I used a photon blast for a different level IQ. The damage did go up. I do believe that IQ directly effects the damage done by PB's.

[Skorpius]

On 2004-09-03 08:02, Skorpius wrote:
I just tested attack PBs.
Only Pilla on a Booma, but it was enough.

~1200 damage with 120% synchro / 0 IQ
~800 damage with 0% synchro / 200 IQ

Uh?
These are test results...

I seriously doubt IQ effects anything other than abilities of mags. Seeing as highest IQ did crap damage compared to full IQ, it's logical to think that it has nothing to do wtih photon energy/blasts.
And about the S/D levels, how was this calculated? I heard it being talked about, being level 81 with a 4 chain, but how is anyone for sure?

[Tycho]

I too believe the duration time of S/D is dependant of the level, assuming in this case it is no different than with regular S/D.

So to test it, someone try this. First do an all 200IQ 120% synchro PB chain, and clock how long the S/D lasts. Get a mags synch up to 120. Preferably by feeding star atomizers to a Savitri, Diwari, or Nidra (+4 Synchro, Pow, Mind, +3 Def, Dex, +2 IQ). This would take 30 stars of the synchro used to be 0%, meaning 10 feeding times.

The easiest step would be to dupe the mag for the experiment, so you'd now have three of the same mag. Not four; since the fourth photon blast needs to be a different one. So now have four people, three of them using the 120% synch mag, one using a mag with a Photon Blast the max synch mag does not have. For this last one just use 200 IQ again, the synchro doesnt really matter, but 120% would be good. Now make a PB chain, and clock how long the S/D lasts, again.

This should prove a difference.

(Now I think of it an easier way would be just using the Mylla and Youlla PB with a mag with a certain IQ and synchro and test how long the effects will stay, and then retry it with a mag with the same IQ and a significantly different synchro. Haha.)

If someone has a formula for how the S/D level affects duration time, we could check the level of the S/D in the first test, if the fourth mag too had 120% synchro.




My mags have synchro 0% and I don't have a Savitri, Diwari or Nidra. -_-;