Luster Class Discussion

[ArcaneTechs]

About Luster

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CLASS REVEAL TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiRPGdF6yJo

Class Revealed: March 24th, 2020
Class Released: September 16th, 2020


What is "Luster"?
-The 4th Successor Class is a high speed action class that utilizes Gunslashes
-Does not have access to techniques, however it will have support techs through special actions and class skills
-Has three different elemental styles it can swap between
-When used as a subclass, it enhances regular Gunslash combat

The Class has 3 Styles of combat
-Fomel Style
--An offensive style with hard hitting attacks
--When Just Attacking, gain a sturdy effect
-Zandi Style
--A speed oriented style
--Increases PA attack speed
--Upon evading an attack, perform a PA counter
-Baran Style
--A more defensive style
--Increases guard points on PAs
--Successful Just Guards will decrease received damage and increase normal attack strength

Changing Styles Influences The Power of PAs
-Baran Style
--Enhanced PA range and guard points for Stay Arts
--Gain +1 Voltage from activating Stay Arts
-Zandi Style
--Move Arts attack speed increased
--Gain +1 Voltage from activating Move Arts
-Fomel Style
--Gain +1 Voltage from attacking

Some Class Skills
-"Luster Voltage"
--Gain voltage by attacking
--According to the amount of voltage you have, you can cast shifta/deband, increase your attack power, and gain other effects
-"Nonelement"
--Convert your elemental damage into R-ATK based damage
-"Weapon Resist Rule Out"
--Ignore enemy weapon resistances for a limited time
-Sub Luster "Gunslash Boost"
--Increases Gunslash power when used as a subclass

Extra Details
-Luster will only be able to use Gunslashes. It can swap between three different elemental styles as well.
-Luster cannot use techniques. Certain techniques can be cast from special weapon actions/skills.
-Even when used as a subclass, the support effects from "Luster Voltage" will still apply to Gunslash.
-"Sub Luster GS Boost" will also further enhance Gunslash gameplay when Luster is used as a sub
-Luster will not have a class instructor nor will it have a training quest.
-A class explanation, along with level cap and skill point orders can be found at Koffie.
-Will feature a "Smart PA" system to assist you while playing.

Weapon Gameplay

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Class Overview (Translated)

Class Balance Updates

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Balance 1 - 10/13/20

-Zandi Dodge Advanced: Increased duration and Gear accumulation

-All Atk Lu: Power increase to the following (At Lv10):
Strike power: 155% → 170%
Shooting power: 135% → 150%
Tech power: 140% → 155%
Pet power: 130% → 145%

-Lu Weapon Bonus 2: Power Lowered (At Lv10) (this is done in return for All Atk buff)
Power: 170% → 155%

-Luster Gunslash Adjustment
Zandi's Style Enhanced Shoot at Lv1 charge increased in power
Reduced Charge time for Zandi Style Enhanced Shoot
Gear Increased during Quick Shoot

-Luster Step Guard
Changed so that the effects of First Blood is applied (it's not removing anything, just adding FB to it which uhh, kinda thought was already applied)

Skill Tree Recommendations

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Without SDB (Sky Dance Boon)
http://arks-layer.com/skillsim/skill...BIbIk000000008

With SDB
http://arks-layer.com/skillsim/skill...indnib0000000f
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Reference trees as usual, if you don't like it, change things around as needed.

-Voltage Reset Heal
Seems fine at just 5 SP, it's a pretty good noticeable chunk of recovery when you let it reset (happens during downtimes). Personally don't think you need this maxed out.

-Deband Disorder
Essentially useless when you have Xie SE weapons or Lumi Gunni. Just put the required 3SP in to max out Shifta Gauge Boost

-Complete Rest
I think 1SP is more than enough especially if you already have a PP Battery anyways but basically you don't really need to grab this skill.

-Amplified Assist
If you're apart of the SDB club you can ignore this skill. If not, you may need to tune the amount that you think you need based on your playstyle for when you proc S/D on yourself. The faster you build Voltage (every 100 Vs), the better S/D upkeep you have.

-Slash Fall/Rise
This is something you'll find out if you like one or the other or both when you play. I personally find Slash Fall annoying so I have that blank.

-Purge Style
At face value you might wonder why grab this but it helps end your combo with a big bang of dmg going into no element for a small amount of time. It's worth grabbing. Activate it by tapping the WA fast twice

Style Meta

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All around, the 3 Styles feel great. Pick your favorite and improve with it.

At the moment, a lot of people agree on:
Fomel > Zandi > Barants

-Fomel --- bossing > mobbing
-Zandi --- mobbing > bossing
-Barants --- bossing = mobbing (being the safe play choice akin to Etoile, able to do what the other 2 styles do but slightly less than them)

Recommended Gear

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Weapon

1. Cras
2. Stil
3. Ayer
4. Atra Ex+. Austere NT+. LS+, Million/Clissa
5. Liberate, the rest of the other 15*s

New and returning players should work on Stil/Pyras series by running Divide Quest or any 15* weapon campaign going on. Starter weapons: Dim series. Alternatively, if you run Primordial Darkness enough, you can exchange for an Ayer weapon (cap is at +30) from Zieg instead.

Units
New players can grab Novel Units via 2020 weapon badges earned from the daily featured LQ or ongoing campaigns and work toward upgrading them into Liberate. Can also make Schvelle units too if you want, otherwise aim for other series currently out (Persona EQ drops stones in exchange for Light Stream units) via drops or exchanged.

SSA's

S1's
Augment Intent 1/2
Offensive Intent
Skilled Strike
Shoot Boost

S2's
Offensive Intent
Skilled Strike 1/2

S3's
Offensive Intent
Skilled Strike 1/2

S4's
Raising Pursuit
Colossal Radiance
Mysterious Strike
--(only use MS if you have at least over 100% crit, otherwise you're doing 6% dmg 50% of the time from this, you want consistency over an increase in crit dmg)

S5's
Mysterious Intent

Mag Build
Lu's Mag Skill works like Hr's/Et's Mag Skill, in example:

Your Mag:
0 S atk
0 R atk
200 T atk

Your Mag with Lu Mag Skill:

200 S atk
200 R atk
200 T atk


Ring Wise

These are utility which I recommend you keep one of these L/Rings with the atk (20) on it or if you want the Defense (20) instead
L/Jumping Dodge
L/Mag Excite
L/Party of Toughness
L/Atomizer Lovers

R/C Strike R (theres a compound Ring that adds all S/R/T atk into one ring, no it does not stack, remains 20% Crit + 3% Crit Dmg)
R/Lu Effort Symbol Ring (1% dmg increase, 10% Crit Rate increase, 3% Dmg Reduction. It's an okay ring but wouldn't drop C Strike ring for it)

DPS Rotations/Charts, High Level Play Videos

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Still the first week of the class, not exactly going to get top notch videos out so soon so posting what I found. Suggestions are welcomed

Feng Banthers DPS chart, do note there are things that aren't taken into account like Phrase Decay being a factor into this so take the info as you will. I'm not knocking the guys work (which btw thank you for putting the time into this, if you don't want this posted here I'll remove it) but I wouldn't 100% say Barants Style is the best of the 3.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1323925462

Solo PD UH


DQ Step 30, Zandi Style only


Phaleg, Zandi Style only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9vhzzN4Gw

Masquerade Depth 999, Zandi Style, no damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOnx...ture=emb_title

Masquerade Depth 999, Fomel Style, no damage


Endless Loner (2 laps), Barants Style


Endless Loner (3 Laps), Barants Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3LsLiGAd0

DQ Step 30, Barants Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nvMVi5_P0I

Phanatical Phantoms, Barants Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpC4...ture=emb_title

Common Questions

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1. Is Luster a S or R attack based class?

A.) It's an R attack based class despite the weapon sharing S atk

2. How does Gunslash Ability Plus work?

A.) Just like Etoiles Wand Ability Plus skill, it will take the highest atk affixed (S or R) on the weapon and adds that into R atk. So if your GS has 100/80 S/R attack, it will treat the 100 S atk as R and adds it to your total R atk. Does not matter what you decide to affix higher, it will still treat it as R atk.

3. What kind of Mag should I make?

A.) Works like Hr & Et's mag skill, so as long as its not Dex you are fine.

4. What kind of affixes should I focus on?

A.) The class is R atk based so use R atk

5. Will I need more than one GS with different elements for each style?

A.) I suggest getting some lower tier weapons with different elements and trying the Styles out first on Rockbear training. See what you like and stick to the Styles you want. You can make all 3 GS's if you want to play every style.

6. What about S4: Genesis Ring?

A.) I really don't recommend this unless you don't care about your Crit Ring, you're not only losing Ring dmg/crit rate but also a S4 dmg slot on your GS (Raising Pursuit for example). If you're okay with lowering your overall dmg some and carrying 3 extra R rings with you then i suppose you can do it.

7. How do I activate Quick Shoot?

A.) After using your 4th normal attack, hit the WA (weapon action) key

8. Max out Deband Disorder?

A.) No, just allocate the 3 SP to max out Shifta Gauge Boost. If you need something to proc an SE, use a Xie SE weapon or Lumi Gunni.

9. How to use Attack Enhance

A.) Just hold your normal attack button and then release (consumes 1 gauge bar). Fomel; Jellen Spear, Zandi; Wind Tornado that acts like Zondeel but way better, Barants; Creates an AoE that damages anything inside it.

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[Poyonche]

Mmh it looks like there will be some mechanics with the weapon's element, look as it does the same animation but the "color" is different (around 1:15).

[Moffen]

I feel like its gonna end up being called vanguard or some other cheesy name

[Bellex]

I'm interested in what the PAs will be.

[KaizoKage]

Maybe we'll know the class name by May, class demo by June, class representative by July, release by August, new intro by December LOL

[mother clusterfck]

Well, the coronavirus obviously delays all and since we got the last new class in December I guess Sega would normally not have released this class before June anyway so if it ends up as an August release I'm fine.

Anyway, I doubt that weapon element changes mechanics in a new way, at least if you base it on the point that the weapon's blade changes color because that would mean Sega has to code a new weapon / camo that changes color with element which I find unlikely and it would only work for that anyway since it definitely is not the case with existing gunslash weapons and camos. Hard to tell but I think the character is just using different weapons / camos in the trailer. Weirdly there are some small orange parts on the weapon when he's posing at the beginning but I don't see them during any pa animations when he's using the weapon with the same blade color.

But I wonder what that move at 1:05 is because those 3 extra blade thingies just glow and then the animation ends, they seem to serve no purpose when all extra blades in other pa animations attack. If not for the blade strike I'd say it's a buff or so, maybe it's a buff but starts with a brief slash?

That animation at 1:25 is the Gravity LA's sliding animation, looks really cool. I wonder if it's the dodge animation or another pa...actually, for a dodge animation it's too long and I'd think since we already got short mirage and all I'd assume new evasive actions aren't gonna be that long anymore.

At 1:27 it looks like the counter makes you blur out anime style with a black fuzzy patch but the counter slash kinda lacks impact compared to e.g. the Hero Counter animation and looks sorta weak, unless it's not a counter but only a parry or so.

I wonder if this class can simply use old and own gunslash, slotting either normal gunslash or their own gunslash pas. I'd hate if it was like existing successor classes who can only use their own new pas and not old pas of their weapons. TBH would be weird since everyone can use regular gunslash and this would mean the new class can use sort of 2 weapons with the advantage that most like the damage multipliers are for gunslash again and thus would work for old and new gs pas. Also, doesn't seem to have any dash pa nearly as good fast and long Regenschlag so not being able to use it would probably hurt.

I hope the next class we get has a real DoT focus since that's lacking from pso2, there isn't that much dot overall and it's not that relevant in general but dot classes can be fun, e.g. I liked Sazonde spam in its heyday when it was actually strong.
...might as well make it a slicer dot class...

PS: a major update instead of ep 7 is sorta, well, kinda the same, really. New eps don't come with tons of new content right away but it's spread over the entire episode so calling a major update ep 7 or not makes no real difference anyway. Story wise it should also mean that the ep 6 story is simply longer than the average story length each ep (assuming the delayed ep 7 means there is actually more ep 6 story) which I'm down for since I love space opera above all else and more beamspam has never hurt anynone.

Though tbh I haven't started the ep 6 story yet so I don't really know what it's like, I tend to just binge watch each ep once the next has started and it's completely translated.

[Kozumi]

Didn't EP6 get a single EQ and ship infiltration and divide the only real content updates?
This game deserves a lot more development time than Sega gives it.

[ArcaneTechs]

Didn't EP6 get a single EQ and ship infiltration and divide the only real content updates?
This game deserves a lot more development time than Sega gives it.

its speculated that PSO3 is in the works but their Dev team isn't as big either lately, not only that, we have our world problem right now and thats only postponed more content. but its been super lack luster and it's what I'm always complaining about, not like Sega/YSOK is going to listen to me despite filling out that last player survey

[Loyd Azakuya]

I noticed that the photons of the class are gray/white, so maybe that is the color of the class

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Maybe something like this

Also, looks like the class is using compounds and those affect your gameplay, maybe you can switch between them with your weapon accion, or maybe using a tech like bouncer with the jet boots
These 3 are the same PA

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Wind/Lightning


Light/Ice


Fire/Dark

Slide

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Maybe this slide is something similar to Etoile DS step slide (double tab the step button)
Also, you can see how he puts away the blade for a second

Don't know if the counter it's meant to be like this, but you can see he is doing multi hits during the first counter
https://i.gyazo.com/f8793e8677f7704f...c390ce4e0e.mp4

Anyway, I doubt that weapon element changes mechanics in a new way, at least if you base it on the point that the weapon's blade changes color because that would mean Sega has to code a new weapon / camo that changes color with element which I find unlikely and it would only work for that anyway since it definitely is not the case with existing gunslash weapons and camos.

Now that PS Vita is going to end its service, SEGA will no longer have to limit itself with the things they do, for example PSVita cannot use different weapons with the weapons LA's, so maybe they can do now that color change with the element, but who knows

But I wonder what that move at 1:05 is because those 3 extra blade thingies just glow and then the animation ends, they seem to serve no purpose when all extra blades in other pa animations attack. If not for the blade strike I'd say it's a buff or so, maybe it's a buff but starts with a brief slash?

It is an extra attack that happens if you hit an enemy it seems, you can see it at 1:35 as it hits Deus with it

Also, doesn't seem to have any dash pa nearly as good fast and long Regenschlag so not being able to use it would probably hurt.

If the class can use techs, then you can you just use Ilzonde

[Shambertin]

i hope this one won't be boring like hero/etoile/phantom are i was so hyped to main etoile then i just didnt like it when i got to use it XD dont let the fact i leveled it to 95 fool you its a good sub though i use for hunter and force, damage balancer is so good.