Is crescent arc totally useless?

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I can't think of any situation where I would use it when I could just use moonerang and do 3 times the damage to every enemy regardless of position for only 1 extra mp. Am I crazy?

[Steel]

It has smash AoE for locks, but that isn't useful often either

[Joerpg84]

I get lazy to use moonerang all the time xD. It usually is better but not always…there are times where you need to break locks on multiple enemies that have hammers on all and moon and if they are close and 1 timer, Crescent worked better.

[Anime-Profile-Picture]

Originally posted by Steel:

It has smash AoE for locks, but that isn't useful often either

Ah that makes sense, if there's a grouped bunch of enemies with hammer locks that could wipe them all in one. Very specific use but at least its not totally useless.

[myhr2]

It's blunt and moon element, whereas Moonerang is only moon. It can help break two different locks in a pich if you're out of Boost.

[Halfshell]

Originally posted by myhr2:

if you're out of Boost.

Tbh I think its never worth spending all boost, and if you don't go past double boosting you probably won't run out. The ~5-10% extra damage the 3rd boost gives isn't much. Especially because the next attack getting boosted will mean like a ~1-3% overall loss.

Edit: Unless ofc the attack ends the battle or desperately need to kill that target.

[Ghost Beef]

Originally posted by myhr2:

It's blunt and moon element, whereas Moonerang is only moon. It can help break two different locks in a pich if you're out of Boost.

Yep, this.

[Army of Optimists]

It's not totally useless, but it'd be nice if it did increased damage to a single target so it was more of a viable focus damage ability. It's a little weird that Valere basically has two AOEs and one of them is almost always better than the other.

Moonrang probably needs to be toned down a bit, too. It's a *little* crazy that it outstrips her ultimate skill if you can bounce it enough and, by the time you unlock her ultimate, you've probably become very comfortable with the timing on the bounces.

[Halfshell]

Originally posted by Army of Optimists:

It's not totally useless, but it'd be nice if it did increased damage to a single target so it was more of a viable focus damage ability

Yeah it should at the least do viable single target dps, moonerang is somehow still the better single target skill. I think? Crescent arc scales off mag? because it does same damage as her basic attack (minmaxed for phys attack). I wouldn't mind just making the "rapid" press attacks harder to do by making them faster, because its not worth the real time it takes.