Broken Character/Party Setups

[pho5enix]

What are some of the most broken character and party setups you can throw together for this game? I played through the main story using my own builds (although I did take the suggestion of one EVA tank and three casters, which has been pretty solid), but for the post-game I just kind of want to cheese through as much as possible. Any broken builds are appreciated.

[Alex]

All characters are pretty well balanced.
If you want broken setup, just remove all orbments and accessories.

[NisseDood]

Originally posted by Alex:

All characters are pretty well balanced.
If you want broken setup, just remove all orbments and accessories.

Pretty sure he means broken op and not broken useless.

[Stabbey]

Mercurius Master quartz on a primary caster. It only has base-level spells until level 10, but even those will do high amounts of damage.

Combine Mercurius with top-tier quartz which also gives high level arts, and you can melt through even tough enemies.

Trap quartz: The two which increase damage of either arts or crafts while decreasing area. It turns all AoEs into single-target, but you only get like a 20-25% boost. Being unable to hit even a second target is an automatic 100% damage reduction, maybe more depending on how many targets you could have hit. Not worth it.

[Killermoose69]

i copied this broken build from CS4:
Crow - Spell Crit + the 100 CP speed buff/ATS up. Throwing some crit orbments and quartz, 100k + dmg, almost every turn. big ♥♥♥♥.

[Stabbey]

While Crow's base SPD is 11 out of 51, his base ATS stat is only 25 out of 51. Getting ATS Up isn't that difficult, and neither is cast time reduction.

[pho5enix]

Originally posted by NisseDood:

Originally posted by Alex:

All characters are pretty well balanced.
If you want broken setup, just remove all orbments and accessories.

Pretty sure he means broken op and not broken useless.

Yes, brokenly overpowered is what I'm going for.

I know I saw a formula for an OP Alisa on these boards at one point, but now I can't find the post.

[Stabbey]

Originally posted by pho5enix:

Originally posted by NisseDood:

Pretty sure he means broken op and not broken useless.

Yes, brokenly overpowered is what I'm going for.

I know I saw a formula for an OP Alisa on these boards at one point, but now I can't find the post.

Was it this one?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1668540/discussions/0/3811786447109341099/#c3811786447110321774

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011822745

[pho5enix]

Originally posted by Stabbey:

Originally posted by pho5enix:

Yes, brokenly overpowered is what I'm going for.

I know I saw a formula for an OP Alisa on these boards at one point, but now I can't find the post.

Was it this one?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1668540/discussions/0/3811786447109341099/#c3811786447110321774

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011822745

Most likely, I remember that it centered around that Mercurius MQ. Which means I'm going to have to find a new MQ for Tio.

[Zeks]

This is not op, this is unfocused mess. Sure, she's a good generalist, but op caster is much better specialized on the element and cast speed/delay reduction. Sure this maybe works on low difficulties, but anything on Abyss will murder a party that tries to use setups like this.

The author of the build does make a good point about alisa being a great magical crafter, but for that niche you don't really build her with that "weakness exploit" garbage. You maximize her ATS and magical damage output with MQs to make a nuke that hits like a truck with flamberge/orbal gear/scraft and it doesn't matter if she survives after all that because she'd have dealt an absolutely monstrous amount of damage to everything.

[Alex]

Not only MQs here, in this one there's an infinite lot of stat upgrade items that can make a monster out of any character you want. I'm getting Tio to do a whole lot of magic damage & Laura being killer physical.

[Zeks]

https://i.postimg.cc/CLRNqTtC/image.png Replace with relevant endgame quartz. I am not there yet but the setup isn't different.
Chrono burst into either orbal gear or rosetta arrow. if stuff lives scraft. For bosses nothing much changes, she just becomes expendable. Also, if she dies, one more op scraft automatically

[Zeks]

There's also this sillyness with Fie that can pretty much perpetually stay invisible taking potshots at the enemies:
https://i.postimg.cc/bvvC3Cwp/image.png

[Alex]

Actually with CP recovery accessories & CP recovery master quartz & dual EP cut & EP increase quartzs & chrono burst you can make another monster that will recover CP in burst so fast that you'll just spam S-Crafts & use EP recovery items to spam more and more. This one, they pulled out all the stops on cheat builds...

[suzuka]

speed + rixia's battle order + break dmg + at delay results in so many turns that even lvl 250 bosses (hard) get no turns at all. as long as your break is high enough to stop their turn then your effective turn rate during break should be so high that the boss just doesnt get any turns. even bosses dont have 0 delay resistance so as long as some delays hit then they just keep getting pushed back. this was my primary team:

rean (delay + stat defuff)
-acc: steel orb, mishy badge
-mq: jaldabaoth, kusanagi
-q: lunar gyre, skanda gem, dazzling sevenfold gem, lion king, kyoukotsu, grail thelas, true solar gyre

altina (high magic + break)
-acc: solomon garb, queen mishette
-mq: mercurius, pandora
-q: dazzling deus gem, melville arc, true epoch bell, dazzling nohval gem, nohval gem, dazzling diabolos gem, analyze ur

rixia (delay + stat debuff)
-acc: lunar sphere, mishy music box
-mq: woden, scorpio
-q: shield breaker iv, skanda gem, melville ray, dazzling sevenfold gem, holy breath ur, nohval gem, true lunar gyre

ash (high break)
-acc: passionate rouge, roaring orb
-mq: minotauros, altair
-q: holy breath ur, dazzling mars gem, dazzling rakan gem, dazzling skanda gem, lunar gyre, nohval gem, prominence nova

to finish my achievements, i got through nightmare in a few hours with similar builds with whatever characters where available. rixia's battle order is best because its only 2 BP and gives speed buff as well, but any that have -delay% like swin's or fie's works too

[LOLwhat2]

Originally posted by Alex:

Not only MQs here, in this one there's an infinite lot of stat upgrade items that can make a monster out of any character you want. I'm getting Tio to do a whole lot of magic damage & Laura being killer physical.

pretty sure emma and musse has best base ats