Tints

[Ashtrails]

~30 hours into the game and I don't quite get them, except Revives.
Why would I ever forgo a real turn to use one? Is there a picto that makes them free to use that I've missed or something?

There are a lot of Pictos interacting with them but that just makes the Pictos unattractive?
Anyone got mileage out of these?

[Ratsplat]

Think of them as supplements. If your party/build doesn't need them, then you don't need them. Plus they're really only useful early on. Energy Tints have 0 use if your Lumina give you 9 AP every turn anyways.

[AirSniffer]

Originally posted by Ashtrails:

Anyone got mileage out of these?

Nope.

[Vivianite]

theres a few pictos that let you have a second turn immediately after your first one. you can easily squeeze those into that sort of situation.

they dont cost ap to use so they're effectively free

[Saelin]

Do you ever use base attack before getting any Pictos that buff base attacks? That could have been an energy tint.

[ShockedHearts]

occasionally an energy tint would be more useful than a basic attack.
revives get used often.

healing was a once in a blue moon sorta thing where id use it to save someone or cushion the next attack. but halfway through i basically never used them again cause I could heal from skills. or. alternatively. just didnt heal lmao.

[The Everlasting Stillness ☯]

Healing ones are useless once you have a decent build, AP ones MAY come in handy at some point where you royally mess up a parry chain from an enemy that deducts AP, revives are useful for when you are cursed and will die in X turns.
That's about it really..

[Talbot]

They're all situational in different ways, but functionally they give you options.

The healing/revive ones can let you run builds without Lune/any other healing and still have a break glass option.

The energy ones mean you can spend Lumina points on something other than Energizing X if you have some action economy to spare but need a ton of lumina for whatever build.

Evvvvvvvery once in a blue moon they'll also bail you out if you forget to swap out a weapon that has a typing problem and can't hurt/heals whatever you're fighting on a character without much in the way of support abilities.

[DmonHiro]

They have their uses. The health tints were the only way I managed to beat Golgra with Sciel. I forgot to equip a healing skill.

[Xaphnir]

Early and mid game energy tints can help set up another character for a big attack.

A healing tint can heal with no AP cost

[[HN]]

Yeah these things are basically useless outside of the revival one.
In very specific case I may end up using a AP one, like if a character is out of AP and can't do anything other than a weak melee attack I'd rather have them pump full another character (which doesn't happen a lot since with my build they are usually always capped in AP), but that's it.

The fact that they end your turn when used makes them just pointless, even when stacking all the lumina in the world dedicated to them, it's just not worth using them.

[TripSin]

What difficulty are you playing on? Yes, I got mileage out of them.

[Shadowdancer]

If they're fully upgraded, they heal more than any skill for a single character. They also gain the same effects from pictos as healing skills plus some specific ones. I think it's one of the few ways besides Monoco's skills to apply shields to your party with "shielding tint," which is really helpful if you're bad at dodging like me.

[Ashtrails]

Thanks for the insights, everyone!
Just beat Sprong midgame and the Heal Tints actually came in clutch a couple of times
Same for those Noire Hand Monsters at the beach to easily remove the dodge shackles.

So I guess it's a build and situative thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Hariman]

I don't quite have the pictos/skills to have infinite AP, so I get some mileage out of the AP Tints.