is tremor broken?

[Xylica]

I've been trying to get it to work for a while now and it doesn't seem to actually do anything. With quake rounds it's very easy to get a lot of tremor stacks, and they can even last between turns since it makes the count go up. But when I hit someone with a skill that bursts tremor, I don't see anything happening. Tremor doesn't go down, nor does the count. There's no visual effect of anything happening. The stagger bar doesn't appear to change at all. I've tried a dozen different situations, maybe it only works on enemies that aren't staggered yet? nope. Maybe it needs to be a head hit to burst tremor and it's a typo? That didn't work either. Maybe a clash win? Still nothing. Am I just missing something? Is tremor worded incorrectly?

[Hentaika]

What happens is a TINY change(unless you stack a lot of tremor ofc)

When you hit enemy with Tremor - the stagger bar will become closer to.. well.. max HP by amount of Tremor.
It's a VERY low effect due to how hard it is to make a Tremor Burst and how small the effect is BUT it's potentially very broken IF you work on a team with tremor against some sturdy boss.

Quite sure tremor NEVER fully expires, it's only lost 1 per turn, which is it's main advantage over other effects.
It's just that the difference is quite small visually unless you stack a massive amount.

Try stacking a full party worth of tremor and going to face some boss with decent amount of HP and stagger bar being far into his HP to see how it works.

It's basically stronger the longer the fight would last due to how it stacks and is almost entirely not lost.
Just like with most effects - unless you stack it heavily you won't gain much profit.

[Xylica]

sounds like tremor might not be very good against waves and is better for bossing. Might be my go to for dungeons? especially since Ishmal's quake rounds stacks a ton of count so it stays for a long time, and her ego passive is kinda really good anyway.

[SmallGespenst]

Tremor is hot garbage. it has the usual issue that every status effect has where you need to inflict duration separately, exacerbated by the fact that you need to use another attack to actually trigger its effect, so no count means you have to trigger it the turn you apply it.
also it's effect is pretty weak, I've run Ishmael with Nixie Divergence to auto-apply Tremor and give it duration, and the effect of using Tremor Burst was basically unnoticeable.

[Xylica]

it's made especially annoying in waves where you have a lot less control over where your sinners attack. I think it may only be usable against bosses but it simply doesn't seem to do very much. Man, now I'm just salty I wasted so much thread on powering up a build that's not very good.

[RoyalGuardian7]

Chimken is the new definition of tremor burst