Fire build Cassia triumphs over " Perilous way" build

[Vi]

Gee, I followed a guide to invest on "Perilous Way" + Notch of purpose.
Then my gut told me to switch to held in my gaze --> immolation --> Scourge the Red Tide.

BOOOM! She blasts an entire army with unbearable fire dmg. No need Willpower test resistance anymore because pure destructive damage just kills everything.

I even skipped "Waking of Nightmare" because that thing is so deprecated.
Cassia can buff herself with :
1. "Reveal Light " and
2. "Mastery of Time" (+5 Willpower everytime some 1 gets an extra turn)

Result : + infinite amount of Willpower ;therefore, not a single soul can ever pass her Willpower test.

Edit : Notch of Purpose + Perilous time do not scale with her WillPower, there fore no dmg increase. Meanwhile her pyro skills do scale with her Will Power

[Draken]

Held in my Gaze is pretty good already.
If you use an officers Heroic Ability with +1 AP and MP for each kill, she can clear whole maps in one turn with 50+ damage Gazes at 200 willpower. Which is something you can have on turn 2 or even 1.

You can have this online at a pretty low level already. For me it was in the middle of act 1. Really did a number on Aurora too.
Once you got her a second Archetype like tactician, you can boost that even more.

[Vi]

Publicado originalmente por Draken:

Held in my Gaze is pretty good already.
If you use an officers Heroic Ability with +1 AP and MP for each kill, she can clear whole maps in one turn with 50+ damage Gazes at 200 willpower. Which is something you can have on turn 2 or even 1.

You can have this online at a pretty low level already. For me it was in the middle of act 1. Really did a number on Aurora too.
Once you got her a second Archetype like tactician, you can boost that even more.

That's so true ya!!!

[Batailleuse]

Publicado originalmente por Vi:

Gee, I followed a guide to invest on "Perilous Way" + Notch of purpose.
Then my gut told me to switch to held in my gaze --> immolation --> Scourge the Red Tide.

BOOOM! She blasts an entire army with unbearable fire dmg. No need Willpower test resistance anymore because pure destructive damage just kills everything.

I even skipped "Waking of Nightmare" because that thing is so deprecated.
Cassia can buff herself with :
1. "Reveal Light " and
2. "Mastery of Time" (+5 Willpower everytime some 1 gets an extra turn)

Result : + infinite amount of Willpower ;therefore, not a single soul can ever pass her Willpower test.

until you realize that in Examplar perks (36+) there is a perk adding another roll of damage on failed and double that on succeeded will save.

that being said, just held my gaze is her bread winner, once she is a Mater Tactician and you get her stacks going, she will one shot everything she lock her gaze on with a single AP.

you wont even need anything else.

you are missing steps in your buffs sequence too.

pick all the buffs ... particularly the AoE one, might seem useless at first, until you realize that her Navigator perk that work with Infusion will stack "infusion value" to all stats of the whole team, every turn. including herself.

anything else in her actual spells for doing damage for her outside of just held my gaze is pretty much a waste of points imo.

[Vi]

Publicado originalmente por Batailleuse:

Publicado originalmente por Vi:

Gee, I followed a guide to invest on "Perilous Way" + Notch of purpose.
Then my gut told me to switch to held in my gaze --> immolation --> Scourge the Red Tide.

BOOOM! She blasts an entire army with unbearable fire dmg. No need Willpower test resistance anymore because pure destructive damage just kills everything.

I even skipped "Waking of Nightmare" because that thing is so deprecated.
Cassia can buff herself with :
1. "Reveal Light " and
2. "Mastery of Time" (+5 Willpower everytime some 1 gets an extra turn)

Result : + infinite amount of Willpower ;therefore, not a single soul can ever pass her Willpower test.

until you realize that in Examplar perks (36+) there is a perk adding another roll of damage on failed and double that on succeeded will save.

that being said, just held my gaze is her bread winner, once she is a Mater Tactician and you get her stacks going, she will one shot everything she lock her gaze on with a single AP.

you wont even need anything else.

you are missing steps in your buffs sequence too.

pick all the buffs ... particularly the AoE one, might seem useless at first, until you realize that her Navigator perk that work with Infusion will stack "infusion value" to all stats of the whole team, every turn. including herself.

anything else in her actual spells for doing damage for her outside of just held my gaze is pretty much a waste of points imo.

ah I see, which perk is that one again to infuse her value for the whole team? I am not there yet xD, I am playing the game as slowww as I can coz I enjoy it so much ,especially the voidship battles LOLOL

[Draken]

Another fun thing I noticed.

Her "allies affected by her powers" also works off attacks.
Haven't tested it yet, but she has a massive inherent damage nerve to allies, so it might also be a thing to just use the area gaze attack to buff up the whole party if you don't have anything better to do.

Last, some of her abilities seem to have secondary passive effects that aren't visible during the level up screen. Held in my Gaze is one of those.

[RobOda]

Held in my gaze is amazing, dunno why most people go for the movement meta.

I’d rather she do the buff and dps spread tbh.

Held in gaze trivialises a lot of bosses people cry about as well.

[Draken]

Publicado originalmente por RobOda:

Held in my gaze is amazing, dunno why most people go for the movement meta.

I’d rather she do the buff and dps spread tbh.

Held in gaze trivialises a lot of bosses people cry about as well.

Might be some guide knowledge that got passed around a lot, leading to most people not even trying out the other stuff.

Kind of glad I went into it blind. :D

[just.dont.do.it]

There are lots of ways to infinitely stack things in just 1 turn to oneshot enemies. Cassia is hardly a single case here. Although certainly Navigator stats stacking is completely OP right now and is the quickest way to completely trivialize any fight right on turn 1.

[RobOda]

Publicado originalmente por Draken:

Publicado originalmente por RobOda:

Held in my gaze is amazing, dunno why most people go for the movement meta.

I’d rather she do the buff and dps spread tbh.

Held in gaze trivialises a lot of bosses people cry about as well.

Might be some guide knowledge that got passed around a lot, leading to most people not even trying out the other stuff.

Kind of glad I went into it blind. :D

Probably, there's some weird 'min-max' builds out there at the moment that just... doesn't really click for me.

[Gaius]

Publicado originalmente por RobOda:

Held in my gaze is amazing, dunno why most people go for the movement meta.

I’d rather she do the buff and dps spread tbh.

Held in gaze trivialises a lot of bosses people cry about as well.

I went for it because it's the most unique stuff Cassia can do compared to other origins, but after some act 2 weirdness with the terrain I respecced her and really didn't love the results (I'm using Waking Nightmare/Warp Curse Unleashed/ Scourge of the Red Tide). I might respec her and try that gaze build, but it's becoming expensive now and delaying my profit factor development :P

[Rukiri]

Just FYI her tactician stacking just got fixed. Still very powerful but now removes stacks on use properly.

I agree on gaze being better than movement though. It seems like the DC for the save does not stack with her willpower? Not sure, the combat log doesn't say afaik.

[Batailleuse]

Publicado originalmente por Vi:

Publicado originalmente por Batailleuse:

until you realize that in Examplar perks (36+) there is a perk adding another roll of damage on failed and double that on succeeded will save.

that being said, just held my gaze is her bread winner, once she is a Mater Tactician and you get her stacks going, she will one shot everything she lock her gaze on with a single AP.

you wont even need anything else.

you are missing steps in your buffs sequence too.

pick all the buffs ... particularly the AoE one, might seem useless at first, until you realize that her Navigator perk that work with Infusion will stack "infusion value" to all stats of the whole team, every turn. including herself.

anything else in her actual spells for doing damage for her outside of just held my gaze is pretty much a waste of points imo.

ah I see, which perk is that one again to infuse her value for the whole team? I am not there yet xD, I am playing the game as slowww as I can coz I enjoy it so much ,especially the voidship battles LOLOL

the one related to reducing warp damage taken and reducing veil degradation by 10.
since it's an AoE it applies her staff Infusion level to the whole team, infinite scaling, and infusion boost Weapon and Ballistics, which not that many buff increases.