War lady item world build

[matthew]

Does anyone have a war lady build that they can share for item world running? I'm trying to make one myself, and while its decent, I starting to struggle in Baals sword (LoC version) at high levels, and I also struggling with item bosses.

She has 20m in health, I haven't done Baal LOC stages 2 and onward, (I'm mainly trying to get more health for some of the characters) I tried searching, but can't seem to find much on a solid build to use)

So does anyone have any tips on making a good item world killer?

Thanks in advance

[Hidden Power]

Just throw on every glass cannon 1st turn offense evilities. Keep in mind that full strike is G rank in power. I believe less than C rank or something means less then 100% of your ATK. So not only does will full strike do less damage than a normal attack, it'll have far less def penetration. War lady with 99m ATK vs mob with 99m DEF usually does 0 damage. This means that in this case +ATK% stuff will be far better than just +DMG% stuff. I personally don't like to lower their accuracy so they don't have to stand near Suisen and i can move them in a good line of fire spot and be done without moving Suisen also. RL time efficiency > game efficiency.

Some tips: Some mobs have 2nd life abilities so hasty rush (DLC)is highly recommended crumbling body is kinda risky but it's your choice. "Run them down" unique works well on mobs with "still standing".

Highly recommend using "support attack" unique on your damage focused war ladies and enhance their gear with more attack range. This makes it so that they can kill off other mobs in range when your random support characters with 0 investment attacks them with anything.

Stats on gear take forever or maybe noone should even bother. With just 20m stats from juice bar and base, 4 epic items equiped with 8 max innocents in each. You can max a stat with around +100%ish stat bonus from evilities, this can be done fairly easy without any seal of power farming or good gear, though I believe you'll need to max your weapon skill and your armor skill to get more stats from your gear. Learn to use auto battles for weapon and skill lvling, there's no other use for auto battle juice late game.

Also you don't need more health than just the juice bar for Baal, if even that, just 3 evilities: Corpse(unique), Still standing, and EM barrier. HP, RES, and DEF wickedenhancement at the hospital gives your another 2 free hit bonuses.

[matthew]

Sorry for the late reply, thank you, that really helps, I done a few item world runs, and the change in evilities has helped enormously, I didn't use hasty rush, before, or support attack. both of those have helped a lot.

Did LoC baal 2 and 3, now onto 4.

So thanks for the tips, you were are a great help.

Thanks again

[Hanzo]

Originally posted by matthew:

Sorry for the late reply, thank you, that really helps, I done a few item world runs, and the change in evilities has helped enormously, I didn't use hasty rush, before, or support attack. both of those have helped a lot.

Did LoC baal 2 and 3, now onto 4.

So thanks for the tips, you were are a great help.

Thanks again

Those are good things to look at
Stats tab:
Outer Gods 5(50% when no unit adj)
Convert force 1(elements -50, stats +25%)
Unstable power 1(+50% stats at 1st turn -20% each other)
Dragon Horde 2(+10% to stats if emblem equipped)
Counter Contemptor 2(+20% to stats, no counter)

Damage tab:
Limit Cut 5(+100% damage, costs 10% hp each attack)
Focused Attack 4(+10% damage to every empty panel for skill, max = 100%)
Ensure Victory 2(+50% damage at 1st turn)

Critical tab(if using Suisen):
Full Power Swing 3(Critical damage +75, accuracy -30). If you have Suisen near you'll always hit and crit

For unique evilities:
(Heal) Predation (for Limit Cut, will heal you)
(Damage) M. Convergence (+30% of damage for +50% sp cost)
(Damage) Assault Attack (+10% for moved panel) or Holy Smokes (+50% if didn't move)

If you have DLC good
Stats:
Zed: Infinite Reincarnation 3(+1% per reincarnation, 50% max)
Seraphina: HL Power 1(+2% for every HL digit)
Fenrich: Moon Promise 1(20% if no Jumbo chars)

Damage:
Girl Laharl: Hyperfocus 20
Not sure with it, but you need to put your WL to any big squad, make her leader and then give this evility to all people in the squad. It will give Squad leader lot of stats.

[matthew]

That is also very useful to know, so thanks for that as well.

Concerning Hyperfocus, either its bugged, or the description isn't correct, in the description, it says it raises the leader's attack power by 5%, but this isn't the case. Its 1% per member.

I spent time getting units up to the level where they can use this, and placed them in the Aid squad. (20 units) I didn't see a 95% increase. It seems to be 1% increase per member.

It seems this is a bit of a waste, and for the time you do to get units ready to take this ability. 1% per member I don't see much point in. Can anyone confirm?

[Hidden Power]

I never bothered with hyperfocus before, squad stuff doesn't work in pvp. Just tested it and mine did add 5%. That's what it says in battle when you press select and look through the details of your buffs.

[Hidden Power]

You might be mistakening it as adding 5% of the character's ATK "stat" which the squad leader always gets like 1% of the stats of the members.

[Duskyer]

Give her the ignore allies on aoe attack. Have 9 other allies all with buff evilities like Noble Cause from Opener.
If you have DLC, Etna has an evility that buffs Prinnies whilst Fuka has one that treats characters as prinnies without the quirk of them exploding on throw. With these two combined on 9 characters it's easy to get max stats for everyone. Also have Suisen stand next to her for 100% accuracy and crits.
If you struggle with the boss have a couple units with the unique evilities from Succubus and Mushroom. Sxy Aura and Mushroom Power. Have those units stand next to the unit you wanna steal from or kill. (Stacking characters still applies the various buffs and debuffs to adjacent units.)

[matthew]

you are right I feel like an idiot, I was thinking the buff applied to the ATK, but its not. I just checked the buff page myself, and it clearly shows a 95% increase for the damage. So it does work as intended. I just thought it was meant to effect the ATK stat.

Anyway, thanks for cleaning that up. So it is worth doing for an item world runner. As I had better success when I did a run today.

Thanks for the help.

[Hidden Power]

oh yea, that 3 laws evility is a must.

[matthew]

This is my current build for my war lady,

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3060851882

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3060852038

SP recovering seems to be a must, so I added that on. While limit cut seems to be decent, I seem to be losing more health then I gain when I have Predation equipped, It seems to restore less HP then I lose. So I have a strong healer on standby if I need it, otherwise I seem to be burning HP within a few levels. I suppose I could use items to restore SP, I don't really bother with items that much, so not sure how effective that will be, If I remove the restore SP ability, then I could add another damage dealing one on instead.

Not sure how better to optimise this build any farther? It seems to be pretty good now. So I'm pretty happy with it. Unless there is any farther improvements I can make?

Anyway, thanks for the help, as it really helps, and hopefully it helps others if they need a similar build.

Edit, my gear is sub par, as its not optimised, but without a decent item runner, it would be hard to achieve that. I have added on as many gladiators on my gear, so that helps a bit. Once I get more Baal's bodies, She will get the first section of them, including a barefoot x, but not really sure that is needed, so probably keep to 3 baal bodies and call it a day on that, just need to manually level them.

[Hanzo]

Death and rebirth seems like a waste to me
Full Strike +9 with Skill Level 87, uses only ~22M SP. In your case >50 uses, which enough for 10 levels. So try to set Skill Exp in cheat shop to decrease needed SP

Holy smokes is good approach, but check how you play. If you often need to run in better place to cover all enemies, it's better to take Assault attack
Run them down is better to chage to M. Convergence

Also check if you need hasty rush. In a lot of times 1 hit is enough to finish the job, so 4 evility slots could be put in some damage

I would've removed the Hasty Rush and Death and Rebirth to change them with
HL power (+20% to stats with 1B HL) costs 1 = 20%/1
Unstable power (+50% stats at 1st turn) costs 1. (If you see that you use more than 2 turns you may want to overthink that) 50%/1
Convert force (+25% stats) costs 1 = 25%/1
Outer Gods (+50% stats when no adj) costs 5 = 10%/1

For damage
Long Range (+10% per panel until target) costs 3 = ~10-100/3= 3-33/1

[matthew]

OK, I will replace it, and add another damage ability instead, I have maxed out full strike, and the war lady does have a lot of SP, so I put it on early on, when my SP was dropping, but yes, I can replace it.

So far, the war lady is doing really well. Just did 10 levels in baals sword and was fine.

Thanks for that tip

[Hidden Power]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3060992756
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3060992837
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3060992653

So double lock is because I don't bother with suisen until the item hits around lvl400+.
Gender bender is because I use characters that buff males.
Scouting mission is because I put it on most my guys to dupe items more often.

I just hit start at to instantly move out 10 characters from base and shoot 3 war ladies from where ever they're standing. Works best if the first person out (top of the list) has the Angelic flight evility which makes everyone flying so they don't get blocked by mobs and can't leave base.

I'm not sure how you're running into SP problems, you just shouldn't be.
It sounds like you're taking more than 1 turn on floors, just make more war ladies.
For bosses, you pick a character you really want to strengthen and put seal of power and SO seal on him. Make him single target focused too ofc. You control the stats of the boss by throwing other mobs into him to cap out it's stats. At 20stars, you can cap out even it's hp and sp by throwing another mob on him. Takes just 10 20star kills like this to get 1billion hps/sps.

[matthew]

I had SP issues early on, I forgot to remove it, as I wasn't sure how much SP I was still using currently, but after doing 10 floors, the amount of SP I use is below that I expected, so I replaced that with something else. I not got SO seal yet, is that from the final Baal stage? as I not beaten that yet.

Otherwise, apart from a slight change, my build is working well, and I just got a level 500 baal sword. So that will help, just need to do three Baal bodies, and she will be good to go.

[Hidden Power]

Yeah, S.O. seal is from Baal 4, then you can get infinite stats.