Rikku's claws

[imminence]

I've read a lot about Rikku and her talents. Her mixtures are great and all, but what's about her
claws? She does ridiculously low damage with her (slightly upgraded) starting claws.

Will this become better later on or is she really only useful with her tinkering?

[imminence]

uhm.... how would I increase their damage then, if weapons and abilities won't count?

[OnlyOffensive]

We told you arealy, you need to increase STR. Look in grid for str nodes, we also mentioned that most/best str nodes via Tidus/auron/wakka paths.

Well technically you also increasing damage via armor break ability you will get access to Full break and Auron Banishing blade that apply all breaks even on those who naturally have resist to it. Rikku also can do full break mix it as good as banishing blade.

For magic damage is obv that you need to increase stat "Magic".

You can also use Rikku mix "Trio of 9999" to do 9999 damage and heal with everything but if i remember correctly it is using kinda rare mats so you wouldnt spam it left and right.

[solidap]

When you first get Riiku she's only level 1 with no activated nodes, so she will be noticeably weaker than the rest of your party. But early in her grid she gets big upgrades so she'll be on the same level as the rest of your party not long after. During that time, use her Use ability with damaging items like Grenades and the items you can Steal from enemies in the forest and the Thunder Plains. Those items do a lot of damage

[GinkoBiloba]

Originally posted by imminence:

uhm.... how would I increase their damage then, if weapons and abilities won't count?

Like they already said here, you character's power is based on Strength (or Magic) Nodes only. The weapons will only offer bonuses if it is clearly stated in the weapon abilities.

[Ilucie]

Weapon types dont matter ! There are just unique types for the characters for LOOKS ONLY.

What counts is, as everyone else said, the STR.

e.g. when you really want to complete the game and start leveling in the monsterfarm, you will have characters with exact the same stats, the same power, same attack. e.g. my yuna and tidus are the same. both completed the sphere (whats the english word for that :D?). yuna hits with her staff as hard as tidus with his sword, that means 99999 per hit.

the only difference between characters AT THE END is the overdrive and yunas ability to call aeons. besides that they have the same skills, power and so on :D

[OnlyOffensive]

thats only happens if you waste time on optional grind. Not only it is not necessary to complete game it is a waste at most bosses anyway only few bosses require maxed stats and there you can use yojimbo zanmato, it actually less boring than spam quick hits with auto haste at least it has animation.

[Ilucie]

wheres the challenge in beating bosses like penance with yojinbo? plus its none of your business if people like to do it withoung using cheat aeons ;P

ps: completing a character is easy because don tombery ;)

[OnlyOffensive]

How do you know if he even will know about it? Stat maxing is pretty hidden and figure it by yourself is almost impossible and you making post that he WILL have it because it obv a false statement.

[Ilucie]

i didnt say that, it was just an explanation for those who dont know how X work.

no need for your QQ, relax dude and bye.

[OnlyOffensive]

Originally posted by Hyena:

ps: completing a character is easy because don tombery ;)

Another exploit you need to google specifically, maybe he want to play normal game, i actually killed most bosses without single stat maxing and only exp from omega dungeon 99999 damage isnt hard to achieve without extra grind and hp over 9999 is useless.

[Ilucie]

its not an exploid and its even mentioned in the official game guides.

yeah i can see your non-existant penance/deus achievements on steam. omega was easy. both of them.

plus I still dont care if YOU think its necessary. its possible so its worth mentioning. you are an annoying kind of person, do you know that? dont want to max the chars? dont do it, but dont do stuff like this. its childish :D

[imminence]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

We told you arealy, you need to increase STR.

Yup, that was a misunderstanding on my side because I understood your line

"...Weapons and even their abilities do not do anything about damage,..."

that "their" means the abilities of my characters and not those on weapons.

[Kabraliah]

Send Rikku through Wakka's grid. You won't be disappointed.