The best masteries

[Vergil]

Hello im currently at level 55 and i did overcame Telepathic Communications quite easily after few tips.

But now im onto next one and i wonder which are the best masteries for characters.

For example i have feeling my Sion is kinda weak, plus Albus dealing quite a damage but have feeling he should be better.

[Bryxia]

I don't think there is THE BEST mastery.

There are some masteries/mastery sets that work better with your gameplay than other.

If you want some example build, I can give some, but it's "my" build that work with "my" team...

Here is my Albus :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886466373
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886466386
The key of this build is Bloodbath that reset your action point every time you kill a bleeding enemy. This work because multi-attack Action count for both applying bleed and killing a bleeding enemy.

And here is my Sion :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886466397
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886466412
My Sion is a more passive build, especially dedicated at killing those *** robots that are immune to EMP.
A lot less glass canon that the one I used before the DLC.

[Bryxia]

As a side note, my go-to masteries is :
- Catharsis

Then depending on what slot I have left, this one are particularly usefull :
- Breakthrough
- Veteran
- Roar of Victory
- Second Heart, especially on my glass canon.
- Life drain on my tanks.

[x_equals_speed]

I'd agree there's no one best mastery but I'd also bet my house that more players are using Breakthrough than Fire Resistance II

I'd say some of the notable common masteries are:

Best Condition
Breakthrough
Catharsis
Charisma
Concentrated Fire
Forestall
Impulse Fields
Muscle Training
Mutant
One Shot One Kill
Veteran
Willpower

[Ultimate Despair]

After i tried teamwork, i put it on every one it's very good. If you prefer solving missions with a single character this is obviously not for you. For example it allows you to speed up characters after using powers with long delays, enemies put some delay on yur or you need a specific character/ ability to solve a problem you're facing. It gets better the more characters you gather at one spot, to boost each other. Or when you're leveling beasts, giselle's can have close to 0 AT turns if both she and her beast have this, pathfinder and giselles set that boosts the beasts AT.

Personally, i dont like forestallment cause many enemies have lightning reflexes (or worse) and just send your character to AT hell with it. I prefer my characters to have a turn earlier and kill that way.

Being immune to stun is very useful on melee characters, ranged dont need it as much. However the mastery slot for it can be expensive depeding on your built. I often replace it with 2 parts from the light of martial arts set, depending on what items the character can use.

Mutant is great if you use attacks that cause clouds and turn them into buffs.

[TheGrouch]

There is no best mastery as other have stated. It's all situational. But there are certainly some masteries and sets that kinda carry a character.

- Bloodbath for Albus (in combination with Forestallment)
- Magic Library for Black Mage
- Trained Attack for Grenadier
- Final Resistance on Barbarian
- Second Heart on all squishies
- The infamous 1s1k + Catharsis on chain killers that need it

And my absolute favourite love hate relationship and that is Best Condition that I have on everyone now because whoever does not have it will always lag behind the ones who do and end up doing close to nothing.

[Vergil]

Im playing Crows Ruin Outskirts and it looks like i will need some of the masteries quite badly :D.

[TheGrouch]

That the one in the rain? I'm bad with names... And yeah depending on whether you did violent cases up until that point this mission can have some nice little surprises for an unexpecting player. Some of the enemies there need somewhat specific strategies to beat or they can become quite annyoing.

[spookytooth]

Not exactly on topic, but I cannot find the Ice Castle mastery. The guide says a level 8 Albino Negoori, but I only have every encountered the Level 42 one in 35V, and the in game bestiary says it doesnt drop from him.

Can anyone point me in the direction of where to pick that up?

[MayamSP]

Originally posted by spookytooth:

Not exactly on topic, but I cannot find the Ice Castle mastery. The guide says a level 8 Albino Negoori, but I only have every encountered the Level 42 one in 35V, and the in game bestiary says it doesnt drop from him.

Can anyone point me in the direction of where to pick that up?

The bottom of the topmost section in the same guide:

If there is a Lv X it means you have to get the beast, machine, or character with the listed class to class level X. For Example, Lv 8 Big White Dorori means you need to raise a Big White Dorori to class level 8.

[TheGrouch]

Originally posted by spookytooth:

Not exactly on topic, but I cannot find the Ice Castle mastery. The guide says a level 8 Albino Negoori, but I only have every encountered the Level 42 one in 35V, and the in game bestiary says it doesnt drop from him.

Can anyone point me in the direction of where to pick that up?

Albino Negoori is a girl. Pay some respect. :o

[Vergil]

Yeah this mission is the one in the rain and it's annoying as hell, cant manage to get anything good out of it :/.