Character Builds - The Best gear for all characters.

[Hallowedsoul08]

Since playing though this, I'm getting an interesting feeling that this is going to be similar to xenoblade chronicles X on the itemization of characters and the unique gear to acquire to master certain characters and turn weak characters to at least a decent characters.

I know there is a website dedicated for this game (https://bkbrent.com/millennium-twilight/) however I was wondering if there is any more builds that help makes a better understanding on what things we should gear up for our characters.

One issue that I have with that website, is that it's the roughly translated version of the game from the japanese version. Some of the terminalogy that the person speaks is different from the english version. Half of the infomation that person has posted is copied and past except a few parts that been edited.

[さまよう侍]

For SAO char, you want to use one of the top 3 base ATK weapons type such as 2-H Sword, Axe or Spear. Dual Wielder like Kirito and Rain does lot of damage also and since dual wield, you can make utility weapons for them, too. Any char that don't have access to these are just support; can't do much damage. Magic could be good if there was Main Hand weapon that also increase Magic ATK but there is none. SAO does have char with passive that increase particular element like Strea, Yuuki and Sakuya, etc. For Strea, I make her main weapon with Full Physical and Half Magic Earth Element 2h sword. Then I also make full off element with half physical, too. From my experience, these full element/half physical drop more often. As for passive, I just use Cool Down, Boss Killer and Skill Connect. You can start adding the low % skill on the weapon then replace with higher version later. Always Save before Crafting. For Strea weapon, I have Boss Killer, Skill Connect and HP Absorb Rate Up and Lunar Ring for Cool Down. I have a reckless play style.
For AW character, just stack up passive skill that support the char damage type. For example, Unica does Crushing, Ice/Water and Dark damage; just stacking these up for her, she'll do a lot of damage.

[𝓡𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓒𝓪𝓽]

So far I've found every character can at least be halfway decent if they have the right builds and team support, though I do find myself gravitating towards a very small handful of items. As far as gear and builds go, I think it's all down to personal preference and experimentation really. This is what I use on basically everything:

Attackers & Debuffers
1. Radiant Ring (Increase HP by 50%)
2. Slash Crux, Crush Crux, Pierce Crux (Increase weapon damage by 15%)
3. Full Resist Talisman (Nulls all status ailments)


Healers
1. Tritone Ring (Increase maximum MP by 50%)
2. Slash Crux, Crush Crux, Pierce Crux (Increase weapon damage by 15%)
3. Light Pixie Tear (Reduce cast time by 40%) or if healer doesn't have Cure, Full Resist Talisman

Mixed Attackers
When dealing with mixed attackers like Sumeragi, I usually go with
1. Radiant Ring (Increase HP by 50%)
2. Slash Crux, Crush Crux, Pierce Crux (Increase weapon damage by 15%)
3. Light Pixie Tear (Reduce cast time by 40%)

As far as weapon passives go, yep... you guessed it. Boss Killer, Skill Connect, and Reduced Cooldowns with 23% element with the character's main element on it. If the character has no main element, I slap on Water or Earth.

So as you can see, I basically use the same small handful of items and passives on every character and weapon. It looks dull as dirt and extremely "meta" on paper, but it works very well. I'm sure there are other viable builds out there but everyone will use close to what I listed in the end. Maybe using a Boss Killer necklace or possibly slightly different weapon passives though. We need a site where we can share builds we've made and rate them.