What weapons/skills for support arfa to use?

[prime11]

Support all the way for sure

I was running handgun, duel launchers
I see some skills can't be equiped by launchers (dont have the skill names in front of me)
I saw a guide that uses SMG/AR
heh could get creative and put alot of support skills on sword/gun, or even sniper riffle
So really this is just an opnion question

whats support skills can you not live without? derp and what weapons

as far as my other 2 team mates, i been using kirito and sachi,

[it's a gabe]

Gotta have healing skills, obviously. Use AED shot at your own risk cuz if you die while it's in cooldown, whatever NPC has it will just stand there waiting for it to become available. I also find that skills such as power field shot last longer than your own power buff. Other than those, I find everything else to be pretty much optional. Just look at what skills would benefit you and hope your ArFA-sys will prioritize buffing you.

As for weapon, I go all out and give mine everything I'm not using, which means I'm definitely not optimized enough. But the AI is so bad that it doesn't make much of a difference to me because regardless of what weapons they have equipped, they're not becoming any smarter. I saw people recommending weapons with fast animations such as SMGs and pistols, though. So that might be something to consider.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Handguns, shotguns, SMGs.
Support needs weapons with fast animations to cast their skills faster, but also weapon with low stat requirement so they can save their CP to increase stats important for their role INT, VIT, AGI, while still being able to dual wield for the faster reload animation.

[prime11]

Thanks. I'll consider fast animation weapons.
Would field shots be better than bullet shots, like armor shot vs armor field ect.

[it's a gabe]

Originally posted by prime11:

Thanks. I'll consider fast animation weapons.
Would field shots be better than bullet shots, like armor shot vs armor field ect.

Yes because then everyone will walk into the field instead of any NPC wasting the bullet on someone other than you (which does happen), or the shot missing or something.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

No, the only advantage of the field version is the ability to heal yourself with it.
The very short CD of healing shot makes it way more interesting.
Also since it's a single target skill, it has some sort of homing ability that field skills dont, so they can actually miss you and end up on a wall or at the celling on the other side of the area where you wont even be able to benefit from them....
Only use healing field for self heal or give it to your support character.

For buffing skills, the field version is the way to go for your party buffer, the single target version have little advantage, you're supposed to buff yourself before the fight, not during it.
Might be usefull if you often end up downed and revived, but that's about it.
The single target buffing shots are useless.
Also since the last update now NPCs shoot buffing fields at their feets rather than trying to aim at someone with it, this prevent the issue the healing field has when missing the target.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Support skills you cant live without:
- power/armor form for solo content (BoB, HC co-op), swap for other skills when in party.
- human fortress 1 (higher levels overwrite defensive buffs with a weaker buff, so stick to 1)
- healing shot, healing field (Arfa-sys).
- power/armor form field (Arfa-sys).
- nanotech/critical form shot (Arfa-sys).
- hyper-awarness.

For support skills handgun, shotgun or smg, depending on what secondary weapon I carry so I dont end up with two weapon arts that basically do the same thing.
AR if I go with sword as main weapon.

Favorite teamate:
1) Arfa-sys
2) Premiere
3) LLENN
4) Sachi or Yuna instead of LLENN if I need more debuffs
5) Kirito if I need a moving AR field

[prime11]

Thanks for the detailed info. I'll put it to good use :)