Question about Moodmaker and Ship Crew Setups

[76561198389538151]

Title says it all

I have a question about bridge crew setups and the moodmaker ability.

In regards to mood maker I’m trying to decide if it’s worth my while putting mood maker or a similar skill onto the captains of my ships. And whether or not to rearrange things so that the captain or master of the ship is a character who has mood maker like norba shino or trojan noiret or mayb one of the Lacus's when I get them.

The second question is about the best ship crew and master/leader setups (for 2 ships)

At the minute my bridge crews are a bit of a mishmash because I’m trying to use a ship in dispatches to level more characters

And I’m trying to figure out the best options for bridge crews and masters/leaders from the characters i have.

At the minute i have

All 5 original Gundam pilots (plus Zero System Quatre)
I can ger both Noin's
Zechs (was using him to level to tallgese 3 and aquarius) [trying to decide on a good female pilot for the Aquarius since i want shiho for the strike rouge]
Milliardo (i want him for the Epyon)
Treize (he's the captain on my second ship)
Lady Unne
Relena Peacecraft

Odin
Odel
Silver crown
Valder

I can get all the endless waltz pilots (I’m waiting until I clear endless waltz to turn them and their final stage mobile suits loose) I’ll also be able to get Relena when I get that far

I haven’t gone into seed or destiny yet. Just cleared astray and x astray

Seed Cagali

I don’t have him yet but i want to save Andrew Waltfeld for the Gaia

Shiho
Morgan chevalier
I can get Edward Harelson

Lowe
Professor
Captain GG
Gai
Kazahana Azure
Marlin
Mina and Gina Sahaku
Un'no

I can get Yamabuki, Liam and Elijah

Prayer
Canard

Destiny Searka (he'll be for levelling to the Verde Buster)
I can get Destiny Yzak (I’ll be levelling to the Blu Duel then moving to Heine Destiny)

Selene McGriff

Jesse Rabble
Agnes Brache
Trojan Noiret

00p Chal
Grave- saving him or Tieria for the Reborn's Gundam line
I'm going to start into 00f tomorrow to get Fon and Hixar. (Fon will be levelling the Astrea then moving to the Arche line)

I'll be able to get all the starter versions of the 00 pilots except for the first Lockon as I have unlocked all the starter units
I can get 2nd Setsuna (saving him for the 00 line i have planned)

With the exception of a few that require quests for unlocking all Tekadan mobile suits and having access to all members of Tekkadan i can scout or have scouted nearly everyone in IBO

2nd Mikazuki
Biscuits (xo on my first ship)
2nd Eugene (navigator on my first ship)
2nd Norba Shino
2nd Akihiro
2nd Kudelia (guest on my first ship i think)
Fumitan (communications on my first ship)
2nd Gaelio
Carta (captain on my first ship)
Isurugi Camice
Vidar
Julieta

Argi Mirage- piloting Astartoth
Sanpo- piloting Vual
Zaza Fossil- piloting Dantalion

I have access to all the DLC pilots so far but aside from Asemu, Garrod and Jamil i'm not using any yet. I want to hold off and turn all the end stage quality mobile suits loose together

[Gundam 00]

i'm sure others are going to complain too but could you please go over over your post and please correct your spelling. Its hard to understand what you're saying and don't take this the wrong way.

[lPaladinl]

As far as I am aware, most abilities that don't affect personal stats are inactive on all ship crew unless they are the Captain. So things like Mood Maker only matter on Captains. They also don't stack, so there's no point in having multiple of them. Not even mixing and matching different abilities with different values works, unlike other abilities, as it always only used the best one and ignores the rest.

So with that said I don't think there truly is a "best crew" selection, unless you want natural stats at level 99. Anyone can quickly and easily be maxed out for their role, and only the stats for their role matter when working as Crew.

As for what would be the best captains, I have no idea. Most of the important abilities a pilot might have naturally that matter for Warships can be added via training, so I'm not aware of any pilot having a unique skill that is exceptionally useful for Warships. Tiffa Adill for example has a really good ability that sadly is useless for Warships since Warships cannot get chance steps.

I personally ran with Mood Maker and Resupply on my Warships for about half of my time with the game, using the other slots to raise their control area to have overwhelmingly long range link attacks as well as increasing how far that recovery goes. I found it pretty useful, especially that morale boost. It also helps with quests where morale is involved. It especially helped in the post game.

However one thing worth mentioning is that, unless I am missing some really high level abilities in Hell difficulty, you will never match the Raid Group recovery numbers. With Raid Groups you get a free 30% EN regen so long as they aren't sitting next to each other to recover HP instead.

However Warships let you bring a whole extra unit, plus the Warship is a valuable unit by it's self, and lets you focus on all of your combat pilots having combat related abilities rather than having the need to use support abilities.

[76561198389538151]

very true.

thats why i'm aiming for a second warship once i unlock the archangel or the minerva. plus the ptoloemus 2 kai

and i've been running resuply for ages

[lPaladinl]

The only pilot I can think of off the top of my head that has an advantage over others for Ship Captains is maybe Lacus, since she comes with Songstress, which is akin to Moodmaker 2 iirc.

However I am not sure if there is a Moodmaker 3, in which case she would be moot in the long term because you might want to replace it.

There's also HP Regen abilities but as far as I am aware you only get them on higher difficulties.

[76561198389538151]

i dont think there's a rank 3 moodmaker type ability. just moodmaker for 8 mp and diva and songstress for 10. but songstress boosts another stat too.

once i get a decent crew together for it i'll start doing the junius 7 dispatch to try for songstress for my captains