Estelle's Dividing Edge (PS3 & DE)

[Regalia776]

So, I just gotta get this off my chest now, because it's been bugging me since the PS3 days (I played the Japanese PS3 version back then). How come no one ever mentions Dividing Edge being the most overpowered arte in the whole freaking game?

After a certain amount of uses, the obligatory backstep gets dropped, with swords in hand, you always knock enemies down with a single hit. After about 3-4 hits for most enemies, a green fatal strike will appear. Equp the FS Bonus 2 skill on Estelle, and she will never have to worry about TP issues ever again.

Dividing Edge (without devil's arm, around level 100 on Normal) can do from about 18k to 30k damage per hit. It's a magical AND physical attack, so it even hits every single enemy in the Telescopic graveyard (yes, even the ones with 9999 in either P.Def or M.Def) for some serious damage. Not to mention, again, the fatal strikes. Although the fatal strikes become less frequent the stronger you become, of course, because at some point you'll be killing enemies in one or two strikes.

By now, being on level 133, with the Devil's Arm equipped, Estelle can do about 50k damage per hit. I should also mention that I managed to use the arte 9999 times, which triples its damage output, but even then the damage would be around 18k. This is just utterly ridiculous. And she can freaking spam the arte. I'm constantly hearing "Dividing Edge, Dividing Next" and during Overlimit it basically just becomes "Divid-".

Seriously, the arte is majorly overpowered. I wouldn't wanna change it. The game's combat system is awesome because it can be broken so much, but how come no one ever noticed this? I don't see this mentioned anywhere.

EDIT:
I've made a video proving my point with Estelle on Hard in the 200 man melee. I'm using the Mercurius, switching to the second strongest and later also once to the weakest weapon. I also show of the Overlimit spam at the very and as well as the skills I have equipped on her.
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVlDR5NKpo

[Cress]

Good to know. I was dreading doing the solo arena with her because I had no idea how to use her, so bruteforcing it at level 200 was my initial idea. Guess I won't have to do that anymore.

[OnlyOffensive]

she actually plays very well as just arte combo user, i dont remember if she has skill that allows her to chain artes with magic, anyway you can input magic during overlimit.

[Tanasinn [AZ]]

Unrelated, but why is your video cropped so weirdly?

[Regalia776]

Originally posted by tanasinn:

Unrelated, but why is your video cropped so weirdly?

It's cropped weirdly because it was the first time I ever used OBS. I'm running Tales of Vesperia in windowed mode (because I'm playing it online via Splashtop with a friend and Splashtop doesn't allow fullscreen apps). I chose frst for OBS to use my desktop size, but then opted for it to record from an application, so I figutrd it would adapt the recording resolution to the application's resolution, but it didn't. It's just a quick demonstration anyway. I might re-do it if I feel like it.

That said, having Dividing Edge become so OP requires constant usage for all I see. But even if it's not used as much as in my case, on Normal you will still get Fatal Strikes constantly.

[Popato!]

I'm actually pretty glad that they buffed her artes. she was absolute trash in 360 and in order to beat the arena there you had to spam overlimits and holy lance instead.

[OnlyOffensive]

now shes on the flynn level, might be even better depending on how you play her. She lacks extended combos but still pretty good.

[Regalia776]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

now shes on the flynn level, might be even better depending on how you play her. She lacks extended combos but still pretty good.

With this arte, if one is fine with playing "cheap", she doesn't even need extended combos. This alone makes her amazing. My friend is playing as her and in the time he needs to kill 3 enemies, I'm just killing 1 (playing as Raven, and yes, I'm abusing Azure Heavens).

[OnlyOffensive]

i dont like this style. Im more of make 1000 combos with different artes in different patterns. I was having alot of fun with Flynn after yuri, he has some really cool combos, wish he could chain magic outside of OVL like rita.

[Regalia776]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

i dont like this style. Im more of make 1000 combos with different artes in different patterns. I was having alot of fun with Flynn after yuri, he has some really cool combos, wish he could chain magic outside of OVL like rita.

Not a fan of this style either, honestly, but even just incorporating Dividing Edge into a combo would make the combo OP.