Skills to Steal for Phantoms for bossing
Hi everyone. I still see people asking about what skills to steal, so I bought a dummy from dojo and ran the battle analysis for a bunch of skills. I'm not super funded, so I'm not going to look at HPS but rather DPS.
Here are the results.
http://imgur.com/a/JPWnG
Buffs Used are standard phantom buffs with DSE to make 100% crit.
Only the skills with final cut hits cap damage.
Damage range is a bit above 2m-2m not including Cross Surge.
I ran the tests the following ways:
Each one is for 30 seconds since platter lasts for 30.
Each skill is done using milles and repeated using milles + tempest.
First Job: Doesn't affect DPS
Second Job: Channel karma or Rage, does basically the same thing.
Third Job: Surge. Nothing else. 80% damage increase is literally the most you can get.
Skills tested: Fourth Job: Final Cut vs Reckless Hunt (3rd Job) vs Arrow Platter (3rd Job)
Final Cut is a 40% damage increase
Reckless Hunt is a 40% damage increase and 40att
Platter is a 85% damage summon
tl;dr if you don't want to look at the analysis
The analysis shows that it is best to select skills in this order: FC > Reckless > Platter.
If you want to quickly burst down a boss, use FC.
If you want sustained DPS because you do not have buff duration, use Reckless.
If you have difficulties with the boss, use Platter (pstt gollux eyes)
If you have too much $$, use Platter because there are more HPS.
Downsides and Notes
FC needs buff duration to be effective. Only 32% Unique Inner Ability is really necessary since Mechanic card gives 15% and Mercedes card gives 4% skill cooldown.
Reckless Hunt is 40% additive damage so it's not as much as Final Cut. The 40 weapon attack doesn't make up for it unless you have low range.
Platter has to be recast every 30 seconds and that can shave off some damage.
Hurricane was not tested because of its slow startup.
Rapid Fire vs Milles was tested on some youtube video ages ago and it showed Milles + FC > Rapid.
*Kinda misclicked a few so some are 31seconds. There's also a 1 minute one where I used decent c.o. and FC to see how much damage milles + Tempest would do for a minute.
Please tell me if I did something wrong.
I'm just a happy college student that finished finals
6 Comments • Newest first
I kinda hope the game doesn't die because it was my childhood.
I just don't like how maps are so linear now. Bring back the hidden portals without indicators please
Phantom threads like these give me hope
It is a fair comparison because the analysis using final cut has the highest damage yield EVEN with the capping cards. When the cap is removed, the one with FC is still going to be higher and it will still not affect the verdict. If the one with FC is shown doing less damage then yes, it's not a fair comparison. Calculations don't factor in other things anyway, such as FC cooldown, DPS lost while placing turret.
You're not giving them a fair comparison if you're capping on Carte Noir with Final Cut.
I'm making a thread with calculations.
Please you are the one that needs to weaken up. The tests indicate that you have too much $$ because you use platter for more hits.
I'm the weak one using fc + milles.
You need to weaken up sometime now sir