[DFFOO JP][Act 3 Ch5 pt2 Fran Lufenia+]Vayne + Prompto + Fran ft Sazh call, follow-up orb strat

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Published on May 12, 2021 9:37:29 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrml9RTWpXc

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Final Fantasy XII (2006)

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So I was trying to put together a FFXII team with Fran, Balthier and Vayne with delay strats, but then during preliminary tests the orb was too hard to handle with Vayne's consecutive turns. So I applied to Prompto follow-up with Vayne strat back when Kain's IW was out. This time though, the third party member is Fran and her debuff yield some unexpectedly good results.

Party:
Vayne BT+3, HA+3, full boards
Prompto LD, HA+0, full boards
Fran LD, HA+1, minimal LD board, no Arts
Calls:
Auron LD: weakness damage for Vayne
Jack LD
Sazh LD: Buffs (extend Vayne's III stack and Contempt buff), for boosting Brv gain in between hits

Orb: Upper limit at 15
+8: when boss act there is a debuff with 3 stacks or above
+2: Taking ranged brv damage
Reduction: (Brv Dmg/Brv Gain) 70/90

Team design for the fight:
Until the boss recast is up, the boss is free for delays. They would use AoE Brv+HP attack and an attack that put paralysis on a ST target. That's where prompto is really good for. Prompto has party HP regen, 100% evasion + lock. So it is totally fine to take the HP attacks and slowly regen back to full as those attacks are not really lethal. Should you desire it, you can delay one of them further away and take the recast as well. As long as they are separated, it is okay to eat the recast, especially with Auron's full break call on.
Basic rationale for this team is for Fran to debuff and deal damage, Promtpo aura heal, dodge and follow-up to maintain the orb while Vayne break delays and buff the party with LD and BT. Even if the boss takes no turn or if one simply does not have any stack debuff for the orb, Prompto and Vayne would carry it for the entire fight.

Fran:
Haven't seen Fran for a long time (maybe after GL LD started), so her stacking debuff haven't seen a lot of interactions with a lot of the LD era standard mechanics these days. Most importantly, besides ally attacks, both calls and off-turn follow-ups attacks also increases stacks. A lot of people seem to be worried about the problem of cleansing, but to be frank with that many follow-ups and turn hoarders nowadays, her stacks are probably easier to build than say some other characters that can only rely on their own turns like Kurasame. That being said, she only has 3 uses of LD, so do be careful and plan on how to execute her LD usage.
The most important stack effects are:
1: Def down (40%)
5: range resist down
7: Brv damage received up (40%)
8: HP damage received up (30%)
9: Brv recovery down (80%)
10: Double debuff potencies for all stacks (except 5)
On top of that, she has debuff armor and additional debuffs other than Viera's Punishment. So Fran overall is a very boss debilitating character to put into the team that does not take up a lot of debuff slots. (Her call retains those effects but effect potency is much lessened).

In this particular run, her debuffs make Prompto hit weakness damage and hit that much harder, and since she finished debuffing, I swapped her with the twins to BT and buff the other two's HP damage cap, making their DPT even higher.

Prompto and Vayne:
Prompto benefits so much from Fran that his damage is capping even near the end with Vayne's LD and BT buff. Prompto also force breaks on follow-up so in terms of synergy he 100% triggers Vayne's follow-up when he does that, although this time they are all hitting so hard that the boss did not even get to not get broken by Fran. Unless Vayne is in BT mode or Prompto has not enough stacks, Vayne will trigger Prompto's follow-up to ensure the orb is doing well. So they have sort of a symbiotic relationship in this one and Kain's IW.

Sazh call + Fran:
Since Fran + Vayne made Promtpo hit pretty much cap damage, Sazh call capitalized on the high Brv damage per hit and made his follow-up hit even harder with additional brv gain. So when the twins are out, whenever Vayne breaks an enemy, the highest they were doing was around, without summon:
320K + 320K (follow-up) + 180K w/ 90k splash (Prompto follow-up)
Vayne is also capping on both Brv and HP damage with that final burst with increased HP damage cap, so it was very pleasing to see.

With that many ranged characters coming out lately and in the future (a lot of ranged characters still have no LD), Fran's range resist down would be a great asset, along with a lot of other debuffs. Surely will put her and balthier together later, and now that Balthier has transformed into a buffer, I expect great synergy from the duo with one buffing and one debuffing. Hopefully Irvine gets something nice as well, as he is another range resist down user.

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