DFFOO [JP][Test] What does a 140%+ HP dmg cap up Machina look like w/ a not 100% ideal comp
29Yes, it is divine Bahamut taking a beating. Typical I know but I refuse to deal with Cod's delay shenanigans interrupting the prep process when I just want to see how it looks like. BFA isn't great either, so with a lack of easy 3 target testing grounds, I went back to D.Bahamut.
00:00 Battle starts
06:52 Machina FR
For your reference:
All 3 have blue armor (HA+3).
Kain has UW+1
Machina has UW+3
Ramza has none because Machina stole it.
Also for this reason I may have to look for a friend Machina instead if I want to test out Yuri's BRV+ with Machina's BT/FR in the future.
Flaws and what's not so ideal about this comp?
1. The attempt of using Ramza's BRV+++ to get ahead of Machina for an extra turn failed and I had to resort to using Shout to get another turn. Ramza's BRV+++ can get the full FR bonus (other than the portion for Machina as subject) because it is a BRV attack with low AD. So ideally we could have got to 999% before the last 2 turns and dmg would significantly increase.
2. Also Selphie's aura buff fell off and we had 17 buffs left.
3. Kain deals range BRV. Not only does it not proc the FR tick, he also does not receive the additional 50% HP dmg up bonus from Machina FR.
Maybe I am forgetful but I don't recall we have an off-turn melee dmg dealer that has a BT other than Vayne and Vayne can't activate his follow-up from time to time here because Bahamut resists break sometimes.
4. Leo CA only works for a bit here, because Bahamut is too squishy for enduring the onslaught from these three. Even though I targeted mostly the crystals beforehand, he practically died on the first BT turn.
5. Yours truly simply don't have UW+5 for max dmg and Ramza not having UW means there is launch dmg loss due to sharing UW type with Machina.
Exposition:
If my math is correct, in this run the HP bonus from BT/FR alone looks like this:
Ramza @17 buff = 34%
Machina BT (+FR for melee) = 30+50 = 80%
Kain BT = 30%
So Machina here should be bathing in 144% HP dmg up.
You can see that by the 2nd last turn of FT at around 980%, Machina has already exceeded 3.1m per HP dump.
Getting to 999% is honestly not very hard with off-turn counter ticks. We basically started BT phase at around 550%+ and it was already at a ridiculous amount of HP dmg per dump.
Here are some potential melee characters that can benefit a lot from standing beside him during his FR:
1. Enna Kros
Need no introduction. Let machina be the building block and leave the last 3 turns for her to nuke everything in sight.
2. Iroha with BT
Iroha BT interacts with max HP dmg cap per dump. With a drastic 80% increase while her BT also has 30%, that additional HP dmg is going to be huge. Not to mention that because Machina's attack are broken into 2 portions (attack and LD follow-up/guardian blade counter and LD off-turn), he can receive more than 1 additional dump per turn.
If you put someone like Tifa, who has 3 portions of attacks (attack-2 BT follow-ups), this can get quite disgusting. Not to mention that Tifa herself has 30% HP dmg cap up and an additional HP dmg portion to herself.
3. Melee counter/dodge characters
Galuf/Gladio/Eight/Auron etc. Though beware that cover tanks may deprive Machina of his chance to proc his guardian blade and end up losing 25% bonus per hit. It may be better to put them together when bosses have some sort of AOE attacks.
4. Sice (?)
I don't have her but my understanding is her "trap" triggers individually for each enemy. So it should work just like Ace's trap ticking multiple times for Minwu's FR, only this time it is Machina's off-turn melee FR ticks.
5. Dorgann
Off-turn breaks triggering his follow-up, in turn giving FR bonus.
6. BRV/HP+ users
Ramza/Ignis are a prime examples (Ignis's has high turn rate).
Yuri is the one that I have been meaning to try out, because his BRV+ at 4 stacks deal ridiculous amount of dmg. On top of that it is an instant turn rate attack that you can use on individual enemies before the debuff is cancelled. It can also be triggered off-turn if the enemy deleted the debuff themselves. So it may have some interesting use.
Yuri's BT also has HP dmg cap up, but there is a conflict of interest between him and Machina if the BT is on. His BT lower enemy accuracy by 100%, meaning enemy hits would miss Machina and you would lose FR%. Perhaps it can be remedied if some of those boss guaranteed hit attacks are utilized.
Gilgamesh is unironically quite suitable too with his instant turn rate HP+ and he also has 30% cap up.
All in all, quite please with his FR and it is quite fascinating to think about what kind of combos you can pull off with him. I probably don't have much left to try and Fusoya though as I am still reserving some gems just in case someone I like end up getting the next BT (looking at you Ignis).