Etrian Odyssey Nexus - R/R/R/G/G vs Abyssal Princess (Heroic)

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Published on August 18, 2020 10:34:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpcNq39TvU

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Etrian Odyssey Nexus (2018)

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I wanted to record something with Ronins for a while in Nexus, but I also didn't want to just duplicate what already existed. On Japanese atwiki, there's a sample 4 turn burst setup with triple Ronins and whatnot, where they rely on a few layers of RNG like not landing sleep, not getting Unholy Light, or triggering Multi-Shot. Generally speaking, I don't like rolling dice if I can avoid them, and especially if there are multiples. So this is what I came up with - by extending turn count and going through the pattern, we can remove RNG layers.

I also wanted to make use of Swallow Strike as much as possible because that doesn't see much love outside of like one use per boss battle. This is a boss where we can use it many times, so why not. It's an excellent source of burst damage, after all. Not counting damage bonus from Upper Stance, crit on Swallow Strike is 270% per hit, so a whooping 810% coming from Ronin's STR and Katana's ATK. Upper Stance on top makes it 324% per hit, or 972%. Pretty good, if it didn't disable all skills the turn after and remove the stance....

Then with 3 Ronins, I could have used Line Shield Protector to keep them super duper safe, but that wouldn't be as fun (and I've done that sort of a thing before). Instead, I went full glass cannon and added two Gunners on top. Riot Gun buys a turn of safety, so two of that, Prophecy, and some pattern navigation, we can find enough turns to do the damage we need.

In hindsight, there are probably a few things I could have done differently to make this better. Some remarks below:

1) At least one Ronin can probably be Ronin/Shogun. Since we do get some opportunities to wipe the souls, we could build up some Bloody Lance stacks. Single Devotion + Initiative is 20% together, and I can adjust the speed (like not getting Speed Up on Ronin/Shogun) to make sure that I benefit from Proficiency. On top of that, we can adjust time to get Avidya Sight bonus (10%), and Peerless Demon on 3 hitter isn't terrible (0, 7%, 14%, so average of 7%). 2 stacks of Bloody Lance would outdamage Landsknecht sub. Balmung can even be replaced to get more attacks out of Ronin/Shogun in such case maybe. But eh, too much work.

2) Fitting Helm Splitter: well, I'd need to use one slot for accuracy equip instead but that would be better than Air Blade. I couldn't do it for all Air Blade uses though, since the stance duration might be too short if Undead Regen stops attacks. I didn't really want to use Helm Splitter either (since vast majority of Upper Stance Ronins use that as the main damaging skill) so I decided against it.

3) Allocating Issen: It wouldn't make that big of a difference, but since Issen wipes souls, I wouldn't need to divert one Gunner's Charged Shot to prevent Condemnation. That wouldn't really be that big of a damage gain, but it's something I could have done. On a related note, I could have done Issen/Swallow for the last turn and not divert Charged Shot, but I did it this way to have full 3 turns of Musou. It likely wouldn't have made a difference in the grand scheme of things.

4) Air Blade with Duel/Massacre Wave and Upper Stance does about the same damage as non-buffed Charged Shot coming from G/N. The last 3 turns have Ronin focus on AP to benefit from Duel.

5) Using Haze Slash: I actually could have used Haze Slash instead of Air Blade in the last set of turns. Air Blade with crit does a little more than non-crit Haze Slash (and I also could have used different stance activator) and the 1.5x on Issen would be well worth the damage if the sleep lands, but eh, it'd be weird to remove RNG and then add RNG again. If I ever get around doing triple Ronin thing with one of each stance, maybe I will consider that there.

Et cetera.

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