WE BURNED LIKE ALL OUR ULTS ON THE FIRST PHASE OF THE SEASON 1 BOSS

NOT EXPECTING DARK SOULS SECOND PHASE

Nobody noticed that it hadn't used any Overdrives

speak for uselves

"HA HA WE'RE TOTALLY WRECKING THIS THING GUYS"

> things Happen

Emiko's transformation will remain super useful

"oh"

:>

hubris

to be fair

Takeshi can keep going all night man

We were trying to get our Overdrives asap

Aside from his ult he barely uses any stamina

we might have been hoping that the boss didn't have any starting Valor

and he can heal himself for basically free

the one who used more stamina than anybody but Emiko

to be fair

natsumi's still in pretty good shape. I mean, she got hit hard once, but, well.

only once.

Kazuki doesn't cast much from stamina now.

He casts from uh... health.

and stamina wise, well. not worried yet.

BUT IT'S FINE

i have pleeeeenty of stamina.

Rush is still a 0-cost tech, and Fungoes costs stamina

That said

Takeshi also casts from Health pretty heavily

he just

Kazuki -does- have Crisis now

a lot of health

and Emiko used a buncha stamina but now she recovers stamina every round

i'm suddenly really glad I got rid of cooldown on Zio Strike

I'm actually super happy with Kazuki's synergy

he was tearing shit up, there

Kiai into Feint into Flashing Crescent

hells yeah

and getting the extra 18 damage on his ult

I'm a little sad I can crank the attack mod on that EVEN HIGHER b/c I want it to be a super-ridiculous crit move

random thought

Critical Strike
Affects: Damage Core
Technique Level: +1
On a critical hit with this technique, deal an extra Increment of damage.

makes grabby hands at

I want it, Prof

BeholdtheVoid what do you think

but yeah, overall: I'm feeling like Kazuki's techs are far better.

We'll see how Kazuki does helping clean up a mob

but

The techs I did use

Piercing Lance: Good, just need to actually pump up its damage values a bit

Which is fine b/c that's what happens when you split your tech points over ALL THE TECHS

Flashing Crescent: -definitely- much better than Flash Draw was.

It's a good bread-and-butter move that lets Kazuki dart in, hit a dude, and dart out so that he doesn't get slammed on by a Muscle attack.

And his ult -feels- good.

DARK SOULS?

tell me more

basically what happened, Bill:

We encountered an enemy we had only seen the huge-ass hand of before:

Saeer, Labryinth Lord of Flame

A bunch of us were wailing on him, trying to take him down, and we got him down to 0, where we- thought- the battle was over.

But instead he pops an Overdrive, gets back like 30% of his health, grows two sizes, and summons a bunch of adds.

So basically this entire session was wearing down his first phase.

And then he goes full DARK SOULS! on us

and next week is gonna be wearing down his -second- phase.