I was SO bummed out that I missed this banner, smfh. I had 14k viz left and on the last day of his banner I said "Screw it" and I starting pulling. I got Jeume and TWO Renan in those 7 11 pulls......Now, I didn't have either of those units so Sure, I was stoked, ESPECIALLY for Renan. But, I had like 12 k viz waiting to be farmed on my story missions, and if I would have just farmed the dam story 3 days prior, I'm 100% certain I would have pulled Astrius on his "Guaranteed Rainbow" pity. Oh well, I'll just have to keep saving again, and hopefully there will be another banner with him in another month or 2. But seriously........who pulls TWO Renan in this same 10 pull? Excuse my french, but I swear my off-banner rainbow rates for wotv AND ffbe is fuckin annoying and killing my currency. OH, not to mention. I also got my tax return deposited into my checking account at the exact same time as the server reset, so there's also that. There was DEFINITELY some outside forces going against me on this one, lolol. Great review video as always ReadyPlayerWill, keep up the awesome content!
solid review, have the same thought on the new water vc for the acquired AP, tho opted to skip it considering there's so many other good water vc already. Ramada vc also good sub vc to put in somewehere
Hey Will, enjoy your guides! Would love to know what site you're using to look at character abilities and multipliers - having difficulty scrolling around the wiki for information at a glance
Finally you showed up lol! Thanks for the video men we were all waiting for this! I have a question tho, you thin is worth pulling the new VC if we have Odin max, Tidus VC max and Tune up VC max??? I’m debating on that!! I’ll appreciate your thoughts!!! Ty!!
Great video will! Been waiting for it like forever, lol And about astrius, any opinion about him going vs evade? His guaranteed hit has limited use, and although i try to stack accuracy with alex ring, lara croft vc, accuracy passive, and stone, i still struggle to hit fully built evade light (featuring elena vc, robb vc, shiva, kitone vc, etc) Thanks!
Excellent breakdown as always. I'm not quite done building him or his Trust Stones, so I havent tested him yet. I was building his offensive trust stones for accuracy to hunt Light Evade, but it looks like that might not be required. Switching to AP stones seems a lot better. This video helped me with my biggest question, which is "Which TMR should I use for him?" I like weapon TMRs because with Trust Stones, they become the greatest possible weapon AND armor at the same time. But, that slash pen on his farmable Katana seems so important. He has so many great buffs in his kit, that he really doesn't need a TMR with a great ability, so I'm thinking about taking any TMR with base AGI and other decent stats.
I’m building the Owe katana and it is not to be underestimated. Huge damage on his abilities and then following up with a 3-4k crystal tracer is crazy and I love it.
Just a curious thought. Shouldn’t his unique equipment type factor into his overall kit? I just thought that the B+ in e phys hp is miss leading considering he can equip heavy armor when most other dps units can’t. RANT BELOW CAREFUL Edit: idk in further defense; I think it’s on the same weight as passives, but arguably more consistent. Passives wildly swing unit play style more than equipment options. If every astoria you fight equips a +5 armor piece, then it’s the same as him having innate ~15-21 def. Although different from vision cards it’s similar to elemental access to vision cards. Additionally, if we get an absolutely broken armor tmr, then emphasizing the fact that a unit can equip it should boost his standing as a unit higher, right? Idk me dumb, but the b+ feel very disingenuous to how tanky he is in play.
Legitimately good thoughts! Rebuttles I'd have is that Heavy Armor tends to have the edge in the HP stat over Cloths, not necessarily on the Defense Stat. Just rattling off a couple Azure Dragon, Brigandine, and Golden Armor all have 20, 20, 18 DEF respectively. For Cloths, Black Garb, Diamond Coat, Plat Robe are 17, 18, 18 respectively. I don't think those 2-3 DEF points are worth much more, particularly because DEF Pen makes those 2-3% points effectively less. And while Heavy Armor does have an extra 80-100 HP on them, that's not really specific to Phys eHP but it's a good point As for the B+ in particular, see this link : imgur.com/a/YTfyS9j for the comparisons of EPHYS (sorted by far right column). Astrius against pure physical damage just doesn't have as much effective HP as those above him because most of those characters get 20+ DEF as part of their passives or innate kit. If you can put 18-20 DEF on Astrius through equipment, you can do the same for all of them as as well, and he's still comparatively the same As to your rant, the thing about Armor is that it can practically be applied to *most* everyone, sure there's a couple unique ones like Black Dragon (more for Pierce units) but because it's not unique to Astrius it shouldn't factor into his "innate" overall kit. Similarly, this concept that "what if there's a super broken Heavy Armor" doesn't hold water, because "what if there's a super broken Cloth" instead? It's pure conjecture, and so far the game hasn't set a precedent for super broken equipment that is unique a person. If you're finding him hard to kill so far, I'd venture to guess it's more related to either his 10 AOE Res helping, Courage, or to external factors (20 AOE Res on Ildyra card? Velis constantly healing him? Celes absorbing AOE Magic so he doesn't get hit?), not because he can equip Heavy Armor
I think he great character but the AI for him is straight trash. I want set his subjob as strider and the only thing I have on is Call of the Wild(for acc and slash pen). IF you leave that on he would rather use that twice than use it once then use indominable. If he doesn't use indominable then he is mediocre character. You run into SERVE AP problems if you dont have 2 buffs turned on. Bells isn't option because once again his prioritizes AOE buffs over anything single target. I have asked on a couple forums and no one seems to have a way to fix this any idea or am I stuck because the game such bad AI setting that a 5 year old could do better?
I've been waiting for this one! Thank you! Truststone and Astrius AI is making me go crazy, haha!
ReadyPlayerWill: ...Willweaver job. Probably the coolest name in the game. 😉
Me: I see what you did there. XD
ReadyPlayerWillweaver 😁
Waiting for this oh sir will. Enlighten as always. Thanks
Been getting 6* against light evade in the gb map with Astrius. Really cool unit.
Finally. Was waiting long
Let's go Will keep them coming
Yes!! Been waiting on this one!!
I was SO bummed out that I missed this banner, smfh. I had 14k viz left and on the last day of his banner I said "Screw it" and I starting pulling.
I got Jeume and TWO Renan in those 7 11 pulls......Now, I didn't have either of those units so Sure, I was stoked, ESPECIALLY for Renan. But, I had like 12 k viz waiting to be farmed on my story missions, and if I would have just farmed the dam story 3 days prior, I'm 100% certain I would have pulled Astrius on his "Guaranteed Rainbow" pity.
Oh well, I'll just have to keep saving again, and hopefully there will be another banner with him in another month or 2. But seriously........who pulls TWO Renan in this same 10 pull? Excuse my french, but I swear my off-banner rainbow rates for wotv AND ffbe is fuckin annoying and killing my currency.
OH, not to mention. I also got my tax return deposited into my checking account at the exact same time as the server reset, so there's also that. There was DEFINITELY some outside forces going against me on this one, lolol.
Great review video as always ReadyPlayerWill, keep up the awesome content!
Great review and a lot to think about! I wish his ex didn't rename over Willweaver
solid review, have the same thought on the new water vc for the acquired AP, tho opted to skip it considering there's so many other good water vc already. Ramada vc also good sub vc to put in somewehere
Great review!!!
Hey Will, enjoy your guides! Would love to know what site you're using to look at character abilities and multipliers - having difficulty scrolling around the wiki for information at a glance
wotv-calc.com/ my friend :) best WOTV website around. hope this helps!
Finally you showed up lol! Thanks for the video men we were all waiting for this! I have a question tho, you thin is worth pulling the new VC if we have Odin max, Tidus VC max and Tune up VC max??? I’m debating on that!! I’ll appreciate your thoughts!!! Ty!!
He one of best SSS tier today imo
Master Will, for next hero review
Can you make a How to counter on the Hero section plz :D
thanks
I love him so much because my Esther getting ez wins climbing arena. Got 6th place last week and maybe spent 700 vis on refreshes.
Great video will! Been waiting for it like forever, lol
And about astrius, any opinion about him going vs evade? His guaranteed hit has limited use, and although i try to stack accuracy with alex ring, lara croft vc, accuracy passive, and stone, i still struggle to hit fully built evade light (featuring elena vc, robb vc, shiva, kitone vc, etc)
Thanks!
Trying to get Astrius ai to work right is rough
Finally!!!
Excellent breakdown as always. I'm not quite done building him or his Trust Stones, so I havent tested him yet. I was building his offensive trust stones for accuracy to hunt Light Evade, but it looks like that might not be required. Switching to AP stones seems a lot better.
This video helped me with my biggest question, which is "Which TMR should I use for him?" I like weapon TMRs because with Trust Stones, they become the greatest possible weapon AND armor at the same time. But, that slash pen on his farmable Katana seems so important. He has so many great buffs in his kit, that he really doesn't need a TMR with a great ability, so I'm thinking about taking any TMR with base AGI and other decent stats.
I’m building the Owe katana and it is not to be underestimated. Huge damage on his abilities and then following up with a 3-4k crystal tracer is crazy and I love it.
liked the Great Wave of Kanagawa slide design 🙂
TMR is 1 of fave. so aggro with TP-AP stones!
i play Sniper with 70 Faith 🙃
Sorry I’m still new to the game why i can’t see him in in the game banner
Just a curious thought. Shouldn’t his unique equipment type factor into his overall kit? I just thought that the B+ in e phys hp is miss leading considering he can equip heavy armor when most other dps units can’t.
RANT BELOW CAREFUL
Edit: idk in further defense; I think it’s on the same weight as passives, but arguably more consistent. Passives wildly swing unit play style more than equipment options. If every astoria you fight equips a +5 armor piece, then it’s the same as him having innate ~15-21 def. Although different from vision cards it’s similar to elemental access to vision cards. Additionally, if we get an absolutely broken armor tmr, then emphasizing the fact that a unit can equip it should boost his standing as a unit higher, right? Idk me dumb, but the b+ feel very disingenuous to how tanky he is in play.
Legitimately good thoughts! Rebuttles I'd have is that Heavy Armor tends to have the edge in the HP stat over Cloths, not necessarily on the Defense Stat. Just rattling off a couple Azure Dragon, Brigandine, and Golden Armor all have 20, 20, 18 DEF respectively. For Cloths, Black Garb, Diamond Coat, Plat Robe are 17, 18, 18 respectively. I don't think those 2-3 DEF points are worth much more, particularly because DEF Pen makes those 2-3% points effectively less. And while Heavy Armor does have an extra 80-100 HP on them, that's not really specific to Phys eHP but it's a good point
As for the B+ in particular, see this link : imgur.com/a/YTfyS9j for the comparisons of EPHYS (sorted by far right column). Astrius against pure physical damage just doesn't have as much effective HP as those above him because most of those characters get 20+ DEF as part of their passives or innate kit. If you can put 18-20 DEF on Astrius through equipment, you can do the same for all of them as as well, and he's still comparatively the same
As to your rant, the thing about Armor is that it can practically be applied to *most* everyone, sure there's a couple unique ones like Black Dragon (more for Pierce units) but because it's not unique to Astrius it shouldn't factor into his "innate" overall kit. Similarly, this concept that "what if there's a super broken Heavy Armor" doesn't hold water, because "what if there's a super broken Cloth" instead? It's pure conjecture, and so far the game hasn't set a precedent for super broken equipment that is unique a person.
If you're finding him hard to kill so far, I'd venture to guess it's more related to either his 10 AOE Res helping, Courage, or to external factors (20 AOE Res on Ildyra card? Velis constantly healing him? Celes absorbing AOE Magic so he doesn't get hit?), not because he can equip Heavy Armor
Dont have celes :( …. Mont king and charlotte r my only tanks
Or.. just use bell ☺️
I think he great character but the AI for him is straight trash. I want set his subjob as strider and the only thing I have on is Call of the Wild(for acc and slash pen). IF you leave that on he would rather use that twice than use it once then use indominable. If he doesn't use indominable then he is mediocre character. You run into SERVE AP problems if you dont have 2 buffs turned on. Bells isn't option because once again his prioritizes AOE buffs over anything single target. I have asked on a couple forums and no one seems to have a way to fix this any idea or am I stuck because the game such bad AI setting that a 5 year old could do better?
Bro, you spelled his name wrong its Alstoria. xD