Just Turned T7, And Need Advice!
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So my battle pet Farynheit just turned T7 a bit ago, and I need a bit of advice on how to try and better his battle set as of now. I've already shelled out some sP for a couple upgrades from his T6 set, but he's still seeming to lack in certain areas against a lot of the Very Hard opponents.
Here are his current stats:
Level: 336 Strength: 910 Defense: 842 Speed: 823 Health: 829 Intelligence: 891
He also has 55AP.
My current battle set after a couple recent tweaks looks like this:
His scroll set looks like this currently, for a total of 54AP spent:
I plan on hopefully trying to pick up a Morosbane Scroll ASAP I've been working on gathering the ingredients to make a Terra Focujin Scroll as a (hopefully?) decent upgrade to my Aftershocks Scroll as well. I know Soma Tablets are decent, and I'm looking into getting a Truth Serum sooner than that. I also have a handful more T7 weapons in my armory that I'm not currently utilizing, but I'm not sure if any of them are better than my current set (or for that matter, what I would even swap out to put them in...)
Does anyone have any suggestions for me at this stage? Is there any specific item I should be considering taking out at T7 that's currently in my default battle set? What should I be replacing it with, in your opinion? And are my scroll thoughts on par with where I should be at this stage (aside from the fact that I haven't even begun to prepare to make/buy a Sancturia Exodin Scroll as of yet)?
[edit]I purchased the Morosbane Scroll, and added it to my scroll set!
Your set is very solid. I'm not sure how you could improve it much further apart from adding Soma Tablets (or Blackmoon Hand Blaster in the short term), but you are very capable with what you have now. I do not recommend buying Truth Serum first, it may seem like a better option than Soma Tablets, but it is not. Additionally, I would forego making Terra Focujin Scroll because the Aftershocks is much better. It may have a smaller heal, but the extra attack and defense is well worth it.
Can I ask why you feel the Soma Tablets are a better option than the Truth Serum? Not challenging your opinion in any way, I'm just genuinely curious because at a face to face comparison of their descriptions - I would've believed the Truth Serum would come out ahead. It's possible I'm just not seeing the true value of the Soma Tablets, because I consistently find myself feeling they're not really worth the sP when there's much cheaper options available that steal. I assume it has something to do with the change to activate blessings/curses? I'm not sure what the percentage chance is on that, or how often it would trigger... but I'm definitely willing to grab them and add them to my set very soon. Do you have any suggestion as far as what I should remove from my set to make room for it? I'd say the blaster, but I almost feel like having blasting AND stealing is preferable...
I also wish I would've asked for someone's opinion on the Terra Focujin Scroll prior to snagging most of the materials for it xD Still, I think I'll hold off on buying the rest of them and stick with the Aftershocks Scroll at this point, per your suggestion. I kind of figured higher heal is better in the long run, but I did notice the severe downgrade in icons between the two scrolls. Thank you for your suggestion!
I assume that my remaining issues with Very Hard and beyond opponents have nothing to do with my battle set, and everything to do with my stats and the fact that I'm probably not supposed to be beating them anyway... unless of course it's one of those cases where I should be tailoring my battle set to that specific opponent instead of using a default "standard" set. The ones typically giving me the most trouble are The Hustler (that pesky heal and steal combo won't let me get a win off on him... though I know I have the opportunity to try and blast/steal from him), Recycle Beast, Wyrmgear (though if I'm lucky, I can sneak in a win in BQ), later wins on Fish Breath Jacques (beat him 5 times), and FeliBot 1.0.1 (beat him 8 times), and I haven't even attempted Jollyjaw at this point because of it.
[edit]Side note as well: I took a look at your pet Crimsyn, and scrolled through his training section... wow. Well done! I can't believe how quickly you managed to train him up. Do you have any tips as far as training quickly and efficiently goes, by any chance? I feel like it took me quite a while to even jump from T6 to T7, but I typically got there via paying for training regularly and amassing EXP to spend via Battle Quests and/or challenging opponents I hadn't maxed out wins on. Now that I'm almost out of beatable opponents, I'm starting to dry up and slow down. I use my Shinwa boosters when I get them, and I've used several tomes just to give me a boost (though I'm trying to ferret some away for later as well, when stat points are harder to come by...) but I still feel like I'm missing something.
The Tablets win out over the Serum in most cases for a couple reasons. Stealing may be disabled in some fights, but blasting seems to always be enabled. Stealing can also be risky, as it can give you a weapon which may harm or kill your pet. Some opponents, like Chase and General Error, may also be able to steal their weapons back.
Why do you want to steal your opponent's weapon so badly? Nearly every time you really don't. What you want is to deny your opponent that weapon. And while stealing and blasting accomplish that, blasting replaces one of their weapons with a piece of garbage. When they use that garbage instead of a real weapon that's a turn where you get a little breathing room to do more damage and healing. If you had simply stolen the weapon instead you wouldn't get that chance.
Revealing three of your opponent's weapons seems to be of limited use- in most cases you'll know more or less what they have either from a guide or from fighting them.
As for what to replace to fit Soma Tablets in, it's situational. I'd normally swap the Blaster for the Tablets, but in some fights you might prefer to double blast over using the Item Hunter's Bomb or swap out the Rainbow Vortex and block using Cobalt Eternal or Sancturia Exodin.
That makes sense, now that I think about it! Thank you for providing that bit of insight on the Soma Tablets 😄
Do you have any advice as far as the modification crystals go, by any chance? That was something I should've mentioned in my original post, but I don't really have many modifications going for me at the moment. I have one Parched Baguette Crystal on my Replica Minotaur Knocker, and one Parched Baguette Crystal on my Reborn Icewand of Doom. I don't know if the blessing chance stacks (I don't think so?) if I put two of them on a single weapon, so I never got around to adding another one because of that. The rest of my armory that's in use has nothing attached to it.
I think they're independent rolls, so you'd have two 10% chances for the blessing rather than one 20% roll. Usually I use Parched Baguette, Blessing of Natural Armor, Crit, and Singed Baguette. A lot of people will tailor their mods, like switching to all parched for an opponent that freezes or all BoNA for ones that steal. But I'm lazy and cheap and just use the four I mentioned without really ever changing them. Some people are really dedicated and have multiple copies of weapons all modded differently too.
Once you really get rolling on daily BQs you have easy access to Parched, BoNA, and crit because you'll have a daily income of battle tokens. So eventually you end up modding all the things.
That makes sense! I definitely don't have the patience or the resources to switch for every opponent I face either, so I figure making some wise middle-of-the-road decisions would suffice. To do that, I added a Blessing of Natural Armor Tear Crystal to two of my weapons to supplement what I already had going on blessing-wise.
Thankfully I already have a decent supply of battle tokens on hand for the tier I'm at. I can generally make it to Level 21 in my daily BQ ventures (though I can never BEAT Level 21, clearly!), but I've been trying to save up my Very Hard Tokens for the Refined Components thus far. I'm already at 40, so it won't be too long now... then I can stop buying Parched Baguettes with sP, and start looking at Potion of Phoenix as a possibility as well. I currently have 330 Easy Tokens, 162 Medium Tokens, 159 Hard tokens, and 40 Very Hard Tokens.