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Offensive Support

Offensive Support

Defensive options

Defensive Options

Why use Offensive Support

Offensive support is the key to big damage, since different buffs are multiplied.

Plain Attacking vs Offensive Support ExamplePlain Attacking vs Offensive Support Example

Plain Attacking Example

Character 1	Character 2	Character 3	Character 4
Aldo	Serge	Kid	Cress
X Slash Mk II 670% at 255 light 30% type buff	Sky Arrow around 635% at 10 stacks	Heat Shot around 1000% at 10 stacks 80% physical debuff	Rising Phoenix 160% 30% fire resist debuff
Ignoring the support on these skills the total would be just 2465% of fire elemental slash damage. If we repeat this the second turn, and all buffs/debuffs have been applied, we will get 2465% x 130% x 180% x 130% = 7500% Plain attacking is not recommended for bossing, as you will likely want to maximise your damage potential. Even in this example, the damage after considering offensive supports is 3x bigger than just plain attacking.

Attacking with Support Example

Character 1	Character 2	Character 3	Character 4
Aldo	Serge	Kid	Cress
Dragon God Slash 50% physical debuff	Dash Cut: Heavens at 10 stacks 40% critical damage	Heat Shot around 1000% at 10 stacks 80% physical debuff	Rising Phoenix 30% fire resist debuff
Assuming Kid will be the last to move, she will get the benefits of all the other buffs when she attacks, resulting in a 1000% x 150% x 140% x 130% = 2730% attack. This is before considering the other attackers damage
Switching moves second turn for different stacks
Volcano Blade 30% critical damage	Magma Burst at 10 stacks 60% fire type buff	Heat Shot around 1000% at 10 stacks 80% physical debuff	Distortion Blade 40% Sword/Katana weapon buff
After turn 2, all the buffs for fire slash will be, 70% critical damage(Aldo T2 and Serge T1) 60% fire type buff (Serge Turn 2) 100% physical resist debuff (Kid Turn 1 and Aldo Turn 1) + 30% fire debuff (Cress Turn 1) 40% sword (Cress Turn 2) Resulting in a 875% attack gain for all fire slash attacks in party. In the case of Kid, this would make her damage alone reach 8750%, easily topping the total percent in the 4 attackers example, before even considering other attackers

Essential Buffs

Critical rates, these are the buffs that are the most recommended before other buffs.
They do not work on each other, meaning you can't use magic critical rate on a physical attack and vice versa.
Note that these types of in-battle buffs are usually per move, not per turn,
meaning you can't cast once and expect the effect for a full AF.

Icon	Buff Type	Effects	Character Example
	Physical Critical Rate	Show contentsHide contents Increase critical chance for physical attacks. Criticals do over 2x damage. Essential for dishing out good physical damage Possible to reach 100% physical critical rate from Prismatic Weapons and Rainbow Armor Set, which are available from Complex Dream Stacks: Additive CAP:100%	Colette
	Magic Critical Rate	Show contentsHide contents Increase critical chance for magic attacks. Criticals do over 2x damage. Essential for dishing out good magical damage Possible to reach 70% magic critical rate from Prismatic Rod, which is available from Complex Dream Stacks: Additive CAP:100%	Colette

Main Stat Buffs

These are the core stats skills scale off.
Normally, PWR is for physical and INT is for magic, if they scale off a different stat, it will be stated in skill

Icon	Buff Type	Effects	Character Example
	PWR Up	Show contentsHide contents Increase mainly physical attacks, increase more than stated buff percent due to overcoming enemy defence. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack:none CAP:100%	Aldo
	INT Up	Show contentsHide contents Increase mainly magic attacks, increase more than buff % due to overcoming enemy magic defence. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack:none CAP:100%	Helena
	SPD Up	Show contentsHide contents Increase damage for SPD based attacks, increase more than buff % due to overcoming enemy defences and unique SPD formula. For characters that do not use SPD based attacks, higher SPD helps decreases moves cool down in AF. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack:none CAP:100%	Amy

Main Attack Buffs

These buffs work on matching element / attack / weapon types only.
Note that the Type buff which affects all types of attacks are usually per move, not per turn,
meaning you can't cast once and expect the effect for a full AF.

Icon	Buff Type	Effects	Character Example
	Type Damage Up	Show contentsHide contents Increases damage for all types of attacks. These buffs are usually consumed per move Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack:Elemental, Tsukiha ES adversity state CAP:100%	Aldo
	Elemental Damage Up	Show contentsHide contents Increases damage for all attacks of the matching element. Will not increase damage for non-elemental physical or magic attacks. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack:Type, Tsukiha ES adversity state CAP:100%	Kid
	Weapon buff	Show contentsHide contents Increases healing / damage for all characters using the matching weapon type. Available as skills from prayer grasta from Antiquity Garulea Continent (Another Dungeon) Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: none CAP:100%	Cyrus
	Physical critical damage	Show contentsHide contents Increases damage on physical critical hit. Stacks: Additive Same Stack: none CAP: none	Serge
	Magic critical damage	Show contentsHide contents Increases damage on magic critical hit. Only source as of Ver 2.11.300 is deadly blow grasta for staff.
	Mental Focus	Show contentsHide contents Increases magic damage, scaling with max mp. Does not increase healing magic. Stacks: Overwrites itself with few exceptions, diminishing otherwise Same Stack: Eagle Eyes, Overthrow CAP:250%	Nagi ES
	Eagle Eyes	Show contentsHide contents Increases all damage as long as action is performed after enemy. Works well with end of turn skills. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: Mental Focus, Overthrow CAP:250%	Daisy
	Multi-Upgrade	Show contentsHide contents Does nothing for 1 hit attacks but increases damage for multi-hit attacks. At the fifth hit and above, increases damage for that hit by 3x. Copy lunatic like Eva are counted as a separate attack, while Kikyo AS copy skill is counted as multi-hit attack. Stacks: Overwrites itself	Lloyd

Main Attack Debuffs

Icon	Debuff / Status	Effects	Character Example
	Physical Resist Down	Show contentsHide contents Increases physical damage to target. No effect on magic attacks Stacks additively with type debuffs to reach a max of 200% for elemental physical attacks. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: Slash/Blunt/Pierce Resist Down CAP:100%	Milla
	Slash/ Blunt/ Pierce Resist Down	Show contentsHide contents Increases physical damage to target but unlike Physical Resist Down, these will only affect matching attack types Stacks additively with type debuffs to reach a max of 200% for elemental physical attacks. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: Physical Resist Down CAP:100%	Strawboy
	Magic Resist Down	Show contentsHide contents Increases elemental magic damage to target. No effect on null magic or physical attacks Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: none CAP:100%	Shionne
	Type Resist Down	Show contentsHide contents Increases all damage to target except non-elemental physical Stacks additively with physical debuffs to reach a max of 200% for elemental physical attacks. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: Elemental Resist Down CAP:100%	Milla
	Elemental Resist Down	Show contentsHide contents Increases all matching elemental damage to target and non-elemental magic, but does not affect non-elemental physical Stacks additively with physical debuffs to reach a max of 200% for elemental physical attacks. Stacks: Diminishing Same Stack: Type Resist Down CAP:100%	Milla

• Can check table for more details on attacks and resists here

Status Ailments

Icon	Debuff / Status	Effects	Character Example
	Break	Doubles damage on next hit, break disappears immediately after hit. Basically a 100% multiplier on 1 hit skills, 50% for 2 hit skills, the more hits, the less effective break is	Lloyd
	Elemental / Weapon Break	Doubles damage on hit, disappears immediately after hit with matching element/attack type. Only one type can exist at a time, different weapon/type elemental breaks cannot co-exist Can co-exist with the other break. Weapon/type break is consumed first when applicable if they both exist.	Minalca
	Pain	Does not significantly increase damage directly but is a needed condition for many skills and grasta. Possible to apply with t2 pain grasta with dormant enhancement, at a 50% chance before enemy resists.	Serge
	Poison	Does not significantly increase damage directly but is a needed condition for many skills and grasta. Possible to apply with t2 poison grasta with dormant enhancement, at a 50% chance before enemy resists.	Levia AS

Zones/Stances

Icon	Zones	Effects	Character Example
	Slash/ Blunt/ Pierce/ Magic Zone (Attack type zones)	+30% damage for matching attack type and -30% damage for other attack types. Applies to both sides. Can be awakened with alter characters for 60% damage instead of 30%	Cress
	Fire / Water / Earth / Wind Zone (Elemental type zones)	+50% damage for matching attack type and -50% damage for weak elements. For example, fire zone reduces wind damage. Applies to both sides. Can be awakened with alter characters for 100% damage instead of 50%	Aisha
	Sea of Stars Stance	+100% to all party damage ONLY when AF meter is maxed. Bonuses applies to party only. Buffs do not apply when used for AF unlike other zones. Cannot be awakened	Mayu
	Flash zone	+30% to all damage / healing types, applies to both sides. Only lasts for the first turn and is auto casted by characters unlike other zones. Will overwrite most but not all boss initialed zones. Cannot be awakened	Melissa
	Song	Some songs can increase damage. Songs are party only, looks like zone but actually isn't Only the latest song effect will be active if there are more than one person singing. Read more about Songs here	Aisha

Read more about zones here

What is Diminishing Stack Type

All of the debuffs/buffs stack diminishing with themselves. Meaning, the second application of the same thing will be lesser than it's stated %.
For example, with two buffs of 50% and 30% type damage up.
You will get the full effect of the first buff at 50%, but second buff will only be 30% of 50% which is 15%, making the end result be 65% type damage up.
If there is a third stack lower than 30%, it will be minuscule in since it will be based of a potion of the 15%
More details of stacking here

Grastas to Prevent Enemy Debuffs

Against enemies who can apply PWR/INT/SPD down debuffs, you can use Tier 1 Support Physical Debuff Resistance grasta with dormant effect to reduces chances of debuffs applying. Can achieve immunity with enough grasta sharing (7 grastas of 15%).
Does not work on self-inflict status debuffs, like in the case of Daisy team SPD debuffs for example.
Can read more on support grastas page

Offensive Support Stacks Cheat Sheets

Elemental Physical AttackElemental Magic AttackUniversal

These are the buff / debuff stacks for physical elemental attacks.
Slash / Blunt / Pierce attacks are all considered physical attacks.

Icon/s	Description		Cap
	Critical Rate		100%
	PWR Up(1)		100%
	Type buff(2)		100%
	Critical Damage		No Cap
	Type debuff(3)	100%	Additive 200% total
	Physical debuff(4)	100%
	Matching Zone		Varies (5)

(1) For non-PWR based attacks, use matching stat buff like INT or SPD
(2) Use matching elemental or type, like Fire or Type damage up for Fire attacks
(3) Use matching elemental or type, like Fire or Type resist down for Fire attacks
(4) Use matching attack type or physical, like Slash or Physical resist down for Slash attacks
(5) Use matching zone / stance only, % varies

These are the buff / debuff stacks for magic elemental attacks.

Icon/s	Description	Cap
	Magic Critical Rate	100%
	INT Up(1)	100%
	Type buff(2)	100%
	Mental Focus	250%
	Type debuff(3)	100%
	Matching Zone	Varies (4)

(1) For non-INT based magic attacks, use matching stat PWR buff
(2) Use matching elemental or type, like Fire or Type damage up for Fire attacks
(3) Use matching elemental or type, like Fire or Type resist down for Fire attacks
(4) Use matching zone / stance only, % varies

These are the buff / debuff stacks that work on all skills.

Icon/s	Description	Cap
	Eagle Eyes	250%
	Song	Varies

See also

• Battle Mechanics
• Damage Formula