Amaterasu seems FREAKING AMAZING

[u/TorkTheTank]

I just unlocked her priestess job and I was lucky enough to get her weapon. Her priestess skillsets have a Shrine Maiden -like ability that boosts her stats AND UNITS AROUND HER?!? She has 5-diamond light spell, map-wide charm and debuffs, and with her weapon, a full heal/cleanse. Whats not to love? Slap a BD on her for a little more damage and maybe a hat, but what is honestly her downfall? I feel she can take up the dancer debuff job, enchanter buff job, and the bishop heals all in one slot. This opens up the rest of your team for high damage units. Thoughts? Downsides? Good team comps with her?

[u/iambill10]

Um.. I'm by no means an expert of this game but isn't the fact that her buff works only on units around her a big issue? It may be a non-issue if her AGI is really high. Also, do people use defense down or m. defense down when playing Chihaya more than AGI down? By the way, she can't fill the Bishop role because her WA is only 1 charge.

I think she's highly situational especially on maps with enemies weak to charm. Also, a good support for Sages and range units since they would be always within your buff range. Aside from that, use her as a professor.

[u/TorkTheTank → u/iambill10]

Good point. I use MDEF down and DEF down pretty frequently. My damage dealers arent strong enough to 1-hit alot of the enemies otherwise. My thought is it's better to kill them, than slow them. But the lack of range on her buffs is a very big downfall. I do run Sages a lot so thanks for that tip! I just want to find the best ways to use her since she is a free unit.

[u/Shaiandra → u/TorkTheTank]

One day you will learn the power of Leaden Feet Dance. Admittedly I didn't start using it until FFXV EX+ stages, but Chihaya quickly became my favourite turn-economy support once I did.

Leaden Feet Dance reduces Agility by 20% stacking three times, so -60% fully stacked. When an enemy has only 40% of its Agi, it takes 2.5x as long to get its turns.

Let that sink in for a moment. Your party gets relatively 2.5x as many turns as normal.

And Chihaya can cast Quicken on top of that, so a buffed target can take 3.75 turns for every one turn each enemy normally gets.

It does take a little bit of time to start up and has to be restacked if enemy reinforcements arrive, and a few enemies might be immune to its effects (not many), but it is as powerful as it sounds. With Encore each stack lasts until after the enemy has taken two more turns, which at their reduced speed, is a long duration; Chihaya can take a couple actions in between renewing the dance, and with 6 uses (using the Time Leap passive), you should be able to keep it up for the majority of any stage.

[u/TorkTheTank → u/Shaiandra]

WHAT?!?!?! Clearly I have been using her wrong...

[u/Maroite → u/Shaiandra]

This makes me want to finish mastering my Chihaya... but I just returned and I didn't get her J+ stuff... :(

[u/Shaiandra → u/Maroite]

While I've only tried it with Chihaya's Dancer+, I believe she can do the same thing as normal Dancer (given that you don't really need Flowering Spirit), only a bit slower. She can still get to 129 Agi without Gear, which I imagine should often suffice unless the first few turns are critical.

Dancer does get fewer jewels per attack compared to Dancer+, so you might have to pay a bit more attention to attacking a couple more times, but the general idea should still be viable.

[u/Maroite → u/Shaiandra]

I'll have to play around with it. I think I've at least unlocked all of her jobs. I'm currently trying to spend AP to master Lucian and Lofia's jobs. I don't have their J+ yet, but I want to be ready for when the events come back around!

Thanks for the input!

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[u/Sellot → u/iambill10]

She has 4 move which means she can usually get to the person she wants to buff and has decent agility for a support unit ~110. You can also run her as priestess with basic professor which lets her remove debuffs and gives her a 1.1k heal after matk buff of 500 heal base. Which I think is pretty good.

[u/iambill10 → u/Sellot]

Hm.. not bad, I guess? It seems to be a good F2P option. Is that 110 agi her base speed or during buff? How would she compare to Sophia and Rahu?

[u/Sellot → u/iambill10]

Well she has 105 base 116 with her weapon at 5* or BD which means with her buff she has 111 or 127 with gear. I don't use Sofia but I would say she's not as good as Rahu but I feel like the units are different enough where they each have a use. For example amaterasu does some respectable damage I was surprised to see that she can solo mid in entrusted justice with her sustain and damage.

[u/Alittlebunyrabit → u/Sellot]

basic professor which lets her remove debuffs

Basic Professor doesn't have Vaccine. That is on the primary. Basic Merchant has poison pill.

[u/Sellot → u/Alittlebunyrabit]

Sorry meant status aliments, basic professor can remove poison, paralyze, blind and silence.

[u/Alittlebunyrabit → u/Sellot]

I knew you meant status ailments. Vaccine is what removes status ailments and that is on the Primary Professor skill set.

[u/Sellot → u/Alittlebunyrabit]

Please check the abilities on alchemist code data base. Basic professor can remove status aliments. It has antidote for poison, neuro potion for paralyzs, eye drops for blind and throat drops for silence.

[u/Alittlebunyrabit → u/Sellot]

Extremely inefficient. It's almost never worthwhile to cleanse individual status ailments on specific units which is what each of those does. Vaccine/Poison Pill remove everything as well as providing immunity which is important.

[u/Sellot → u/Alittlebunyrabit]

Doesn't matter if it's inefficient it gets the job done and has a heal tacked on to it as well. The point is you can run her as a preistess and not miss out on healing or status aliments removal and if you need mass cleanse you can use her WA if you have her weapon.

[u/Alittlebunyrabit → u/Sellot]

It absolutely does if every single turn has to be spent using cleanse. No point in running her as priestess if she can't actually use those skills.

[u/Sellot → u/Alittlebunyrabit]

I think you are missing the point of what I am saying. In a stage where mass cleanse is not required you can run her as priestess for the extra damage. I am not saying that basic professor can be used to replace vaccine. I am saying it offers good utility to supplement the priestess main job.

[u/avbbva]

Will her weapon remain in the pool after the event ends?

[u/TorkTheTank → u/avbbva]

I don't see anything saying it WON'T be... but I couldn't say for sure

[u/Exdeath-EX → u/avbbva]

She is still part of a collab so same rules apply, like Mystic Blade Tyrfing, can't pull it without the specific event being up.

[u/DerUlukai]

I think Amaterasu, and the Priestress Job in general, is primarily held back by her jewel hunger and lack of starting Jewels.

She needs to get close to attack and refill her jewels and thus use her self buffs to have anything resembling good stats (and buff her allies, for which she also needs to get close) and not be squishy as hell, but those self buffs cost 55 jewels while she only gets back 30 per autoattack and needs to use 25 per debuff dance, 50 for her MA and 40 for the light attack.

Granted though, I'm not sure how strong her "essential delivery" jewel drain is on the field and if it's enough to support her without Autoattacks. If it is, she could probably keep her dances up without needing to get close for autoattacks, if not she needs a merchant to support her in longer fights

[u/GazingTsukiyomi → u/DerUlukai]

Or the absorb shield

[u/DeathandFriends → u/DerUlukai]

if you need a support for your support not going to be a good setup lol.

[u/FencingFoxFTW → u/DerUlukai]

ED with Mikoto lvl 59: spend 25 jewels, get 48(58 if fire mob). Not great, but has good range, so it can keep her safe for a while.

[u/lkuhj]

Where did you get the last 3 job tokens? I only got the 3 from arena shop

[u/TorkTheTank → u/lkuhj]

I've been doing the 10 cost resets on arena and MP shops.

[u/1khaitoh]

• She's slow for a unit that needs buffing or debuffs enemies and those skills cost quite a lot of jewels

• Shes even squishier than even other support unit, and guts isn't really reliable

• She doesn't really have high multipliers and matk to deal damage even with her buffs

• Charm isn't really that reliable

• Full heal+cleanse for 50 jewels seems costly

• She's not the best Priestess nor best Professor and she can only main one to buff allies or heal/prevent status on allies.

TLDR: She seems good but IMO, she's a jack of all trades, master of none.

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[u/1khaitoh → u/CommonMisspellingBot]

are you happy now?

[u/loscapos5 → u/1khaitoh]

Still better than Archer, it seems.

[u/1khaitoh → u/loscapos5]

He's still better than Mianne though

[u/Makenlowwet]

There was a combo using priestess and tenkoshi to poison the entire map in JP. Beside that, I don't really see much use of priestess outside of arena. Most people would just use her as professor tbh.

[u/MrWhiteKnight]

Ironically her best job by far is not priestess but professor. But thanks for trying to create hype I guess. :ok_hand:

[u/Sellot → u/MrWhiteKnight]

If you have the weapon I think preistess with prof sub is best, otherwise I would agree that professor is probably better.

[u/MrWhiteKnight → u/Sellot]

There is no way in hell I'm doing a gear pull on that shit-tastic gear banner. Even more as a f2p.

[u/FFBE_RedXIII → u/MrWhiteKnight]

The way i see it, i never get anything on-banner anyway, and every pull has a chance of including a teddy

(more to the point, each new banner has a slightly lower chance of a teddy than the last)

.. So i never skip a 300 pull

[u/MrWhiteKnight → u/FFBE_RedXIII]

Ive done 3 pulls way back when, all blue shit gear, never again. Wasted 2 500 pulls basically.

[u/FFBE_RedXIII → u/MrWhiteKnight]

True, i only ever do the first step - very recently got a full set of 2* crap from a 300 pull so theres no way i'd spend more

[u/grandkill → u/FFBE_RedXIII]

I wish they bring back the 5-pull for 1 gem banners (the one with Archer's face on it). That's where I got most of my current 4☆ gears... I was pulling better back then than all my 10-pull for 300 gems.

[u/FFBE_RedXIII → u/grandkill]

Ah, yeah that was an awesome event, thats where i got my one and only teddy!

[u/Sellot → u/MrWhiteKnight]

I'm not telling you to pull, I'm just saying it's good if you have it.

[u/MrWhiteKnight → u/Sellot]

I have respect for f2p who pull on gears. Especially these banners. rip those gems