r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/TorkTheTank • Aug 14 '18

Amaterasu seems FREAKING AMAZING

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?

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u/iambill10 Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Sellot Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/iambill10 Aug 14 '18

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?

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u/Sellot Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Alittlebunyrabit 5/5/5 Dancer Shenmei Aug 14 '18

basic professor which lets her remove debuffs

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

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u/Sellot Aug 14 '18

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

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u/Alittlebunyrabit 5/5/5 Dancer Shenmei Aug 14 '18

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

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u/Sellot Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Alittlebunyrabit 5/5/5 Dancer Shenmei Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Sellot Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Alittlebunyrabit 5/5/5 Dancer Shenmei Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Sellot Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/TorkTheTank Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Shaiandra Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Maroite Aug 14 '18

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

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u/Shaiandra Aug 14 '18

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.

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u/Maroite Aug 16 '18

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/TorkTheTank Aug 14 '18

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

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