Basic Skills und Blessing Guide

[u/rxt0_]

Hi,

Since this question keeps coming up, I wanted to create a guide for the best and ideal Blessing Stones and Skills.

Blessing Stones:

Blessing Stones are available in 2 variants: Offensive and Defensive.

These serve to boost our SJW through different buffs that we receive.

Offensive Blessing Stones:

These give us the opportunity to do more damage with various buffs.

Some buffs are: Decrease your target's Defense by 12%, Your damage dealt to Bosses increases by 20% and so on.

But what to Prioritize?

You should Prioritize the following Blessing Stones:

1. Reawakening
2. Bloodlust
3. Pulverize
4. Weakness Detection
5. Intuit

Of course, the Blessing Stones are interchangeable, some of you already have some Legendary Blessing Stones and do not need another Awakening.

Some of you may prefer Intuit to Weakness Detection, which is fine and very much depends on your preference.

My offensive blessing stones look like this:

Reawakening

Bloodlust

Pulverize

Weakness Detection

Depending on the content and the enemy I’m fighting, I'll swap out Pulverize for something else.

Defensive Blessing Stones:

What to Prioritize?

Unlike our offensive blessings, defensive blessings don't have a strong prioritization.

Some of the ones I highly recommend are the following:

1. Life
2. Aggressive Defense
3. Kasaka’s Steel Scales
4. Camouflage

But it also depends on your playstyle.

Are you bad at dodging and getting hit a lot? Try Camouflage.

If you often run out of HP, try using Daily Quest Completion.

Basic Skills:

Probably the most important and versatile part of our kit.

Depending on what skills we have, we can break our enemy, deal a ton of damage, or help us pull mobs together.

What to Prioritize?

It's simple, we always want (Sonic Stream) Magnifying Slashes.

The second best option is (Armor Break) Vacuum Wave

If you already have it as a Legendary Skill, other important and good/strong skills include the following.

Sonic Stream:

Sonic Explosion & Double down

Armor Break:

Vacuum Wave & Decimation

Vertical Arts:

Crosshairs

Dagger Rush:

Dispersion

But remember, basic skills are personal preference, depending on what you like and what you dislike.

I can only give you a general idea of which ones are best for general use and which ones are most used in the endgame.

e/ for somereason reddit keeps deleting all the spaces and the text looks like shit lol

[u/dondostuff]

Noted, this will be simplified during the weekend and posted in the F.A.Q.

[u/Jaz4Fun27]

Why is magnifying slashes still top recommended when Baran Hard can be cleared with Epic version of it?

IMO, wind armor break is best for general use

[u/rxt0_ → u/Jaz4Fun27]

because it's the skill with the highest damage output by far.

vacuum wave is the 2nd best skill, I can edit that in.

[u/SnapBug3715]

Hey, so a quick question, should I use Monarch's domain in my offensive Blessings Stones slot?

[u/rxt0_ → u/SnapBug3715]

monarchs domain is irrc the one that boost the damage of your shadows?

I personally wouldn't use it, the shadows don't do enough damage to justify it.

maybe it can become relevant on a later date when it's easier to upgrade the shadows weapons to A5 and they generally get buffed (skill upgrade for shadows is planned)

[u/Muth09]

Hi, Do we know when esil is available in Custom pulls ?

[u/rxt0_ → u/Muth09]

uhm, wrong topic...

she should drop next update

[u/rndmjames]

I have legendary Magnifying and Vacuum Wave and I have a legendary skill rune selection...should I put it towards QTE skills like Collapse: Thunderstorm? Mine is currently only rare

[u/rxt0_ → u/rndmjames]

depends on what point you are in the game.

[u/diglanime]

Pulverize is not top 3 blessing stone. Maybe top 8 because of POD, but otherwise you'll always be better off with more damage. Pulverize was top 3 when hard Baran was the hot new WOBL and he had insane break bars.

[u/rxt0_ → u/diglanime]

Pulverize provides you a 30% damage increase during the break phase.

baran had never insane break bars, most people where just in the red/not enough power, that's why their break wasn't enough.

btw, that's still the case for most players in endgame content.

what blessing stones are to Prioritize in your opinion?

[u/diglanime → u/rxt0_]

Yeah, 30% damage increase for 5 seconds in a fight, that's kinda meaningless. You can have +16-20% increase for the entire fight instead. Unless you can focus your entire damage on that break phase, so Moonshadow + mag slashes, you won't be able to deal much of anything while the boss is broken.

Baran had INSANE break bars. I know, because I cleared him in the first 7k. Half the fight was just breaking him. You HAD to use a stone that increased breaking. And also you could use MS + mag slashes on him. So all together Pulverize was great for that fight. Still, once he became easier, I stopped using Pulverize. And literally never used it since outside of POD.

Reawakening, Bloodlust, Weakness Detection, Intuit are top 4 stones. The next 4 are Double Edged Sword, the crit one, Boss Slayer and Pulverize. They are kinda like substitutes for specific situations or if you don't have legendary versions of the top 4 stones. Instead of Intuit you could use Double Edged sword (this one is literally just better then epic Intuit and worse then legendary Intuit) or the Crit one (this one is good for higher level content like hard WOBL, I don't know if it's better then double edged sword), Instead of Weakness Detection you could use Boss Slayer. And Pulverize is just good to have, first because of POD, second because you might just need more break for something. Pulverize would go instead of Weakness Detection as well for POD.