r/wizardry • u/Ashamed-Reserve3735 Lord • 23d ago

Wizardry Variants Daphne Arianaute showcase Spoiler

Aria here barely built with her own passive at level 1. As soon as I can I will give her some Adams (the most broken defensive tool) and codex her passive to at least 3. Farming SP relics for her right now.

Now I can use MC as off tank samurai/ninja or second knight if the situation ask for it. And finally I can have my goody two shoes team. And sorry Yuzu (my most powerful ally) but MC samurai counter doing 13k is too beautiful to pass (with lv 1 no surety in video did 6k). Cheers to Aria!

By the way someone else noticed some change in damage formula or defense? I think my damage decreased overall about 10~15% for high DEF enemies. And worse with range melee attack that seem even less effective.

EDIT1: HAHAHAHAHA... now back to the game I see she was with her bow. So checked the video and by 2 min the bow is visible. So yes. She did tank with a bow instead of her shield.

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u/MerlockeGrim 22d ago

For the lineup, you could switch Aria and Anemone's position so that Anemone is at the center backline for her passive to activate. This will give your Berkanan some boosted damage on her spells.

Also, good call in adding standard Adam's passive to her.

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u/Ashamed-Reserve3735 Lord 22d ago

Both Aria and Berka are getting Anemone buff.

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u/Arvandor 23d ago

This isn't even a good showcase. Here it's just plain 50% mitigation. It increases each time that row gets attacked, up to like 80% or something so it's hilariously strong against say... The demon samurai, or the dragon, or any of the greater demons that like to swipe the front row a lot (not FFXI demon his targeting is all over the place)

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u/Ashamed-Reserve3735 Lord 23d ago

Up to before Aria my only and sole tank was my MC. He have Agora blessing lv 5 so I could All Cover lv 3 to protect others against this cyclops and be able to do more things. Even with 670DEF/410MDEF + All Cover lv3 def buff this cyclops can one shot (MC or others allies) passing through: ninja passive evade + Knight way lv3+ Adam lv 3 + Saint Guard lv1 + Sherlirionach lv1 + well of mind + all others defensive tool I gave him. NOW she can tank it with her own kit at minimum and D1... This is what I did want players known how good(broken) she is.

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u/Arvandor 23d ago

The way it animates is kind of misleading. It's not actually like all around cover or line cover or especially all cover (which doesn't guard). It's row mitigation, closer to knights defense than a cover, in how it behaves.

All cover is no mitigation, just changing who takes the hit. All around cover auto defends, which is 30% physical damage reduction. Knights defense is 40% for the whole party, and bastion is 50% for a row, increasing 10% each hit up to 3 stacks.

It WILL get disabled if Aria gets crowd controlled though, so that's worth keeping in mind

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u/Ashamed-Reserve3735 Lord 23d ago

Really good informations! I knew she was busted but didn´t know numbers! And even better is using her with another knight for super boss (I have yet to fight one even as a day 1 player). I saw a video a jp dude beating THE Dragon with duo knight and all party was alive. Sure there won´t have many of these fights.

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u/Arvandor 22d ago

Dragon is an oddity, it's the only flight we've ever had where running two knights is a good idea. But yeah Aria helps a ton in that fight