Cylinder question

• Windx wrote on 2010-12-16 00:41
  What's the best kind of cylinder to use if I want to use all kinds of alchemy with it?
• Kaeporo wrote on 2010-12-16 00:45
  The Tower Cylinder
• Arus wrote on 2010-12-16 00:55
  Tower Cylinder only if you're going purely on the offensive and don't mind losing mobility. Every other cylinder works just fine if you want everything including Summon Golem, Barrier Spikes, Rain Casting, and Shock to be available to you. The only difference between the elemental ones is that you get bonuses for skills of that element, and certain upgrades are only available for certain elemental cylinders. As far as I know, the only time you actually get penalized for using a different-element cylinder is when you use Wind Blast - the maximum distance at which you can push the enemy back is noticeably decreased.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2010-12-16 01:06

  Quote from Arus;249166:

  Tower Cylinder only if you're going purely on the offensive and don't mind losing mobility. Every other cylinder works just fine if you want everything including Summon Golem, Barrier Spikes, Rain Casting, and Shock to be available to you. The only difference between the elemental ones is that you get bonuses for skills of that element, and certain upgrades are only available for certain elemental cylinders. As far as I know, the only time you actually get penalized for using a different-element cylinder is when you use Wind Blast - the maximum distance at which you can push the enemy back is noticeably decreased.

  
  
  
  All elemental cylinders positively boost their respective element while decreasing the players effectiveness when using Alchemy skills outside of their element. If you would prefer not to use the tower cylinder, choose a cylinder that has effects that you're particularly fond of.
  
  Wind Cylinder - Wind blast damage (useless) and Frozen Blast freeze duration (very useful at high ranks)
  Water Cylinder - Water Cannon damage (very useful)
  Fire Cylinder - Flame Burst and Heat Buster damage (very useful)
  Earth Cylinder - Barrier Spikes health (useful), Summon Golem status (gamebreaking) and Sand Burst damage (useless)
  
  Cylinder List
• jking012 wrote on 2010-12-16 02:56

  Quote from Kaeporo;249185:

  All elemental cylinders positively boost their respective element while decreasing the players effectiveness when using Alchemy skills outside of their element. If you would prefer not to use the tower cylinder, choose a cylinder that has effects that you're particularly fond of.
  
  Wind Cylinder - Wind blast damage (useless) and Frozen Blast freeze duration (very useful at high ranks)
  Water Cylinder - Water Cannon damage (very useful)
  Fire Cylinder - Flame Burst and Heat Buster damage (very useful)
  Earth Cylinder - Barrier Spikes health (useful), Summon Golem status (gamebreaking) and Sand Burst damage (useless)
  Earthquake Cylinder - Grants twice the earth alchemy bonus of a normal Earth Cylinder, however it also has twice the penalty to non-earth alchemy.
  Hurricane Cylinder - Grants twice the wind based alchemy bonus of a normal Wind Cylinder however, it also has twice the penalty to non-wind alchemy.
  Tidal Wave Cylinder - Grants twice the water based alchemy bonus of a normal Water Cylinder however, it also has twice the penalty to non-water alchemy.
  Volcano Cylinder - Grants twice the fire based alchemy bonus of a normal Fire Cylinder however, it also has twice the penalty to non-fire alchemy.
  
  Cylinder List

  
  
  there I added :D
  Those bolded come in g13
• Zid wrote on 2010-12-16 15:35
  A regular Cylinder is good too.
  
  Reason why you should consider regular Cylinder is because of Critical. Critical is important for Water Cannon and Heat Buster. A regular Cylinder can beat out a Tower Cylinder with +20% Critical.
  
  Now, you may ask "Why don't I just upgrade a Water or Fire Cylinder for Critical?" That's seems fine and all, but since you want to use all kinds of Alchemy, using an attribute Cylinder isn't actually the optimal choice. It boosts one Alchemy attribute and weakens the other three. One to three ratio that you have to consider if you're planning to use all kinds of Alchemy. In this case, if you want Critical, a regular Cylinder is very practical.
  
  Now if you want damage, by all means, Tower Cylinder is 50% more damage, I think.