Puppets or continue amassing stats.

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AoiPhantom wrote on 2014-05-13 04:18

I've been bulking up on STR and INT stats mostly for a few rebirths to try to increase my gunner damage, but the damage increases seem fairly marginal. I find it fairly frustrating when shooting rush fails to kill a ton of enemies, aggros them, and finally cost me a large chunk of HP untill I can properly load rush again or simply kill them off with good old WM. :pain:

After watching a few videos and searching the web, I've come to the conclusion that I should be hybriding puppets with guns to give me more crowd control.

This is more of me looking for opinions rather than posing a questions. I can either spend the next 819 AP ranking the main puppet skills to R1, or spend the next 734AP ranking the most AP efficent skills for around an additional 170 STR/INT, generating around 34 max gunner damage. I currently have around 503 base atk with my TaunesMK3, so I should end up with 537 base damage afterwards. But if I go for the puppets route, I can get around 567 marionette max base damage and R1 puppet skills.

The whole point of planning out my next 800AP usage is to prep my character up to be able to handle Peaca Abyss, though not to the point where I can solo. Would going puppets do the trick, or would I simply be bringing with me another skill set with mediocre damage to the Peaca Abyss cutting board. :gloom3:

Thanks in advance! :bow:
k1nsoo wrote on 2014-05-13 05:01

I would recommend investing APs on puppet. Extra 34 gun max wouldn't make HUGE difference compared to ranking up Puppet skills. Also puppets will be more suitable for Peaca Abyss; using shootingrush with 580ish max is really risky and you really don't want to aggro peaca mobs altogether.

However if you want to focus on guns instead, investing 170 str/int isn't a bad idea. Guns take a lot of AP (str/int) but it's a good start!
ironwoman wrote on 2014-05-13 09:53

Quote from AoiPhantom;1219943:
I've been bulking up on STR and INT stats mostly for a few rebirths to try to increase my gunner damage, but the damage increases seem fairly marginal. I find it fairly frustrating when shooting rush fails to kill a ton of enemies, aggros them, and finally cost me a large chunk of HP untill I can properly load rush again or simply kill them off with good old WM. :pain:

After watching a few videos and searching the web, I've come to the conclusion that I should be hybriding puppets with guns to give me more crowd control.

This is more of me looking for opinions rather than posing a questions. I can either spend the next 819 AP ranking the main puppet skills to R1, or spend the next 734AP ranking the most AP efficent skills for around an additional 170 STR/INT, generating around 34 max gunner damage. I currently have around 503 base atk with my TaunesMK3, so I should end up with 537 base damage afterwards. But if I go for the puppets route, I can get around 567 marionette max base damage and R1 puppet skills.

The whole point of planning out my next 800AP usage is to prep my character up to be able to handle Peaca Abyss, though not to the point where I can solo. Would going puppets do the trick, or would I simply be bringing with me another skill set with mediocre damage to the Peaca Abyss cutting board. :gloom3:

Thanks in advance! :bow:

Puppets will give you more utility that you might otherwise be lacking. Do note that if you have a friend who can blaze, you don't really need to do godly damage with puppet, since your job will be collecting mobs with crisis. If you're worried about pulling off mediocre damage, then you better start working on range and/or life skills, unless you have nearly capped strength (which I assume you don't), which will cost your way more than 800 AP. Basically, you're gonna have to plan out much further. Don't worry, more AP isn't hard to get.
AoiPhantom wrote on 2014-05-13 16:35

Hm, I see. So I guess the utility provided by puppets must be significantly better than extra damage in guns. Many of my friends are mages so I guess I would synergize well with them in a party with crisis and blaze. :chin:

Thanks for the suggests!