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Mist wrote on 2014-10-20 04:01
Does anyone have 1 and is it any good? Does it provide the best boost among the ego cylinders?
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Kaeporo wrote on 2014-10-20 08:11
All cylinders afford the same elemental efficiency bonuses.
Fire +78%
Wind +8%
Water +32%
Clay +28%
The only difference between them is their respective cylinder bonuses. While most cylinders increase the affinity of one element by 9~36% and decrease the affinity of all other elements by 5~12%, the Tower Cylinder increases all elements affinity by 50%. On top of that it increases the range of most offensive skills by 80%
Unfortunately, you're rendered not only vulnerable and immobile with the tower cylinder, you're also unable to deploy Hydra Transmutation (you can, however, set up the tower after deployment for a damage increase) and elemental wave/golden time will be unavailable, alongside some other skills.
Is it worth it?
Compared to Abyss Water Cannon? No
Compared to Hellfire Flame Burst? No
Compared to Hurricane Frozen Blast? No
Compared to Spirit Volcano Heat Buster? No, can't use wave buster
Compared to Earthquake Hydra? Maybe
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Gaby5011 wrote on 2014-10-20 13:38
Quote from Kaeporo;1251652:
Compared to Earthquake Hydra? Maybe
I can confirm that it is. I have a tower ego and my hydras are much much stronger with it.
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Iyasenu wrote on 2014-10-22 23:55
My guild leader has one of these.
She only uses it to boost Hydra damage and Shock Range/Damage.
Since you can take advantage of those skills by casting them with a Cyl/Guard Cyl combo (for hydra and EW'd Shock) and then switch to the Ego Tower Cyl.
She never actually sets the Tower up, but since that's all she uses it for, it doesn't matter so much.
I mean, it's kind of inconvenient to sit there with a lame melee weapon ("bare hand" tower cyl) while your passive alchemy attacks do their work, but it DOES increase the damage a rather nice amount.