For those of you on CN - How good is Eyjafjalla? Would you reroll for her? What content did she let you challenge?
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Posted Dec 27, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC
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CN player here. Eyja is imo currently the strongest caster in the game with an extremely useful talent as a bonus. Stats wise she is nothing special, but her true power comes from her skills.
The 2nd skill turns her into a pseudo AoE caster with very fast charge time, while the 3rd skill is literally a nuke. Both skills can melt all but the strongest enemies. On top of that she also buffs the dmg of all other casters in the team. Pairing her with Skyfire and/or Ifrit (the Napalm Trio, as I call them) brings a hilarious amount of magical damage.
Eyja, along with Silverash and Exusiai are the operators that can carry you to endgame easily. Thought I would recommend the latter two since Amiya is free and already a very solid caster on her own. But with Eyja at Elite 1 you don't have to worry about shielded enemies at all until at least chapter 4.
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Not OP but I had the same question. So say you had the following rerolling scenarios, which would you say to keep the account and just move on? (Given the initial banners and from a F2P/lite $$ spending player)
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Roll Eyja and not Exu or SilverAsh.
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Roll Exu and/or SilverAsh but not Eyja
In short, is Eyja, should you roll her, worth throwing everyone else under the bus (especially with Exu not returning to banner for a long while)? Thanks.
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Personally I would pick Exu as my first choice, Silverash as 2nd and Eyja as the 3rd.
- Silverash is OP and so, but his power is not complete without having his 3rd skill, which requires Elite 2, a thing that you would not be able to reach until much later. Eyja is less of a problem since her 2nd skill is already strong enough to nuke shits out of existence.
- Exu gains most of her power since the very beginning. Assault Mode on skill level 4 can one shot most of the enemies minus bosses and the armoured guys. Even then, she can breezes through early game with ease until at least Grani event.
- Most importantly, the final stages of the EXP and Lungmen map can be trivial with Exu. These are the stages that you will grind endlessly from early to endgame. Reaching LS-5 (EXP cards) and CE-5 (Lungmen dollars) can help you power leveling other operators much faster. Silverash and Eyja can also do this, but as I said earlier they need to be Elited first.
- The final reason, you wont encounter strong enemies with high physical resistance until much later. The meta of casters will come, but not so in the first few months of the game.
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I love her
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As a CN player since May and a player who doesn't collect Eyja yet (feelsbadman), I'd say she is very strong and can make your life much easier for tough missions in the latter stages. I am not a big fun of rerolling, but if I'm given a chance I would go for Eyja definitely. She has everything a caster can offer: clearance, damage over duration, caster-class buff. The other guy explains it well enough.
However for early stages I'd say Exusiai is a better choice, as she is a lower cost damage dealer and can be used in every single mission. Silverash (or Guard class in general) is kind of awkward for early stages. People tend to put snipers/casters/tanks/medics in play more often and there is less resources for Silverash or Guard class to level/rank up. Based on my experience (I got him as my first 6 star character), Silverash before Elite 2 (or before 3rd skill unlocked) is very mediocre in terms of damage output and for most of the time you can simply replace him with a tank or another guard or even vanguard. And to promote him to elite 2 is really a pain especially for new accounts.
Also need to mention that in CN server, Eyja (and maybe Exusiai I can't remember) has never appeared in the exchange shop, ever. Silverash and Ifrit all entered the shop at least once, Nightingale even showed up multiple times lol. So if the global server keeps this pattern it is more important to get Eyja or/and Exu at start of the game.
Some say Amiya is good enough, that's true for early stage. As the game goes on, single-target caster no longer holds a must to have spot in the team. When you need magical damage, you need it in AoE. You'll find out Skyfire/Gitano often helps you more. That's why Eyja is the strongest caster because she has the cost of a single-target caster but can deal (at least equal, often more) AoE magical damage, either constantly(2nd skill) or as a burst clearance(3rd skill).