In any SMT game, demons are one of the key things that sets the franchise apart from the others. Imagine is no different. Now before you pull a Dia and say "well I don't care about my demon" I recommend reading on to learn more about them first.
Choosing your demon:
So lets start with the basics. Currently there are about --->300 demons<--- in the game (give or take a few), not including variations. That's a lot of demons. So your first question might be: Where do I start? What demon should I get? Well there are some questions to ask yourself first. Have you chosen a class? What is your play style? Your demon should compliment your play style and cover your weaknesses. For example typically you would want:
Melee:
Massive healing demon with some buffs and some crowd control to keep demons away from you.
Mage:
Some basic heals with some damage. Depending on your class of mage, DD wants heals while shotmage probably wants some extra damage/buffs
Gunner:
Similar to mage, however usually you want something to push everything away from you so you can blow a hole in its head :3
Enhance:
Very basic heals if any, with strong nuke skills. Your main damage is from your demon because....your a healer.
Note: You can really make any demon you want these are just suggestions :3
Features:
Features play a huge role in which demons are better than others. For example, a healer Pixie is not necissarily as good as an Elf healer because the Elf has a feature which boosts curative power. The English wiki features page *should* be up to date. But its best to cross reference between the actual demon page and the features page. (If something is missing please let me know and I can fix it)
Next step in choosing your demon is choosing your alignment. Basically whichever alignment gives you the most boosts in terms of soul stones and tarots. You want a demon within this alignment for something called Summon Synchro. When your demon is contracted or above they get a damage boost. The more your demon likes you, the more boost you get. Remember to keep re-summoning your demon as this boost only lasts for 30 minutes.
Fusing:
When fusing your demon try to plan out all the skills you want on it first. With WILDCAT (WC) runs, you can get skills using SP but it would be best to start with a set of skills you can run with for a while.
Check out the --->fusion<--- page to see how to fuse demons. If you need help planing a demon feel free to leave a comment here and I can help get you a path. (More info in the FAQ)
Keep in mind some demons require trifusion and/or have plugins. Certain demon plugins are a pain to get so If this is your first demon, consider starting with a non-plugin double fusion one.
Rebirth:
Now that you have your demon, its time to start on the road of making them op. The first step is through rebirthing. Check out the --->rebirth<--- page on the wiki to get some basics about rebirthing.
If this is your first demon, you should be good rebirthing 4 times in the paths that matter for your demon. If you want to max out your demon feel free :D
NOTE: Its a good idea to finish however many rebirths you want in each path. Its fairly expensive to move between rebirth paths as you need the runestones for that level plus the levels, and the money. For example if I want to move between R3 Pertho to R3 Tiwaz I would need 60k Macca, 5 Tiwaz Runestones, and 40 levels on the demon.
Typically, you want to rebirth your demon into their "final" path last.
Lets take a look at an example demon:
Atropos is pretty obviously a mage, therefore I want to have her end in Perthro as it will give the most spell stat boost as you level. So where do I start? Typically I start in Sowilo. Its an all stats boost which is a decent place to start. After typically you want to rebirth her into Wyrd as her mp pool is decent but wont hold up in longer WC runs.
After the Wyrd rebirth her into the other things that raise the spell stat, and then rebirth her finally into Pertho. Then tadaaa~ your rebirthing is done.
NOTE: If you plan on mitamaing the demon, you will want to get to rank 8 in all the rebirth paths. This includes the things you typically would not need (ie Tiwaz on a spell demon). As far as I know you need to have max R8 before you Mitama to make the best use of it.
Soul Points:
So you have 8 skills on your demon. Your done right? Usually, not quite. Through WC runs you can get really good passives with SP. Once again ---->click this<---- and get some reading done. Those passives are pretty great.
Using our example I can then change Atropos's skills to be:
Prominence, Tornado, Cocytus Pain, Overkiller 3, Overkiller 2, Hot Pursuit 2, Satisfaction 3, Spin Booster +
I've replaced all her original skills, but now without gear I have Lb chance, technical attack chance, higher crit, and better offensive skills.
The less skills you can replace, the better but SP skills are too good to pass up at times.
Devil Force
Here is the wonderful little --->wiki link<--- for the quest that must be done to use this system.
Also the --->wiki link<--- for an overview of the system.
You can feed random consumables to your demon to boost their base stats. While the base stats don't raise that much, some of the passives found in the second link are pretty great. Since those are random however, sometimes its best to put things that you actually want on there. Devil Force items can do the job for you. --->A list<--- of some items that Nori is putting together :3
As you can see those items allow you to specifically boost certain skills/stats you want.
Mitama
I dont know enough about this yet sorry :/ Ill write stuff here once I've tried it out myself
Demon Sacrifice
-I don't plan on doing this anytime soon so I have no personal opinions/things to look out for for this topic. All I can suggest is reading --->here<--- because what is written there is all I know :3
Help with Demon fusion paths:
I do like poking around and planning demons. If you want some help planning please leave the following:
Character class
Alignment
Desired Demon
Skills Preferred (If you have any)
I'll get on the fusion paths as soon as I can ^_^.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.