Merciless Massacre Zeta
After applying the zeta on Merciless Massacre and taking Vader into a couple battles, there's a few things to note:
1. The zeta pretty much makes the ability run. You could maybe get by without the zeta but it's really worth getting.
2. The Merciless Target icon is a blue icon so it can't be dispelled.
3. Force Crush doesn't remove Merciless Target from all enemies, only the primary target.
4. If you hit someone with Merciless Target, you take an immediate bonus turn.
5. Using Merciless Massacre as the opening move is pretty good, but you'd probably want to use Force Crush first so you reduce the cooldowns on it with Merciless Massacre, which should be your second move. I did a battle using Merciless Massacre first and found that it was okay, but when using Force Crush first, it was much more effective.
Against a team of 5, I used Force Crush, followed by Merciless Massacre, Culling Blade, 4 basics, another Force Crush, another Culling Blade, and a basic. That gets you to a cool down of 1 for Merciless Massacre, and then you go from there.
Overall, I think this will make Vader a better character. You'll be able to use him in DS Geo to a pretty good effect, because there will often be more than 5 characters in a starting wave. In that case, I'd save Culling Blade until the second round of Force Crush so you have a better chance of taking out an opponent. It might also be useful in the HPit/HAAT (if you still play those manually) and it'll definitely help his GAC viability.
Good job, Capital Games. Just center his chest. And release the Road Ahead this week. Here's to hoping we get a new game mode we can use this new Vader rework in.
1. The zeta pretty much makes the ability run. You could maybe get by without the zeta but it's really worth getting.
2. The Merciless Target icon is a blue icon so it can't be dispelled.
3. Force Crush doesn't remove Merciless Target from all enemies, only the primary target.
4. If you hit someone with Merciless Target, you take an immediate bonus turn.
5. Using Merciless Massacre as the opening move is pretty good, but you'd probably want to use Force Crush first so you reduce the cooldowns on it with Merciless Massacre, which should be your second move. I did a battle using Merciless Massacre first and found that it was okay, but when using Force Crush first, it was much more effective.
Against a team of 5, I used Force Crush, followed by Merciless Massacre, Culling Blade, 4 basics, another Force Crush, another Culling Blade, and a basic. That gets you to a cool down of 1 for Merciless Massacre, and then you go from there.
Overall, I think this will make Vader a better character. You'll be able to use him in DS Geo to a pretty good effect, because there will often be more than 5 characters in a starting wave. In that case, I'd save Culling Blade until the second round of Force Crush so you have a better chance of taking out an opponent. It might also be useful in the HPit/HAAT (if you still play those manually) and it'll definitely help his GAC viability.
Good job, Capital Games. Just center his chest. And release the Road Ahead this week. Here's to hoping we get a new game mode we can use this new Vader rework in.
