Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3547897-20160119114400/@comment-27468412-20160122015610

Zephyrus11221 wrote: The Crimson Raven wrote: I have to say, I'm a little disappointed about the new Global Exclusives. They are good enough, I suppose but one is hands-down DESTROYED by Gazia, the other is a hit-count and spark, buffer who could be useful, but conflicts hard with Rahgan. Mikael has more damage than Gazia, and is more useful when grinding in Raid thanks to his STSBB nuke. His LS is also much more survivability oriented with more guarding utility. He also has the "reduce all damage to 1" buff on his UBB, which comes in handy in a lot of situations. Of course, if you want the BB mod and AOE hits, Gazia is better, but Mikael has his strong points as well.

Avani has the highest total spark-oriented damage utility in the game right now (not including Zedus and Avant with their Crit buffs), and the strongest LS BB fill on spark buff. And she conflicts with Rahgan? So what? You're not really gonna use Rahgan outside of Arena (there are many units that buff Normal attack hit count that are better than Rahgan for Questing, Trials, and virtually everything else but Arena). She basically outclasses Rahgan as a sub unit, and comes pretty close to him as an Arena Lead. So, she doesn't only conflict with Rahgan, she completely destroys him in terms of overall utility. That doesn't even mention the fact that she has 34 hits on her SBB, only beaten by Reud and units with 40 hits on their SBB, which is something recent spark buffers have been missing.

The first might be true, but you are also ignoring what makes Gazia...well, GAZIA. The massive BB mod, the damage reduction leader skill, the kinda nifty Guard stuff that can be abused with the right setup, and the stat conversions. PLUS Gazia is a FREE unit. True, Mikael has his points, but in hard content, I'd use Gazia over Mikael.

Now, Avani is good, I say he is the better with the pair, but, we have Chrome and Charla who have HP booting leader skills and a better spark utility. Arena is where she would shine, (who cares about questing? INFINTE AOE. Problem solved.) but that has been taken by Rahgan. You could sub her for raid, or trials, and that is where she would do best, due to a lack of HP on the Leader Skill. There she would be nice for BB gen on normal attack, or taking down one unit/part in Trials or Raid, but as a spark buffer, she is lacking the BB on spark buff.

You make some good points, though, and if someone had her but not Chrome, Charla (or even Zenia, who still is useful) she would be an amazing pull. My opinion still stands on the Mitigator guy, Gazia wins.