Talk:Demonic Witch Xie'Jing/@comment-25201833-20170329063532

Fourth (Fifth if including replies), I guess... Keep the tradition.

If this early information about this unit is legitimate, I address the following rhetorical question: Why am I SO MUCH not surprised by her kit? Gumi let us down again, it seems.

Elemental damage is niche by definition since assuming random unit types there is so few chance to have a element advantage for it to be relevant ("BUTBUTBUT MONO" Yes mono, but not everyone has many units of same type that have a good enough skill set (strong units and balanced buffs are pretty much obligatory at this point)), and that's assuming the enemies have no element weakness bypass.

We obviously see that status are the main focus of XieJing. However, this too is mediocre at best, since there's a limit to trying to give an ailment to a resistant enemy by getting all other ailments instead. %HP, fixed damage and crazy buffed attacks that would kill you either way (survive by UBB + guard) are still among the main ways the bosses beat you, and ailments won't help much. At best they give a tiny mitigation equivalent IF injury is inflictable. All the best ailments (paralysis, poison) are are still always disabled though.

Devil advocacy now. First see the DoT debuff. This is good since no boss that I know of has a DoT bypass. 170% status damage with a near-guaranteed condition (usually bosses have at least one, but there are always exceptions) might be better than I initially thought. If I'm correct, XieJing would be one of the strongest units in the purpose of status infliction currently. Every unit has a niche. XieJing will probably be a good unit to fill hers, especially for F2Ps without Zellha.

Theory time over. Let's see if there's some use for her, and if someone here wants to bring it on, you're free to have a go at me for my lack of objectivity research, although I already can prove mine since it's only a pre-release opinion, so HAH