So I have been wondering for a while what people do to choose between an ark’s different AOE (area of effect) attacks… What do I mean?
Plasmorex has two different AOE attacks (though the same question applies to its single target attacks)
Massacre targets all enemies with physical damage (based on Attack power)
Twilight targets all enemies with magical damage (based on Magic power)
Using the Ocarina that I use (Gold) its stats for Attack and Magic are identical. Therefore in what situation should I be using one over the other? They are EXACTLY the same strength, TU, etc.
The same applies to Plasmorex’s single target attacks. Both are identical except for the type of damage done. When should I use one or the other? Have people just memorized the defense/magic defense stats for every opposing ark? (then using that knowledge to decide which to use)
I understand how this works for arks like Omegawyrm whose No Guard drastically increases its Attack power causing you to use Terminate (Attack-based) instead of Supernova (Magic-based). But with Plasmorex it seems like an unnecessary duplication of moves…
Depends on the Arkadian that you’re trying to hit. If it has a higher physical defence than magical defence then you’ll want to hit it with Massacre as it’ll do more damage (and vice versa). It’s difficult to remember which arkadians have different stats, but in PvP you can at least memorise the more common ones.
If you happen to know which moves to use then it can give you a strong advantage.
I guess that’s another way of looking at it. Although arkadians each have their own elemental types which could be confusing, as a lot of AOE attacks can attack different elemental types at the same time.