Archer/Hunter Help Solo Li Archer?

Is solo LI viable as archer? If it is, I'm interested in looking into any builds that people have for that.

No LI items obviously. I've got access to any Hive item required. I've also got a Freedom but no other mythics.

 

https://wynndata.tk/s/LpDMTh
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i use the second build, the added sp doesnt really matter except the 129 int and agil

 

I've been using this: https://wynndata.tk/s/V9IMdT beat Robob twice in the last few days without much difficulty. Dual-wielding thunder Cluster and Torrential Tide as needed. Haven't attempted Cybel yet, mainly because I wanted to get used to the rest, and get Gold Hydro Necklace.

 

quickity tippity:
on a full morph build, double topaz adds 15sp compared to double emerald, so if you want that, that's also an option. note that topaz + emerald adds 10sp, but doesn't lose as much hp

 

im pretty sure im low iq, but wouldnt double topaz/emerald or one of each give the same sp?

 

It gives the same sp, but due to topaz's req you would have more spare sp to use than you would using emerald.
I use emerald because of that one time I survived at 150 hp when being hit by cybel but still.

 

i still dont totally understand it, wouldnt the spare sp just get used since youre using something like msd?

 

Topaz has a lower requirement, so you aren't forced to invest as much to put it on (they snowball from Gold onwards, or from double Topaz even).

Compare:
Double Emerald (65 all, 160 spare)
Emerald/Topaz (54 all, 165 spare)
Double Topaz (62 all, 175 spare)

So for your build double Emerald is actually better, since you're going to add (at least) 3 extra sp all anyway. If you weren't going to do that, and instead were going to put the extra into Int/Agi or something, double Topaz would free up a little extra.

 

preface: i sort of worded it wrong, it's spare sp, so sp to assign into whatever you want. with double emerald, you're forced to assign 3 extra rainbow sp and maybe you don't care about defense and str literally at all or something, so you're "losing" 6sp. it's not as big of a difference as i may have made it sound out to be.

basically, if you plan to assign sp into 4+ categories, you should probably use double emerald. if you plan to assign sp into only 1-3 categories, double topaz also works. also there's xp vs loot bonus if you care about that.

Spoiler: thing

when you equip steel with double topaz, you have 7 of the pieces of morph (2 topaz + 1 ameth + 1 ruby + 1 gold + 1 iron + 1 steel = 7 pieces)

you get + 7 in all stats from steel in addition to +6 from the 7/8 set bonus (12 sp -> 18sp)

that's +15 rainbow sp, and you only need 8 rainbow sp to use stardust. so, you can get rid of the need to use morph emerald to equip stardust (tbh you probably can go straight from steel -> stardust anyway). so by taking out emerald, you don't actually lose any sp. that's the first part.

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you may also notice that in order to wear the morph set normally (only 1 topaz), you need to assign 3 rainbow sp after equipping topaz in order to use morph-gold.

however, since you use a second topaz, you only need to assign 1 rainbow sp

here's math

double emerald: 8 (assigned) = 8 (gold req), 8 rainbow sp (40 total) assigned to equip gold
double topaz: 4 (topaz req) + 1 (topaz) + 1 (topaz) + 1 (set bonus) + 1 (assigned) = 8 (gold req), 5 rainbow sp (25 total) assigned to equip gold

 

I'm currently using Morph-Capri with Freedom (with double Topaz, for reasons outside of LI). I made it to Cybel Form 4, I'll try again later today.