Cloud of Darkness

Character Notes & Recommendations

Summon Board Passive selections:

• Odin choose 4 / 6 / 7

• Bahamut choose 3 / 4 / 6

• Usuals: 

  • Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, Brothers 4 / 5 / 7

  • Leviathan, Pandemonium, Diabolos, Alexander 4 / 5 / 6

• For more details and help with summons, check Summon Hub!

Sphere Recommendations

• A Spheres: CoD is a magic attacker that prefers to break. Give them BRV DMG, ATK or Magic ATK spheres with these conditions in mind!

How-to-Play Notes

• TLDR: CoD wants to grab as many breaks as possible on their turn. If multiple enemies are unbroken, use BRV+ into a free turn S1 to boost your Darkness stacks +4 (max 5 unless using LD). Never use S2 with 1, 2, 3, or 4 Darkness stacks unless the AoE delay is battle critical.

  • As a friend, CoD doesn't want breaks since it will jump turn and burn through BT effect. 

    • Enemies normally unBREAK themselves 5T after they are broken

    • Consider using a non-attack AA on an ally to let the enemy unbreak (CoD won't follow up), then your ally can use their turn to break the enemy, then CoD will follow-up, and won't get the break/turn jump!

• Insulating Appendages is for shaving AoE. If not shaving AoE, this is just fodder for recharging their Fast EX and building your Darkness stacks.

• Wide-Angle Particle Beam is really only when you are at 0 stacks of Darkness, for an AoE 1T delay. If you have any stacks, Wide Angle will drop you to 0, which is a waste. Once you’re at 5+ stacks, this turns into a free skill use of:

  • Zero-Form Particle Beam is a massive 3 turn delay with 6 HP attacks against a target and 1 splash attack on other enemies. This drops your Darkness stacks by 5.

• High Speed Particle Beam is its LD, and is used either to maintain the 12T Balance from Ruin buff, or if you anticipate needing a 3T delay, then you can use this far ahead of the buff falling off. It’s best used against a broken target to take advantage of the unbreak.

  • You can get up to max 25 stacks of Darkness, even though you can technically use it at 25 in BT window, it still caps at 25.

• Anti-air Particle Beam is its EX ability, and it recharges in 2 skill uses and it delays the target by a turn.

• Don’t forget to use Break Reset Burst to unbreak an enemy when you want to build up stacks of Darkness more quickly, or push an enemy back a turn.

• Ultra Particle Beam unleashes their mighty BT attack and BT effect which grants CoD a linked-attack after an ally attacks.

• Void-Form Particle Beam is their FR and is heavily tailored for delayers and itself as it asks for:

  • Any Magic Ability (+5%, +20% if CoD does it)

  • Break-delay an enemy (+20%)

    • If it's a regular delay (like her S2/EX) it becomes +50%

  • CoD's linked attack breaking an enemy will satisfy the magic and BREAK delay condition for +40% on an off-turn attack!