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The shutdown happening during last weeks normal posting day is my excuse for not doing the mana ratings last week.

Shiloh & Serafina

These two have pretty respectable personal bursts with their effective self amps of 185% thanks to their fields, landing at 94.5t and 111.9t respectively with pretty standard turn 4 elementally locked bursts. They get a slight support bonus for their fields, and then 0.5 for their leader skills, since Mana is an extremely niche category to cover, but even if used as a self-only buff, would add quite a lot of damage to them. Shiloh ends up at the upper end of 31.5 while Serafina’s on the lower end of 32.0

Elazul & Pearl Crowns

Honestly, while making them nicer to use and giving them a bit of extra modifier & stats, Elazul & Pearl’s crowns weren’t game-changing for their burst with them still needing the same setup, and still having the same 100% amp. Pearl rose to 63t and Elazul to 52.3t, bringing their scores up to 30.5 and 30.0 respectively.

Hawkeye Crowns

Hawkeye already had a 90% def break in global but his crowns help his other breaking capabilities and make it nicely re-useable, while also giving him a good dark imperil and killer buff after a few turns of autocast. It’s a little awkward not being able to control when this killer imperil is applied, but it should be active from T4 to T8-9 which is generally the prime burst window for DV and clash anyway so we decided it wasn’t too big a deal. Thanks to the good uptime on the 90% break, we decided to be slightly generous and give him a 32.5 rating, alongside Angeal.

Class Zero Ace

Ace manages to hit pretty hard even before considering his leader skill at 112t, and has the rare advantage for a JP unit (especially a nonpremium one) of not being elementally hardlocked. A spammable 2 stack mirage and Enlightra offer a bit of support too but it’s pretty meager. As for his leader skill, 750% ATK/MAG is a new high and he gets an upswing for that, but ultimately we decided that the blessing of the crystals category is a pretty poor one to cover, and isn’t one that seems to have much future expansion (yes, even considering the possibility of another GLEX fundamental forces unit for anniversary) And even with enough good units, it’s harder to fit together a cohesive team compared to say, an element coverage. While there’s definitely some high potential if you can slot everything into place, overall we decided his leader skill is on average a little less useful than the ‘standard’ 500% element coverage ones, so he got a 0.9 bonus for it. This brings his final rating up to 32.5, though for what it’s worth he was very close to rounding up to 33.

Class Zero Deuce

Deuce has a very solid support kit, notably having a baseline of 300% stats LB damage buff, three 160% AoE Killers, 40% AoE amps for 4 elements a ST 100% Light amp, and some very potent HP/MP regens to keep the team topped up. Then, she can choose which area to specialize in with one of her 3 fields, adding another 100% to either her stats or LB damage, or another 35% to all her amp potencies. My only major gripe with her kit is that she lacks any AoE imbues to match her amps, but since a lot of non-support units do seem to pack one of the AoE imbue green magics these days, in the end we decided it generally shouldn’t be a massive issue. Overall we felt she was somewhere inbetween the slew of better JP buffers that did AoE 45% amps of a single element, and Reberta with her 4 killers AoE and everything being on demand. She felt like she deserved to be on the better end of that comparison, so she joins Reberta at a rating of 33.0 as a solid support option who should maintain a fair amount of longevity.

Sice NVA

NVA Sice is a… serviceable breaker. She should be able to generally maintain AoE 87% fullbreaks by opening with her grandis and then using its duration to get her permanent single stat breaks all unlocked at their full potencies, but it’s certainly quite awkward and keeps her busy with them all being on separate skills. Other than that she doesn’t offer too much other than a 140% imperil for two elements, so we felt she was about on-par with the older tier of breakers that typically did a 145% imperil for one element, and could often break def/spr for 88% but struggled more to maintain her level of atk/mag break. This leaves her at 31.5, alongside the likes of Ninja Edge and Haveh.

Some Tiktoker or something?

I’m really not sure why this unit exists honestly. The number’s in Addison’s support kit make her feel like she was released a good couple of years ago and despite covering most of the buffing bases, basically everything is at an underwhelming level. Her closest match seemed to be something like the old NVA Elena, who she might be a little better than, but we decided to put her alongside at 30.0. I suppose her VC at least looks like an ok option for mixed bulk?