At the time of writing this may or may not age well considering we just got CYL3 refines and we don’t know what’s in store in the future. No image because I’m lazy and do not have any editing skills, sorry.

Wind Parthia

Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes. If unit initiates combat or if unit is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res 5 during combat, and if unit also deals damage to foe using a Special, restores 50% of unit's maximum HP. (Triggers even if 0 damage is dealt.)

Refine: If unit initiates combat or if unit is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res 5 to unit and neutralizes effects that inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit, and also reduces damage from foe's first attack by 20%.

His refine gives him the obligatory 5 all stats. Along with that I added a simple self null guard effect, since he lives and dies by his special this fixes that problem completely.

Null Guard is simple but incredibly strong. At the time of writing Null Guard only exists on prf weapons, I can see Intsys pumping out a form of null guard as a premium skill eventually, but nonetheless I do think Claude has a good chance of getting it on his refine, even if it’s just a partial version of it. He also has damage reduction to combat his underwhelming base bulk.

I didn’t want to go too overboard with his refine and tried to make it realistic. I referenced the effects of CYL3 refines the best I could. Null Deep Wounds is something that I have considered but since it doesn’t exist (yet) I held off from adding it and I wondered if it might have been a bit too much.

Golden Deer Rule - New Prf B Skill

Enables【Canto (Rem. 1)】

Inflicts Atk/Spd/Def/Res-2 on foe during combat. Neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.

I gave him an improved form of Canto alongside more stats. Normally, Far Trace does not have the (Rem. 1) effect which hurts ranged flying canto users a lot but this should remedy that. Claude can be a great mixed phase unit, so I believe this would help him out a lot on that regard.

I also gave him the self NFU effect as not having access to some form of NFU is one of his biggest weaknesses. With self NFU he would have an easier time on both phases as he wouldn’t fear lack of followups to activate his special.

I didn’t want to give him full nfu here since nfu stats canto seems a bit overloaded(?)

Overall together with this refine and GDR I do think it fixes a good amount of his problems but if anyone has anyone thoughts/feedback I would like to hear it.