Hi.

I've been reading the google translated Altema guides a bit, and thought this might be useful to know. This is my understanding from the Google Translated site, but I did do some light testing to see if I understood it correctly.

When you Drive an element, those driven orbs go into a pool for that element. So if you drive 6 Fire orbs, you gain 6 Orbs in your Fire Orb Drive Pool.

• If you drive while that element's pool already has orbs, the driven orbs are simply added to the pool.
• The cap on each pool is 10, anything driven over that is lost.
• At the end of every round, after the enemy acts, 2 orbs are taken out of each pool.

But what does the pool do exactly? You are basically given a percentage reduction for that pool's element, based on how many orbs are currently in the pool.

Life orbs of course don't provide reduction or have a pool, instead each Orb driven instantly restores 8% of MaxHP.

So theoretically (though difficult), you can keep maximum reduction by driving with 6 Orbs, and then driving in at least 2 orbs every turn after. Maybe more easily, if you can start with a 10 Orb Drive, you must gather 6 Orbs every 3 turns.

Your drawing odds for elements don't seem to be calculated directly from your pool sizes. Even after your pools empty you don't always end up with 33%/33%/33% splits, and the drawing chances are adjusted per attack, whereas pools are adjusted per round. This complicates finding a dependable rhythm.