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    Player Kugo's Avatar
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    Dread Spikes

    Sorry of this has already been posted but haven't seen it yet.

    Absorb-Attri / Dispel / Dread Spikes / Addle

    Has anyone seen the roobut use Absorb-attri dispel dread spikes or addle yet?

    I've been toying about with the robut but yet to see it cast any of these - then again it might just be the mobs I was fighting. Tried Dolls, Puks and Crabs (Puks and Crabs in the tree).
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    Whenever my Auto had hate on BLM he casted Dread Spikes.
    Soulsoother it spams Addle, even without Fire Maneuvers up to trigger it.

    Personally haven't put Auto on Stormwaker to try Dispel, tough enough recapping skills as is lol. RDM has lower caps etc.
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    Hmm.. my automation casted it on a regular basis in case that none or at least 1 dark maneuver was up.
    In case he could use drain or aspir but didn't need to, regrdless if he had the most hate or was just on the hate list.
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    I feel like we need to lay out a list of which frames got exclusive spells
    i.e.
    All
    - Poison II

    Soulsoother
    - Protect, Shell, Haste, Erase

    Spiritreaver
    - Dread Spikes

    Stormwaker
    - Stoneskin, Phalanx, Dispel

    of course I'm not sure of the specifics above, I'm willing to try testing a bit when I have time.
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    ...did none of you read the testing we did on this months ago? They haven't changed anything since they got the general "we're happy with this" from the pup testers.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kugo View Post
    Sorry of this has already been posted but haven't seen it yet.

    Absorb-Attri / Dispel / Dread Spikes / Addle

    Has anyone seen the roobut use Absorb-attri dispel dread spikes or addle yet?

    I've been toying about with the robut but yet to see it cast any of these - then again it might just be the mobs I was fighting. Tried Dolls, Puks and Crabs (Puks and Crabs in the tree).
    Absorb-attri requires a dark maneuver, and both in and dispel require that the monster have a buff present (it won't cast them if the mob hasn't used any buffing TP moves, like Berserk (dolls), zephyr wind (puks) or any of the ones crabs have). Dread Spikes requires the puppet have hate. Addle is treated the same way as silence, the puppet will spam it like an idiot on anything with MP, unless you equip scanner.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tetsujin View Post
    I feel like we need to lay out a list of which frames got exclusive spells
    i.e.
    All
    - Poison II

    Soulsoother
    - Protect, Shell, Haste, Erase

    Spiritreaver
    - Dread Spikes

    Stormwaker
    - Stoneskin, Phalanx, Dispel

    of course I'm not sure of the specifics above, I'm willing to try testing a bit when I have time.
    Of the new spells:
    Soulsoother head:
    Protect (I-V), Shell (I-V), Haste, Erase, Addle, Regen IV

    Spiritreaver head:
    Absorb-Attri, Dread Spikes, Addle
    (Note that absorb-attri and dread spikes will be present with harlequin body, just like absorb-int, drain, aspir, and aspir II, effectively giving us a ghetto drk puppet)

    Stormwaker head:
    Protect (I-V), Shell (I-V), Stoneskin, Haste, Phalanx, Dispel, Addle

    Buff Priority is:
    Protect -> Shell -> Stoneskin -> Phalanx -> Haste, if stoneskin and haste are both down, stoneskin will be cast first (remember, stoneskin is stormwaker only)

    for other questions, and in case anything I've stated here is somewhat inaccurate/completely wrong, please sift through this thread. Don't give me the "but it's 22 pages, I don't wanna! I'm lazy!". You can be lazy and uninformed, or you can take a few minutes to search the later pages of the thread and find the answer you're looking for, and not look like a lazy idiot.
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    Player Tetsujin's Avatar
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    actually I've found that my puppet does Protect > Stoneskin > Phalanx > Shell > Haste. Interesting.
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    Player Tetsujin's Avatar
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    about dread spikes:
    the automaton doesn't need to have hate, I think it just needs to have some missing HP and a dark maneuver.
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