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Foreword
Version 5.5 brings along 2 new additions to our much appreciated weekly crystal farming simulator, the Elysian Realm (ER)!
This guide will be focusing on one of them - Palatinus Equinox.
Palatinus Equinox, or PE in short, is Durandal's newest DPS battlesuit adopting a balance in ruthless cavalry combat and brutal looking melee physical attacks. Alongside her bestie Spina Astera, PE brings about an energetic change to ER in 5.5!
ER Exclusives
As per Elysian Realm tradition, valkyries enjoy new exclusive skills.
For PE, she has an extra evasion skill, alongside a simply broken shield passive. This knowledge will come in handy later on.
Which Signets to choose?
Here's a general overview of her exclusive signets.
TL;DR: PE only requires Gallop & Abyssal Chant blessings.
Gallop provides PE with bonus damage & SP at the cost of severe HP loss, but waaait, she has a refreshable shield! Abyssal Chant comes with extra overall & ultimate damage, plus it expedites PE's charge usage, granting her with 2 extra evasion skills to use if she ever runs out of ICHOR (the meter above her HP bar). So yes, these two are indispensable.
The bronze medal goes to Equinox, followed by Exodus and Commitment.
How about her other signets?
Her arsenal consists of these Flame Chasers - Kalpas, Su, and Sakura.
Kalpas complements PE due to her use of Gallop Blessing. Su's signets work well with the charge spam. Sakura was practically made for PE's large number of evasion skill triggers.
For Kalpas' basic signets, choose: Enemies take 25% Total Damage (TDM), TDM, Elemental Damage. SP is optional.
For Su's basic signets, go for: 55% self TDM, Enemies take 35% TDM, 60 combo, 25 combo. SP is, again, optional.
For Sakura's basic signets, pick: 40% self TDM, Enemies take 30% TDM, +1 Evasion Skill, +12 SP.
Kalpas' new core signet, Soldiers, Scissors, Spoils, and Slaughter (wow that is a handful, let's just call it 4S), works especially well with Gallop Blessing's HP loss and PE's HP recovery. To put it simply, every time PE procs her evasion skill after charging with her horse, 4S receives a Bloodboil Armor charge (max 900 at any one point). You may be wondering what this signet does other than increased HP recovery. Well, it unlocks two really useful upgraded signets.
Physical/Elemental Breach? Now that excites me. Its activation is easily achieved by PE, just use two evasion skills on two separate ramming occasions. The other signet also does a fair bit, adaptive damage is always appreciated in long fights.
Maxim of Bodhi was chosen over Sus 2nd core due to the higher damage it provides. As an added bonus, it does not come with a horrific explosion sound whenever it activates at every 150 combo hit count.
Having many evasion skills begs the valkyrie to use Sakura's 1st core, Setsuna Blade: Sakura ni Maku. The Sakura Screen it creates for every 3 evasion skills used is especially useful for extra damage dealt to the foe. Dealing more damage during the screen's uptime will reward you with more damage being returned to the enemy after.
What supports to bring along?
VC - SS - BR
(BK for Heim)
Valkyrie Chariot (VC) is a handy gatherer with a low summon cooldown. She can help in gathering enemies from across the stage, allowing PE to safely deal massive damage to all the enemies. If you can forsake gathering, VC can be replaced with Snowy Sniper (SS) for a good physical damage buff.
Bright Knight: Excelsis (BK) is used to fill the heavy trauma of Aesir Heimdall. You would not want to fight an angry tomato, would you?
Blood Rose (BR) provides TDM buff to the valkyrie at the cost of HP, which works in PE's favour here.
Strategy
Here is a general idea of how you should play PE for this strategy.
Start with Gallop Blessing. Get Abyssal Chant either on floor 2 or 3. Floor 4 is reserved for Kalpas; grab his 2nd core signet, 4S.
You can skip visiting Phyllis on floors 5 to 8 seeing as you will get all the time with her after update 5.6 goes live. Grab all of Kalpas' upgraded signets before fighting Benares. This is not a requirement but doing this makes your Pokémon Badg– signet collection easier down the run. Remember to grab another signet, either Sakura or Su's, from floor 5 or 6.
I would suggest getting another exclusive signet on floor 9 after dragging the dragon down to the abyss. Try to buy 1 or 2 Sakura/Su signets from the shop (really depends on RNG). For Sakura, choosing the SP upon evasion and extra evasion signet will help a lot later when fighting Herrscher of Domination Minion (HoD), since we will be using the Stained Sakura remembrance sigil. Floor 11 is for getting a core signet for either Sakura or Su.
PE's fast attacks frequently enrage Heimdall. Remember to bring along BK as a support valkyrie.
The rest of the floors are, truly up to RNGesus to decide. If you're lucky, you may get an upgraded Sakura/Su signet or two. Primarily, though, the goal is to upgrade your current signets for more damage when dealing with subsequent mobs/bosses. Important: Buy or get the upgraded Sakura signet that resets ultimate/weapon skill cooldown.
HoD finally makes an appearance. You will be using Sakura's arsenal to its full potential (i.e. spamming evade, gaining SP, spamming ultimate). HoD's core can pose a problem as it is only exposed after clearing its normal HP bar. The only good solution is to spam PE's ultimate skill.
For some reason, Elysia and Mobius are not available to fight in this beta.
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