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Overview
Analysis
How to use
Recommended battlesuits
Gameplay
[emoji] OVERVIEW [emoji]
Version 5.5 adds Kalpas’ second set of enhanced signets. To get them, you first have to collect 3 normal signets of Decimation and then choose the new nexus signet:
This signet causes your health to always stay at 18% or lower. Healing yourself gains Bloodboil charges. They increase your maximum health.
Here are the 3 new enhanced signets, together with the 3 upgrades that can be applied to each:
The signet above increases the cap of your Bloodboil charges and allows them to absorb damage.
In addition to increasing the cap of your Bloodboil charges, the signet above grants you Physical and Elemental Breach when your charges are above 1500.
Like the other enhanced signets, the signet above increases the cap of your Bloodboil charges. Additionally, it periodically deals damage to enemies if your charges are over 1500.
[emoji] ANALYSIS [emoji]
Soldiers, Scissors, Spoils, and Slaughter
Until version 5.5, the only valkyries that could make effective use of the signets of Decimation were Herrscher of Flamescion and Luna Kindred. That’s because only they were able to keep their health low, which is needed if you want to get the best out of these signet. The introduction of Kalpas’ new set of signets changes this. The new nexus signet (“Soldiers, Scissors, Spoils, and Slaughter”) will prevent your HP from going over 18%, regardless of what battlesuit you are using. However, if you want to be able to gain Bloodboil stacks, your battlesuit will also have to be capable of self healing. Gaining these stacks will increase your max HP, which will improve the bonuses that you get from certain normal signets of Decimation (For every 100 HP loss, gain more dmg or dmg reduction).
Death, Life, Oblivion, and Existence
This signet is oriented towards survivability. For most battlesuits it will not be high priority, unless you need survivability more than DPS.
Hometown, Homeland, Friends, and Acquaintances
Of the new enhanced signets, this one will provide the biggest DPS boost. Physical and Elemental Breach are rare modifiers and very valuable.
Body, Bones, Heart, and Soul
This one provides a nice little DPS boost, as long as your battlesuit uses self healing. The bonus is not as valuable as the breach from the previous signet.
All 3 of these enhanced signets also increase the cap of your Bloodboil Armor stacks, which means having even more max HP, which in turn increases the bonuses from
normal signets of Decimation. Upgrading any of the enhanced signets in Phyllis’ shop will lead to the same result: an increase of the cap by 100 charges. However, I recommend that you spend your Shiny silver on normal signets of Decimation, or signets of other Flame Chasers.
[emoji] HOW TO USE [emoji]
Once you obtain the nexus signet (Soldiers, Scissors, Spoils, and Slaughter), your health will drop to 18% of your max HP. You will not be able to increase your HP above this threshold. That's a good thing, because the signets of Kalpas, low health = more damage. Above your HP bar you will see the number of your Bloodboil Armor stacks.
This number resets after each fight. When your valkyrie heals herself (including heals from your ELF), the number of stacks will go up by a certain amount. This amount
depends on how much your valkyrie healed herself. Single large heals will add more than stacks than multiple small heals. Gaining these stacks can increase your max HP by more than 100%. Here is an example of the new battlesuit Palatinus Equinox with 0 stacks and with 3300 stacks (which is the maximum you can get if you have the 3 unupgraded enhanced signets):
As you can see, her health has more than doubled, which leads to getting much better bonuses from your normal signets of Decimation.
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This new set of signets is recommended for battlesuits that can self heal and are able to survive at low HP for prolonged periods of time. Additionally, because of the conditions of the nexus signet, multiple small self heals will not increase your stacks fast enough to justify picking this signet. That is why battlesuits like Herrscher of Sentience will not be able to take full advantage of these signets. She takes more than 1 minute to reach 1500 stacks.
As of 5.5, the best battlesuit for Kalpas’ new set of signets is Palatinus Equinox. In Elysian Realm she has special adjustments that allow her to take full advantage of these signets. She gets a second charge for her ultimate evasion skill, which can be triggered on demand. She also gets a shield that gets refreshed whenever she triggers her ultimate evasion skill. This shield reduces all damage she takes by 80% and can absorb large amounts of damage. And if her HP is less than 20% of max HP, triggering
ultimate evasion skill heals her for 25% of max HP. This is how she is able to quickly max her Bloodboil Armor stacks. A single ult evasion skill will increase her stacks by 900, while her shield will keep her safe from harm, despite being at low health.
[emoji] GAMEPLAY [emoji]
Here's a video where I use PE and the new Signets of Decimation to take down the HoD minion on 130 difficulty. Note how my Bloodboil Armor stacks quickly max out as I use PE's ultimate evasion skill. As the charges go up, the max HP and the damage go up as well.
