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✦ Table of contents ✦
General Information
Unique Mechanics (AR Charging)
Stellar Outburst
Unlocked Skills
Conclusion
✦ General Information ✦
With the release of [Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime] a fifth Astral Ring Specializaton was introduced, called Grail of Infinitude (GoI)
The Specialization focuses on SP consumption and Ultimates.
With this introduction the unknown skills of Durandal, BaDum Kiana, Elysia and Sushang were unlocked, allowing them to act as support for Valkyries of the new specialization.
If you need help with the Astral Ring system itself, you can check this guide:
✦ Unique Mechanics ✦
🟄 Astral Ring tag
Currently Helia is the only Valkyrie to have the "Grail of Infinitude" tag, while the Valkyries with the locked skill gained the "Symbiosis" tag
🟄 Support Ultimates
After a Support Valkyrie (who is not the leader) enters the field by QTE her next Ultimate does not cost any SP. This only counts until the Valkyrie is switched out again.
in this example Kiana's Ultimate could be used without any SP cost for as long as she stays on field.
Using a Support Valkyrie's Ultimate resets the leader's switch CD and triggers her QTE.
🟄 Drifting Edge
Note: I cannot confirm wether this is limited to Helia or counts for all damage dealers
The majority of Helia's hits release "Drifting Edge" to deal additional DMG and restore a lot of SP.
After using Ultimate she gains a buff allowing her Basic ATKs to release Drifting Edge as well and restore significantly more SP by that.
it is likely that future GoI valkyries will have similar methods to increase their SP regeneration.
🟄 Ultimate focused gameplay
Note: I cannot confirm wether this is limited to Helia or counts for all damage dealers
Helia has three different Ultimates she uses based on how full her special bar is.
Due to this Astral Ring's focus we can assume future GoI Valkyries to also have multiple Ultimates or another way to use SP often.
✦ Stellar Outburst ✦
By putting a character with Grail of Infinity tag as leader you can activate the specialization. Once gathering enough AR Intensity you can enter Grail of Infinitude's Stellar Outburst.
AR Cost: 175 | SO Duration: 30s | CD: 27s
This might might not be the same for every GoI user, but it's likely for it to be similar.
Entering Stellar Outburst reduces any Ultimate CD of characters with Symbiosis tag to 4s if they're above.
🟄 SP Sharing
After entering Stellar Outburst all SP get shared among the team and the max SP is equal to the sum of all team member's max SP. Every team member with Symbiosis further increases the max SP during Stellar Outburst.
The team starts with a certain percentage of their max SP (Helia lead: 50~60%). After Stellar Outburst has ended all Valkyries are reset to the SP they had before entering.
While Stellar Outburst lasts any SP regeneration and any SP use is shared with the team.
🟄 SP Regeneration
Characters that are not the leader restore a big amount of additional SP upon hitting their first Special ATK and Ultimate after entering by QTE.
For example BaDum restores 165 SP for her first Special Weapon Active hit and 128 SP for her first Ultimate hit.
The 128 SP for the first Ultimate is the same for every Valkyrie, the first Special ATK (specific attack differs for each Valkyrie) can differ slightly:
Helia/Sushang: 140
Durandal/Elysia: 155
Kiana: 165
🟄 Shining Trace / Facet of Infinitude
Upon entering Stelalr Outburst not only the SP are shared among the team but also Shining Trace.
The current Shining trace is shown around the SP bar in white:
0 Shining Trace
600 Shining Trace (Helia lead)
Shining Trace is filled by spending SP. For example: 100 SP spent => 100 Shining Trace
Support Valkyries can additionally restore Shining Trace without spending SP based on the leader's Astral Ring Skills.
After hitting max Shining Trace, Facet of Infinitude is triggered and Shining Trace is reset to 0.
Triggering Facet of Infinitude activates buffs depending on the leader's skills. Facet of Infinitude can be triggered multiple times and remains active until Stellar Outburst ends.
✦ Unlocked Skills ✦
🟄 Reign Solaris
Unlocked Skill: Astral Ring - "Voyage Now"
✧ Usual GoI effects explained before, following effects only trigger if GoI is active
✧ +80% Shield Break for the team
✧ Consuming her Stellar Drain restores additional 10 points of AR Intensity
✧ During Stellar Outburst: +200 max SP
✧ Special ATK*: Charged ATK
*which triggers the SP regeneration during Stellar Outburst
🟄 Ba-Dum! Fiery Wishing Star
Unlocked Skill: Astral Ring - "Rise in song, radiant as the night stars"
✧ Usual GoI effects explained before, following effects only trigger if GoI is active
✧ QTE entry fully restores Fortune
✧ Consuming her Stellar Drain restores 10 additional AR Intensity
✧ During Stellar Outburst: +220 max SP
✧ Special ATK: Special Weapon Skill
🟄 Herrscher of Human: Ego
Unlocked Skill: Astral Ring - "Stand Firm, Like an Oath of Fading Fire"
✧ Usual GoI effects explained before, following effects only trigger if GoI is active
✧ Consuming her Stellar Drain restores 10 additional AR Intensity
✧ During Stellar Outburst: +150 max SP
✧ When switched in for the first time during Stellar Outburst she enters in Herrscher of Origin form, her QTE automatically launches a Charged ATK and her Ultimate is replaced with Eternal Prayers
✧ Special ATK: Charged ATK
🟄 Peregrine Sword
Unlocked Skill: Astral Ring - "Ren Fengliu"
✧ Usual GoI effects explained before, following effects only trigger if GoI is active
✧ Consuming her Stellar Drain restores 10 additional AR Intensity
✧ During Stellar Outburst: +220 max SP
✧ Special ATK: Joint Weapon Skill
✦ Conclusion ✦
With Grail of infinitude we almost got half of all the Astral Ring specializations~
I think Helia is fun but I do hope they'll use this specialization to make the gameplay with different Valkyries within one specialization less repetitive as the way the specialization functions still allows them pretty unique gameplays.
Let's see how it'll turn out, I hope I was able to help you!
Credits
- Thanks to Cyxo and Alpaca for the pictures of Valkyrie icons and such!
- All love to Inari
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