Basically I wanted to know what your guys' thoughts are, regarding builds that take advantage of the stuff that lets you operate stronger a Critical Health (ie Crisis, Desperation, etc)

And/or how sustainable it is or whether it's worth it.

Especially since I might be switching out one of Kazuki's techs for one that boosts but he pays health at a cost.

critical boosts are most worth it in the hardest fights

which is a good deal, generally speaking

because that's when you want to be strong

I'm also probably refunding Proficiency (Observation) in order to get 8 SP to get Resilient and Iron Defense L1 naturally.

hm.

I might invest in Crisis at least, then.

I guess I'm moving Kazuki into more of a glaass cannon-y roll but

*role

I feel like that fits better.

and Crisis is a +6 to all attacks at rank one which is. A solid deal.

Especially ontop of Energy Attacker

if you get, like

Crisis, Desperation, and Daredevil

then you kind of gloriously nova at low health

The main problem I see there is being able to keep in Crit range without 1) dropping like a stone

or 2) being healed out of crit range at the wrong time

the rewards are high, but so are the risks

Kazuki's updated defense block is 22 Def/25 Resist

I guess what I'm asking is

"does that seem appropriate enough for the level that I could consider crit techniiques and not immediately explode"

crit skills, rather

with Crit Health at 84, after level up

Because I'VE BEEN CONSIDERING IT FOR A WHILE but I just don't have a good enough handle on the math to figure out whether Kazuki's too fragile to make critical boosts worth it

if that makes sense

he has high guts and mind, but low str/spirit, so his defenses are kind of middle of the road

A middling-defense frontliner is honestly pretty ideal for a Crisis build

you just need to

1: Coordinate witih healers on the fly

and 2: Accept that you migiht drop sometimes

2 is an acceptable recourse, and honestly makes sense

given Kazuki's perceived 'fragility'

character-wise.

ALRIGHT SCREW IT LET'S DO IT

CRISIS BUILD

That means his skills are gonna be Iron Defense (to bring his Defense in line with his Resistance) and Crisis L1

while refunding Observation Proficiency

I was also considering making Zenshin a piercing Rush Attack

in order to deal with groups of tough mooks at once

since defenses are pretty even typically across the board

and it makes sense with the imagery of the move, IE, the sudden flash to one side the field and drop a bunch of people at once.

I may also start looking at Clash counterattacks

Especially since the new Flash Draw lets me cover a considerable distance.

3 spaces, I think, with Dash L2 on an Agility ability?

since Agility doesn't effect how much you get from levelling up Dash

i don't think

MOST OF KAZUKI'S NOT ULT NEW TECHS ARE DONE

and holy shit I think I'd be considering never changing Kazuki's skills after this if they are at least like

halfway where they should be