Post by JuniorFE on Mar 29, 2024 17:42:48 GMT
Vandelay
Tl;dr: high-investment, high-reward class with very good Buffer builds, less grindy than the upgrade numbers might make it seem. If you decide to go for it, get someone to Rank 10 in it ASAP for the skill that lets you learn stuff without someone in the class. You'd preferably have a full party of them to grind the upgrades though.
The base Arts and Skills of Soulhacker come from defeating specific Unique Monsters, which is less grindy than you might think (unless you don't feel like going out of your way to go after said Uniques, at least), and you don't even have to have someone in the class, as long as somebody has Soul Hack (gained by reaching rank 10 in the class) equipped as a Master Skill you're good to go. Basically, if you only care about passively collecting the base skills just in case, raise Lanz's Soulhacker to rank 10 with Nopon Coins, pop Soul Hack on him on whatever class you make him and just keep hunting Uniques and otherwise playing normally (Triton can't learn skills so it has to be one of your main six, might as well just make it Lanz since he inherits the class)
As for the upgrades, a few of them come from things you'll probably be doing anyway (discovering places, raising Affinity with colonies and such) and most of the grindy ones can be done more quickly the more Soulhackers you have in the party, either by having your entire party use (and focus towards upgrading) the same few Arts/skills or by spreading it out so that you slowly build up many of them at once. The only ones that can't really be streamlined are the ones that want you to defeat the Unique that gave it to you X times, but at least you can work on the other objectives in the meantime.
Ultimately, Soulhacker is your typical Blue Mage class, it's as strong as the time you put in it. If you're willing to track down the Uniques (including re-fighting the ones you killed already... and the optional, superstrong ones for a couple of things) and work on upgrading its Arts and Skills, it can be incredibly versatile, if slightly lacking offensively outside of Chain Attacks (which also hampers its tanking capabilities, since it has trouble drawing aggro) and it has some Buffer builds that are among the best in the game. On the other hand, if you can't be arsed to work at it (and I wouldn't blame you, game's big enough as it is) you won't see many returns either.
Tl;dr: high-investment, high-reward class with very good Buffer builds, less grindy than the upgrade numbers might make it seem. If you decide to go for it, get someone to Rank 10 in it ASAP for the skill that lets you learn stuff without someone in the class. You'd preferably have a full party of them to grind the upgrades though.
The base Arts and Skills of Soulhacker come from defeating specific Unique Monsters, which is less grindy than you might think (unless you don't feel like going out of your way to go after said Uniques, at least), and you don't even have to have someone in the class, as long as somebody has Soul Hack (gained by reaching rank 10 in the class) equipped as a Master Skill you're good to go. Basically, if you only care about passively collecting the base skills just in case, raise Lanz's Soulhacker to rank 10 with Nopon Coins, pop Soul Hack on him on whatever class you make him and just keep hunting Uniques and otherwise playing normally (Triton can't learn skills so it has to be one of your main six, might as well just make it Lanz since he inherits the class)
As for the upgrades, a few of them come from things you'll probably be doing anyway (discovering places, raising Affinity with colonies and such) and most of the grindy ones can be done more quickly the more Soulhackers you have in the party, either by having your entire party use (and focus towards upgrading) the same few Arts/skills or by spreading it out so that you slowly build up many of them at once. The only ones that can't really be streamlined are the ones that want you to defeat the Unique that gave it to you X times, but at least you can work on the other objectives in the meantime.
Ultimately, Soulhacker is your typical Blue Mage class, it's as strong as the time you put in it. If you're willing to track down the Uniques (including re-fighting the ones you killed already... and the optional, superstrong ones for a couple of things) and work on upgrading its Arts and Skills, it can be incredibly versatile, if slightly lacking offensively outside of Chain Attacks (which also hampers its tanking capabilities, since it has trouble drawing aggro) and it has some Buffer builds that are among the best in the game. On the other hand, if you can't be arsed to work at it (and I wouldn't blame you, game's big enough as it is) you won't see many returns either.