Talk:Altina/@comment-25881556-20160215142959

<span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,513,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,0]" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Altina is kinda hard to use. As of version 0.15.2, there's very little to use her unless you're forced to because on equal levels, Robin outshines her in every metric that matters. She has AOE magic spells but there's not a large number of them and you can only use her on less offensively minded groups because she's so frail that if her spells don't oneshot, or an aoe stun doesn't land, she's likely to die from trying to survive. Conversely, Robin still shines in that situation by singling out a single source of damage out of multiple at least."]" style="font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif;">Altina is kinda hard to use. As of version 0.15.2, there's very little to use her unless you're forced to because on equal levels, Robin outshines her in every metric that matters. She has AOE magic spells but there's not a large number of enemy groups that have one weakness and you can only use her on less offensively minded groups because she's so frail that if her spells don't oneshot, or an aoe stun doesn't land, she's likely to die from trying to survive. Conversely, Robin still shines in that situation by singling out a single source of damage out of multiple at least. postscript edit: I didn't consider the idea of using Hilstara but I like hilstara's character, her damage output is abysmal.

In addition, her aoe spells are expensive and significantly weaker than her basic spells. Poison is sort of a decent tradeoff but again, limited application considering it's horrdenous damage output. Not to mention Aka can also apply Poison and is useful for general debuffing.

More equipment choices drags her up to the point of useability but this matters primarily for healing spells, in my practical run of Aka's chapter, Altina had a whopping 160 mag compared to 110 or so from Robin and the lances were doing approximately equal damage to her tier 1 spells. Yes they are cheaper but what's the point of spreading out a bit of damage over multiple enemies? :(