Spear of Jigo Viras Series Magi Review - Part 2

Janus' Amulet

Janus' Amulet is a passive magi that gives 15% earth and lightning attack.

Comments:
Comparing with stances that provide 25% elemental attack and 200 elemental defense or incarnations with 20% elemental attack and 10% magi charge rate, the boost Janus' Amulet provides is significantly weaker than the other more optimal choices.

However, Janus' Amulet is more flexible as it gives both earth and lightning elemental attack. This makes it a solid placeholder magi for players lacking incarnations or stances. After all, 15% elemental attack is still far better than the physical attack on many passive magis, especially for weapons with high base elemental attack.

For more in-depth information on how % elemental attack works and how it compares to physical attack, click here (incarnations)

Reverse Grey

Reverse Grey is a support type magi that transfers its charge to the magi above it.

Comments:

Efficiency

Reverse Grey takes 200 seconds to charge and casts almost instantly. While it takes 200 seconds to charge, the amount of charge transferred is only 150* seconds of charge. When this magi is fully awakened, it costs 160 seconds to charge, which is still a little more than the charge it transfers.

Most magis take less than 150 seconds to charge and it would also be rare for the magi above Reverse Grey to charge in sync with it, resulting in a wastage of excess magi charge. In addition, it may not be wise to trade support charge for attack charge for players with multiple incarnation passives. (support magis charge slower compared to their rate boosted attack magis)

Survivability

As this magi charges the magi directly above it, this magi can play a very different role for different weapons. For weapons with a healing slot above their support slot, I do not recommend using Reverse Grey. There are many strong defensive support magis like quad aegis, altair sphere and escape crown. Not only do they charge faster than Reverse Grey, they can also provide additional utility like stagger immunity, extended max HP in the form of a shield and status effect immunity. These would would better complement the healing magi and improve survivability more than the ability to cast the same healing magi twice as often.

Damage & Attack slot utility

The support slot, being the most flexible magi slot, also has magis that increase damage, such as fury/cloak, which gives 180%/200% elemental damage and stagger immunity, which can be more effective than using Reverse Grey to supplement an attack magi for purely damage.

However, it does make sense to use Reverse Grey when:

1. Buff from cloak results in overkill (dealing with multiple weak behemoths)

2. Attack Magi has utility very beneficial and important to the fight

There are several scenarios where case 2 arises, such as wanting to control the behemoth with status effects like paralysis or freeze, or needing the burn/poison/shock from the attack magi when dealing with tanky behemoth.

Here's an example of controlling a Zangaleo with Cocytus Ice Barrage and Reverse Grey, taken from JP DP's twitter.


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*Amount charged obtained from Karyu's Database