Re: Aegis Thousand Year War - DMM Online Game
If you use the search feature for Towa's name, you'll find a number of posts about her passive earlier in the thread that get more technical, but to put it in summary, Towa reduces the amount of idle frames for all allies by about 20% in the testing that has been done.
Right, but if it only cuts down on the idle frames, I would think healers, who have a fairly long attack animation (with them charging first and then casting) would get less out of it than a class with really quick attack animations.
Healers, Feng-Shui and other healing classes(except Warrior Priests because their healing delay is added to their animation) benefit tremendously from Towa because they never need to deal with defense or MR. This may require a bit of lateral thinking, so an example: Towa's benefit is stronger in comparison to black shaman Kikyou's(+7% attack) until the enemy's defense or MR gets really high. A healer never needs to pierce defenses, so they always gain the most potential benefit per heal. Basically, the higher the threshold for a unit to reach in terms of defense or MR, the less effective the passive is in comparison to additional stats.
It's still the strongest passive in the game, though - even if literally no one but healing classes benefited.
For example, I think she would have a really good synergy with Metus, especially during skill activation. Metus hits like a truck, but she has a fairly low DPS because of her long intervals between attacks. Her attack animation is fairly short though, and so she gets a lot of mileage out of Towa's passive.
Other units that benefit the most from Towa's passive are quick draw/quick cast passive units. Their passive actually removes animation frames, so they still gain the full benefit of Towa's passive. -Delay affection units also benefit more than most in spite of it reducing the overall effect of Towa's passive slightly, largely due to the nature of units that have this type of affection(Sue, B. Iris, Rinne, et al.).
As mentioned above, Mikoto benefits a lot, since her attack animation is only 10 frames and her idle is 44. This is actual a considerable boost to her DPS, which is already higher than a bishop's and some mages.
With passive.
Without.
Naturally most super slow units like mages, bishops, monster slayers, druids and necros benefit considerably, but honestly, so do the faster ranged units like pirates, witches and archers - just not quite as much.
Units with no ranged attack benefit less because they are prone to attack frame resets, but it can still be powerful in challenging maps for them, especially when you need to push your units to the limit(majin maps).
The units that benefit least are ones with skills that remove all or most delay frames. Olivia, Uzume, Akane, Leone, Nanaly, etc. Rearguards also benefit little.
