Attachments setupFollow

After coming back to the game recently and finding these 8 new attachments i was wondering how people are mixing/matching them with the old attachments for the best setup for various situations.

Atm i am only really able to get the first 4 new ones that were released, but from reading their descriptions they look to be fairly useful. Does everyone full time use the heat capacitor/barrage turbine with SS for party situations? What attachments are people normally using for

Party:

Solo:

Also, a question about the heat capacitor, do you have to deploy the pet for the attachment to kick in? Is there any way to build up the auto's tp while idling, or do you need to deploy, heat capacitor kicks in, then retrieve before the auto engages?

Thanks, Fantus

Heat capacitor doesn't fire before a range attack normally still I use it anything to get to the next armor shatterer is well worth it in my book lol. I keep fire/wind up when idleing the timer is 1 Minute 30 Seconds so you have to keep that in mind. It takes a bit to get use to it but since my burts got nerfed its better than nothing.....

Edited, Aug 15th 2011 9:02am by kenshynOnShiva

I dunno, I'm not a big fan of Heat Capacitor. It messes up your maneuvers by consuming fire, causing sub-optimal performance since you're then without maneuvers (plus having to deal with more JA delay by having to struggle to get 3 back up). And it doesn't give enough TP for me to be that impressed. The more TP it gives, the more you have to gimp your puppet by giving up multiple maneuvers. I'm more comfortable using attachments that will always benefit me and that don't remove maneuvers. Barrage Turbine is easily the best of the bunch of the previous set of 4 attachments to me. Barrage does great damage and gets lots of TP, actually worth the cost of losing some wind maneuvers for the benefit here. Like Selka says though, sucks when you're using wind anyway (which on SS you probably will be) and the timer comes up right around 100tp, uses Barrage Turbine, then leaves you with a subpar maneuver to determine WS and it fires off Arcuballista. Yep, not much not to like for Soulsoother. MP cost reduction and it fits fine without leaving off any important attachments. Is it truly necessary with the ability to deactivate/activate to refill mp? Probably not. But it can delay the need to deactivate, or save some MP for those times you're not at 100% puppet HP, Repair isn't up, and you'd have to rely on DEA instead of Activate... True that they are good VE tanking attachments, but even so I think VE is kind of a lousy tank now anyway. It can't hold hate well and still takes too much damage. But with hints at S-E focusing more on trying to add things to allow improved puppet tanking, these attachments may become a lot more useful in the near future.
Agreed. Though Disruptor can be handy in a party too, especially when you have no/few other dispellers. Timer is a little long to be the only player who can dispel, but it's nice to be able to contribute in that way.

Vivi-Valve is indeed very good in Abyssea when healing, and I've used it in other situations. ENM60 (working on getting more attachments!) comes to mind, the puppet cures won't always top me off. With Vivi-valve that's another little boost to the cures.

=D

Hehe, just don't Overload keeping 3x Thunder up! Epic automaton fail :)

Actually, in all seriousness that might be a great time to pop Overdrive.

I prefer using 2x thunder and 1 earth since barrier and galvanized stack ;)