Talk:Helena Blavatsky/@comment-27.78.196.36-20170324154738/@comment-28209103-20170404043017

Helena are not crit oriented Caster, the best crit oriented Caster are Marie but she's limited so that's no count I think? by using her 1st Skill + NP you pretty much gave the party Isthar level of buff + her star puking & boost ability ability. Combined with the crit supporter Gilgamesh Caster and Hans then you pretty much formed one variant of Arts crit buff spam team, but that's OOT.

Helena are just another case of "Jack of all trades, master of none" and suffer from it, same case with HF Hassan, and Geronimo. Also she's a victim of the Dev trying to balance her broken kit by lowering it's quality and adding stupid chance based mechanism on it just like Fionn... Let's say that her 1st skill gave you 30-40% NP bar, 2nd skill as Valeth said give you flat 10 stars, and 3rd skill gave you 30% all cards up without changing her cooldown rate, if you add over her above average active NP gen and reasonably good active star gen then pretty sure she'll be another broken offensive type support that fit snuggly with most team rather than spesific team type, hence she'll be good competitor for Waver. Not to mention if her NP ever get interlude it'll buff her debuff overcharge into 20% by default making her a cheaper Lite-Waver.

Magical Tuning are meant to be deployed on first turn and unlike Ozy are not tied with anything (namely Emperor prerogative), my complaint is that Mahatma are tied to her NP making it less flexible, they should buff the star gen to 15 or something. 3rd pissed me off, because the cost of leveling it and the return you gain are laughable, however you need to max it otherwise it's laughably long cooldown won't decrease. If anything just reduce her overall cooldown by 1 or 2 and she'll be good to go.

Conclusion? she's another victim of DW inhumane experiment that produce Fionn and Astolfo, trying to balance stuff using RNG and long cooldown on relatively original skill set and NP. However she doesn't suffer as much as those two since ultimately her skill set are still useful even with annoying gimmick. However she definitely are not comparable to Nitocris however she is comparable to alice