Talk:James Moriarty/@comment-38081777-20190310012049/@comment-27971189-20190315071858

Having Caster deck is not automatically equal to have good NP Gain. His AAAQB closer to strategic purpose of providing good spread of Arts card rather than speak a lot about his NP Gain; I could say Gil easily faster than him despite having AAQBB instead of AAAQB.

Then, it comes this issue. If you're planning to bring him into difficult / lengthy battle. Some of your slot will inevitably occupied by star-generation skill owners or star-generation CEs due to how the said strategic approach provided by him reliant to crits so he can access his NP anytime given his skill duration.

To make things 'difficult', he can only generate stars reliably if he got some kind of star-gen boost. Gil is still better here as he can generate stars by his own with little to no star-gen buff as he's did not have triple Arts luggage that need balancing, Golden Rule itself is very effective thanks to his 5-hit Arts.

So its kinda true if you want to do reliable NP-A-A scenario, there's need of firm star-supply and at least an Arts or NP Gen buffs involved. BB lock with 2030 assistance, Mozart, does help with OTK strats of him.

Aside of that, his defense debuff is not always hit, it can be blocked by magic resistance or something similar. Worse, class he counter often bring good magic resistance to table.

When you consider story / CQ gimmick in case player cannot afford consistent crits, or OTK setup of him, its no surprise if his priority is lower than other ST Archer who offers better deal than just super charisma.

I myself not really taking this all-access high party charisma as something awesome.

After running him, guest and support, on various team during the event, I get impression the all-access is given by DW under realization that his kit heavily relies on critical. Thus they watered down the demerit, making everyone able to access his charisma, allows party with low star-generation capabilities to somehow compensate having him on party.

Not bad, just could be better.