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gear-project · 11 months ago

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Libra of Souls Notes / Soul Calibur 6

As a preamble to all this, let me just say this game is very addicting if you like gacha mechanics, but at the same time, once you get good weapons, the grind gets very real, and sometimes frustrating. That's why it's a good idea to listen to some music while playing the game (as the base music in Epilogue will get boring real quick).

Soul Calibur 6 really is a great game. Libra of Souls really does bring back the greatest aspects of Edge Master Mode from older games.

That all being said, I decided I'm gonna list everything I currently know about Libra of Souls weapon drops in Soul Calibur 6:

---First, Weapons will randomly spawn based on several factors: what you currently have equipped as your fighting style, or based on the most recent weapon you previously equipped.

---The game keeps track of how frequently you play using certain specific weapons, and will eventually spawn a rare "Jackpot weapon" (i.e. Three Empty slots is a jackpot).

---The game will also spawn weapons based on your inventory, either by "cloning" the weapon you currently have equipped, or by cloning specific weapon abilities that exist in your inventory. (ideally you want to get rid of all the 1-slot and no-slot weapons in your inventory to increase your drop luck)

---Most weapon drop spawns do a calculation based on the level of the opponent you most recently defeated. You can defeat a Level 75 opponent and still manage to get a Level 80+ weapon from that opponent.

---On average, the best weapon drops come from Level 90 random encounters (Something wicked this way Comes mission), but you can also get them from the Level 90 Duel missions (The Duel) where you fight Ioan (Nightmare) and Grizelda (Geralt).

---There are other Level 80+ to Level 90 encounters (Black Vortex, etc) that will not only sometimes give you high level weapons, but also add Level 90 Mercenaries in the Recruitment Agency. In most situations though, Uploaded characters can't reach Level 90 Mercenaries, and also body-size is a factor in some matches when using Mercenaries. On average though, Grizelda is one of the best Mercenaries to assist you.

---Ideally, you want to create Level 90 weapons (precisely Level 90) with the following Skills: 100% More Food / Attack/Defence+35% (when Health is 30% or lower) / Health Recovery 30% at 0. This creates a situation where any time your Mercenary's HP falls at 30% their offense and defense skyrocket and even if they get K.O.ed with 0 health once, they still retain the low health buff.

By creating this type of weapon, Level 90 Mercenaries can equip it in place of you and you can "equip" other weapons while their "Treasure Hunt Weapons" are active (giving you better weapon spawn drops).

The Attack+Defense+35% (Calm Bloodstone) Health Recovery at 0 (Scapegoat Turquoise) This combination is also really good for other weapon combinations as well. (Especially Damage Reduction +20%, Attack+Defense+20% on Reversal Edge Followup Hit, and also Health Recovery+20% (Vampire Opal), there are other variants, but I'll leave those for others to try out.

Another good combination is: Health+40% (Draught of Immortality) Health Recovery every 1.5 Seconds (Draught of Regeneration) Health Recover 20% on Attack Damage (Vampire Opal Superb Quality)

This setup creates a weapon that will heal you in virtually any situations, even during Reversal Edge.

Another good build is:

Rouge Liquid Gold Superb Quality (Soul Gauge+50%) Rouge Gold (Soul Gauge+5% on hit) Deep Dark Amber (Health Recovery+30% on Soul Charge)

This build refills your Soul Gauge on hits and every time you activate Soul Charge, your health recovers 30%, giving you more frequent access to Soul Gauge powers and Critical Edge attacks.... this build is a little tricky to get used to, however, since you can still get hit out of Soul Charge state, so it's good practice during fights.

In all these setups, obviously you need a 3-slot weapon, and there are a handful of missions that make such weapons drop more frequently.

The Ancient Weapon missions are a guaranteed starter drop, but they are limited to 20% Critical Rate.

Depending on your affinity (Light or Darkness), the maximum critical damage rate you can get is 50%, but keep in mind that high crit rates don't always mean high damage, it just means high damage is more consistent.

The affinity bonus buff automatically grants +20% to your weapon's base Crit rate at max, so say you're in Dark Affinity and equipped with a Light Affinity weapon... if that weapon's base Crit-rate is 30%, when you equip Light Affinity, it'll max out at 50% (not including Crit-rate buff food items).

Your Affinity bonus can get maxed out by Zasalamel in one of the last missions in Epilogue, but if you choose the response "I don't know" then your affinity won't be maxed, it'll just make it easier to swap affinities for your character (though it's actually easier to just make a Light and Dark affinity character on separate save files, since your characters share their inventories anyway).

Every time you defeat Inferno (in one of the Chapter 5 missions prior to Epilogue), it will always drop a 100% Food item (Hellfire Magma).

Inferno in Epilogue after clearing several Ancient Weapon missions will drop the 100% Gold Item (Hellfire Lava) and the level 99 Inferno drops 100% EXP (Hellfire Ash) with every "loop" of Libra.

You only really need one Hellfire Ash item and there's a random chance a Level 15 enemy will spawn in Epilogue and they drop Level 5 weapons you can put the Hellfire Ash item on to start fresh for the next loop of the game.

Ideally for farming Gold you can just equip the 100% Gold on a Level 90 weapon and just farm the Astral Fissures in Epilogue, you'll get double the amount of gold you need, but most Gold is better spent on recruiting mercenaries and eventually items like Cursed Cult Oil (Health+35% on Damage) and Mandrake (Health Recovery+50% when 0) which you can use on your mercenaries to farm weapons and do most of the work for you.

The highest level weapons are Level 96, with a max damage output of 730 Attack Power, though they often have a lower Crit-rate, they are still very reliable if they have 3 empty slots to make your own weapons with.

There are also single-slot weapons with a 250% (800+ attack power) damage max output but I find them less reliable.

The more weapons with abilities in your inventory (or even weapons with the "same abilities") in your inventory, the more likely you'll get useful weapon abilities to recycle for forging.

Also, I recommend sorting weapons by Attack power rather than Crit rating, as weapons with Lower attack power can be recycled in to better weapons.

Finally let me also say that once you start summoning Ancient Weapon missions, it's a good idea to keep them out for a while instead of clearing them right away, as they maintain the spawn rate of rare enemies in the area, so long as a Level 70+ enemy mission is active, you'll get good random encounters in the area.

After so many loops, I just summon them all and leave them out until I want to make a fresh "loop" of the game.

There's also a "Sweet spot" next to Africa in the Pacific Ocean area of the map (between Africa and India) that is ideal for Level 90 Enemy encounters for rare drops...

FINALLY, here's a good list of counter-pick matchups for Mercenary encounters (counterpick will help you decide what mercenaries you want to use against certain fights):

---Voldo (Atk/Evade): Counterpick is Defensive/Melee/Balanced (He's strong against most characters, but especially strong against slow attackers like Nightmare, also good against Geralt) ---Nightmare (Attack): Counterpick is Defensive/Balanced (He has lots of revenge attacks, so he's good in melee situations) ---Cervantes (Balanced): Counterpick is Defensive/Ranged (Balanced but uses a lot of counters and break attacks, not favorable against defensive characters) ---Maxi (Melee): Counterpick is Attack/Ranged (Likes to use Low mixups and break attacks, not good against balanced) ---Taki (Melee): Counterpick is Attack/Ranged/Balanced (likes to use Reversal Edge traps and run around opponents) ---Geralt (Balanced): Counterpick is Defensive/Attack/Evasive (very annoying, very meter based, best overall ally in the game though) ---Siegfried (Balanced): Counterpick is Attack/Ranged/Evasive (slow but powerful defensively, best to use Mandrakes on this style for death recovery) ---Sophitia (Defensive/Melee): Counterpick is Attack/Balanced/Ranged (very annoying to fight against up close, but also really good counterpick against Geralt enemies) ---Groh (Balanced/Melee): Counterpick is Attack/Ranged/Evasive (throws a lot and likes to circle) ---Song Mina (Ranged): Counterpick is Defensive/Balanced (hard to take advantage of reversal edge, so don't bother, has guard impact moves that she likes to abuse) ---Azwel (Ranged): Counterpick is Defensive/Balanced (very aggressive on offense, but can be easily dodged/parried) ---Tira (Atk/Evade): Same as Voldo (very annoying and likes to dodge attacks and counter, gotta lock her down with horizontal attacks to beat her) ---Talim (Atk/Evade): Same as Voldo (runs away a lot and abuses low mixups, not very strong but still useful in some situations)

---Zasalamel (Ranged): Same as Mina/Azwel (actually good in melee up close but makes a lot of mistakes so not very reliable) ---Mitsurugi (Attack): Counterpick is Defensive/Balanced (very aggressive, will murder you if there's a wall nearby, very good against Geralt/Sophitia, try not to get tricked by his Break Attack mixups) ---Astaroth (Melee): Counterpick is Ranged/Attack (don't use Balanced as he will grab your mercenary a LOT). ---Kilik (Balanced/Ranged): Counterpick is Attack/Melee (Is actually pretty defensive so long as they don't have meter, will "pop" easily if they have a full Soul Gauge, so be careful with the weapons you give it.)

---Xianghua (Counterattack): Counterpick is Ranged/Melee/Balanced (Xianghua enemies are annoying as they read inputs on aggressive mercenaries, but a good melee type will wreck them easily... Nightmare and Kilik styles also works.)

---Yoshimitsu (Attack): Counterpick is Defensive/Balanced/Ranged (Almost as aggressive as Mitsurugi, but likes to abuse low mixups and throws, will almost never fall for Reversal Edge)

---Raphael (Defensive/Evasive): Counterpick is Balanced/Defensive/Ranged (Actually very aggressive, and very annoying, will charge in with thrusts and throws any opportunity they get, still, actually one of the best Mercenaries to hire in most situations, topped only by Geralt) ---Ivy (Ranged): Counterpick is Defensive/Balanced (Very annoying, loves to run away, often spawns during poison missions)

Anyway that's it. If you play Soul Calibur 6, I hope you find this useful!

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