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The rest of her weapons are not worth wasting the Trap and Gil to fully upgrade them. All Lights weapons have a use. Players who know the game well will often be happy with Blazefire Saber as her base upgraded weapon. Good stats and you lose nothing important at max wepaon rank. My fave one for the final battles, for sure, if I am using her at all. Gladius and Edged carbine are ok if you have both. But you still beed balanced on many other fights so best to forget about those. Hauteclaire if she is main com or if no other character has a stagger lock wep.

Seeing as her special is about post stagger chaining then the Hauteclaire, well, its got her name on it lol. Lionheart and Axisblade serve a purpose, partlin the ability and partly in thier synth group. I lost my signature. Wrong, organyx is like a permanent slow, it shouldn't even be considered.

Edged Carbine and Gladius are her best weapons, you do NOT want balance, she is much faster at casting than attacking, therefore you want to maximize magic. Gladius is just there for magic resistant eneimies. Hauteclaire if good if she's your leader, as you can manually select Ruin.

Lionheart has a few uses, mainly for farming something like Sacrifices so she can Stagger them all in one hit, and Axis Blade is useful during the main story but it's final stats keep it from being a good weapon. Well, if you're like me and like to give every character a "class", then balance does have its uses. It's a pointless use, but I want my Lightning to show off her Red Mage-ness since that's what she's suppose to be. Other than fighting various forms of turtles, it's not like her running up to perform element-strike is ever detrimental. But from a pure usefulness perspective, Axis Blade is most useful among non-upgraded weapons.

Edged Carbine is the most useful at maxed tier 2 and up.

There are certainly fights where it's useless, but in general it's the most powerful. This is the best advice. If you want to start upgrading a weapon for Light, go with Edged Carbine.

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Can stagger with strong magic, and Ruin spam once staggered will get your best damage. Also, nice for backup healing as well. This weapon really does let her be balanced, just not in the way some would think.

As stated, the only time you'll need a good str stat is for magic resistant enemies. Otherwise, Ruin works much better. Trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin. The trilogy has become known as the Lightning Saga. Lightning is a soldier who wields a gunblade , a sword that can transform into a gun.

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Her fighting style is fast and she is equally good as a physical and magical fighter, easily able to gear toward either role via equipment choices. She specializes in Lightning-elemental magic, and her Eidolon is Odin.

Lightning has balanced stats providing her with versatility. Her outstanding trait is her speed; she may not hit the hardest, but she strikes the fastest. The player can choose to focus on either Strength or Magic so that Lightning would focus on either strikes or spells when using auto battle, because with balanced stats she may use them interchangeably slowing her down, as either constantly casting magic, or constantly attacking, is faster than alternating between the two.

Lightning has low HP gain compared to the others and when everyone's stats are maxed out, only Hope will have less HP than her. Lightning majors in the Commando , Ravager , and Medic roles. Compared to most of her companions she has high physical and magical attack stats the second highest attack stat behind Fang , and tied for the second highest magic stat with Vanille , making her able to use both Attacks and Ruin effectively, although her weapons give the lowest stat boosts. As her weapon transforms, Lightning can do both long range and melee attacks as a Commando. She learns every skill except for Adrenaline and Deathblow.

Magic-wise, Lightning is utilitarian, able to use all four elemental "- strike " attacks, all elemental magic to the "-ra" rank, as well as Thundaga. As a Medic Lightning learns Cure , Cura , Esuna and Raise , allowing her to heal HP and ailments as well as revive, but her lack of high level curative spells puts her behind other Medics in the team. She is an offensive Synergist , learning all of the basic protection spells save Veil and learning the "En-" series of spells.

Despite her low HP, Lightning can be a good Sentinel , as she learns all of the role's passive abilities, and when pairing the Elude ability with the Nimbletoe Boots , she can avoid a large amount of damage from enemies. Lightning's Eidolon, Odin, is a large armored knight with a two-bladed sword joined at the hilt. In Gestalt Mode he transforms into the horse Sleipnir, which Lightning rides while wielding Odin's sword, Zantetsuken , split in two. When not in Gestalt Mode Odin uses a combination of Thunder based spells and physical attacks while acting as a Sentinel and drawing in enemy attacks.

Lightning has multiple ways to help with both her Ravager role to boost the enemies' chain gauge, and her Commando role to keep the gauge high. Lightning's initial weapon, Blazefire Saber , has multiple inscriptions that read "Invoke my name - I am Spark" and "blinding instant" written in the Pulsian alphabet.

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In Cocoon writing , her name, Lightning, is also engraved on the weapon. Blazefire Saber is her balance weapon befitting her jack-of-all-trades role. Gladius boosts her Strength, augmenting her physical attacks at the cost of her magical attacks, which is not too bad considering she has access to all elemental strikes. Edged Carbine is the counterpart that boosts her Magic. These are commonly considered good weapons for upgrading as their stat boosts outweigh special abilities from her other weapons.

Having Lightning favor either physical or magical attacks reduces the amount of time she spends switching between attack types when AI-controlled or when using Auto-battle. It also has the synthesized ability " Low HP: Hauteclaire has high stats, but has " Stagger Lock ".

Axis Blade is her speed weapon with " Attack: It transforms Lightning into a speed demon and allows one to abuse Army of One and " Random: Instant Chain ", as each of the 11 hits in Army of One have a chance to instantly fill an enemy's chain gauge simultaneously allowing Lightning to gain ATB segments at the end. It has the benefit of instantly staggering enemies when at a preemptive strike. Organyx has the highest stats for all of Lightning's weapons, but is crippled by the " Leadenstrike " ability, making her slow. Lightning is briefly controlled during the prologue where she fights Chaos Bahamut and Caius.

Lightning wields a new gunblade given to her by the goddess Etro that has engraved writing in Etro script:

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