Low speed isn't a huge impediment, and wasting trinket slots to try to make up her weakness is just neglecting her strengths. I don't think it's good enough to warrant her a spot in a difficult quest, though.Īrbalest works well in the right situations. +2 SPD to the entire party is great, and 35% healing to the party can save your ass in a pinch. Her camping skills are pretty good, though. Rallying Flare has niche uses against some boss gimmicks (like the Sirens), but otherwise is a completely unremarkable skill. Her Battlefield Bandage again puts her in competition with the Occultist, a competition that she usually loses. I'm not sure why you'd ever want to use Blindfire, honestly. It's mediocre damage to the two front enemies, and rarely anything more.īlindfire. The base Knockback chance is too low to be anywhere close to reliable, and generally single-space knockbacks (and pulls) don't tend to hamper enemies too much. Unfortunately, the Occultist has a very similar move (although the Occultist's dodge reduction is slightly less), and I'd say the Occultist is a much better use of a backline spot than the Arbalest.īola is.eeeh. Her Sniper's Mark reduces dodge, which in my view is somewhat less valuable than reducing PROT (but still useful to have). I've found the most success with the Arbalest by doing this strategy, but it can feel underwhelming compared to using the Quickdraw Charm for a different turn 1 debuff (e.g.

Suppressing Fire is probably her most valuable ability, generally, for greatly tamping down enemy crits (and sometimes giving you lucky dodges), but using it effectively requires you to buff up her speed with something like Quirks (RNG) or the Quickdraw Charm (uses up a trinket slot).

Her Sniper Shot gains crit rate on marked enemies, and is more or less equivalent to the Bounty Hunter's Collect Bounty, but her low speed gives enemies (especially bosses) a chance to disable her, move around, cast a protection spell, or just generally hamper her before she can use it. She has decent HP, but her abilities have no tolerance for the front row - this additionally makes surprise encounters much more dangerous when you have her on your team. Her speed is low, she doesn't do damage very well, she doesn't heal very well, and her debuffs aren't very impressive.

I'm not particularly impressed by the Arbalest class.

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