Pros and Cons of playing W.A.T.E.R

You may be asking yourself questions such as “Why should I play Water?”, “Isn’t Water currently the worst element in the game?” and “What does ‘W.A.T.E.R’ even mean”? All of these questions can be answered in the list below.

Pros

Cons

● You’re playing W.A.T.E.R(Water Always Triumphs Every Raid). ● It is also the W.O.R.S.T(We Obliterate Raids Strike Time) element. Basically, it’s very ougi-centric. ● You get to make your enemies W.E.T(Whimper Extremely Terrified) from playing with W.A.T.E.R. ● You get two free water SR characters(Katalina and Io) in the story. And If you started early enough, you get FOUR(yes FOUR) FREE SR characters from the Idolm@ster event. That with Katalina is already a FULL team. ● It is actually the easiest and safest element to play, perfect for soloing. ● It is quite literally, the “Jack of All Trades” among the elements. ● How does access to a bunch of Mist-like debuffs along with every other debuff in the game sound? ● It is the MANLIEST element, with 10 SSRs who are men(2nd place goes to Earth with 7). ● It is also the “Idol” element, which you can make a team of Anya, Nitta, Mizuki, Rin and Lilele Diantha. ● It has arguably the best of the three “140 summons” released so far. (Revive 2 people once for free). ● Water has currently the strongest F2P Primal Grid which becomes even stupider if you can afford to whale... ● “What’s Bruce Lee’s favourite drink?”

● That doesn’t mean you’ll get first place in MVP racing. ● W.O.R.S.T also stands for “Water Overcomes Really Specific Things”, those things being Xeno Ifrit and Fire Guild War. ● At the time of writing this, it’s probably(we’re looking at you, Light) the worst among the 6 elements right now due to various factors… ● ...one of those factors being that apart from the MC, their only multi-attack buffers is either SR, 2 limited SSRs(one relying on RNG too) or a 5* GW character. ● “Ha, you play Water in GBF. Pathetic.”~People who are afraid to get W.E.T. ● It is also known as the fuccboi element… ● ...and the fujoshi element. ● Jack of All Trades, master of none. ● ...it does however have one of the weaker Magna Grids. ● “WAAAA-TAAAAAA.”

Water weapon grids

 

Before we get further, if you don’t know how weapon skills work, please read the wiki page on Weapon Skills. These are what make your grid well, your grid via its stats and element-specific weapon skill attached to said weapon. A general consensus is that if it has the word “Might” and at least SR, chances are it’s probably useful and can be slotted in your grid if you’re very, very new.

 

Also, you should probably know what the damage formula is, not the math behind it, just the idea in general. If you know absolutely NOTHING about it, here’s the wiki page on Damage Formula. To try and sum it up briefly, it’s: “Normal x Magna x Unknown x Elemental”. Your grid is built up around those modifiers and which you choose to focus primarily on.

As always, if you’re in doubt or you intend to go “full tryhard E-Sports mode”, I recommend you to use a calculator like GBF.xzz or Motocal. The former uses a graphical interface and is much easier to use yet is only in Japanese while the latter is bilingual, more advanced and can run simulations though is a tad more complicated. This section will cover your basic and typical Magna, Primal and Elemental grids.

Water Magna Grid

The Basic Grid

 

This is your basic water grid. As you can see it’s filled with mostly one thing: daggers. Water and daggers are like butter and toast. They’re practically a match made in heaven and 9/10 of this grid are daggers. Throw in a cosmo weapon like I did and you have yourself the “10 Dagger Grid”... which is very aesthetically pleasing to look at.

 

However, due to the other 3 base elements getting Xeno weapons with Water not getting theirs yet(bar Light and Dark), Water is sadly last place among the other elements in terms of Magna. It doesn’t mean it’s bad though, you’re basically like an Ice Barrier player in Yugioh, an Aatrox player in League of Legends or even a Quest Warlock in Hearthstone, in capable hands you wreck your enemies.

 

 

You now have a basic idea of your Magna grid and maybe a few questions that we’ll get to in a bit. For now, see those 6 identical daggers over there? That’s the most important and fundamental part of your grid. How do you acquire those? Let me introduce to you to who’s going to be your best friends for a very long time.

Starting up

 

This is Leviathan.

Whoops, wrong Leviathan. AHEM

 

This is Leviathan, or as sometimes I like to call him: “Levi-tan”. Isn’t he adorable? He’s the guy who’ll be dropping those daggers and some placeholder weaponry which you can quickly use as fodder later on.

 

When you’re a new player and you do your Levi-tan normal or hard raids, chances are that these may drop. They all have a Water ATK skill and act as placeholders while you farm your daggers. Eventually, these SR placeholders become fodder for your other weapons.

 

SSR Magna Weapons

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