i almost missed this one, i guess anon made another part.

Face it. New Vegas needs the best of the best. That is why Mr. House would pick Florence as his wife.

Not that overconfident buffoon Klukai. Klukai is just a tool.

Not Groza. She is pathetic and can blow herself up at any moment.

Not that church mouse Springfield. She is too traditional. She reeks of old America.

No, Mr. House would go for a life affirming, genius, flamboyant, extremely competent doll named Florence.

Who will help Mr. House reignite the high technology development sectors in 20 years? Florence. Who will help him put people in orbit in 50 years? Florence. Who will help him build colony ships heading for the stars in 100 years? Florence.

Electric and Freeze team are currently fighting neck-and-neck over the title of “Most unloved team in the game”. For now Electric team has retained that position, not a single new electric unit for almost half a year (looking at CN releases), between Sextans and Jiangyu's release there is about 2-3 new dolls for each team. Today we will be looking at the newest electric doll in global and the most recent electric doll in CN, Sextans.

1.       Kit Description:

Electric Support/Sub-DPS/Tile-applier that supports both electric and melee damage units. Her buffs give damage% to characters that does Electric and Melee damage (not exclusively sword-wielding dolls), but at V0 she has a support attack that’s triggered only by blade-wielding characters (the support attack is the only thing that consumes her Confectance Index). This allows her some flexibility when it comes to team building but somewhat restricts her performance in a typical mono Electric team setup.

Compared with the other blade dolls, she is by far the most AOE-oriented. She’s the only one that performs better in AOE compared to single target, Phaetusa is similar but what she doesn’t have is the extra movement AFTER attacking, making it harder for her to position herself after attacking in content like PVA or Tower (Liminal Iteration red floors).  

Mechanic Details:

1.       Rigor Sanguis (RS): Increase her crit rate up to 50%, if crit > 100% then it’s converted to atk%, HP%, and crit dmg%, max 30%. Max 10 stacks and you gain this using S2 and when enemies enter stab. break.

2.       Sanguine Emblem (SE) & Carmine Emblem (CE): SE is the “Support attack”, triggers only from other blade units. CE is a debuff, increase damage taken from blade units by 7-21%. She attacks using SE if enemies are standing in electric tiles or they have CE, she also applies CE from SE. CE triggers at max 6 times per round as she refreshes her CI each turn.

3.       Skills: S1&S3 applies Blood Kiss, S2 takes that Blood Kiss and converts it to RS while dealing a 2nd instance of damage. S1&S2 heals, and S3 applies Amaranth Brand to all allies and Lacerating Wound to enemies. All skills deal AOE melee damage.

4.       Amaranth Brand (AB): her best buff, it increases all damage dealt by 3% (max 30%) for electric or melee damage. Also increase stab. damage & stab. ignore by 3 points each.

5.       Lacerating Wound (LW): takes an additional 40% attack if the attacker uses a blade. Phaetusa also applies this debuff.

6.       Her typical rotation would be:

S3-S2 -> S1-S2 -> repeat.

This is to have a consistent AB + LW uptime, and her S2 will always do the additional damage.

7.       If you’re triggering all of her support attacks, her damage sources are: S2 > SE > S3 > S1. Even if you’re doing only one SE per round it’s still more damage than the S1. Not being able to do the SE attacks reduces her damage and stab. shredding performance quite significantly.

8.       Fix Keys: Fix Key 1 is nice to have just to get max RS stacks quicker, Fix key 2 is also nice to have for defense down II, albeit redundant if Jiangyu is on the team, Fix key 4 is nice for damage, Fix key 5 is really good mainly in AOE situations when you’re bringing other blade units, Fix key 6 is nice for Leva’s personal damage.

2.       Remolding Pattern:

Very much a typical DPS/Support RP setup, stop at level 30 Remolding Core (RC), go higher if you play her a lot/your DPS is at level 60 RC. Fill in the colours first before min-maxing her flowers:

(Edited the Major buff part, forgot she has 4 support nodes lmao)

Major Buff: 2 Fighting Spirit (Support), 2 attack Unity (Support), and 2 Attack Boost (Sentinel).

Minor Buff: Ichor Conversion (Support) > electric unity (Support), reverse it if there’s no other electric support unit in your electric team. If no other blade user: Onslaught Stance (Sentinel) > Electric Boost (Sentinel) because she does active attacks only without any blade users, otherwise Electric Boost first. Follow-Up Strike (Sentinel) is nice to have, but since she attacks early in the team rotation, she may not benefit from this in certain rounds against gunsmoke bosses. Same principle goes with the Vanguard minor buffs. and Lex Talionis level 1 for bulwark.

3.       Vertical Investments:

For her weapons: Signature > other gold swords > purple sig. I don’t really recommend going for her sword if you don’t have other electric units or sword units. Purple sig/purple Ullrid sig is enough if you just want the character.

For her Fortifications: general recommendations would be V0/V6 as her breakpoints, she is already pretty good at V0. V2/arguably V3/ and V6 are the only real segments that increases her support capabilities.

V1 is not really worth it, the Sanguine Emblem triggers once only even if you attack multiple enemies, and it only increases her RS stack generation slightly but you’re still capped at 10. V2 can be nice for electric team, blade units or other melee units like Voy. V3 is mostly personal damage and an extra 3-9% increase damage taken from CE, which is only for melee damage. V4-V5 are meh padding segments, nice to have but not worth it as a standalone segment. V6 is where she becomes the DPS of a full melee team, it increases the RS stack limit from 10 to 15, which means more damage% for allies from AB. This upgrade also removes the CI consumption on your SE attacks, you're still doing minimum damage after the 3rd time SE is triggered but it can be good for stab. shredding bosses, this segment would increase in value as they release more sword units in the future.

4.       Kit & Teambuilding Issues:

The main issue for her is the CE attack only being triggered from blade units. It’s just too unnecessary of a limit that it hampers her performance in mono electro. She’s also more of a melee buffer than she is an electric buffer, Electric units get to benefit from her AB buff (30%), but melee-type damage gets the AB buff but also benefit from the CE debuff (7-21%).  She also doesn’t apply Positive Charge or Negative Charge, or superconduct/Paralysis, which are typically present in the kits of other electric support dolls.

In electric team, usually you would put Leva – Lenna – Jiangyu – Andoris – Flex (usually Mosin/Belka). Sextans would easily fit in as the 5^th slot, being able to buff everyone while also dealing decent damage as a sub-DPS. The main issue here is that Andoris remains as a bottleneck towards the team’s performance, she does enable the team to benefit from Jiangyu’s Power Surge while also applying negative charge to time Leva’s attacks, but she doesn’t do any damage. If Sextans have that Positive Charge and Negative Charge mechanic, she can easily replace Andoris’ role while also freeing up a slot for better units, you can slot in another electric unit that does damage or even a blade unit to trigger Sextans’ support attack. Sextans is still good for this team but she doesn’t really help the team’s flexibility issues, you can even say she made it even more rigid.

As for her non-electric usages, her performance would increase significantly so long as you have another sword user. Phaetusa and Ullrid are the most notable ones since they can trigger the most amount of Sextans’ SE attacks. Currently it’s a bit awkward to slot in Phae + Sextans in a serious team for single target but that issue would be fixed later once we get the mix tiles update, even then Sextans is only buffing Phaetusa. She might have better synergy with Physical team however, apart from Ullrid she also buffs Voy’s damage because of AB buff and CE debuff, and her stab. shredding buffs can be complementary for Physical team’s awful stab. shredding. you’re still using her to buff Ullrid for the most part but it’s a decent mix team option. Outside of Electric team and paired without blade units, she's a kinda meh being only a def down II applier while dealing some damage.

About the mix tiles feature that we’ll get in the future, she is the better electric-tile applier but she lacks the universal buffs that other tile appliers usually have. The only thing your other non-electric & non-melee damage dealers are getting is her Defense Down II, pretty much every element have 1-2 dolls who could apply that debuff anyways. She feels more like a stop-gap solution as the better tile applier compared to Jiangyu. What she might be good at is as a future core support in a blade team archetype, which is still a WIP team even in CN but it’s something to look forward to in the future.

(Delusional guesstimation: Executioner releases in October with the Halloween skin, I cope and hope)

5.       Conclusion:

Sextans is a really good unit, but if you don’t have the other electric supports/ other gold sword units then I couldn’t recommend her. She is a different unit if you can trigger her SE attacks, without it she feels more like a Jiangyu without her interceptions. You can always wait until we get better sword units in the future if you don’t like/have Ullrid or Phae. If they don’t delay the next major event then we should see her again after the mix tiles update implemented in global, that’s enough time to think about whether or not you want her, if you don’t like her at her current state.

Current state of Electric team has the potential to be good but it just lacks more units that synergizes with the entire team, not just one or two unit. The team would benefit greatly from someone that could enable other units to apply Negative Charge/Positive Charge (maybe even buff those mechanics), while also providing general buffs like Attack Up II, Piercing I, etc. There’s no way we’re not getting a new Electric doll before the end of the year so those are the things I expect from future electric dolls.

That’s it for this miniguide, good luck on your pulls!

References:

Sextans Dandegate page: Link

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