Talk:Gondolier/@comment-26896603-20151016092633

Not that good of a card at GUR stage - 4 / 5 of her buffs are inferior to Ethnia - who gives you the all-important defense buff for soloing LAW.

For strict element teams benefitting from Blue Refresh II and Godlike Rare Force - Dream Phantom is easily to best buffer for Cool Teams.

Salvo based team for Atalanta require DEF buffs for her to be able to outlast the LAW DMG, lest she die early or one of your cards die early and you're not able to fire off a 5-card salvo.

For mixed elements - Ethnia, Bahamut , Icicle and any other card is superior in stats.

Gondolier's selling point is her 25% activation rate on her buffs, and can be executed twice - but it's outclassed by the eyesore con of having 4 inferior abilities, and 1 being useful.

Contrary to cards like Dark Eyes Unveiled - who is able to wipe out cards due to her larger pool of AOE over the single target skills, if you choose to roll dice with her, her usefulness can award you an extra turn, destroy 1 card even if it's awakened (for AUBs), or mass AOE which always wipes out the AEH teams if she's given enough buffs.

On paper:

2 procs of Gondolier's second best ability is +700% dmg to all allies.

2 procs of her best ability is +1200% dmg all allies.

Both of it is overkill and you don't reach damage cap with a single buff from either - you don't gain the extra defensive buffs which you need, or the LAW will be hitting you for over 5000 damage per tap - for those that don't know, the average GUR has 21k sc - you won't survive to turn 30 regularly.

This would cause us to need 2 buffers, a dual-buffer and Gondolier, to fight FAWs safely. It's a wasted slot since you can 1 BP the LAW with Elemental Queen / Huang Long / Ethnia / Bahamut or any dual-buffer, including Hyde, in a Buffer / 2 Unleash / 2 Null composition, or any composition requiring just 1 buffer to carry the team.

There's nothing OP about this card other than exaggeration of numbers - this is also her event, so calculating her worth in a box summon is hard until the event ends.

Given the state of the game and importance of LAWs over FAWs (because FAWs are now a non-issue), if Gondolier had +2000% ATK, she still misses the important DEF buff and will be considered subpar.

Not satisfied with the card, but what can you do? (laughs)

Anyone disagree? Send me a message.