I want to jump into expert brunhilda for my weekly chests but I was wondering if anyone had any tips first since I've never done it. I've looked up the moveset, seen a couple videos, and in theory know what the attacks do but I'm more looking for what groups are expecting in practice, since most of what I've found is older things for standard mode.
For example I noticed sometimes someone goes to the other side of grand muspelheim and dragon tanks it but sometimes groups stack together for it, but what's the common thing people are expecting? Does Sarisse do dive canceling now or is that still the healer? Should Gelly hold her S2 (apart from the opening) for specific attacks? Etc..
I can use either Sarisse or Gala Elisanne, I like Sarisse but don't like having to rely on another person's abilities/coabilities just to survive the open. EDIT: just noticed 8 of the 10 currently open rooms are looking for a healer. is 0ub hdt1 enough for jiang ziya, or is she significantly harder to play?
1. You will probably not have dragon ready by Grand Mus, I think? If you do, maybe the person targeted will dragon tank. If they don't, you do it normally. It is mainly just to make things easier for the healer. (I believe you want the person tanking to be using Siren, since her dragon form is worse.)
2. Healer always cancels at the start. Later in the fight it can be messy because the baiter does not always do what you expect for meteors; you maaaaay want to run over and do that if the healer's not doing anything and you notice the baiter isn't going far enough to cancel/bait Crimson, but otherwise it's on those two still.
3. I think Gelly wants to help with resistance during stacking/chasers but I'm not sure how that timing works out.
4. You shouldn't feel bad about relying on others to survive; Lily and Sarisse always want healer's def buff + Gelly's co-ability + Gelly with Choco to res buff. That's how you're able to survive without using Volcanic Queen. It is absolutely expected that this is the case.
5. I mostly have run as Thaniel. Healer isn't that bad though much easier if you have H. Mariti. You just need to handle cancels ok and then it's really a matter of charging your skills well at certain points because it is just expected that you heal up the forced damage before the next time you take it. It's understood that you can only do so much to heal others' mistakes beyond that. Mariti makes the timing a lot less tight during that (sometimes even getting an extra heal in) but JZ will too thanks to her regen on S2. I only got her very recently and lately have been using Lily and now Sarisse so I haven't used her much yet.