Let's see what Cocoa does in this clear: she tanks a hit, buffs crit/crit damage, and applies Vulnerable. The most important part is the Vulnerable, so looking at who else can provide this, we find someone like Knighted Guard, a more common unit. He is also a Defender so moves first and can tank a hit. He can't provide crit/crit damage but he does have ATK II, which is somewhat comparable as a damage buff. Thus I think Knighted Guard is a suitable replacement for Cocoa in this sort of clear.
Thanks again Exemplar! This worked a treat! Only issue I ran into was not having enough TP nodes to get the 2nd urgent order off in time on saff, but it worked out anyway.
Maybe NonoWill, or else just your next best DPS unit. Gloria is providing a lot of buffs alongside the decent damage so things will work out differently.
Question: I also have tarot rays of the sun with very similar stats (double phy atk and special 4th), is this better to use against single target bossing stages and Tower of Adversity instead of the magician tarot (with similar stats)? my only concern is the ability to get a boss down under 70% HP to properly use the tarots effects ignore 40% defence in comparison to straight 16% damage
I'm not sure how the math works out but depending on how high the defense of the boss, it could go either way. I will say that the only reason I'm not trying to use a magician at the moment is because I don't have a good one and if Homa comes out, her P.DEF Down III may make magician better anyway.
I use her to move Cocoa out of the way, so I suppose Nergal if you have him. Otherwise I would just go with an AoE attacker like Beryl and have Safiyyah attack from range or not attack to leave room for Auguste.
If you see the end of the clip, Exemplar shows the stats of his units. He has higher stats due to more nodes unlocked in talent tree or the good luck from the rolls of the engravings & the tarots. I was about to try the strategy and noticed my Auguste is about 800 pts short in the attack department. It just means we wont clear in as many rounds Overall, it is a really good video showcasing how to finish this without many of the core units.
Highland bonus occurs when the unit is at a height 2 or more above the enemy, so in this case, Gloria herself is not 2 above the boss so it wouldn't count.