Today, I spent 20 orbs summoning on the Alm’s army banner. I got lucky and pulled a Delthea. It’s IV is -Spd/+Res, which is bad… But is she still usable?
My bad IVs are still salvageable, though, if I give her Life and Death 3, which increases her Attack and Speed by 5 and decreases the Defense and Resistance by 5. Her neutral defense at level 40 is only 14, which basically means everyone will OHKO her. Decreasing that defense even further doesn’t affect anything. My +res means that her resistance at level 40 will be 34, and 34 minus 5 is 29, which is still decently good. Sitting on a defensive tile, she will counter Celica on the final stage of the Tempest Trials. Even with a neutral attack, her attack stat at level 40 is 36, and when combined with her Dark Aura tome with 14 might, her attack increases to 50, which means she has the strongest attack of the blue mages.
Analysis:
Pros:
- Really High Attack (also comes with Death Blow 3), High Res, Decently High Speed.
- Pretty good attack buffer, potentially able to give Atk+9 to allies.
- Unique weapon (Dark Aura) is like a Hone Melee Unit, increasing adjacent melee units Atk+6 through their next actions at the start of each turn.
- C skill Drive Atk 2 buffs allies within 2 spaces Atk+3 during combat and will stack since it’s a basically a long-range spur attack.
Cons:
- Extremely low defense (10/13/17 at level 40), almost every melee unit will OHKO her.
- Miracle is a decent special for leveling her up. You can easily level her up at roughly level 25 in the chain challenge and get to level 40 in 2-3 passes through challenge 1&2-3 (and surrender on the last map). All I used was Delthea, 2 Olivia, Azura, and Lissa, though all you need is 2 dancers and a healer. Delthea was able to take out every single enemy. Miracle is useful when you accidentally make that wrong move and neither dancer is able to reach her to get her out of the way.
- Draconic Aura, Glacies, or Iceburg is a much better special for that extra damage needed.
Overall, she’s a pretty good mage, similar to Linde. She is a glass cannon, and cannot get hit by physical attacks, which means you should put her on a team where some heroes have reposition and/or dancers. For her skills, I would recommend her default Dark Aura weapon, Ardent Sacrifice (to get into desperation range), Glacies/Iceburg, Death Blow 3/Life and Death 3, Desperation 3, and her default Drive Atk 2.
Update: I’ve leveled up my Delthea to level 40. Here are her stats:
Here is her level 40 conversation.