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Wyrmprints Guide

Wyrmprints are card-like pieces of equipment that can grant additional abilities and stats when equipped.

Basics

The general strategy with Wyrmprint builds on dps units is to equip 1 print with Skill Damage as a primary print, and 1 print with Strength Up as a secondary print.

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		Starter Build - This simple dps build can work at least decently on almost any dps unit. Weapon-specific setups can usually outperform this, but it's a good fallback when in doubt.

General Build Archetypes

These prints can be slotted into builds on multiple different weapon types, but may be dependent on specific content and strategies

Wyrmprints	Notes
	Strength Doublebuff - For single units or team compositions that can buff defense fairly often, Strength Doublebuff can turn a strong defense into strong offense. Units such as or with natural Strength Doublebuff especially benefit from stacking one of these prints on top of it. Note that Valiant Crown is a contender for the skill damage slot, whereas First-Rate Hospitality is meant for the strength slot.
	Facility Event/Mob-clearing content - In areas like facility events with a large amount of enemies, prints with "Slayer's Strength" or "Striker's Strength" allow for building up a 25-30% strength boost for the remainder of the quest, depending on amount of kills. In such a situation, these can take the strength print slot.
	Team Buffers - Units whose primary role is to buff the team (such as , , or ) appreciate more buff time to ensure their buffs are always active. Healers with regen-over-time healing can extend their healing by an additional tick by equipping one of these prints.
	Affliction Punishers - When put on a team that can reliably inflict a given status on the enemy, these prints offer a powerful 25-30% boost to damage.
	Skill Haste & Strength - Skill Haste is a tricky subject. The goal is to hit a "breakpoint", i.e. an amount of haste where you can shave off 1 or more attacks toward charging a skill. Breakpoints are different for every character, but a good rule of thumb is to look for breakpoints of 8% or lower. These prints can meet that threshold, and may be worth replacing BN for the strength slot.
	High-Combo Flurry - If high combos can be maintained throughout a fight, these prints can offer a higher strength boost than other print options. This is best done with units that have lots of hits on Skill 1, or on units with natural Flurry abilities, such as , , and . Note that Dagger units are excellent at maintaining combo, but they already have access to Flurry Strength on and would rather not overcap it. However, they would appreciate Flurry Devastation (crit rate) if it's available.

Weapon-specific Builds

Swords

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Sword Build - A straightforward sword build that utilizes the 40% skill damage boost from The Shining Overlord. Dragon Claws can improve offensive potential further if multiple opportunities to Shapeshift are available.
		Build for fast Overdrive Bar breaking - The strongest point about many swords is their Force Strike (FS) damage on bosses' Overdrive (OD) bars, which is higher than that of any other weapon type. This build capitalizes on that twofold: boost the FS damage with Mega Friends, and make the OD bar go down even faster with Bubble & Wood's Gauge Accelerator. You still get to have 30% skill damage and 13% strength on top of that, as well.

Blades

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Blade build - Blades unfortunately have yet to receive their coveted 40% skill damage print, so they tend to fall back onto the basic RR + BN dps setup.

Daggers

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Dagger build - Twinfold Bonds provides 40% Skill Damage and 15% Flurry Strength. However, this means we can't equip a secondary strength print, as that will start hitting the strength cap of 20%. So instead, we'll aim for a Critical Rate print. Water Daggers can use The Prince of Dragonyule while Shadow Daggers can use Howling to the Heavens. All others can use Levin's Champion.

Axes

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Axe build - Axes have a naturally high crit rate (4% instead of the 2% on everyone else), and Kung Fu Masters capitalizes on this by increasing their crit even further. KFM only has 20% skill damage, but Flower in the Fray can provide the missing 20% while also giving some crit damage to synergize with the high crit rate. - The Wyrmclan Duo can work as an alternative to FitF that offers 2% more crit damage, as long as 70% hp or higher can be maintained (which usually isn't a high ask). - Note that, despite Axes having a 40% skill damage print in , the Energy Doublebuff on that is nearly useless, and nothing that it could pair with would have better synergy than what KFM + FitF already has.

Lances

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Lance build - Despite a 40% skill damage print existing in , its second ability of shadow res is useless on anyone who isn't Light-attuned. As such, most lances will choose to use the classic Resounding Rendition instead for similar damage output.
		Light Lance build - For Light Lances, Dragon and Tamer can provide some slight defensive utility while still offering that coveted 40% skill damage. Resounding Rendition potentially offers a higher damage ceiling if one is willing to roll the dice on crits, however.

Bows

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Bow build - Bows are fortunate in that they have both class-specific skill damage and crit rate prints without overlap (unlike Axes). Equipping this combo creates a result similar to KFM + FitF, just without that bit of crit damage. Instead, there is the potential to get up to 30% more strength buffs through careful Resilient Offense procs.

Wands

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Wand build - Wands appreciate the 40% skill damage from CC, as one may expect. Broken Punisher, while usually paired with odd secondary skills, gets a chance to shine here. Note that Candy Couriers is a limited print tied to the Trick or Treasure! event. Resounding Rendition may be used in its place, but CC still boasts much more offensive power.

Staffs

Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
		General-purpose Staff build - The important part here is Give Me Your Wounded, which provides Recovery Potency to make your heals stronger, as well as Full HP defense for use against High Dragon opening blasts. The secondary print is very flexible and can be adapted to any situation. If early dragon gauge is desired, works. If more healing output is needed, doubling up on Recovery Potency with a print such as may be helpful. If the healer has regen-over time healing, then a buff time print such as can provide an extra heal tick.

Unit Specific Builds

Unit	Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2	Notes
			Master High Jupiter: Gala Cleo enabler - This build is needed for the "1 Audric + 3 Gleo" team comp for Master High Jupiter's Trial. The 3 Gleos will each equip a 10% Shapeshift Prep print to combine with Audric's innate 10% prep and the 10% prep from his secondary print to reach 50% in total - just enough to Shapeshift before the opening blast. The entire team will do so and essentially "dragon tank" the blast, allowing the Gleos to enter the fight proper. Due to being a free raid unit, Audric doesn't have 100% paralyze resistance, so Happy New Year or Castaway's Journal is here to patch that up. If Audric chooses to equip for its high strength, he will need to make his prep print A Suit of Midnight to block Fatalis' curse upon reverting from the dragon tank. For a speedier strategy, Mega Friends can be used instead of HNY to provide extra dps and break High Jupiter faster for a quick clear. A faster clear means that aSoM's 3 Affliction Guard stacks should last for the whole fight, making up for Audric's low para res.
			Poison-focused dps - Delphi's defining trait is his incredibly-strong poison, boasting 300% damage when all other poison sources are only around 58% at the high end. The damage of poison depends on what inflicted it, and in Delphi's case that includes both his skills and enhanced force strike (after using s1). Therefore, he wants to boost both his skill damage and force strikes where possible. Twinfold Bonds + Sisters' Day Out satisfies the skill damage and FS, with SDO's force charge also allowing Delphi to set up S2 faster. Normally his skills are on timers, but this lets him get a poison stack online asap. Mega Friends combines the skill damage and FS into a single print, and lets Delphi run The Plaguebringer for its powerful Poison Punisher effect from the second Poison stack onwards. (Poison snapshots the moment when it is dealt to determine its ticks. At the moment when the first stack is applied, the enemy wasn't poisoned yet, so the punisher doesn't get applied for that first stack).
			Full HP, No-Skill-Damage dps - Durant has no damaging skills, so Skill Damage prints are a no-go. Instead, Durant self-buffs for str and crit, and his passive abilities improve his damage when at full HP. This makes him a perfect fit for Mercurial Gauntlet levels below 50, where maintaining Full HP is easy. Since Roy Fafnir also doesn't move all that much, Flurry prints can work quite well. With this in mind, Durant can run Primal Crisis + Luck of the Draw for high Flurry strength and crit, in addition to boosting the duration of his own strength and crit buffs. Both of the above are limited options however, so Howling to the Heavens and Seaside Princess can provide a similar strength and crit boost (15% str, 12% crit) with an extra 25% crit damage on top.
			Master High Brunhilda: Lily enabler - This build is commonly used in the "2 Lily + Gala Elisanne(Gelly) + Jiang Ziya" team comp for Master High Brunhilda's Trial. Choco allows Gelly to cast s2 before the opening blast, granting the Lily's enough bulk to survive without defensive prints. For the remainder of the fight, the buff time and skill haste boost on Beach Battle helps to maintain good uptime of Gelly's s1 strength buff. Note that The Chocolatiers is a limited print tied to the Valentine's Confections event, and since it is the only print with 100% skill prep in the game, there is no suitable replacement for it.
			High Zodiark speed strategy - This build is commonly used in the "2 Gala Prince + Fleur/Mitsuhide + flexible dps" speed strategy for High Zodiark's Trial. Choco ensures that each Prince has his s2 Exalted GloryLv. 1: ready before the opening blast. Casting 2 of these will buff the team's defense by 30%, allowing everyone to skip equipping in favor of a second dps print. Note that The Chocolatiers is a limited print tied to the Valentine's Confections event, and since it is the only print with 100% skill prep in the game, there is no suitable replacement for it.
			Staff dps build - Heinwald is a very unusual healer. His focus is much more on dealing damage than healing, and most of the amount that he does heal is dependent on the damage he dealt (think of him like a vampire). Since, like blades, Staffs have no 40% Skill Damage print available, Heinwald has to settle for a general dps build such as RR + BN.
			Unique FS dps - Hunter Sarisse's Force Strike is incredibly strong, and her entire kit is built around it. Even her s1 pales in comparison to her FS's power, and it even boosts her next FS anyway. Therefore Sarisse can forego the Skill Damage of Forest Bonds and replace it with The Lurker in the Woods for its FS boost. For her secondary print she still would want the standard Dear Diary for bows.
			Unique FS dps + S2 quick charge - Hunter Vanessa posseses a strong unique FS, but unlike Hunter Sarisse her skill 1 still deals substantial damage as well. Her s2 can grant a 30% str buff for 90 seconds - both a huge amount and a huge duration - but it's slow to charge. This can be worked around by running Sisters' Day Out and using the Force Charge to set up s2 quickly, plus the FS boost will still apply for the rest of the fight. Alternatively, in Paralyze-able content Vanessa can run Spirit of the Season to boost the damage of all her attacks on a paralyzed foe. For her skill damage slot, Vanessa can run Dragon and Tamer for the extra bit of shadow res, seeing as she has to tank a hit for s2 to activate. Resounding Rendition can be used instead for the possibility of high crit rolls.
			Gauge Accelerator, No-Skill-Damage dps - Mega Man's skills are not affected by Skill Damage or Skill Haste effects, so that limits his options. His next best bet would be to run strength and crit rate prints, but we can take it a step further. Mega Man's unique co-ability provides Gauge Accelerator for the team, and he has natural Gauge Accelerator on top of that, so if we combine this with the Gauge Accelerator of Bubble & Wood then Mega Man and his allies can break bosses incredibly quickly.
			Low HP Offense build - Natalie's playstyle revolves around being at very low HP: less than 30%. This unfortunately means that Natalie doesn't qualify for Wyrmprint effects that expect you to be at high hp. Heralds of Hinomoto is one of few skill damage prints whose second ability Natalie can actually use, and its 6% haste happens to be enough to hit a couple of skill breakpoints for her. Dear Diary is chosen since its Resilient Offense relies on getting into low hp, a thing that Natalie can do on command with her s2.