Use this build to trigger rage turn 1 (2 star Auguste build) | Auguste’s Rage Explained!

[@bboygwapo6898]

you completely ignore the fact that the knightly spirit increases both his patk and matk. so while he is in rage outburst it actually deals alot more damage than warm touch when atking in front. esp good against boss battle

[@LockeD_wotv]

This is a good point! Pinning this for exposure. I think it would depend tho. Against high HP enemies, piercing 15% current HP damage might be huge. But some enemies might also be immune to piercing damage. And as you said, against bosses, Knightly spirit is most likely the better choice.

[@bboygwapo6898]

@@LockeD_wotv yeah, the 15% hp is good for aoe build cause it only trigger once per turn per enemy, and not good on boss battle, but knightly spirit will have huge advantage esp when august has multiple damage source in a single turn.

[@Matrix79i]

​@bboygwapo6898 warm touch can only be used 1 per round. Is the entire game considered 1 round? Then this skill is really useless if I vacant only use once per game.

[@joeaaaa]

​@@Matrix79iwtf you cant differentiate per round and per game

[@Matrix79i]

​@joeaaaa I can tell per round and per game. But what I do not know is the dev definition of "per round". Because ever single character only get 1 turn(typically) per round, doesnt that also mean "per turn" = "per round". So why using both statements which have the same meaning? Hence I just want to verify if the dev definition of "per round" = "per round of game" aka "per game"

[@mikealex1709]

Great job locke, your effort can be seen. I like this video you made, very clear on your opinion and explanation of choice. This helps me a lot on understanding the character. I will watch some of your older videos to see if I can gain some more knowledge. I don’t have a lot of time for playing games and this give me an idea how to start and also how to experiment with the characters. 👍👍👍

[@LockeD_wotv]

Thank you for the kind comment!

[@floodj3230]

Great discussion. I am still conflicted. I feel like he will be a boss nuke in my roster so the support skill seems like it will be a waste once I get him to 4 stars. From what I understand boss fights in the future don’t go past the initial nuke of the boss utilizing units like homa to support an Auguste bomb. So trying to preserve castelia’s as best I can.

[@Kekkai_]

For those combos you mentioned, a 4 star Auguste can hit those combos if you pair him with Gloria and have her use her skill "Longinus - Brilliance" for 1 extra nrg. I assume a lot of players have her as well so they would probably be paired on most team comps because of Gloria's union buff as you mention later on in the video. She is also faster than him so that also helps.

[@LockeD_wotv]

I was thinking about this further, and even with Gloria he cannot hit that combo at 4-star. He only has a max of 5 NRG, gloria cannot increase that cap. So if he uses his two wrath abilities, he is -2 NRG, -1 NRG = 2 NRG remaining. He recoveres one NRG from 4-star trait and is left at 3 NRG. His devastation skill costs 4 NRG and there is no way to cast it because Gloria (or any other character) can't take a turn in between. He can only do the 2 wrath attacks then devastation at 5-star.

[@andrewtang2231]

i agree with pretty much everything you said, also the armor stacking is not a bug you can actually do the same with Papal guard for example! Also although a lot of the CN guys say that the strength activation skill reaction is good, i actually agree with you here that the contempt skill is better especially if you have cocoa to use the dmg 3/dmg red 3 up skill. I really think that he was meant to be a semi-tank as it just builds up rage so quickly. The only reason i could think of to take other skills is likely to do burst damage instead! I see a lot of people mentioning the 4 stars as a significant way to deal damage extremely quickly, which might be useful in ToA.

[@LockeD_wotv]

That’s great to know!

[@novarkp6576]

I have been using The Rays of the Sun tarot instead of the Magician. Since Auguste is doing multiple area attacks on a single turn, enemies are usually going to hit that injury stage. Making end-game enemies much easier to kill with their high defense. This is pairing with the Warming Touch to get that injury much faster. For the engravings, I went with Wand+wand. Reasoning: Auguste needs to be at the front dishing out damage. With his combo, you will most likely get the +def, +atk and most importantly +mov. This enables him to be a semi-tank while getting that rage from Contempt. On my test, once Auguste has engaged the enemy, he rarely moves around because of its low movement speed and the lack of positional range skill. He prefers to stay put where he already has the advantage.

[@LockeD_wotv]

I personally don't like rays of the sun much because I don't think defense penetration is very effective. He already applies PDEF down 2 from his skill set, and there could be other debuffs on the boss like vulnerability down. I think 16% extra damage (Magician without extra targets) will usually have higher overall damage than 40% defense penetration. I have been trying out wand + wand. Mixed reactions so far which I like better!

[@jmdaccess]

Curious who you have on your shard farming priority list that you're parking Aguste at 2*. Currently working with Gloria 4*, Cocoa 3* and Safiyyah 2*. On the waiting list is Inanna 4* and Auguste 1*. But after watching this, I might do the 2* Aguste as well. Thank you.

[@LockeD_wotv]

I have Gloria, cocoa and safiyyah on shard farming priority - same as you

[@jmdaccess]

@@LockeD_wotv thanks for confirming! Was confused with my priority with all these new characters

[@VashSnz]

The magician tarot doesnt convince me, its very situational, i know half of his skills are aoe but at 0* the only aoe you will be using is his 2nd and 3rd hits from the combo and the 3rd hit cross shaped zone must be targeted on an enemy which sometimes if not most of the times there wont be another enemy in the cross to proc the magician. I guess the devil or justice whould come in clutch to crit that 3rd hit of his combo

[@donkatsu18]

whats the lvl 50 bonus trait of devil?

[@VashSnz]

@@donkatsu18 it doubles the stacks you get from the devil.

[@LockeD_wotv]

The magician tarot does 16% extra damage all the time, even if it is a single target attack. If there is additional targets on top of that you get even more damage. I'm not sure about justice on him as he doesn't have any other crit on him. Paired with Cocoa to get crit rate up, I could see a case for it. I was thinking about Devil tarot as well. Could be really good on him, but have to get the ball rolling with a couple of kills, or maybe use summons with Acambe or Safiyyah

[@villainforfun3034]

Thank you for sharing!

[@georgiekun69]

i'm currently farming gloria saffiyah and cocoa's shards, should i replace saffiyah with auguste? my gloria is like 50+/120 to 5*

[@LockeD_wotv]

I’ll share a 1 star Auguste build tomorrow, and you can see if it works for you and decide then :)

[@repivonex]

Not a fan of Sword+Wand. But my Auguste with Wand+Wand has 5k atk and 4.2k atk with Wand+Cup (to try out the double Devastation combo) respectively during Outburst. Am unsure if the Outburst (Acts again) benefits from the Sword+Wand if you are hitting the same target and you aren't moving any tiles. Wand+Wand will only get much stronger as Auguste Traits levels up.

[@manyblock4192]

U don't need wand+wand because his reaction can give ATK2 and it's what u want from buff lvl2

[@OnionJuiceEnjoyer]

How do you get 5k atk? Is this on the field with buffs? My base is 3.2k on the menu.

[@LockeD_wotv]

If you don’t have other sources of ATK up buffs then wand+wand could work. Im wondering how wand + cup would work with his instant skill. Does he get another cast of it, or does it move on to the next skill but get 2 NRG back. Have to do some testing with this.

[@jayellgee]

@@manyblock4192his reaction is damage 2, not attack 2. Different things and they do stack.

[@squigeyjoe823]

that warm touch skill dealing 15% aoe piercing damage seems pretty good. though hard to tell how effective it will be in hard content. I picked his nrg reducing auto attack and slightly regretting it now, might have to use a castellia >.

[@LockeD_wotv]

Before using the castellia, play around with it and see how often you use his tail attack. Also try to see and remember what skill you are using after auto attack. If it’s usually a low damage skill, then the difference between the two skills might be minimal and you can save the castellia.

[@RR-RCB]

it's all about rotation baby

[@goenawanarief4027]

I DO want auguste, but seeing homa coming...I prioritise for homa than auguste. still on the mindset of support go forever.....

[@LockeD_wotv]

Good luck on your homa pulls!

[@navarog152]

The problem I have with charged attack is that almost every time its gonna be wasted on his worst dmg skill (the instant). Thats why I like his other normal attack more

[@agefrancke346]

extra damage is extra damage, while the nrg drain doesnt do much when the enemy is dead

[@navarog152]

@@agefrancke346 15% on the instant is equal to the instant doing 46% DMG instead of 40%, that's very rarely going to matter. Denying a high health target from using a skill seems more valuable to me, as they usually are also doing lots of DMG. If you're not running the build Lock was running here and have more skill that just straight up do DMG it's a different story of course

[@squigeyjoe823]

you could get him to use the extra dmg on the 2nd part of the combo pretty easily. say he starts at 4 rage, you use 1st part of instant skill (now 5 rage), auto attack (6 rage), then you get another turn and can use part 2 with a a 15% bonus for the next part. Not as good as using it for devestation etc, but at least it's being applied to an aoe attack.

[@navarog152]

@@squigeyjoe823 optimal 2 turn combo would be doing the first 2 parts, then auto attack, then his big nuke would have the 15% DMG boost, which would probably be worth jumping through all the hoops. Probably what you would do with him for bossing. So far both basic attacks haven't been particularly useful. Last event I would have liked the energy drain for some, but so far the only basic attack I wish I had on him is Invigorating Strike. But with that he would probably be way to busted lol

[@squigeyjoe823]

@@navarog152 yeah i picked the nrg reducing one, as i thought that was a novel ability with the current cast. but regretting my choice now ^^'

[@D_Sable]

Wheels fortune pierce trigger rage or not sir??

[@LockeD_wotv]

I tested this, it does not trigger rage

[@D_Sable]

@@LockeD_wotv thank u sir

[@Kimchijoe]

How do you farm 3 shards a day? Do you put less units in your formation in the shard quest?

[@carlos32195]

yes, in the lvl 60 stage if you only use 3 units all get 3 shards. it also says how many shards can be collected (9 for lvl 60) before entering the stage.

[@LockeD_wotv]

Only have a max of up to 3 heroes getting shards daily from the memory farm thing. If you are less than lv 60, your heroes might get a bit less than 3 shards each. For example if you are doing the lv 50 farm you’ll get 8 shards between 3 heroes so 2 heroes will get 3 shards and 1 hero will get 2 shards