[WoTV] ESPERS - The Definitive Guide - War of the Visions!

Today we dive into the all things Espers in War of the Visions - through the lens of team building - a foundational topic for this game!
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00:00 - Intro
04:04 - Agility
06:02 - Accuracy
08:42 - Evade
11:00 - Damage Modifiers
12:56 - DEF / SPR
14:52 - Damage Resists
16:10 - Elemental Resists
18:59 - Ailment Resists
21:10 - PVP Mainstays / TLDW
22:45 - Putting it All Together
27:12 - Final Thoughts
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[@theovincoletoonishi744]

best video about espers ever

[@Gouka07]

Fantastic content, I really don’t have anything to add to the substance. This was extremely helpful. A couple of personal preference notes, if you’re interested: I LOVE the Chrono Trigger soundtrack. In fact, I love it so much that I frequently found myself tuning you out to listen to it in the background. I may be a minority in that, though. And because recognizing our own idiosyncrasies is one of the hardest things a public speaker can do: in case you don’t already know, your main filler word is “actually.” These are minor and personal - keep up the great work!

[@JB79]

Chrono Trigger is an all time soundtrack, so there are worse things to be tuned out to lol! 'Definitely' is another filler word for me! I do my best to improve each time, but sometimes it is what it is haha, thanks for watching!

[@ventusvero4484]

I'm a day 1 player (rank 172, over 950 login days) and find this to be great guide and resource for old and new players.

[@JB79]

That's a huge compliment - thank you! Glad it was helpful!

[@FoxeyeValkyrie]

I've been using the JP Altema site for over a year whenever I get a new unit or want to change up ones I have. Sadly a lot of the info on older units are so out of date on it so this video will help me a lot.

[@JB79]

I hope so! What esper is the 'best' choice is always evolving based on the situation and the units others use in battle, so I hope the principles discussed will help you pick the best ones for yourself!

[@FoxeyeValkyrie]

@@JB79 I was changing a few around while the video played to be honest haha.

[@tehjburz]

This is such an incredible resource for the community, thank you!

[@JB79]

Thank you 🙏 my hope was to make it in a way that would stand the test of time, espers don’t get added too too often, so I feel like it should!

[@ventusvero4484]

I couldn't agree more.

[@ronanymous]

One of your best posts. I love how you explicitly redefined BIS, which I think is a trapping mindset for a lot of players in games that run along meta streams. The clustering of espers too are well done and thought out. Keep up the good work, JB!

[@JB79]

I see a lot of players in the past fall into that mindset, so I wanted to try and change that, thanks for the kudos 🙏

[@sammartinez9363]

1 year later. looking up what esper to get for Pixel. 6 out of 10 limited esper are being offered. you can 100% pull 2 of the 6 for 10k visior (not counting if u get lucky). was choosing between Syldra, Scorpion, MA-X Maniple, this video helped me understand what i should be looking for. Thanks again for the videos.

[@JB79]

If you didnt pull already, I have to highly recommend Demon Wall, as the only Esper in the game that can get both high Light and Dark Resist on the same board! Glad this continues to be helpful!

[@R_manatee]

Excellent video! Taking those images for sure very useful! Thx!

[@JB79]

I’m glad it was helpful for you!

[@SoulDeSol]

There's some audio popping noise occurring throughout the video that I've never noticed on your videos before. Don't let that take away from the value of this video though. This video is a wonderful resource for the community to have.

[@JB79]

Yes, I noticed this in post, I'm not 100% sure what's causing it right now, but I have popping just watching youtube while bluestacks is open all of a sudden, which seems to be going to my mic as well, I guess I'll have to shut everything to record for the future now.

[@veilstyle360]

Not enough thumbs up on the dashboard. This is such an invaluable piece of content for all types of wotv players

[@JB79]

Thank you 🙏 all the feedback here means a lot, I hope that this can help some newer folks we picked up during FF13 especially

[@chalermyuthboonma7688]

Besides a great content also great BGM! Chrono Trigger fan here as well. Let go!

[@JB79]

Thank you! Definitely one of my favorite video game OST of all time!

[@mysidia]

Incredible video, also great music selection :D

[@JB79]

Can never have enough Chrono music! One of my favorites!

[@losttallows]

This is incredible. Thank you

[@JB79]

No worries! Glad it was helpful!

[@quietlychattering]

Good video. It will stay useful for very long. New players, you should watch and digest this. Old players, refresh with your latest meta unit. :D

[@JB79]

That was my hope!!

[@Fred-ju1xs]

9 months later, from my first install, it's still a great, informative video!

[@JB79]

Great to hear! I'm working on another definitive guide I hope to have out within the next month or so, this time I plan to cover everything about CT and Agility.

[@stafu176]

i really like this foundational guides. i save them in a playlist and rewatch when i have questions in my head. i.e. the previous guild raid, your videos helped a lot in team building. when guildmates have questions i riderect them to your videos 😂.

[@JB79]

I actually did make a playlist of all my videos like this, you can find it on the playlist area of my channel! I called it my WoTV 101 series!

[@stafu176]

@@JB79 i have that playlist saved too. thank you for making it easy to find. i just had an old wotv playlist that added these

[@starrmagic0]

Love this visual aids 😄 I take the elemental / Weapon type for res. 😎 They really need more Tanky Espers :/ 1 with massive HP % Nodes Or like 1-2% all weapon resist 😄

[@JB79]

I’m glad they were helpful! I’d like to see an all damage resist too, would work nicely with Whispers TMR!

[@starrmagic0]

@@JB79 as well as Vallades Robe 😄 But only Iconic Esper left to reveal is Alexander the giant robot 🤔 Unless they bring back more FF Exclusive ones Like Knights of the Round Or Eden or Ark

[@JB79]

There are so many from VI, disappointing Terra didn't come with Vagliarmanda, hopefully when the collab returns!

[@starrmagic0]

@@JB79 we all know its coming back with Kefka 😆 If FF6 comes back with an Esper its probably gonna be Terras Dad Maduin 🙃 or the 1st boss that was trapped in ice 🤔

[@JB79]

@@starrmagic0 Yes - the one trapped in ice is Vagliarmanda (initially named Tritoch in the us)

[@shamroc77]

Great job JB! Thanks for putting this together!

[@JB79]

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@northofmainstreet7281]

I'm a day one player and one thing I've learned early on fall in line with what you, having the correct Esper for the correct team build makes a huge difference but resonance is also key. I'm glad you made this video, but Im sad I'm only seeing it now 😂

[@JB79]

Good stuff! I see those kinds of questions I posed in the video all the time, so I figured this video would be helpful!

[@jonathancosine]

Dear sir, for doing this video and using the peaceful days bgm, you get a like and subscribe. Look forward for more vids like this!

[@JB79]

Thanks for the sub! I have a playlist of some similar guide videos on various topics you can find on my channel, it is called WoTV 101 Series!

[@jonathancosine]

@@JB79 I'll be sure to check that playlist out. I'll also wait patiently for your truststone guide. It's still a huge convoluted mess to me and I'm sure that's gonna take a lot of time to make

[@michaelstork7118]

Thanks for making this awesome vid JB! I never though of building resonance to hedge against different elements. Big brain stuff!

[@JB79]

No worries! Been doing it since the level 99 days! Element res stacking is super powerful!

[@idayr]

Thx for this. Awesome guide

[@JB79]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@Numero80]

Great video! Thanks!

[@JB79]

Glad you liked it!

[@rafaa5180]

thanks for the video, this helped me a lot

[@JB79]

No problem! Glad it was helpful!

[@wotv.mangudai]

Great video

[@JB79]

Thank you 🙏

[@setsamidori8666]

I love it thanks so much.

[@JB79]

You're welcome 😊

[@gabrielhammond523]

Great soundtrack JB. Yasunori is my Fav…

[@JB79]

A genius!

[@gabrielhammond523]

@@JB79 I’d love to have characters from Crono Trigger built into WOTV, Any non ff squarenix IP you’d like featured?

[@JB79]

@@gabrielhammond523 Would love to see a cross over with Breath of Fire - it would never happen though since Capcom killed that series!

[@gabrielhammond523]

@@JB79 Ryu is the epitome of the silent protagonist. I played both 1 and 2 and found breath of fire to be pretty unique in terms of play style and aesthetic.

[@zackisosaki8369]

Thank you for this! Please keep making content man. You make it easy for the low IQ people like myself lol

[@JB79]

More to come in the future! Anything in particular you'd like to see?

[@SecondChallenge]

Omega Ezodia

[@JanosRaiga]

You talk about damage modifiers at 11:00 , but you didn't go deep in killers. A good esper for Alaya is Brachiosaur, since there is so many mirror matches today, ice killer and elemental resist helps a lot

[@JB79]

I agree, it can be a nice choice, my approach here was not to really dive into each and every niche situation (I think building for element killers is more of an advanced topic) but more 'teach someone to fish' so they can take it from there.

[@unstoppableforcevsimmovabl1701]

Can you make a updated one? Lots of players came on FF7 AC like myself

[@JB79]

Would love to get back to some of these guides when I have time; I wish I had more of it! In the meantime feel free to ask me any questions, I'm more than happy to help!

[@tufrabza]

Great video. I'll have to rethink taking elemental defenses more seriously after your thoughts on them. I do wonder though, you never mentioned espers for their special use in battle, or if any of their special attacks are worthwhile to level. Ie Chocobo heal that Chocobo has, its definitely come in clutch before, with a large area, defensive bonuses, slight cleansing, and fair heal to boot.

[@JB79]

For PVE, I definitely build around Esper effects, mainly the large imperil that effects the whole map. For PVP not as much, we haven't really got a unit yet that really makes summoning reliable enough to really take advantage of, at least for Auto pvp - though we've come close with Terra.

[@skeetermaverick1793]

Hey JB, been browsing youtube for Poison activation rate+10 on chaos odin... also terra... and all of her man-eater up through her UR ribbon and chaos odin with his man eater... and her evocation is it worth putting Odin at Evocation magic +20... man eater +25 and posion activation? i cant seem to figure out if this is a good mechanic.

[@skeetermaverick1793]

poison activation +4, man eater +25 and max evocation magic.

[@JB79]

The evocation magic nodes on most espers just increase the damage modifier when you bring out the summon - those are labeled 'increase evocation damage'. The only esper that has nodes which increase the rate at which you can achieve the summon is Valefor - that one is labeled 'increase evocation guage', that is the one that is similar to Terra's innate capabilities. Poison activation is only good for units like Yuffie or Sweetheart Ildyra (and some others) which have a chance to poison you on some of their attacks; it increases the chance to land it.

[@skeetermaverick1793]

@@JB79 awww thank you so much for the clarity!!! That all makes sense

[@mackinzie]

BiSituation is pretty good take on it.

[@JB79]

Thanks! It definitely fits for this game!

[@RandoomDude]

You didn't go over the actual esper attacks at all...

[@JB79]

This is a PVP focused guide, Esper Summon attacks are very valuable in PVE events like guild raids (I’ve talked about them in my guild raid guides for example) - in a PVP sense though, not much consideration, pvp summon strats at least thus far have been more of a gimmick.

[@SecondChallenge]

Eviory está ae

[@Xsurian]

I thought luck was evade and dex was accuracy

[@JB79]

Luck is accuracy and evade, dex is accuracy and crit

[@Xsurian]

@@JB79 lucks just double dipping. Good to know

[@lastarcher1759]

This guide useless, because your basically telling new players, to go ahead level up espers. Your account already has all vision cards max out, your units max out and you don't need a plan or good team to clear map. Because the map is already clear 😂. Honestly these types of guide should focus more on players that don't have everything in the game and not whales.

[@JB79]

Feel free to make your own new player guide covering more basic mechanics and ideas, this is not promoted as such. This is a gateway towards advanced team building and high end competitive play. As far as it being useless, interesting take, thousands are disagreeing with you at this point

[@lastarcher1759]

@@JB79 I am just saying that this doesn't help new players or other players that don't know team build or how to clear some of the difficult content in order to stay relevant. It should also focus on the units and vc you have in other to get these espers lvl up. It should also be note that when comes to team building, it should be first character build. On units like MR or SR that new players should have.

[@JB79]

I understand your point, but just because this doesn’t fit the niche of content your interested doesn’t make it useless or invaluable. I’m filling a specific void of content for this game that doesn’t exist elsewhere. Explaining basic mechanics isn’t what interests or motivates me, there are other creators that fill that niche already. The content I enjoy making is helping the casual player who knows the basics to find the information to play at the top end of the game.

[@lastarcher1759]

@@JB79 Good point I apologize for sounding harsh.

[@JB79]

No worries mate, I hear you and don’t think you meant Ill by it!