>>318606
>Astra and her set
Astral is such a massive buff, that no amount of poor synergy will ever justify not running it, sans not having access to Quick Assist at all (and even then, you can min-max that and just get hit).
On top of that, you absolutely don't
have to spam Quick Assist to play optimally neither with Astra nor with Astral in general.
Astral only needs a Quick Assist once in <15 seconds to remain fully stacked up and for Astra you only need to do her special QA once every <20 seconds.
>>318624
>Nekomata was one of the few dps Astra plus Nicole didn't really giga buff
No really, though.
Nekomata went from one of the biggest bricks in the game to "pretty much better than S11" within that budget because S11 effectively needs Nocturne to be able to run Nicole/Astra, as there's a lot of counter-synergy going on.
Astra's on-demand QA allows Nekomata to have her Core Passive cover the entirety of her burst, and but unconditionally up at all times.
Getting 60% DMG on all her EX, Chain Attacks and Ultimate uses is pretty big.
Plus the QA itself isn't half-bad.
https://youtu.be/YTbGu2DdM38
>>318613
I like playing agent trust events and having them pop up here and there.
Plus, the longer I play the higher is the chance I'll max everyone out and actually play them eventually.
Like I wasn't planning on playing Lighter or Yanagi but I pulled them anyway and I'm glad I did.
To be fair, I pulled Yanagi's weapon as well because the leaked Mibibi kit has suggested she'd be her BiS, which she often is.
>>318620
You have literally posted the reason why I can't.