SharonBuild and Guide

Sharon is a Disorder Affinity Damage Dealer/Dispel spammer based on HP-scaling, DoTs and Max HP Reduction.

Skill 1

Sharon S1 is a 1-hit ST attack that triggers/detonates all [DoTs] on the target once level 5, as well as increasing her Turn Meter by a whopping 35%.

Given Sharon’s reliance on triggering DoTs in order to reduce the enemy’s max HP, this Skill is highly recommended to be taken to level 5. Level 3 is the bare minimum to get the full Turn Meter bonus, with levels 2 and 4 being bad stopping points.

This Skill has the lowest priority and should be raised at least to level 3, with level 5 being much better.

Skill 2

Sharon’s S2 is a very stacked and lengthy passive, and comprises the bulk of her gimmicks. Let’s break it down:

• After Sharon acts during her turn, she hits all enemies once and has a high chance of converting 1 Buff from them into a 2-turn [DoT] effect.

• If the target had no Buffs to begin with, she instead has a very high chance to apply 2 stacks of 2-turn [DoT].

• The Conversion and DoT applications are both guaranteed as long as Sharon's Max HP is higher than the enemy's.

• If Sharon is on the field, any [DoT] triggered on the enemy deals its damage, but also reduces the enemy’s Max HP by a percentage of the damage dealt by the DoT. This effect does not work on Bosses.

• At the start of battle, Sharon’s [DoT] damage increases by every 10k max HP she has.

In summary, the higher Sharon’s Max HP is, the more damage and Max HP Reduction she does, on top of guaranteeing DoT and Dispels against anyone with less Max HP than her. She doesn’t need any form of offensive Stat like ATK, CRIT, etc. She dispels 1 Buff in AoE and applies 1 or 2 stacks of [DoT] on each enemy after every turn she plays, and if that wasn’t enough, the damage from her [DoTs] slowly but surely reduces the Max HP of the enemies without any way of preventing it (yellow icon debuff = can’t interact with it).

This skill by itself acts as a very strong Dispel spamming tool, and its damage against high HP enemies is extremely high over the course of a few turns. A good part of this damage cannot even be healed.

For all those reasons, this is the highest priority skill to raise. Level 5 is mandatory.

Skill 3

S3 is a 3-hit AoE, dealing low damage but coming with very strong effects: Each hit has a high chance to apply [Manifold Chorus] on the enemies for 2 turns, 1 stack of a 1-turn [DoT], and the last hit has a very high chance to steal 30% Turn Meter from each enemy and redistribute it evenly to Sharon’s team.

[Manifold Chorus] is a new Debuff that can prevent one Cleanse/Debuff Transfer skill from working on the target before being consumed. This Debuff cannot be stacked and its duration cannot be modified by any other effect. This skill does not bypass Immunity and it can be resisted.

If Sharon’s S2 is the core of her kit, S3 is how she ensures that all of those nasty DoTs from both S3 and S2 are properly applied and triggered without being cleansed all the time.

For this reason, and because each level invested in yields very good returns, this Skill has the 2nd highest priority and should be raised to level 5.

PVE

In PVE, Sharon and the DoT team in general struggles to outperform or even come close to other meta strategies, such as Liliam for burst and Bornova and similar Animuses for long-term battles. However, Sharon has proved to be an extremely reliable Animus for the DoT team, and she has single-handedly pushed the strat back to the top for new players who are still progressing and lacking gear. Embertrek, Campaign, Ethernet and even Terrormaton, Sharon, with the rest of the DoT team, work wonders even with lower investment. The core members of that team are Sharon - Sania Withered Shadow - Fangus/Obol, if you don’t need sustain - Lily, or any SPD/Turn Meter buffer - your best Sustain if you can’t burst the enemies down.

PVP

In PVP, Sharon immediately carved herself a spot at the top, being a near-unbeatable counter to HP scalers, and offering very high DMG even with full HP builds. The variety of her builds also deserves to be mentioned, ranging from full HP to maximize DMG, to very high EFF ACC in order to always land Manifold Chorus and disrupt the enemies. Sharon can be fine-tuned to cater to your specific needs. This adaptability and her meta-breaking kit ensure she’ll remain viable for a long time.

Conclusion

Sharon is a very powerful Damage Dealer who excels at breaking certain metas with very little effort and can still perform reasonably well even when not facing her natural prey. Her PVE potential for beginners is not to be underestimated either, as obtaining her early will guarantee a smooth transition from the early game all the way to the endgame PVP scene. A must-have Animus for sure.