[Dawn Office Fixer] Faust

The closest you can get to the SSS tier. A better part of the Dawn Office duo release. Dawn Faust is a faster-stacking and more damage-dealing version of Gregor who doesn’t buff other allies aside from Dawn Sinclair. She is more self-sufficient and self-focused. Let’s take a closer look at her kit.

Starting with her unique effects:

• Fire Butterfly Coffin - Just Dawn Faust stacks without extra effects. Gaining 2 on base skill hit, capped at 20 per turn, max 30; at 20+ stacks, she gets Burn equal to half of surplus stack past 20 (rounded down), gaining 5 Burn Potency and 2 Count at 30 stacks instead. Needs 30 for S3-2 and Counter 2.

• Overheated Coffin - Burns herself after S3-2.

• Battle instinct - Her main self buff passive. It helps her print more stacks of Fire Butterfly Fire Butterfly Coffin (due to passive), gives her 2 haste (for potential everlasting setup) and provides strong damage up passive for her S3, S3-2 and Counter 2. 

• High Noon - Strong Dawn Sinclair buff when Faust is alive. Min Speed +2, Base Power +2 +15-45% DMG Up (+15 for S2,+30 for S1/S3, +45% for S3-2) by default; on top of that, his S2 now activates Burn on target, S3-2 damage is further increased by 100% by default and is increased by up to 100% for every 1 Burn damage (scorchfield)dealt in the encounter. Overall, INSANE damage buff, one of the strongest in the game. 

• Loneliness at High Noon - Even stronger Dawn Sinclair buff. Min Speed +2 (same), Base Power +3, +30-90% DMG Up (everything doubled), S3-2 is now 150% by default and up to 150% more for every Burn damage (scorchfield) dealt. THE strongest buff in the game. Is it worth killing Yuna Faust for? Of course not :)

• Scorchfield - Essentially Bloodfeast but for Burn. Accumulates all the Burn damage taken in the encounter into this status.

Now for her passives. To summarize, her always active ones give less Burn damage taken for herself, just like Dawn Gregor’s passive, High Noon and Loneliness of High Noon activation from turn 1. 

As for the normal 3 Wrath Owned passive, that one is responsible for Battle Instinct-based Fire Butterfly Coffin printing. She also repeats Gregor’s passive, which activates an extra skill for: staggering opponents by herself; following up Dawn Gregor’s and Sinclair’s S3 and S3-2. However, instead of S1, she uses S1-2. She also deals bonus Wrath damage based on Burn (max 20).

Her support passive is also good for solo purposes as it gives 3 Offense Level Up and 3 Defense Level Up each turn for 3 Wrath and 3 Lust.

Now, her skills:

• Skill 1 - Flash of Sunup - Base roll 11 - Max roll 14 - Reuse 18 (Clash 17) - High clashing, low damage, good status infliction S1. Nothing more, nothing less

• Skill 1-2 - Seconded Offense - Base roll 10 - Max roll 13 - Average damage skill with some Burn tremor count. FREE GLUTTONY IN BURN. GOOD. 

• Skill 2 - Butterfly Slash - Base roll 16 - Max roll 19 (Clash 22) - Reuse 31 - With Gregor’s buff, literally one of the strongest S2s in the game (you always will have Dawnherald on her past turn 2). Very good status infliction and TWO TREMOR BURSTS. Literally S3 level (if you have 20+ Fire Butterfly Coffins, that is) 

• Skill 3 - Eject - Base roll 17 - Max roll 23 (Clash 26) - Reuse 35 - On low Fire Butterfly Coffins, it’s quite whatever skill 3, usually used early in a specific strats to get her counter 2 in 2 turns (if you use Dawn Sinclair and Dawn Gregor’s s3s early as well), overall below average. No damage, no status infliction. Just use s3-2/counter 2 unless you know what you are doing. 

• Skill 3-2 - Eject - High Noon - Base roll 17 - Max roll 23 (Clash 30) - Reuse 35 - High damage triple burst skill. Importantly does not spend her Fire Butterfly Coffins making it possible to chain S3-2 into Counter 2. Gives 1 Battle Instinct. The only bad part is the unfocused valley.  

• Defensive Skill Counter 1 - Stigmatize - Base roll 13 - Max roll 17 - Only needed to activate Counter 2 since Fire Butterfly Coffin gain is once per encounter, but it can be used to get max stack in the same turn if she needed 6 more stacks. 

• Defensive Skill Counter 2 - Dismemberment at High Noon - Base roll 17 - Max roll 23 (Clash 26) - Reuse 35 - S3-2 on steroids. Same status infliction. Gives 3 Battle Instinct instead of 1, which makes her gain access to this skill back in 2-3 turns. Also has the addition of being able to heal HALF of her HP, allowing her to take a beating and not be completely fragile.

To conclude, she is just another Mao Faust if she were fair. She has some blocks in her kit that prevent her from being overpowered, especially in early turns, but for that cost, she upscales Dawn Sinclair. 

ID/Team Synergy:

• Dawn Office - Real upscale of Dawn Sinclair, unlike Gregor’s buff for him. Synergises well with both of them because of follow-up attacks.

• Tremor Scorch (Burn + tremor) - With Dawn Office IDs, Tremor - Scorch has officially become an actual archetype, since now we have a full team of Burn tremor IDs. Really strong sustain DPS team. Faust is really pivotal for the Gluttony generation in this team. 

E.G.O. Synergies:

• Everlasting - Best tremor E.G.O. for the best Tremor Faust ID. (Mao is still better for turn 2 setups, but Dawn Faust catches up in terms of speed by turn 3-5).