Fulmintis skills and crit build: Lightning Blade Storm

Fulmintis's passive trait is called Electro Stash. Whenever one of its skills lands a critical hit, it restores 4 EP.

That sounds small, and on a single hit it is. The point is that Fulmintis's best damage comes from skills that eat Energy continuously, so every crit along the way puts some of it back. A Fulmintis with a low crit rate runs dry. A Fulmintis that crits often keeps swinging. That is the reason the rest of the kit is so heavy on crit rate, and the reason you should build for it.

Lightning Blade Storm is the centre of the kit. It dashes toward a target and continuously drains Energy while executing slashes until that Energy is depleted. It concludes with a final Spinning Slash dealing 26 Might damage, which fires either when the Energy runs out or when you press the skill button again.

The finisher is where the damage hides. Every three consecutive hits you land during Lightning Blade Storm increase the final Spinning Slash's damage by 100%. A long, unbroken string of slashes makes the closing spin far stronger than its base figure suggests, so the skill rewards staying on target rather than cutting it short.

The Q combat skill, Lightning Rush, is described the same way: it dashes in to close on the target, continuously consumes Energy to deliver a barrage of consecutive slashes, and ends in a Spinning Slash when Energy is depleted or the skill is triggered again.

This is where Electro Stash earns its place. Each crit in the barrage hands back 4 EP, which is Energy the storm can keep spending.

Fulmintis's abilities can inflict paralysis, and two parts of the kit do it.

The E ability, Lightning Blade Impact, coats the weapon in electricity. Hold it to enter Aim Mode and fire two Electric Blade Shock Waves. Critical hits from those waves inflict Paralysis on the target. How long that paralysis lasts is not settled: it is given as both 1 second and 6 seconds. Either way it is tied to crits, which is one more reason to stack crit rate.

The ultimate has a base power of 180. It deals damage to targets in a straight line and paralyzes them, so line enemies up before you use it and you get both the damage and the lockdown on all of them.

Two skills exist mainly to push crit rate up, and they are what turn the passive from a nice extra into the engine of the build.

Lightning Claw increases critical strike rate, granting a 50% crit rate.

Enhanced Lightning Blade increases Fulmintis's skill CRIT rate for 20 seconds. The size of the boost is not settled: it is given as both 35% and 25%. Whichever figure holds in your game, the useful habit is the same. Turn it on, then spend those 20 seconds on Lightning Blade Storm, where every crit refunds EP and keeps the barrage going toward a bigger Spinning Slash.

Not everything in the kit is about damage. Fulmintis has a Cloak skill that lets it enter a cloaked state and turn invisible, which gives you a way to reposition or pick when a fight starts.

Fulmintis also has a skill that costs zero EP. On an Aniimo whose main combo burns through Energy, having something to use while you are empty matters.

06Where to start

Build Fulmintis for crit rate first. Use Lightning Claw and Enhanced Lightning Blade to raise it, then spend the window on Lightning Blade Storm, keeping the hits unbroken so Electro Stash refunds EP and the Spinning Slash grows. Save the ultimate for enemies standing in a line.