Punishing Gray Raven Overlinker Class Guide – Everything You Need To Know

Punishing Gray Raven Overlinker Class Guide – Everything You Need To Know

What Is The Overlinker Class

First introduced alongside the release of Adelyde: Anabasis as the first ever instance of the class, Overlinker is an entirely brand new class in Punishing Gray Raven that serves essentially as an upgraded version of the existing Amplifier Class.

The Overlinker Class’ main gimmick goals lies in their ability to boost the team’s damage output when certain conditions are fulfilled, allowing them to optimize the team’s damage output simply by existing in the team. Their skill kits and abilities in fights are also focused on providing the team with in-battle buffs and healing effects to help sustain the team and boost the team’s overall damage output.

Overlinker Class Characteristics

As an entirely brand new class when compared to Amplifiers, the Overlinker Class have several brand new characteristics that separate them from the other classes in the game:

– When an Overlinker is in the team, if the team consists of an Attacker Character, a Breaker/Tank Character and an Overlinker Character, the team will gain special buffs before the start of the fight.

– When an Overlinker is in the team and the team’s characters are all of the same element, a special Overlink Ascension effect will be activated whenever the team enters Matrix during the battle, granting the team a massive boost in damage while in Matrix.

– If the entire team shares the same Affix instead of the same element while an Overlinker character is in the team, the Overlinker’s element will be changed to be similar to the corresponding Affix Element. For example, if the Affix is Ultima Slash, then the Overlinker’s element will be changed to Physical.

– If the team is an effect team instead of an Elemental Team, the Overlinker will grant additional Affix damage boosting buffs to the team whenever they use their skills and abilities instead of granting the team the Overlink Ascension effect.

More Imporantly, since Overlinker is a special brand new class, it has several important interactions with Ishmael: Parhelion’s Observer Class:

– If there’s only 1 Overlinker Character in the team, the Observer character (i.e. Ishmael: Parhelion) will change their class into Breaker.

– If there’s only 1 Breaker Character in the team, The Observer Character will now change into the Overlinker Class instead of the Amplifier Class.

Overlinker VS Amplifier – What’s The Difference

With the introduction of the Overlinker Class, many players might be confused as to how this will affect the pre-existing Amplifier Class in the game in terms of meta-relevancy and how they differs from one and another:

– The Overlinker Class is essentially a complete upgrade when compared to the Amplifier Class, with special pre-battle damage buffs to the team when certain conditions are met and during battle buffs that are essentially always active. Amplifier’s class buffs are only active during battle and only when they deal damage to the enemies, making some damage rotations with Amplifiers incomplete due to their buff durations. This problem will not occur with Overlinker Class.

– The Overlinker Class takes into account the Affix of the different teams in order to change their element accordingly. This makes it so that they can deal more damage in an Affix team thanks to being able to deal the elemental damage the enemies are weak to alongside Affix damage. This effect is not available for the Amplifier Class, making Amplifier class characters with mismatched Elements and Affixes deal less damage overall.

– Overlinker and Amplifier Buffs will not stack, meaning players will not be able to run 2 buffer characters in the same team to boost the damage of a single DPS character. If you do this, the Overlinker’s pre-battle buff will not be active either due to the team’s composition requirements.

With all of these said, it is very clear that Overlinker will be the future focus of the game, with it completely replacing Amplifier Class characters in the game.

What To Expect For The Overlinker Class

Now that we have gone over all of the important things players need to know about the game’s introduction of the Overlinker Class, here are some notable things players can look forward to regarding this brand new class of Constructs:

– Overlinker Class Characters Will Completely Replace Amplifier Class Characters: As explained in the previous section, the Overlinker class is a class completely designed to be the superior class compared to the Amplifier Class. Therefore, it is very highly likely that the Overlinker Class will completely replace the Amplifier class in all teams in the game, for both the Element and Affix teams.

– Overlinker Class Characters Will Require Immense Investments: Since the Overlinker class will replace the Amplifier Class, it is very important to note that the Overlinker Characters will more likely needs high level of investments to optimize the team’s damage buffs similar to the Amplifier Class. The higher the characters’ rank investment is, the better the team’s buffs will be, with the SS Rank and SSS Ranks being important thresholds to take note of.

– Most Overlinker Characters Will Be Given Out For Free: As discussed in an old developer livestream, the goal of the Amplifier Class an Overlinker Class is to provide the team with powerful buffs, therefore, making them inaccessible to players will only make it harder for players who didn’t get them to suffer in all of the team’s contents. Therefore, similar to how a lot of the Amplifier Class characters are given out for free at SS Ranks on their debut patches, it is very likely that the Overlinker Class characters will also receive the same treatment to help reduce the burden of players needing to roll for these types of important buff characters. 

The best example of this most likely being true is the fact that Adelyde: Anabasis will be given out to all players for Free at SS Rank on her debut patch, similar to other Amplifier characters in the past. 

Conclusion

With that, we have gone over everything players need to know about Punishing Gray Raven’s brand new Overlinker Class and what to expect from them in the game’s future. Get your hands on all of the brand new Overlinker class characters with the help of Enjoygm’s Special Discounted Deals for Punishing Gray Raven Top Up today!