Marsha Build Guide – Everything You Need To Know

General Introduction

Marsha is a 6-star Arcanist of the Beast Afflatus, whose primary playstyle revolves around enabling the Burn and Lingering Glow team through her ability to apply large amount of burn debuffs on enemies while healing and granting shield to allies based on the amount of Burn and Lingering Glow effect accumulated.

Marsha serves as the sustain character for the Lingering Glow team, helping to facilitate the team’s playstyle while keeping the team alive long enough for the Lingering Glow effect to deal amazing damage to enemies.

Incantation Skill And Ultimate Analysis

To understand how Marsha works and how to best build her into a powerful Arcanist, we need to know how her Skill and Ultimate works:

Burden Unspoken (Arcane Skill)	Rank	Effects
	1	[Buff] Mass buff. Grants all allies a [Shield] with HP equal to (the user’s ATK x150%) for 3 rounds. When actively cast, consumes one stack of [Frontline Care] to increase the multiplier by 40% of Marsha’s Critical Rate. Additionally, dispels one type of [Stats Down] or [Neg. Status] effects on all allies. If the target already possesses a [Shield], this stacks onto the existing one (the combined [Shield] value will not exceed the user’s ATK x650%) and extends its duration to 3 rounds. Allies with this [Shield] gain +30% DMG Taken Reduction.
	2	[Buff] Mass buff. Grants all allies a [Shield] with HP equal to (the user’s ATK x225%) for 3 rounds. When actively cast, consumes one stack of [Frontline Care] to increase the multiplier by 60% of Marsha’s Critical Rate. Additionally, dispels one type of [Stats Down] or [Neg. Status] effects on all allies. If the target already possesses a [Shield], this stacks onto the existing one (the combined [Shield] value will not exceed the user’s ATK x650%) and extends its duration to 3 rounds. Allies with this [Shield] gain +30% DMG Taken Reduction.
	3	[Buff] Mass buff. Grants all allies a [Shield] with HP equal to (the user’s ATK x375%) for 3 rounds. When actively cast, consumes one stack of [Frontline Care] to increase the multiplier by 100% of Marsha’s Critical Rate. Additionally, dispels one type of [Stats Down] or [Neg. Status] effects on all allies. If the target already possesses a [Shield], this stacks onto the existing one (the combined [Shield] value will not exceed the user’s ATK x650%) and extends its duration to 3 rounds. Allies with this [Shield] gain +30% DMG Taken Reduction.
Importance: Highest
Analysis: Marsha’s main sustain ability provides the team with massive benefits like shielding, healing, dispel and damage reduction effects, making it her most important skill as a sustain unit. This skill also helps Marsha to be a universally good sustain character for many different teams, especially against bosses with debuffs.

Virtue of Restraint (Arcane Skill)	Rank	Effects
	1	[Debuff] 1-target attack. Deals 200% Reality DMG. Inflicts 3 stacks of [Burn] on the target and grants 1 stack of [Pain’s Recompense] to the caster. If the target has at least 8 stacks of [Burn] when attacked, this deals an additional 100% Reality DMG.
	2	[Debuff] 1-target attack. Deals 300% Reality DMG. Inflicts 3 stacks of [Burn] on the target and grants 1 stack of [Pain’s Recompense] to the caster. If the target has at least 8 stacks of [Burn] when attacked, this deals an additional 150% Reality DMG.
	3	[Debuff] 1-target attack. Deals 500% Reality DMG. Inflicts 3 stacks of [Burn] on the target and grants 1 stack of [Pain’s Recompense] to the caster. If the target has at least 8 stacks of [Burn] when attacked, this deals an additional 250% Reality DMG.
Importance: High
Analysis: Marsha’s main set up skill that allows her to support the Burn and Lingering Glow team by applying burn debuffs on enemies. Additionally, this ability help boost Marsha’s overall critical stats greatly.

Advice to the Violent (Ultimate)	Effects
	Mass attack. Gains 1 stack of [Pain’s Recompense]. Deals 750% Reality DMG to all enemies. Inflicts 4 stacks of [Burn] on targets. After attacking, consumes up to 5 stacks of [Pain’s Recompense] to grant all allies the same number of stacks of [Discipline Forged] for 3 rounds,
		Importance: High
		Analysis: Marsha’s ultimate allows her to debuff all enemies with burn and help to boost the entire team’s critical damage and critical rate based on the amount of buff stacks on Marsha herself.

Inheritance Analysis

Additionally to her skills and abilities, her inheritance level will also affect Marsha’ performance in a team:

Marsha Playstyle And Combat Role Analysis

Marsha is a very powerful sustain and support character that is capable of keeping the team alive for long period of time thanks to her ability to constantly providing shielding, damage reduction and cleansing allies debuffs, which is a very important effect to have against newer bosses who will incapacitated the team with crowd control debuffs. Additionally, Marsha’s skills and abilities make her one of the prime enabler for the Burn and Lingering Glow team thanks to her ability to constantly apply massive amounts of Burn DoT debuffs on enemies while also providing large amount of Lingering Glow and boost the overall survivability of the team massively.

Marsha’s gameplay is relatively simple: use her buff skill to provide the team with a massive shield and prevent the team from taking too much damage for a set amount of turn. Then periodically uses her debuff skill to apply burn and deal damage to enemies to help facilitate the Lingering Glow stacks mechanic. When dealing damage to enemies with her Debuff skill, Marsha will gain special stacks that increase her critical rate and critical damage. This buff last for a long time and is stackable.

Upon using her Ultimate, Marsha can deal damage to all enemies, applying the Burn DoT debuff on enemies and spread her special critical buff to all allies, boosting the entire team’s critical rate and critical damage in addition to granting the entire team a special effect that prevent them from being debuffed with crowd control effects from enemies. Finally, Marsha’s talent helps her to gain quick Moxie whenever any of her special defensive effects triggers to prevent debuff effects on allies, granting her extra Moxie when this happens and allowing her to quickly use her Ultimate more efficiently to support the team.

Best Psychubes And Resonance Build

Best Psychubes

As a support sustain character, Marsha’s best Psychubes are ones that can help boost her overall sustain ability while also boosting the team’s damage output. 

The best Psychube for Marsha is her signature Psychube:

	Singleness of Heart
Effect	Whenever an ally is attacked, if the attacker has [Burn], they deal -2% DMG Dealt. Upon casting Ultimate, if [Lingering Glow] exceeds 120 stacks, increase the Critical DMG of all allies by +12% for 3 rounds.
Analysis	Marsha’s signature Psychube that allows her to reduce the damage dealt to the team when against enemies inflicted with Burn while also boosting the entire team’s Critical damage when Lingering Glow effect is active above a certain point.

For alternative Psychubes, players can consider using these options until you get her Signature Psychubes:

	Long Night Talk
Effect	When the Carrier has 2 or more [Pos Status] buffs, DMG Dealt +8% when attacking. When the Carrier uses a Buff Incantation, gain ATK +2%, stacks up to 2 times.
Analysis	Provides Marsha with a hefty Attack buff to help her to provide a more powerful shield to the entire team overall.

Resonance Build

For Marsha, players should focus on using a Resonance build that boosts her overall survivability in addition to boosting her attack stat to help her provide a more powerful shield overall to the team.

Build Code: ADRENBUoVCoEQAFCAkQA8CQ8YDxQOCI5IEEwSEI (This build code might change in the future, so we will keep you updated on this later)

Players should use the Equibalance piece as her main Resonance piece for better balance between damage and survivability output.

Rolling Recommendation

Should You Roll For Marsha

It Depends. While Marsha is undoubtedly one of the best sustain characters to be released in the game due to how amazing her buffs and shielding abilities are, she is mainly use for the Lingering Glow team alongside Beryl and Isolde. This means that if you don’t have these characters to enable the Lingering Glow team, rolling for Marsha is less profitable overall despite her amazing sustain effects. 

If you already have the core character for the Lingering Glow team, which is Beryl, getting Marsha will help to facilitate the team immensely due to her constant Burn and Lingering Glow application, making her a very core character for this team.

Should You Roll For Extra Marsha Portraits

From overall assessment, Marsha’s Portraits levels aren’t that important for her, as the majority of the portrait levels only help boost her overall buffs and sustain effect even further, with little to no effect or changes overall to the team’s gameplay or rotation.

The best portraits for Marsha are at P0 and P5, with P5 being her main breakpoint that allows her to affect the overall gameplay flow of the Lingering Glow. However, getting P5 is a hefty investment, so players should consider to either fully commit or keep her at P0 is enough for general contents and usage.

Conclusion

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