[Ray2064]

Despite being a 9 star weapon, it's just...very middling. Its main 'niche' of freezing up plants is, while situationally useful, especially with the current prominence of Cherry Blossom, not something that'd ever justify using it over another katana subtype like Fuuma/Hisen, or even a better sword weapon overall.


Its stats are fairly unremarkable, even among other katanas, let alone swords, and there's really nothing that justifies its rarity right now, I don't think?

(It has 11 Power, 80 Hit, and 0 Crit. The latter isn't MUCH of an issue these days, or at least with Kensei, Katanas are able to crit-semi reliably with minimal investment. The power doesn't stand out much ,and other Katanas typically get around 85% hit-)

If not for a stat buff, I'd suggest for the weapon to gain Cold Scaling ( 70% STR, 40% SKI), this would allow it to gain a much needed advantage, and would also grant further options for a High SWA Katana beyond Tarnada, which is restricted to building CEL/ the evade archetype.

Otherwise, the weapon could just benefit to be a better stat stick overall, again, like Tarnada, that wouldn't be restricted to the CEL stat

[Slydria]

I do agree Sogensara could use a bump. I don't think it's base stats need changing though, especially now that STR offers critical chance for it. Just making it Cold scaling instead of Finesse is good enough.

The other thing I'd argue for is a change to it's skill. A skill that just freezes plants and plant people is a little too specific. I'd adjust it to something a bit more like:

Everblue
3M, 15FP
Targets a tile up to 8 Range that contains an enemy or plant tile. Creates Ice Sheets in the line from your current location to the tile. Plant special tiles are frozen and turn into dense Ice statues. Enemies along the line take magical Ice Damage equal to 100% SWA + 100% Ice ATK and are inflicted with Slow (Lv2) for 2 Rounds, if they are Plant enemies, they take 25% more damage and are instead inflicted with Frozen (Lv10) for 2 Rounds.

[Autumn]

Cold Scaling and what Sly has suggested would shoot it up to be even with the other good katanas so I have no issues there.

Any buff is fine, the main reason it was so hated was because it had 120% total scaling in GR1.

[Ray2064]

Making Everblue a better skill could be cool. There's kind of a weird trend with 9 Star Ice-themed weapons having weirdly extremely mediocre skills that come with them, like Toyatori or Fenri

[Rendar]

Making Everblue a better skill could be cool. There's kind of a weird trend with 9 Star Ice-themed weapons having weirdly extremely mediocre skills that come with them, like Toyatori or Fenri

Fuck you. Fenri's skill is OK.

[Ray2064]

bump, weeb update came out...

[Raigen.Convict]

12 power, 90 accuracy, 10 critical, 10 weight. And then Slys everblue change and cold scaling and its finally solid

[Shujin]

I do agree Sogensara could use a bump. I don't think it's base stats need changing though, especially now that STR offers critical chance for it. Just making it Cold scaling instead of Finesse is good enough.

The other thing I'd argue for is a change to it's skill. A skill that just freezes plants and plant people is a little too specific. I'd adjust it to something a bit more like:

Everblue
3M, 15FP
Targets a tile up to 8 Range that contains an enemy or plant tile. Creates Ice Sheets in the line from your current location to the tile. Plant special tiles are frozen and turn into dense Ice statues. Enemies along the line take magical Ice Damage equal to 100% SWA + 100% Ice ATK and are inflicted with Slow (Lv2) for 2 Rounds, if they are Plant enemies, they take 25% more damage and are instead inflicted with Frozen (Lv10) for 2 Rounds.

does it not have 5 less hit than all other elemental katana? I would atleast give it baseline hit.
Otherwise I agree. Everblue could do with a bit of a touch up.