When I envisioned Odysseus as a servant, his NP was more along the lines of a Trojan Killer Queen, with a smarmy bastard walking away as he clicks an invisible trigger and watchs a whole city explode with the conceptual force of ending a nation.

Somehow, despite being in the form of a damn mecha instead, my expectations are still fulfilled

Troia Ippos is an Arts AOE NP with some simple traits, but a lot of firepower. It removes all defensive buffs (Def up, damage cut, Dodge/Invuln) from all enemies before hitting, as well as providing Odysseus a strong 30% NP damage steroid. Combined with Odysseus’s own inherent 30% Arts booster from his 1st skill and passive, this NP hits reasonably hard, doing only a little less damage than Drake’s when vanilla, and surpassing her if they’re using their preferred 50% gauge CE’s (This is due to Odysseus’s own steroids being improved better by the buff trinity of Atk up, NP dmg up, and Card booster).

Of course, though, the question you’re all asking is: “Will it loop?”

And the answer is...it depends.

As a Rider, Odysseus has an easy time with loop setups due to the Caster class’s 1.2x NP gain modifier. As such, you can take Odysseus to QP dailies with a Tamamo Nero Bride set up or something even more ghetto and still get 115% NP gauge refund from his NP due to the easy overkill on those poor, squishy doors. In more practical studies, it’s a harder thing to handle. With Paracelsus and Nero Bride you can run a 50% gauge Arts or NP gain CE and do a single loop with Wave battlesuit swap. You can also run double Waver Skadi with battlesuit and do a triple loop, but that tends to suffer more in challenge quest scenarios, on top of being more costly. It requires LB Kaleido, too.

So short of QP farming (which is already a low bar if I’m honest), Odysseus isn’t an easy farm servant, at least on a budget. You can make things work in CQ scenarios using Para, Ascelpius, and a support Bride swap-in, but it’s not as amazing as things some competing Riders like Achilles or Da Vinci Rider can manage.

But still, the damage is solid, it has decent refund, and it ignores most annoying blockades to decimating the enemy.