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[Hippopuncher12]

I've always rolled with 1 mage, 1 healer, 1 tank, 1 physical attacker, and 1 full breaker. It's well balanced, but it means I really only have damage dealer in the physical sense. Should I change up that approach?

So, for example, my current main team is CoD, Cecil, Agrias, Exdeath, and Refia. I don't have any TMs yet (although I'm getting REALLY close to the Excalibur), so the only truly physical unit I have is CoD.

Right now what you are using is fine but to my knowledge later on most of the big boss enemies are immune to full break so you are probably going to replace that unit with something and the meta is physical dps...or so they say. Actually a lot of teams in JPN for later content use double tanks a healer and 2 physical DPS most don't use Mages it seems.

 

[PantherLotus]

All of my rainbows with the exception of 1 have come from Multi pulls. I "think" I've done between 12-17 of them, only 2 of them were really fucking terrible. Terrible in the way that someone posted a few pages back in this thread.

I'm with Zera! Except when Zera says 'all my rainbows' I just nod and pretend I've ever done that.

Feast your eyes on my most recent 11 pull. I think this one was during the Elza banner and I posted it in this thread around then. This pull is what scared me away from doing more 11 pulls although I really would like Gilgamesh a whole lot.

http://i.imgur.com/iLnFtLy.jpg

I'm trying to stay strong for whenever they release FFX characters in global, as I'm a huge fan of the game will probably spend $$$ to get Tidus.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Feast your eyes on my most recent 11 pull. I think this one was during the Elza banner and I posted it in this thread around then. This pull is what scared me away from doing more 11 pulls although I really would like Gilgamesh a whole lot.

http://i.imgur.com/iLnFtLy.jpg

And for me it's the opposite I have received one rainbow from a daily but my other 11 have all come from 11 pulls. In fact I had one multi pull with 3 rainbows. It's all RNG but in an 11 pull the guarantee gold crystal has a higher chance of being rainbow than any other pull regardless of how it was pulled.

 

[PantherLotus]

Lied about not pulling. That ticket was burning bright and you know what, I deserve it. So I pulled and got a blue crystal. But then it turned gold!

Spoiler

MY 4TH FUCKING EXDEATH!!!

 

[Zera_Bloodwinter]

I've always rolled with 1 mage, 1 healer, 1 tank, 1 physical attacker, and 1 full breaker. It's well balanced, but it means I really only have damage dealer in the physical sense. Should I change up that approach?

So, for example, my current main team is CoD, Cecil, Agrias, Exdeath, and Refia. I don't have any TMs yet (although I'm getting REALLY close to the Excalibur), so the only truly physical unit I have is CoD.

I run nothing but phys dps. I used to run a balanced team but once I got enough melee bruisers I refuse to go back. Only time that may change is for Trance Terra.

Feast your eyes on my most recent 11 pull. I think this one was during the Elza banner and I posted it in this thread around then. This pull is what scared me away from doing more 11 pulls although I really would like Gilgamesh a whole lot.

http://i.imgur.com/iLnFtLy.jpg

Yeah that's what mine looked like more or less lol.

 

[The Silver]

Snow is the best unit I've gotten from a daily, every other good unit I have is from tickets.

I've only gotten crap from 11 pulls except that one Exdeath.

 

[crazyivan19]

Right now what you are using is fine but to my knowledge later on most of the big boss enemies are immune to full break so you are probably going to replace that unit with something and the meta is physical dps...or so they say. Actually a lot of teams in JPN for later content use double tanks a healer and 2 physical DPS most don't use Mages it seems.

I run nothing but phys dps. I used to run a balanced team but once I got enough melee bruisers I refuse to go back. Only time that may change is for Trance Terra.

Well alrighty then. Good to know and duly noted.

Of course, I say all of this as if I had another worthwhile DPS unit on my bench. I did pull Snow and decided to max him to 100 (for some reason I can't really defend), so maybe I will roll with both him and Cecil since his attack is actually pretty decent. Not on par with CoD, but certainly better than Agrias. So it would be Cecil, Snow, CoD, Exdeath, and Refia.

I was going to casually pull for Lightning when the banner updates, but maybe I'll try a bit harder to get her instead. I won't go hog wild, but I think I'll drop my tickets and do dailies all week and maybe throw out an 11 pull at the end if I don't get her. I still have yet to get a rainbow, so the chances of getting her are abysmal anyway, but at least I can say I tried.

 

[Muku]

Well. My alt account got a yellow crystal. Thought it was going to troll me but then it gave me Vanille. Is she any good? I'm trying to scrape together right now a group to run as my normal group. She's healer though, right?

Right now working on Vaan, Agrias, Kefka, CoD, and BCL for my main group. I have Cecil 6* 95 so tank is good. Cap Delita 6* which is good. Leveling those previously to help also fill in slots I may need so can do some swapsies.

If Vanille is a healer, than I guess I'll pass. I have a 6* capped Refia right now

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Well alrighty then. Good to know and duly noted.

Of course, I say all of this as if I had another worthwhile DPS unit on my bench. I did pull Snow and decided to max him to 100 (for some reason I can't really defend), so maybe I will roll with both him and Cecil since his attack is actually pretty decent. Not on par with CoD, but certainly better than Agrias. So it would be Cecil, Snow, CoD, Exdeath, and Refia.

I was going to casually pull for Lightning when the banner updates, but maybe I'll try a bit harder to get her instead. I won't go hog wild, but I think I'll drop my tickets and do dailies all week and maybe throw out an 11 pull at the end if I don't get her. I still have yet to get a rainbow, so the chances of getting her are abysmal anyway, but at least I can say I tried.

Another thing I would say is if you really need a breaker unit and the boss is able to be broken use a friend Elza. She not only breaks but has high attack.

 

[Zera_Bloodwinter]

Well alrighty then. Good to know and duly noted.

Of course, I say all of this as if I had another worthwhile DPS unit on my bench. I did pull Snow and decided to max him to 100 (for some reason I can't really defend), so maybe I will roll with both him and Cecil since his attack is actually pretty decent. Not on par with CoD, but certainly better than Agrias. So it would be Cecil, Snow, CoD, Exdeath, and Refia.

I was going to casually pull for Lightning when the banner updates, but maybe I'll try a bit harder to get her instead. I won't go hog wild, but I think I'll drop my tickets and do dailies all week and maybe throw out an 11 pull at the end if I don't get her. I still have yet to get a rainbow, so the chances of getting her are abysmal anyway, but at least I can say I tried.

Got to work with what you have. You WILL get that dps unit that you need. WHEN is the real question. That's a pretty great team you have right there. Try to buff Snow's atk as much as you can. If you have DW give him that, and Barrage and see how it goes.

Well. My alt account got a yellow crystal. Thought it was going to troll me but then it gave me Vanille. Is she any good? I'm trying to scrape together right now a group to run as my normal group. She's healer though, right?

Right now working on Vaan, Agrias, Kefka, CoD, and BCL for my main group. I have Cecil 6* 95 so tank is good. Cap Delita 6* which is good. Leveling those previously to help also fill in slots I may need so can do some swapsies.

If Vanille is a healer, than I guess I'll pass. I have a 6* capped Refia right now

Who else do you have on the bench Muku? I'd try to put as many 6*s on the team as you can. ExDeath, CoD, Bartz, etc. Simply because 6* stats > 5* stats by a significant margin.

 

[crazyivan19]

Another thing I would say is if you really need a breaker unit and the boss is able to be broken use a friend Elza. She not only breaks but has high attack.

Got to work with what you have. You WILL get that dps unit that you need. WHEN is the real question. That's a pretty great team you have right there. Try to buff Snow's atk as much as you can. If you have DW give him that, and Barrage and see how it goes.

Beautiful. Thank you very much for the advice! I don't have dual wield yet, more's the pity, but I will try and beef up Snow's attack as much as possible.

I feel very fortunate that I'm "stuck" with dealing with too many options.

 

[Xion86]

Finally saw my first gigantaur in over 40 ELT runs, only had 1 bonus unit so the reward was only around 1k gears

Bah

Damn...and I just got extremely lucky and ran into 1, didn't see one the next run, then saw another on the run after! I'll have to check out my ratio as I've seen quite a few.

 

[Zera_Bloodwinter]

Beautiful. Thank you very much for the advice! I feel very fortunate that I'm "stuck" with dealing with too many options.

Looking back at what I wrote DW would be best used for another of your units. But none the less try to get his atk as high as possible and if you have Barrage give him that.

 

[cpp_is_king]

I don't think I'm going to do an 11 pull on the upcoming Lightning banner. Waifu-status aside, I'd rather save for Noctis and Orlandu. Maybe I'll get lucky and get one on daily pulls.

 

[Acerac]

REAL TALK.

Everyone (reddit) is talking about how F2Ps and dolphins should never ever go for the 11 pull and instead rely on the daily pull.

WRONG.

Your absolute best chance to pull the 1 5* base unit you want (lightning, gilga, etc) is with an 11 pull, not 20 daily pulls.

I... umm...

Source: guy who has never ever pulled a rainbow

...yeah.

 

[Syrus]

I cant fuxkin get frep to work...sigh

 

[c-murph]

I cant fuxkin get frep to work...sigh

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBraveExvius/comments/4zgx76/my_crappy_guide_to_frep_an_android_finger/

 

[cpp_is_king]

I think I Just lost 1,000 lapis on a bad crafting macro

 

[Syrus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBraveExvius/comments/4zgx76/my_crappy_guide_to_frep_an_android_finger/

I swear im doing it just like he says.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

My goodness I feel the last 5 days or so my TM farming has been slowed to a crawl for some reason...I run it all day and refill but my units seem to be gaining so much slower than before. I thought I would have Lunge Combo done on Friday but it's only at 80% and doesn't seem to move.....RNG YOU SUCK!!!!

 

[Falk]

Er, my bad, prematurely closed due to a miscommunication.

Who's doing OT3? Haven't been keeping up.

 

[spyhunterzero]

To be honest I'm not quite sure. I know we were talking about the title a bit back but not sure who is taking up th job.

 

[Xion86]

Damn another Gigantaur!

Hmm damn I forgot who was preparing OT3 too :/was quite a few pages back now, was a short name..

 

[NomarTyme]

Shin said he was doing it.

 

[PantherLotus]

My day.

 

[Broseybrose]

Damn. Turn one...

Ouch.

Dont feel too bad. Today I lost in arena twice in a row for the first time ever..

 

[Syrus]

Whats the point of having a golem staff on CoD or othee attackers? Is it just to be a dick in arena?

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Whats the point of having a golem staff on CoD or othee attackers? Is it just to be a dick in arena?

Have to combat the whale 4 Lightning/Gilgamesh teams somehow.

 

[PantherLotus]

Whats the point of having a golem staff on CoD or othee attackers? Is it just to be a dick in arena?

one man's dick is another man's winning team

(yes)

 

[LucaMac]

I swear im doing it just like he says.

I got it to work properly yesterday for the first time and now it's flawless. The key is to figure out where it keeps crashing and tweek that step, either the image or adding manual taps...

I thought I was following it exactly too for a long time but realised eventually that I wasn't following it EXACTLY. Sometimes it's easier to restart the recording and try again. The success was after many attempts (about 10ish) over different days in the last month. This was my first attempt since the missions were added and my second recording worked with a little tweaking. I had to manually screenshot certain screens and replace the ones the app took to fine tune the image tests.

It's important to remember too that the above link DOES NOT include a step regarding the missions as the post is from before they were added. Once I understood the process I could add that step myself and tweak to suit. It is complicated at first but makes sense when you've tried it a few times and got used to the programme.

 

[c-murph]

I got it to work properly yesterday for the first time and now it's flawless. The key is to figure out where it keeps crashing and tweek that step, either the image or adding manual taps...

I thought I was following it exactly too for a long time but realised eventually that I wasn't following it EXACTLY. Sometimes it's easier to restart the recording and try again. The success was after many attempts (about 10ish) over different days in the last month. This was my first attempt since the missions were added and my second recording worked with a little tweaking. I had to manually screenshot certain screens and replace the ones the app took to fine tune the image tests.

It's important to remember too that the above link DOES NOT include a step regarding the missions as the post is from before they were added. Once I understood the process I could add that step myself and tweak to suit. It is complicated at first but makes sense when you've tried it a few times and got used to the programme.

It was a little complicated at first but I eventually got the hang of it... Then decided I was going to not use any of the image check or anything. I have two macros; one basically is like 6 presses and loops on auto for 60 some seconds on the very first stage for those speed runs through my rng. Only time I get issues is when the game wants to give me a connection issue or I run out of stamina. I have to manually fix it. I guess if I learned the app a little better I'm sure there's ways around that though.

 

[Dandte]

The game is doing some next level trolling on me this week.

I never got a vaan...i started with the sweden launch...my first full breaker was agrias.

In the last 7 days i got gilgi, 2 vaans and another zidane!

And only one event unit....named snow. Looks like i can follow rixas advice of a full dw squad since luneth has inbuild dw. Only need to tm the other two zidanes and gilgi.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Man Antenolla is really giving me hell. He one-shots anywhere from 3-5 people on the first turn, including Valentus', Bokeng', and everyone else's uber Gilgameshes.

 

[Vashetti]

Man Antenolla is really giving me hell. He one-shots anywhere from 3-5 people on the first turn, including Valentus', Bokeng', and everyone else's uber Gilgameshes.

Are you targeting the correct parts?

 

[cpp_is_king]

Are you targeting the correct parts?

I'm not sure it really matters, because after the first turn half my party is dead, and unless there's a part I can kill on the first turn, it wouldn't make much of a difference.

That said, I targeted the top-most part first. the closest I got was when I opened with CoD using Protectga and Cecil using Focus, but I'm not sure how much that really helped. I don't know if it was Vine or what because they're just lablled A, B, C, and D. But it was the tallest tentacle.

Maybe the problem is that I'm trying to do the AoE takedown strategy instead of killing the parts 1 by 1. Thus causing him to use all his HP-based AoEs on me every turn.

 

[c-murph]

Are you targeting the correct parts?

Go for its balls!

 

[Valentus]

That's a really nice ideia, actually... what's your build for her?

Magi staff
Aegis Shield
any helmet
Minerva Bustier / lordly robes
Muscle belt
Muscle belt

Equip Heavy Shield materia
Melody of life
HP+30%
Dualcast

 

[Iceman829]

Just a reminder that server maintenance begins in 4 hrs (1AM EST). Be sure to use your NRG / Arena orbs

 

[c-murph]

Just a reminder that server maintenance begins in 4 hrs (1AM EST). Be sure to use your NRG / Arena orbs

1am EST. Good enough time to finish up a few things and set it for one more Stamina bar run.

 

[Syntsui]

Just found the second Gigantuars. It just took me 77 runs.

In 77 runs I couldn't even get all the tickets yet, I couldn't buy a single material for Winged Saint. But hey, I got all the cactuars, I should be happy, no? The event is great, no? All those magicites tho...

With a Lightning friend, I'll get around 350 gears. But hey, those sacred crystals every 10 runs are amazing, no?

Fuck this noise.

If I stop my TM farm and do only events from now on with no lapis at all I should get the Tickets and the Material but absolutely nothing else. This event could end tomorrow with no notice and I wouldn't even be mad, I just want it to be over.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Just found the second Gigantuars. It just took me 77 runs.

In 77 runs I couldn't even get all the tickets yet, I couldn't buy a single material for Winged Saint. But hey, I got all the cactuars, I should be happy, no? The event is great, no? All those magicites tho...

With a Lightning friend, I'll get around 350 gears. But hey, those sacred crystals every 10 runs are amazing, no?

Fuck this noise.

If I stop my TM farm and do only events from now on with no lapis at all I should get the Tickets and the Material but absolutely nothing else. This event could end tomorrow with no notice and I wouldn't even be mad, I just want it to be over.

Kinda surprised to see people complaining about SC rates. I've gotten like 15 in 40 runs. Once I even got 2, one from Myrmidon and one from boss

 

[Lyrian]

Just found the second Gigantuars. It just took me 77 runs.

In 77 runs I couldn't even get all the tickets yet, I couldn't buy a single material for Winged Saint. But hey, I got all the cactuars, I should be happy, no? The event is great, no? All those magicites tho...

With a Lightning friend, I'll get around 350 gears. But hey, those sacred crystals every 10 runs are amazing, no?

Fuck this noise.

If I stop my TM farm and do only events from now on with no lapis at all I should get the Tickets and the Material but absolutely nothing else. This event could end tomorrow with no notice and I wouldn't even be mad, I just want it to be over.

The whole back half of this event is literally going to be carrying teams of 4 or 5 bonus units on ELT with a single overpowered friend Lightning to get even remotely close to cleaning out the reasonable stuff (tickets, 6* mats, etc). Trust moogles might be completely out of reach for those who can't pair their own Lightning with a friend Lightning to carry the entire team through ELT.

 

[Syntsui]

I just needed to vent a little. It will be possible to get what I absolutely need, so whatever.

Moogles are straight up impossible without a Lightning of your own + friend / refreshing lapis. I accept that I won't get them and I am fine with it.

 

[Lyrian]

Kinda surprised to see people complaining about SC rates. I've gotten like 15 in 40 runs. Once I even got 2, one from Myrmidon and one from boss

It's not that bad, all things considered. 15 in 40 seems on the high side though (as someone who has completed over 100 runs of ELT and counting).

That said, SCs are a bonus and doesn't really feel like they are adding value because the gear drop rate is so poor without Lightning stacking up the bonus gear rate. They are nice, but when a large chunk of the award table is still sitting there after 100 runs, SCs are not really a great consolation prize to be cheering about.

 

[Azuran]

Are sacred crystals even worth something anymore? They have always been easy to farm so they're not even a consolation prize in this event. The majority of people don't even need that many of them anymore considering we're all rocking 5-6* units.

 

[Lyrian]

I just needed to vent a little. It will be possible to get what I absolutely need, so whatever.

Moogles are straight up impossible without a Lightning of your own + friend / refreshing lapis. I accept that I won't get them and I am fine with it.

Ditto here.

I'm going to settle for the tickets, mats, and cactaurs and call it an event unless something drastically beneficial happens on my end. I just don't see even the 30k moogle happening unless rates balloon up to stratospheric levels with Lightning carries.

 

[Celegus]

Are sacred crystals even worth something anymore? They have always been easy to farm so they're not even a consolation prize in this event. The majority of people don't even need that many of them anymore considering we're all rocking 5-6* units.

I'm still constantly out of them, yeah. This event has been great for that, running awakening vortex never feels good. Sure I have a team of 5s/6s, but there are tons I still want to level up. Vaan, Terra, Garnet, Snow, Firion, Bartz, etc... they're all gonna need lots of crystals to eat.

I'm not even thinking about the moogles. Mostly just running TMs this week, cactuars this weekend, and then I'll hit the event harder next week with friend Lightnings and my 2 Snows to get the tickets and 6* mats.

 

[PantherLotus]

-- lol sacred crystals valuable? they are easily the most constrained resource in the game and the biggest bottleneck the average F2P has to overcome.

-- i've run enough ELT on this event to clear all but the two 6K tickets and about 15 gigacactuars and I've only seen 3 SCs so far btw.

 

[Lyrian]

Are sacred crystals even worth something anymore? They have always been easy to farm so they're not even a consolation prize in this event. The majority of people don't even need that many of them anymore considering we're all rocking 5-6* units.

I'm still constantly out of them, yeah. This event has been great for that, running awakening vortex never feels good. Sure I have a team of 5s/6s, but there are tons I still want to level up. Vaan, Terra, Garnet, Snow, Firion, Bartz, etc... they're all gonna need lots of crystals to eat.

I'm not even thinking about the moogles. Mostly just running TMs this week, cactuars this weekend, and then I'll hit the event harder next week with friend Lightnings and my 2 Snows to get the tickets and 6* mats.

The fact that I balked on spending 10 to 5* Sazh for this event still means "Yes, they do."

They are becoming more common, but unless you are in the camp of "I've leveled 5 units to 6* so I will never have to level/awaken anything ever again", SCs are still not common enough to really be considered disposable. Especially when everything that is not a 5* base still requires 15 SCs each to get to 5* (on their way to 6*).

 

[Syntsui]

There are a lot of great units I couldn't level up yet so Sacred Crystals are always welcome. I just don't see them being an acceptable consolation prize for these runs.

If the event was equally as fair as the last ones I would be able to get many more prizes + have the time to do chamber of awakening and get more SC than I'm getting.

Gumi is fooling a lot of people with this "consolation" nonsense.