Whoa, thank you! That was actually going to be my next question was what this at the bottom of the screen was...
But you went ahead and answered that. Sounds very interesting for long term play.
As far as this unit goes, she was "given" to me at the beginning. Does everyone get her or is she a good/bad unit/TM I should know about? I still haven't pulled any other units so I only have her, Rain and Lasswell and I don't know if I should pull more.
And DAMMIT on missing Noctis. Yeah, pretty much the reason I got this was because I am all about XV and wanted to still indulge FF shit when I have to go to work and stuff. I tried Record Keeper, but seeing as 7 is the only other FF game I've played it didn't really do much for me because it seems more like a nostalgia trip.
I know all about RNG pulls from fucking Dokkan Battle, sounds like the featured banners ar just like the ones in that game where the scouter shows featured characters you have a better chance of getting. So should I just hold on to my tickets for now to wait for a XV banner? Or go ahead and burn some? And is the same currency used in the featured banners and the more normal rare banner?
I'm hopin to figure out some of this stuff for myself, but I haven't had too much time to play today. Thanks for any help people can give! Also I appreciate you making the * ranking stuff clear to me, and that gets me more excited. I hate when these types of games have, for instance a 2* character that can't go higher than a *3. Just seems like a waste of an investment. So I'm excited to hear all characters can reach the 6* mark.
Leah is a "friend point" character. In other words, go to your Summon tab. There will be something called a Standard Summon fueled by points that you earn through sending and receiving gifts with friends (btw: add GAF friends!). Also, this doesn't cost you anything, despite using the word "gift." They're all functionally useless for being in your party barring some
very edge cases. For example, Leah there, if you don't pull a decent healer, can carry you until you get a "real" one.
Indeed, most of them go beyond functional uselessness. Some, however, have decent Trust Master Rewards, or TMs, or TMRs. Leah's is "Banish," which sucks. Eventually, you'll be pulling friend point characters en masse and combining them, so you'll eventually get Banish and some other TMs.
The "real" characters that you'll obtain -- actual Final Fantasy characters, new units exclusively for Brave Exvius or other collaboration games, and Ariana Grande (yes,
really) for some reason -- are generally obtained through Rare Summons, which restrict their pool of units to 3*+.
Not all characters can reach 6*. (Sorry!) Some 3* characters, like Cecil (the paladin from FFIV), can be awakened/evolved to 6*. Some 3* characters can only reach 4*; others can reach 5*. In an ideal world, all things being equal, every character in your party would be 6* and Level 100, but that's a truly high bar to reach.
You'll also hear what's described as "4* base" or "5* base" units. That's the minimum rarity level they
start at, irrespective of how far they can be evolved. Off the top of my head, I can only think of a few 4* base units that can reach 5* but not 6*. Every 5* base unit can reach 6*. (Also, there's a distinction between character level and rarity level: 3* units can reach Level 40; 4* units can reach level 60; 5* units, level 80; and 6* units can reach level 100. Each time you awaken a unit, they hit level 1 all over again.)
Where RNG comes into play is twofold:
- The higher the base * value, the rarer the unit is, to the point where several GAFers have never seen a "Rainbow," which means "Rainbow Crystal," which is what base 5* units emerge from. (Remember Leah's crystal? It was white or off-white. Blue is 3*, Gold is 4*, Rainbow is 5*. There isn't such a thing as a base 6* unit or 6* crystal.)
- Just because you get a Rainbow crystal doesn't mean you'd get Noctis, Lightning (from FFXIII) or another 5* base character. It's complete fuckery, but our friend Cecil, who's a 3* base and can be awakened all the way to 6*, could troll the fuck out of you by popping out of a Rainbow crystal.
I have a Troll Gilbert (FFBE native character), a 3* base (I think?), who popped out of a Rainbow crystal. Fuck Gilbert.
... make sense? Basically, your takeaway from this should be:
Noctis and other base 5* units are super-rare (although, in Japan, they eliminated "Troll Crystals," and that change may come here eventually), but you can field a solid team from 3* and 4* bases that are evolved over time. Thus, when you pull on banners, make sure it has an assortment of good characters, so even second- and third-best units are useful.
In your case:
- Rain, who you have, will get a 6* form soon and actually be really useful. Lasswell too.
- Also, since you're JUST starting out, you have free Rare Summon Tickets. That entitles you to a pull on the Rare Summon Banner (to get 3*, 4*, or possibly 5* units) or the Featured Banner, which is... exactly like the Rare Summon Banner, except certain units' rates are boosted.
- Units like Cecil, Zidane (FFIX), Firion (FFII), and even Terra (FFVI) are good. Units like Shadow are irredeemable trash.
- You may want to keep restarting the game -- we can explain how -- until you get a decent, semi-future-proof team.
Let us know who you pull with your first few tickets!
