Outside of that, I don't particularly find it a valid compliment from those who also TM farm using a Macro. The game was never intended nor planned for that. It's not balanced around it. If they balanced around it, most of us would be unable to complete the Giglamesh trial. It's not the one and done like most are doing. But balancing it around it, would also max the game's curve completely inaccessible for anyone not doing it.
It's like complaining about using a cheat to power level your character to the max, then saying there isn't anything to do.
The only solution is to add in an in-game TM farm Macro basically and make it part of the game from this point on, so everyone has access to it. Then balance it around it. Of course, this would increase the need to pull units even more then it is now since most of the weapons and armor checks would be tied to units.
Complaint, not compliment, in the first sentence?
Otherwise, completely agree with you. I absolutely agree that the game was not designed around macroing. Rather, like most gacha games, the game was designed around chasing rainbows. TMs were implemented as a "consolation prize" that could rarely obtained via moogles to grant lesser units some of the abilities that rainbow units get innately.
At some point, Gumi may need to cave in and just add macroing in-game. On the other hand, the total global percentage of macroers may be so low that Gumi just doesn't care and will not bother to do anything about in the future. GAF and Reddit together are very likely a very minimal percentage of the total Global population.
Greg is most definitely tuned to the max of non TM'd geared units, but completely clearable with some 5* base units or with the assistance of a few key TMs that could be obtained via moogles (DW/DC).
I cleared it primarily on the back of my Luneth's DW to free up Ling to be able dance for mana regen purposes. If I did not have Luneth, than a DW could have been slapped on someone to achieve the same outcome.
I feel like if you can't get good units you like, game basically boils down to TMs. And if you want TMs you pretty much gotta macro. Unless you want to bore yourself to death and out of this game really quick. For me, I don't have a powerhouse unit, one of units I have will be at least up there.... once I get DW. Just ugh. It's round and round. So for now just slowly chilling back on this game. MogKing helped me this time.
A completely valid observation, Muku.
As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the likely design of the game is to either pull the units with the OP abilities innately (via rainbows) or to compensate for that via hard to obtain TMs via 10 5* moogles (or equivalents). Macroing outright breaks this system. Also, by obtaining TMs somewhat easily, macroing also defeats the purpose of the game's systems. Event rewards become worthless when TMs easily overpower all of them by a considerable margin.
them busts! But damn that was pricey. 