I thought this exact sentiment. I feel like that's a pretty damn good consolation prize.
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I thought this exact sentiment. I feel like that's a pretty damn good consolation prize.
Duel Wield ROD FTW....
Ouch. At least you got some nice TMR and units.
Officerrob
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No Y'shtola yet, but eight of her TM moogles taking space in my unit inventory
jasminlovesyoux
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wat. jeeez man
yeah I'm pretty set with some of this stuff now. TM farming a bunch of Gafgarions bracer for my crew now.
Lyrian
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Congrats to both of you!
Yeah, it's not Noctis, but I would **almost** do unthinkables to obtain a 5* lineup like that. $500 could have gone so much worse. That's probably among the best "didn't get Noctis" sets of rainbows I've seen in quite awhile.
200k points won't take that long to get. You'll get her soon.
Ouch. That really, really, really, sucks man.
Loving the whole ELT smoke bomb trick to get out of imminent wipes.
Now, I can't get this scene out of my head, lol:
-- Turn goes badly, and everyone lies in ruin from Ifrit's rampage, except for Cecil.
Refia (weakly): Cecil, you must save us... we need an evac... (hands Cecil a smoke bomb)
-- Cecil struts up to Ifrit, who is grinning menacingly over his impending victory.
Cecil: "Hey, Ifrit".
-- Ifrit locks his gaze on the lone paladin.
Cecil: "Did you know that my hair (tufts hair).... is SOOOOO fabulous".
-- Ifrit blinks in disbelief for a moment. When he regains his focus, Cecil and the party are gone.
-- Camera cuts a scene at a pub in Castle Baron, where Cecil is flaunting his exploits to a crowd of FFBE women. Notably, Refia is not is not here.
Cecil: "... and that is how I singlehandedly bested Ifrit and lived to tell the tale."
Swap Survival Edge to Force shield and DW to 15% hp
As for CoD:
Coolio. Will give these sets a try when my orbs are full again.
Having Luka in your team is like having extra padding. You wont notice at first, but then you'll enjoy it!
Going to Switch Rain for WoL to see any differences.
I never thought I'd hear that phrase, but I'm Tm farming like a mofo to do essentially the same thing...
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
I'm SOOO close to taking down ELT. Got within 600-700K (inside the first i of his name on his heart bar) before my three revivers got wiped.
Two jewel rings def make a difference.
Two jewel rings def make a difference.
Zera_Bloodwinter
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908k/1.2 mill of thenpoints required for yshtola. Can you guess how many summons that is? Can you guess even further that i have not received a single yshtola? Guess i am destined to get her at 1.2 million lol.
Advocatus Diaboli
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Good lord. I went out for birthday drinks. Please don't bankrupt yourselves. I spent $40 on Fire Emblem orbs last night and kinda felt bad ... not that I would attribute malice to Gumi, but I feel like people are having much shittier luck this time around. I think the general rule is, even if you're going to whale for a base 5*, don't do it on a banner where there are two of them if you're not happy having the alternate. :/
I hope Noct and Greg bless everyone soon. We need the JP pity counter, that's for damn sure.
I hope Noct and Greg bless everyone soon. We need the JP pity counter, that's for damn sure.
Good to see you could finally beat him. Here is the team I've been using to farm the event with consistency. You can swap Rain for your WoL, he is much better actually (sorry couldn't make a direct link for some reason):
http://imgur.com/zystERC
http://imgur.com/5MVlAS1
http://imgur.com/f7ckSBI
http://imgur.com/Lf13dSt
http://imgur.com/H29GvkG
http://imgur.com/pqVuO9D
http://imgur.com/TVNRswp
http://imgur.com/Mwmf4Gz
http://imgur.com/MtjEHfL
http://imgur.com/8MYpVJR
RNG can still fuck you up, but I've been able to do well without much problem. The worst character is easily Rain, but I still use him because of his Leadership while Refia can keep healing. I'll start using WoL to prevent further headaches now.
The next vault key set from story content will feature light shield equip materia and a light shield that offers 38 def and +30% ele res vs fire, lightning and ice.
Advocatus Diaboli
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Why? Seems like you're trading the ability to FB for a (possibly) DC'd Curaja. Is it just the ability to basically ensure that you have a break available?
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WoL breaks every turn.
Refia DC Curaja every turn and reapply Barfira when necessary.
Cecil Curaja/Focus every turn.
Cloud of Darkness Barfira the first turn then Return every turn.
Noctis Warp Strike every turn.
WoL and Cecil don't exclude each other, an argument can be made about him being more important than Cecil because the full break is definetly the most important skill in this challenge.
Zippedpinhead
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Got my first thancred TM and a minfilia (and three 3* moogles of her TM). At this rate I am easily expecting three or four more than red TM's before this is done.
I also have 6 3* moogles of y'shtola's TM. So she will be pretty well once i get one of herz
I also have 6 3* moogles of y'shtola's TM. So she will be pretty well once i get one of herz
Don't you have CoD? People should not waste Jeweled Ring on Noctis.
I have CoD but why would I use her?
Because she has Return (AoE ailment heal).
Put Barfira and Jeweled ring on her. Use Barfira on the first turn, then use Return for the rest of the fight.
That and:
Turn 1 full break.
Turn 2 provoke
You win.
Wol for this trial is the superior tank
Err, so it's better to lose a tiny bit of damage to prevent paralysis than it is to use an entire unit for the sole purpose of curing it? Maybe that can work for some teams, but I'd rather not. Cecil and Noctis have my two rings, then Ling Refia and Yun are all immune, so it's really just the friend that could muck things up.
I don't have Ling nor Yun so I couldn't even formulate a strategy with them in mind, your team is factually more efficient than mine lol.
Advocatus Diaboli
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But that supposes using Cecil AND WoL in the same party... for F2P, I see it, but I've got to be missing something. Since you and Valentus are on the same page, I clearly AM missing something. I had birthday shots, so I'm gonna ask a dumb question.
Is Yun, Ling, Cecil, Marie, Refia, friend Noctis worse than using WoL subbed in for Cecil? Because I just don't see where WoL shines if you've got other breakers?
Yeah I definitely lucked out with what's good for this fight. Even have Marie but she couldn't hang. Double Yun when a friend is up is just beautiful.
Advocatus Diaboli
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Can we think of anything that involves a double Olive chain? Would love to farm ELT instead of PRO, and I've got one Olive and one Yun. I just can't chain for shit and I play defensively all the time, hence my fascination with Marie.
For someone like me, that has no Ling, Yun, Marie or even Olive, this is pretty much the best team composition I could come up with. For F2P, it's also more realistic to expect them having Cecil, CoD and WoL than these other guys. Note my team composition has Refia, she is a must with DC.
As I said early, I'm not implying WoL should take Cecil spot, they work better together. What Valentus meant is, WoL is more important for this kind of team because he is the one responsible for the breaks AND is beefy as fuck.
With this in mind, this is honestly the best possibly poor's man team possible to face this challenge:
CoD for first turn Barfira (crafted) and Return every other turn
WoL for the breaks/possibly provokes when you have the chance
Cecil for the Curajas and Focus, he will cover all the time too
Refia for DC curajas, arises and barfiras (she will be with carbuncle)
Firion for the damage, Fin Briar every turn
Friend Noctis/Olive/Yun as the other source of damage
This is a very realistic team composition as they are mostly 3* (with WoL and Refia as exception). The thing is, everyone should have around 5k HP, DC is a must on Refia, DW is recommended for WoL (but not a must), another DC is recommended for Cecil (but not a must). CoD must have one Jeweled Ring too.
That's pretty much my team, but I use Noctis instead of Firion and Rain instead of WoL (which is not a good idea, I'll bench him).
It might work, but you'll need different chainers. So far, Rixa linked a video with 2 Chizuru, 2 Firion and 2 Olive 1-shotting ELT as well. Yun won't be ideal here as he only chains well with himself.
Yesterday I was struggling and I thought about using Luka, unfortunately mine is only level 1. Then I saw someone using CoD for pretty much the same reason (except she doesn't heal while taking care of the paralysis) and I finally could farm ELT consistenly.
The only problem I see using Luka instead of CoD is her lower natural elemental resistances, how is yours doing against Ifrit? if she dies as much as my Rain was dying, then my Refia wouldn't be able to do her job properly and I would have more difficulty than I should.
She does fine. I have the minerva bustier on her though, so I can see your elemental dilemma. Now with WoL in my rotation with Cecil, she doesn't really take that much damage. I plan to replace her with Y'shtola though. Rain was a real pain in the ass trying to cover Cecil(or anybody), so replacing him with WoL(Thanks Val) really made things a lot smoother.
Advocatus Diaboli
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NOW I get it. Yeah, WoL is a straight upgrade over Rain all the time. Seriously -- his cover is more trouble than it's worth, although it totally fits his personality, so I'm okay with it.
The Silver
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until Ifrit decides to start resisting my breaks one after the other, I've been having bad luck all day.
WoL has Sentinel(Chance to protect one ally (30%) Damage mitigation (50%) to self) and Rain has jack shit. So Rain just taking up straight damage and then he dies and has to re apply goddamn buffs for his ass.
You running two breakers?
Lyrian
Member
There's a 9% chance per run (30% * 30%) of Ifrit resisting both of the same type of break through 2 breakers on Turn 1. If that happens with an ATK break and Ifrit decides to Vulcan Blast twice on his opening turn, there goes that run.
Had that happen to me on back to back runs this evening, which was highly annoying.
So, once every 11 runs, give or take RNG (and RNG in this game **loves** to get "stuck"), you're going to drop a run on Turn 1 (short of RNGensus blessing you with a light attack round from Ifrit).
Oh.
Thanks Gumi for adding the break resist for Global.... it's not like Japan had 6 star WoL and Orlandu.
The Silver
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