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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius |OT5| Our Golden Anniversary Brings Us Hope
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I got my first one 2 weeks ago. Took gazillion pulls to get it after it was introduced.
Lyrian
Member
Second try on Calixte was successful, but a bit disheartening.
Particle Beam is a non-elemental magic AoE, which pretty much mandates Rikku's HyperNulAll, 9S's Pod, or similar complete damage resistance ability. As the boss can't be MAG broken, everyone is going to eat a ~3k damage nuke every 20% of its life (and worse, it's stackable if multiple thresholds are crossed in the same turn), if you don't want to gamble on a risky one-shot attempt (potentially re-kiling your team after Rikku's ReRaise if you are eating 3 or 4 threshold attacks in the same turn), then you have to slow-boat the boss and take at least 5 turns (or more depending on how safe you want to play this) to whittle it down, threshold by threshold.
Not really looking forward to that 2-3x per day for the next 11 days. Very annoying.
-- So far, have missed the banner completely on dailies and a few tickets here and there. Bleh.
Particle Beam is a non-elemental magic AoE, which pretty much mandates Rikku's HyperNulAll, 9S's Pod, or similar complete damage resistance ability. As the boss can't be MAG broken, everyone is going to eat a ~3k damage nuke every 20% of its life (and worse, it's stackable if multiple thresholds are crossed in the same turn), if you don't want to gamble on a risky one-shot attempt (potentially re-kiling your team after Rikku's ReRaise if you are eating 3 or 4 threshold attacks in the same turn), then you have to slow-boat the boss and take at least 5 turns (or more depending on how safe you want to play this) to whittle it down, threshold by threshold.
Not really looking forward to that 2-3x per day for the next 11 days. Very annoying.
-- So far, have missed the banner completely on dailies and a few tickets here and there. Bleh.
free pull >.>? wait what?
I wish we could "Favourite" abilities, like a star symbol you press when you hold one down. Would be nice to sort by favourite instead of having to scroll through the hugely growing list to find the best ones you have earned. It's funny how I sometimes scroll through the list and come across a really good one I totally forgot about and should equip.
I had a feeling, but with Reberta and Noctis it made it unsure~
Shouta
Member
Shouta
Member
Edit: nvm, this is Sara. I was looking at Aria's skill set lol. I'll level up mine.
She is your best friend.
You get a ticket for doing the dailies for two weeks while the Ariana event is on.
Crazy. Been raining Xons for me. I guess we have those units that follows you.
Snow and Sozhe for me. Obviously everyone gets Hopes & Rosas.
Better Giancrysts drops.
Lyrian
Member
Yup. Carrying 2 Xons through Stage 9 and 10, I get ~95% drop rates on Giancrysts. Beats farming the gems vortex hands down, any day of the week.
Okay. That makes sense. Something I'll consider at some point, because I have nothing really to spend NRG on.
Is this really confirmed? Or just placebo?
I've farmed a few times with only 1 Xon and giancryst dropped every single time.
I maxed mine to 100 with no gear on her and her HP was near 4000. Really impressive.
Lyrian
Member
Confirmed, multipicatively, most likely. 9S's Pod doesn't help though, although the upcoming Raven's Mantle will.
One Xon yields ~84% drop rates for T4 on Stage 9/10.
Two Xons yield ~96% drop rares for T4s on 9/10.
Three puts the rates at 99%, and four is a guaranteed 100% rate (although that's probably really hard to pull off and three by far is good enough).
I've hard ran Stage 10 on the last event entirely for the whole 14 day period. Only missed the cryst drop once in all of two weeks of farming with 2 Xons.
Ah damn. I have 2 more unleveled Xons sitting around. Guess 3 for 99% is perfect.
Thanks for this info. I somehow missed this.
Haha, I'm still waiting for my first Xon. I've gotten 15 Snows and 8 Sozhe, they're by far two of my highest (if not the highest) 4* units.
Was out of town the last few days and very very happy to be back! Daily today was the only blue crystal I've wanted for a while now, my first Camille so I'm really happy about that. Need to start on this story event!
indigo-cyclops
Member
my free ticket nat 5 streak continues
Nice, congrats! Got my LV off a ticket pull on Friday.
Lyrian
Member
Nice! I still need about 300 more for Adv 4.
Still groaning over the S10 boss. It's exactly like the Malboro, in that nothing defends against it, except something like HyperNulAll and a metric ton of SPR. Still haven't found a way to safely stabilize the fight while carrying 2 Xons.
Thanks Gumi for advancing the fight over a month in advance, while Global still doesn't have a magic-defending tank unit yet.
Broseybrose
Member
So if I need Support Heavicrysts specifically, am I better off farming a story mission or the Vortex, NRG-wise?
That doesnt sound good.
I havent made it that far yet, nor have I tried to fight Malboro.
Ive neglected farming any spirit TMs. I guess I should be thankful I have Rikku and her pouch, at least!
That doesnt sound good.
I havent made it that far yet, nor have I tried to fight Malboro.
Ive neglected farming any spirit TMs. I guess I should be thankful I have Rikku and her pouch, at least!
Zera_Bloodwinter
Member
So uhhhhhhhh. Game of Thrones though 
You mean advancing it one week, maybe two? JP schedule had this story event coming the week after the FF3 Mog King event, which is all but confirmed to be next week. The first magic-defending tank unit, Mistair, isn't even out until Season 2.
You already ascertained what defends against it: global damage mitigation (Rikku, 9S (who JP didn't have at the time) and gearing for SPR. Damage mitigation LBs would also work, so Wilhelm/EV/Y'shtola.
I don't think the fights are tuned around carrying two or more pieces of deadweight unless you have a stacked team that can one or two-round the boss.
I've been thinking about maxing my other ashe as well, but for trials. I have 2 extra ashe but little equipment to give them, I can still equip 1 more decently. They chain well with Pod 153 too with a little timing. I can run a no healer setup and she can cure status ailments too.
Lyrian
Member
Timeframe, hard to say nowadays as all sorts of events are all out of order. Global is very overdue for the FF11 raid, and outside a collab that won't happen on Global and a custom banner that will sure feature Balthier, the FF3 banner is the only piece of content that hasn't yet been released before the end of the Season 1 story and there is still a full island to go before the island that contains the end of the story.
The boss here is pretty much tuned to punish people who try to one-shot it. Either you succeed, or you die in a burning inferno, as there's no way anyone is surviving 3 or 4 threshold attacks simultaneously, even with global damage buffs and reraise. Otherwise, the fight is a very slow tapdance around each and every threshold. That's fine for trials and one-time bosses. But for something that's supposed to be farmed for two weeks, spending upwards of 10 minutes on a single fight is rather annoying.
The only banners out of order vs. JP's schedule are FF11 (replaced with Nier) and FF3 (next week). None of the units from either banner would help much with Calixte. Maybe Prishe's AOE reraise. Nier units actually help more than FF11 units would have - 9S has damage mitigation and imperils, and A2 and 2B both have native 100% machine killer. There're still plenty of the latter on friend lists.
Not really objecting to any of this, but I'll reiterate that the fights at the end of story events are not tuned for carrying two or more pieces of deadweight. It's a choice you can make, with tradeoffs (speed, ease). A choice that didn't even exist in JP, it bears mentioning, since they didn't have stackable +rare item%. 'GL is its own game', and all that.
I didn't even think that the boss was hard... well compared to the last story event... I was nearly rekt, this one? I 1 rounded... but then forgot I had 4 units with 100% machine killer.
I wouldn't say that it's obvious that this event is meant to be farmed over and over, or even really necessary, although let's see if/when A2 get's enhancements and see what I think then >.>; (or ya know whatever I have that's amazing then)
I wouldn't say that it's obvious that this event is meant to be farmed over and over, or even really necessary, although let's see if/when A2 get's enhancements and see what I think then >.>; (or ya know whatever I have that's amazing then)
So uhhhhhhhh. Game of Thrones though
Fuck Cersei and her sadistic smile.
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
Daily, rainbow, LIGHTNING
lmao
lmao
Currently watching the JP stream, there were talks of a new FF7 event soon so get ready!
https://www.periscope.tv/FFBE_JP/1RDxlmmEDOVKL#label-red
https://www.periscope.tv/FFBE_JP/1RDxlmmEDOVKL#label-red
Took this from Reddit JP Nico thread.
If that ever comes to GL I bet 100k FP gives 0-2 5% Moogles to your favourite Rainbow. Pool of units is so large. Smart way to make people spend Lapis to unit upgrades even after fusing all the % same moogles to one.
Edit: @Kourio There is your Sephiroth
JP BE said:
If that ever comes to GL I bet 100k FP gives 0-2 5% Moogles to your favourite Rainbow. Pool of units is so large. Smart way to make people spend Lapis to unit upgrades even after fusing all the % same moogles to one.
Edit: @Kourio There is your Sephiroth
New Banner: FFBE Original Units + Sephiroth (9/1)
ミィム 3★-5★
Debuffer + Heals.
LB similar to Tim.
シルト 4★-6★
Magic tank.
Will function similar to Mistair but will also have a different kit.
TM will be something that raises SPR by a lot.
リーラ 5★-6★
Monk.
TM: Dark element fist-weapon.
Sephiroth 5★-6★
Chain attacker.
Will have skills that chain with both Orlandu's Holy Explosion and OK's Onion Slice.
LB: AoE Damage that lowers light and dark by a lot.
TM: [Katana] Masamune. Will have a very high attack stat.
Sephiroth should be fine as either a DWer or TDH user.
New EX Unit: メディエナ (8/31)
Black Mage specializing in ice element.
Has some support spells.
Will have Freeze.
Will have a brand new magic spell for the FF series that's a strong ice spell.
TM will be a Dual Wield for magic users; basically the opposite of Lorraine.
Ninja Kn1ght
Member
Damn, Sephiroth looks awesome.
That FP summon sounds really good, I hope they would introduce that in GL ASAP rather than in the normal JP schedule.
6* for Sephiroth is also good news, given the rumors he was going to be 7*s. Looks great as well.
Also, 2nd Terabattle Collaboration ?
Sephiroth being on a double rainbow banner next to a throwaway original character was to be expected but still disappointing. But since they're offering a step-up gacha for this banner let's hope he can be pulled reasonably easily...
haha who am I kidding. Let's not get my hope too high up.
What's worth mentioning is that Hirono said at the end of the livestream that FF8 should be coming "soon enough". October perhaps?
haha who am I kidding. Let's not get my hope too high up.
What's worth mentioning is that Hirono said at the end of the livestream that FF8 should be coming "soon enough". October perhaps?
Hippopuncher12
Member
Planning on throwing everything I have to get a Sephiroth. Also JPN going to start bringing back old events which is great for someone like me who doesn't farm TMs at all there. I may actually play it more if that's the case.