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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius |OT5| Our Golden Anniversary Brings Us Hope

vato_loco

Member
So is Shantotto a valid character? I have a 3* or 4* I think, I could try to level her to 5* if she's worth it. I already got the recipes from the Shadow Lord raid so she'd have a nice set of items.
 

Syntsui

Member
Do you have to use 10 characters for the 10-man thing, or can you just use 5 if they're strong enough?
Can only have 5 on the field and generally they'll have different stages which somewhat force and encourage you to use different units. Some stages being phys immune, some stages being mag immune. Provoke tanks maybe being favored for specific stages and cover tanks for others and such. Could also just use a dedicated breaker and switch him out for turns where you don't need to use him or prepare a unit with infused element/stacked mag attack, switch em out and switch him back in later when you need them to deal dmg. I suppose sommoners could be used like that too -- switch em in when you need to do big dmg with espers.

These are just some examples.

Or if your original 5 get wiped you could just switch in the next 5...
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robotuw

Member
So is Shantotto a valid character? I have a 3* or 4* I think, I could try to level her to 5* if she's worth it. I already got the recipes from the Shadow Lord raid so she'd have a nice set of items.

She's probably too squishy for any PvE stuff but she's a fantastic, cheap option for Arena. Build up 2-3 of her, equip all of them with her event gear, then dual-cast tornado and laugh as everyone all falls down. Just one of her probably won't do much since she needs to chain with another.
 

Shouta

Member
So is Shantotto a valid character? I have a 3* or 4* I think, I could try to level her to 5* if she's worth it. I already got the recipes from the Shadow Lord raid so she'd have a nice set of items.

Her overall stats are lower than a base 5-star but she can serve well enough. She's better for arena and missions while having a potential role in harder fights depending on circumstance.
 

vato_loco

Member
So I'd be better off chasing other characters before her, since I'm only just getting started.

I actually managed to awaken my first 6* using all the rare crap that I can get from the Shadow Lord, so now I'm the proud owner of a 6* Ace... and a team of still 4*'s. Hey, I'm only 14 days old in this, I'd say I'm doing OK.
 

robotuw

Member
So I'd be better off chasing other characters before her, since I'm only just getting started.

I actually managed to awaken my first 6* using all the rare crap that I can get from the Shadow Lord, so now I'm the proud owner of a 6* Ace... and a team of still 4*'s. Hey, I'm only 14 days old in this, I'd say I'm doing OK.

You're doing just fine. It took me months to get a solid team together at first. Once you get one character maxed it becomes much easier to work on the others.
 

Muku

Member
Mark today as the day of Rainbows. Holy shit.

JP - Posted about earlier but got a CG Nichol.

On main in GL decided to start off with half daily since it has been a while... Straight Rainbow. Orlandu. I can now be THAT person. LOL.

Decide right after to use a ticket. Hoping for banner units. Ticket used... Straight Rainbow. Prishe. WHELP! Guess I am done with banner ahaha. Did one more ticket pull as I planned to use two. Shadow. Haha. What an amazing day. Rare and I will never see it again.
 
Mark today as the day of Rainbows. Holy shit.

JP - Posted about earlier but got a CG Nichol.

On main in GL decided to start off with half daily since it has been a while... Straight Rainbow. Orlandu. I can now be THAT person. LOL.

Decide right after to use a ticket. Hoping for banner units. Ticket used... Straight Rainbow. Prishe. WHELP! Guess I am done with banner ahaha. Did one more ticket pull as I planned to use two. Shadow. Haha. What an amazing day. Rare and I will never see it again.

WTF!!!!! Muku is winning!!!! Congrats!
 

Syntsui

Member
Thank you! :D

Shocked everyt time one came down Rainbow. Showed it to my husband every time and left him shocked as well.

Is Prishe good? If so may work on her today. If not may work on second 'Landu.
She is a beautiful TM fodder :D

Might consider her a good aditional to your future 10 man team if you lack good dps options.
 
Thank you! :D

Shocked everyt time one came down Rainbow. Showed it to my husband every time and left him shocked as well.

Is Prishe good? If so may work on her today. If not may work on second 'Landu.

Lvl them both up IMO (if you have materials to spare) but first lvl Orlandu as Orlandu would be a more direct damage increase since you have one of him already. Hope you have 2 Excals. Prishe is a combo setup character. Check the wiki for her abilities to familiarize yourself with her.
 
Mark today as the day of Rainbows. Holy shit.

JP - Posted about earlier but got a CG Nichol.

On main in GL decided to start off with half daily since it has been a while... Straight Rainbow. Orlandu. I can now be THAT person. LOL.

Decide right after to use a ticket. Hoping for banner units. Ticket used... Straight Rainbow. Prishe. WHELP! Guess I am done with banner ahaha. Did one more ticket pull as I planned to use two. Shadow. Haha. What an amazing day. Rare and I will never see it again.

Daaammn fantastic luck! Grats
 
Congrats, Muku! That is some seriously awesome luck right there.


I got Veritas of the Heavens over the weekend using the 4* guarantee ticket and completely forgot about him until I was looking around at units to level up with all these cactuars raining down. I'm assuming that he's pretty much TM fodder, right?
 

Muku

Member
Thank you everyone! Not sure what to make of today. This must be how Hippo always felt? LOL.

Lvl them both up IMO (if you have materials to spare) but first lvl Orlandu as Orlandu would be a more direct damage increase since you have one of him already. Hope you have 2 Excals. Prishe is a combo setup character. Check the wiki for her abilities to familiarize yourself with her.

Oh, Orlandu and Prishe are my top two on level list right now. I actually have a store of Cactaur as well, just was wanting to know status of them to figure out which to go with.

I sadly don't have two Excals right now. Haven't had the need for a second yet. And have been working on Maxwell's TM for a boost. To be honest, not sure I really have much in way of gear to boost a second Orlandu much yet. I wasn't also planning on putting the second Orlandu in my group unless I need to chain. I like to try to keep a varied group. But I may consider taking out Gilgamesh and doing some testing with the second Orlandu. Gilgamesh has been fun, but I can't recall being too impressed with his enhancement list.

I will definitely be leveling Prishe, even if not first. I always like to keep a varied backup set of characters for abilities and all.

Congrats, Muku! That is some seriously awesome luck right there.

I know. I feel so weird. Yet kind of empowered. Haha.

She is a beautiful TM fodder :D

Might consider her a good aditional to your future 10 man team if you lack good dps options.

She will definitely be in the reserves if nothing else. Not sure how the 10 man team stuff will work, but hope to have a nice and varied set of characters to tackle it all.
 
Wilhelm's sprite freaking annoys me but good god man is the most broken tank in the game. Can we please get WOL enhancements so I don't have to look at Wilhelms ugly mug again plz Scumi???? I prefer the awesome sauce that is Veritas of The Earth but he does not really compare to Wilhelm.
 

Syntsui

Member
Wilhelm's sprite freaking annoys me but good god man is the most broken tank in the game. Can we please get WOL enhancements so I don't have to look at Wilhelms ugly mug again plz Scumi???? I prefer the awesome sauce that is Veritas of The Earth but he does not really compare to Wilhelm.

I prefer EV for the sole fact that he does exactly the same job but has the stats reduction propection on top of that.
 
Mark today as the day of Rainbows. Holy shit.

JP - Posted about earlier but got a CG Nichol.

On main in GL decided to start off with half daily since it has been a while... Straight Rainbow. Orlandu. I can now be THAT person. LOL.

Decide right after to use a ticket. Hoping for banner units. Ticket used... Straight Rainbow. Prishe. WHELP! Guess I am done with banner ahaha. Did one more ticket pull as I planned to use two. Shadow. Haha. What an amazing day. Rare and I will never see it again.

This brings back memories to when I pulled both my Orlandeau within 9 tickets in one day during his banner.

Haven't had that level of luck since.


By the way, CONGRATS!
 
Oh hey, we should be getting a new slate of awakenings this week! The next 5*'s based on release order (ignoring Ramza of course *sob*) are Noctis, Emperor and Olive. Orlandu, Freyevia, and TT are after that so maybe some of them also/instead. We might see our first global exclusive 5* enhancements! I'd also be stoked for Emperor enhancements. I want that fire from below buff and +200% mag for 11 turns.

Oh gee, thanks...

Been waiting ages for Ramza and now you have to name drop Olive, Emperor and Orlandeau, which are all units I have.

Now they definitely aren't getting Enhancements. :(
 

robotuw

Member
Oh gee, thanks...

Been waiting ages for Ramza and now you have to name drop Olive, Emperor and Orlandeau, which are all units I have.

Now they definitely aren't getting Enhancements. :(

They gotta release something. The ones after that are Aileen, Reberta and Rem. They can't really justify skipping Olive and Fry to enhance Reberta, and I doubt they want to unleash Aileen just yet. They could tread water with Rem I suppose but they already partially enhanced her so that would take more effort on their part and we know how Gumi feels about doing any work.

Edit: Oh snap I forgot all about Noel. Maybe we'll get a global-exclusive set with Noel, Olive, and Ling. If they ever enhance the Halloween units it'll be next month rather than this one.
 

Nikokuno

Member
Oh hey, we should be getting a new slate of awakenings this week! The next 5*'s based on release order (ignoring Ramza of course *sob*) are Noctis, Emperor and Olive. Orlandu, Freyevia, and TT are after that so maybe some of them also/instead. We might see our first global exclusive 5* enhancements! I'd also be stoked for Emperor enhancements. I want that fire from below buff and +200% mag for 11 turns.

You forget Yun..
 

Muku

Member
This brings back memories to when I pulled both my Orlandeau within 9 tickets in one day during his banner.

Haven't had that level of luck since.


By the way, CONGRATS!

Thank you!

Wow, two Orlandu in one day?! I used almost EVERYTHING I had to get the one I had originally. I used 80+ tickets and all. I had like maybe 10k in lapis at time, but I felt like I wasn't going to get him. Saw the happy folks on GAF saying they got theirs in lapis pulls so did one hail mary pull and got him there. Was shaping to be a rough day until then.


Strangely enough, I didn't get my first ever 5* dupe until recently with Gilgamesh. I mean, don't get me wrong, that's a great way to start it off. Second Genji Glove? Yes, please! Now today with a dupe Orlandu. But you know what? That's a good dupe to have since he can chain with himself and Yun. Yes, please!

Edit: Oh snap, I'd love Yun enhancements. Assuming they don't suck.
 

Pejo

Member
Super bummed about Rem's enhancements, since you guys got to talking about upcoming enhancement characters.

The 5 turn 100% Reraise is nice, but those -Ga spell enhancements are meh, and we already got part of her passive enhancement.

Hope they give us some GL exclusive stuff for her, I want to keep on using her for months to come.
 
Super bummed about Rem's enhancements, since you guys got to talking about upcoming enhancement characters.

The 5 turn 100% Reraise is nice, but those -Ga spell enhancements are meh, and we already got part of her passive enhancement.

Hope they give us some GL exclusive stuff for her, I want to keep on using her for months to come.

This right here.

I hope they do more great things with her. Maybe enhanced Dagger Boomerang!!
 

robotuw

Member
Ugh, see what you did?!

You brought the mood all the way up just to watch us all come crashing back down. :(

Bah, that's what they *should* do but they've already skipped over them. Sorry Yun and Noel owners but I don't think Gumi cares about you. Olive is exciting because she feels like the first exclusive 5* that might actually get enhancements. If I'm really going to be pessimistic I'll predict they choose the least exciting units possible and go with Seabreeze Fina and Merc Ramza.
 

Takuan

Member
I need a little help beating this elt boss. What are people doing to actually down him

Turn 1: Buff / debuff
Turn 2: Verify weakness (either magic or physical), attack accordingly or prepare for the switch in Turn 4. Each phase lasts 3 turns.

Repeat. I only have strong physical guys so if he's resistant in turn 2 I basically wait it out. I need 2 turns to kill him with my 'landu and a helper 'landu / Darklandu.
 

AkumaNiko

Member
Turn 1: Buff / debuff
Turn 2: Verify weakness (either magic or physical), attack accordingly or prepare for the switch in Turn 4. Each phase lasts 3 turns.

Repeat. I only have strong physical guys so if he's resistant in turn 2 I basically wait it out. I need 2 turns to kill him with my 'landu and a helper 'landu / Darklandu.

I have a 1100 attack 2b, WOL with down atk/mag and def/spr, Yshtola, Tidus and an 900+ magic emp. Should i just focus on going in physical instead of carrying the one high end magic user?
 
I have a 1100 attack 2b, WOL with down atk/mag and def/spr, Yshtola, Tidus and an 900+ magic emp. Should i just focus on going in physical instead of carrying the one high end magic user?

Use Arms Eraser with WoL on first turn, guard with everyone else.

If he debuffs his DEF then go all out with physical attack.

Leave Magic attackers home, but Y'shtola will come in handy to keep party healed up.


If boss doesn't debuff DEF then keep guarding, casting Arms Eraser and keeping party healed until he does.

With 2B friend you should be golden.
 

Takuan

Member
I have a 1100 attack 2b, WOL with down atk/mag and def/spr, Yshtola, Tidus and an 900+ magic emp. Should i just focus on going in physical instead of carrying the one high end magic user?

If you have Rikku I'd replace Emperor with her. That Al'Bhed potion comes in handy for when Ysh'tola gets silenced.

Otherwise, the only input I have is to use the Light with Us or whatever skill WoL has, and let him eat.
 

robotuw

Member
I have a 1100 attack 2b, WOL with down atk/mag and def/spr, Yshtola, Tidus and an 900+ magic emp. Should i just focus on going in physical instead of carrying the one high end magic user?

You're set already. I have a similar setup with just physical units.

On the first turn break his atk/mag with WoL and buff with Ysh. The rest defend.
On turn two, if he made himself weak to physical then unleash hell and he should die in 1-2 turns with that team.
If he made himself weak to magic then Light is With us with WoL, heal with Ysh and keep defending.
On turn three have WoL embolden, Ysh keep healing/buffing, rest defend.
Turn four he's back to physical weakness so go nuts.

WoL and a decent healer is all you need to stay alive until he's vulnerable to phys.
 

Kouriozan

Member
Personally my rotation is

Turn 1
Soleil - SPR dance +2
WoL - Arms Eraser
Rest - whatever (usually just attack it's faster to click)

Turn 2
Soleil - ATK dance +2
WoL - Light is with us
Agrias (unenhanced) + friend (A2/2B/Orlandeau) : chaining
Noctis - Warp Break
Tilith - Goddess Miracle to heal paralyze

Repeat the attacks turns 3 and he is defeated, with 2B I can use Avoid turn 1 and finish turn 2 with Avoid Attack.
Naturally I'm looking for friends with Excalibur.
If he didn't debuff his DEF turn 2 I refresh buff/debuff and wait.
 

evangd007

Member
ELT Shadow Lord: I use enhanced Soleil for buffs, Luka for heals since silence doesn't matter for her, WoL for first turn ATK/MAG break then cover, and fill with dps. Once Soleil has the 120% buffs set up he hits like a wet noodle.
 

robotuw

Member
Yup, none of my guys have a SPR debuff except WoL, but I definitely used Arms Eraser with him. Both Luneth and Ace hit for full damage on the second turn.

The guy is pretty buggy in general. A reddit thread talked about how charming him will mess with his cycles, and I think a different one talked about how hiding your units does something similar.
 

Xion86

Member
I need a little help beating this elt boss. What are people doing to actually down him

My team is Noctis, Orlandeau, Rikku, Warrior of Light, Tilith, friend Orlandeau.

First round:
Noctis: Warp Break or Link
Warrior of Light: Full Break, Provoke or Arms Eraser, to switch things up so I don’t get too bored.
Rikku: Attack or use LB if it’s up first round
Tilith: Celestial Light
Orlandeaus: Normal Attack (to build up Rikku’s LB quickly)

Round two onwards I chain Divine Ruination, when it hits he dies in two turns. For the other units I repeat the same moves or whatever else I feel like. I could probably improve on it, but hey, it works and goes down in two turns when I get lucky. I’ve never bothered to verify it’s weakness, the boss is annoying enough, so I just keep spamming Divine Ruination until it hits, which happens before MP runs out. I don’t even think I need Noctis for this, but I use him in the Arena and decided to use him here. Couldn’t be bothered to unequip what he has to place on someone else too :p.

But...don’t you just hate it when you're using up NRG on Vortex or Exploration with Auto enabled, then go back to the Raid....end up Autoing the first round without being able to stop it in time, then getting wiped two rounds later because of it...sigh. Happened around 3-4 times.

Oh sh*t, iOS 11 has native screen recording, game changer!

Just updated! I’ll have to check this out.
 

wilstreak

Member
slightly OOT, but sometimes i wonder whether the current SE CEO really hate FF VIII it or what.

They straight jump from FF VII ps4 port to FF IX, the same that happen with smartphone version.

and of course no FF VIII until now in FFBE. This can't just be a coincidence.
 

Broseybrose

Member
I like this raid because its finally conditioned me to use the chain/finish mechanic.

This is the first time Ive really had to chain Divine Ruination with Agrias and Friendlandu (or Dark Veritas), while finishing with Firion.

I mean, with Soleil's buffs and WoL's breaks/cover I could take as many turns as I want. But since this is a raid I want to OTKO... and chain/finish is the way to go for that.

Just takes some patience to wait til turn 2 or 4 to unleash the fury!
 
Anyone who has me on their friends list willing to setup an Amelia prepped for Malboro trial? Need her to chain with mine so I can generate non stop double Rikku LB spam.

Giving it a shot with 2x Setzer, 2x Rikku and 2x Amelia.
 
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