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

Lyrian

Member
It's nice to see exviusGAF finally back in positive spirit. It's been gloomy for a long while lol.

Anyway, those leaks, it feels intentionally leaked by gumi to keep players from quitting. And it's working lol. Without those leaks, GAF and Reddit will still be gloomy for weeks to come.

There's too much sensitive data (like the daily financials) for this to be voluntarily leaked.

I can safely skip this week's trap banner, which is sweet.

Then, my stance is going to be just dailies on Week 1 of the Ayaka banner (just in case a miracle happens) and wait to see the stats on the FF 4 Fiends banner units before I decide if I want to go in harder on either of the banners. Expecting the 4 fiends to be rather potent as global exclusive time-limited units.
 
(3) more tickets spent. WTF?!!

Desch #2 to complete Olive, Gilbert, Prische!!!!


This is insane!!


Edit - Decided to blow final (7) tickets I had left to see if luck continues.

Worthy pulls were Ingus #8 and Weirei #3. :)


That’s it, no more pulling for me. My luck has to be dry now. (2) fucking rainbows tonight!
 

Lyrian

Member
(3) more tickets spent. WTF?!!

Desch #2 to complete Olive, Gilbert, Prische!!!!


This is insane!!


Edit - Decided to blow final (7) tickets I had left to see if luck continues.

Worthy pulls were Ingus #8 and Weirei #3. :)


That’s it, no more pulling for me. My luck has to be dry now. (2) fucking rainbows tonight!

Good gravy, that's some sweet pulls. Grats!
 
2 rainbows in 6 tickets, daaaang!! And both good ones at that!

I know!

(2) Desche to eventually replace 2x Icy Veins on Olive. BIG damage boost for her.

(3) Weirei to help top off my 2x 900+ ATK Orlandeau. GREAT ATK & HP increase.

(1) Rasler to top off my WoL materia.

(1) Knight Delita to top off my WoL equipment. Will bring to 12k+ HP and likely bring him over 500 DEF.

(1) Prische for awesome TM on Orlandeau. Might have use for her in squad too.

(1) Veritas of the Heaven’s for TM which will help Reberta or Fohlen in the future.


Got all that with around (40) tickets. I’m so pumped right now. All are brand new units outside of Rasler, who I’ve completed TM for one of so far.
 

Xevren

Member
(3) more tickets spent. WTF?!!

Desch #2 to complete Olive, Gilbert, Prische!!!!


This is insane!!


Edit - Decided to blow final (7) tickets I had left to see if luck continues.

Worthy pulls were Ingus #8 and Weirei #3. :)


That's it, no more pulling for me. My luck has to be dry now. (2) fucking rainbows tonight!

Made out like a bandit, grats on your new rainbows!
 
What would an additional +45 ATK give to Olive? Is there an easy way to determine?



And thanks everyone.


Edit - Holy hell, Desche earrings is a huge bump for Olive. I will eventually be able to have her hit over 1.2k. Crazy.

She’s at like 970 right now.


New TM possibilities also to allow one of my Orlandeau to hit 1,006 ATK and over 7k HP and the other Orlandeau will hit 914 ATK and over 7k HP.

Wow! If only Landu enhancement happen now, I could be on my way to 3x 1k+ Attackers.
 

bonkeng

Member
There's too much sensitive data (like the daily financials) for this to be voluntarily leaked.

I can safely skip this week's trap banner, which is sweet.

Then, my stance is going to be just dailies on Week 1 of the Ayaka banner (just in case a miracle happens) and wait to see the stats on the FF 4 Fiends banner units before I decide if I want to go in harder on either of the banners. Expecting the 4 fiends to be rather potent as global exclusive time-limited units.

Yeah you have a point.

Nevertheless, the leak came out at a perfect time. Just as we felt the game was about to die, the leak brings back some excitement for all of us. I'm honestly excited for the next few week's schedule.
 

RedZaraki

Banned
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IT'S FUCKING OVER!!!!!!


Edit:

Squad was: Firion x 2, Warrior of Light, Rikku x 2, Ace.
 

Azuran

Banned
Yeah you have a point.

Nevertheless, the leak came out at a perfect time. Just as we felt the game was about to die, the leak brings back some excitement for all of us. I'm honestly excited for the next few week's schedule.

What if this is all a plot and Gumi "hacked" themselves for the sake of this?
 

RedZaraki

Banned
Congrats!

Ty.

Here was strat:

Firon x 2

Dual-wielding Fire weapons and with 9S TMR and status protection. They chained the 9S TMR AOE damage ability all fight long. With the debuffs from the others and Embolden and Tri Laser damage, the team overall COULD 3 round the small Malboros if I needed it. So I had one round of breathing room the first phase of the fight.

One had 740 ATK or so the other like 680 ATK.

Warrior of Light

AOE Defense debuff for the small Malboros. Also could use Embolden for 1 turn of extra Oomph. Could use Raise in a pinch. That's about it.

Ace

Enhanced Tri-Beam for massive Fire resist debuff. Also mana battery with spirit hand.

Rikku x 2

One had Rikku's pouch. First turn Eccentrik but more or less just had them alternate Limit Break usage. Chaos Grenade was also useful for damage.


Used no items, summoned Ifrit with one of my Firions during the first phase when I had a free turn, and used Warrior of Light Limit burst during the final chain that killed all of them.
 

SeanTSC

Member
I should have chosen my words better.

With a tank you need to heal nearly every single turn, if you use Radiant Light your Tilith is essentially pinned down, and she can't do much else, fine for straight forward battles, but harder ones like Marlboro she's near useless.

Essentially you're losing all utility to keep your tank healed.

If one of your units dies, then she has to revive all, great, but then your tank or other units aren't healed, and they probably need healing if your unit actually died with a tank on the team. Without that heal you could be losing other units, and things can easily get out of control. And that is the most basic and crucial role of a healer.

When you want MP charged, deal with status ailments, or any buff applied, you're stuck. As you said, she can't do multiple things at once, she quite simply isn't a consistent healer if you want any utility out of her. Given that we are now experiencing trails that can last dozens of turns, and sometimes nearly a hundred turns, you can't have a slot filled by a unit that can get pinned down doing one thing.

The reality of Tilith is that you need to supplement her with yet another unit that can help her. For instance a Rikku to support, or a singer, or have Tillith on Prism Heal to keep MP charged, and do actual useful things in between, and have a second healer or support to help her out. Using her for Radiant Light duty is a complete waste of a slot.

Ayaka, by comparison, can not only revive but heal, or deal with status ailments, or dispel, or even re-raise all in the same turn.

Uh, I did Marlboro with a group consisting of Tilith, WoL, Rikku, 2B, A2, and friend A2.

I would hardly call her useless on it.
 

Dandte

Member
I just failed 3 Gianchryst 80% Expeditions -.- dailys pull was garland...damn you monday mornings ;____;

I started my CG Fina TMR preparations.

Main Hand: Sheragans Staff
Body: sarah's robe
Hat: CG Fina TMR
Accessories: 2x Magical Crest
Abilities: 1x staff mastery from blood moon | 2x ilias tmr | 1x Mentality from Refia.

With CG Finas inbuild staff mastery i should hit the 300% spr passive and due to Mentality i have a few more mp. Not sure about the body though.
 
Okay, so I'm fully caught up now on the leaks and whatnot. (I know... seriously LTTP.) Can someone explain to me what the excitement is about? 'Cause I'll be honest, I'm not seeing it.

Outside of T. Terra's enhancements and Sylvia, I'm having a tough time getting excited for any of the banners. I'm just not seeing any specific units that are better than what I already have. Or, at least, not better enough to warrant me getting jazzed about. I guess some of the events sound nifty, so there is that.

Otherwise, I'm honestly asking... why have the leaks turned around all the grumpy frown faces around here? I'm pretty sure it's done the opposite for me, as I'm pretty sure I'm looking at a good 4 months of banners that are pretty "meh" for me, personally.
 

Rixa

Member
Okay, so I'm fully caught up now on the leaks and whatnot. (I know... seriously LTTP.) Can someone explain to me what the excitement is about? 'Cause I'll be honest, I'm not seeing it.

Outside of T. Terra's enhancements and Sylvia, I'm having a tough time getting excited for any of the banners. I'm just not seeing any specific units that are better than what I already have. Or, at least, not better enough to warrant me getting jazzed about. I guess some of the events sound nifty, so there is that.

Otherwise, I'm honestly asking... why have the leaks turned around all the grumpy frown faces around here? I'm pretty sure it's done the opposite for me, as I'm pretty sure I'm looking at a good 4 months of banners that are pretty "meh" for me, personally.

Yeah, these things won't change anything for me. Most of the stuff we "knew" months before these leaks (tho discussion was in Discord). Personally I don't have excitement here and these won't change my plans around pulling at all.
 

Kouriozan

Member
Found something interesting on Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBraveExv..._is_planned_to_take_noctiss_place_on/dnfxrfl/

The hacker's 5k Lapis "bonus" is only granted to people who has a positive value in their free Lapis balance.

Gumi is actively tracking KPI (Key Performance Index) for each event / banner. FF11 event is performing pretty poor (only brought in about 3k profit). So they decided to bring back Orlandeau banner to recoup.

Upcoming Orlandeau banner is "pls give money"
 

Vashetti

Banned
^ I'm not surprised about FFXI performing badly. I'm sure people enjoy(ed) that game, but in terms of userbase it's pretty much dead.

The raid boss ELT mechanics are trash, the raid pulls are trash, the banner units are middling. Why is Shantotto only awakened to 5* and not 6*? I don't understand how they are still releasing units that top out at 5*.
 

Celegus

Member
Trance Terra and Emperor enhancements and Noctis buff are awesome news for me, and I'm personally pumped to just see the sprites of the four fiends and the new Halloween units. And the old ones getting enhancements is awesome too! Really curious how the Noctis / Lorraine / Balthier banners will play out. Even if I don't end up spending much of my own hoard on these, it's still fun to watch from the sidelines and I can still mess with the new units from friends. And getting right into S2 is pretty cool!
 

jnWake

Member
Okay, so I'm fully caught up now on the leaks and whatnot. (I know... seriously LTTP.) Can someone explain to me what the excitement is about? 'Cause I'll be honest, I'm not seeing it.

Outside of T. Terra's enhancements and Sylvia, I'm having a tough time getting excited for any of the banners. I'm just not seeing any specific units that are better than what I already have. Or, at least, not better enough to warrant me getting jazzed about. I guess some of the events sound nifty, so there is that.

Otherwise, I'm honestly asking... why have the leaks turned around all the grumpy frown faces around here? I'm pretty sure it's done the opposite for me, as I'm pretty sure I'm looking at a good 4 months of banners that are pretty "meh" for me, personally.
Personally, the Four Fiends banner from FFIV is really interesting. First, I love FFIV and was really bummed by the helmetless Kain thing from JP. Second, it shows that GL can actually get interesting exclusives that come from FF games. This makes the game more interesting for me because what we know of JP doesn't excite me so the potential to get unexpected FF stuff is great.
 
May be able to push my Trance Terra's mag to 1200, need to research a bit more.

I'd like to take a second to talk about a hidden Gem that I've found....Marie. It went from "wtf did I get you instead of another A2/2B" to "I don't think you're leaving my squad for a very long time lol. Hear me out for a second. I've been running the elite raid with no tank.

I run the following:
Standard Orlandu,
A2 with Diablos and Excal/Aigion for 1070+ atk, normally 1150+ using Odin.
2B with Virtuous Contract/Brotherhood (dark knight soul) and Titan for 1055 atk
Tilith 6.5k hp, 421 mp 395 spr, and enough mp regen to spam the mp restore and not take a dent in her mana at all. I can lower her hp and get more mana. I switch depending on the fight. (May give her Pod 153 for the damage mitigation)
Finally, the Hidden Gem Marie, 5.7k hp, 411 mp, Rikku's pouch for breaks, eccentrick. Marie's kit is simply amazing. Her abilities last long enough that I can have her fulfill multiple roles at once.

I start the elite raid fight off by having her buffing elemental resist, Tilith with Celestial light a def/spr coverage. Orlandu atk breaks, boss hits me for measly damage. Wait to see whether boss is spr/def broken, if def broke dps proceeds to destroy due to break from rikku pouch and the elemental debuff from Marie, putting out a 55-60 attack chain from Divine Ruination, Dash attack, and speed (this is counting friend unit Landu or A2.)If I have to wait it out I can either have Tilith heal or have Love you all heal me for 2.5k+. Now I'm going to take it a step further and see if I can give Tilith Pod 153 for the damage mitigation and see how this fairs. I am hoping to have positive results. This will not be able to work in all circumstances but it's a nice change of pace from the standard tank, heal, support, dps builds.
 

PantherLotus

Professional Schmuck
Cleaned out a few inactives, have 5 open slots. I've been playing over a year now and usually share whatever non-P2P thing I can muster for the current event or banner.

Put GAF in your message so I don't remove you.

120 759 149
 

Celegus

Member
Haha Zera, Marie has been the MVP for dang near everything since I got her on banner. Even moreso now with enhancements and Rikku's Pouch. She's incredible, and really always has been.
 

RedZaraki

Banned
What kind of TMs did you have on your team?

I don't think any TMRs were really necessary for my team except for the two 9S TMRs I used on my Firions. Without those, I would have used a different unit to AOE chain instead. Possibly Chizuru or Amelia or Setzer could have worked. I just wanted as much damage as possible and I didn't have 2B or A2.

You don't need Ribbons, but they're nice. Just need petrify and paralyze resist on everyone mainly. So use Jeweled rings. So when you see status resist stuff just focus on those two statuses.

My TMRs of note were:

Firion x 2: These were my most stacked units. Both had 9S TMR, Discernment on one, Goddess's Protection on the other for status resist. Both had Blade Mastery, both had Bracers and Black Cowls. They both had around 5k Health and one had 740 ATK the other 680 ATK. Both dual wielding with one Fire weapon (one had Aigaion's Arm + Chirijiraden, other had Genji Blade + Crimson Saber). One had Martial Arts Mastery the other had Great Sword mastery. Both had Dual-wield Materia. One was on Ifrit the other on Diabolos.

Warrior of Light: I purposefully left him weak so he could die. Had like 7k HP. I'd rather him die than become Berserk and lose his actions. He had a Ribbon and average gear. I had Bushido-Freedom and Odin equipped for dispel, but it was only used like twice. Main use of him was Armor Eraser and Embolden. In a pinch he could AOE dispel, Raise, and do 1-turn Taunt. If you kill the adds on the right turns this won't be needed. Had a ribbon on. He was on Golem.

Ace: His equipment wasn't that important really. Just HP some Dark Resist and some amount of MAG. I had him with Genji Glove but it's not that important. What IS Important is that you have enhanced his Tri-Laser and Spirit Hand. Had like 5k HP and I used Black Mask and Cupid's Robe on him for some Dark resist. Had a ribbon on. He was on Tetra Sylpheed.

Rikku: I had her with Override and Mog's Wisdom for LB increase, and I gave her Rikku's Pouch for Eccentrik on turn one and for Chaos Grenade occassionally to blind the Malboro adds. Though that wasn't terribly needed. Otherwise just HP stuff. She had like 6k HP. Had a ribbon on. Was on Lakshmi.

Friend Rikku: Similar to mine actually. Had a ribbon on, and similar gear.

Always use a Rikku LB at the START of the turn so that that gauge can possibly be refilled somewhat by the AOE damage later in the turn. It's nice to have two Rikku LB filled at the start of every turn, just in case bad stuff happens.
 

Pejo

Member
Cool news. Nyx gets some good buffs, cool GE collab
Valkyrie Profile?
Wow!
, FF4 fiends, early Lorraine, and goddamn those Halloween unit buffs, if true.

Still staying kinda flat about all of this though, because I'm at around 10k Lapis and not spending any money on this game for quite some time. Hope to get lucky on a few of these upcoming banners though.
 

tuffymon

Member
^ I'm not surprised about FFXI performing badly. I'm sure people enjoy(ed) that game, but in terms of userbase it's pretty much dead.

The raid boss ELT mechanics are trash, the raid pulls are trash, the banner units are middling. Why is Shantotto only awakened to 5* and not 6*? I don't understand how they are still releasing units that top out at 5*.

Loved xi during its run, but really you have Shantotto who seems underwhelming in this game (even with that new 5* awakening), Prishe who's well known and has a great Tm... and 2 nobodies (one with a nice Tm)... really out of the hundreds of npcs in that game. Maat, Lion, or hell any of the hundreds of waifus in that game... How about a crystal warriors banner or something sheeeeeesh >.>;
 

Kouriozan

Member
Emperor is getting Enhancements? When was this leaked?

Any word what those enhancements are?

Same time as other leaks yesterday, Fire From Below also get an upgraded 50% imperil vs. 25% in Japan.
Otherwise the same as Japan :

I'll never die +2 : Recover 10% MP per Turn & +30% HP & Cast "リジェネ(オート用)" (ST ~60 HP Heal w/ 1.2x Mod per Turn) & 50% Chance Ignore up to 3 Fatal Attacks when HP above 40%
Control +2 : Self 11 Turn +200% MAG & Allies (Except Self) 11 Turn -50% SPR Debuff & AoE 11 Turn -50% SPR Debuff
Fire From Below +2 : 250% ST 1 Hit Fire Magic Attack + 250% Each Use (Max: 10) & ST 2 Turn -50% Fire Resist
 

commish

Jason Kidd murdered my dog in cold blood!
Newbie whine #2323: It takes too long to level up TMRs. It's brutal. I don't know how the developers expect players to level them up without macros, which sucks given how important and powerful they are.
 
Newbie whine #2323: It takes too long to level up TMRs. It's brutal. I don't know how the developers expect players to level them up without macros, which sucks given how important and powerful they are.

When all TMRs except blade mastery, Excalibur and dual wield sucked it was not that big a deal, just whatever.

But the reality is “to induce pulling for that 5%”
 
Newbie whine #2323: It takes too long to level up TMRs. It's brutal. I don't know how the developers expect players to level them up without macros, which sucks given how important and powerful they are.

You are intended to use moogles

They were never meant to be farmed and I think the .1% drops are just meant to reward players for using their favorite units for everything

Still the .1% drops should be tied to NRG used and not per encounter

its bullshit
 

commish

Jason Kidd murdered my dog in cold blood!
I understand that I should use the moogles, and I do, but there's no where near enough. Every raid should have moogles in the draw, at the very least. I would probably pay for moogles if I could. I guess it's easier to macro on Android, but too bad I'm on IOS.
 

robotuw

Member
Free pull was Weirei today. I am definitely fine with that. Dunno when I'll have time to farm him though. I just finished Wisdom #2 a few days ago so I'm not exactly in a rush for atk+hp materia.

If Gumi want money Orlandu is a stupid idea. All of the whales are already going to have him and Ling (if she really comes back). I say release a "Pervert's Banner" with Seabreeze Fina, 2B, Shine, Victoria, Sara, and Kuja. If you're going to waste a week at least make me laugh Gumi.
 

Pejo

Member
That would be pretty short sighted of them, I'm 100% sure every single person willing to put money on the game already have him. This will be another awful week for them if true.

I don't like the fact they're looking at the poor performance of the 11 banner as "people must not like that game" instead of "people are pissed about Nier shenanigans" or "why did we pick virtual no-namers from FFXI"
 

Lyrian

Member
I say release a "Pervert's Banner" with Seabreeze Fina, 2B, Shine, Victoria, Sara, and Kuja. If you're going to waste a week at least make me laugh Gumi.

I know no one here plays summoners, but to this day, I don't know how anyone hasn't "discussed" Garnet's HP Critical pose. That's an order of magnitude above and beyond the infamous Seven, whose pose implies trying to induce a sex act. Garnet is outright performing a sex act, which is only going to become more obvious to the global audience once her 6* shows up next month. She's the most "perverted" of them all.
 

NomarTyme

Member
I agree with you guys that Orlandu isn't gonna do so well. It's shows how out of touch Gumi is with re banner of Orlandu. We just got Agrias enhancements too, so I can see some not wanting to pull at all.
 

robotuw

Member
I know no one here plays summoners, but to this day, I don't know how anyone hasn't "discussed" Garnet's HP Critical pose. That's an order of magnitude above and beyond the infamous Seven, whose pose implies trying to induce a sex act. Garnet is outright performing a sex act, which is only going to become more obvious to the global audience once her 6* shows up next month. She's the most "perverted" of them all.

Meh, the staff is too tall and thin to be convincingly phallic and she's making a strange pose for it to evoke pole dancing. The most it does is emphasize her crotch. Seven's is still the most eyebrow-raising pose for me. Nobody gets hurt and falls into that position accidentally but Garnet's is at least plausible.

Edit: Although, I did take Garnet to the earth shrine and beat her up with her allies just to see the pose and comment so who's the real pervert here?
 
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