Congrats! I haven't had much luck since the rate change, but it's good to see others doing well. Gonna take a break from pulling and start saving up for more interesting things.
Oh, and this raid is easy as hell.
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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius |OT5| Our Golden Anniversary Brings Us Hope
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Congrats! I haven't had much luck since the rate change, but it's good to see others doing well. Gonna take a break from pulling and start saving up for more interesting things.
Oh, and this raid is easy as hell.
Hmmm, I didn't really look at that. I might go ahead and pick that up.
Shouta
Member
Isn't that the thing they were pushing with FF15?
Muku
Member
Used all 12 EX tickets they gave us this evening on both accounts. Main one ended up the winner.
Ticket #1: Dark Fina (dupe)
Ticket #3: Ayaka
Ticket #6: Gold -> Rainbow -> Ramza (dupe)
Stoked about getting Ayaka on my main. Have her on all three accounts now!
Edit: Just realized that one of my golds during the pulls was my first Werei on main. Yay!
Ticket #1: Dark Fina (dupe)
Ticket #3: Ayaka
Ticket #6: Gold -> Rainbow -> Ramza (dupe)
Stoked about getting Ayaka on my main. Have her on all three accounts now!
Edit: Just realized that one of my golds during the pulls was my first Werei on main. Yay!
Pejo
Member
Wait, on the 12 free 3* EX tickets, you got 3 Rainbows?? That's insane! I only got one gold and it was Nine. The rest were some of the worst 3* in the game including Shadow, Clyne, and 3 Frans.
Muku
Member
Indeed.
Sadly alt didn't get shit. But the RNG was nice to me on main. When first one came down Rainbow I was like damn. Then third ticket I was like holy hell. Then by Ticket 6 when it went gold to rainbow, I figured that was it for my luck. But out of all that it was pretty amazing.Best my alt got was three golds: Ashe, Rasler, and King.
Pejo
Member
Indeed.
Best my alt got was three golds: Ashe, Rasler, and King.
Congrats, you haven't always had good luck in the thread, but damn, that's a nice haul for free.
Muku
Member
Thank you.
Lately it's been pretty awful. Ayaka is my one bright spot in pulling lately, to be honest. All I'm getting are dupes these days for most part. It's a little disheartening and not really fun. Especially with all of the 5*'s I don't have... and I end up with dupes. I figured it wasn't worth waiting with EX tickets, so I'd burn them last night to get the bad luck outta the way. XD
Shouta
Member
Just taking a quick gander at Hyou since he just got released in JP, he seems pretty strong.
He has Double and Triple attack skills letting him use his various attack as he wishes. That makes him compatible with Doublehand or dual-wield. He has a lot of skills as well including 2 60% Imperil and a 100% Imperil for Fire/Thunder on CD. He's got the Dual-Wield and TDH stuff as well. He can also clear his own debuffs and has a dispel attack.
The issue is how his damage pans out and it's kinda hard for me to gauge it since they're combination attacks.
Ruthless Blade - 200% ST 6 Hit Physical Attack & 150% AoE 6 Hit Physical Attack (250% and 200% after Lv 110)
Blade Slave - 50% ST 6 Hit Physical Attack & 180% AoE 1 Hit Physical Attack + Ignore 50% DEF (100% and 230% after Lv 120))
Are his primary attack ones. Not sure how these chain with each other and that's kind of the thing that makes or breaks him. His CD skill, Phantom Blade, is really strong though. It's basically 2 different 560% attacks with a -100% Fire/Thunder imperil as well.
I only got 1 of them from my Lapis lap and 33 tickets. =( So no 7-star for me.
He has Double and Triple attack skills letting him use his various attack as he wishes. That makes him compatible with Doublehand or dual-wield. He has a lot of skills as well including 2 60% Imperil and a 100% Imperil for Fire/Thunder on CD. He's got the Dual-Wield and TDH stuff as well. He can also clear his own debuffs and has a dispel attack.
The issue is how his damage pans out and it's kinda hard for me to gauge it since they're combination attacks.
Ruthless Blade - 200% ST 6 Hit Physical Attack & 150% AoE 6 Hit Physical Attack (250% and 200% after Lv 110)
Blade Slave - 50% ST 6 Hit Physical Attack & 180% AoE 1 Hit Physical Attack + Ignore 50% DEF (100% and 230% after Lv 120))
Are his primary attack ones. Not sure how these chain with each other and that's kind of the thing that makes or breaks him. His CD skill, Phantom Blade, is really strong though. It's basically 2 different 560% attacks with a -100% Fire/Thunder imperil as well.
I only got 1 of them from my Lapis lap and 33 tickets. =( So no 7-star for me.
Pejo
Member
Man, even though the rainbow rates are "better" now, I still can't imagine having to pull 2 of a single 5* unit now to get the "best" version. I'd almost prefer them make 6* bases 1% again and keep 5* at 3%. 7* limited time units are going to be the real shitter. I can't imagine trying to do that on say, the Nier banner.
Pejo
Member
Good luck! Are you going for 2 of him so you can 7* him eventually, or stopping at one?
Thanks
I don't know, 2 might be really cocky, there is still time before 7* lands on GL so... I'm tempted, let's have one first 😂
Shouta
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JP fuck up last night was pretty hilarious. They sent out a ton of TMR and STMRs to all accounts when it was meant for specific accounts to be used in the making of a commercial. So they had to spend a ton of time fixing it.
Thankfully, that meant we got 1000 Lapis and a 100% Moogle for the trouble, lol.
Thankfully, that meant we got 1000 Lapis and a 100% Moogle for the trouble, lol.
Muku
Member
This would explain why it wasn't the 10% I thought it was going to be. XD
Saving the UoC right now....not sure what to do in terms of that. Trying to figure out how to make my Tidy more awesome atm though.
Pejo
Member
So people on Reddit and Youtube are talking about True Doublehand meta, and how Cloud fares vs. Nyx and DKC for top damage characters, but I can't help thinking about Demon Rain. With variance and 300 TDH, along with any relevant killers, if you can build him to survive, he will be an absolutely demolishing counter tank. The problem is getting him to survive.
I know a lot of the people from this thread are gone, but do any of you guys have opinions on this?
I know a lot of the people from this thread are gone, but do any of you guys have opinions on this?
Shouta
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Demon Rain's counter damage is about 300%, which is about half of what you get with an attack nowadays. Since a finisher can get the 4x bonus from a chain on their attack, Demon Rain would need to counter a huge number of times to make him compete with them. I'm not sure if he has a hard limit but it's pretty unlikely he'll do enough counters to be equivalent for it.
It'd be a good choice if you have an extra set for him to futz around with but there's really no guarantee that he'd be able to match the damage of a true finisher.
Alim kinda fucking up in general recently, lol. The Extra Stage in the Story Event had 10% moogles but the icon showed 5% moogle, for example.
It'd be a good choice if you have an extra set for him to futz around with but there's really no guarantee that he'd be able to match the damage of a true finisher.
Alim kinda fucking up in general recently, lol. The Extra Stage in the Story Event had 10% moogles but the icon showed 5% moogle, for example.
Pejo
Member
Yea for straight damage I agree he won't be taking any top dps titles, but his utility is what made me think about this.
The thing about D. Rain that's really interesting is that he can pretty much be the only effective enemy turn DPS, not requiring a real "turn" to do damage to an enemy. If we ever get a really strong single target damage mitigation, having him as a "free" turn unit (with iNichol helping him out) could feasibly easy mode some content. The problem is getting him to survive each turn to be able to counter, and obviously all bets are off if it's a magic based boss.
With mostly leftover equipment, he was nearly my MVP in that Skeleton King fight from halloween, doing like 8% of the boss's HP bar per countering turn. If it wasn't for the MP drain + damage skill combo past the 40% threshold, I could have beaten that boss without ever attacking with any character.
I never actually tried this before, but I wonder if he counters with Zarg's berserk buff. That could lead to even bigger numbers.
Anyways, just a thought, and I don't have a practical use for him yet, but I like that TDH is coming so I can play around with some ideas (if I get lucky enough to get some of the key TMs)
Sadly a big problem is the unit is still limited, and while more people now have him since Halloween just rolled around... an even larger portion still doesn't have him, nor probably ever will. I think you're suggestion sounds like it could be viable, but is only a reality for a very small portion of the base.
Pejo
Member
Just the usual for me, looks like you got lucky!
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4 tickets and a 10+ pull, got 1 rainbow - my 3rd or 4th Tidus. Got plenty of the 3* unit for farming, but no 4*. Ah well, that's all of my lapis you're getting for this banner Gumi!
That's what I'm doing. Gonna hold off using it until I feel it's really necessary. Might wait for a limited unit or something.
Revolutionary
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Wow. All my horrible luck with pulls in this game has finally turned around.
And from a Free Summon to boot.
But I still refuse to spend another dime on this game. Fuck you, Gumi.
And from a Free Summon to boot.
But I still refuse to spend another dime on this game. Fuck you, Gumi.
Shouta
Member
Nice! Congrats! You only need 1 of him too. The hard part will be Elfreeda. =(
Any idea what that random extra banner is in Japan Shouta? It appeared around the time other FFZero rerun and I'm seeing no info on it anywhere...
Shouta
Member
It's a 3-day special banner with a bunch of units. It changed every day with a different set. I think the latest one was Luneth and Dark Veritas?
Pejo
Member
Well, against better judgement, I re-upped lapis for the first time in a long time (with all the bonuses and discounts going on) and did a few more pulls on the Cloud banner, got no 5*s, and some really awful pulls, culminating in this wretched pile of crap.
Now I remember why I only play with free lapis or bundles again. Yuck.
Now I remember why I only play with free lapis or bundles again. Yuck.
I didn't expect much at all from this Christmas banner. Crazy it's a double 5* banner, too. But at least it's better than what JP got. They got the shaft, man.
Oh and JP gave us 10 more Select tickets! I could get a 7* unit now if I wanted....
Pejo
Member
So the new GL exclusive units, my take:
- 4* Carrie looks like absolute garbage. Sucks because I like her sprite. Her skills are all over the place with poor multipliers.
- 5* Christine looks interesting. She has a move that gives her (chainable?) skill to another party member, allowing for perfect chaining, I'm assuming. Kinda a neat gimmick, is there anything in JP that's similar to this? Otherwise, looks like a decent ice mage and that on command 50% damage reduction 100% ice reduction + stop looks powerful in the right cases. If it didn't have the Stop piece on it, I'd really consider going for her just to make Demon Rain more usable. Unfortunately he can't counter if he's stopped, so it's a wash.
-5* Kryla....basically I want this unit. 50% individual breaks are awesome, and if those damage abilities are multi hit an chainable, they're going to be really strong I feel. From reading the description they scale off of SPR which has advantages. Also, if that Nullifying Chant skill works like I'd expect it to, it's finally a reliable way to remove breaks on your party. I'm glad because unless you prevent them with Tillith or whoever else can prevent breaks, the only way I know to get rid of them is the old Bushido Freedom trick. Also, with her passives, LB, and Hex Eye skill, she's going to be a real bitch in Arena.
So yea, I will do a bit of pulling to see if I can luck into Kryla, but I haven't forgotten the despair that the Nier banner brought, and I refuse to whale on this game anymore.
What do you guys think of the units?
- 4* Carrie looks like absolute garbage. Sucks because I like her sprite. Her skills are all over the place with poor multipliers.
- 5* Christine looks interesting. She has a move that gives her (chainable?) skill to another party member, allowing for perfect chaining, I'm assuming. Kinda a neat gimmick, is there anything in JP that's similar to this? Otherwise, looks like a decent ice mage and that on command 50% damage reduction 100% ice reduction + stop looks powerful in the right cases. If it didn't have the Stop piece on it, I'd really consider going for her just to make Demon Rain more usable. Unfortunately he can't counter if he's stopped, so it's a wash.
-5* Kryla....basically I want this unit. 50% individual breaks are awesome, and if those damage abilities are multi hit an chainable, they're going to be really strong I feel. From reading the description they scale off of SPR which has advantages. Also, if that Nullifying Chant skill works like I'd expect it to, it's finally a reliable way to remove breaks on your party. I'm glad because unless you prevent them with Tillith or whoever else can prevent breaks, the only way I know to get rid of them is the old Bushido Freedom trick. Also, with her passives, LB, and Hex Eye skill, she's going to be a real bitch in Arena.
So yea, I will do a bit of pulling to see if I can luck into Kryla, but I haven't forgotten the despair that the Nier banner brought, and I refuse to whale on this game anymore.
What do you guys think of the units?
Pejo
Member
Haven't played since the start and all I had was ExDeath came back and saw all the crap they gave out and used it all
This Veritas of the light is pretty strong, same for Luneth
Welcome back - Luneth and Light Veritas are both good damage units, Warrior of Light is still a premier tank too. You have a pretty decent general/story setup, only really lacking a strong healer, though Aria isn't the worst you can do, you just need to get her a Dualcast.
An eventual good all-arounder party would be Warrior of Light, Soleil (make sure you enhance her down the road when you have the gil and materials to do it), Luneth, Light Veritas, and I guess Aria for now.
Shouta
Member
The new GL units look good if you get them though they aren't a huge power leap.
JP raid started yesterday and it's been really helping with my leveling and gil reserves. With the Turtle and Cactuar dungeons open as well, I've been making huge progress on all of the 7-stars I have.
JP raid started yesterday and it's been really helping with my leveling and gil reserves. With the Turtle and Cactuar dungeons open as well, I've been making huge progress on all of the 7-stars I have.
Shouta
Member
Yeah, go with Aria for healing now. Ace will be a pretty solid support/magic damage dealer later so you can do him when you've gotten yourself situated with a core party to work with.