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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius |OT5| Our Golden Anniversary Brings Us Hope
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Pejo
Member
Congrats! gotta love that single ticket luck.
Any advice worth giving us in prep for 7* (provided it works similarly to JP)? I'm already leveling 2 of each character I can make STMR for, and TM farming 5* bases that I'll be fusing so I don't have an inventory full of those container things that you can't run Earth Shrine with.
I just watched the video they released about how 7* will work and it looks the same as it does in JP. All we need to know now is which units will be available to 7* in the first batch. They did say we can expect 7* to go live in August. Gonna try to get Reagan and then back to saving tickets.
Congrats, man. Is that guy good? I've avoided pulling on this banner because it looked so bland. I have no idea who that guy is, either.
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
The banners seemed to be reversed. I got CG nichol on the sakura jake banner, and I got cg sakura on the nichol lid banner.
Shouta
Member
Top-class unit and has the first 2H katana for an STMR which makes the recent units even more powerful. He's in the main story.
Okay. I haven't done the story in a LONG time. Still need to finish season one for that 100% moogle.
Pejo
Member
Congrats Shouta! He seems to be a strong unit. I'm more interested in the story though, do they ever tell you who he really is? (Don't tell me, just curious if it's been revealed yet)
Lol, what are the odds of that.
Yea, basically. Ramza still has his bard kit in addition to getting his breaks though, so slightly different niche and versatility.
10+1 anni ticket got me a Gilgamesh #3, which means another Genji Glove - I'll take it. Finished up a few lingering 3* TMRs too with the FP moogle summon, but got a LOT of trash moogles, like Equip Staff/bow/spear/etc. I'm in hardcore hoarding mode until the Star Ocean collab is revealed.
Enygger_Tzu
Banned
BTW, guys, I tried to play in on my old tablet, but it does not load, I tried of course to play it using bandwith and not data cap.
Am I doing something wrong?
Am I doing something wrong?
Pejo
Member
Are you up to date on the app? A new version just released this morning (on the app store of your choice). Also, are you playing the JP version or Global?
Shouta
Member
You should get to it if only to get the Lapis from it and then do the story mission reset they're offering before it expires at the end of September.
They do. That's all I'll say.
Pejo
Member
Yea, the value is all in the additional stuff (tickets, etc) and the bonus chance. I did up to step 4 and got 2 rainbows, Onion Knight and Raegan, not a bad haul.
Any of you guys get the Bloody Moon glitch done before they patched it out? You could do only 2/3 bosses on that new super hard trial and then escape from bloody moon and get the win. They rush patched it last night though. I didn't even try it, was too busy IRL.
Also, damn - this patch did not go through any sort of QA. Daily quests are gone, all sorts of crashes and glitches. At least they fixed the display issues with non-standard ratio phones so it's not super stretched.
Anyone find the second banner page really confusing to navigate at the moment? I almost voted on the wrong option for the vote ticket since I thought it was a free 10+1 pull, lol.
It's so hard to slog though the story, which is why I stopped. The writing is horrible. Maybe one day I'll continue the story stuff.
Burned a lot of resources for Raegan, but no luck. It's a sad day, indeed.
Alkez
Member
JP players, I was wondering if you could tell me how barriers work. If a barrier last 3 turns for 3k health, and I lose that 3k on the first turn of those 3 turns, does the barrier "refresh" so to speak on turn 2 so I get another 3k health, or is it that once I lose that 3k barrier that's it? (I hope this question makes sense lol)
Pejo
Member
So wow, lots of talk on Reddit about the state of the game in GL, what thoughts do you guys have on it?
I'm pretty disappointed with Gumi's handling of a lot of things around the anniversary. Add to that the fact that we have like 10 different compensations that we still haven't got, and there are huge bugs like daily quests (!) being down still, it just feels weird. Their silence has been really damning too. If they don't release Unit of Choice tickets in GL, I could see there being an absolute riot in the playerbase.
Ah well, as long as they don't go back on their word (lol), we should be seeing quite a compensation train within the upcoming weeks, including a 5* ticket and likely a bunch of lapis for dailies missed, etc. Add to that the fact that we should be seeing our "lapis rewards" tickets soon, everyone should be drowning in pulls. By that I mean the "1 ticket for every 5k lapis spent" or whatever the deal was, which apparently goes back to all the lapis you've spent in the game's lifetime (including free lapis). That kind of stuff keeps me playing but damn, an anniversary should be making people excited to play you game, not thinking about quitting.
I wish they at least acknowledged some of this stuff instead of keeping everyone in the dark.
I'm pretty disappointed with Gumi's handling of a lot of things around the anniversary. Add to that the fact that we have like 10 different compensations that we still haven't got, and there are huge bugs like daily quests (!) being down still, it just feels weird. Their silence has been really damning too. If they don't release Unit of Choice tickets in GL, I could see there being an absolute riot in the playerbase.
Ah well, as long as they don't go back on their word (lol), we should be seeing quite a compensation train within the upcoming weeks, including a 5* ticket and likely a bunch of lapis for dailies missed, etc. Add to that the fact that we should be seeing our "lapis rewards" tickets soon, everyone should be drowning in pulls. By that I mean the "1 ticket for every 5k lapis spent" or whatever the deal was, which apparently goes back to all the lapis you've spent in the game's lifetime (including free lapis). That kind of stuff keeps me playing but damn, an anniversary should be making people excited to play you game, not thinking about quitting.
I wish they at least acknowledged some of this stuff instead of keeping everyone in the dark.
Alkez
Member
I think GL complain a lot unnecessarily, but I think recent actions have been pretty bad. The big one for me was patching the trial glitch before fixing dailies and iOs issues (and I'm on Android so it doesn't even affect me). It just said something about their mentality to me. I don't really care for the rewards, it was more the message being sent.
In regards to UoC tickets, I'm not too bothered if they come up with a different system or they just simply increase the rainbow rate. I think people are mad that there weren't any in this event but I personally didn't care either way. I'm more annoyed at the fact we still don't have Chocobo explorations. They were a good way for me to get TMs in JP because I didn't farm, and now I'm back on GL and not farming not having it has been very frustrating as we should have had it months ago.
Shouta
Member
Barrier would be 3k health or 3 turns. It runs out if you lose 3k HP or 3 turns elapse without it being used up.
Alkez
Member
Cool, thanks for letting me know. I'm thinking of pulling for Yuraisha when she drops in GL so was wondering how that would work because of her LB. Between her and Yuna I could have barriers up fairly often.
Another random question: with the moves that have cooldowns, does one of the cooldown turns include the turn you use it? For instance Yuna's barrier is a 3 turn cooldown according to reddit, so does that mean it would be ready on turn 4 (if I used it turn 1) or would the cooldown begin on turn 2 so it's ready again on turn 5?
Shouta
Member
It includes that turn. So Eiko has a Turn 1 ability that says is usable every 6 turns. You use the ability and the following turn, the ability is greyed out and a 5 appears in it to indicate how many turns until it's back.
Pejo
Member
Did any of you guys all of a sudden have a break in your days logged in, in a row? I've been playing since soft reset and have never missed a day to at least log in and collect the daily login rewards, and now the game is telling me I'm only on a 300 day streak. a few weeks ago I was on a 600~ day streak.
Alkez
Member
Interesting. So in theory Nichol could constantly hold his buffs between his cooldown skill and his LB?
Also why does Folka have 1 turn cooldown moves? Wouldn't that mean she can still just use them every turn?
Heh, looks like JP is getting an Octopath Traveler banner. I might pull since I think Olberic and Primrose look cool. I didn't care about the last couple of banners, so I have some tickets and such saved up.
I don't even know how to check my login streak. With the app in the state that it's in, I wouldn't be surprised if they screwed something up.
I don't even know how to check my login streak. With the app in the state that it's in, I wouldn't be surprised if they screwed something up.
Pejo
Member
So for all the shit they've been doing wrong lately, I absolutely love this weapon enhancement dungeon. It's compelling, not tough or time consuming, and can really give you some cool results. I haven't gotten any of the "rare" slot buffs yet, but having ATK +25% on my Virtuous Contract is fucking bananas.
Shouta, question - Is this a constant mode added to the game that switches weapon types every other week, or does it only come around every few events with different weapons? I'm kinda hoping it's permanent.
Shouta, question - Is this a constant mode added to the game that switches weapon types every other week, or does it only come around every few events with different weapons? I'm kinda hoping it's permanent.
Pejo
The weapon enhancement dungeon is something that isn't permanent, but comes back often enough that if you miss it, you don't have to wait too long before you can try again. In the beginning they only had a few weapons, but over time they added more and I think now all weapons can be enhanced. They may end up doing the same thing in Global as well.I decided to pull for Primrose and Olberic and I ended up with one of each of them. Now, I'm trying to decide if I should try for another of each. I don't think I'll be able to get a ticket since I did the guaranteed 5000 lapis pull and got Olberic, but it doesn't give a ticket (which is a bummer). So I can potentially only get 4 tickets with the amount of lapis I have. It was a tough call on my part, but I decided to do the guaranteed pull over doing 2 regular 5000 lapis pulls. I still have some time, though.
Pejo
Member
Thanks man, I think I might burn a few refreshes on it before it goes, if I don't get my short list of weapons enhanced by then. Congrats on the Octopath banner, I really hope that one comes to GL.
I decided to pull for Primrose and Olberic and I ended up with one of each of them. Now, I'm trying to decide if I should try for another of each. I don't think I'll be able to get a ticket since I did the guaranteed 5000 lapis pull and got Olberic, but it doesn't give a ticket (which is a bummer). So I can potentially only get 4 tickets with the amount of lapis I have. It was a tough call on my part, but I decided to do the guaranteed pull over doing 2 regular 5000 lapis pulls. I still have some time, though.
I finally got a rare enhancement on one of my Mateus Malice's, 15% MP/MAG in a single slot, sweet. Going to try to get another 10% MAG and 10% HP to make it a real beast.
One's I've already created:
-Mateus Malice (going for MAG and HP)
-Virtuous Contract (ATK and HP)
-Cruel Oath (ATK and HP)
-Genji Blade (ATK and HP)
-Ulric's Kukri (Got SPR/HP/DEF Spread, wanted to get more SPR and HP, might re-do, for Magic Tank builds since it already has 10% resist to every element baked in)
-Defender's Daggers (MAG and MP for my homie Rem after 7*)
On my list to hopefully get done before the event is over is:
-2nd Mateus Malice
-2 Bowie Knives
-Kiyomori
If i get them done in time from TM farming:
-Sparky
-Masamune
I don't really have any needs to make guns right now, as I never usually use characters that can even use guns. Sparky would be the exception, but TM farming has taken a backup role since we can farm crysts right now and the story is 1/2 Energy.
Am I missing any other worthwhile guns that I should be enhancing, or just any good options to enhance right now in general? Ulric's Kukri seems like the biggest Quality of Life upgrade outside of more damage out of these 3 weapons classes.
Pejo
Member
Looks like GL is getting the Star Ocean collab this week, with GL enhancements to the 5* base units. Here's hoping they're good, I'm going to drop a bunch of pulls to try to get Fayt and Fidel. I'm super glad Reimi is a raid unit so i don't have to worry about luck to pick her up. Also, those "lapis spent" tickets are coming Friday. I'm a little scared to see how many I'm going to get... lol.
I finally did the last step of the step up and got Raegan and Orlandu #2. Considering throwing some tickets at the banner for a second.
Happy that I will have a 7* ready DR-frames chainer. I have Aileen who is a fine unit, but nobody on my friends list has a chain partner for her.
Happy that I will have a 7* ready DR-frames chainer. I have Aileen who is a fine unit, but nobody on my friends list has a chain partner for her.
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
Just did a pull with 10 blues and one gold; amazing
Pejo
Member
Congrats on your chainers! I really like Raegan as a unit, very versatile which I've always been a fan of. i'm trying to think of who I want to build to chain with him. eFryevia is a good choice, wonder how Nyx works with him? I think his enhancements don't enhance his chain skill though, so maybe not...
That always hurts, sorry! Did you get any rainbows out of this anniversary so far? We've had a ton of free pulls.
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
Nope, I've gotten literally 1 since I pulled nichol 5 weeks ago.
I like to think that my step-up success was to make up for my free and 2a ticket pulls all being absolute duds.
The thing I just figured out is that the raid in JP only gives 2 tickets...which means we have to spend 15k lapis to get 5. Ugh. This kind of stuff is why I'm really starting to hate these kinds of games. So now there's a very good chance that I'll end up with only one of each of the characters since I don't have enough for 15k...or maybe I would have had enough if I hadn't done the 5k guaranteed pull which doesn't give a ticket. The way my 10+1 pulls have been in recent months, I'm sure it's just gonna end up with one gold and the rest blue and I'll end up with three tickets and still won't be able to get 7* Primrose or Olberic. It's a bummer.
Congrats!
The funny thing about Fryevia is that I couldn't get her for a long time, but then all of a sudden, I ended up with three of her. It's funny how it all worked out. At least I'm ready for the 7* version of her.
Shouta
Member
and maybe an STMR if she gets a good one!
Shouta
Member
Gratz!
Shouta
Member
Raegan is a pretty good char but he definitely gets overshadowed by the DH focused characters that are coming. Of course, this will change for GL because you can't stack abilities like JP. So his worth is actually higher IMO. So don't feel too bad about sinking some to try for a second one evan.