What so beautiful about that? All I see there is a vision of me pulling two shitty 3-star equipments I already have at the end of two weeks.
I might just spend them all on inventory slots.
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I might just spend them all on inventory slots.
Katana_Strikes
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Anyone done all the new elites yet?
How much stamina does it take you to with all done?
Currently on 88 with majority of new elites to do.
How much stamina does it take you to with all done?
Currently on 88 with majority of new elites to do.
Don't lose hopeWhat so beautiful about that? All I see there is a vision of me pulling two shitty 3-star equipments I already have at the end of two weeks.
I'm feeling like hoarding mythril until I have 100, then do two 11 pulls one after the other and cry myself to sleep.
I want at least a single character weapon... but if I ever get one it will probably be Josef's. lol.
I haven't completed them myself (yet) but you end up with 100 and 2/5 shards
UNF at XIII's music. It's not giving me the hardcore nostalgia VIII's does but it's a pretty good soundtrack. It makes me want to replay XIII(VIII first though!) and pretend the sequels aren't canon.
I could have mastered the last level had I remembered Edea's conditions plus piled more bonuses on but at that point it's just not worth it, especially if you don't have the gear I do where they would have to waste money and mythril to beat the event and even then it's hard to say it's doable with mediocre gear. Seifer's a beast with his HP and defense stats that achieving anything but expert was unrealistic.
Save the mythril and beat the event next time everyone! I had to because it bothers me if I don't finish something from VIII.
To give people an idea of my setup:
Cloud:
Blitzblade(VIII) maxed
Genji Helm(V) maxed
Hyper Wrist(VI)
Abilitiesouble Cut/Charge(Ice strike for T-Rex)
Tidus:
Blitzblade(VIII) maxed
Genji helm(V)
Hero's Ring
Abilities: Venom Buster/Double Cut
Rinoa:
Valkyrie(VIII) maxed
SeeD uniform(VIII) maxed
Angel wings(VI)
Abilities: blizzaga and comet but changed depending on conditions
Sephiroth had mesmerize blade, SeeD uniform and double cut/Bio and Rydia played condition dealer with dia and slow.
The biggest problem with the fights are wasting ability slots on conditions.
Yup. T-Rex is realistic because you can throw all the status effects at him to keep him from wrecking you.
I could have mastered the last level had I remembered Edea's conditions plus piled more bonuses on but at that point it's just not worth it, especially if you don't have the gear I do where they would have to waste money and mythril to beat the event and even then it's hard to say it's doable with mediocre gear. Seifer's a beast with his HP and defense stats that achieving anything but expert was unrealistic.
Save the mythril and beat the event next time everyone! I had to because it bothers me if I don't finish something from VIII.
To give people an idea of my setup:
Cloud:
Blitzblade(VIII) maxed
Genji Helm(V) maxed
Hyper Wrist(VI)
Abilities
ouble Cut/Charge(Ice strike for T-Rex)Tidus:
Blitzblade(VIII) maxed
Genji helm(V)
Hero's Ring
Abilities: Venom Buster/Double Cut
Rinoa:
Valkyrie(VIII) maxed
SeeD uniform(VIII) maxed
Angel wings(VI)
Abilities: blizzaga and comet but changed depending on conditions
Sephiroth had mesmerize blade, SeeD uniform and double cut/Bio and Rydia played condition dealer with dia and slow.
The biggest problem with the fights are wasting ability slots on conditions.
Purely theorycrafting here - this is highly broken game mechanics territory, but for Stage 10 Elite mastery, you probably could shell->mental breakdown->shell zerg down Seifer and Edea. It even fits in with the 'best practice' zerg meta for the 2 Iguions, which is having 2 casters with 2 casts of Quake each.
If those two casters sport a good damage single-target spell in the second slot that's gonna be 20k damage per turn with the s->mb->s shenanigans, not counting the other 3.
Only thing is unless you honed the shit out of Mental Breakdown (not likely, especially if you spent that time farming for 2x Quake) and the other abilities, you're still gonna be blowing Mythril to refresh on each boss.
If those two casters sport a good damage single-target spell in the second slot that's gonna be 20k damage per turn with the s->mb->s shenanigans, not counting the other 3.
Only thing is unless you honed the shit out of Mental Breakdown (not likely, especially if you spent that time farming for 2x Quake) and the other abilities, you're still gonna be blowing Mythril to refresh on each boss.
Yeah that kind of setup would definitely have made some of the fights easier to master and Seifer and Edea(though she's not that bad with exception of her magic hits) possible. The Iguions I was able to master but it wasn't easy and also took some bonus stacks. Quake would have taken both out fast with Rinoa doing heave damage against them.
We'll see a lot of people do much better against them when Squall and possibly more VIII characters arrive. I shouldn't have any issues by that point since I'll have things like Quake and Squall maxed.
We'll see a lot of people do much better against them when Squall and possibly more VIII characters arrive. I shouldn't have any issues by that point since I'll have things like Quake and Squall maxed.
If you aren't aware, shell -> mental breakdown -> shell and protect -> armor breakdown (we don't have this) -> protect makes enemies drop to 2 DEF/RES respectively due to some hilariously wonky interaction, meaning virtually everything of decent damage hits for 9999
It's broken and DeNA 'fixed' it by not fixing it and giving bosses after it was exploited immunity to shell and protect.
It's broken and DeNA 'fixed' it by not fixing it and giving bosses after it was exploited immunity to shell and protect.
So this is already fixed?
Bring Biora for Punishers and Blizzaga for Slag Worms. Of course it helps that I have both those spells honed because i'm going to attempt the elite VIII event missions.
I don't know how long mental breakdown lasts, but i've been using Protect>Status Reels>Protect and it doesn't last long at all. I get one round of attacks in before Status Reels wears off and damage goes back to normal.
I haven't tried the elite yet but I'm thinking you'll need a lot of thunder moves equipped if you want to beat it out. Thunder Strike, Thundara, Thunder and Thundaga on whoever can equip it and you should be fine. Just don't blow them all on the first two fights.
I was aware it existed but didn't know it wasn't available yet. xD
I've used Mental Breakdown enough to know it lasts at the very least 3 turns. (Assuming it isn't one of your casters e.g. Terra using it and getting locked out of a turn via ATB)
You'd essentially need to set up your abilities so Breakdown->Shell->magic happens within seconds of each other to get the most out of it.
And obviously Armor Breakdown and Protect is by far the superior strategy since it doesn't rely on ability counts and even your back row people can hit for 4 digits, meaning your entire party of 5 becomes a wrecking crew.
ROFL :|
edit2: Should give it to Snow. Fits him perfectly. An hero, etc.
You'd essentially need to set up your abilities so Breakdown->Shell->magic happens within seconds of each other to get the most out of it.
And obviously Armor Breakdown and Protect is by far the superior strategy since it doesn't rely on ability counts and even your back row people can hit for 4 digits, meaning your entire party of 5 becomes a wrecking crew.
ROFL :|
edit2: Should give it to Snow. Fits him perfectly. An hero, etc.
KojiKnight
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finally got my first 5 star weapon... And it's Josef's... Fml... At least Tifa has a permanent spot on my team now I guess...
AdawgDaFAB
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Do we have to start from scratch in collection events? I was so angry when I got too busy on the last day to finish this:
Me neither. I used the 2* ability, but it never worked. I guess the 3* one should work better. Which one are you using?
I kinda slowed down here. I'm just doing Figaro Castle (Classic) to farm Lesser Power and Lightning orbs (it's not like we need money in this game at the moment, so I'm skipping the daily dungeon).
Gonna try that, I had been relying on Dark Attack but it's time to upgrade.
PixyJunket
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Oof.
Events don't exact repeat, from what I hear. There will be another Celes event, possibly similar, but it will be new.
It works, but may take some tries. You also may want to be careful not to blow all your abilities on the first fight, since he hits harder in the second one.
Yeah, I had very few abilities for the second part and it took a long time to kill him, my rating was terrible at the end of that phase.
You know I thought Curaja would be the one, but nope. Kirin it is!
PixyJunket
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White Mage Limit Break.
That's what I'm going to have to settle for. Assuming I can get it charged before I need it. Because apparently if a single enemy in this dungeon goes down in more than two hits, you get penalized for actions taken.
PixyJunket
Member
Yeah, I'm not stressing over the Elite Dungeons myself until they can be done without studying spreadsheets and wasting days collecting one type of orb.
Random Painted HIghway
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Elite Dollet is a bitch. Hone that thundaga and thunder strike, damn, and bring cures. I used Rinoa with Curaga and Watera, BMage with Thundaga and Thundara and Celes with Thunder and Drain strike. Probably would have swapped Aerith (with guard stick break) for one of the scrubs and put another strong bmagic on rinoa
PixyJunket
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Has anybody gotten any boss drops from the new dungeons?
Zero on my end, and I got a decent amount from round two.
Also, the fact that they're still dispensing the same one-star trash is really frustrating.
New one-stars from under-represented realms would be nice.
Zero on my end, and I got a decent amount from round two.
Also, the fact that they're still dispensing the same one-star trash is really frustrating.
New one-stars from under-represented realms would be nice.
cpp_is_king
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I still don't know how to master it. He spams aoe and if you get hit once you lose mastery
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Anyone else that has never pulled getting overwhelmed by Elites?
I barely scraped through it just now:
I probably shouldn't have taken WoL and should have timed it so that Rinoa leveled in the middle. The mastery for the dungeon is more or less assured so long as you hit him with thunder once every time.
Random Painted HIghway
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I finished every round with 3 stars except for damage, only 1 star and got mastery. It was a very close call, if i lost another star on action it would have been do the whole thing over.
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