Katana_Strikes
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT| The only ATB here is Active Time Battle.
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ArcticDonkey
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Curious to see what the next relic banner is. I just got enough for my next 11 pull. Unless it's Balthier or Squall I think I'll just blow it on the current ff9 one.
Tidus event struggle mastered with 10 min left to spare. No mythril. No VIT0.
But fail me for miscalculating the level up, which didn't happen. And for casting Firaga on Cloud once near the end of the Sinspawn Gui fight (that retaliate muscle memory). haha
Deciding if I will do the Garnet event struggle or level up for the rest of the day, since I'm tired from today's emotions -- beat the last three elites for Tidus event and the last elite for Garnet.
And I still have all the new dungeons, of which I only did the first to get Tyro and Cloud's memory crystal. I wouldn't mind if they didn't announce an event today and gave me a few days to catch up.
No, fog it was the standard 3/5/10/15 stamina per stage.
Edit: Oh, god. Squall event announced. I guess I can just not sleep for this week.
But fail me for miscalculating the level up, which didn't happen. And for casting Firaga on Cloud once near the end of the Sinspawn Gui fight (that retaliate muscle memory). haha
Deciding if I will do the Garnet event struggle or level up for the rest of the day, since I'm tired from today's emotions -- beat the last three elites for Tidus event and the last elite for Garnet.
And I still have all the new dungeons, of which I only did the first to get Tyro and Cloud's memory crystal. I wouldn't mind if they didn't announce an event today and gave me a few days to catch up.
No, fog it was the standard 3/5/10/15 stamina per stage.
Edit: Oh, god. Squall event announced. I guess I can just not sleep for this week.
Red Mage
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There was something different about my. Might've dropped more eggs or something.
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No, FoG definitely gave more xp. Like 65k to daily's 54k.
BassForever
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Squall event here we go
Hours Left
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Wazzy, it's time. :O
But I'm not ready! I NEED MORE TIME
ErasureAcer
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I should have 15 mythril by the time the event drops tomorrow and most likely all the new dungeons completed. 109 1/5 at the moment.
His weapon coming up is okay. His other two are amazing but we won't get them for awhile.
IdreamofHIME
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What's the benefit of taking a character into their own world?
Is it just HP? does it boost any other stat?
Is it just HP? does it boost any other stat?
10 extra lv and 50% more exp.
Random Painted HIghway
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The ability to use one quake/firaja and one curaga per battle is quite the gamechanger. really makes the elite trash go away that much quicker.
I'm already working on my mage line-up
Vivi, Rinoa, Vanille, Terra and Tyro
Vanille is a bonus because she can heal and nuke, plus her regular soul break is aoe deshell, so uber
Tyro for shield book and mental breakdown + paralyze or whatever other break needed
Aerith is a great alternative, she can use 3* black magic and Kirin. I have her Guard Stick as well, but Vanille benefits me better
I wish I pulled Terra's Enhancer but Gaia Blade will have to do, she nuke's hard even with a mage sword
I am currently working on making 3 or 4 of each aga spell up to R3, so I plan to mythril refill stamina the next 2 black orb dailies
I havn't finished Garnet's event but there's a 4 star Magic Armlet accessory I'm excited to get also
I'm open to ideas with full mage teams
It's a revive + fire aoe so has more utility than a regular summon
Hours Left
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^ Switch out Tyro for Garnet. Better stats and can be a combo White Mage/Summoner.
I've considered it, my reasoning is I wanted this 5 mage party to perform better than my retaliate meta set up team, and after trail and error during the new dungeon elite clears, I really needed abilities such as Paralyze, Power Break, Mental Breakdown, and some random others to win out retaliate meta
so in the end, Tyro's master-all abilities ended up way too useful to kick him out
edit: and the plus side I can pick any friend sumon instead of restorting to Tyro's shield book because mage's struggle with HP during select boss fights
doesn't matter either way, quake spam is enough to get you to elite boss with RM2 then you can just friend summon Tyro @ boss. I just like versatility, Terra can use Dark Buster and Intimidate but none of break abilities
other misc info:
elites bosses with around 200-215 magic stat and RM equipped
3* aga nuke normally take in 5k without any mental break, 7500 with vulnerability
4* aja nuke is always 9999 with vulnerability, about 7500-8500 without vulnerability, both without mental break
mental break adds about 1500 damage give or take
mental breakdown adds more than 2k
so mental break with 8 uses should last for the entire boss rush
I like to put black mage RM2 with quake/-aja mage
Rod User RM on Vivi
and Devotion RM on Terra since she has the defense to give up
Hours Left
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Don't forget Terra and Rinoa can use support skills so they could bring Intimidate and Mental Breakdown. And eventually we'll get Power Breakdown too, I believe. Then Garnet can bring Protectga. I was thinking Vivi and Vanille as pure Black Mages, Garnet White Mage with Summoner backup as needed, and Terra and Rinoa as auxiliaries, swapping skills that suit the particular dungeon, and acting as your trash killers since you have good weapons for them. (Vanille can also be your backup White Mage if you need Garnet to focus on Summoning.)
Tyro is extremely versatile, but he's got wretched stats. Just something to think about.
Breaks are combat, hence none of these mages can use except for Tyro
Tyro's stats are bad but his book adds +96atk, +105magic, and +91mind, so he can actually stand on his own now without sucking
Hours Left
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Breaks are Combat but the stronger Breakdown versions are Support skills.
You do have the Book which is great, I just don't think that alone is enough to keep him. But if it's working for you, more power to you.
Oh crap, never noticed! this is a game changer now!
Thanks for pointing it out, this opens up more things, Terra has 4* support as a mage. She just ends up becoming more OP
Hours Left
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No problem. If you take out Tyro then only Terra in your party could use them, but since she's your strongest physically, that works anyway. And Rinoa can be on paralyze/blind/poison/etc. duty.
I'm thinking Vanille can take up Deshell for resistance down and Terra pick up Magic or Power Breakdown if the situation calls for it, just depends on the dungeon/boss
Looks like breakdown's are a big part of mono mage teams, good to know
Im going to check out JP FFRK and see which unreleased characters has 4* black magic and 3* combat now, doubt there is any tho
Edit:
Only 1 worth mentioning is Golbez with 5* black magic and 3* combat, has 135 magic at lv65 compared to Tyro's 87 magic
Another one is Quistis, 4* black, 4* support and can use whips, 132 magic @ lv65
Tellah's relic pull weapon soul break is restore 1 ability for all party members, JP players recommended him for mage teams if you pull his weapon. He is 5* white magic, 4* black magic
Cloud/Squall/Lightning can always fill in a spot for spellblade/break's also if you lack options
Starwolf_UK
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There is a quite up to date EXP spreadsheet here. You see looking at the NA tab that Sunday does have some variance. It is worth noting FoG did as well. I had some runs where I only got 59k and one which went up to 70k (champion nos).
Yes FoG dropped more eggs (good ones too) as well as gold and materials.
Speaking of daily dungeons. Is it true you get the completion reward each time? At least both of my heroic runs of the Sunday dungeon rewarded 3 growth eggs at the end. If so then I guess full heroic runs are the thing to aim for here (vs the retreat after one) and use the growth eggs on anyone too squishy for that. It is fairly doable using the retaliate meta. If you have a level 50 Cloud it happens you can get him to 243atk which is the baseline for 2HKO (source also baseline 206atk is if using boost).
edit: Of course you get a completion reward each time. It is just nearly all dungeons give you gil instead. So yeah Sunday if you have good attack and retaliate meta go the full run for 30k extra EXP you can use anytime.
Since the Sunday dungeon is still up for me I'll do one more run once I have the stamina then save stamina for FFIX event boss rush. Who knows after that I can go back to doing normal dung...oh FFVIII event.
StoppedInTracks
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I am too thinking about swapping Tyro (LVL48) with Garnet (LVL1) because Tyro kind of sucks. But he is my 4th strongest Melee character... but then Garnet can go up to LVL65... decisison, decisions...
God damn I even took my iPad to the office today to play this game. It's like digital crack.
God damn I even took my iPad to the office today to play this game. It's like digital crack.
Tyro can be lv65 now as well, idk if you knew
Ah okay, it's rough to catch up while several events are up. In this case it was Tidus > FoG > Garnets all at once last weekend, crazy!
StoppedInTracks
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No, I have a HUGE backlog od classic + elite dungeons. In the last 3 weeks I was focusing on Events + Dailies.
show me your skeleton
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gah, totally struggling with jenova on elite.
What's your current set up? Did you die from Jenova's aoe or run out of abilities?
That battle was an endurance fight for me
ErasureAcer
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109 3/5 here. Have 2 left in both 3 and 13. 3 left in 7....I think. Have enough growth eggs to get Squall to 29.
show me your skeleton
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was using this, minus a bit of a rejig in terms of armour for cloud. badly prepared, i admit!
Hours Left
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Y'all, I really want Umaro. Where's Umaro?
I'm so interested to see how they implement him.
I'm so interested to see how they implement him.
ErasureAcer
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Level 1
500 Attack
200 Defense
0 Resistance
No abilities.
Unable to equip any weapon/armor but can equip an accessory.
Always berserk.
Hours Left
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I'm wondering if he'll actually be auto-berserk though. Sephiroth isn't despite how he acts when he's in your party in FFVII, and no other character has any sort of special behavior patterns hardwired. I guess they could give him his Record Materia early which enables auto-berserk, and you have to level him up to 50 to unequip it. XD I think he'll probably just act like any other character though, and his Record Materia will give him benefits for being in berserk status. I'm guessing axes, hammers and gloves with access to combat and possibly monk skills.
There is a Berserker Core Class character sprite in the database, so if he ever gets released, we'll probably get a better idea. I just want a yeti.
Just wondering if you started playing recently? Because I usually see players using full teams with RM equipped tackling Jenova-BIRTH
If you haven't had the chance to get characters to lv50, that is even more challenging!
show me your skeleton
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nah, been playing a while, just not very good haha.
cpp_is_king
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Which of the new characters are worth levelling and which are garbage tier?
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