Red Mage
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I meant the crappy rewards.
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT| The only ATB here is Active Time Battle.
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I meant the crappy rewards.
Ben Morales
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Finally got it! Don't give up Ashodin!
Seymour should join you if you beat him
5* Summoning
5* Black Magic
5* White Magic
5* manchild
I've been playing this game since day one (of the US version), and am still enjoying it. Most days I just log in for the materia and relic drop, but I play through most of each event and I recruit every character that comes along.
My problem is that the hardest Elite stages, as well as all of the Heroic dailies, completely slaughter my party. Like, single attacks that do 80% or more of a character's HP, to say nothing of the most powerful party-wide attacks. I didn't mind at first, since I was still building up my party, and like I said: I have been able to complete all "standard" stages and most Elites.
But now, I actually have a couple of character-specific 5-star weapons, a few more non-character 5-stars (both natural and from combining), my main party (except Lenna) has all broken past level 50... although after that point, the levels have been coming very slowly. Even some of the harder standard levels from the last set of stages have been hurting my party a lot more than usual.
Basically what I'm asking is: are there any good ability strategies I should be taking advantage of, or do I just need to spend a lot of time grinding for levels and 4-star ability crafting items?
My problem is that the hardest Elite stages, as well as all of the Heroic dailies, completely slaughter my party. Like, single attacks that do 80% or more of a character's HP, to say nothing of the most powerful party-wide attacks. I didn't mind at first, since I was still building up my party, and like I said: I have been able to complete all "standard" stages and most Elites.
But now, I actually have a couple of character-specific 5-star weapons, a few more non-character 5-stars (both natural and from combining), my main party (except Lenna) has all broken past level 50... although after that point, the levels have been coming very slowly. Even some of the harder standard levels from the last set of stages have been hurting my party a lot more than usual.
Basically what I'm asking is: are there any good ability strategies I should be taking advantage of, or do I just need to spend a lot of time grinding for levels and 4-star ability crafting items?
Pejo
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It's insane how much easier these elites become when you take a defense-first mindset into the dungeon, with lots of hones on your skills. I use pally Cecil for sentinel, got my free protect every round thanks to WHM2 materia, and magic/power breaks on a hasted character.
I'm using a team right now that's not even my best team by far, no character SB relics, but i'm not even losing a single star on the 80+ difficulty dungeons. I think watching the hell difficulty JP videos have really helped me change my mindset on how to go through this game. Previously I was trying to blitz everything by piling on as much offense as possible and unloading before I died.
Also, I really underestimated taking an entire tuesday to farm power/black orbs. I can see the difference immediately. I'll be following suit for at least the next 2 tuesdays to get more hones.
I'm using a team right now that's not even my best team by far, no character SB relics, but i'm not even losing a single star on the 80+ difficulty dungeons. I think watching the hell difficulty JP videos have really helped me change my mindset on how to go through this game. Previously I was trying to blitz everything by piling on as much offense as possible and unloading before I died.
Also, I really underestimated taking an entire tuesday to farm power/black orbs. I can see the difference immediately. I'll be following suit for at least the next 2 tuesdays to get more hones.
As the game ramp up, it's only really going to be about mitigation. Bosses will outright do 4.5k to everyone if you don't have protect/shell/Sentiel Grimore/Breaks up on them. If you have 5* weapons then life should be much easier for you (depends on what you got ofc). A 5* swords can be use for Retaliate abuse to get you through the heroic dailies.
For the later Elites, you're going to need to hone your abilities for the later ff6/ff7 ones since they have 200k+ Hp and ofc hit like a truck as well
Craft Protectga, put it on Garnet with WM's materia II, use it at the start of each stage. Helps immensely to mitigate dmg.
This one is more situational as some places have a lot of Earth immune enemies, but also craft Quake and hone it once if you can, and put it on Vivi with BM's materia II. Clears all enemies as long as none are immune, even in Heroics.
Bladeblitz is another useful 4* ability, though unless you have a 5* weapon (actual 5*, not a 3*++ fake 5*) with RS it won't be able to OHKO enemies in Heroics. Even if you do, you'll probably still need to Boost the weapon user to OHKO some enemies, and a few enemies still won't be OHKO by it.
Also Retaliate meta is a thing. Put your strongest weapon on Retaliate user, Boost them, have your other party members attack the Retaliator and they will Counterattack the enemy. Double Cut will give 2 Counterattacks, and if you plan it so the 1st Counterattack off a Double Cut kills the last enemy of the round, the 2nd Counterattack will carry over to the next round and go off as soon as the round begins. If you can get your Retaliator's dmg high enough to OHKO enemies, this helps mitigate dmg as well since one of the enemies dies right at the start of the round.
Hours Left
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Garnet 2nd RM get. 👍🏼
Finally got it! Don't give up Ashodin!
I just got it 10 minutes ago, thanks buddy!
Red Mage
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Actually, I mis-read the stamina cost (thought it was the same as the Boss Rush cost).
FTFY
Hey, have any of you gotten DeNA rewards as discussed on this thread on Reddit?
I didn't even get this email, the whole thing seems suspicious. What a bummer if that's the reward, though.
I didn't even get this email, the whole thing seems suspicious. What a bummer if that's the reward, though.
Pejo
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aw man, those rewards....
Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute. That thing actually wasn't a scam?!
Random Painted HIghway
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Holy crap. Wtf dena.
EX+ mastery is going to be quite the trick.
It basically boils down to if you can burn Anima fast enough for the condition. If you do, there's a 3 star leeway between actions taken and damage taken. The alternative is (obviously) losing 3 stars for the Anima condition but getting all stars on the rest including Actions and Damage taken.
Damage probably is easy, since Carbuncle and Runic take care of all incoming damage. Rationing out actions on the other hand might be a trick. I can sorta see Phase 1 and Phase 3 being Runic on your best magic damage with Quake and a -ja spell, to AOE and then single-target burn respectively.
It basically boils down to if you can burn Anima fast enough for the condition. If you do, there's a 3 star leeway between actions taken and damage taken. The alternative is (obviously) losing 3 stars for the Anima condition but getting all stars on the rest including Actions and Damage taken.
Damage probably is easy, since Carbuncle and Runic take care of all incoming damage. Rationing out actions on the other hand might be a trick. I can sorta see Phase 1 and Phase 3 being Runic on your best magic damage with Quake and a -ja spell, to AOE and then single-target burn respectively.
Yep it works with retaliate
it's basically an unlimited double cut which doesn't take up an ability slot, enjoy!It will cause two retaliate counters when attacking a retaliating character if that's what you mean. It won't do anything to the counters themselves, so don't equip it on your retaliate guy.
I haven't found much use for it myself. I'd favor Blitz Eye over it for the faster attack speed.
Ben Morales
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Has anyone even figured out how to get emails/newsletters from DeNA? I love how every other game I play can't wait to email me spam, but when it comes to a game I actually WANT emails from, it's near impossible.
MMBosstones86
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I thought the Yuna event was supposed to start 15 minutes ago. Am I confused?
BassForever
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I had this moment tonight as I was doing the FFXII classic dungeons from like 2 dungeon updates ago as I broke level cap on Squall, Irvine, and Tyro finally that I have no idea what I'm doing or working towards anymore. At any point I have
-Quest to do which involve either grinding for orbs or grinding levels
-Taking cap broken characters to their worlds to unlock their 2nd RM (don't have any yet)
-Classic dungeons to unlock non event characters and open elites
-Elite dungeons dating back to the launch I haven't finished
-Weekly events to unlock characters that I keep blitzing to get everyone
-Actual creation of higher level skills instead of relying on the same skills that carried me though launch but no idea what to make or what to save to not waste remaking due to quests
-Actually doing mythril draws as I now have 175 and was saving for the Lightning event because someone said her weapon was amazing but who knows when it's happening and I'm starting to feel my lack of 3-5 star gear is hurting me for RS
I'm getting to the point with Record Keeper that I get with open world games where there is so much I could or need to do that I don't want to do anything and I eventually drop the game.
-Quest to do which involve either grinding for orbs or grinding levels
-Taking cap broken characters to their worlds to unlock their 2nd RM (don't have any yet)
-Classic dungeons to unlock non event characters and open elites
-Elite dungeons dating back to the launch I haven't finished
-Weekly events to unlock characters that I keep blitzing to get everyone
-Actual creation of higher level skills instead of relying on the same skills that carried me though launch but no idea what to make or what to save to not waste remaking due to quests
-Actually doing mythril draws as I now have 175 and was saving for the Lightning event because someone said her weapon was amazing but who knows when it's happening and I'm starting to feel my lack of 3-5 star gear is hurting me for RS
I'm getting to the point with Record Keeper that I get with open world games where there is so much I could or need to do that I don't want to do anything and I eventually drop the game.
Stumpokapow
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This is kinda where I am. I've got a handful of elites that are all above my level left. Events are coming pretty quickly, so I finish them all on classic and then finish the first 3/4s or so on elite and kinda stop, I've got maybe 1/4 of my characters at the level cap and the rest I just kinda fill the bars as I get more growth eggs, I've got a bunch of high level skills but most aren't too refined and I'm not engaged enough to grind to really refine them. I've got maybe 90-95 quests done and most of the rest would require me to grind specifically, many to refine spells I already have at l4 or l5 from early. I've got a bunch of 4* and 5* gear, most of it milquetoast, so I feel like I can't quite do the super-elite content where I'd benefit from great gear, but my inventory is full and it's all at the level cap so I don't have any real upgrading to do.
Mostly my strategy at this point is to just play once or twice a day. If I fall a little bit more behind that's OK. I've finally got a couple of -aja spells now so I guess I'm making some progress.
ShalashaskaEx
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Finally broke 100 stamina.
How difficult is this event supposed to be? As bad as the last X event?
How difficult is this event supposed to be? As bad as the last X event?
chronobeej
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Did a 100 gem pull and got a Monk Robe. Finally got a 5* from it after doing all of them. I'm riding a 3 5* relic draw streak but now. RNG is finally on my side.
No 5* 11 pull \o/
It's like a routine at this point!
p.s. I hope by now you guys are using this one weird trick Falk uses to save minutes from home (people with too much free time hate him)
With regards to the chaff stages in all the events:
- Figure out who has the highest speed stat (almost always will be Tidus)
- Give that guy Zealot
- Set battle speed to 5
- Wait till that guy (Tidus') ATB bar fills up
- toggle autobattle really quickly
- Since that guy (Tidus) has the highest speed stat his attack will go off first even though all the bars start filling at the same time
+ Only one attack animation to clear wave
+ Monster loot animation only plays once per battle
+ Less time spent swapping to Zealot character
It's like a routine at this point!
p.s. I hope by now you guys are using this one weird trick Falk uses to save minutes from home (people with too much free time hate him)
With regards to the chaff stages in all the events:
- Figure out who has the highest speed stat (almost always will be Tidus)
- Give that guy Zealot
- Set battle speed to 5
- Wait till that guy (Tidus') ATB bar fills up
- toggle autobattle really quickly
- Since that guy (Tidus) has the highest speed stat his attack will go off first even though all the bars start filling at the same time
+ Only one attack animation to clear wave
+ Monster loot animation only plays once per battle
+ Less time spent swapping to Zealot character
^ Give me your ball, I'll take it.
6 pulls, no 5*. Got some 3* Flame Rod, which given my poor rod situation might actually be better than the Light Rod for bosses weak to fire, but I would have preferred Yuna's Magistral Rod. Everything else is meh.
Never doing three-pulls ever again. =P Time to get Tidus' 2nd RM. EDIT: Got.
6 pulls, no 5*. Got some 3* Flame Rod, which given my poor rod situation might actually be better than the Light Rod for bosses weak to fire, but I would have preferred Yuna's Magistral Rod. Everything else is meh.
Never doing three-pulls ever again. =P Time to get Tidus' 2nd RM. EDIT: Got.
Random Painted HIghway
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Hey hey hey, 100 gem 5*......... Betrayal sword viii. Not terrible, a natural five in a realm with limited rs, ok ok, we can work with that.
3 pull. Crystal helm vi, great now to 4+, crystal shield vi to 4+ eh, and a 4* IV dagger I hadn't seen, time to dump kunai
3 pull. Crystal helm vi, great now to 4+, crystal shield vi to 4+ eh, and a 4* IV dagger I hadn't seen, time to dump kunai
I find it easier to just send one guy with synergy gear and put him on Auto. The last few events haven't required anything else until you're more than halfway through the elites.
ActStriker
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100-gem pull got me an Emerald Shield.
I'm not really complaining
I'm not really complaining
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