BassForever
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TBH it was more there to help build up to second stone skin for the final 1/3 of the fight.
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT2| I HAVE NO MYTHRIL AND I MUST SHOUT
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TBH it was more there to help build up to second stone skin for the final 1/3 of the fight.
Yeah I was also doing Elites up to a point but then figured it would be best to push through to unlock all of the levels, then I could go back with one set of characters/gear to go through all of the elites for a realm at once as opposed to having to switch stuff around etc. I think I broke off from doing Elites once they were getting up in the 90s. Generally speaking I can do anything up to around 100 fine, past that gets dicey. So far I've been able to get the MC2 from every special event since I got high enough level wise about ~2 months ago, but the MC2 battle will sometimes cost me a mythril or 2 (never more than that though). I figure it's worth spending the mythril if I need to for the MC2, but so far I haven't spent any Mythril on core dungeons with one exception, and in the near future don't know that I would, I'd probably just let myself fail out of it. Unless it's one of the last ones or something doesn't seem like it would be worth it really.
PixyJunket
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I can see the finish line for Elite Dungeons (151 Stamina), but I see no reason to rush to it.
My current plan is to get to 4/5 Stamina Shards before Sunday each week, and clear a 61 Stamina Dungeon for a free ~4.5 runs through EXP Dungeon.
Now that I beat Beatrix with what I have, I feel pretty good about not spending anything on banners until the anniversary madness starts (which I should have 500+ Mythril ready for).
My current plan is to get to 4/5 Stamina Shards before Sunday each week, and clear a 61 Stamina Dungeon for a free ~4.5 runs through EXP Dungeon.
Now that I beat Beatrix with what I have, I feel pretty good about not spending anything on banners until the anniversary madness starts (which I should have 500+ Mythril ready for).
I just checked and even at 132 Stamina I still have 29 Classic difficulty dungeons left, and god knows how many Elites. Jesus Christ, I really want to get the game on farm status but the dungeons keep coming lol. Still fairly happy I've gotten up to the Stamina I have now though, wish I'd had this much for the orbfests 
BassForever
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Did a few tweaks and easily got mastery, replaced vivi with aerith who has healing wind, kirin, and shellga, gave protectega to Beatrix and used emerald light as my rw. Only took 2 attempts with that build first time only went bad since ult beatrix randomly did a 3rd reflect which boned me.
PixyJunket
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I was in the same area a few weeks ago, you can catch up very quickly.I just checked and even at 132 Stamina I still have 29 Classic difficulty dungeons left, and god knows how many Elites. Jesus Christ, I really want to get the game on farm status but the dungeons keep coming lol. Still fairly happy I've gotten up to the Stamina I have now though, wish I'd had this much for the orbfests
I went from eighty dungeons to twenty in about two or three weeks, and that included spending all day Tuesday and Sunday in their Daily Dungeons and completing events.
Yeah I'm doing Sunday Dailies but no other days right now. If I keep relatively on top of Stamina management I figure I can knock out the remaining classic dungeons in maybe like 1-2 weeks hopefully unless they get way harder or something. The Elites are gonna be a struggle though, even ignoring the sheer volume of them (I'm sure I have way way over 100 undone) the difficulty on them starts to become an issue since my RS is still really poor in most realms, especially for weapons. I feel like I might hit a point where because my gear RS is so bad I'll need to level/egg up characters from that realm to help compensate. We'll see, by the time I hit that point we might be at the BSSB (or whatever it is, I forget) banners and maybe I'll have some luck there with pulls.
Either way I finally feel like I'm making some progress and even if the end is still a good ways off I can see myself making it now so I'm pretty happy about that.
PixyJunket
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Barring any changes to the timeline, we are getting another round of Super Soul Break banners in about two months
After that, Burst Soul Breaks will come (along with Abyss Events, woo), so Burst Soul Break Celebration would be a few months after that.
After that, Burst Soul Breaks will come (along with Abyss Events, woo), so Burst Soul Break Celebration would be a few months after that.
That's even more than my Decil with Launch hitting at 7.3k a pop. What gear do you have on Pecil? I still have a 2*++ Mythril Helm on mine lol.
BassForever
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Down to 41 elites, at 148 and 1/5 stamina. Not sure if I'm looking forward to joining the grinds dailies daily group but it'll be a huge stress off my shoulders to finally be caught up.
You see that's why I started a Japanese game in the first place...I was bored with just grinding dailies, some of my global stamina goes to waste when there's nothing new. Don't be in too much of rush to catch up eh? I'm at the exact point ye are at in global in Japan now...132 stamina. Dropped the elites at the FFIV fiend boss rush and belted ahead with the classics, only doing the odd elite without stamina shards to min/max stamina usage if I'd lose out by doing a classic. Just finished off 13s Bahamut in classics. Going through one or two updates a day depending in events running etc. Slowed down for a bit with the abyss active again the last while.
Random Painted HIghway
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Xii is basically just like v for me, best weapon is a 4++ axe that is around 190atk and a couple other 160 atk rs 4s and then a heavy armor with rs. My level 68 Steiner has 361 defense with rs, haven't checked pcecil. Honed armor strike to r4 and will abuse the hell out of it.
I have Penelos staff in Jp, one of my first relics over there. Very nice for a mid boss heal and atk boost. I won't pull but if you get it, it is not something to be disappointed in having.
I have Penelos staff in Jp, one of my first relics over there. Very nice for a mid boss heal and atk boost. I won't pull but if you get it, it is not something to be disappointed in having.
Have it myself there too. I started with the Basch event and she hasn't left my team. Would love to have it in global as it would stack with my Leons HOTE and have a heal along for the ride. It's a class relic.
I actually like grinding in games, I have zero problem getting on and spending my stamina on dailies, I actually want to get to that endgame where all I'm worried about is keeping up with events and dungeon updates while doing dailies in the interim. Especially in my case since I still don't have a lot of the endgame abilities crafted (I was just barely able to make Full Break a week or two ago).
Me too. I am a fan of games that require a bit of a grind...but I'm a day one player and I've been caught up with content since launch for the most part. Global just is a little less exciting for that reason and logging in just to grind dailies had become an in game and real life chore. Black and Power days like today still draw me in, and sometimes exp day (but new content seems to always drop around then and new always draws me more than grinding these days)
EDIT: I think orbfest (especially the recent Japanese one) soured me on dailies a lot. The return for effort is minuscule in comparison.
PixyJunket
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Burning stamina on a Daily only takes like ten minutes? Even better when ++ comes out soon.
Yea, but not an enjoyable ten minutes. Could be doing something else and I concern myself more with stamina wastage in Japan as I'm on the catch-up. The 30 stamina dungeons would be a welcome change for me and make me more likely to bother. Just at the burnout stage. If I hadn't have started Japan to keep my interest and have other things going on in ffrk during down times I probably would have dropped it, and I'd have been annoyed if I had done. If I could easily auto dailies it wouldn't be an issue as I'd let them off while I do other things. Having to pay attention to wave upon wave of trash just isn't for me right now. When Golbez's ruin materia comes out here I can throw in a mages to level who can auto battle too and the chore will be less
Ps: That RM is damn good. Auto battling through trash in Japan and Vivi is hitting for about 5k, aka, harder than Cloud with a 5* realm synergy weapon.
Ps: That RM is damn good. Auto battling through trash in Japan and Vivi is hitting for about 5k, aka, harder than Cloud with a 5* realm synergy weapon.
AdawgDaFAB
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I really need to start paying more attention when I'm doing daily farming.
I don't have a team that can safely auto through dailies, but I can easily beat them by spaming Ruinaga / Meteor from my lvl 78 Rinoa w/ Haste RM. However, today I died 4 or 5 times by starting a battle while doing something else, only to look back at my phone and see my team dead. >_>
I don't have a team that can safely auto through dailies, but I can easily beat them by spaming Ruinaga / Meteor from my lvl 78 Rinoa w/ Haste RM. However, today I died 4 or 5 times by starting a battle while doing something else, only to look back at my phone and see my team dead. >_>
Dark Helm, meaning synergy on both character and amor. It's gonna be weaker in other realms if you don't have a Heavy Armor/Shield/Helm/Light Armor (in that order - HOLY CRAP SHIELDS HAVE A USE LOL) but it's still going to hit for 9999 anyway with buffs/debuffs.
Since there's a thread on Reddit about shattering Armor Strike, I'm gonna crosspost from a different forum
edit: I rarely did dailies until Orb Combination. Now I'm doing the dailies that give Black/Power/Earth, last of which is due to my Orbfest 1.0 farming priorities. (Still not much use for Holy/White, heh)
++ wouldn't change that much. The daily refurbish (the one on JP that introduces points where you can buy everything incl summon orbs) would probably get me to go nuts on dailies again.
Random Painted HIghway
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Weird event. Penelo and Fran featured, only need vaan for medal conditions.
Back to the usual 3* luck on 100-gem pulls (I am still salty as fuck about back to back Pinwheels, you guys don't even know). Even if either/both of these FFXII banners are good I refuse to pull on FFXII banners on principle due to the unrelenting barrage of FFXII 3* garbage the game has thrown at me constantly since day one.
Oh wow I didn't have Ashe? Crazy, dunno how that was the case. Is this the first time she's been available in a while? I've been playing for....3-4 months I think?
Edit: Just looked, I've only been playing this since October 24th? God I feel so old, it feels like I've been playing it way longer.
Edit 2: Wait, I didn't have Vaan either? That...that can't be right? At first I thought maybe at the end of the battle it was just showing the character obtained + stats screen and maybe I missed the character being converted into a growth egg part, but didn't happen here either. Am I crazy or what, has it really been that long since these characters have been available? I've got 10/12 FFXII dungeons available to me and it looks like Fran is the only FFXII character you actually get through FFXII's core dungeons? That seems bizarre.
Edit: Just looked, I've only been playing this since October 24th? God I feel so old, it feels like I've been playing it way longer.
Edit 2: Wait, I didn't have Vaan either? That...that can't be right? At first I thought maybe at the end of the battle it was just showing the character obtained + stats screen and maybe I missed the character being converted into a growth egg part, but didn't happen here either. Am I crazy or what, has it really been that long since these characters have been available? I've got 10/12 FFXII dungeons available to me and it looks like Fran is the only FFXII character you actually get through FFXII's core dungeons? That seems bizarre.
You played it right after I started on my jigsaw :V
edit: put in $3 for 100gems on XII and later on BSSB banner
RAINBOW FLASH
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Oh FFRK, if it wasn't going to be a XII item you could have given me a unique SB item at least.
jk that will never happen
So I've got three shared aoe heals, a single ally heal SB, protectga & shellga shared SBs, a shared non elemental magic SB.
All with decent stats but still. I'd trade them all for an SSB relic.
I only have four unique SB relics. If something doesn't change soon I might quit playing the game
All with decent stats but still. I'd trade them all for an SSB relic.
I only have four unique SB relics. If something doesn't change soon I might quit playing the game
BassForever
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Man FFXII truly feels like it gets the short end of the stick from DeNA
Its banners are generally mediocre
All other banners have a flood of 3/4* weapons from 12 that nobody wants
The XII characters are horribly lopsided where even if you have someone's SB weapon they don't seem to be very useful
The weapons you need for each character to excel at what they specialize in are rarely good outside of their sb weapons (guns for balthier, bows for bunny girl, magic swords for ashe) and are generally better used by other characters :X
Its banners are generally mediocre
All other banners have a flood of 3/4* weapons from 12 that nobody wants
The XII characters are horribly lopsided where even if you have someone's SB weapon they don't seem to be very useful
The weapons you need for each character to excel at what they specialize in are rarely good outside of their sb weapons (guns for balthier, bows for bunny girl, magic swords for ashe) and are generally better used by other characters :X
I have a Ras Alghethi with max augments, but didn't have Balthier until this event. All his attacks/abilities are doing great damage, I just wish the SB wasn't a crummy one hit AoE.
No regrets on pumping it full of Rosetta stones though. Its sitting at a nice 116 ATK in non-RS realms/ 205 ATK with RS, meaning I can reliably use him, Tyro or any of the other Gun support users regardless of the realm they're in.
No regrets on pumping it full of Rosetta stones though. Its sitting at a nice 116 ATK in non-RS realms/ 205 ATK with RS, meaning I can reliably use him, Tyro or any of the other Gun support users regardless of the realm they're in.
Star Falcon
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Did the same. Kinda funny how you can blow away an Ultimate even with a lv.26 characters in party by using some cheese strategy.
Just got WOL RM2 clearing out first part of XII event so i'll go back and give Beatrix Potter another go before event ends.
Took ages, but I was able to master it now. Finally full break R2!
PixyJunket
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Ya know, since I have both Sentinel's Grimoire and Stoneskin II, I'm thinking it might be good to start hoarding Mighty Guard friends?
But then again, attack up, area haste or heavy regen are probably still more useful.
But then again, attack up, area haste or heavy regen are probably still more useful.
Thanks to DeNA skipping 2 event (RoM and Accessory of Light), we should get the permanent Hall of Rites in about 17 days. (it was 5 days after Exdeath event in JP)
I'll finally be able to get Mako Might and Dr Mog Teaching.
I'll finally be able to get Mako Might and Dr Mog Teaching.
In before they'll skip it and put it back just before the Global Anniversary
Here is the link to datamined translated event banners up until Garnet MC2, we might get Accessories of Light in a later date since it's a side event.
Random Painted HIghway
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I don't get why you would shatter armor strike, at least if you've pulled since the beginning and have a variety of heavy armors for realms. My worst max defense for Cecil (not using a defensive weapon) is 175 base + 129 diamond armor + 20 for the gauntlets accessory for a total of 324 defense worst case, which is only applicable for vii, x, Xiv, and core realms for me. Every other realm other than II, my total def is going to be at least 350 and in some cases I hit 400+ (I, V, VI). I hit 399 with rs in xii. Seems a useful attack skill to keep around to use in lieu of pound or launch.
Then again I'm not concerned with power orbs having spent tons of mythril each orb festival to get to the point where I've been able to r4 any four star ability I thought I'd use.
Edit: I would bet that accessory of light is being held to a coincide with the anniversary orb festival/ssb banners.
Lights and Waves
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Guess we aren't get the SSB banner for a while then? I'll spend my mythril on the FF7AC banner then.
Coming near the anniversary on March 27th. We most likely won't see which relics are included until late March
Should start with Cloudy Wolf.
There will be a login bonus period with blank MC too at the release of the Hall of Rites.
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