AdawgDaFAB
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I'm still salty that we never got that for free.
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT2| I HAVE NO MYTHRIL AND I MUST SHOUT
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greyshark
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Wait, do retaliate counters not wake up the boss?
Stumpokapow
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They do. I went with Advantilate+Stop for that reason. But when I tried the sleep strategy I didn't use Retaliate.
Ugh, Phase 4 can't come soon enough. In a weird spot in the mid-30s with my main team and the Classic Dungeons are starting to get a bit challenging, but I don't want to dump all of my mats upgrading my current gear any further in case I get better stuff on the next half-off pull.
greyshark
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Got it - makes sense. I used Stop as well - did not need retaliate, but I had the advantage of a RS 5* Rod to deal tons of damage with -ga spells.
Purple Cheeto
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Guys, Puzzle and Dragons is adding Final Fantasy characters. Time to cross over!
HungOverOnATues
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Those of you who are spending a bunch of mythril on refreshes, are you waiting to completely empty your stamina before using mythril or do you just sacrifice the remaining stamina in order to get through them more quickly?
I don't mind wasting like 1 or 2 stamina, but if I have like 7 stamina, I'll usually wait until it is at 15 so I can do one more run, and then refreshing straight after.
I'm currently at 31 characters at level 65 and everyone else at 50 or higher
After using a mythril to refresh my stamina I'm usually sitting at 5-7 leftover stamina at which point I'll wait. If I'm at 1-3 leftover stamina I'll just refresh right away
AdawgDaFAB
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Same here. I have 130 STA and usually end up with 1 or 2 over when I'm done with all of my runs. If I get distracted or take a break, then I'll start up again when I have 15 STA.
Hahahah that's like steroids injection.
Combination. I already planned it all out beforehand, 40/13*/80**/47*** refreshes (values got changed) for Stage 1-4.
* ** *** - These numbers were originally 40/30/70/40, but the only thing I really wanted out of Stage 2 were Major Earth for honing Meteor r2. I lucked out and hit that at 12 Mythril used, so I diverted the rest into Stage 3 and 4 instead.
For Stages 1, 2 and 4 I refresh from 0 because of the lower count.
Stage 3 is hybrid. I'm doing 80 reps, but I split it up. 40 prior to DU12, refreshing as fast as possible with Cloud and Golbez duo, taking Cloud to lv80. (takes ~2 hours per 10 mythril) Break off for DU12, then another 40 refreshes from 0 after DU12 since I'm now at 140stam.
The thing about 140stam vs 137 is that the 'wait time' between refreshes went down from 39m to 30m. When refreshing dozens of them, the time adds up. Additionally, since if you take my Stage 3 plan, the difference isn't 3 stam per refresh, it's 3 stam plus the difference between refreshing ASAP (~4 stam wasted) and refreshing at 0 (<1 stam wasted), so effectively I'm saving 6-7 stam per repetition by doing DU12.
Between the remainder of Stage 3 and Stage 4, that's 87 total refreshes and approximately 550+ stam saved.
p.s. when refreshing from 0, since I'm not rushing through stages ASAP I'm just autobattling (the autobattle option is actually set to 'on') and checking my phone every minute or so while doing other stuff. Only actual sit-down-and-grind period were the initial 40 of Stage 3 which was spamming AOE with Cloud/Golbez as fast as possible to cut down wastage.
Not getting an error message at all, it just infinitely loads.
FAKE EDIT: Restarting the device and then reloading it a couple of times worked
ACTUAL EDIT: Restarting the device seems to have restarted my luck too, first run of the orb dungeon just got me 2 cactuars and a gigantuar, 2 greaters and a major
FAKE EDIT: Restarting the device and then reloading it a couple of times worked
ACTUAL EDIT: Restarting the device seems to have restarted my luck too, first run of the orb dungeon just got me 2 cactuars and a gigantuar, 2 greaters and a major
ActStriker
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I have to keep reminding myself when I'm reading this thread that Falk's strategies and machinations are for beyond the normal player
Starwolf_UK
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As far as loading loops closing and opening usually works however if the problem really persists clearing application cache can work. This does have the downside of having redownload the realms/events which is triggered when you enter them so not recommended if running under data.
Specifically for Orb Dungeon or grinding, no.
In general terms, I think a lot of advice (managing expectations, RNG sample sizes, maths behind stacking buffs and debuffs, etc) are all pretty sound regardless
Also hey, a dude's gotta make up for 0/44 with awesome hones OK?!
mhmm, I understand some of these words
Edit: Got two Greater Orbs back to back on Hard of the current orb phase (not high enough level to do the highest difficulty)
. Baby steps! Just kinda grinding this out when I have the stamina to do so and level up some other characters on the side, I'm waiting for the new half-off pull to hit tonight to level up gear to try to push further into classic dungeons, the last couple I'm barely getting Master on.RocketDarkness
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Dark Bahamut was last update, so you're not too terribly far behind. 4 or so dungeons to the most recent update, and then I think Red's MC is ~3 dungeons in?
Awesome and thanks! Hoping to stay caught up after all of this so it's good to know I'm not too far behind.
HungOverOnATues
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Just hit 140 stamina and it definitely helps a bit, it just seems like I'll be spending the next two days or more trying to spend this mythril without wasting too much (~45 shards). I definitely planned on spending more time in phase 3 than any of the others anyways, but I'd hoped to do some of the Hope event on the last day so I can get some refreshes in on phase 4. It looks like I'll be cutting it close.
Did the Seymour Flux fight and didn't take any decent physical mitigation which lead to some annoying RNG wiping out my healer. Was getting frustrated as my stamina continued to waste while S/Ling the boss, then after finally clearing it, it dropped a GDO, and then the very first round of Orb dungeon I did afterwards dropped this
Alright game, I forgive you.
It depends on what you have. R3 Waterja and Thundaja are really nice. For summons go with Valefor. If you don't have highly hones summons, Meteor or Quake I would seriously consider honing Ruinga once we get it with the Hope event boss rush
If you don't have the Breakdowns be sure to farm Greater Power and Greater Non-elemental orbs during the next phase as well.
IdreamofHIME
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Do they have noses? I can't tell if they have noses. Guys were going apeshit because Ramza has a nose in Dissidia 3.
Almost 3 stages of farming over and I JUST realized that the lootdrop animation scaling a bunch of fake-wasted-time based on your battle speed also has a hilarious side effect - every time something drops loot at battle speed 5, people with sap (Dragoon's Determination, Self Sacrifice) take three whole ticks of sap while not doing anything.
Don't look up FFT hentai or you will become even more confused.
I haven't been following it super closely, but I think they said everyone who was in Dissidia 2: Electric Boogaloo will be returning.
No he definitely looks feminine. I've never liked Ramza's young design because of the ponytail and the fact he made me think he was an awesome female hero when I was younger.
his second design is better and balances out the feminine appearance better so that he still is obviously male but has a softer look.No he definitely looks feminine. I've never liked Ramza's young design because of the ponytail and the fact he made me think he was an awesome female hero when I was younger.
Yeah I vastly prefer his second look, not a fan of the hockey jersey he has on in the first one. Sucks that the minimal merchandise they've put out for FFT always has him in the first one, and cameos (like in Theathrhythm) use it as well.
broz0rs
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hey.. isn't that good old Wiegraf? My all time favorite Final Fantasy punching bag.
for that encounter, there should be a game mechanic where if you choose just one character, boost should be stackable by up to ten. (FFT inside joke)
good luck to those pulling the final Lucky Draw. Especially Falk!
No. No. No. No. I do NOT want good luck in this case. It would literally ruin everything.
11/11 5* luck is fine
PixyJunket
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I got one Major Summon Orb and two each Major Fire and Ice Orbs over ten mythril refreshes at 128 stamina (minus stamina used for VII event bonus battles).
But really, this event is about 4★ Orbs and I've been happy with that (even more so when orb conversion is here, bye-bye 3★ and 5★ Summon Orbs).
Going twenty mythril for the next batch, I need so many of all three in this set. Bladeblitz, Curaja (?), Breakdowns, Pound, Dismissal, Valefor, OH GOD IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH.
But really, this event is about 4★ Orbs and I've been happy with that (even more so when orb conversion is here, bye-bye 3★ and 5★ Summon Orbs).
Going twenty mythril for the next batch, I need so many of all three in this set. Bladeblitz, Curaja (?), Breakdowns, Pound, Dismissal, Valefor, OH GOD IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH.
thunder shoes pls
That was the first time in my life were both me and a friend didn't have backup saves and had to completely start over
Same here. Probably about 10-12 new friends in the past day or two. My RW is Tidus with Brotherhood, so not even anything particularly special. Weird!
broz0rs
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thunder shoes pls
That was the first time in my life were both me and a friend didn't have backup saves and had to completely start over
oh brother. i'm certain that the Wiegraf encounter had various "first time" stuff for a lot of people, such as
first time to reroll
first time to toss controller
first time you wanted to kill the gamefaqs author
it felt like such an accomplishment after figuring that fight out. it's no surprise that he's chosen as a boss for this collaboration for the nostalgia factor.
I pray for your last Lucky Draw.
For the stats nerds:
Summary:
Total Mythril Spent for 3 stages: 138 (40/13/80 plus 5 for zooming past Cloud event and DU12)
Total Orbs from Orb Dungeon (excludes Orb Dungeon/Cloud Event/DU12 Clear/Mastery Rewards)
Black
5* 2
4* 46
3* 775
Lightning
5* 2
4* 47
3* 782
Dark
5* 8 (lol)
4* 51
3* 759
White
5* 5
4* 22
3* 339
Earth
5* 3
4* 19
3* 324
Holy
5* 2
4* 24
3* 328
Summon (wooooooooooo)
5* 8
4* 77
3* 1321
Fire
5* 14 (Give thanks to Lord Cacutar)
4* 93
3* 1354
Ice
5* 14 (Same)
4* 101
3* 1349
GRAND TOTALS
5* 58
4* 480
3* 7331
edit: I think I got gipped on Greater Summons tbh, would gladly swap ice and summon results around lol
edit2: Corrected numbers by subtracting the 3 Major Fire from Cloud +++. Oops.
Summary:
Total Mythril Spent for 3 stages: 138 (40/13/80 plus 5 for zooming past Cloud event and DU12)
Total Orbs from Orb Dungeon (excludes Orb Dungeon/Cloud Event/DU12 Clear/Mastery Rewards)
Black
5* 2
4* 46
3* 775
Lightning
5* 2
4* 47
3* 782
Dark
5* 8 (lol)
4* 51
3* 759
White
5* 5
4* 22
3* 339
Earth
5* 3
4* 19
3* 324
Holy
5* 2
4* 24
3* 328
Summon (wooooooooooo)
5* 8
4* 77
3* 1321
Fire
5* 14 (Give thanks to Lord Cacutar)
4* 93
3* 1354
Ice
5* 14 (Same)
4* 101
3* 1349
GRAND TOTALS
5* 58
4* 480
3* 7331
edit: I think I got gipped on Greater Summons tbh, would gladly swap ice and summon results around lol
edit2: Corrected numbers by subtracting the 3 Major Fire from Cloud +++. Oops.
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