BassForever
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2x of rydia's SSB whip and Tyro's healing grimoire
2x of rydia's SSB whip and Tyro's healing grimoire
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT2| I HAVE NO MYTHRIL AND I MUST SHOUT
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jasminlovesyoux
Banned
Mastered the nightmare with the following team, no medals lost. Took one save/load.
Couple things to note;
I have Garnets Ramuh Soul Break, which was perfect for making a Lighting orb in that phase. Entering the third phase of the boss fight, I had an ice orb out, and a powered up lighting and fire orb. Although I'm pretty sure I at least hit the fire orb with a third Ifrit but I didnt see it power up twice, which I read you could get three charges of. So thats kinda weird.
Lastly the double cast Summon(whatever its called blood of the summoner) record materia triggered for my Bahumut in the final phase, making the killing of all the summoned orbs that much easier.
The real trick to this battle is getting those elemental orbs out and killing them asap in that third phase. Thats the major gimmick to this Nightmare fight.
Couple things to note;
I have Garnets Ramuh Soul Break, which was perfect for making a Lighting orb in that phase. Entering the third phase of the boss fight, I had an ice orb out, and a powered up lighting and fire orb. Although I'm pretty sure I at least hit the fire orb with a third Ifrit but I didnt see it power up twice, which I read you could get three charges of. So thats kinda weird.
Lastly the double cast Summon(whatever its called blood of the summoner) record materia triggered for my Bahumut in the final phase, making the killing of all the summoned orbs that much easier.
The real trick to this battle is getting those elemental orbs out and killing them asap in that third phase. Thats the major gimmick to this Nightmare fight.
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
The luck draw netted me 3 5 stars,
Runeblade for Ashe
Airwing for Hope
Cyclone Grimoire for Tyro
Overall, I just like that sword. I dont know if the other two will ever come in handy.
Runeblade for Ashe
Airwing for Hope
Cyclone Grimoire for Tyro
Overall, I just like that sword. I dont know if the other two will ever come in handy.
BassForever
Member
Who else can use a whip besides Rydia of note?
Faris, Krile, Relm, Quistis, Selphie.
Nah
RESULTS:
0/11 WHM draw
1/11 Combat draw, dupe Buster Sword VII
2/11 SMN draw, dupe Keepsake Ribbon VII
and
and
YES IT'S NOT A VII DUPE
but wait
i had
so it's kind of a VII dupe anyway
Starwolf_UK
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Got 3 new SBs from the lucky draw:
*A 5* natural weapon for FFVI...Enhancer. Limited number of users.
*A BSSB...that means one thing...Tiny Bee. Not what I expected to be my first BSSB.
*Aeriths SSB. Great an FFVII mag/mind stat stick at last and a reraise medica. I hope I never need to use this but like Flames of war it might save my bacon some time.
*A 5* natural weapon for FFVI...Enhancer. Limited number of users.
*A BSSB...that means one thing...Tiny Bee. Not what I expected to be my first BSSB.
*Aeriths SSB. Great an FFVII mag/mind stat stick at last and a reraise medica. I hope I never need to use this but like Flames of war it might save my bacon some time.
If you add in Tyro you get the realization that half the whip users are children.
Mental Atrophy
Banned
Confirmed that you are correct. Soothing Light does not damage undead. It must be vestigial data in the json, because it has argument fields for both healing and damage similar to Phoenix Plunder (Locke), but its targeting fields are the same as other healing SB so it has no way to actually target an enemy.
This was my Neo Bahamut party:
This took me three tries. First time I used a Stoneskin RW and five summoners. I was able to get in two Swift Bolts and a summon from everybody when the magic orbs become targetable, but just barely couldn't kill them before Nightmare Gigaflare wipes my party. Second time I used a Lulu's Focus RW and the extra oomph let me destroy the orbs, but even with Shellga, +50% RES, and somebody using a group cure SB, I couldn't survive the megaflares long enough to defeat the boss. It probably would've worked if I fully powered the magic orbs, but I only got one to medium and the other two were small, because I pushed Neo into the final phase too quickly. Third time I just swapped Aeris for Y'shtola so that I could have my own Stoneskin while running a Focus RW, and that worked like a charm. I imagine you can defeat the orbs no problem if you have Haste(ga), summon (S)SBs, or Bahamut, though.
PixyJunket
Member
I drew a goose egg, my second one recently, neither of which were too bothersome.
Either way, hopefully we get the guaranteed 5★ update soon as part of our early QoL update schedule.
Either way, hopefully we get the guaranteed 5★ update soon as part of our early QoL update schedule.
Yeah, but I'd say it needs to be a healthy mix. Draw on special banners or where you lack synergy (without eyeing specific relics) and spend the rest on Orbs.
Megalosaro
Banned
Holy shit, is this thread title in reference to Harlan Ellison
AdawgDaFAB
Member
Indeed it is. It fits even moreso with the Japanese name for Shout being Scream.
Nah
RESULTS:
0/11 WHM draw
1/11 Combat draw, dupe Buster Sword VII
2/11 SMN draw, dupe Keepsake Ribbon VII
and
and
YES IT'S NOT A VII DUPE
but wait
i had
so it's kind of a VII dupe anyway
I'd love to have either one of those
So turn that frown upside down Falk
Unrelated, but I can't believe we don't know when BSBfest is starting or have the banners translated yet. It's got to be any day now right? It seemed like most people were pegging the 27th as the start date, and that's in 8 days.
DukeLongfellow
Member
I'd love to have either one of those
So turn that frown upside down Falk
Unrelated, but I can't believe we don't know when BSBfest is starting or have the banners translated yet. It's got to be any day now right? It seemed like most people were pegging the 27th as the start date, and that's in 8 days.
Folks on reddit anticipate we should have info about it tomorrow evening at the latest.
AdawgDaFAB
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We tend to get Fests every 3 months right? When was the summer one last year?
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Ugh this game. I get one little rainbow orb yay... but it's a dupe. A Sentinel Grimoire dupe, so I can't even use it as a stat stick.
I believe it's also NAT where most similar SBs are WHT, so it's definitely a weird one.
HungOverOnATues
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I have to imagine that a 6* book would be great for Nightmare dungeons at least.
So, much Green Jelly... Hopefully, next fest I can get Tyro's SG or BSSB with my Mythril.
Welcome to the Whip club.
PixyJunket
Member
Knowing my luck, it's probably going to be July 4th week (since I may not be able to attend to the game then).
BassForever
Member
Yes
No
Stat buffs and debuffs have different numbers in the system depending upon what areas they hit so war dance and shout have the same system number so one will always cancel out the other. Sentinel Grimoire and the Odin defense buff have different system numbers (1 being def/res the other being just def) so they do stack.
Advocatus Diaboli
Member
Shout's a +50% straight attack buff, and War Dance is, I think, +30%, so they won't stack. It will, however, stack with stuff like Basch's shield and Leon's Hand of the Emperor.
SG will stack with Odin, though. It's because SG is a +DEF/+RES, and Odin's just a +DEF. Basically, like buffs overwrite each other; if they're different, they'll stack. It's why Full Break (-ATK/-MAG/-DEF/-RES) stacks with the Breakdowns too.
So, it would be in my best interest to use a different AOE heal that didn't have an attack boost, after using Shout?
CuthbertAllgoodz
Member
Generally yes since you overwrite 50% with 30%.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I got my third Gravity Rod (still not sure if I should 5++ it) and Rinoa's thing. Given some of the 0/11s, I guess I can't complain.
No reason why you shouldn't, especially since soon enough you'll be able to turn it into a 6*
greyshark
Member
Neo Bahamut was pretty easy - R5 3* summons, R4 Valefor/Maduin and R1 elemental summons to fill out the rest of my slots was plenty. I brought Diaga on Aeris which was a total waste - 3400 damage per cast and I can use it 2-3 times max. Haste is mandatory to power up the orbs, but all in all pretty straightforward.
never forget
(I spent way too long looking through the thread for this)
what have we done
Lights and Waves
Member
I got so many relics from the lucky summon banner, yet none of them were SSB :'(
Zippedpinhead
Member
Took down the brothers ultimate today. Vargas was all preparation, no S/L just went in, charged SBs on ipoohs and went to town.
Three stooges took two S/L (the first two times they focus fired a character). Third time I took them down with only 1 revive. Walloped on Larry while doing minimal damage to the others hoping that if he got revived I could get an instant KO.
Well he died and while I was evenly taking down the others Larry revived. Literally the first attack on him was from my zantetsuken attacker. Followed by an instant death.
Smooth sailing after that.
Oh and today you learned this: Yesterday was Moe Howard's birthday (moe of the three stooges fame) He would have been 119 years old. Still hilarious, and obviously remembered By the localization team of FF6.
Three stooges took two S/L (the first two times they focus fired a character). Third time I took them down with only 1 revive. Walloped on Larry while doing minimal damage to the others hoping that if he got revived I could get an instant KO.
Well he died and while I was evenly taking down the others Larry revived. Literally the first attack on him was from my zantetsuken attacker. Followed by an instant death.
Smooth sailing after that.
Oh and today you learned this: Yesterday was Moe Howard's birthday (moe of the three stooges fame) He would have been 119 years old. Still hilarious, and obviously remembered By the localization team of FF6.
APZonerunner
Member
Do SBs count towards 'magic'? Just checking for Neo Bahamut; if you use something that's inherently magical (like Ashe's Holy SB, or Terra's Fire/Water ones), does it count?
greyshark
Member
I believe if it's 'NAT' type (not specifically called out as Black magic) then it's ok - but you don't get the bonus damage unless the SB is of 'SUM' type (and probably won't be worth it).
SBs have types just like normal abilities. Those SBs for Ashe and Terra are all BLK, so they will fail that medal condition.
CuthbertAllgoodz
Member
Don't remember last time where I had nothing better to do than farming Fire/Earth daily... Ark in Nightmare can drop Major Summon Orb but drop rate is low and boss is annoying.
Anyone feel like they won't be able to do the first U+ Cid's Mission? I have no special SB for X, I have Jecht Rush, Focus and The Sending. For relics with good attack I have Variable Steel at 196 ATK, the free dagger at 189 ATK then it goes to Nodachi ++ at 160. Focus will help against Jecht Rush but for once the boss does mainly physical attacks... So many people have HotF, that will sure be helpful. I will have to go with a shared medica. Not looking forward to it and looking forward to it at the same time. That AoE Slow will be brutal...
Anyone feel like they won't be able to do the first U+ Cid's Mission? I have no special SB for X, I have Jecht Rush, Focus and The Sending. For relics with good attack I have Variable Steel at 196 ATK, the free dagger at 189 ATK then it goes to Nodachi ++ at 160. Focus will help against Jecht Rush but for once the boss does mainly physical attacks... So many people have HotF, that will sure be helpful. I will have to go with a shared medica. Not looking forward to it and looking forward to it at the same time. That AoE Slow will be brutal...
AdawgDaFAB
Member
I'm not drowning in X relics like I am with 4, 6, 7 and 9, but I still have a decent relic spread: Force Sabre (Tidus's Jecht Shot SSB), Lightning Steel (Slice & Dice), Lullaby Rod (HotF), Mage's Staff (Shared Medica), Celebration Blade, Emerald Bracer, 4*++ Nodachi, 4*++ Wizard Armlet, 4*+ Bright Armguard.
Hopefully I can pull it off.
I'm going to try the Cid Mission but I'm not exactly optimistic. My FFX synergy is poor to the point where I am considering drawing on this first banner; the only bad relic on it is Yuna's.
Rather annoying that the boss is weak to holy and FFX is one of two realms with no one over 3* knight.
Rather annoying that the boss is weak to holy and FFX is one of two realms with no one over 3* knight.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I guess this is what I get for never making any summons. Then again, the only reason to complete this stuff is for the sake of completing it since making a 6* summon seems kind of impractical anyway. lol
Random Painted HIghway
Member
Bahamut was a fun fight. I used:
Aeris ramuh r5 valefor r5 healing wind sb
Arc ifrit r5 Shellga healing sb
Terra shiva r5 Bahamut r3 freebie witches hat sb
Yuna curaja protecga hotf
Tyro phantasm and mana peaon sentinel grimoire, celebration grimoire.
So. Four of five characters had a healing sb available on demand, only needed hotf. Rolled with old sazh for the rw for the haste. Pretty simple but fun, only one sl needed. Phantasm did a striking amount of damage.
..,
I don't think cids will be at bad for me. I don't have any x ssbs but I do have a katana three swords a dagger and a lullabye rod oh and a mog doll for offense. We shall see.
Aeris ramuh r5 valefor r5 healing wind sb
Arc ifrit r5 Shellga healing sb
Terra shiva r5 Bahamut r3 freebie witches hat sb
Yuna curaja protecga hotf
Tyro phantasm and mana peaon sentinel grimoire, celebration grimoire.
So. Four of five characters had a healing sb available on demand, only needed hotf. Rolled with old sazh for the rw for the haste. Pretty simple but fun, only one sl needed. Phantasm did a striking amount of damage.
..,
I don't think cids will be at bad for me. I don't have any x ssbs but I do have a katana three swords a dagger and a lullabye rod oh and a mog doll for offense. We shall see.
BassForever
Member
It's really good for solo boss fights and will make Auron your MVP for the upcoming Cid mission.
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