How to Stop an Exploding Man: The Josef Story.
It has solid stats and is probably worth keeping for the rare core synergy. The SB is actually pretty good, too.
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT2| I HAVE NO MYTHRIL AND I MUST SHOUT
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How to Stop an Exploding Man: The Josef Story.
It has solid stats and is probably worth keeping for the rare core synergy. The SB is actually pretty good, too.
CuthbertAllgoodz
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I know that I have just been lucky but damn, 2 Major Black Orbs and 4 Greater Orbs today in about 240 stamina spent in the new daily dungeon.
pancakesandsex
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So what are people doing for the 3 man quest?
HungOverOnATues
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2nd major orb of the day - MPO this time. 6 more to go until Full Break r2.
I'd been meaning to ask if this was even possible. I've gotten a 1* every single time so far.
HungOverOnATues
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It's a 0.138% chance as of right now.
PixyJunket
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The new Daily Dungeon makes me happy.
Of course, they WOULD release it right after the Orb Event, haha.
Of course, they WOULD release it right after the Orb Event, haha.
I feel yah. I'm the same about Squall and Rinoa. Once Seifer arrives he also will have perm stay in my party.
No idea. We are also still waiting for the rolling gacha.
Really, I just want the new UI here. If it allows me to play on my phone again, it would be great.
I'm slowly falling further and further behind on the dungeons. I'll hopefully be finishing up the Update 7 dungeons tomorrow before the new event.
With my schedule, the little time we get between events, and needing to use all of Sunday to level up event relevant characters, It's difficult to keep up. I'm tempted to just use mythril to speed through the dungeons, at least on normal.
On a side note, does anyone else wish that they would do another EXP Festival (By which I mean the type with a high drop rate for exp eggs).
With my schedule, the little time we get between events, and needing to use all of Sunday to level up event relevant characters, It's difficult to keep up. I'm tempted to just use mythril to speed through the dungeons, at least on normal.
On a side note, does anyone else wish that they would do another EXP Festival (By which I mean the type with a high drop rate for exp eggs).
BassForever
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Oh damn that's clutch will be a great addition for upcoming festivals
Star Falcon
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Ruinga is pretty awesome IMO! Once I get it honed one more level i'll probably drop Quake for it except for AOE heavy dungeons where i'll use both. No Meteor/Maduin here yet, and Valefor isn't really usable enough at R2 for me.
He seems the best of all the Dragoons. I'm levelling him at the moment actually (currently lv. 52) - he isn't bad just has a bit of a limited moveset. However after a boost from Sword Oath his Jump does about 6k damage which is decent enough. Agreed his default SB is awful though.
Lights and Waves
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I bought ruinga and protectga because y'all are so convincing. Hopefully I use them well!
Edit: Just how long does protectga last during a battle? The entirety?
Edit: Just how long does protectga last during a battle? The entirety?
ActStriker
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I don't know the exact numbers but Protectga lasts a decent amount of time. You do need to refresh it if the battle goes long enough though.
Lights and Waves
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Thank you!
Star Falcon
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Is that at a speed setting of 3?
It's kind of misleading, because the game 'pauses' that timer so often (whenever ATB stops)
A better/more useful ballpark gauge is going by turns - breaks (15s) last roughly 2 turns normally, or 3 turns with Boon or Lunatic High's AOE haste.
Speaking of the speed setting, there's a lot of other shenanigans with it because of how the game is coded. For example, when an enemy that's not the last enemy drops loot, ATB doesn't pause, so different speeds will charge the ATB gauge different amounts during that duration of the loot drop animation.
At speed 5 it's possible (and quite common) with Autoattack on, for an early character like Cloud to get a first attack, 1-shot a mob, fill his ATB up while the mob drops loot and then get a 2nd attack off before anyone else.
Also at speed 5 every time that happens you take 3 ticks of Sap (from Self-Sacrifice, etc) which is hilariously stupid.
A better/more useful ballpark gauge is going by turns - breaks (15s) last roughly 2 turns normally, or 3 turns with Boon or Lunatic High's AOE haste.
Speaking of the speed setting, there's a lot of other shenanigans with it because of how the game is coded. For example, when an enemy that's not the last enemy drops loot, ATB doesn't pause, so different speeds will charge the ATB gauge different amounts during that duration of the loot drop animation.
At speed 5 it's possible (and quite common) with Autoattack on, for an early character like Cloud to get a first attack, 1-shot a mob, fill his ATB up while the mob drops loot and then get a 2nd attack off before anyone else.
Also at speed 5 every time that happens you take 3 ticks of Sap (from Self-Sacrifice, etc) which is hilariously stupid.
Star Falcon
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Good information, thanks. Yeah I had noticed some malarkey with characters auto-attacking and re-attacking faster than anyone else but always thought that was influenced more by their Speed stat?
I typically lower the game speed to 2 or sometimes even 1 for harder content (to avoid me panicking lol) so was just curious - thinking it in turns makes it a little more reliable perhaps.
I typically lower the game speed to 2 or sometimes even 1 for harder content (to avoid me panicking lol) so was just curious - thinking it in turns makes it a little more reliable perhaps.
I used to think that too since it ALWAYS happened with Tidus for me. But the actual mechanics is, Attack (barring modifiers like Wakka's RM changing the command to Aim) always takes the same amount of time to charge. If everyone starts charging at the same time (e.g. after the lootdrop and a bunch of people are at full ATB) the game decides who goes first by what I presume is character index, meaning earlier characters get priority.
In other words, all hail Cloud. (And Tyro)
In other words, all hail Cloud. (And Tyro)
Random Painted HIghway
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Thinking about pound to r4 from r1. I have magic and power breakdown at r3 the other 2 at r2 and don't see other conflicts with greater non elementals. Maduin I'm holding off until I can take to r4 immediately.
Does yukikaze have the same multiplier as bladeblitz?
Does yukikaze have the same multiplier as bladeblitz?
BassForever
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40 stamina into today's new + daily, and I've already gotten 4
4 regular wind orbs, across two battles...
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Yes but the animation takes like 5x as long which is seriously annoying as hell.
BassForever
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Power of bitch on gaf is absolute, walking into the final battle I still only had 7/16 possible orb drops... And the last foe is a pot who drops a major ^o^
Purple Cheeto
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I haven't seen a single pot and have only gotten like 3 greater orbs across 2 of the 3 new dailies.
I'm sticking to cleaning up dungeons for now. I caught up on Classic dungeons this morning but my backlog of Elites is stupid long.
Anyone got a good ability/record materia set up for the FFV fight that gets you RedXIII's record materia?
I'm sticking to cleaning up dungeons for now. I caught up on Classic dungeons this morning but my backlog of Elites is stupid long.
Anyone got a good ability/record materia set up for the FFV fight that gets you RedXIII's record materia?
Purple Cheeto
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Those 4 Crystals that absorb a different element each.
I just threw up Shellga and then AOE'd them with Valefor/Meteor/etc. Quake came into play after single target took out the bottom one (absorbs Earth)
Mage meta aside though, don't overthink it - they don't exactly hurt unless you have all of them low at the same time with no magic mitigation.
Mage meta aside though, don't overthink it - they don't exactly hurt unless you have all of them low at the same time with no magic mitigation.
HungOverOnATues
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I could be wrong (on my phone right now and too lazy to look it up) but I think that both the bottom and left crystals absorb earth until they're very low on life and lose their ability to absorb earth.
Red Mage
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They could've included those, but had to add the tassles and glowy things.
I know -- it's stupid and makes no sense. I've got bracers and the like with the same amount of armor as a robe that covers my entire body and they have gobs of special stats on top of that.. why would I use a robe over them? There should be some level of consistency. Additionally, there should be consistency in whether or not a helm or something that has +4 attack scales with synergy bonus. There's no reason that some of them shouldn't get a bonus.
Well, generally the bracer/hat/helm stat allocation has less defensive stats than the pure defensive items (robes/light armor/heavy armor) but some items simply have a higher stat allocation to begin with. It's sorta like how daggers are supposed to generally have less ATK than swords, then Yoshimitsu comes along and laughs at all the swords.
You're right though in that the armor with offensive stats generally have much more use (only time I've gone with e.g. a robe is when it's Vivi and he doesn't need that extra magic to hit 9999 because lol devotion) with how much more emphasis there is on ATK/MAG than DEF/RES outside of gimmick fights like Dark Bahamut/Ogopogo.
Also while we're on the topic of imbalance, out of the three purely defensive types Light Armor far outclasses Robes and Heavy Armor. Having like 90:90 DEF/RES distribution vs the other two's roughly 60:100 and 100:60 distribution seems like a far better tradeoff in general.
You're right though in that the armor with offensive stats generally have much more use (only time I've gone with e.g. a robe is when it's Vivi and he doesn't need that extra magic to hit 9999 because lol devotion) with how much more emphasis there is on ATK/MAG than DEF/RES outside of gimmick fights like Dark Bahamut/Ogopogo.
Also while we're on the topic of imbalance, out of the three purely defensive types Light Armor far outclasses Robes and Heavy Armor. Having like 90:90 DEF/RES distribution vs the other two's roughly 60:100 and 100:60 distribution seems like a far better tradeoff in general.
not even bothering to mention shields lol
Starwolf_UK
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The crystals have two phases. >50% HP physical, <50% HP AoE magic.
You can use slow against them. Individually they don't have a lot of HP either but I can't remember the number off the top of my head.
One idea AoE slow if you have access to it and AoE in general get them to just above 50% HP then go all out on then one at a time.
When I used Advance+retaliate I didn't see any magic but honestly the game doesn't feel like it was not designed around level 80 Cloud quite yet.
BassForever
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Yeah I got lucky and hadn't maxed Tempo Flurry before seeing the quest
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