Thanks. I wasted a fair amount of Mythril I was planning on using for the 14 banner fishing for either BSB from the FF6 Banner 1 or Sabin's from Banner 2 (and failing) so this was a nice consolidation prize.
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Final Fantasy: Record Keeper |OT2| I HAVE NO MYTHRIL AND I MUST SHOUT
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Thanks. I wasted a fair amount of Mythril I was planning on using for the 14 banner fishing for either BSB from the FF6 Banner 1 or Sabin's from Banner 2 (and failing) so this was a nice consolidation prize.
Random Painted HIghway
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This new Jp update is absurdly, piling on another level of motes, only unlocked after maxing the four star notes for a character. It really feels like these features were mapped out month by month at this point.
This will probably be the first orbfest I do little to no refreshes on. I started playing at the end of October last year and should probably dig up some of my old posts, but I refreshed haaaaaard the last two orbfest both for leveling and honed. But now I have virtually everyone at their possible caps excluding my last two MC3 unlocks, Leo, Angeal and maybe someone else I'm forgetting and that's mostly because I knew I could get them all up during orbfest without egging since it was so soon.
Hone-wise I think I'm more or less okay, I haven't really touched some abilities that I've seen others here hone (mostly monk stuff because I have no good monks really) but I've done most of the big hitters and I'll make sure I have enough for the upcoming double spellblades at least which I think I already do. I've gotten through all the Nightmares except the Necrophobe fight so I figure I can't be in too bad of shape lol. I should probably get Dual Biora and Stonega up to r3 though, I haven't touched those but did the others up to r3 immediately.
Hone-wise I think I'm more or less okay, I haven't really touched some abilities that I've seen others here hone (mostly monk stuff because I have no good monks really) but I've done most of the big hitters and I'll make sure I have enough for the upcoming double spellblades at least which I think I already do. I've gotten through all the Nightmares except the Necrophobe fight so I figure I can't be in too bad of shape lol. I should probably get Dual Biora and Stonega up to r3 though, I haven't touched those but did the others up to r3 immediately.
cpp_is_king
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Trying to plan my orb needs for this Orbfest. Here's what I've got so far.
Firaga 2/5
Firaja 1/5
Blizzaga 2/5
Blizzaja 1/5
Quake 1/5
Blindga 2/5
Ruinga 3/5
Stonega 1/5
Curaga 3/5
Curaja 2/5
Protectga 2/5
Shellga 1/5
Slowga 1/5
Reflect 1/5
Firaga Strike 2/5
Thundaga Strike 2/5
Drain Strike 2/5
Watera Strike 1/5
Banishing Strike 1/5
Double Cut 4/5
Double Cut 4/5
Magic Break 2/5
Armor Break 2/5
Power Break 2/5
Magic Breakdown 1/5
Power Breakdown 1/5
Tempo Flurry 2/5
Wind Jump 2/5
I know I'm missing some important stuff like Lifesiphon. What else am I completely missing, and what hones should I prioritize for orbfest?
Firaga 2/5
Firaja 1/5
Blizzaga 2/5
Blizzaja 1/5
Quake 1/5
Blindga 2/5
Ruinga 3/5
Stonega 1/5
Curaga 3/5
Curaja 2/5
Protectga 2/5
Shellga 1/5
Slowga 1/5
Reflect 1/5
Firaga Strike 2/5
Thundaga Strike 2/5
Drain Strike 2/5
Watera Strike 1/5
Banishing Strike 1/5
Double Cut 4/5
Double Cut 4/5
Magic Break 2/5
Armor Break 2/5
Power Break 2/5
Magic Breakdown 1/5
Power Breakdown 1/5
Tempo Flurry 2/5
Wind Jump 2/5
I know I'm missing some important stuff like Lifesiphon. What else am I completely missing, and what hones should I prioritize for orbfest?
I would recommend creating Full Break and the remaining Breakdowns when you can
Steeped in a Sea of Games
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Been playing since the start and have never once used a mythril to refresh stamina, don't plan on starting now. I've managed to clear every event and every mission so far minus parade float back at the start.
Slow and steady can really pay off in this game.
Slow and steady can really pay off in this game.
zerokoolpsx
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Full Break is a must. Multi-Break if you have several targets for a boss. Can't go wrong with Life Siphon either. I have 4 of them. Two at 2/5, one at 3/5 and another at 4/5. Dismissal is good since a lot of bosses don't resist interrupt, but its a 25% chance to work.
Then Saint Cross for holy damage and the user gets esuna and a small regen. Wrath for your support. It boils down to who you have on your team and their relics.
I'm not gonna refresh either. I need my mthrils for pulls.
Then Saint Cross for holy damage and the user gets esuna and a small regen. Wrath for your support. It boils down to who you have on your team and their relics.
I'm not gonna refresh either. I need my mthrils for pulls.
yeah any time I see that people farming and spamming myhtril non stop to gather crystal to make meltdown R2...like...dude, Meltdown R2 isnt even good for the next hard content(Torment dungeons), why you rush it. Someday crystals will be super common and everybody will have everything 6 * R3.
I think you and I are the chronic refreshers of this community. We should more or less have the same abilities. Got still a truckload of Orbs leftover, so all the Twin Spellblades, Dash Bite, Ultra Cure, etc are all immediate R3's when they come, with the upcoming Tiamat (and Bahamut, haven't crafted it yet) going straight to R4.
Currently have:
R2 Full Break
R2 Multi Break
R3 Chain Blizzaga
R3 Chain Firaga
R3 Chain Thundaga
R3 Chain Stonega
R3 Chain Biora
R3 Full Charge
R3 Powerchain
R3 Dragoon Jump
R3 Lightning Dive
R3 Meteor Crush
R3 Fires Within
R3 Thief's Revenge
R3 Saint Cross
R3 Gaia Cross
R3 Dark Zone
R3 Sapphire Shot
Focus on those. 4* spellblades are nice but the power increase between them and 3* spellblades isn't anywhere near as much as the difference between -ga and -ja black magic, so allocate your 4* orbs to black magic first. Curaja can take a back seat to Curaga if you need to but there's very little to spend white orbs on.
Other broadly useful stuff you didn't list:
Aeora Strike
Armor Breakdown
Diaga
Dismissal
Drainga
Draw Fire
Full Break
Full Charge
Lifesiphon
Magic Lure
Mental Breakdown
Retaliate
Steal Power
Stoneja
Thundaja
Valefor
Waterja
cpp_is_king
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I'm sure you're right, but slow and steady describes a different person than myself. I'll be spending at least 50 mythril refreshing on orbfest, that's just the only way I can play these games. Obsessively or not at all
Luckily this is a brand new account and I've only been playing for like a week, so I have tons of story dungeon mythril built up.
cpp_is_king
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Alright I ran the math to get all my desired abilities up to speed during Orbfest, and I came up with:
101 Major Power
12 Major White
27 Major Black
11 Major Fire
29 Major Ice
6 Major Lightning
9 Major Wind
23 Major Earth
10 Major Non-Elemental
5 Major Holy
5 Major Dark
(I converted all 3* and 4* into 5* using the 100/10 conversion ratios just to make it more digestible.
I don't think this is anywhere close to possible, but at least I know I need to hit Power Orb the hardest, followed by Black, Ice, and Earth in second.
101 Major Power
12 Major White
27 Major Black
11 Major Fire
29 Major Ice
6 Major Lightning
9 Major Wind
23 Major Earth
10 Major Non-Elemental
5 Major Holy
5 Major Dark
(I converted all 3* and 4* into 5* using the 100/10 conversion ratios just to make it more digestible.
I don't think this is anywhere close to possible, but at least I know I need to hit Power Orb the hardest, followed by Black, Ice, and Earth in second.
CuthbertAllgoodz
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Lucky you, Power is with Black and Ice is with Earth!
Hours Left
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AdawgDaFAB
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I have Luneth's BSB. His Legend Materia will be amazing with it. First three turns can be Lifesiphions -> BSB then go to town.
Cat Girl's LM sounds great as well, for anyone who get's her Burst off the big XIV banner.
Hours Left
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I think most (all?) of the major LMs are pretty darn awesome actually. No one really got a "dud", and they seem to suit each character's strengths perfectly, which I imagine is the whole goal of the system.
I've always said that the major draw of this game is the characters, and now we can specialize the ones we like even more, which is quite exciting.
Ofc all are more or less powerful. And since the requitemments to unlock them seems high we wont have a lot of them at least in the beggining. So in the end you will unlock the ones for you A-Team and thats it.
Hours Left
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I don't really like to do the "A Team" thing. I do hope they're not super scarce though, but I imagine they will be.
CuthbertAllgoodz
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Please can I have a great banner with no possible dupe? Thank you!
That would definitely be a Xmas miracle I could get behind.
Yeah sure, A-Team, favourites, waifus...whatever drives you to play the game.
Hours Left
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I'm sure I'll end up having to pour some of the new 5* Motes into characters I otherwise don't care for just to remain viable, but hopefully not too much. I have been using Vaan a lot lately because I have his BSB, and generally I don't like him, though not for the standard reasons.
I do like that getting different relics for characters you don't usually gravitate towards pushes you to give them a shot too, but my main driving force is to build up the characters I like. And this is generally a lot more than just 5 central characters. Hopefully I can use the Legend Materia to further this practice.
Starwolf_UK
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You know no data could mean the maintenance is behind schedule.
watch it be perfectly on time and the data added at the last second
Welcome back CPP. Haven't gone on FFRK GAF for a while (exvius took over a bit) so didn't see when you rejoined. Was it my fault? I remember bigging up the changes to you.
Will be nice with a new account being able to catch up quickly and pull on epic banners from the get go. Not to mention guaranteed 5 stars.
HERE WE GO!
If anyone is interested what we will get in the future: https://www.reddit.com/live/y4ojokew712n
OSB Fest Banners are out!
And it looks like they ruined Banner 1? lol
Hours Left
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Just like last time, I own at least one relic on every banner, with three(!!!) on one occasion.
I don't know how I feel about them. I'm not immediately wowed by any.
I don't know how I feel about them. I'm not immediately wowed by any.
I'm at work so could only skim the banners, so I could be totally off base here, but banners mostly seem kinda eh unless I'm misremebering some relics. Terra is my bae and I don't have Shout still so I will pull on banner 1, but nothing really stood out for me in general unless I missed it?
Would actually be kind of relieved if this is the case since between that and doing little to no refreshes I can pull once on this, once or twice on FF14 and have enough for the inevitable Christmas LD.
Would actually be kind of relieved if this is the case since between that and doing little to no refreshes I can pull once on this, once or twice on FF14 and have enough for the inevitable Christmas LD.
25 free mythril incoming!!!
Banner 1 is pretty stacked the 3 burst are 2 of the best dps bursts in the entire game and the best healing burst in the game. Shout and wall to round it up and Terra OSB and enfire SSB combo.
Banner 1 is pretty stacked the 3 burst are 2 of the best dps bursts in the entire game and the best healing burst in the game. Shout and wall to round it up and Terra OSB and enfire SSB combo.
BassForever
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Banner 1 has too many dupes for me to pull on
Banner 2 and 3 also have a couple of dupes for me
Banner 4 and 5 are safe as anything on them is new for me so I might pull on both of them for diversity
Banner 2 and 3 also have a couple of dupes for me
Banner 4 and 5 are safe as anything on them is new for me so I might pull on both of them for diversity
Let's see what I have
Banner 1: Tin Armor, Tiara, Platinum Sword. And I don't really need Thyrus. So probably skip.
Banner 2: Wall and Artemis Bow
Banner 3: Everything would be new.
Banner 4: Cloud's Guise
Banner 5: Like Banner 3.
If I would rate them after what I have it would be: 3=5 > 4 > 2 > 1
Tbh I'm not really hyped. I guess Banner 5 would be another chance for the OK gauntlets.
I would like to pull on Banner 1 because the Bursts are pretty good and I have pretty great Fire coverage so Terra's OSB would be awesome. But the amount of dupes are a major turn off.
The only relic I want from 2 is Luneth BSB. Braskas Robe would be nice, too?
From 3 it would be Hamelin and Celes' Excalibur. 4 is kind of meh except for the OSB.
Right now it feels like I will skip the fest for the FF XIV banner and of course for the IX event which follows a few weeks later.
Oh and Tyro gets the first BSB which breaks the damage cap.
Banner 1: Tin Armor, Tiara, Platinum Sword. And I don't really need Thyrus. So probably skip.
Banner 2: Wall and Artemis Bow
Banner 3: Everything would be new.
Banner 4: Cloud's Guise
Banner 5: Like Banner 3.
If I would rate them after what I have it would be: 3=5 > 4 > 2 > 1
Tbh I'm not really hyped. I guess Banner 5 would be another chance for the OK gauntlets.
I would like to pull on Banner 1 because the Bursts are pretty good and I have pretty great Fire coverage so Terra's OSB would be awesome. But the amount of dupes are a major turn off.
The only relic I want from 2 is Luneth BSB. Braskas Robe would be nice, too?
From 3 it would be Hamelin and Celes' Excalibur. 4 is kind of meh except for the OSB.
Right now it feels like I will skip the fest for the FF XIV banner and of course for the IX event which follows a few weeks later.
Oh and Tyro gets the first BSB which breaks the damage cap.
Pulling at least once on banner 1, maybe twice depending on what mythril/LD situation looks like which should then also leave me with two pulls for FF14. I like pulling on a variety of stuff, not going to do more than two pulls on a banner. Given that I've already Ramza at 99 with his BSB finally getting native Shout would be amazing as that's what I am RW'ing 99% of the time.
Edit: Looked again, definitely thinking two pulls on Banner 1 and 100 gems on the rest. Most of my dupes are on the later banners as well, only thing I have on the first banner is Minwu's staff. Really want some stuff for Terra, she is bae but I haven't even used a MC3 for her yet since all I have been able to get for her is Maduin's horn which is pretty outdated at this point.
Edit: Looked again, definitely thinking two pulls on Banner 1 and 100 gems on the rest. Most of my dupes are on the later banners as well, only thing I have on the first banner is Minwu's staff. Really want some stuff for Terra, she is bae but I haven't even used a MC3 for her yet since all I have been able to get for her is Maduin's horn which is pretty outdated at this point.
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