cpp_is_king
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I'm going to take a wild guess that that Solarwind ability is ridiculously strong.
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I'm going to take a wild guess that that Solarwind ability is ridiculously strong.
I believe [Inferno] deals twice the damage of a [Fire], and [Solarwind] does three times the damage of [Fire].
All the elemental attackers follow this same formula. Same for Mega, Giga, and Tera[Sword/Spear/Bow]
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
At least you get some money and exp?
True, true. And plenty of skillups.
depths20XX
Member
Ugh, Bahamut keeps dropping Fire rings. He's teasing me.
I don't like this whole 25 stamina thing.
I don't like this whole 25 stamina thing.
cpp_is_king
Member
Finally got Caldabolg on my 7th attempt. Went ahead and upgraded him because I already had the materials and even if there are better choices, none of them are fucking BAHAMUT.
Curry-Hakase
Member
Naw, it's a scientific term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind
Yea, it's not a very intimidating word lol.
While all the 3rd level magic attacks deal 3x the damage they usually just hit the 3x3 area -- which might not be ideal in many cases.
I've got both A'merpact(A rank ice mage) and Piz'fer(SS rank ice mage). I already got the 3x ice magic attack on A'merpact, but I still much prefer Piz'fer magic attacks(job2 lvl 15 & job3 lvl35) as he got magic attacks that hit vertically and horizontally across the screen. Those skills, while they don't deal as much damage, are usually more useful to clear out smaller groups of enemies or deal extra damage to other pincer attacks.
A'merpact has a similar skill, but it's locked away at job1 lvl 65, dunno when I'll get around to leveling him up to that.
Guess this again shows how SS class mages are better than other rank mages.
As for Bahamut. I kept her job1 at lvl20, will probably keep job2 at lvl 35 and then level job3 up to lvl 65. With her job2 at lvl35+ she might actually be useful in my party.
I've got both A'merpact(A rank ice mage) and Piz'fer(SS rank ice mage). I already got the 3x ice magic attack on A'merpact, but I still much prefer Piz'fer magic attacks(job2 lvl 15 & job3 lvl35) as he got magic attacks that hit vertically and horizontally across the screen. Those skills, while they don't deal as much damage, are usually more useful to clear out smaller groups of enemies or deal extra damage to other pincer attacks.
A'merpact has a similar skill, but it's locked away at job1 lvl 65, dunno when I'll get around to leveling him up to that.
Guess this again shows how SS class mages are better than other rank mages.
As for Bahamut. I kept her job1 at lvl20, will probably keep job2 at lvl 35 and then level job3 up to lvl 65. With her job2 at lvl35+ she might actually be useful in my party.
The next chapter will be all ice enemies and at this point all magic damage only heals them and doesn't deal any damage so my Piz'fer and A'merpact will be useles, haha
RockTurtle
Member
i mean let's be honest, there's cool characters in game, but none of them are black dragons of lore!
EDIT: other than the allure of it, Bahamut does less damage and seems to activate less than my Daiana >:C
I do agree. TB is just closer to FF style. I love PAD artstyle nonetheless
Hah, congratulations!
But yeah, that line I bolded is the part that's annoying me the most now. So I get that they wanted to have a limited time event with a high stamina cost and a low drop rate... but did it really have to be 10 fights?
Anyway, nine tries no drop... that's the whole day for me. We'll see if saturday goes any better.
Hunting zones.
That said, you won't need job level ups for like 10 more chapters so I would focus on the main quest and Metal Zones for now.
theMrCravens
Member
After Chapter 3, the first Hunting Zone opens up.
You fight battles there for materials.
I strongly suggest you skip from farming it and play more Chapters until you unlock Hunting Zone 2 (or 3 with a strong leveled team if patient).
Drop rates are awful, and you don't need to unlock Jobs this early.
pancakesandsex
Member
Does calabolg only drop off neo bahamut himself? It seems it's not 100% if you get an item from neo. I got AN item drop from neo but it was not caladbolg.
Same thing, I didn't think I'd be able to make it through a 2nd try, I had like zero half on the two characters I had left.
Got Caladbolg to drop after 3 tries. Actually 4, but I got killed on my first attempt because I forgot to change out my party and I didn't have a healer (I got pretty close that time, but he took out my party members 1 at a time until I had only 1 left).
Hopefully I get a chance to run pudding time a couple times tonight and hopefully get a dark matter to drop. After that, I need to focus a lot more on pushing through the story and leveling up my team over the next week. If the first Bahamut event was level 20 and required 15 stamina, and the second event was level 35 and required 25 stamina, I fear for the requirements of the third event (level 50 and 35 stamina?). I'll definitely need to have leveled up a bunch and have a higher stamina cap by then.
Hopefully I get a chance to run pudding time a couple times tonight and hopefully get a dark matter to drop. After that, I need to focus a lot more on pushing through the story and leveling up my team over the next week. If the first Bahamut event was level 20 and required 15 stamina, and the second event was level 35 and required 25 stamina, I fear for the requirements of the third event (level 50 and 35 stamina?). I'll definitely need to have leveled up a bunch and have a higher stamina cap by then.
Haha WOW, I literally just pulled the same.
putermcgee
Junior Member
Thanks for the tips. I think it was my second or third try when I finally was able to get to the final round with everyone alive, and I was getting rid of the healing horses and the other dudes right away. Before that, I either didn't know what I was doing, or just making dumb mistakes like putting my characters in harm's way. It doesn't help that my team levels are 30, 23, 31, 30, 26, and 30.
Yeah, you downloaded the wrong game.
I'm having trouble in Hunting Zone 2 as well. 7, 7, 9 the last 3 visits. Pudding Time is certainly my least favorite of the zones.
RockTurtle
Member
yeah hunting zone 2 drops has def had a drop nerf. averaging 8-12 for past couple of days.
I'm getting 10-15 from pudding time, about 6 runs today. Everyone under level 40, Notably Kem at 21 and a generic healer at 27 because my Kuscha is too high. I'm not sure about having lower leveled people but when I kicked my level 40+ people out from Hunting Zone 2, my drops improved.
... Not that it matters cause they're all still rings. *shakes fist*
... Not that it matters cause they're all still rings. *shakes fist*
Well I don't even have anyone 40+ so that can't be my problem. I do have a level 17 Bahamut in my group, but I wouldn't think that would hurt my drop rates. I wouldn't really have anything worthwhile to replace it with, other than a couple of really weak recruited enemies.
I think you just have really bad luck....
Chrono Helix
Member
Except that I think Bahamut is supposed to be a fish in the original myths...
Finally got Caladbolg after about 10 tries!
it's way better in zone two... 50% more stamania for 200% more gold on average.
i've done 3 runs with no luck... I also screwed up a 4th run (forgot to readd my healer so didn't bother trying as there was no way I was beating the boss with no healer)
Chrono Helix
Member
I only got about 5k gold in hunting zone 2, is that normal?
yeah 3.5-5k is normal there... zone 1 gave me only 1-1.5k when I did that one
I think there gonna add another drop weapon for the 3rd job when they release the third/final part of the event.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Yay, metal tickets I guess.
I added Bahamut's 2nd job, then clicked on adding job again and found this.
that's why edit: ops, how to resize the image size? was on mobile :O ><
Femmeworth
Banned
That's a different item.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
I added Bahamut's 2nd job, then clicked on adding job again and found this.
edit: ops, how to resize the image size? was on mobile :O ><
Quoting the image resizes it.
Ohhhh right. The image and name are similar for both items. My mistake. Good news though, don't need to farm it again with 25 sta each round
Thanks. Learn something new!
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
My god, Chapter 26 is scary.
Necromanti
Member
Aren't they all for Metal Zone 1? :|