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Puzzle & Dragons |OT4| Co-op Edition: Stoning With Friends

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
I have no clue how the trading thing works, so yeah Bladelaw if you want to set up a trade for one of these furs and then trade it to Aesnath that's cool, just let me know what I have to do.

edit: I just set up a trade I think, one of the furs for any colored dub evo monster since I figure they are trashy enough and you probably have some extras. If you want some other junk monster to trade let me know, otherwise feel free to accept that and see if you can middleman it.
 

bjork

Member
Hello friends, question:

I recently evolved an Onion Knight that I'd forgotten about. He has a higher form, but it requires a pixelit. Puzzledragonx says it isn't available in NA yet, but they've said that about other cards I have already. Is this really unavailable?
 
Well the pixel evos extend further than just FF monsters, and pixelits themselves will appear as a rare spawn in mythlits even after the end of the collab.

Not sure if it was a glitch, but in JP you could get multiple pixelits by repeatedly running the FF white challenge dungeons, even after first clear.
 

Aesnath

Member
Well, here we are at the end of the week and I've done very little py or +farming. I really wish they'd spread this stuff out.

Unrelatedly, anyone venturing into the pink REM for 8x rates on the better GFE?

Pulled Apollo in starting roll. Keep or nah?

Wait for the godfest around the 15th. Re-roll until you get something bonkers.

I can act as a broker between you and LiQuid if necessary. I know I have both of you on my FL for more than a month.

You can just have Myr, she's literally a byproduct of shynpy farming and I don't need another. I might make one more for my wife but she's not into the heart cross life (she plays Yuna x Diablos). I think she's 6* so put up whatever. I'm always needing orph parts, snow globes, and pys (any color) but they aren't the right rarity I think.

so Ancient Dragon Knight Zeal or Burning Phoenix Knight Homura is probably fine. It makes evo'ing MGoemon and MAthena a bit easier. Super Gunma would probably be the best thing I could ask for just cause I don't want to farm it for my alt's Anubis team.


I have no clue how the trading thing works, so yeah Bladelaw if you want to set up a trade for one of these furs and then trade it to Aesnath that's cool, just let me know what I have to do.

edit: I just set up a trade I think, one of the furs for any colored dub evo monster since I figure they are trashy enough and you probably have some extras. If you want some other junk monster to trade let me know, otherwise feel free to accept that and see if you can middleman it.

Groovy. I spoke with both of the ladies last night. My wife would like to know if you want a snow globe egg for the hunter mat Liquid? She's basically been too lazy to evo them and has a lot.

@Blade: My daughter would like the Myr, but she doesn't have any of the stuff that you could use (I don't either). I'll look through her box tonight and see if there is anything that might be helpful. I suspect a snowglobe or py might not be out of the question.

Both my daughter and wife really dislike the work it takes to awaken and revo something, so they have a bunch of snow globes waiting around.
 
Pulled on Pink REM today cause I wanted Skuld. Rolled a pack.

Got 3 diamonds.

Fujin (2nd so yay?)
School Athena
School Hathor.

Got all 3 of the 5* (Theurgia, Freyja, Spica)

Might roll another pack, but probably won't.

Gonna save my stones for Beach REM, as got multiple Yuna and Noctis already.

Also should start working on Amenominakanushi team. Have two paimon and a DQXQ which should be a good base for that team.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Well, here we are at the end of the week and I've done very little py or +farming. I really wish they'd spread this stuff out.

Unrelatedly, anyone venturing into the pink REM for 8x rates on the better GFE?



Wait for the godfest around the 15th. Re-roll until you get something bonkers.






Groovy. I spoke with both of the ladies last night. My wife would like to know if you want a snow globe egg for the hunter mat Liquid? She's basically been too lazy to evo them and has a lot.

@Blade: My daughter would like the Myr, but she doesn't have any of the stuff that you could use (I don't either). I'll look through her box tonight and see if there is anything that might be helpful. I suspect a snowglobe or py might not be out of the question.

Both my daughter and wife really dislike the work it takes to awaken and revo something, so they have a bunch of snow globes waiting around.
Has to be 6 star and if there's nothing (globe, py etc) then don't worry about it I'll take anthing.

Whats your in game name? I have that narga piece for you.
 

Aesnath

Member
@Liquid & Blade: my wife would like to trade a blue snowglobe for the blackfur. I went ahead and put up the trade.

@Blade: My daughter wanted to know if you would take, ironically enough given the context, a shynpy for the myr.
 

Bladelaw

Member
@Liquid & Blade: my wife would like to trade a blue snowglobe for the blackfur. I went ahead and put up the trade.

@Blade: My daughter wanted to know if you would take, ironically enough given the context, a shynpy for the myr.
@LiQuid the globe is up for you to grab

@aesnath needs to be a 6* rarity pys are apparently too rare. I'd take a dubmythlit for it.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Got the globe, enjoy the fur Aesnath and thanks for the middlemanning Blade.

If anybody needs any other monster hunter collab items let me know ASAP. I'm getting pretty close to pulling the trigger on cleaning my boxes up and whatever I don't use for skillups is getting deleted.

This game sure has changed a bit in the 2ish years since I've played. +99 dailies? +15 guarenteed descends? Craziness.

They have definitely drastically lowered the barrier to hypermaxing a team. Now we just have to deal with the influx of awful board mechanics that impede our ability to play the fucking videogame.
 

jiggle

Member
The new hera-nyx challenge dungeon is something else

Floor1 72m hp
Floor2 100m
Floor3 175m
Floor4 200m
Floor5 1oom
Floor6 150m
Floor7 50m defense
Floor8 500million hp

Easy double anubis board though
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
The new hera-nyx challenge dungeon is something else

Floor1 72m hp
Floor2 100m
Floor3 175m
Floor4 200m
Floor5 1oom
Floor6 150m
Floor7 50m defense
Floor8 500million hp

Easy double anubis board though

I can't even fuck with this kind of dungeon until I get a better team. The game outpaced me. Maybe it wouldn't be so hard with Ronove... if I played perfectly, which I don't, I play like a fucking asshole.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Double 7c rules the meta in JP right now. You see single subs deal 20m and just kind of sigh at such pathetic damage output.

I'm ok with this honestly because building big combos is the way this game is best played and they haven't been able to make combo leads viable compared to crosses and all these other newfangled whatevers. The PROBLEM tho is that I don't have any of these elite 7c subs so I can't do shiiiiit.
 

bjork

Member
Had stones saved up, so I did some pulls

they should've used a silver chocobo for the machine, just to tip you off to what you'll get
 

Bladelaw

Member
Pulled a pack I'd been saving for this

Free Rolls:
Main: Cloud (First!)
Alt: Tifa (dupe)
Wife: Tifa
(I was...surprised)

The rest of the pack was pretty great too
Yuna
Lightning
Tifa
Onion Knight
Shantotto x3
Penelo
Reynn & Lann
Vivi
Tidus
WoL
Vaan
Bartz
Prompto

Still missing Yda and Bathier for a complete set but neither seem necessary. Yda/Lyse would be good on Rozuel but I almost never play her and Balthier would be good on his own, paired with R Yomi, or as a Ruel sub but I don't think he'd so much for me beyond being a "nice to have".

I plan on Pixeling Cloud, my dupe Sephiroth, Y'shtola, and one of each dupe 5* with a pixel ult. I'll have all colors covered this way and pixel Seph should make Myr runs much faster this time.

Might be pixeling one of my cecils. I have 3, thinking one dark, one light, one pixel but then which pixel do I go with? Dark pixel has a better stat spread and active I think so I'd use him for inheritance, unlock + full board change is rare and he's the only card I have with it. Plus I seem to never use two dark cecils on the same team anymore.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Free rolls were Rain and Cecil. Better than more Zidane I guess.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Answered my own question with Pixel Cloud. Confirmed it takes Yog's absurd strength for the 1 shot on azathoth.

For the Yog-less the next best use is wrecking radar dragons. For a "should I pixel this?" Here's my thought process:

Lightning - Most SB with a pixel ult. Worth it if you have a dupe but I prefer her normal ult for rainbow utility.

Yuna - if you have 3 then it's probably worth it. Double SBR + Team RCV and TE on a pixel is welcome but her normal ult is ridiculous both as a lead and sub.

Cloud - Only pixel with a relevant killer absolutely worth making over the normal. An argument can be made to avoid his normal ult given his utility in Cosmic Trinity.

Tifa - She's a tough call, probably the hardest choice. You give up two rows and two TE for Pixel and team HP which is a pretty decent compromise. This active is great on Ameno, yog, Yuna, Sakuya/tachibana, but her normal active is too. Make if you have dupes or need a light card with the pixel awakening. I'm keeping mine normal because I like the TE + shield but I couldn't fault anyone for going pixel. She pairs with pixel cloud for a 2/70/2 team on a 7x6 board too.

Sephiroth - Pixel is better as an inherit and when you need to kill a machine with damage null (can't think of any obnoxious ones where you'd need the killer though). Normal form is a better sub in most cases though (more killers, 7c). Make a dupe pixel but keep one normal unless you only play dark rows.

Noctis - love his ult's lead play style, but if you need an active to flood the board with Dark, Pixel Noctis is probably the best one we get in one active. Can also be used as a strong lead with ichigo/saito and the team RCV awakening makes it even easier to stall (unless you have less than 4 hearts...)

Cecil
-Light Pixel: I don't like it, worse stats, active + combo is ok, awakenings are again, ok but in most cases I'd rather have the normal paladin cecil vs this one. If you have extra cecils and no other big ticket light pixel option he works.
-Dark Pixel: Much better IMO. Board unlock then board change has plenty of applications, stats are matched with normal paladin cecil so he has tons of HP, same awakenings as light pixel, If you don't need DK Cecil's dark resist then I'd make this.

Y'shtola: You're giving up follow up attack and unbindability for the pixel awakening and a better active and the pixel. I'd still do it if you have dupes or play a lot of Meridionalis(and can make up the SBR). Lakshmi can also probably make use of her. If you have better blue FUA cards (skuld/amatsu) or if you only need her active this is a safe move.

5* and below: almost all of them are better used as inherits or placeholder pixels to get past annoyances (dmeta tama, Revo Zeal, etc). You're not 1 shotting a radar with any of these barring killer latents and a big burst. Their normal forms are (exceptions below) worse than their pixel evos so go for it IMO.

Zidane is a standout as his pixel evo's active is light years better than his normal one (if it was light-->dark it'd probably make Ruel more relevant too).

Only 5*'s I wouldn't pixel my only one are:
- Bartz if you use him as a sub and don't need a green card with the pixel awakening, his normal form has better awakenings (unless you need rows) but a slightly worse active.

- Rinoa, her normal active is a rare 4 turn bind clear + heal + haste and her normal form has better awakenings. If you need a blue unlock and don't mind losing the bind clear go pixel, her pixel's skill is super useful vs Diadem.

-Shantotto, keep her normal only if you meme with her and Cameo for a silly large burst.


Special note: Vivi has a 10x multiplier attached to his counterattack. I'm not sure if this is useful but maybe on a resolve team vs a single big ass hit? I don't know but it could be fun to poke around with as a weird inherit choice.
 

forgrim

Member
Need some help with machine goemon...whats a good solo team for this if i dont have Minervas or Anubis? Is it just more wise to use bhunter and look for coop partner?
 

Bladelaw

Member
Need some help with machine goemon...whats a good solo team for this if i dont have Minervas or Anubis? Is it just more wise to use bhunter and look for coop partner?

Bhunter is a bad idea, Goemon has a 10 turn water absorb. Any team that can fit Sheena on it will do well though. Sheena has 9x vs MGoemon in addition to whatever lead multiplier is up.

Your options are bring a Follow Up Attack to break his resolve, control damage to drop him under resolve, or grav him below resolve before killing him.

Any team you put together should probably cover these things:
- way to handle resolve
- Not blue or way to get past blue damage absorb (Wedding Persephone)
- Way to handle a big ass pre-emptive
- can fit Sheena (or any physical + Machine killer like Sheena, Aten, or Sanosuke)
- can do lots of damage.

DMeta can do it I'm sure.
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I managed to hit up the 3p FF dungeon. Like the MH dungeon there's a shitload of HP to deal with. Mito makes the first two floors a laugh. The last floor is a bit of an endurance match (fitting). I wouldn't bother farming it for skill ups unless someone has a pixel team that can quickly deal with Yiazmat. I'm not committing killers to cloud/sephiroth yet. I really wish DMeta could use pixel seph, noctis, or Cecil.

EDIT: I got it. Ichigo, Pixel Seph (3x dragon or god killers), Tengu(Carat), Whaledor(Zuoh/romia/MeiMei or Haku), Tengu (Panda or Akechi if your board is Haku), Saito
If the board gives you at least 6 off color orbs you're good to go. For the clincher Saito can inherit a short cooldown orb maker to cover a bad board.

EDIT 2: I just noticed Yiazmat doesn't have dark resist, the killer latents aren't necessary. a carry team can be two ALB teams (revo would be better) with mito subs to take out floor 1 and 2 and the ichigo team handles floor 3. the no skyfall keeps you from tripping his light absorb too.

The real question is why I spent 2 hours theory crafting this when Yiazmat isn't a great thing to be farming and the skill ups are easier to obtain during 2x drops for a fraction of the stamina...

EDIT 3: of course two seconds after I post this Mantastic has a vid up showing pixel seph x pixel seph using a full dark board + bmyr to make the box. *facepalm*
 

W-00

Member
Free roll on my alt: Tidus. Woah, that's my first non-silver from the FF REM! Maybe my luck will be different this time, and I should actually put stones int-
Free roll on my main: Aemo. Now that's more like it!

But despite my luck returning to normal, I still made a YOLO roll on each account.

A diamond egg came out for my alt! A... blank diamond egg. An egg with missing artwork. Anyways, according to the texts it's Balthier. Apparently he pairs okay with Diablos. Is that all that's worth mentioning about him?

Main got gold, which is better than I was expecting. Yda. Double 7-combo, so I suppose that means she'd be good on a few teams. No TE or SB, though. Being an R/G physical type means split!Rozzie would love to have her.
 

Bladelaw

Member
I went and pixeled a bunch of FF cards to play around with both Azathoth and guerilla Radar dragon kill shots. I tested a bit in endless and I wasn't able to get a team that was ready to go turn 1 but it was close enough that it might be worth it. If the mid month GF is kind and gives me Yog or Ameno it would be a lot easier to run with. I have a few variants because some radars are a pain in the ass. This isn't A3 viable and might need to be carried through a few 3p UDR floors but it's capable of 1 shotting the Cosmic horrors:

3p UDR: Ameno/Arondight, Tengu (Apollou the light wisedragon), Amatsu(Lakechi), Pixel Cloud (3x Devil killers and Ilm inherit), Whaledor(Wee Jas inherit), Ameno
Cthulhu: Ilm-->Lakechi-->Wee Jas-->Apollou, Make a FUA board
Nyarlathotep: Ilm-->Lakechi-->Wee Jas-->Apollou, Make a box board
Azathoth: Ilm-->Lakechi-->Wee Jas-->Apollou, Make a box board

It should take 6 turns of stalling and to help power through the dungeon you have the leads skills.

With the box Cloud does over a billion damage to the Cosmic horrors.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Deets on first equipment and farmable pixel evos
http://pad.gungho.jp/member/sinka/powerup/170913.html

Biggest news: Sumire assist grants SBR. I'm super curious how this all works out in practice.

As I understand it, an equip evo is irreversible, grants their awakenings and skill to the equipped monster, but everything else is the same for normal assists (same color stat transference, +297 bonus, etc). It'll be interesting to see what doors this opens.
 

shintoki

sparkle this bitch
Few questions on the FF Collab, been waiting for it and finally got some luck.

I scored
Yuna
Dark Knight
Rinio
Prompto
Auron
Buttz
Squall

Reading over it, it seems like Yuna is best to keep in her UEvo form, while DK looks better to push into his Pixel Dark?

Buttz and Squall I know nothing about
 

jiggle

Member
Is it me or it seems detrimental to use these equipment assists?
The awakenings are pretty mediocre and you get saddled with a junk assist skill?

I guess grodin and lmeta can find some use
 

Bladelaw

Member
Few questions on the FF Collab, been waiting for it and finally got some luck.

I scored
Yuna
Dark Knight
Rinio
Prompto
Auron
Buttz
Squall

Reading over it, it seems like Yuna is best to keep in her UEvo form, while DK looks better to push into his Pixel Dark?

Buttz and Squall I know nothing about
Yuna is definitely better in UEvo form in almost every circumstance, unless you have a bunch of dupes. Cecil is a tough call. I like Pixel Dark for his active and stats which make him a great inherit. Pixel Light can accept dragon killer latents making him a good choice to one shot radar dragons. His normal Dark and light forms are useful if you prefer TPA to rows and don't mind losing the VDP awakening. Also Dark Knight Cecil's resist dark awakenings have been pretty clutch on some teams I run.

Is it me or it seems detrimental to use these equipment assists?
The awakenings are pretty mediocre and you get saddled with a junk assist skill?

I guess grodin and lmeta can find some use
I'm guessing this is more of a way to provide utility to a lot of common GFE pulls. I have 6 sumires and 4 grodins. I don't need that many and I'm not selling them till I need the MP. The junk orb resists from the ninjas and the SBR from Sumire can help make 60-80% to 100% and that can be huge.

The only thing I don't like about the system is that it's irreversible.
 
It's pretty telling that all the equipment so far are on older monsters, which you're likely to have dupes of. Gives you a reason to hang on to spares instead of mulching them into MP.
 

Aesnath

Member
it's another 6 star pantheon so I guess this is the norm now??

I think that they have just run out of room in the general REM. 6* take up less space than 5*, so they have been doing that.

Although it does seem stupid that most everything is coming out at 6* now. I can't remember the last time a useful 5* was created. Something like the Wisdom Kings maybe? Ronove for the GFE?
 

Bladelaw

Member
I'm impatiently waiting word on the coming GF. I really would like to roll Amenominakanushi or Yog. I'm sitting on great teams for both. Arondight is an OK pairing but the extra HP doesn't buy me any more survivability against things that matter and the smaller damage keeps me from one shotting things via VDP. Yog is boring but opens up some nice opportunities. I'd like to play pixel seph more but no one keeps him up. Right now my friend's list is Dath, Yog, Anubis, and Ameno.

I'm looking forward to the Machine Rush dungeon tomorrow. Anyone have any team ideas? There's a shitload of HP to deal with and a couple annoying resolves (Star Justice, Seraphis, and Demonius). 3 might be too much to reliably handle with FUA. I could see Yog blast through. I'd like to take advantage of pixel sephs machine killer but FUA is tough to fit on the team. Maybe Meri with Amon, Amatsu, Andromeda, and Skuld?
 

b33r

Member
I've been messing with my Ameno lately. Pretty good, but is it better than Aizen? They seem very similar other than you can take advantage of rows with Ameno. Should I focus on a team? Will it get through more content than Aizen? I haven't been paying attention to the meta lately.

Edit: read up a bit. Looks like I can run rdqxq, adqxq, paimon as a base. Can use the Paimon with the fua when he gets here and change Cecil to yellow pixel version and have a good a3 farming team. I suppose I'll work on this, and have plenty of good inherits I can use.
 

Bladelaw

Member
I've been messing with my Ameno lately. Pretty good, but is it better than Aizen? They seem very similar other than you can take advantage of rows with Ameno. Should I focus on a team? Will it get through more content than Aizen? I haven't been paying attention to the meta lately.

Edit: read up a bit. Looks like I can run rdqxq, adqxq, paimon as a base. Can use the Paimon with the fua when he gets here and change Cecil to yellow pixel version and have a good a3 farming team. I suppose I'll work on this, and have plenty of good inherits I can use.

You can take advantage of the vdp Awakening while still getting his max multiplyer. I've been looking at all my potential row teams for good pixel fits but I keep going back to amenominakanushi. Probably my most wanted card now.
 

b33r

Member
You can take advantage of the vdp Awakening while still getting his max multiplyer. I've been looking at all my potential row teams for good pixel fits but I keep going back to amenominakanushi. Probably my most wanted card now.

Yeah I have to put together a team. Will need to farm shynpys for indra and some other inherits I'll need. It seems I'll also need to put 3 Dragon killer latents on whatever pixel I use. So it will take a bit of time, but i don't have a good a3 team and this looks to fix that.

Also, I already turned Cecil into dark pixel... But I'm going to pull a few times on Yuna day, so maybe I'll get an alternative. I really like his active as dark pixel.
 
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