FINAL FANTASY: RECORD KEEPER

What the crap is with this new app and rewards program they just launched?

I've decided that worrying about limited-time rewards for gysahl greens isn't actually helpful since there will apparently always be more limited-time rewards than it's reasonable to get.

I managed to beat Demon Wall just before it disappeared for the rest of the month. (It'll be back in two weeks, for anyone who didn't beat it yet.) I was trying to do the puzzle fights without looking them up since they only cost 1 stamina, but that fight sure does give you absolutely no indication of why anything is happening. The mechanics are neat but the conveyance leaves a lot to be desired. Which has been a problem in a few of the Ultimate fights too. If TFMurphy were not hacking the game's enemy AI, many fights would be unwinnable except by dumb luck or very excessive trial/error.

For example, one of the mechanics is "Deal 80000 damage to the boss before its third turn, or it'll use Gravija on its third turn." Gravija makes you instantly lose mastery, so this is a huge deal. But the condition for him to use it is absolutely not communicated at all. It would be so much clearer if there were a second target with 80000 max HP that did a countdown from 2 to 0 and then used Gravija - the idea of killing something to stop it from using a skill makes vastly more sense than dealing an arbitrary, invisible amount of damage to interrupt the skill, a thing which never works under any other circumstance.

The fact that if he uses Royal Tomb four times you instantly lose, and the fact that if you kill his arms first he transforms into "fuck you" mode and does nothing but really fast instant death attacks over and over, also don't sit great with me. They're at least learnable via dying to them a couple times until you recognize the patterns, unlike Gravija which you just absolutely would never figure out without looking it up.

The first ultimate nightmare used a powerful attack if you didn't do enough damage in a few turns, but push through with reasonable mitigation. The second ultimate nightmare used an unmitigatable attack, and added a medal requirement to announce that the attack could be prevented. This is a good way to introduce a new mechanic.

As for the 'four cones till ultimate attack', that had an actual countdown. You can't get much more obvious than that short of having Mog explain the whole thing.

If you think you need to literally read the code to figure the fight out, I recommend reading about some of the boss mechanics mmo players have discovered.

Is this the first time you've finished bonus battles before the next set was released?

I probably won't be using Shout tonight. Having guns means I can bring Sazh, so it'll be more slot-efficient to bring him and not stack hastega effects.

Ultimate Seifer full medals party:



I would love to do an AoE/magic party, but all of my weapons are physical and elemental resistances make it tricky since I'd have to wait until Raijin is gone before I can use Quetzlcoatl or whatever.

Anyway, took it nice and easy and knocked them down one-at-a-time. Waited for Apocalypse Shield to be active before dropping Flashing Blade. Speaking of which, I almost honed Flashing Blade but noticed I had enough orbs for R4 Flare, so now I have no more Non-Elemental orbs for that... Flashing Blade will be next since Sephiroth is a bad mofo. Yukikaze's damage was really low on Basch, so I should've given him a strong single target ability like Saint's Cross. Squall Burst RW helped me get medals as well as damage for Basch and Sazh.

Was never in any sort of danger. Pretty easy fight with my gear and limit breaks. Probably would be even easier with a second spellblade.

Hungry, so I'll do the Ultimate+ after I make a bite.

Ultima+ Weapon mastery party:



Might as well do it while the chicken thighs bake. Missed a medal on speed because it took awhile to get my Boostga stack up, mostly because Drunk Cecil used his first meter on Protectga (source: Power Sash). Once that was up, Ultima Weapon got creamed by three consecutive Black Materia. Healed the Gravija with Selphie RW, which then blocked an Earthquake. Second one healed his big sword attack that snuck through a Stoneskin/break gap, which then blocked an Ultima spell... so that RW was pretty neat.

I don't have any breakdown users or dancers of significant level. I don't have any 5* abilities (aside from the free multi break dancer ability). A lot of my characters are between level 60 and 70. I really don't get that much armor on my pulls, it's always just weapons weapons weapons.

So one tornado hits everyone for 4k+ and kills two of them. The physical attacks nail for around 2.5k. I'm 99% sure I'd do much better if I could just land an SS2/SG in my RW roulette, but I'd rather not have to rely on that crap just to play the game.



This was my first attempt. My second replaced Cecil with Exdeath, still same facewipage.