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FINAL FANTASY: RECORD KEEPER

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Only Sabin and Mog are sub-50 for me, and those two are getting close. I use Mog as a white mage that carries a spear. His mind is too low to Diaga but it's fine for healing and he's much sturdier than every white mage except Cecil. In his second ability slot I usually put Jump but I can slot in whatever else is needed, which now includes dances. I think he is a decent character. Sabin and Cyan are the weakest, but that's because monk skills suck and I don't have good FF6 weapons for either of them. It's really weird to me that Cyan doesn't have knight abilities, because it seems like he ought to. If Cyan had Knight 3 it would make up for his poor weapon selection and would catapult him into being a great character.



This is the party I'm smashing with right now. On Phunbaba 2 so Terra will rotate in for Golbez soon. I have great synergy overall but Cyan and Sabin are stuck with 3++ weapons so they'll be benched for bonus battles. I will likely bring in a spellblade snd another sword user--possibly Vaan as suppport--to take advantage of my 5-star Zantetsukan and Lightning Blades. Terra will go backrow with a 4++ Gravity Rod which is still my best mage weapon and fortunately has FF6 synergy which is a popular event franchise due to having so many characters. Unsure if I'll keep Mog out there. It depends on what I need to put in the second ability slot.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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the beautiful thing about dances (and thus mog) is that you can save 4* orbs to hone magic/power breakdown and use dances to lower enemy resistances!

i'm jealous of that mystic veil... it has been outclassed since, yeah, but i have NO HEALING RELICS :<<<<<
author=Craze
i'm jealous of that mystic veil... it has been outclassed since, yeah, but i have NO HEALING RELICS :<<<<<

I've had that hat for a long time and it's one of my best items. I usually throw it on my offensive mage as a clutch heal, since most blacks and summoners have crappy limit breaks snyway, and my primary white mage (if I don't have a synergized option) is Eiko who is good for Shellga.



And this is the party that took down Wrexsoul, who is a pain in the ass. As far as I could tell there's no way to tell which character is possessed. And yes, I have seven natural 5-star FF6 items (Golden Spear shown on Mog earlier), which is proving useful so far. I actually forgot I had that dress until I sorted my armors by Resistance. I decided on Celes instead of Cloud because of her superior Resistance stat and the synergy gives her close enough attack power anyway. I used a Boon RW to mitigate the spell damage. I was going to use Mog but it turns out there's no magic down dance yet, which would've been useful here since Wrex's minions nuke for like 2.5k. And as a tip because I didn't pay enough attention to the boss info tab... Wrex sbsorbs Holy so don't bring Diaga like I did... thinking Eiko would be better over Mog to lay down some sweet nukes. I should've slotted an esper or just fielded Mog with Jump and Golden Spear.
As expected, with how good my FF6 gear is, I was able to obliterate the bonus battles. Much easier than the FF12 ones. I used the same party as above but modified a few abilities depending on the encounter. Kept Eiko so I could Diaga bomb Doomgaze and then was too lazy to re-equip Mog for Kefka and the dragons. Vaan is a real motherfucker and I regret not pulling for his relic, because I can see him being my lead support for a long time, Great ability kit and great equipment selection compared to his peers.
Well, so much for saving my mythril for FF13. Each phase of the festival offers an 11-pull for only 25 mythril. I just pulled Yuna's healing staff and Sazh's gun in one go. I just need to generate another 27 mythril by the last phase to pull on all four. Doubt that's possible since I'm running out of dungeons but I'll for sure get three pulls.
Lato
Infantry for life!
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I like it, but it has gone through a LOT of changes/upgrades from when it first came out. I like all the new char depth and friends system they added in and I hope they add in even more!
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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I dropped for an Ifrit Pouch and rolled. Got a Cyclone Grimoire.

The rest of my money will go for 100 gem pulls because fuck this shit.

...i already have a sentinel grimoire.............

(I'll still do at least 25 myth pull but the rest will be for Hope and Lulu)

Lato, do you pay attention to JP version at all? There's a LOT to come, including an entire UI redesign. please look forward to it
Deltree
doesn't live here anymore
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Orbfest has turned me into a mindless autobattle drone, the likes of which I haven't felt since my MMO days. I am constantly checking for 15 stamina so I can squeeze in one...more...round. I know I could install an app to notify me automatically, but then I'd lose the thrill of the hunt!

I also got two gigantuars in one round, and both dropped major orbs. So ha-ha.

My first 25 draw netted me Squall's SB weapon and Tellah's staff. Its effect replenishes one ability for everyone in the party. Informal poll: disregarding Orbfest and realm synergy, would this be a desirable Roaming Warrior ability? I've never seen it out in the wild, so I don't know if it's just wildly rare (like Advance) or if it's more or less useless.
This phase netted me Snow's jacket. Starting to feel a lot better about my FF13 synergy.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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Deltree: I think Tellah's has a chance to fail per character. Kinda mediocre as RW but pretty decent on a red mage like Tellah in-battle.

I'm hoping for that Advance/Tyrfing, not because I use it a lot (although it IS a great stat boost), but because Luneth is a fucking powerhouse of a skillset and I'd love to utilize that more. He's currently getting some orbfest love.

I am a drone too but I can't connect to work's wifi on my tablet so it's not as bad as it could be.

Jude: Wild Bear is so good. Like, it's not THE BEST light armor but it's up there, and Froststrike is Ice, a common weakness. Having Mediguard and Froststrike (it should be Frostrike but on Sazh...) gives you a nice choice in a lot of battles, I find, especially since Snow was buffed to get Draw Fire. Can't wait for Hope's event...
Deltree
doesn't live here anymore
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Whaaat? Oh that sucks. Sorry, old man.... back to the bench.

I got Tidus' Brotherhood, which is okay, I guess. I'm not holding out for Cloud's new sword, since I got a 3-star helmet with my 99 cent pull and I won't be able to scrounge up another 50 in time for this banner plus the remaining two orb ones.
author=Craze
I'm hoping for that Advance/Tyrfing, not because I use it a lot (although it IS a great stat boost), but because Luneth is a fucking powerhouse of a skillset and I'd love to utilize that more. He's currently getting some orbfest love.


Luneth is awesome and I wish I had a Tyrfing, and if you get one I demand you make him your RW because I only have one Advance RW left--they all changed for who the hell knows why. I was using him most recently in some FF5 elites where I needed a spellblade but the only powerful FF5 weapon I had was a 4++ Giant Axe... and only one dude fit the bill. I find he works his way into a lot of party makeups where I need something specific and don't want to field Tyro because his stats are balls.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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I got Pecil's shield that gives Sentinel and Selphie's Morning Star. I'm happy but it's not Runeblade or Tyrfing :<<

Rest of my gems are being saved up for Hope and then Lulu. I'm far more interested in grinding out orbs than the rest of the classics for another 25 myth pull. I hate that i need to finish Terra's mission because I WANT ALL THE 4* EARTH ORBS GIVE THEM TO ME (and holy/white too for curaja...)
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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author=Craze
Deltree: I think Tellah's has a chance to fail per character. Kinda mediocre as RW but pretty decent on a red mage like Tellah in-battle.
It doesn't have a chance to fail. It does, however, pick one of your two abilities at random, without bothering to check which of the two you've actually used. Sometimes it'll try to restore the one that still has all its uses left instead of the one that needs to be restored, and thus will provide no benefit.

So far I've made two 11x relic draws in a row that had no five-star dragon balls. Lame.

Orbs that aren't power or non-elemental can gargle my ladyrags. The orb event needs to hurry up and get to the third phase.
Deltree
doesn't live here anymore
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That makes more sense; thanks. I run melee parties pretty exclusively (because :effort: ) so I'll hang on to the staff while I have room.

I'm presently farming experience in Orbfest for my cut-rate ranged characters in anticipation of those obnoxious "melee attacks won't reach!" battles, and poor Tyro, whom I apparently abandoned at level 21 some months ago. Yes, I know I made my own bed in those cases, but my white mage can pretty regularly do 9999 against almost anything with her dozen or so Diagas, so that's all the magic resource management that I really want to fool with.

Looking forward to crafting Full Break, though. Honing probably won't happen for some time, because of those orb requirements. Yeesh.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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just make the -gas man. you can do it. you can blast enemies in the weakspot and still use a handful of charges during normal battles.
Deltree
doesn't live here anymore
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NEVER. Well, maybe. Terra and Vivi are in their 60s now, anyway.

In other news, Cloud's RM2 (Mako Might) is an absolute game changer. I went from "dying horribly almost immediately" in the last two Jenova battles to championing them both, all because I was able to get a Boon/Stoneskin and Magic Breakdown off in the first few turns. So, highly recommend getting it first if you're having trouble on those fights. I actually got it to drop after two Orbfest fights (I also got Irvine's Master Sniper in about the same amount of time), so I don't know if the accumulated amount of exp has an effect on the chance for it to drop, or if I was just extraordinarily lucky.
Pretty unlucky on orbs for this phase. Lots of cactuar encounters--no major orbs period and only a single greater summon orb. I guess there's still time left. I underestimated how much mythril is acquired from log in bonuses, so I have ample mythril for the next pull tonight. I didn't get any 5-star items on this phase but I did get a few 4-stars I can combine when I have the upgrade materials, such as a third Empyrean Rod or whatever it's called. Doubtful I'll have enough mythril to pull on FF13, though--depends on how much mythril is in the new dungeons.

My great luck during Zack event made it easy to smash the Cloud/Barret one. I didn't even bring Cure magic for the Jenova fights.

Also, good news: I noticed LockeZ has a Tyrfing, so add him if you haven't already.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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YEAH I saw that Tyrfing this morning. I'm very happy. #rmnpride

I won't have mythril for this third event but tonight's final pull I will. Hoping for my own Tyrfing and/or a Runeblade. Either of Yuna's staves would be nice too.

Is Barret needed for the bonus battles? He's kinda shitty so I don't really want to use him although I've been running him through the orb dungeons for xp...

Deltree: Even if you only ever use Terra/Vivi/maybe Lulu, you'll be doing all right.
Deltree
doesn't live here anymore
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Barret is required for the very last bonus battle, yes.