Author Topic: Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper (Read 214165 times)

Shale · « **Reply #1000 on:** December 13, 2015, 01:16:09 PM »

Yaaaaaaaaaaay I get inventory space tomrorow

Captain K · « **Reply #1001 on:** December 13, 2015, 01:53:57 PM »

http://memegenerator.net/instance2/3347015

Cotigo · « **Reply #1002 on:** December 13, 2015, 02:59:32 PM »

Caganazzo mastered. This may be my favorite event boss yet.

Setup was

Zack (Venom Buster, Thundara Strike), Zack's Glove, Black Clothes, Squall's Necklace, Start: Sap, Damage 1.2x (Funnily, this is a mistake. I wanted increased SB gauge for actions taken)

Ramza (Magic Breakdown, Vanish Ray Do), Masamune, Ninja Garb, Ares Zodiac Stone, Katana Damage 1.2x

Bartz (R3 Blizzaga Strike, R3 Thundaga Strike), Partisan, Survival Vest (Shellga SB), Brutal Pierce, Dualcast Spellblade

Terra (Blizzaja, Thundaja), Flame Rod, Cat Hood, Black Mage's Twin Stars, Devotion

Aeris (R2 Carbuncle, Thundaga), Wizard Rod, White Robe, Memory Sphere, Dr. Mog's Teachings

Scream RW

Skills are R4 unless otherwise noted.

Part of why this is my favorite fight so far is because I was out of spell charges at the end, I had just gotten re-raised after being hit with Tsunami, and was just praying for Throw Stone to go off before Caggy's next turn, when he died to

POIZN.

POIZN mvp. POIZN best character. POIZN for Party Chairman.

Anyway, his only threatening attack with four people having lightning elemental attacks (more than enough to cancel Tsunami every time... except in the end when I ran out, whoops) is his MT Watera... which is admittedly really scary, especially if it goes off before you hit him with Magic Breakdown. Generally though, once you get past the first three turns I could tell if the run would be valid or not. Past that, 2 S/Ls because I didn't refresh Carbunkle at the right time, and one S/L because he decided to be a dick and use MT Watera 3 or 4 times in a row, wiping out my whole party without me really being able to do anything.

Anyway, it's not just a DPS check fight, the obvious RW and party combinations (for me anyway) wouldn't have actually worked, and all in all it really just felt like a nice change up from the last few variations on the theme of "Do you have enough hones, y/n. ?If N, do you have SG/SRS, y/n. If N, do you have any SSBs and Life Siphon. If N, go fuck yourself, come back when you have better gatcha luck or have farmed orbs for another few months). Good fight.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1003 on:** December 14, 2015, 07:48:16 AM »

Went through Desch's event up through the +++ battle. Garudia (++) was notably a pain in the ass for the first couple turns. Double acting with solid 2HKO damage before mitigation was obnoxious. However, once I got mitigation up it was EZPZ. Odin (+++), comparatively, was garbage. Similar damage but only single acting. Better MT, but yeah. Pretty sure DeNA mixed up the order of those fights.

Also, the 凶 fight dropped today and...

so you guys know how you were bitching about the Elite Leviathan that dropped a couple weeks ago? I get to play, too~!

Actually shouldn't be that bad. I honed so much lightning crap for Caganazzo that I should be able to just blitz him down with his weakness, and I have an R4 Vanish Raid so his buffs shouldn't be too bad. Honestly the most concerning part for me is that Levi only has *2* bonus medal reqs, meaning I have to be efficient. Again, though, I have so much lightning damage it shouldn't be a thing. Gonna hold off on actually fighting him until some videos go up on Youtube, though, because New Year's is getting closer and I want to get as much mythril as possible before then so I should do dungeons today.

Relatedly, I think instead of trying for SGSRS I'm going to aim for hoarding my mythril to try for Scream on Ramza. Part of this is fanboyism, but mostly on thinking about it this would clear up a party member slot for a 4th damage dealer, as opposed to adding another member to my roster fighting for air (also Tyro sucks).

In related news, this event gave me enough Lightning orbs to get Full Break to R2. Holding off for now in case I those orbs for something else (Thundaga Strike to R4?

?), but yesssssss.

Shale · « **Reply #1004 on:** December 14, 2015, 12:10:57 PM »

Oh god the new interface is even slower and less responsive than the old one. I'm not sure I can keep playing like this.

Edit: Okay, seems like it just needed time to settle. After waiting 20 minutes to get through the new intro dialog things are actually pretty zippy. Celebrated my newfound inventory space with two x11 pulls and came away with three 5 star items: Burning Fist (meh), Mystery Veil (neato!) and Holy Lance (heck yeah!). That's two more (non-default) healing SBs than I had before today, so I'm very okay with this.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1005 on:** December 14, 2015, 12:57:12 PM »

Actually, Holy Lance's SB is Attack Up + Heavy Regen for all party! Great pickup for your physical setup needs and Heavy Regen is a nice perk. Regardless, that means Mog rules for you now and I hope you picked up his MC.

Alongside the new UI, apparently they rolled over a bunch of balance changes, including the stat boosts for Terra (Mag up to 154, same as Rydia) and Balthier/Fran skillset and equip boosts (Balthy gets Spellblade 4, Swords and attack up to 135, Fran gets Support 5). Steiner also gets Spellblade 4.

Shale · « **Reply #1006 on:** December 14, 2015, 01:14:13 PM »

I most certainly did grab it. Which I'm very happy about now!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1007 on:** December 14, 2015, 01:26:25 PM »

DeNa also translated Vale of Memories' banners and they look considerably more exciting than JP's. The first banner in particular is hot: Rinoa's SSB, Hope's Skycutter, Vanille's Wyrmfang and Y'shtola's Thyrus. Shear Trigger is also an improvement over Revolver, though Magistral Rod is pretty questionable. Banner 2 is also great (Sentinel's Grimoire, Organics, Zack's Buster Sword, Celes' and Ashe's Rune Blade and Wakka's All-Rounder) and Banner 4's incredible outside of the fact I already have half the relics there (Lulu's Hairpin, Lullaby Rod, Golbez's Rune Axe, Minerva Bustier, Blazefire Saber and Loserface Valesti. Guess which one is the dud). I'll likely save a pull for Lulu's Hairpin and maybe a shot at 6* Lullaby Rod and splurge all the rest of my Mythril on the Thyrus banner.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1008 on:** December 14, 2015, 02:36:27 PM »

Oh man, the new update apparently contains a banner with a Christmas theme that was datamined. The interesting part is that people seem to have noticed that one of the images on the banner is of a Blue Orb, implying that Blue Magic might actually be coming for Christmas!

It would be strange if we got it before/simultaneously with Japan, but who knows?

Captain K · « **Reply #1009 on:** December 14, 2015, 02:55:14 PM »

My body is ready for Blue Magic.

New UI will take some getting used to, but the synergy simulator is wonderful.

Wasn't interested in the Japanese SSB banners, and these don't impress me much either. Will stick with the plan of saving mythril for Faris/Krile event.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1010 on:** December 14, 2015, 03:11:29 PM »

Fiddling with the new UI, it becomes increasingly obvious in how it's so much better than the original: I love being able to shuffle so quickly from equipment to abilities to RMs, and being able to shuffle around all equipment and RM slots without screen swapping speeds up the process a whole goddamn lot. The shortcuts to micromanagement screens also win. Screw the rules, I'm in love with the new UI.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1011 on:** December 14, 2015, 03:19:40 PM »

Quote from: Shale on December 14, 2015, 12:10:57 PM

Holy Lance (heck yeah!).

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on December 14, 2015, 12:57:12 PM

Mog rules for you now

Assuming you picked up his MC, start to ignore everything people say about the Mage Meta and start running physical builds. Mog + Another WM (ideally with MT heal which it sounds like you have?) + 3 decent physical damage dealers will help you wreck shit until... well, I'm still wrecking shit with this setup in JP, so you're set for literally the entirety of the forseeable future. That burning fist is going to be a whole lot less Meh once you get your Mog party going.

Shale · « **Reply #1012 on:** December 14, 2015, 03:38:40 PM »

Iiiiinteresting. I do have his MC, and Mystery Veil has an MT heal SB, although it's "light" healing so I don't know how helpful that will actually be. As far as physical fighters go I have MCs for him, Steiner and Wakka (plus Eiko and Vivi on the spellcasting side). I guess I can take a stab at Locke's in Assassin in Black, although tacking L60-scaled Ultima Weapon may be out of my range right now.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1013 on:** December 14, 2015, 04:15:33 PM »

Mog really doesn't cut it for a physical character, despite having a lance. Treat him more as a pure WM with dances and you'll have better results. The Mystery Veil's MT heal should suffice in a pinch, just make sure you put it on your non-Mog WM.

A Steiner/Wakka/Vivi/Eiko/Mog party should be perfectly viable, assuming you have 5* or 3/4* Realm Synergy weapons for all of them. Vivi doesn't benefit from Sun Bath, but you can always toss Faith onto Mog if you need Vivi to pull more weight with the spellcasting. The main reason to run 2 WMs is so you have Curaja, Shellga, Protectga, and one free utility space, so slotting in Faith shouldn't be a big deal unless you want Eiko to summon or Mog to dance. Actually, I usually use this utility slot for Curaga (in addition to Curaja), just to help my survivability, so maybe keep that in mind.

The following is based off of my experience with the JP version, which has had balance updates, so some things may not be applicable.

I don't use either Steiner or Wakka, so I'm not 100%, but Wakka has Support 5 which is always helpful (Magic Breakdown and Power Breakdown are godly, Mental/Armor less so but still useable. 3* skills have a bunch of statuses that have their uses). He also has Celerity 3, which gives him access to Tempo Flurry, which AFAIK everyone's go-to Slow skill.

Steiner has Spellblade 4, Knight 5 and Combat 5, all good skillsets. Pound, a 4* Combat skill, has the highest base damage multiplier of any physical skill, but spellblades have higher multipliers when hitting weakness. It's not out in Global yet, but when Vanish Raid (or Banish Raid, however they want to localize it) becomes available, get that. It's a Holy-elemental Knight skill that dispels. So good. Armor Bash also looks really neat (attack based off of Def*0.7+Atk*.3) but I haven't tried it myself to verify it's usefulness.

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Shit, I just realized that all of the above is kinda useless if you don't have Cloud or Tyro's MC2 to get access to the Record Materia (Mako Power and Dr. Mog's Teachings, or however they're translated, respectively) that lets you start a dungeon with your SB gauge charged. Mog's still good in this case, just not as godly without being able to cast Sun Bath on turn 1 for the Extra fights. Do you happen to have those?

EDIT: From what you said, actually, you probably don't, but it looks like the Rift of Recollection event will give you an empty MC1 and MC2. I highly highly highly recommend trying to get these, and then spending them on Cloud's MC and MC2, so you can make Mog amazing. Spend mythril after a loss to get a buff to help you win on the harder fights if you have to. Cloud's also a pretty great physical character who will benefit a lot from Mog's Sun Bath SB, so hey, there's that too.

EDIT2: The more everyone bitches about the lack of blue magic the more I hope DeNA refuses to implement it. Bah humbug.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1014 on:** December 14, 2015, 04:34:11 PM »

Quote from: Shale on December 14, 2015, 03:38:40 PM

Iiiiinteresting. I do have his MC, and Mystery Veil has an MT heal SB, although it's "light" healing so I don't know how helpful that will actually be. As far as physical fighters go I have MCs for him, Steiner and Wakka (plus Eiko and Vivi on the spellcasting side). I guess I can take a stab at Locke's in Assassin in Black, although tacking L60-scaled Ultima Weapon may be out of my range right now.

Ultima Weapon's vulnerable to paralysis. Take tomorrow and Wednesday for Heroic orb farming so you can grab the orbs to craft and hone Intimidate to a decent level (R2 should suffice with decent proc luck, R3 definitely will) and try it out. If you want, I can slap Tidus with my 5+ Zantetsuken and FF6 attack synergy stuff as a RW when you try to fight it so you can speed up the process.

EDIT: To Zenny: I don't think Shale has Cloud's MC2 due to him seriously picking up the game around the time of Orbfest, so it was probably a bit much for his party at the time. However, with Vale of Memories coming up within the next couple weeks, he'll have another shot at it. Loserface's MC2 will also be released at that point.

Shale · « **Reply #1015 on:** December 14, 2015, 04:36:18 PM »

Extra fights are still a ways away based on levels alone -- my A team is level 35 right now and I don't think there are enough Growth Eggs in my inventory to push more than two people to level 50. I tried Hard daily dungeons last week and barely escaped alive, far short of the mastery. So I've got time to gather more MCs from events.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1016 on:** December 14, 2015, 04:43:09 PM »

If you want to push levels ahead, the best way to do it is running the Sunday daily. Put your entire party on the back for the + dungeon (it's actually EASIER than Heroic), grab an AoE non-elemental RW, use it twice, limp through the remaining fight and reap 20k XP per PC a pop, then you can just retreat and repeat. Once your levels are high enough, you can just run the whole daily and pick up five Growth Eggs per run.

EDIT: Mondays are always the emptiest days. Might just run some Fire/Earth or upmat dailies, since now upmats don't ram into inventory space limitations.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1017 on:** December 14, 2015, 05:21:40 PM »

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT GLOBAL'S GETTING AN EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS ORBFEST AND IT STARTS THIS WEEK I CAN'T EVEN

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1018 on:** December 14, 2015, 05:27:41 PM »

.... wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Shale · « **Reply #1019 on:** December 14, 2015, 05:39:47 PM »

SUCK IT JAPAN YOU JUST GET LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1020 on:** December 14, 2015, 06:29:43 PM »

The craziest part: IT STARTS ON WEDNESDAY. I'm blowing Mythril to speed through Sephiroth's new event. Also, Vale of Memories starts on the 21st and Faris/Krile on the 26th. We'll also receive login bonuses starting on the 16th/17th as well, including a Global-exclusive character SB relic for Loserface (I know, I know) and a Global-exclusive 4* Samurai ability.

Captain K · « **Reply #1021 on:** December 14, 2015, 06:36:36 PM »

Why would you need to blow mythril on Seph event? You have today and tomorrow. Unless you'd rather farm Tuesdaily than Orbfest?

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1022 on:** December 14, 2015, 07:02:09 PM »

... you're right. Yeah, nevermind, I can just use Tuesday.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1023 on:** December 14, 2015, 07:28:23 PM »

Mmm. So, Vale banners. Looks like I'm pretty well set on my draws there. Phase 1 seems just too sexy to ignore, while I really need me some FFIX/X synergy so Phase 3 is a lock. I'd love to have a pull at Phase 5 but... yeah, can't ignore the chance for all Phase 1's mage weaponry (including Y'shtola's staff, making it pretty well a must-draw for everyone I imagine.)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1024 on:** December 14, 2015, 07:43:27 PM »

I could use almost literally all of banner 1's equips and I badly want about four of them. It's a better mage banner than Zidane/Amarant's second set, which is a feat still unbroken even in Japan. Phase 4 I want to draw on just because of Lulu's Hairpin, but I might end up forfeiting it since over half of the remainder would end up as combine fodder. If you're not me, though, it's downright incredible aside from Loserface Valesti. Phase 5 is good if you want better odds at a SSB, since both Cutting Trigger and Lustrous Sword tower over it. But nothing really beats banner 1's sheer clout for specialized weaponry.

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