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[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Paladin Cecil is the most cheesable of the four bosses, having only physicals to sport and half of his sparse skillset being shut down by Draw Fire + Retaliate entirely. Whether this is enough, I dunno, and Darkness is powerful enough to warrant a SSII/SG RW, cutting down on your offense, but it's a start.

EDIT: Guys, did your daily login bonuses not come up today? Also, why did DeNa send me 67 Mythril?

[Shale]

Yeah, I got a free Mythril from Dr. Mog's Mythril Stash when I loaded the game up this morning and another when the date changed, but no other daily bonus beyond my RW cash.

(Also, for Draw Fire/Retaliate my best approach would be to recruit and cap break Gilgamesh, no?)

[Captain K]

If you woke up early you got 2 Mythril Stash today, but nobody got Christmas Login stuff.  You got 67 mythril cause you spent a fuckton on Phase 1.  Looks like 6 11 draws and 1 100 gem?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Yeah, I got a free Mythril from Dr. Mog's Mythril Stash when I loaded the game up this morning and another when the date changed, but no other daily bonus beyond my RW cash.

(Also, for Draw Fire/Retaliate my best approach would be to recruit and cap break Gilgamesh, no?)

Yes, but if you feel you can't spare the Souls/Lodes, Tyro/Loserface also works. GRANTED, Gilgamesh is an amazing PC and deserves being a priority pick on Vale of Memories anyway.

EDIT: Cait doesn't get a SBB? Lame. HOWEVER, the prize accessory for the event is CLOUD'S BLONDE WIG. Also, his megaphone is indeed an instrument. DeNa dun good.

[Shale]

If I'm aiming for a physical-oriented party, I figure at the very least the best Draw/Retaliate PC should be a first alternate. And since I have two spots already locked up by Mog and Cloud (if he'll be at level 80, why not use him in my A team?) I've got one Soul for a first alternate.

(Edit: Hey, they added character levels back to the RW display! Thanks, DeNa.)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Yeah, that's a good idea. Bartz is also a great physical PC who'll get his MC2 in about three months (and Steal Power is a better buff to ATK than Sunbath, but self-only). Granted, he may be returning as a recruitable on the next event...

[Shale]

I can wait and see on that, since they're letting us spend Souls and Lodes for a week after the actual dungeons close.

[Captain K]

Beat Omega, lost 1 action and 1 damage medal because the last Stop missed and he touched Vivi.

Selphie (Stop r4, Curaga that doesn't actually get used) whatevers RM
Vivi (Thundaja r3, Thundaga r3) Devotion RM
Rinoa (Thundaga r5, Ruinga r3) with Witch hat and Mako Might RM
Aerith (Stop r4, Reflect r2), Auto Reflect RM
Tyro (Swift Bolt r4, Mental Breakdown r1)  Attunement II RM  [note: don't use this, Swift Bolt sucks]

Vivi was hitting 9200 after Witchcraft, Tyro 5000.  Misfortune Exdeath is going to be easy compared to this with half the resistance and synergy bonuses.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I also cleared Omega through the Stop lock strat, missed mastery because Omega got a single turn to Wave Cannon my party. Probably not bothering with mastery either, looooool 10k Gil.

[Magic Fanatic]

So, after many trials and tribulations, I managed to beat Omega.  Even better, I managed to get Mastery.

My set-up:
Aeris L55 - Faith R2/Stop R5 - Zeal
Thyrus++, Defense Veil+, Emerald Ring
Tyro L65 - Thundaga R3/Swift Bolt R4 - Devotion
Valkyrie, Circlet, Magick Gloves
Rinoa L65 - Ruinga R2/Thundaja R4 - Attunement II
Rising Sun+, Estharian Helmet, Amulet
Hope L52 - Reflect R4/Thundaga R4 - Vow of Vengeance
Skycutter+, Shinra Helmet, Mage's Armlet
Cloud L80 - Thundaga Strike R3/Thundara Strike R3 - Dragoon's Determination
Cobalt Katzbalger+, Adamant Bangle, Silver Glasses
RW: Boon

Weak link of this party: Cloud, hilariously enough.

My opening turn was basically Aeris stop, Tyro Boon, Rinoa Thundaja, Hope Reflect (on Cloud), and Cloud using Thundaga Strike.  Then, of course, Flash eventually landed on Cloud through the Silver Glasses, so he just got to stand there and look pretty for over half the fight.  Faithed Tyro Swift Bolts and Hope Thundagas were doing about 5.5K each, and Rinoa was doing 7K Thundajas before Faith, and 10K after.

I took a lot of time gambling with Aeris by weaving Stops and Faith uses, while everyone else just spammed damage.  Once Tyro/Hope/Rinoa were all Faithed, she only cast Stop.

Then of course, Omega was getting time when he wasn't being Stopped.  Landed a Rocket Punch on Cloud, and then a Blaster, which killed him.  At the time, I finally decided to say "screw it" and left Cloud for dead while I ran to everyone else to clean up.

...And then the medals screen comes up and lo and behold, I only lost one medal...  For Actions Taken.

Go me!

[Scar]

Double stop. Got cocky. Lost two medals.

Meh.

Don't think I'm doing again.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

For Shale: run of a weaponless Loserface mastering solo VoM's Dark Cecil by abusing the fact he dies after twenty turns. Weirdly hilarious.

http://youtu.be/m-eXjgMlRpE

[Cotigo]

Kuja's event cleared up to the 凶 battle. Missed mastery on Valia Pira because that thing has ABSURD defenses even with 5 FF9 characters. Even hitting his weakness, I couldn't crank out more than 3000 damage a turn. Seriously obnoxious. Gonna go back with just enough FFIX characters to lock out it's Flare/Holy slots and have Bartz and Mog thrown in to beef up my damage.

Steiner looks really easy, probably gonna use Come At Me Bro just to get around his breaks and just whittle him down. Kuja, on the other hand, looks absolutely ridiculous and is probably gonna be another 凶＋battle that I just skip. Gonna be a lot of those for a while (sigh... unless I get a Wall SB... Seriously I kinda wanna slap DJ around a bit for how much he complains about having gotten Sentinel's Grimiore).

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

You should slap DJ around anyways, having a Wall relic is glorious.

[Captain K]

Seph event quests finally got released so I finally got to do the bonus battles.  Ended up wasting stamina because I forgot to take the event quest on boss rush.  Ah well.  Pretty easy overall, and Helletic Hojo gets trivialized by Come At Me Bro.

Summon/Fire/Ice is the "meh" phase for me.  Summons are unnecessary until 6 months down the line, and I have a good stock of ice orbs already.  More fire would be nice but I'll probably take some time off from festive-ing and clear the new dungeons for more stamina.

[Shale]

For Shale: run of a weaponless Loserface mastering solo VoM's Dark Cecil by abusing the fact he dies after twenty turns. Weirdly hilarious.

http://youtu.be/m-eXjgMlRpE

Okay, so I don't even need offense, I just go Maximum Tank and win by surviving long enough? Works for me.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Yup. Dark Cecil is hilarious good times.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Anyhow, phase 3 farming has been more leisurely now that I have R4 Blizzaja. The game's been handing me almost nothing but Greater and Major Ice Orbs, which is fine by me. Phase 4 is where I'll focus my fire 100%, since I need ALL of the orbs involved. In the meantime, thankless Loserface and Tidus RM3 farming is a go.

[Cotigo]

Steiner down. I made it way harder on myself by using Come At Me Bro, I tell you Hwat.

Ramza (R4 Armor, R4 Power BD), RM same as always
Zack (R4 Indoor Spell, R3 NOBODY UNDERSTANDS MY PAIN... whatever it's called. 4* Combat MT Dark attack.), RM same as always
Gilgamesh (R5 Come At Me Bro), Who Cares
Mog (Shellga, Curaga), RM same as always
Aeris (Protectga, Curaja), RM same as always
SG RW

So at this stage of the game, Come At Me Bro actually neuters my damage by a lot. I can't have Aeris or Mog attack Gilgy to get him extra damage because I need them building SB constantly, and one reta counter a round plus a physical attack every four rounds (Taunt, Reta, Attack, Reta, repeat) is like half of an Indoor spell attack every round. I'm really surprised I got mastery, because by the end of the fight everyone was out of charges and I was reduced to using basic physicals. Thought I'd lose a turns taken medal for sure. Gilgamesh was ideally there to soak up Power Break hits so Zack and Ramza didn't have their damage neutered, and he did that job well enough but was completely dead weight for the rest of it. Putting Strongwater on Mog and Honing Drainga or Darkga to R3 and throwing Terra with Faith/Darkga would have been the much smarter choice. Heck, swapping in Kefka just to try out the new Darkness skills without honing them would have been given me more overall damage in the fight, and that would have been a really dumb move.

Come At Me Bro is dead.

I just feel tired whenever I watch the Kuja battle videos so I think I'm gonna skip. Maybe I'll play around with it tomorrow. Meh

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

FARMED LOSERFACE RM3 FUCK YOU GAME

Also picked up Spellblade Spring II, Archer's 2nd RM and Cecil's 3rd along the way. Moving along, moving along.

[Captain K]

5 mythril on banner 2 got me a generic IX Power Sash.  Fifth 5-star light armor, and third piece of FF9 5-star armor.  #thisgame

[Meeplelard]

I do a 100 Gem pull on the 2nd phase of the SSB Fest and I get...

...a 3* Platinum Sword from FF12.  Well that was a wash.

[Cmdr_King]

Gave in to temptation and tossed a couple single pulls after the 100 gem, ended up with 2 3 stars and a 4.  Eh, essentially I just spent the refunded mythril from the Banner 1 shenanigans so I can't complain about not getting anything, especially after that lovely draw on banner 1.  Kinda twitchy for Banner 3 to drop since I just kinda LIKE actually spending mythril.  Also it'll be pretty vital to determining how to approach the Beginner's Banner, because if it comes down to it and I get through Vale without a good FFX weapon I'll have to blow it on the Dusk Lance I think.

C'mon RNG don't make me waste a draw on Kimahri's Lance.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Man, you could just wait for Rikku's banner instead. Or Jecht's. FFX events show up all the time.

[Scar]

Used 50 mithril.

Got zacks sword and a mage armlet for x.

Not bad.