Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Eh, I got something that'll make FFT better, so I'm fine. Getting a SSB weapon, even for a L65 PC, ended up being making out like a bandit for 100 Myth.

[Cotigo]

but ff9 is groooooooooooss

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

but ff9 is groooooooooooss

I wish I could disagree. At least the relics are generally good and the content is bulky and difficult enough to warrant pulling there.

(That and I like FF9 content in FFRK, in spite of not liking the game itself. Could be worse, though, I could be pulling on FF2)

[Cotigo]

True, FF9 synergy isn't a bad thing to have. The next boss you have coming up to worry about in that realm is U+ Kuja, and... uh, yeah I gave up on that one. This was pre-pulling-myself-up-from-my-own-bootstraps (get it. pulling. the joke is im funny), but still.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Not to mention the Orichalcum is tied with my 6* Shear Trigger for strongest weapon I have - with the perk of being equippable by literally everybody ever, so it's wonderful for synergy and/or filler equipment when not under synergy when I need to plug holes in my setup. Shift Break being AoE and Power Breakdown rolled down on one will also be really useful on multiple ultimates, starting with the fucking Gigases in FF2. I also count ultimate Three Stooges FFVIII and FFX, Velius and Ultimate Rufus+Dark Nation just within the next 30 days for places where it'll make a real difference. When Kuja's event kicks in, I'll also have a nice Thief's Raid+Lifesiphon setup going for Zidane, because he's one of the people who break 170 speed at L80. Heck, he breaks it under FF9 synergy at L65. I had mixed feelings about the pull last night, but at this point, I'm fully convinced this is just about the best thing I could've gotten from this banner and a notable gamechanger for the next few events.

[Meeplelard]

100 Gem Pull got me garbage.  I did a 3 pull because my FF9 Synergy kind of sucks, 2 RAINBOWS! ...both are Dark Hoods.

...I guess it's still FF9 Synergy defensive, but I'm tempted to do another.  Considering I have, after the event Mythril and today's login bonus, 250, I might do another 3 pull.  Thoughts?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

All things considered, a 3-pull is pretty inoffensive given your current stash. I'd say go for it.

[Magic Fanatic]

Sitting on 320 Mithril.

Staring at Freya's and Quistis's weapons.  Want both.  Gotta save for the SSB festival, though.

Got Terra into a stone's throw of 80, leveling Maria in her place now.  Freya's already at L33, running Rosa to get her to L50, WoL to level him up due to getting his MC2, and Locke because...  Eh, it's Locke.

[Cotigo]

First pull on the Scream banner, I get Mustadio's SSB and Delita's SB. Preeeetty cool, I really needed a non useless gun. Won't have 50 more mythril for a bit to try again for scream but this satisfies my need to have useful FFT characters.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Finished Freya event's main course. Shift Break melted Silver Dragon away, nothing new under the sun. I'll egg Freya to L65 later, since I intend to use her for the Ultimate fight. Too bad I won't try the bonus battles until Wednesday, but that's how surgery goes.

[Scar]

More dragoon skills are nice, but I just want this event to hurry up and finish already.

[Cotigo]

Runnin' dung' to get more mythril to succeed in not getting Scream again. Did the FF5 Gogo fight. If you try to win the way you do in FF5 he congratulates you then starts throwin' flares. If you don't try to win the way you do in FF5 he throws 9999 damage flares. The best. (He does tell you that he's going to quit imitating you but illiteracy means I missed that the first S/L.)

[Cmdr_King]

Y'know, I feel like normally event bosses don't explode quite as hard as the regular version of silver dragon did.  I mean Snow's ridiculous Zidane helped and all but I'm pretty sure these things aren't supposed to let you clear without medal loss using only breakdowns for mitigation.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I think absolute lack of Break resistance does it in pretty definitively. Most end of main course bosses usually have -some- sort of break resistance at this point and Silver Dragon just goes "nope, too good for that shit" and explodes horribly. Imagine if I decided to exploit his SLEEP vulnerability instead of just filler-Silencing him.

[Cotigo]

On the second pull of the Scream Banner, DeNA gave to me:

6 pieces of garbage
A second Romanda Gun
A second Zo Kai Armband
A second Main Gauche
A generic 5* Rod
And Agrias' SSB.

Welp, I think I did actually get everything except Scream, now. TBH I'm sorely tempted to throw money at the game but I know it will just end in heartbreak (especially because getting 5 5*s in one pull is just ridiculous and I'm pretty sure I've used up my luck here).

I can probably pull together two cult of 3 pulls with the daily gems/gems from whatever event drops on Friday/clearing out the last of my dungeons. Probably best just to move on and accept that it was not meant to be.

EDIT: lol ok, urge to spend real money on virtual goods over. After review, the only thing I didn't get in the banner besides Scream was Mustadio's Leg Aim. This means I reaaaally shouldn't pull on the banner again (even though i fuckin want that sb). Lord knows it'll be up again, probably during an SSB fest, with better consolation prizes (with synergy for more common realms). Siiiigh.

I'll probably still throw those cult of 3 mythril pulls at the banner when I get them, but I may use one or both on the BSSB banner. Ovelia's SSB would be a nice consulation prize as well (and would frankly obsolete Aeris since re-raise isn't that good but two MBarrier casters is ridiculous.) Though frankly that's still probably not smart, I already have a buttload of FFT synergy, and while it's not FF2/3/13 for how rare its events are, it's not exactly a high-in-demand realm either. 

[Scar]

Soul break banners translated.


http://bantha.org/~dscotton/ffrk.html

Wondering which ones to go after.

Definitely banner 1. So want a good weapon for bartz.

Then banner 4 and 5 possibly.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

On the FFT Christmas, DeNA gave to me

You -do- realize there's another orb festival coming in JP at the end of the month, right? They datamined it last week and it's slated to start at around the 24th.

REGARDLESS: holy shit the SSBS banners. Banner 1 is honestly crazy: five SSBs (Bartz', Seph's, Quistis', Yuna's and Zidane's). Problem is the chaff on it, which is seriously outdated or just not that great. Banner 2 is awkward as hell, but it's my last chance at landing native Focus for the foreseeable future. Banner 3... Iunno. Vanille's second Medica isn't amazing and some of the chaff is awful - Brotherhood? REALLY? - and Maduin's Horn is returning in April. Organics is frankly outdated as well. Banner 4 is good: Asura's Rod, Moore's Branch, the ever-elusive Valiant Knife and the remainders are okay too (I wouldn't mind Penelo's staff or Edgar's Drill). But holy -shit- what the hell is wrong with Banner 5. Sentinel's Grimoire, Peacemaker, Garnet's Wizard Rod, Gilgy's Genji Blade and Yuffie's Wutai Band? That's absolutely ridiculous. Even the leftovers (Golbez' Ebon Armor, Galuf's Thor Hammer and Steiner's Ultima Sword) are nice enough to have. Even with native trinity, I feel like pulling a bunch on that banner and anyone with anything less should be going off the deep end for this.

Once again, people on reddit are whining because these aren't like JP's banners, and once again, people are being complete doofuses. This is seriously better than JP's SSBfest and not by a small margin.

[Cotigo]

On the FFT Christmas, DeNA gave to me

You -do- realize there's another orb festival coming in JP at the end of the month, right? They datamined it last week and it's slated to start at around the 24th.

Nope, did not. I assumed there was gonna be one, but anticipated it to happen during the Golden Week holidays between April 29-May 6. Well, that settles it. Definitely no more pulls here (not even gonna bother with CO3s now, so thanks. That's almost sure to guarantee an extra 11 pull) and I'll just wait for Scream to come up in whatever celebration banners there are around that time.

EDIT: Re the JP banners, uuhhhh yeah no your guys' are waaaaaay better compared to what we got back in September. The one with Garnet's hastega, SG, and Yuffie's (I believe that's her heal?) is ridiculous. Ours were, what, 3 SSBs per banner? Granted, I wasn't really paying much attention back then.

In other news, team FFT is wrecking dungeons. Delita's SB gets ridiculous when there's only one target, and god help the boss if it doesn't resist its defense debuff. Musty's also synergizes really well with Agrias' Crush Punch, since its damage mod goes up when the enemy is Silenced, Stopped, or Paralyzed. I'll probably take on U Algus and U+ Queklain tomorrow and just wreck shit. What a lovely day.

[Captain K]

I'm liking banners 1 and 5.

[Scar]

Yeah, I'm think about dropping 150 between 1,4 n 5.

That should leave me with hopefully 200 mithril for fft.

Assuming we get 25 mithril for the lucky draw as well.

[Shale]

I was beginning to wonder if they'd just skip the orbfest/ssbfest altogether in keeping with the general crappiness of the anniversary celebration so far, and how hilarious the subreddit would be in that situation.

Anyway, I've got 200 Mythril saved up having only halfway finished the FF1 event, so I should be in good shape. Priority will definitely be Banner 5 since it's the only wall on offer, but I'll toss a couple pulls at banner 1. Some of that's going to have to go to inventory space, though, I'm right at the line and still have the good accessories to get from the aforementioned WOL nonsense.

[Cmdr_King]

Silver Dragon is a wuss*

*Okay not THAT bad, spamming gravity damage at you (at least I think it's counter is gravity typed) makes things feel dicey but not really.

My FFIX equipment is pretty okay (Ultima Sword, Zorlin Shape++, Cat Claw, Barbut) but fists are lame.  FORTUNATELY, there is an ideal fist user for the fight that really wants you to Jump at it.  So team:

Steiner (Blizzaga Strike/Drain Strike, Sword Dmg UP, Stock Break)
Sazh (Power Breakdown/Full Break, Mog's Teachings, Boon)
Leon (Lifesiphon/Banishing Strike, Dragoon's Determination, Hand of the Emperor)
Gilgamesh (Wind Jump/Leeching Leap, Freedom's Wish)
Tyro (Protectga/Curaja, Mako Might, Sentinel's/Mystic Cure (which actually came in handy right at the end))
Princess' Favor RW

This fight is actually weirdly slow paced, when you subtract the counters.  I think the liftoff/crash landing things do a number on its charge times/ATB.  It also doesn't seem to counter immediately after that which, again, is the only actually dangerous thing it can do to a well prepped team.  Admittedly I'm also the asshole with an extra physical mitigation layer.

Bit disappointed at the accessory.  THEN AGAIN.  All non-5 star Magic boosters are now laughably irrelevant, if they weren't already.  So that's nice.

[Cotigo]

Algus taken down with the full FFT party, first use of stamina but like 6-7 SLs. I forgot to use a breakdown on the wizard adds before killing Algus but still got Mastery because I lost no other medals. Was actually tougher than I expected thanks to the adds. Really had to get lucky that Tempo Flurry procced Slow on them within the first 3 turns so I could just focus on Algus.

Team was

Ramza (Bard ATK buff, Full Break), actions->SB Gauge up RM
Mustadio (Dual Delay, Power Breakdown), actions->SB Gauge up RM
Delita (Indoor Spell R4, Saint's Cross R3), Dragoon's Determination
Agrias (Shellga, Indoor Spell R5), Rebel Ace
Ovelia (Protectga, Curaja), Dualcast White
SG RW

A couple changes that would have made things smoother: Gau's Autohaste + Attack +10% RM on Agrias would have made her SSB come out sooner and made my life easier. Also, the magic is way more threatening, and Algus can dispel shell, so I should have switched Shellga and Protectga since Agrias really needed to be pumping her SB gauge.

Really surprised I didn't lose medals for damage taken, things got a little hairy after slow wore off on the Mages, but fortunately by that point I was almost done with the fight.  Delita's SB and Mustadio's SSB are less amazing against multitarget teams. Delita's really might as well qualify as an SSB against a single target, but split between 3 targets he gets Malak syndrome. They both do, and bad. Musty's a little bit more OK with that since spreading out his attacks means more chances for status to proc, but in a boss fight, meh. Mustadio's is also a little... uh, underwhelming at the moment, especially against bosses that don't have status vulnerabilities. That said he and Delita are still only in their Mid 50s so it's not like it's bad, just not as good as the other SSB I got. Agrias' is pretty great, and it makes a good case for her to start switching in for Bartz or Ramza in my A-Team during some U/U+ fights. Proooooobably not Zack, just because Hastega is pretty well mandatory, but regardless.

Gonna hold off on Queklain until I can level up my newbies a bit more on Sunday, but I have the feeling I'm going to have to swap in my A-team for that battle. Looks kinda brutal.

[Captain K]

Well then, Silver Dragon was surprisingly easy.  Not even a single S/L.

Lenna (Curaja, Protectga, Paladin's Devotion RM)
Bartz (Lifesiphon, Blizzaga Strike, Dragoon's Determination)
Vivi (Blizzaja, Blizzaga, Witch of Succession)
Faris (Steal Power, Boost, Thunderstroke)
Gilgamesh (Draw Fire, Wind Jump, Self Sacrifice)
Boon RW

This style of ultimate fight is more enjoyable than past ones.  He doesn't have phases you have to keep track of, he's fast but not instantcast fast, he doesn't have a nuke move combined with his speed.  You just need to deal with continuous light physical damage.

[hinode]

ARRRRRGGGH

Stupid game crashed during the Ultimate fight due to some sort of network error, then when I rebooted the game didn't let me continue S/L like usual afterwards. 60 stamina down the drain, right before an orbfest starts.