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[Magic Fanatic]

At this point, I'm just leveling up Quistis in my nephew's iPad so I can have an on-call Mighty Guard 8.  Otherwise, now I'm just waiting for something to happen.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Welp, anniversary 50 Mythril cnfrm'd, we don't get Excalipoor (we get a 5* FFX dagger instead) and they replaced Full Metal Rod with Lullaby Rod on banner 1. Welp, nice to know I'll just 100-gem that one.

[Meeplelard]

The FF10 5* Dagger is actually a pleasant surprise.  Instead of a gag 5* that is basically a free Rosetta Stone in Excalipoor, we get a...legitimate 5* Dagger from a realm that kind of lacks daggers.  Now granted, I'm in no need for FF10 synergy; I have 2 Swords, a Katana and a Lance as far as melee weapons go, but hey, the variety is appreciated. 

And it is a legitimate 5*.  Not a 4.5* like other free gear such as the Holiday Equips, the New Years Gun, or the Gold Sword, but an actual 5* Dagger.  104 Power is about on par with Vaan's Zwill Crossblade, after all, and it has a Shared Soul Break on top of that, so it's an actual legitimate weapon, as opposed to "good only if you're a newcomer or if paired with Realm Synergy."


That said, Lucky Draws for me were 2/33.  Just Tidus' Lightning Steel, and Seifer's Coat.  I guess those are alright, but disappointing draw as it's still less than 1 5* per Realm, and as implied above, FF10 is not a realm I needed more synergy from (not starving for FF8 either, but at least Seifer's Coat does have a niche in being a Light Armor that boosts attack, that scales with Synergy, so that's a notable quirk at least.)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Okay, so I finally finished Minwu event's bonus battles. Emperor is sorta annoying, I had to retreat and pack Slowga on Y'shtola and Dispel on Yuna to make him reasonable. The Gigases... man, was that ugly. My setup:

L80 Donkey Kong Cecil - Pound, Magic Break, Mako Might RM
L65 Zidane - Blind Shell, Lifesiphon, Dragoon's Determination RM
L65 Eiko - Curaja, Shellga, Dr. Mog's Teachings RM
L80 Rinoa - Blizzaja, Meteor, Knight's Charge RM
L65 Edge - Dismissal, Tempo Flurry, Ace Striker RM

Sentinel's Grimoire RW

My idea was to use Cecil's Boostga to improve offense and Edge's AoE cancel to keep the Gigases somewhat under control. The biggest problem is that you WILL end up bereft of Sentinel's Grimoire charges by the end and their offense is way too scary to run sans SG even at their high HP phase. I went for the Thunder Gigas first, since I figured chipping the other two with Meteor until it died would be sufficient... and I was right to a degree. Thunder Gigas, being immune to Slow, is the most dangerous to leave for last if you're running the final stretch sans Wall. By the end, I had only Cecil and Rinoa alive (Fire Gigas downed Zidane with a Shift Break charge ready to go just before dying and Ice Gigas just OHKOed Edge at some point. Eiko's death was all but inevitable at that point, but I could finish him off), but I still mastered because I still had full medals for actions. I'll just take it and never think of this fight again. Weirdly, I'm not sure how would I successfully pull this fight off without the extra tools granted by the Lucky Draws. Cecil's Boostga was paramount for keeping my offense viable and Edge's cancels were all really timely until he died (he got three of them off). Go figure.

And yeah, a 104 Attack dagger for a common, dangerous realm given for free is shockingly good. Even the SB is kinda nice in a way, since Slow's a nice status to have, but difficult to slot. That's a real surprise coming from DeNa.

[Cmdr_King]

Meanwhile this was not really a bad one... but uh.
Relevant Synergy: Werestaff (5 star rod), Golden Armor (5 star heavy armor)

Rinoa (Angel Wing Quake, Angel Wing Bolt)- Blizzaga/Meteor, Knight's Charge
Tyro (Sentinel's)- Protectga/Curaja, Mako Might
Tidus (Jecht Shot)- Dismissal/Tempo, Freedom's Wish
Sephiroth (Shadow Flare, Black Materia)- Lifesiphon/Darkmoon, Ace Striker
Leon (Hand of the Emperor)- Armor Strike/Banishing Strike, Mog's Teachings
RW- Mighty Guard VIII

Uh yeah mt versions of slow and blind make these guys pussycats and twin SSBs with a boost behind them rip the HP apart.  I am shock.  We also had uh 8k meteors and something like 9k off Armor Strike.  There was a close call for Sephiroth while he was charging a finishing Black Materia but nothing too bad, I'd have cleared and probably mastered even without that.

[Scar]

Tried phase 1...

Got zidanes ssb and a dupe lullaby rod.

Ah well.

[Captain K]

50 mythril - Vivi's Oak Staff (already had)
15 mythril - Revolver, which I'm actually not mad about because my 8 synergy sucks and I didn't have a SB for Squall
last 50 mythril because fuck it I want Excalibur - Sabin's Dragon Claws, and two of Zidane's Orichalcum

Decent haul overall, but I didn't get Excalibur or Red Scorpion and I won't be able to do a 50 pull on phase 5.

EDIT:  Ran out of Rosetta Stones, but I now have a dagger with 141 attack without synergy.

[hinode]

100 mythril + 100 gems on banner 1 = five 4* items and zero 5* items

Ugh, that was worse than my Lucky Draws.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm just waiting for phase 4 at this point. Lullaby Rod ultimately killed banner 1 for me and banner 2, even with Lulu's Hairpin, is way too awkward for me. Nothing in banner 3 really appeases me either.

[Nitori]

100 gem - V Diamond Shield

current plan is 50 on 2, 50 on 4, 300 into 5/T
if I get super lucky or yolo 50 on X 2nd banner

[Meeplelard]

100 Gem Pull and dropped 35 Mithril on it...and got jack and shit.  Whatever, on hindsight, very little on this banner I cared about, so not sure why I bothered; maybe off chance of Hastega.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Okay, I lied. Couldn't resist the leftover gems siren's call, but it was kinda worth it.



I may have a chance against that insane Ifrit now.

[Cmdr_King]

100 Gem Draw mk. 1- Reckt.

Nightmare- Ugh spherimorph, my ancient enemy.  You continue to be a fucker that's hard to actually LOSE.

Oh also Meeple Buster slain.  Not my cleanest fight but mastery get, with an extremely strange configuration of two medals lost for damage and one for KOs, but none for actions.  This fight is rocket tag man.  So fuckin' weird in the grander scheme of RK in general.  Actually spent several tries on this, but at 1 stamina a pop who the hell cares.  Problem ended up being simple: you CAN NOT win this fight without Haste.  That's just all there is to it.  I guess it might be technically possible but I mean, I tried using Eiko's reraise in one run because i"ve just burned all my RWs today and Hastega wasn't showing up, so what the hell, 1 stamina.  Still wasn't enough.

Keep in mind, dude OHKOed Terra with some RNG in his favor with Nightmare Thundaja.  Terra's level 80.

Team was Terra (Trance Fira), Rinoa (Angel Wing Bolt/Quake), Lulu (Focus), Exdeath (Grand Cross), Tyro (Sentinels).  Setups are somewhat academic, but general thoughts.
- SBs barely matter because even with Ace Striker on you're not gonna actually charge one before the fight turns to "you have 5 turns to win".  I think I finished with Grand Cross on the winning run but it was somewhat overkill.
- Ended up not using Focus, synergy is so high that for -aja spells?  Jumps you from 9500 to cap. 
- Meanwhilst Angel Wing Bolt dished out near-SSB numbers in backlash from the mana sphere.  Given the fight mechanics, it's somehow one of the best possible SBs for the fight thinking on it, being multi-hit and Lightning, although if someone has a multi-hit fire attack it'd be equally good.  Actual mage SSBs are non-elemental which could save you some death counters if you need to shift suddenly from phase 2 to phase 3 (ie because 120% Ultima WILL kill you), but wouldn't deal quite as much to Ultima Buster himself.

Generally hoping later ones are a bit less restrictive for overall set, but part of the problem is mages being a bit more limited in their skillset options compared to physical fighters, at least when you can't actually use their physical sets.  Although in some cases you wonder what the heck the characters are supposed to even do, like... team Support has all their actual Support skills neutered because this is an ultimate uber boss, it nulls stat breaks and status!  Then again, Ramza exists.

[Shale]

Today's a good day for RMs. I got Josef's double attack RM2 to drop while clearing out the FF2 event, and now that the blank MC2s have showed up on daily rewards I can get to work grinding Tyro's RM3.

(Also, 100 gems on banner 1 got me bupkis, but did I really expect anything else?)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm likely not doing Nightmare today: mastering Mighty Guard and getting some more levels for my losers is a higher priority. Good news of the day, though: got RM2s for both Edward and Firion. Meanwhile, not sure yet who's getting my MC2 lodes (no SBs for anyone but Vanille and Vivi and both Yuna and Rinoa step on their toes).

EDIT: Also, now that I got Red Scorpion, I think Banner 4 went up in priority over Banner 5 a little. Wizard's Rod would still be cool, but Mighty Guard's effect is quite similar. Also, if I get Asura's Rod from banner 4, it also suffers a little, since it's hard to juggle effectively two SBs on a single character, especially when such character lacks Lifesiphon/Wrath. This said, I want most of what both banners offer, so yeah.

[Captain K]

I have to rub in being better than Snow.



Lenna (Princess's Favor) - Curaja, Shellga, Dr. Mog's Teachings
Zidane (Shift Break) - Lifesiphon, Mug Time, Mako Might
Vivi (POIZN) - Bioga, Ruinga, Witch of Succession
Gilgamesh (Death Claw - didn't use) - Flame Blossom, Yukikaze, Pride of the Red Wings
Bartz (Lupine Barrage) - Blizzaga Strike, Firaga Strike, Ace Striker
Sentinel Grimoire RW

Put up mitigation, kill Fire, put up wall right as Fire dies, focus on Thunder and both Ice and Thunder died at same time.  Mug Time dominates Ice and Fire.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Argh. I cannot decide how to use my three MC2s...

I grabbed Vivi with the MC2 from the nightmare dungeon, because VIVI, but now I'm torn between Bartz (great character overall plus I have his first SB and dualcast Spellblade RM is awesome), Locke for Thiefs Revenge (have the orbs to hone it nicely) and his MT slow SB, Gilgamesh because another awesome PC + I have his first SB), Lulu because I have her hairpin/Focus and there's some FFX Black Mage content right here and now left in Nightmare, Aerith because I have all of her SBs, Hope because I have all of his SBs AND he's a Black Mage for the event, Vanille uh... has a good RM for autoing during SSBfest, and uh well no I guess I'm not considering Tifa.

Beat the Gigases with full medals due to double-SSB spam and timely use of Lifesiphon SG.

[Magic Fanatic]

Nightmare Ultima Buster Mastered easily.  I even forgot to hit the orb with Water (twice!) and still got Mastery the second time.

Rinoa L80 - Waterga R2/ Thundaga R4 - Magic Madness
Lulu L61 - Firaga R4/Waterja R4 - Ace Striker
Tyro L80 - Curaja R4/Swift Bolt R4 - Devotion
Terra L79 - Blizzaga R5/Comet R4 - Witch of Succession
Exdeath L64 - Ruinga R3/Thundaja R4 - Mako Might - Grand Cross
RW: Quistis Mighty Guard 8

I'm just going to say this now: Runic turns the Nightmare Buster into a kitten.  With Exdeath rocking that, TYRO of all people was running my highest DPS with the Swift Bolt Scroll, and the Death counter was nullified by Grand Cross.

[Nitori]

realized i owned two relics on banner 4 already and a 6* yoshiyuki wouldn't be that bad

eh good enough

[Cotigo]

JP BSSB banners are... eh, kinda un-enticing? Honestly I'm more drawn by the Curaga-level Medica relics only banner. I may either pull on that or on the Beatrix/Cecil BSSB banner when that comes up, though I only have enough mythril for one 11 pull. I may hold out to see if there's a hastega relic only banner in the near future, too.

[Meeplelard]

Finished the early parts of FF10-2 because I wanted quick mithril for latter banners, and the current phase is meh.

Also did a 100 Gem pull on the 10-2 Banner and got a Rikku Relic.  Well, can't say I'm disappointed!

[Meeplelard]

Banner 2 in SSB Celebration dropped, after looking it over, decided I cared about the relics on since there was a decent amount of stuff I could make use of!

100 Gem Pull! 3* Item!  Well, ok, that's out the way with.

Did a 11 pull, got 2 Fairy Flutes, Lulu's Hairpin, and a Minotaur Plate.  So a generic 5* not on the banner that has a good Shared SOul Break, a 2nd Medica in a realm I could use a bit more from, and the ONLY Magic Boosting Soul Break that stacks...yeah, I'm good for this banner.  Seriously though, I'm happy because Lulu's Hairpin was one of the big things I wanted, since it means I do legitimate Mage Meta.  Now I just need to look out for Kefka Magitek Infusion RWs <_<

[Cmdr_King]

100 Gem Draw mk. 2- Locke's Wing Edge.

Phase 3 of orbfest seems to really love it some White orbs.  Alas.

[Nitori]

didn't believe hard enough

[Meeplelard]

Threw 35 more mithril at Banner 2 because I realized I'm not spending on Banner 3 at all, and after assessing Banner 4, there's not enough I care about (or other things will pop up in the future that are similarly good), so yeah...

Ended up with another Aevis Killer, so I have a 5+* Bow for FF5 Realms.  Could be worse I suppose.