Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Captain K]

If you have Flare, then does that mean you passed up Meteor?

Of course, quests >>> aoe nonelemental damage.

I don't miss it though, Quake is more than adequate.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Hmm... I guess if you have proper mage weapons, then Quake would suffice.

I want to clear out the quests, but Flare is a long ways away unless Orbfest is particularly generous with 5* orbs. I can get Flare Strike and Holy now, but... why?

My current 5-star skills are Odin and Meteor, no regret!

[Captain K]

Did the 25 mythril pull, got Golbez's Rune Axe and several 4-star armors that I had already.  Made a 6-star Hypno Crown.

I need Ashe and Celes weapon so I can run all front-row mage meta.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Oh snap, Orbfest really -is- running alongside Lucky Draw? Fuck there goes my orb-grinding plans.

EDIT:
Did the Lucky Draw and got Garnet's Staff and Wakka's Official Ball! Holy shit~! Mage weapon~ Ranged weapon for my favorites~ I rescind all complaints.

[Captain K]

Yeah good thing I didn't spend 50 mythil on Terra's banner...

... shit

[Scar]

I love this event.

Got tidus' brotherhood, aeriths guard staff and...

Firions axe!

Not complaining. Ha!

The only thing that sucks is now tidus is one of my best units now. Ah well. Let's break firions lv cap now!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I did the first 11-pull on the banner and, welp.



The second one was an Ice Whip. No complaints. Having both Boon -and- Lunatic High is kinda ridiculous, though.

[DjinnAndTonic]

And despite it all, Snow -still- manages to have the best luck of us all...

Amusingly, of my two (!!) Mage weapons, my best Rod boosts MND and my best Staff boosts MAG.... Sucks for Rydia, Terra, Rinoa who can't equip my awesome new MAG-focused Staff...

22 Heroic runs:
1x 5* orb
26x 4* orbs

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

A neat thing about the Ice Whip is that it boosts Ice damage. It pretty much instantly shot Rydia to the top of my mage roster due to the high mag+elem boost in addition to Rydia now kicking ass. It's also going to be useful for Quistis, so I'm pretty okay with it in spite of the FF4 mage synergy redundancy. I love this festival already.

Also, do I keep Red as my RW or do I swap it to Sazh?

[Cotigo]

I see the next few weeks will be a lot of this from now on.

In other news, wow the RNG is showering me in fire orbs. I've been getting at least 1-2 greater on each 30 stamina spent, and my dungeon run netted me a major. Nice. Hopefully Black Power day is just as kind. I may have Meteo soon.

EDIT: Is Boon the Shell/Haste SB (Good Time in JP)?  If so, jesus your mitigation SBs dude.

[Grefter]

And edgar will have 5* Engineering.... in like, uh, long-enough-for-you-to-be-sick-of-the-game months from now.

You would think so.  You would be wrong.

Also

ezpz just use mages plzy

Is still funny.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

EDIT: Is Boon the Shell/Haste SB (Good Time in JP)?  If so, jesus your mitigation SBs dude.

Yep. Boon = Good Time.

[Cotigo]

[Scar]

Use boon please.

Also, for shits and giggles I may change my rw to firion, unless asked otherwise.

Yuna Is nice, but she doesn't generate me any money. I never see firion, so maybe him being rate will net me more money? Dunno.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I actually -use- your Yuna. If you switch to Firion, I most certainly will only be summoning you because we're bros.

[Grefter]

Yuna Is nice, but she doesn't generate me any money. I never see firion, so maybe him being rate will net me more money? Dunno.

Never play the stock market.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Use boon please.

Also, for shits and giggles I may change my rw to firion, unless asked otherwise.

ST damage SBs are barrel-bottom in priority for RWs. You're probably raking in -less- money if you swap.

[Scar]

Well djinn, you are the only one who uses yuan because at most I get 6 uses from other people with her.

[Captain K]

I used her while farming Belial!

[Cotigo]

Yeah dude damage SBs sre terrible for RWs. As soon as I got my farming engine up to par I deleted all of mine that I followed. MT damage is only slightly less useless unless it also breaks the damage cap by being Multihit.

E: Dude. That's my second major orb from a daily TODAY. Third since they added the new tiers last week.

Edit: One more. Yeesh. If this isn't just pure bastard luck I have a feeling 5* skills will be almost mandatory for the most difficult battles from here on out…  I don't think I was getting this rate of Majors during the second orb fest even

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Currently farming on the Orbfest. The rate of Greater/Major Orbs ain't so hot, but on some fiftern full runs, I already got a Major Black, two Greater Blacks, a Greater Dark and five Greater Lightnings. Also levelling up losers in the meantime - should have Loserface all the way up to L65 this morning even, while Strago/Mog/Maria/Galuf are all L38 at the time of this post. So much farming to do.

EDIT: Current tally for today so far:

1 Major Black Orb
8 Greater Lightning Orbs
2 Greater Black Orbs
2 Greater Dark Orbs

And a fuckton of 3* orbs. RNG lopsided much? This is far better than any farming I've ever done regardless. I feel this is a good opportunity to stock up on these in order to prepare for orb conversion, which might come by the end of the year.

Strago/Maria/Mog/Galuf are all L47, Loserface is level-capped and Rydia's almost there herself. Next up is Sazh, since I could also stand to master Boon. After Sazh, I'll probably bring Sephiroth and Squall to the fray, since I should prioritize the earlier MC2s.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Still farming. My current loser crew is already at L49 and Sazh just mastered Boon. Got a couple more Greater Lightnings, Blacks and Darks among the way and a Major Lightning. I'm likely only doing refreshes on this phase and on Fire/Ice/Summon, since those are the highest-demand orbs. If the rate on Greater Orbs was a bit better, I'd refresh on the NE phase too, but it isn't, sooooo. Regardless, seems like I'll be able to immediately R3 Ruinga once I get it, which is a good start. -If- I get two more Major Lightnings, I'll be able to craft both Odin and Full Break as well, but not sure if I want to postpone honing it to R2 for this long. At least, I'll have a pretty wide array of PCs to saddle it with (seriously, what the heck is up with me having the three best support PC character relics?).

EDIT: Updated tally as of now:

1 Major Black Orb
1 Major Lightning Orb
13 Greater Lightning Orbs
5 Greater Black Orbs
4 Greater Dark Orbs

Still lopsided as fuck, but I'm close to recovering the Lightning Orbs I used for R4 Dismissal. Otherwise, Black and Dark Orbs are the ones I have the highest stock for, but I'll need it for Ruinga. Regardless, looking good. And I'm raking in obscene amounts of 3* orbs for the long-term.

[Magic Fanatic]

So, beat Terra's +++ fight last night.  Fight was a bit harder than Jo'ou led me to believe, and I had to reset several times.  Managed to lose only four medals instead of my usual 5/6 total for the championship.  Even though it was 40 stamina that could've gone towards the Orbfest...  Hey, free Major orbs out of that, too.  Works out well enough in the end.

Level broke Terra and Rydia, and working on getting Ricard to 50 for when I eventually pick up his MC.  Rinoa's at L63, Y'shtola's at 60, Cloud's at 65, and I've got various other 50-60 characters.

I haven't been keeping track like Jo'ou has, but I know that I've gotten at least 2 Major Orbs and 4ish Greater Orbs from the Orbfest so far.

[Cmdr_King]

  Fight was a bit harder than Jo'ou led me to believe

[Grefter]

  Fight was a bit harder than Jo'ou led me to believe

Because you are shit at games and don't have enough mage gear get fucking good you bad