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[Meeplelard]

100 Gem Pull, time to get rekt-*Heroic Scarf* ...that'll do.

[Shale]

My 100 gem pull was an FF5 Rune Axe, which was actually handy because now I have it combined to ++ to make three relic-caliber melee weapons for FF5 (that, Thor Hammer, and 6* Genji Blade).

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. Two 11x pulls, one Al Bhed Jumper.

[Meeplelard]

Kefka beaten.  At first I went in Cid Mission style because hey why not? What could go wr-*Counter Slave Crown* ...oh, he's anti-physical, well then!

So I reset, go in with Mage Meta, swapping out Tyro for Mog because he has a new toy, and can hurl Diaga anyway for the condition, and proceed to win with ease.

[Shale]

My Mage Meta attempt was an utter failure, then I swapped Terra for Agrias with Banishing Blade + Saint's Cross and demolished him.  Either Slave Crown has a low chance to kick in or all my relic luck went into only seeing it once.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Burst Banner 1: Kefka's Hastega and Gordon's Flame Shield (Heroic Harmony clone and Flame Resist as a stat blob). Could be worse. Honestly the fact that I didn't get a duplicate of any of the stuff I already had on this banner is kinda surprising. Pecil's BSB will come around again soon so not gonna do more than one pull here.

The plan is to only pull on Tidus' and Terra's banners from here (two BSBs each plus favorite characters). I'll do the hundred-gem pulls for Tyro and Bartz but not really expecting anything worthwhile there.

Really hoping that the guaranteed 5* thing comes to Global, because after this fest I might not be pulling on anything until that's supposed to get implemented (only 4 months out?)

[MC50]

Still playing this - ended up doing an 11 pull, and it turned out really well - Kefka's Cloak, Mog Scarf, and Cecil's Excalibur.

Does anyone here still use my Advance RW? It's obviously fallen out of favor, but I do have some other options - like Cecil's burst, or Hand of the Emperor. But if it's still being used, I'll leave it.

[Cmdr_King]

Okay so this was funny.

Kefka at least felt a lot more like the Garland/Velius tier of Ultimate than the real deals: SUPER fragile mostly.  Went with an oddball set since I was forewarned you wanted to Mage at him:

Terra (Maduin/Alexander, Blood of the Summoner, Trance Fira)
Rydia (Bizzaja/Thundaja, Blood of the Espers, Odin)
Vanille (Diaga/Holy, Battleforged, Miracle Prayer)
Lulu (Waterja/Meteor, Mako Might, Focus)
Mog (Multibreak/Curaja, Dr. Mogs, Heroic Harmony)
RW: Mighty Guard VIII

So yeah, complete non-threat offensively overall.  But the funny bit was Terra.  Alexander did 5000x2 at base, and 7500x2 under Focus.  Alexander is R3, with one shot going off before Focus.  Except Blood of the Summoners kicked in on the firsts cast.  And the third.  and the first cast of Maduin.  So yeah Terra accounted for something like 75,000 damage over four turns because the RNG decided she deserved it today.  Kefka didn't even live long enough for Rydia to charge up an Odin casting.

[Meeplelard]

Does anyone here still use my Advance RW? It's obviously fallen out of favor, but I do have some other options - like Cecil's burst, or Hand of the Emperor. But if it's still being used, I'll leave it.

Both would be way better than Advance these days.  Advance was really just big during the days where Retaliate Meta reigned supreme, but Retaliate has clearly fallen off a lot, being now just a gimmicky set up good for specific fights (particularly Drawtaliate).


Magitek Infusion could be good for an RW as well since it's a Hastega and Mage Teams really want the effect.  Likewise, Heroic Harmony is a pseudo-Wall, so also worth considering since that's always good for damage mitigation (especially if someone already has Wall)

[Scar]

Zero 5 stars.

I'm doing this wrong.

[Meeplelard]

Was going to Mage Meta Odin until I saw that pesky "Cancel Action" requirement, so said screw it, brought in a more conventional team of Terra, Auron, Zack, Vanille and Mog.  Mog debuffs and casts (useless) Diagas, Terra nukes, Auron Drawtaliates, Zack mostly exists for his 100% Stun Soul Break, and Vanille Heals.  Not much else to say.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Outside the cancel condition, Odin is pretty vanilla. I brought Edge with his 100% stun SB for the fight, but Dismissal procced before he even had the gauge to use it, so whatever. Gilgamesh for spoiling Flourish of Steel, SG RW, Lightning for loldamage, Cait Sith for healing and lolstackable breakdowns and Ramza for lolloudmode.

[Cotigo]

So I decided I should finally beat a nightmare dungeon, and crafted Meltdown. I'm actually not too far off from being able to hone it, Black Crystals aside! I should have R2 Meltdown in a couple months, assuming DeNA doesn't decide to be stingy with black crystals (I actually already meet the Earth/Fire reqs)... or will after I get off my butt and clear out the remaining Abyss dungeons I've been putting off since 6*s really aren't worth the effort... without the right accompanying SBs, hence getting Meltdown.

And Meeple's post actually convinced me to hone Wrath to R5, so any time I use Terra I can feasibly use Meltdown as well since I can eventually use her BSSB as a last resort if I run out of skill charges.

Also, DJ asked me to play multiplayer Sunday but I was too fucking hungover and kept passing out (actually still barely able to keep down food two days later, dumb dumb dumb Zenny), so I just cleared out the MP dungeons solo. Angry Terra featured pretty heavily. It nice.

[Shale]

With enough mitigation and High Regen, Flourish of Steel just means Odin distributes four hits' worth of SB gauge for the price of one.

Anyway, I still needed a second try on him because did you know that if you deal the fatal blow with 00 on the Doom counter you can die before the boss does? True fact.

(On the next try I stopped being a moron and remembered to equip Lightning with the Kaiser Shield, and won with 15 ticks to spare)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

With enough mitigation and High Regen, Flourish of Steel just means Odin distributes four hits' worth of SB gauge for the price of one.

It's actually not a bad idea to run just Draw Fire on Gilgamesh if you have a decent SB for him due to that if you want more DPS over the second skill slot.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Farming Mondaily because I lost control of my life and for some reason those are hilariously generous on Gysahls for me. I'm nearing 50k at long last. Tomorrow we also get the second FF14 event, which, if nothing else, will net me Y'shtola's MC2 so I can stop feeling embarrassed about her durability when running her against Ultimates. Granted, I feel more and more inclined to stop running SSII/SG entirely on those now that I can stack breakdowns past Full Break+Breakdown level. I'm actually more excited about Cait Sith's MC2 next week than Y'shtola's tomorrow due to that. Figures the goddamn cat would be an A team-worthy addition.

[Meeplelard]

Instead of grinding ark, I've been doing Mondaily too, but I should be finishing the last storyline dungeon I have but meh, I want some Gysahl Greens.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Banner 2 is here time for waifu pull. Three 11x pulls because I have no self control when it comes to FFX characters. Two Yuna SSB sticks, three Edge katana that are going to be useless when I whale on the upcoming FF4 banner soon anyway, a Penelo SSB that would have been super fucking useful during the White nightmare but now if just kinda a cute novelty, Sazh's Hastega for FF13 Cid's missions (actually really wanted this), and with my final pull I am now Razzmatazzin' all day erra day and I'm gonna go wipe the floor with the current annoying Cid's Mission.

Yeah, got 8/33 on this banner. That means I'm probably done with Burst fest. I might do one more pull on Terra because waifu but honestly the main thing I wanted was Tidus's super good enwater Burst.

Only two more Bursts until I can run a full Burst team!

[Meeplelard]

Meanwhile, I did a 100 Gem pull and got the legendary 3* WHITE DRESS!!!!

...which is to say, yes, I got rekt.


Anyway, Golbez beaten, full medal'd with the following team (only synergy was the FF4 Twinstars accessory, and an Ice Rod++ on Lulu)

Terra: R5 Firaja, R4 Magic Breakdown, Devotion, blows things up with missiles so she doesn't have to see the mayhem below
Kuja: R3 Memento Mori, R2 Dark Zone, Dark Fate, throws his black balls at things
Lulu: R4 Thundaja, R4 Blizzaja, Mako's Might, manages to Focus despite Kuja ranting about how magnificent his black balls are
Yuna: R5 Curaja, R2 Shellga, Knight's Charge, Is too busy singing the Hymn to notice Kuja's Black Balls
Mog: R4 Diaga, R2 Multibreak, Dr. Mog's Teachings, mocks Kuja's black balls with a nice Heroic Harmony
RW: Divine Guardian

Pretty straight forward really, Mog's Diaga was basically just there to a hit a condition, otherwise damage was bad.  I was surprised I full Medal'd it since at 20% health, he Binding Cold'd the 3 girls, so it was Kuja and his black balls and Mog's useless 3k damage diagas only for a while.  Amusingly enough, Kuja died a mere 2 actions before Lulu got the finishing blow (Terra Magic Breakdown'd him right before just in case), despite that last part, as a result of Memento Mori.

[Shale]

Rekt on the 100 gem draw, Golbez was a joke since three of my top four DPS chars are knights and I run a two white mage setup. More holy weak ultimates plz.

[hinode]

Man, I actually got 9500 damage Diagas with a Sage Staff++ on Golbez. It's been ages since I've seen an event boss take that much damage from a white mage. That easily made up for the fact that my FF4 melee weapons consisted of two 4++ daggers and little else.

Yunalesca was way harder this time around, Jecht was pretty easy considering I rely so heavily on holy damage anyways, Kefka and Odin were pretty much warmups as far as Big Bridge bosses go (the RNG-dependent interrupt condition was probably the hardest part of that fight). Neo Bahamut on the other hand was more interesting, as my two summoner relics (Keepsake Ribbon and Hope SSB) were basically useless for the fight except for stat sticks. Winning team:



(Had an L80 Garnet RW for the actual winning run, just grabbed a lower level one for the team photo)

I only had 1-2 more shots of damage across my entire team at the end of the battle, so this is pretty close to the minimum damage necessary to win the fight. Pretty happy about the hones on this setup; Ixion and Alexander are the only things I specifically honed for Neo Bahamut, and I'm quite sure I'll get usage out of both in the future, so they won't be wastes.

I can't believe there are people in this world who think Yda or Thancred's SSBs is a more valuable item than Thyrus.

[Magic Fanatic]

Between the 100-Gem and an 11-pull, I got one thing.

A second copy of Sabin's Boostga glove.

Bah.

[DjinnAndTonic]

With my shiny new Tidus Burst, Cid-Mission Jecht was a (relative) pushover. Luckily I didn't need to get mastery again for the Mission. Yuna w/ Hymn and a 6* synergy SSB weapon (though never used the SSB) was healing like crazy. Tidus and Auron did all the damage, though Auron wasn't really contributing that much (using his first SB Katana). Wakka and Rikku were... there. Shared Shellga SB on Rikku at least saw some use. Used SG as my RW, but I was originally gonna try a Shout RW so that all those physical guys were actually contributing...

Only Yuna died -right- at the end. Could have gotten mastery if anyone in FFX could use Banishing Strike... >.>;;

[Shale]

Big Bridge Yunalesca (non-Ultimate version) has a neat trick to spoil your run now -- Hellbiter isn't perfect accuracy, so you can be left open to Mega Death from a "lucky" dodge. Wheeeeeee!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

It wasn't in the first Ultimate version we had either! Avoid those pumpkins.

[Cotigo]

4 Elemental Guardians event -

Vilimangardia got wrecked by Terra, Bartz, Tyro, and Tidus all weilding fire attacks. That Freezing Dust counter was kinda brutal but at least Relm always came out of Stop immediately, so my healing wasn't really effected.

Doing the Lich boss next. He is weak to wind and Meltdown is Wind elemental, so I guess I will use this opportunity to see if it is boosted by Enflame even if it's acting as Wind elemental.

Either way, two OSBs will handle him just fine. Tidus is so lucky that he got RD Spellblade 3. Now that he can hit elemental weaknesses he is kinda too fucking good for me to spite ignore. Bluh bluh huge bitch.

Also, looking ahead at the OSB banners I am underwhelmed. I should have pulled on OK's absurd BSB once more but oh well, hindsight and all. I'll wait for the FF8 banners to drop and make a pull then.