Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Meeplelard]

From what I understand, Meltdown won't be boosted by En-Fire if it's hitting Wind or Earth weakness.  The game will read the attack as "1.5x Fire damage, 2x Wind damage, 1x Earth damage" and just takes whatever the highest multiplier is, rather than stack them.

That said, Yunalesca defeated...again...because we totally didn't just beat her last week!

Had to do two attempts, mostly because like an idiot I charged in guns blazing...without Protectga, forgetting she's primarily physical.  Oops.  2nd time, went in with Protectga, dropped Shellga since between Focus and Sentinel Grimoire, figured that's be enough.  MT Holy still hit for 4 digits, but the winning run had her NOT spamming it like she did on a few failed attempts, so it's all good.

Team was typical Mage Meta, Tyro running Mental Breakdown + Full Break, and Terra using Silencega instead of Magic Breakdown.  Standard stuff otherwise.


FF14 event, finished Part 1 which is a repeat of everything before, I'm excited for Part 2 and...
*Thousand Bores of Toto-Rak*
...oh screw you too, game...

To be clear, there's nothing wrong with the dungeon in RK, it's just anyone whose played FF14 knows Toto-rak is a pile of shit and boring as fuck and is the big "Fuck you" for leveling Roulettes, at least until you hit level 49 and Aurum Vale opens up

[Cotigo]

That makes sense programming wise, but I still want to test to verify. It's not like any content is hard for me anymore, anyway, except for Cid's Missions in my weaker realms, so I may as well be doing verification science.

In other news, they just released a Tanabata twitter campaign but I can't flag you guys down to participate because you have to do it from the app itself. Laaaaaaaaaame.

Plus side, you DO get a free stamina refresh for tweeting, so I imagine the 200,000 tweet goal will be reached anyway. Still.

[Meeplelard]

Vaan's OSB mults finally announced.  Sounds like it ranges from 11x to 14x based off stats broken, increasing by 50% for each one, and gets a 100% if all 5 are broken (probably because Mind Break is a lot more limited?)  That seems alright, as I was worried they were going to be absurd from the outset with Powercreep or some such, but this?  On average stronger than your standard OSBs (if you can't get at least 3 stats broken on meaningful content...), but it lacks any elemental quirks that others can take advantage of, so it has obvious limitations.

Squall's OSB is, as expected, an Ice elemental one.  Rinoa seems to be getting one too which is Earth elemental and I imagine it's identical to Terra's otherwise (being Earth though makes it clearly worse.)

Also new MC3s, this one seems to have...no logical pattern for who gets it! Garland, Leon, Kain, Krile, Sabin, Zack, Zell, Beatrix, Auron, Basch, Hope, Thancred and Delita.  Yeah, an FF3 character got skipped but I'm sure that's related to how Onion Knight was released with his MC3, thus they already had 3 characters (...then again, doesn't FF2 have 4 now because Leila got hers in the last batch alongside Maria?)


LASTLY: Yodaru, the guy who does these weird RK challenges like Naked Mages and such, just posted a video of beating Fragment Ifrit where his ONLY source of damage was Terra's OSB.  Its pretty impressive really.


EDIT: Weekly rewards are up.  Black/Lightning/Dark for the Major Orbs...well, that's 31k Greens down the drain for me!  Also another unexpected apology mythril.

[Shale]

Irvine has the first Full Break+ ability, hitting ATK/MAG/RES/DEF/MND on a new ID that stacks with every other break ever. IRVINE MASTER RACE

[Meeplelard]

Just beat Titan, still gotta go back and beat the difficulty 99 dungeon of the event because I failed to master it since she decided to paralyze Ingus then nuke him before Magic Breakdown could get her, thereby killing Ingus and that led to another character's death since my DPS was down and oh look 7 Medal Loss in that fight.

I have to say that while the first batch of FF14 bosses actually felt like good adjustments, this...did not.  They just said "lots of adds, that's what the bosses were like right?"  The Void Lamps SHOULD have been handled that "hit them once to turn them off" rather than do damage, since that's closer to the gimmick in FF14.  Toto-rak's boss is similarly stupid because I don't even remember moves like that...then again, he's a face-roll fight in FF14. 

And Titan...was about as generic as you can get.  His only gimmick the entire fight is "DPS race part way in!"  To be fair, Titan is not someone that you can actually transfer since it's all about positioning, so I can let that slide somewhat. 

NOW TO FRUITLESSLY PREDICT GARUDA'S FIGHT!

It's going to have 2 Rocks out, and she's going to create Feathers that attack it.  The state of the rocks will indicate the damage she deals with her Tornado moves, so you need to kill her feathers fast before they destroy the rocks.  This is probably the closest you'll get to actually capturing Garuda's fight, and I hope they do something like that rather than just make her big tornado move a scripted attack with nothing special like they did with Titan's gimmick.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Too busy farming Wind orbs to do the current bridge dungeons. Decided to do a 11 pull on banner 3 because I had the mythril and literally the only duplicate relic on there is Yuna's lullaby rod.

Three shiny rainbow orbs! All Lullaby Rods. Grumble.

[Meeplelard]

100 Gem Pull and I actually got a rainbow!

...unfortunately it was Aerith's Keepsake Ribbon.  Before you say "How can you complain about that!?" remember that I have Platinum Sword already, and more than enough FF7 Synergy, so it's not really meaningful for me.

...better than a 3* I guess, and probably good for Mage Meta in FF7 Realms.


On a different note, thinking of getting rid of my FF6 oath Veil.  It's a mage equip that boosts Wind damage making it good for...Ninjas and basically nothing else.  I thought it'd be good for Meltdown but nope, only +Fire boosts that (and I have the Red Armlet from FF10 anyway.)  So unless there's a legitimate reason to seriously care about Oath Veil + Gust on a Ninja, not seeing pressing reason to hold onto it.  And for raw stats, not meaningful considering my FF6 synergy (...and my Cat-Ear Hoods...)

[Cotigo]

FF8 banners are out. Quistis' hastega is on Banner 2, and overall the relics look slightly better on B2 than on B1, so I guess I'll pull on that.

Waifu pulling for Agrias' BSB is so tempting but it's also the only thing I want on that banner, while almost everything on either FF8 banner would flesh out my options and help out with Cid's missions. Alas.

[Cotigo]

Spent the evening playing Multiplayer with DJ and his boyfriend.

This is so fun I am sorely, sorely, SORELY tempted to start a global account just so I can play this with y'all.

Fuck my life.

[Meeplelard]

Adel beaten.  First tried Mage Meta, but her res was too high, so I instead went in Cid Mission style thinking "hey, Seifer's Bloodfest is perfect for this!" but no, that didn't work either.

Said screw it, and went in with Ramza, Rinoa, Tyro, Beatrix and Yuna and crushed her with Shout Seiken Shocks.  Only brought Rinoa because of the Summon req and she had a synergy weapon unlike other Summoners here. 

Amusingly, when trying to figure out my 5th, I was thinking stuff like "maybe Auron?" until I saw Beatrix and realized just how perfect she was (Magic Blink on a physical SSB, form a character who has Knight 5)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Wait six months, Zenny.

Anyhow, Adel landed once again and I went mage meta -once again-, only this time even more broken because my toy box for it seriously improved in general and for FF8. Ran Cait Sith, Edea, Rinoa, Quistis and Arc with a Lulu Focus RW. Cait ran Multibreak + Heathen Frolic Saraband and Toy Soldier, Edea ran MM/DZ combo with Inaugural Parade, Rinoa went Valduin + The Brothers, Quistis ran Firaja + Mental Breakdown with MG8 and Arc ran Curaja + Dispel with Soothing Light. Stacking debuffs and lesser buffs is -ridiculous-, Adel's Ultima was dealing 700-800 damage under Shellga + Focus + Toy Soldier + FB + Soothing Light + MBD, which is less than she did back when she was Laguna's Ultimate under SG + Focus + FB + MBD + Shellga. Rinoa was scoring 18k per Valduin cast once Inaugural Parade, Multibreak and Mental Breakdown were in place and she could break 12k even when Adel was under Shellga. Shedding nearly 50k a round off Adel's HP pretty much melted her away. Not having to run SG/SSII -at all- is pretty cool. Only five more days until mogcat's MC2, dammit.

Also currently routing FF14's event, picked up Yda and Papalymo MCs. One nice thing about this is the music, which is great. FF14's story dungeon main hall also got updated to play Torn From the Heavens instead of the generic FF main theme, which is cool beans.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Well actually if Zenny wants to do the Multiplayer with all of the DL peeps, he'd probably better start an account now so he can actually clear content by the time it shows up in Global...

[hinode]

On the other hand, it might not be a terrible idea to wait until we get confirmation that multiplayer actually will arrive in global before starting an account.

[Grefter]

dear dena

[Meeplelard]

Bahamut Sin Down.  Mage Meta'd him using usual stuff, only Lulu was using Waterja instead of Drainga because condition (albeit, Terra COULD have fulfilled that using Trance Flood but this was easier), Tyro went Multibreak instead of Full Break beacuse Shadow Creepers, and Phantasm so he can go in back row and it's a fast move.

And I full Medal'd it on my first attempt.  That felt really cathartic after the AC Event bullshit, even though this was toned down a lot.  A notable thing was my only physical mitigation was Sentinel Grimoire and Multibreak, and he and the creepers were doing maybe 600 damage at best with physicals, to the point where Heavy Regen from Divine Guardian RW or Hymn of the Fayth actually dealt with a lot of the problems.

[hinode]

100 mythril = 2 Ragnaroks, 1 Yoichi's Bow, 1 Al Bhed Jumper

I am going to fucking destroy the next FF5 event.

[Cotigo]

Welcome to the Bartz Klauser fanclub.

[Shale]

50 mythril: Yoichi's Bow, Platinum Shield, FUCKING RAGNAROK. Everything I wanted from the banner except Platinum Sword. Now I just have to decide how much of the 200 that I originally budgeted for this banner I can afford to spend chasing Shout.

[Cotigo]

All of it. Shout and Ragnarok will literally get you through every event easily for the next 6 months.  Not having shout despite having really good relics otherwise was the nail in the coffin for the handful of bosses I didn't beat until much later.

[Meeplelard]

Gilgamesh Beaten, used Mage Meta again.  Had one reset as a result of Enkidu coming and not properly being prepared for Gilgamesh's MT Gravity Move + MT Aerora.  The reset in question just had me time it so Tyro would Multibreak when Enikdu popped up, then burned him down fast.  This fight also involved Bahamuts and Meteors. 

Also after considering getting rid of Oath Veil...I end up using it in this fight because Gust to hit wind weakness.  Go figure.

[Cmdr_King]

Dollar pull on banner 4 netted Sorceress' Crown, which is neat since it opens up mage meta in a realistic way to me again.  I really want to pull on the banner anyway because with that I now have... one item on the banner, and everything there fills a niche (good FFV SBs, FUCKIN' SHOUT WHOOOO, my first Holy boost gear, or another FFXII melee weapon), 'cept I'm sitting at 42 mythril after clearing the basic Gilgamesh fight.  So barring another gift I'm only going to have 45 come Sunday.  Boooo.

[DjinnAndTonic]

2x11 Pulls on Banner 4, as allotted. I need some updated FFV gear!
First pull: Only 1 rainbow... Sage's Staff (V)! Hey, that's FFV gear at least! Couldn't hurt to have more Hymn of the Fayth clones?
Second pull: Edea's Crown! (Now I can make a 7* one or have 3 FF8 mage hats for Ifrit?) ...and Bartz's Ragnarok omfg!

Seriously I am having some crazy-good luck...

The eventually goal was to get 5 Burst SBs and try an all-burst team, and I am currently sitting at 4 bursts. True, they are all just damage bursts and 3/4 are on Spellblades fighting over the same skills so we'll have to see if that's workable but it's a fun-sounding idea in theory.
Squall/Lightning/Tidus/Bartz/Tyro could probably clear more Ultimates than not though. Gonna try it out for the two new Big Bridge bosses I haven't done yet!

I wish they'd release some healer bursts soon...

JP: Got Rinoa's BSB on the Squall banner. Really hoped for Zell's BSB because it looks fucking hilarious. Still no OSBs for Djinn~

[Nitori]

100 mythril for one Genji Blade, woo-hoo
Welcome back Gilgamesh

[Shale]

11-pull 2: Vaan's katana.
11-pull 3: Second Yoichi's Bow, THREE Platinum Shields. I'd be more annoyed about that if I didn't have so many knight SBs.

I think that's where I stop on banner 4, and put the rest of my stash into pulling for SG.

[Meeplelard]

After mulling over in my head and deciding I'm really into Mage Meta and Edea's Crown is exactly what I'd need (for all that Edward's is better down the line, but he's harder to fit in), and I want Basch's Platinum shield too, I decide to do a single 11 pull on this banner.



...well, can't complain about that pull.