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[Shale]

To be honest, you don't even -need- the boss to be Thunder-weak. Just the Lightning boost on Kaiser Shield boosts Crushing Blow from effectively 6.5x to 7.8x mult (i.e. ST SSB-level offense) and you can stack it if synergy says so. On Desch, the effect is also worth it on average as long as you don't have synergy 5* hats for a real, and, even if you do, the difference is small. It becomes a bit of a choice between better defenses or better Res and slightly better damage.

Plot twist: Desch can't use shields. DeNaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Because Zenny needed to get more stacked: DeNA gave some OSB weapons unique RS bonuses. Now, the single-element OSB weapons give their relative elements a %20 damage boost in addition to improved stats when under synergy.

[Cotigo]

Because Zenny needed to get more stacked: DeNA gave some OSB weapons unique RS bonuses. Now, the single-element OSB weapons give their relative elements a %20 damage boost in addition to improved stats when under synergy.

ha

hahaha

hahahahahahahaha

haaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha

i just wanna reiterate that i have spent a total of 200 mythril on relevant banners to get water/fire/earth osbs

i am so much luckier than you it isn't even funny

well its funny to me

[Meeplelard]

Your quality: Less willpower than Meeple has vanished.

Oddly, I have no will to actually play RK today since lack of new content and frankly, "grind for orbs" just isn't appealing.  If I'm going to grind for something, I'm grinding for Esos in FF14, so basically that last "use stamina" thing is me being full of shit.

...outside of logging in for the log-in rewards, I'm basically just playing when new content drops and that's it.  So yeah, don't get too excited.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Ultimate battles/Cid Missions done. Full-medaled the Turks, lost one medal on damage to U+ Sephiroth. Setups as below.

Turks

L75 Cait Sith (Heathen Frolic Sarabande R3/Multibreak R2 - Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Red XIII (Power Breakdown R4/Mental Breakdown R4 - Mako Might)
L80 Aerith (Curaja R5/Shellga R2 - Ace Striker)
L80 Reno (Meteor R3/Darkra R4 - Vow of Vengeance)
L80 Vincent (Memento Mori R3/Alexander R5 - Devotion)

Lulu Focus RW

Since almost all of my FF7 offensive synergy is magical in nature (including a Striking Staff that went, unsurprisingly, to Vincent), I decided to go full mage meta here. Honestly, feels like the way to go if you have the hones and stackable breakdown mitigation - the Turks are individually fragile and you can really speed up the fight if you can pull it off. Entice hit Vincent once, which was annoying, and I spent the entire fight individually healing people because the opening turns are a pain in the ass, but once Elena went down, things went smoothly. Vincent was dropping 20k damage Alexanders with Memento Mori + Focus, which was nothing short of gross. Toy Soldier is frankly amazing. Lunatic High, of course, didn't hurt either.

One-Winged Angel Sephiroth

Something a bit different here.

L75 Cait Sith (Curaja R5/Mana's Paean R4 - Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Red XIII (Mental Breakdown R4/Full Break R3 - Mako Might)
L80 Aerith (Alexander R5/Valefor R5 - Devotion)
L80 Yuffie (Phantasm R4/Steal Power R3 - Selfless Summoner)
L80 Vincent (Memento Mori R3/Dark Zone R3 - Vow of Vengeance)

Selphie Dreamstage RW (I was afraid of his Meteors at low HP. As it turns out, he never casted it once)

Yeah, I decided to forgo Dispel because Sephiroth's Scintilla counters would become irrelevant regarding Haste in his low HP phase anyway and I suspected the extra offense from Mana's Paean would be more useful. In hindsight, I should've given Cait Sith just Faith for casting on Aerith - would make timing Memento Mori unnecessary and Yuffie honestly didn't gain much from Mana's Paean. Heck, I'm thinking I should've handed Yuffie Dismissal instead, since Steal Power would let her work it off offensively just fine. Still, Steal Power is good against Sephy. Mental Breakdown was a good choice - lowering his RES, along with Mana's Paean, got Aerith to break 11k damage per summon cast, while Vincent dropped 18k Dark Zones all day. Late in the fight, things got hectic with a few unfortunate Scintilla counters - he actually ganked Yuffie. Pulse of Life to the rescue, though, and the buff loss when you're running most of your mitigation as breakdowns isn't anywhere near as bad. Cait Sith and Red were ultimately my team's cornerstones, while Aerith and Vincent provided the necessary offense to end the fight. Pretty tense, but ultimately manageable. The extra AoE healing from Dreamstage was pretty nice to have as well.

[Magic Fanatic]

Tried an 11-pull, because Banner 2 seemed really good.

What I wanted: Cait Sith's SSB, Yuffie's SSB, Cloud's SB, Barret's SB

What I got: Tifa's SSB, Chocobracelet.

Welp.


Cid Missions on U and U+ done and mastered.  -2 Medals on each for damage taken.

Party for U: Cloud/Red/Aeris/Cait/Sephiroth + Shout

Sephiroth because money Samurai skills showing their worth here, Cloud because BSB, Red for Lunatic High, Aeris/Cait for Healing.

Party for U+: Cloud/Red/Aeris/Cait/Tifa + Stoneskin

Tifa because Burning Arrow (despite me pulling her SSB), and the rest of the people for the same reason as above.

[Cmdr_King]

So it turns out the Cid Missions are borked for this event and will cough up their delicious loot regardless of your actual party once you clear it (although it won't tell you you did so if you don't actually fulfill the conditions.)

I wasn't especially looking forward to trying these missions (Having no mitigation, Haste, healing, or buffs amongst my otherwise decent FFVII synergy) so I'll take it.  Honestly even with A-team Shout setups these fights were fairly lethal, albeit not TOO threatening, so yeah, definitely happier this way I think.

[Shale]

Holy shit, the Turks fight is the purest distillation of FFRK luck-based bullshit imaginable. Automatic opening attack that knocks maxed characters to 25% health, and it's very likely that they'll get a full round of regular turns in before you can heal. Have fun killing and restarting the app 20 times to get past turn 2!

[Cotigo]

Looked at the FF6 banners and saw nothing that really caught my eye, so I went and yolo pulled on the first FF8 banner. Hello Rinoa BSB and two of Laguna's ice SB guns.

[Cotigo]

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Cid's Mission U+ Seifer down, no medals lost. That was fuuuuuuun. My FF8 A-team synergizes really well thanks to today's yolopull.

The setup:

Rinoa (R5 Valefor, R3 Chain Blizzaga), Battleforged
Laguna (R4 Dismissal, R5 Indoor Spell), Ace Striker
Quistis (R5 Wrath, R4 Bioga), Dr. Mog's Teachings, *Liberty Staff equipped*
Irvine (R4 Power BD, R3 Fullbreak), Dragoon's Determination
Selphie (R3 Protectga, R5 Curaja), Mako Might
SRS RW

So. Lots of stuff made this fun. The most obvious one being that having Selphie's BSB gives me +30% MAG that stacks with the Liberty Staff's +30% mag, making Rinoa's DPS absolutely insane (that increased softcap helps mages out soooo much). Second most obvious, Laguna's SB adding Weak: Ice to seifer, making his SSB do ~20k damage a pop afterwards, Rinoa's Chain Blizzaga deal 12k a round, and her BSB Ice attack deal 16k a round. After all that buffing (Selphie BSB, Liberty Staff, + stat bonus from BSB), her OFB dealt close to the damage cap despite not hitting weakness/being boosted by En-element. Hooooo boy.

Quistis was mostly a hastega/boostga mule, so only used Bioga once to hit a medal condition. Wrath is suuuuuper nice for letting me use both SBs on her in a timely fashion. Hastega is overall more important, so she started with that, but it was only two turns later that she got the boost/faithga out, right before Laguna hit his first SSB. Heck, even Irvine's Quick Shot dealt ~10k damage.

This setup is ridiculous and FF8 is now easily my strongest realm. I don't know how I feel about that.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

ff8 waifu pull is real

Got Kain to L65 for instant cap-break in the Tuesday event. Also got Cait Sith's second RM yesterday. By next Sunday, I should have Leon/Eiko/Quistis maxed out.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, DeNA reinstated the Cid's Missions and changed the original entries to just clearing the fights themselves. Welp, won't say no to two apology Mythril and getting more Major Orbs out of the deal.

[DjinnAndTonic]

My credit card was already clenched for the amount of whaling it was going to take for this new FF4 banner. Did one 50-mythril pull, only one 5* - oh crap it's Cecil's Burst. Whelp guess I'm done for a while.

Now I have five BSBs. I can field a full team of these guys. Should I make five Lifesiphons?

Not the most efficient team, but super satisfying!

[Cotigo]

another JP lucky "catch up" pull. Vincent's SSB that boosts magic. I can now stack 3 different magic boosts through SBs alone so I guess I'm mage metaing now

[Shale]

11X pull on the FF4 banner: Kain's SSB and Edward's harp! My FF4 synergy problems are solved, I can finally field a mage team that's not a total joke, and the zero-jump-time effect should be fun to play with.

[Scar]

Lolololololololol

Nooooope.

[DjinnAndTonic]

You didn't get anything?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

11X pull on the FF4 banner: Kain's SSB and Edward's harp! My FF4 synergy problems are solved, I can finally field a mage team that's not a total joke, and the zero-jump-time effect should be fun to play with.

Song of Swiftness RW plz

Anyhow, as tempting as the good stuff on the banner is, I'm really not feeling the risk of drawing another Shadowblade or Kotetsu. I only have 54 Mythril and I'd rather save up for the FFXII event.

[Scar]

I got another shadowblade.

So yeah, basically I got nothing.

[Shale]

Song of Swiftness RW plz

Just gotta level him above 1 first.

[Nitori]

Kotetsu (IV)

i didn't know they put sephiroth items on a ff4 banner

[Grefter]

Kotetsu (IV)

i didn't know they put sephiroth items on a ff4 banner

I see.

[hinode]

Spent 50 mythril in search of FF4 synergy, got 2 Shadowblades and an Artemis Bow. Good enough for me!

[Shale]

Thinking on it, I just developed a huge need for orbs in order to actually make use of these shinies. Rising Dive requires R3 Dragoon Jump for maximum effect (Expect to use the move twice in a U/+ fight, three instant jumps per use) and I'm 19 major fire orbs short on that, plus it would eat all my lightning orbs and I was hoping to R2 Thief's Revenge sometime this century. Song of Swiftness needs honed summons and black magic to boost, and currently I have...R2 Maduin? And some -agas? Plus my spellcaster weapons are pretty bad.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Summons are a really long-term investment unless you're willing to break some Major Summon Orbs. This said, you can also get away with honing some -jas for an acceptable stopgap with a 30% MAG boost. For whatever's worth, if you hone two 4* summons to R4, you can get by pretty damn well for impressive offense (I only have 20%+ and a synergy rod usually, and that + Devotion usually get me breaking five-digit damage with Valduin somewhat consistently. With Focus and/or or weakness stacked, it starts getting nuts). Also, for Rising Dive: in practice, I think you can get away with R2 Dragoon Jump (Lifesiphon spam does eat away at Dragoon Jumping and that + SSB already chips away at boss health considerably) unless Kain's your only relevant DPS slot.

(I honed it to R3 anyway because otherwise Kain will be horrible against CM Barbariccia.)