Pulled on the FFXI banner, got P... Pap.... Momotaro? uh, whoever, point is I got another Stackable Faithga (MAG+Mdef)
This makes... three ATK+MAG SBs (OK, Celes, and the liberty staff, all 1.3x), one MAG+Mind BSB on Selphie, and a kinda crappy (1.1x) pure faithga on Vincent. Alternately, I could RW Sheepsong or Hastemarch and get another 1.3x. Or, just use Faith or Mana's Praen (though if I'm bringing a Bard Allegro Con Moto would be strictly better).
Unless I'm doing the math wrong or misremembering mults that's a potential ~185% MAG increase.
Silly. Absurdly silly.
In other news, I decided that since I had a 50% Max HP Medica, Faistboothga, and decent damage BSB on OK, OK, and Luneth, I was gonna do the CM for U+ Xande.
At first I misread the Japanese and thought he was weak to Dark, but it turns out that's just the only element he doesn't resist, so my first runs through with Cloud of Darkness egged to L80 fell flat. I swapped her out with Refia, but was still having trouble since relying on OK to heal everyone, deal damage, and keep everyone boostga'd, but couldn't build his SB gauge fast enough to do it all. Eventually I realized that Xande always spent the first two turns buffing himself, so I could build SB Gauges using hit and run tactics. Final Setup was:
Onion Knight (Curaja, Full Break), Battleforged, set up with Terra's sword to effectively do both physical and magic damage
Luneth (Dark Bargain, Indoor Spell), Ace Striker
Ignus (Banish Raid, Magic Breakdown)
Refia (Punishing Palm, Full Charge)
Arc (Ultra heal, Maraise), shared Cura-level Medica SB, Dualcast White
SG RW.
Ultimate Meteo, which either unlocks at an HP trigger or after a certain amount of time, whichever comes first, is ITD and basically ended every single unsuccessful attempt. That said, I still needed wall to help with everything else he did. That's part of why I resorted to building up SB gauge, so I could ensure that OK had enough to cast his BSB at the start, refresh it before the HP trigger, and have two more bars available to use his Chain Magic BSB command into his healing spell. I did eventually win, but it was a full two hours of S/Ling because I got ganked by two meteos in a row. It also helped having Arc at two bars to start, so he could cast Shell and immediately use his shared Cura SB when U Meteo unlocks.
Beating it makes me pretty glad I didn't do a pull on the 3 banners in the name of making the realm CM-able. I don't think I could pull off Arhiman's Mote Dungeon's CM yet unless Arhiman is hard coded to not attack for two round, but I may give it a shot.
