Author Topic: Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper (Read 213963 times)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3950 on:** August 16, 2017, 08:42:56 PM »

Done with MO Nemesis' relevant parts - all of them handled solo. Six months of powercreep made the fight go from "gruelling ordeal that took me the better part of a week to handle" to "setpiece puzzle that takes me three tries to reasonably handle". From my original setup, just replaced Minwu with Relm and Faris with Fujin, which made the fight go a lot faster (one more person to actually slugfest while Radiant Shield whittles him down). Fun diversion. Not sure if I'll bother with Multiplayer bragging rights fight, though the thought's slightly tempting.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #3951 on:** August 16, 2017, 10:29:55 PM »

Beat the first 3 levels, the 3rd with an MP team.

Not bothering with the

level because no meaningful levels.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3952 on:** August 17, 2017, 03:33:20 AM »

Picked up Raines' Unique damage+Hastega SB and Fang's Enwind SSB from the Lucky Draw. Well, now I guess I have a new husbando. And Fang's viable now that I can do an OSB+Enelement combo with her. Nothing fancy, but oh well.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3953 on:** August 18, 2017, 09:21:18 PM »

Completed the FF15 event with pretty much no fuss. The music is gorgeous, at least. Not having to care about synergy also let me bring some less vanilla combinations too, which wasn't bad. Thanks for all the mythril.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #3954 on:** August 18, 2017, 11:16:06 PM »

Seeing as I have no real NEEDS, figured hey, may as well invest in some XV gear. I mean, we actually DO get one of these again in the foreseeable future!

100 Gem- Gladiolus' LM. Well that... sure is some gear.
11 Draw- Gladiolus' SSB. Boostga+Last Stand is pretty good, albeit I do have one of those (Minfilia's). Still, quality SSB and a weapon to compliment that freebie from ages ago.

I do have ~80 mythril in reserve, but on the other hand there's not huge winners on the banner that I'm aware of so feels like a waste to pull more, especially since there's multiple LM here.

Shale · « **Reply #3955 on:** August 24, 2017, 02:05:44 PM »

Holy shit, Magicite is live today. Those bastards.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3956 on:** August 24, 2017, 03:07:24 PM »

Got my ass handed to me by Magicite Sealion (though I'm certain I'll pull this off, just need to bring a second healer and I'm golden). This'll be fun.

EDIT: First clear! 38 seconds on Magicite Sealion, ran Terra/Potato/OK/Eiko/Edward. I figure I'll be able to shave off those seconds if I (a) run OK for damage; (b) run Vincent with his BSB for extra offense; (c) finally finish Terra's Legend Dive. I figure any one of these three will suffice if I tune up my strategy a bit. I might run Gathering Storm on Terra as well to see if it's good enough, since I'm using Edward for Entrusting shenanigans. As the days allow us to gather more Magicite Keystones, I'll start devising strategies for the other Magicites. I'm pretty sure I can clear all of them right now, but the only 30-sec-clears within my grasp I suspect will be Fire (Terra USB/OSB setup+Papalymo shit seriously wrecks Sealion) and Ice (Squall BSB2 + Rinoa CSB and BSB2 + Lulu BSB and En-Ice SSB). But we'll see.

Shale · « **Reply #3957 on:** August 24, 2017, 06:46:34 PM »

Tried Fenrir, but even with Edea dived to the point where she can 6-hit her burst CMD1 regardless of synergy I didn't have enough offense. If I had a second en-ice move I could probably get there, but at the moment all I've got to back her up is Lulu and Shantotto with their bursts.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3958 on:** August 24, 2017, 06:54:37 PM »

Fenrir wrecked me because I forgot to bring Dispel. Offensively, I'm doing fine, but he gets insanely, INSANELY fast with Haste.

Shale · « **Reply #3959 on:** August 24, 2017, 07:04:58 PM »

Weird, I haven't bothered with Dispel and his offense is perfectly manageable -- what gets me is the clock running out on Edea's MM (or, if I don't use it, the clock running out on his Berserk timer).

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3960 on:** August 24, 2017, 07:08:44 PM »

Yeah, I actually realized he ALSO slowed half my party at some point, which makes things dicier. He slowed Eiko before she got a turn to Guardian Mog and that was that.

Shale · « **Reply #3961 on:** August 24, 2017, 07:25:01 PM »

Yeah, Savage Withering Winds is no fun. I've toyed with bringing Firion just to spam MBlinks, since it's also his only magical offense.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3962 on:** August 24, 2017, 08:54:31 PM »

Firion's a really good mitigator for Savage Withering Winds, he just doesn't bring much else to the table for that particular fight. This said, also beat Fenrir, but not at a great time. 50 seconds on the timer, I'm thinking I should bring Squall and Red XIII instead of Edward and Lulu (I have Rinoa's LMR, which does give a decent MAG boost to her even in the midterm), since the extra DEF, Astra and Hastega source could come in handy. Lulu DOES answer for a considerable chunk of my offense in that fight, but that can be transferred to Rinoa somewhat if she can nab the better equipment. There's just a lot I see that could improve my performance in the fight, so I'll mull it over the next few days, since there are still four other Magicite dungeons to brave. Digging this so far.

Shale · « **Reply #3963 on:** August 24, 2017, 09:13:11 PM »

I'm thinking I need to put a pin in these until I can pick up at least one elemental USB (hopefully in the FF5 event next week) because my current kit just isn't getting it done. I tried Bismarck since I've got three en-lightning BSBs, and was somehow pumping out less DPS than when I had Edea + scrubs fighting Fenrir.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3964 on:** August 24, 2017, 09:30:50 PM »

Bismarck I haven't attempted yet, but he's apparently one of the -nastiest- fuckers in the first set of Magicites due to having high as hell DEF and tons of hard-to-wall AoE. I'll attempt it at some point, of course, since my thunder-boosting equipment set is stacked enough and I could also run Fran's Imperil Lightning to help me out, but I expect much pain. Meanwhile, I'll level the magicite I've already got and see how can I stack them together to improve my stats and performance little by little in the fray.

EDIT: also, Magicites encourage a strategy to sorta -concentrate- your offense. Running a dedicated Wrath+Entrust bot made the fight against Sealion a lot faster, the same could be said about Fenrir (especially since both Rinoa and Lulu have gauge building issues and I needed them juggling multiple SBs). But the tools to make this more feasible will come likely later. Also, do -not- forget to keep a mythril stash for the 30th Anniversary Fest banners late September, since those will be absolutely insane almost no matter what.

Shale · « **Reply #3965 on:** August 24, 2017, 09:56:40 PM »

Oh, believe me, I'm looking forward to that. 225 mythril in the bank and counting. Remember, that's where I jumped into JP, so I'm fairly champing at the bit to get Tidus' USB (or similar, but that's the one I've played around with) into a proper A-team after seeing the damage it can do even in an under-equipped, under-leveled setup.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3966 on:** August 24, 2017, 10:22:44 PM »

I'm looking forward September stuff as well. After a really boring August, the next month's filled with exciting shit to do and the early Magicite release just adds to the fun. I've been wanting to try these fights for -months- and it's really cool to finally have them around.

Shale · « **Reply #3967 on:** August 25, 2017, 04:06:16 PM »

SUCCESS! I tried every combination of DPS characters I could in my attempts yesterday, but what I didn't attempt was LUDICROUS BUFF STACKING, which thankfully is just what my wide-ranging collection of faithgas has prepared me to do! Papalymo with Ley Lines and Porom with Healing Wind plus the onionburst meant Edea was constantly at the buff cap without having to do anything but spam CMD1, and it freed up OK from being my second healer so he could spam Phantasm. (Also party-wide short charge is a big help when speed is of the essence)

It wasn't exactly a fast clear, but 56 seconds is still sub-1:00. Now to grind the heck out of Fenrir!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3968 on:** August 25, 2017, 04:37:39 PM »

Yeah, most important right now is getting sub-1:00 clears, since those hand you the bulk of sub-magicites and Arcana to level up your pokémon. Once I clear all the Magicites, I'll do some farming, though I'm considering getting Enkidu first from Fennyfarming (instant AoE 40% mHP medica+Esuna is seriously badass).

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3969 on:** August 25, 2017, 06:59:47 PM »

Cleared Magicite Golem. Pretty safe win, but not very fast (51 seconds). Fujin was -amazing- on the fight, my top damage dealer by far (you see, I took the opportunity to fully Legend Dive her, since I had a bunch of spare Wisdom and Bravery 5* motes...). Learning that the 1.3x weakness RM stacks multiplicatively with element boosts was great times, too. I probably should've stacked elemental boosts on Alphinaud instead of giving him Battleforged, though. Also ran Edward/Eiko/Garnet, which wasn't a bad choice, actually? But I should've cap-broken Mateus for a third Wind-elemental mage instead, methinks.

Shale · « **Reply #3970 on:** August 26, 2017, 02:21:22 PM »

Nemesis Infinity mastered solo. That's been a long time coming. Brought all three of my Last Stand SBs (Raijin, Edge and Selphie) with Alphinaud for damage reflect and Vaan for stat breaking and straightforward DPS. Toward the end I had to daisy-chain Auras to keep up with the Boundless Ethereal Cannons, but I managed it with the whole team alive.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3971 on:** August 26, 2017, 10:13:57 PM »

Cleared Magicite Hydra. That one was nasty, lots of AoE offense and a seriously unfun disposition to spam Savage Thunderbolt. Ended up bringing Exdeath for the MAG+RES buffing and it made one hell of a difference. I tried to bring Aphmau to the fight, since I pulled her USB and Legend Materia from the current FFXI banner, but she'll need to get her MC3 in order to properly play with Magicite dungeons. At least, the USB itself is obscenely good. Instant Hastega+Curaga+party instacast is simply -ridiculous-, I probably should take her to Fenrir and Sealion once I'm in magicite farming mode.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3972 on:** August 28, 2017, 03:27:44 AM »

I said Magicite Hyra was nasty? Maaaaaaaaaaan, it has nothing on Magicite Bismarck. Savage Breach Blast spam is a fucking -nightmare-. My only 1 min+ clear, I didn't even -master- the fight because the damage is so nutsy. Magicite Liquid Flame is next and I'm honestly scared, since my only Water SBs for that fight are Paine's Burst, Tidus' Overstrike and Rikku's Burst. No en-element at all, this is gonna -suck-.

Also manhandled XI event's bonus fights. Aphmau's USB is super good in general and crazy broken on Jump Start fights. I'm setting it as my Roaming Warrior, for all good it'll ever do.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3973 on:** August 28, 2017, 03:57:03 PM »

Magicite Liquid Flame: not happening with my current gear and hones. Lacking an en-element to augment Tidus' OSB is awful and the healing on Tornado form seriously screws me up. Its offense actually sucks (very gravity-based, so ID resist dents it pretty badly), but so does mine. So, I decided to try my hand at Magicite Sealion again now that I have Terra fully dived. Shaved off my time from 38 to 33 seconds, but I still need some improvement. I might give Vincent a try for Radiant Shield now that he's L99, that might help me out. THIS SAID, I should be farming Fenrir instead for Enkidu. Will work on it tomorrow, I suspect I may get some improvement on my times if I run Squall/Rinoa/Aphmau, and I levelled some Empower Ice magicite as well.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #3974 on:** August 29, 2017, 10:09:10 PM »

ENKIDU GET. In other news, I managed a Fenrir run clocking in at 33 seconds (you see, Squall procced a triple cast TWICE in that fight, one for Draw & Junction and one for Löwen Roar). Shaving 240k HP off Fenrir in a single turn was amazing in more than one sense of the word), but nothing too special otherwise.

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Author Topic: Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper (Read 213963 times)