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[Shale]

Lucky 3: Vanille USB, Agrias and Vivi OSBs. Agrias has all her relics again, I finally have a proper 6* MAG stick, but more importantly both OSB weapons give their element boosts regardless of synergy. The extra damage from the rod should be enough to get my Sealion clear under a minute without changing my party at all.

EDIT: Yup, shaved 5 seconds, down to 59:64. This rules.

[Scar]

Terra, rapha, eiko ultra.

Lunneth osb.

Not bad. No dupes so far.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Final Lucky Draw: Squall USB. At the end, no dupes, but I'm kinda underwhelmed? Squall's USB completely pales in comparison to his BSB2 and doesn't even combo properly with it, Leila's BSB is kinda interesting but just not very high-powered, for all that now I have a complete Leila for whatever that's worth. Only the healer draw was really interesting to me (waifu Arc and Deuce's best SB, covering a general hole in my healer niches). Oh well, let's see what the Crystal Tower and Anniversary draws net me.

[Cmdr_King]

Lucky 3- USBs for Ramza, Exdeath, and Gilgamesh.  Gil's seems a bit of a miss but an upgrade to Grand Cross is most welcome and my Ramza is now +40 because fuck yeah.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Gilgamesh being a low-tier PC nowadays is so weird considering how high he was held for at least a year along the tiers.

[Magic Fanatic]

Gilgamesh was high tier mostly because Drawtaliate was such a strong defensive option for so long, right?

That said...

Lucky 1: Ovelia BSB, Lenna BSB.
Lucky 2: Ovelia BSB, Selphie USB.
Lucky 3: Tifa OSB.

...I feel like the only good draw I got was the Selphie USB.

[Shale]

Iiiiiiiiiit's showtime!

I pulled 9/30, but five were dupes: Lightning SSB1, Yuna SSB2, Cid Shout, Lulu BSB and Irvine BSB2. New stuff is Cloud's original burst, Ayame's burst, Golbez's burst and Locke's OSB. Lots of useful stuff in there, thankfully - I reforged the Irvine and Lightning guns, and Lulu's dupe gives me three ice boosting armors. New stuff...the 1st Fusion Sword is just +10 ATK for Cloud, but Ayame's burst is stellar and Golbez's finally gives me magic damage to use with my two FF4 faithgas. Locke's Overstrike is dual elemental, fast charging and has native holy boost on the dagger. Not bad for free!

[Cmdr_King]

4/30:  Rinoa OSB, Edgar OSB, Fang BSB1 (Dupe), Tidus BSB (Dupe).

Fills some weird equip holes so not all bad, and certainly fair for the price, but not near as good as the Lucky draws were to me.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

5/30: Cloud OSB, Irvine SSB2, Y'shtola SSB, Nine SSB and Leon BSB. Three dupes, including the 6-star, but all of them I could combine at least. Irvine SSB2 has definite CM value and Leon BSB... oh well, it's new. Game seems bent on giving me accidental husbandos/waifus this fest (Arc, Leila and now Leon). Also pulled twice on this banner for the chance at some FF1 synergy, got meself two OK BSB dupes, two Ingus BSBs and Desch's BSB instead. Not really complaining, more thunder tech is welcome for dealing with Bismarck.

[Magic Fanatic]

7/30.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/289564677355339778/361680048190652426/image.png
Cid OSB - I'm...  Not super hyped about this one, but I realized that it's still very good?
Luneth SSB - Dupe
Paine SSB - No idea how to feel about this one.
Auron SSB1 - Dupe
Balthier Imperil SSB - Dupe.  Now I have an 8* FF12 gun!
Zeid SSB - How do I use this?
Vayne SSB - Okay, MT Instant Actions 1 sounds kind of badass.

[Meeplelard]

6* Lucky Draw got me Papalymo's OSB.  Eh, whatever, something I don't have at least, and another Mage stick.


4/30 on the 30 pull.

Vaan's OSB (Dupe)
Maria's OSB
Snow's SSB (Fun Fact: I thought this was a dupe, but it's not)
Papalymo's BSB

...so I now got Papalymo's Enfire and OSB in two days, and it's a +Fire stick that has actual stats which Terra can use, something I don't have, basically what I sort of wanted.  Yeah there was nothing WOMG I WANT NOW on this list, but I'll take this.

[Clear Tranquil]

5/30

Locke OSB, Tifa OSB, Red XIII Burst, Lion Burst, Emperor Super

LD1 -

Ceodore Burst, Aerith Burst (dupe), Ovelia Burst (dupe)

LD2 - Red XIII USB, Faris USB, Setzer BSB

LD3 - Firion OSB

[Scar]

6/30

Krile osb
Drogan, Firion, Rinoa bursts
Cyan (dupe) and Matoya sab.

I guess that's Ok? I've wanted Firions burst for awhile now, so cool.

[Cmdr_King]

Decided hell with it, at 125 mythril with some to mine, draw for rare synergy.

5/11- Luneth USB, WoL USB, 2xFirion BSB, Garland BSB.  Well that sure is the big prize of teh banner plus a pretty respectable burst.  Yay.

e: in fact, took out Bahamut finally thanks to the extra firepower.  Gave me enough Dex motes to polish off Lightning's Legend Dive too (which I may have immediately went into when that USB landed). 

[Shale]

2/11 on banner 2: Locke and Mog BSBs.

Locke's burst is my first imperil fire, which counts for something but his OSB is probably going to be better most of the time. Mog's is extremely welcome, I've needed both a faithga and a hastega in FF6 for a long time.

Now the question is, do I try again for the ultras, or play it safe and not mess around with a banner that has seven relics I've already got? Sanity says save mythril, resentment at not having any EX modes says YOLO. Hmmmm.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Depends on how okay you are with the non-dupes besides the Ultras. Both Terra and Bartz USBs are fucking amazing, but Terra's USB is somewhat less impressive when you don't have the OSB to combo with it. Cecil USB is also very niche and honestly not really amazing if you don't have another source of en-element for Cecil (if you do, he becomes a -brilliant- Guardbringer bot).

As for myself, I 100-gemmed and whisked away. I even kinda like the non-dupes, but I have eight relics on that, including the two big prizes.

[Shale]

Pretty much everything except Cecil's USB would be great, really. Even Gogo's burst would be my second en-water, and maybe give me a better shot at Liquid Flame. Problem is, that's still only six out of the fourteen.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm not really sure. I mean, is there -anything- else you'd spend your mythril on this fest? There's another Mythril Dungeon coming during the celebration, some login pickups and the remaining orbfest mythril to grab, so worst comes to worst, you COULD afford one more pull if you play your cards right. Just don't get caught without the spare 50 Mythril for the second Crystal Tower pull on 10/4.

[Shale]

Oh, spare mythril isn't a problem, once I do the anniversary bonus stuff I'll have something like 255 in the bank. I'm budgeting my disappointment.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

In this case, might as well YOLO it up.

Anyhow, thanks to a Legend Dived Rafa and Desch's BSB, I got my first sub-30 Bismarck clear! 27 seconds, so while it does err a bit on the RNGey (it requires non-awful luck on the doublecast procs, mainly), it's a very solid setup for relatively fast clears: it averages around 33-35 seconds with zero dualcasts and largely avoids untimely ganks from Bismarck's horrifying offense. Once I finish the sixth weekly clear, I'll resume Orbfest grinding, those chips don't farm themselves.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, the paid relic pull. I did it and got Selphie USB, Fang BSB2 and Hope rosetta stone (Hawkeye, I already have a 7* of that), that's pretty dang good. Now, I can't really decide on the extra BSB to pick: I'm between Porom's Zeus Mace for the MAG+MND medica, Ayame's Soboro Sukehiro for that tasty physical ice tech to deal with Fenrir and Edea's BSB for much the same reasons. I -do- intend to pull on banner 4, which has Aphmau's Yuna2-like BSB and Ayame's Burst, though, so I suppose I'll make the choice after I do my scheduled pulls there. Who the fuck knows what will I land.

[Shale]

I YOLOed.

Disappointment: Avoided.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Hell yeah!

On more mundane news: cleared all of the roulette prizes. Slowing down on the orbfest farming until the next phase, I already managed to R5 Bahamut and I have a secure route to farm both Major Summon and Major Ice Orbs to boot now that I can consistently sub-30 both Sealion and Bismarck (y'see, I managed to improve my time to 26s in a run with -less- dualcast procs than before. Rafa/Ashe/Desch/Edward/Aphmau likely can make me consistent perfect runs against the whale). Fang cap-broken again, I guess the +30% damage with spears RM will be nice.

[Shale]

Oooooh, people comparing the gem-only banner's selection list to the JP version are prognosticating changes to the Crystal Tower Select list, based on the fact that the second list only included bursts missing from the gem banner's options. One of the changes would be switching the FF8 relic from Seifer's burst to Fujin's. If that's true, goodbye 50 more mythril.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Oooooh, people comparing the gem-only banner's selection list to the JP version are prognosticating changes to the Crystal Tower Select list, based on the fact that the second list only included bursts missing from the gem banner's options. One of the changes would be switching the FF8 relic from Seifer's burst to Fujin's. If that's true, goodbye 50 more mythril.

If that happens, Larsa's burst is so goddamn mine. The speculation is really interesting regardless. The changes to the paid list made my choices -a bit- easier, but they're still subject to the results on Banner 4.