Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Edward's problem for me is mainly me not having a proper weapon for him (did you know Bards can sing with daggers!?). He's certainly going to be far less painful than BARD to level and, at worst, I can have him spamming Rallying Etude/Mana's Paean, but not knowing when will I be able to cap-break him is a complete bummer. Bard and Support 5 off an acceptable stat spread once he's levelled honestly isn't a bad set for a utility character. DARK KNIGHT, though, is just completely awful.

As for levelling, done with Red Mage, Barret's L38 and I started levelling NINJA. I should cap off Bard by tonight. Also got another Greater Holy in my last run alongside a Greater Earth, so I'm somewhat happy.

[Captain K]

Now taking bets on whether this topic will be larger than What Games Are You Playing before year's end.

If this separate topic was started the first time it was suggested I don't think it would have even been close.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

RKDL: it is happening.

[Veryslightlymad]

We celebrate our little achievements in this game way harder. Whereas WGAYP seems to have more comprehensive updates. Like, if you look at the things ID just was posting, that represents 10s of hours of gameplay. Whereas we talk about our daily shenanigans multiple times each in here.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Well, posting strategies and theorycraft is probably a more constructive use of topic space, but celebrating the little victories is fun.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Theorycraft is great and all, but it only really applies when there's new content out, and not every event dungeon is interesting. Check in late tomorrow night, when we'll have a third Lucky Draw phase and +++ battles.

[hinode]

Brought my A-team to the Jenova Life event stage since I heard horror stories of her OHKOing people with her long range physical and man, is it weird to have Aerith's theme playing in the background while Aerith is in your party for the fight. For extra weirdness, I had Cloud equip Masamune for the fight since Seph's still L45 for me.

Also Aerith got the first move thanks to random ATB and kept Jenova Stop-locked for the entire duration.

[Scar]

Gladiator is lv capped.

Leveling dragoon, samurai, barret, strago, and quistis.

Finished eiko, rinoa, Terra,  aeries, and ricard.

Need to lv mog, magic knight, knight, dark knight, and Maria.

Haven't gotten many major orbs this phase. I think only one so far.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Finished my phase 2 runs, didn't bother counting orbs this time since I don't care for the available spoils much. Guaranteeing immediate R3 Ruinga and a decent spare stash for R4 Diaga soonish was nice, though. Maybe I'll hone Curaja a bit once I finally get R4 Ruinga. Level-capped and cap-broke Red Mage, Bard and Barret (fed a couple eggs to the latter). I'm ready for Cloud's bonus battles and phase 3 of the Orbfest for sure.

[Veryslightlymad]

Also Aerith got the first move thanks to random ATB and kept Jenova Stop-locked for the entire duration.

This is the real reason why Sephiroth killed her personally.

[DjinnAndTonic]

So Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Brave Frontier: Final Fantasy Flavored! came out in Japan just recently, so I decided to bite the bullet and open up a JP iTunes account to test it out. It's a cute game, but the freemium elements are somehow even more awfully-designed than FFRK's. Sigh...

While there, I picked up FFRK JP to also play around with that.

Man, they are exceedingly kind to new players. Free 50x Mythril and a beginner 11-pull with an extra guaranteed 5-star of your choice. Also Ultros summon.

So I did my pull and got... Sentinel's Grimoire. *rage*

My fourth one! RNGesus is trying to tell me something...

I also got 3 more 5-star relics in that initial 11-pull, and then I chose Zidane's Butterfly sword for my 5-star relic out of the 'meh' stuff that was available. Mostly because Zidane actually has a pretty awesome skill selection and he was immediately available due to the FF9 event running. And thanks to the FF9 synergy I might be able to clear his MC fight before the event ends.

It's fun, but I'm not sure I want to poor too much time into a secondary account. Mostly curious to see how quickly I can go from 'nothing' to 'EX-ready'.

[DjinnAndTonic]

And let us not forget my American account. Lucky Draw is out, I got a Ninja Chainmail out of it, so yay for MORE reasons to use Thancred? Did the dollar-pull on the new FF7 banner and got Lunatic High! What is this madness? That's three dollar-pulls in a row that gave me character relics.

[MC50]

Started playing this a couple months ago, doing pretty decently - Up to the last dungeon update in classics. Pulled a few relics along the way (Steiner's, Quistis's - who I don't have -, Lenna's, Sephiroth's first from the Relic Draw, and Kimahri's also from the relic draw.) So I've got a decent set of abilities and such to choose from.

Just pulled Tyrfing in the Lucky Draw, so I've set Advance as my friend summon.

bL6P  is my friend ID. I'll follow you back if you add me.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Hey cool, we finally have an Advance-user in our little circle. The only question is: would you prefer I used Sentinel's Grimoire or Lunatic High for my RW? fc: enWi

[Captain K]

I also got a random CK follower today, with the same RW as me.  Creepy.

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*Does Lucky Pull*
*Oh, a 5-star, good*
*Hmm, it's a spear, I forget who uses spears, Fran?*
*Dusk Lance*
*throws phone*

[Magic Fanatic]

ttuj is my friend code.

I have the following for worthwhile RWs:

Rinoa L65 Angel Wing Quake (Current) - Two hit Earth Damage + MT Slow
Rinoa L65 Angel Wing Bolt - Three hit Lightning Damage
Y'shtola L65 Stoneskin 2 - DEF/RES Up
Red XIII L50 Lunatic High - Protect/Haste
Thancred L65 Death Blossom - MT Physical + Slow
Terra L55 Trance Flood - MT Water Damage


...And that's it!  Any requests?

[Captain K]

I actually like the Angel Wing Quake because it's aoe and 100% slow.  That spoils a lot of boss fights.

[Cotigo]

So Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Brave Frontier: Final Fantasy Flavored! came out in Japan just recently, so I decided to bite the bullet and open up a JP iTunes account to test it out. It's a cute game, but the freemium elements are somehow even more awfully-designed than FFRK's. Sigh...

While there, I picked up FFRK JP to also play around with that.

Man, they are exceedingly kind to new players. Free 50x Mythril and a beginner 11-pull with an extra guaranteed 5-star of your choice. Also Ultros summon.

So I did my pull and got... Sentinel's Grimoire. *rage*

My fourth one! RNGesus is trying to tell me something...

I also got 3 more 5-star relics in that initial 11-pull, and then I chose Zidane's Butterfly sword for my 5-star relic out of the 'meh' stuff that was available. Mostly because Zidane actually has a pretty awesome skill selection and he was immediately available due to the FF9 event running. And thanks to the FF9 synergy I might be able to clear his MC fight before the event ends.

It's fun, but I'm not sure I want to poor too much time into a secondary account. Mostly curious to see how quickly I can go from 'nothing' to 'EX-ready'.

I see you already followed me. I basically use nothing but SG and Stonera Skin for my RWs anymore so I'll make use of yours.

Did you make two accounts? Someone else called DJ using Eiko's Shell SB added me too.

Also, poke me if you need the following for an RW:

Zack (Air Strike, 3 Hits + Dismissal)
Aeris (MT Heal + Reraise)
Mog (MT Regen + DEF UP)

After thinking about it they all have their uses so I'll probably cycle through all of them on a whim.

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So I was really sick and delirious yesterday so I didn't go out for this halloween event like I planned. The silver lining is that I got enough Ice orbs for R3 Blizzaja, so I should be able to get Mastery on the Silver Dragon later this afternoon. Probably gonna skip levelling day to make some progress on the FF2 Dungeon and progress in the story dungeons to get Fran's MC1 so I can get her on her way to being my L80 Support character.

Also got Josef's MC2 while clearing out the first half of the FF2 stuff, claiming it juuuust after I get to the point where Reta isn't necessarily my best option. Oh well I can still make use of this.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I see you already followed me. I basically use nothing but SG and Stonera Skin for my RWs anymore so I'll make use of yours.

Did you make two accounts? Someone else called DJ using Eiko's Shell SB added me too.

Just the one. And my username is Djinn like it is on the Global version.

[MC50]

Followed you guys. Personally, I usually just take Sentinel's or Stoneskin as a friend summon unless I know for sure the boss only uses physical/magic (Then I'll use Lunatic High or Boon). But no preferences here, AOE attacks are good too for dailies.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Followed you back. I just put up one of Boon and Lunatic High. Post-orbfest, I might swap periodically to Tidus for AoE dailies, but he still has to reach L60.

Anyhow.

Zilch for the 3rd Lucky Draw. Sigh.

The good part is I just finished Cloud's event and done some grinding on the second big phase of the Orbfest. One Major Ice, two Greater Ice and one Greater Fire so far. Major Ice is good because Full Break. As for the others, I want to fill my pockets with all of 'em.

Anyhow, boss rush and Jenova boss battles. Boss rush was pretty sad: Stop completely, COMPLETELY trivializes it. Seriously, all bosses are vulnerable and the fucking spell has a 70% hit rate. Just abuse the hell out of it. Jenova LIFE is also Stop/10, got a total of one action.

Then, there's Jenova DEATH, who... actually isn't very dangerous! Silence counters meant I didn't feel like bringing mages, so I went with a Cloud/Barret/Sazh/Aerith/Lightning party. Cloud was uh dropping 9999 damage Pounds post-Boost (full 5* synergy and Dragoon's Determination is uh kinda broken) and Lightning could get around 6.5k damage with Dismissal). It's not even Break-resistant, so you can just go to town with normal breaks. Now that this is over with, time to spend absurd amounts of mythril on phase 3 refreshes. I won't have another shot at some dedicated Summon Orb farming until six months from now.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Yeah that Jeniva event was pretty sad.

However, MC2 time! Gotta get that level 80 favoritism going~

His RM3 is going to own when that finally drops. Not sure who I'll really be using it on, though. I have a lot of SBs now but most of them kinda suck. I guess SG and LH. Man I'm actually really excited about Red's crystal now!

[Cotigo]

RK - Optimizing SD was a pain in the ass, but...

I fuckin did it.
Party:

Gilgamesh (R4 Ice Jump, R5 Wind Jump), +20% damage against Weakness RM,
Zack's Glove, FF9 Strength Ribbon (Protectga SB), FF9 Black Belt (+10 STR)

Terra (R2 Power Breakdown, R3 Blizzaja), Dualcast RM,
FF6 Wizard Rod (White Frost SB), FF8 Ten Gallon Hat, FF9 Silver Dragon Wing (+30 MAG)

Zack (Indoor Spell, Aera Strike), +20% Damage with Katana RM,
FF7 Masamune, Some FF7 Bangle I got two events ago, FF7 Wolf Pin (+15 STR)

Aeris (Faith, Curaga), Rod->Mind Up RM,
FF7 Wizard Rod (Aerith), FF6 Gaia Gear, FF6 Muscle Belt (+300 HP)

Mog (Water of Strength, Curaja), Healing +20% RM,
FF6 Holy Lance, FF5 Ninja Clothes, FF7 Shield Ring (+5 Mind)

Still very easy to get destroyed in the first few rounds with my setup, and in striving for lowering my number of turns I would often let buffs wane right when I was about to go in for the kill, which made me take more tries than I needed to probably. The fight basically had three rebuff timings, the most difficult of which was the last one since Terra was usually out of Blizzajas and SG had run out.

Oddly, on all but the winning run Dualcast was going off frequently. I was kinda concerned that since Dualcast hadn't gone off that turn I would lose the medal on turns taken but fortunately I still made it in under the threshold.

Now, the Elemental Gigases for the next event... I'm either gonna be really glad I spent the orbs honing elemental skills or I'm going to be really annoyed. Depends on how the fight is actually structured. Really wish I could look into the future like you all and plan ahead, but I'll settle for having a way easier time getting from Zero to Hero. It was only, what, two months (+1 week several months ago) between starting up and getting my first Divine mastery? Yeaaaaaah.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Are the Elemental Gigas the Divine fights? Their dungeon counterparts are uniformly vulnerable to paralysis, but I'd expect that to wane in between difficulties.

[Scar]

Phase 3 pulls.

Celes, locke, and steiners relics got!

I'm starting to catch up on relics!

Yay