Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[DjinnAndTonic]

Meeple: Friend Code please~

Zenny: Completely agreed on the FFT sprites. I was screenshotting my phone every time I saw a new sprite I was so enamored of them. Definitely hope they bring it to Global sooner rather than later so everyone in the DL can appreciate them.

[hinode]

The good news about lucky draw phase 4 is that I got a 5* item.

The bad items is that it was Sabin's Kaiser Knuckles, which is now my fourth 5* FF6 weapon (also have Zantetsuken, Gold Spear, Kotetsu). I also have both 4* FF6 daggers at ++ now. Seriously RNGesus, you can stop with the FF6 weapons now.

For 100 mythril I got a decent haul overall (3 5*s), but I wish I could've gotten stuff for realms that I didn't have it in, rather than FF6/FF7. Or at least ranged weapons for FF6 instead of all melee. Oh well.

[Cotigo]

So correcting Snow:

Ramza is support 5, knight/combat/ninja 4, bard 3. He does not get Thief 4.

Wish I had checked that before getting Steal Power. Oh well, Faris can use that in a pinch.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Yeah, I only realized it too late. Bartz also makes a great Steal Power user, but come to think of it, they're yet to have a high STR Support 5/Thief 4 user. The closest we have are Support 4/Thief 4-5, like Vaan and Bartz himself. Anyhow, my bad. At least Support/Knight is also useful.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

For 100 mythril I got a decent haul overall (3 5*s), but I wish I could've gotten stuff for realms that I didn't have it in, rather than FF6/FF7. Or at least ranged weapons for FF6 instead of all melee. Oh well.

Under that light, that actually makes me feel better about my haul. A mage weapon, a game changer and a melee synergy weapon for one of the nastiest realms (FFX) doesn't really sound bad in hindsight. Oh well, here's hoping Zidane or Hope hand me MT healing.

[Scar]

Maybe we should edit the first post and put all of our friend codes there for references?

Mine is: 91So

Anyways, I'll have 25 mithril by tomorrow. Yay.

Shame I wasted so much time away from this phase though, ah well.

Also, dunno why it's taken me so long but I sold all my shields.

Useless.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I hope they weren't 5*, you could use them for augmenting.

[Scar]

Even fake 5 star items?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I think only natural 5*s.

[Scar]

Ok, yeah. Only natural 5*s.

[DjinnAndTonic]

FFRK JP: Oh no! Kimahri got buffed! Now who will be the biggest loser in FFRK? He got a large boost to HP, ATK, and DEF, and they gave him Combat 4. While it's nice for Kimahri fans, it -also- doesn't seem to bode well for the future of Blue Magic. I'd always assumed all the Blue Mages (Strago, Quistis, Kimahri, Quina, Gau perhaps) were being kept intentionally a little weak because they were eventually going to introduced Blue Magic and BAM! Instantly they're the cool kids for a while. But if Kimahri is actually being given a skillset, even a boring one like this, then it's looking less and less likely they'll ever feel the need to figure out how to make Blue Magic work in the FFRK system.

And that's terrible because I <3 Blue Magic. 

Also, Gunner Yuna! Yay I can't wait for the inevitable magic gun that comes with it so that Ashe and Sazh can play with it too.

Blitzball Rikku is also a thing that's happened. So now I could conceivably make a full team of Blitzballers (Wakka, Tidus, Jecht, Rikku, Tyro).

And most importantly, Auron gets Knight abilities for Tauntaliate. I hope they implement this one in Global sooner rather than later so that it'll still be relevant.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Global has historically dropped character buffs monstrously earlier than they first appeared in Japan. Just look at the last balance changes, which includes all the buffs to PCs up to Lightning's SSB+MC2 event. I wouldn't be shocked if we got it by like January at the latest.

[Scar]

Last relic pull...

Freaking yunas other relic. The sending one...

Bleh.

That leaves me with 9 relics for this event.

I guess the best one I pulled was celes? Thought it was a little weird it didn't have any magic on it.

I'll take it.

[Meeplelard]

And most importantly, Auron gets Knight abilities for Tauntaliate. I hope they implement this one in Global sooner rather than later so that it'll still be relevant.

Honestly, the fact that Auron didn't have this from the outset is so freaking weird, kind of like Snow lacking Knight skills.  He got Cover in FF10 (and Sentinel), and Breaks are associated with Knights not infrequently (FF9 and FFT), albeit Combat covered that, and even plotwise, he fits a Knight pretty well being Braska and Yuna's guardian and what not.

Still, given I have Auron's Relic Weapon, that will give me further reason to use him once the buff comes into play.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Yeah, Auron not having that honestly weirds me out, especially that they -gave- the Draw Fire+Retaliate combo not too far down the line to Gilgamesh. The buff at least gives him actual relevance in Reta-meta strats, since he has a stat edge over Gilgy and the next event update might give him a MC2 as well.

EDIT:

FFRK JP: Oh no! Kimahri got buffed! Now who will be the biggest loser in FFRK?

Barret could step up to the mettle. Seriously, why did they make -two- Support 5 PCs for FF7 and turned one of them into something even more awkward than -Irvine-?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, while doing future planning, I took a peek at Rikku's event in January and glanced at Calamity Yunalesca.

...

Then, I honed both Protectga and Shellga to R2. At least it won't get in the way of R3 Ruinga.

EDIT: Also got three Greater NE Orbs from a full run and honed Valefor to R3. Life is good.

[DjinnAndTonic]

FFRK JP: Awww... they gave me a Witch's Hat and a Jack-o-lantern Blitzball for Halloween! Both 5-star equips, so even if they suck, I can Augment with them

(Don't worry, adorable Blitz-o-lantern, I'll never actually Augment you...)

[hinode]

That pumpkin is actually really nice for a giveaway - 91 attack at L20, only 4 less than Wakka's Official Ball.

The witch hat is more like an old fashioned 4.5* giveaway item, but it does have a Mana's Paean clone for a shared SB and FFX synergy is better than the core synergy on the end-of-month giveaway stuff.

[Veryslightlymad]

Got Gordon's Crystal. Immediately removed Pala-cecil from party, replaced with Gordon.

What? You love your irrational favorites and I'll love mine.

[Veryslightlymad]

9 silver and 2 gold on my second lucky 25.

Nuffle hates VSM

EDIT
Only 1 piece of armor. What the hell, game.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Did some pulls for Hope's banner on the leftover gems from Orbfest and Mythril. End result: out of 28 relics, a couple 4*s I can actually combine, maxing out on my Masamune Blade, a Feral Pride and Snow's Wild Bear. Well, I -did- need more Light Armors and a character SB relic still is a character SB relic. I'll take it.

This hilariously makes FFXIII my best synergy realm by far, with three 5* weapons, two 5* armors and soon enough a fake 5* bracer. Mangling this event should be fun.

Speaking of which, completed its wussy version and got Hope. I like the shortened dungeon gauntlet, less chaff to wade through and less stamina wasted.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Beelined for Hope and Vanille MCs, then spent a Mythril to farm some upmats for maxing out the Feral Pride and the fake-5* Rune Axe I'll hand Gilgamesh/Bartz in a couple weeks for the Battle in the Big Bridge event. Now, I'll farm the remaining days on Orbfest for XP, since Firion's close to L50 and both Vanille and Hope could use the levels. First time in ages where I don't finish an event as soon as humanly possible, but I should have it done on Sunday anyway. Then, I'll finally move on to DU 12, which should keep me busy until Celes' reissue, which will be exciting for reasons of R2 Meteor.

[Cotigo]

FF2 Event +++ battle down. Reaaaaally touch and go fight, honestly made harder than it would have been otherwise due to constantly getting hit with MT slow and having to wait for Terra to cast Dispel before getting damage in. Final party definitely could have been tweaked to be more effective but I didn't really feel like doing that today. That said this setup worked mostly by luck, as I had run out of gas in the winning run and just stumbled across the finish line like a goddamn QWOP player. Had to hone Magic BD to R4 and Shellga to R3 thanks to slow effectively lowering the duration of those quite a lot.

Seph - R4Indoor Spell, R5Reta, Katana 1.2x damage
Terra - R4Dispel , R4Strongwater, Start: Haste
Faris - R4Magic Breakdown, R1Full Break, Double hit RM
Aeris - R3Shellga, R3Curaga, Staff -> Mind UP
Zack - R4Drain Blade, R4 Tempo Flurry,  HP Down -> ATK UP
SG RW

Frionel's Record Materia, unlike almost every other HP Down -> Record Materia, is actually really good!... if you put it on a Drain Blade user. Hey, it's a niche, and a very good one at that. WoS buffed Zack could recover almost to full in one hit and was dealing 8K+ when The Emperor didn't have Barrier up. Dispel was 100% necessary, Barrier reduces your damage too much and Hasted Emperor + Slowed Party is very potentially a game over in the late stages of the fight. SG charges, unlike how I use it most of the time were an emergency OH SHIT button for the last half of the fight to buy time until Aerith's SB recharged. Some real touch and go moments there, motherfucker loves spamming Thundaga and Meteo when he gets to low health.

So, with this fight I'm ready to say I've outgrown the Reta Meta and honestly at the end it was just taking up a valuable skill slot. The only thing it really did was help Faris contribute in between applying breaks, and once I ran out of Strong Waters for Seph it actually wasn't that useful even with her having Double Hit on.

A few obvious simple improvements, ditch Full Break for Armor BD. Even at R2 that would have improved my damage enough to not run out of gas even with no other improvements. I also could have tried to wait until Quistis' SSB popped up for an RW. I trade being able to get rid of Slow and get Regen for not having emergency breaks for when things got too dangerous. Not sure if that's actually better or not. I could have also swapped out Terra for Mog, but I kept her in for her L80 superior durability and the fact that his regen SB isn't really that good here. The Emperor's threatening moves were all magic.

I looked at a couple of the Elemental Gigas videos and meh I don't think I can beat it. I'm gonna try to get Ramza up to 65 Sunday in anticipation for his MC2 so I at least have a L80 Support character (Finally) and maaaaaybe try the fight then, but tbh I think it just comes down to my magic hones not being good enough. I only have R3 Firaja/Blizzaja and R4 Waterja. I could maybe make Meteo and then spend mythril until I have enough charges to YOLO my way through but my mythril's kinda tight and after doing last week's FF9 Divine fight I kinda don't care anyway.

In other news, I just realized that not needing to spend my blank MC2 on Fran for a L80 Support character means I can level up Cloud and get his RM3 instead. Or maybe loserface. Or both, since another blank MC2 is dropping with the X-2 event.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

The Gigas videos I've seen don't emphasize MT very heavily, but the amount of damage control necessary to not crumble under their offense is just nuts. Half of those I really have no idea how they even mastered the fight at all.

EDIT:

I deliberately go out of my way to maximize my suffering

Not surprised. At least, Gordon eventually gets a significant buff (particularly in durability, which he needs more than almost anyone else. I wish he had Rods and BM 4, though) months down the line.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD GLOBAL ALSO GOT THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL GIFTS I'M LAUGHING SO HARD

EDIT: They're FFXIII synergy instead of FFX, though, and the pumpkin was turned into a typical thrown weapon rather than a blitzball (which actually makes it -better- than in JP even putting aside power creep purposes). 'spose they're actually tied to the incoming events at the time. Regardless, I'm not complaining about a fourth mage hat - let alone one that gives a Mana's Paean SB.