Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Two runs in the morning with no Greater/Major drops. Ho hum. Last drop during lunch: two Magic Pots on the first stage, then a Pot on the third and a random Greater Orb drop. Three Greater Lightning Orbs and another Greater Wind. And I was two Greater Lightnings short of R4 Thundaja. WELP.

I also honed Blizzaja to R2, but now I have to amass more Greater Blacks to get it to R3, but that's likely within reach by next week and it should me tide me over for Calamity Exdeath. R4 is a distant, though now not completely hopeless endeavor for late December.

EDIT: Apparently, the Greater Orb drops from the  Magic Pots on + dailies are fixed by stage. This means there's some leeway to manipulate drops on your favor while farming. Here's some insight from the reddit topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/3sf7vb/you_can_somewhat_manipulate_type_of_orbs_in/

[Grefter]

wow normally you have to edit in your NO WAIT EVERYTING IS GREAT after your everything sucks.

Cycling at a much faster rate today.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm bored.

[Magic Fanatic]

100 Gem Pull.

Bartz's Air Knife.  Is this good?

[Captain K]

It is.

Three 11-pulls:

First draw: 2 Lilith Rods and an Al Bhed Jumper (wtf) + 3 four stars
Second draw:  Lilith Rod and a Gungnir (double wtf), no four stars
Third draw: 2 Diamond Plates + 2 four stars

On the one hand, I got 7 5-stars, including a 7-star rod and a 6-star light armor.  On the other hand, these were the two relics I desired least out of the ones available, and two of my 5-stars didn't even come from V.

Also I now have four different 5 or 6 star light armors.  Light armorsplosion.

Should also mention that I finished DU13, although I still haven't finished DU12.

[Grefter]

Lots of mage 5* items of the same type?  Doesn't that just mean you can have a party full of people using that one rod over and over?  Completely fuck up FF6 dungeons or whatever lillith rod it is

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

100 Gem Pull.

Bartz's Air Knife.  Is this good?

Nice. Good attack for a dagger and boosts Wind damage. The SB also is Wind-element and adds MT Sap.

Also, to Cap'n: at least you now have a lot of FF5 mage synergy with a possible 7* relic. That's pretty hot. There'll be another FF5 banner next month, too.

[Captain K]

I'll be combining it, I don't follow the Reddit philosophy of keep everything uncombined.  Plus, rod jokes.



Crossed over to Elite dungeons to pick up Galuf and Lenna's memory crystals.  Then unlocked Bartz, but I don't have enough stamina left to get his memory crystal.  At least they don't make you do everything in order on this event.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I can't stop laughing at that.

Also, did autobattle version of the event. Tomorrow I'll handle the Elite version and grab relevant Memory Crystals and whatnot. Egged Bartz to L50 and Gilgy to L45 as well.

[Grefter]

I was less thinking of fucking around with your inv to min/max domain bonus or whatever the fuck it is called, just raw caster party strength being the main motivator there if Mages are as OPOP as snow represents them.

snow u wouldnt be lying 2 me would u?

[Cmdr_King]

There's an argument to be made for doing that... but Cap'n K's been playing longer than most of us and probably has actual selection for mage weapons, so beefing up what he has is a pure win rather than having to balance one stronger mage against having good equips for two or three at once.

Also.

I guess that explains the quadruplets in the FFIX ending then.

[Grefter]

That isn't really how virility works.

Not to deny that people will be all up ins on Vivi's robocock

[Cotigo]

the best part is how halfassed the sprite editing is

that probably sounded sacrastic but I swear it wasn't

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

DeNa released banner info and new skills for the next JP event, which introduces... Vincent. Seems like he'll be a gunner/mage/dancer (!!!) hybrid? They'll also introduce a new boss difficulty! Have fun, Zenny.

(If it's any consolation, Zack's getting a MC2 on the event as well.)

[Cotigo]

Welp.

They'll also introduce a new boss difficulty!

... Well then.

(If it's any consolation, Zack's getting a MC2 on the event as well.)

... Well then.

In all seriousness I can't say I'm terribly surprised about the new boss difficulty. 6* abilities have been out for long enough now that *someone* has probably almost amassed enough materials to make one. Plus, each of the last events has given me a freebie 5* ability and quite a few major orbs, so it's not that unreasonable that they're going to toss in bosses that make you make use of them.  I'm not going to fret too much about beating them until it looks feasible for me to do so though.

That Zack MC2 certainly helps. Hey, throw in a Celes/Terra SSB (I can hope >_>) and I may even have a shot.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Worst comes to worst, the Doom difficulty should at least stabilize the balance on Calamity to some degree. Since its introduction, Calamity has had wildly inconsistent difficulty (there have been horror stories about Calamity Vossler and Beatrix, for instance). Doom!Hojo's gimmick seems to be that he counters physicals with status and can't be stunned, which seems to be an answer to JP's current Lifesiphon/SSB meta. I think they could stand to introduce a Lifesiphon-like ability for mages as well - heck, just adapt Osmose.

Regardless, should be entertaining. I still can't get over Vincent possibly getting DANCER this event.

EDIT:

I was less thinking of fucking around with your inv to min/max domain bonus or whatever the fuck it is called, just raw caster party strength being the main motivator there if Mages are as OPOP as snow represents them.

snow u wouldnt be lying 2 me would u?

Cappy has a pretty good set of mage gear already and combining his three Lilith Rods would give him a 130~ or so Mag monstrosity - likely the best Mag out of anything the DL has. With synergy, I wouldn't be surprised if Cap broke 400 MAG on Vivi. I can hear Calamity Exdeath whimpering from nearly two months away.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Did the dollar pull and a 3-pull on the FF5 banner because I don't have much for good FF5 synergy. Not only did I not get any 5-stars, but I didn't even get any FF5 items... Sheesh, RNG just doesn't like me today. I guess I'll do the second dollar pull on the second half of the banner when/if that comes out, but otherwise, it looks like FF5 isn't going to be my strong realm.

Which is too bad because I fuckin' love having Gilgamesh in my party.

[Magic Fanatic]

...I've got 118 Mithril.  Should I spend it on this event, on trying to get Squall's SSB weapon, or the FF9 event?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Depends on what you need. This event has balanced gear, but not really that powerful - late December, there'll be another FF5 event with much better gear and even repeats of the better stuff on this one. If you have good FF8 synergy (and I know you have at least Rinoa's Valkyrie -and- Rising Sun), even if you want the Cutting Trigger, I'd wait for the next Soul Celebration late December. FF9's second banner is mage heaven, so if you need mage gear, go for it.

In practice, knowing what I know of your gear: save your Mythril for the Rift of Recollection SSBreakfast.

I guess I'll do the second dollar pull on the second half of the banner when/if that comes out

This event only has one banner. Come again on the Faris/Krile event.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Got all of the Memory Crystals for Autobattle On The Big Bridge, cap-broke all the characters as well. Likely running Gilgy, Bartz and Lenna for the rest of the event. Weirdly, my synergy for the realm isn't too bad (Fake 5* Hypno Crown, Thornlet and Rune Axe, 5* Judgment Rod, Genji Helm and Genji Armor), so this makes things rather easy. Fun event. Kinda on my heels for the Seifer event, though, since I'm definitely pulling on it. The chance, however slight, of finally getting some AoE healing, a Rinoa SB relic or even Squall's SSB is pretty enticing and I seriously lack FF8 synergy. Heck, not even getting the Ochu Tentacle would make me too upset.

[Scar]

Ff5 peeps.

Old man and princess are lv capped.

Buttz is 45, Gilgi is 30.

Ran out of eggs.

Drat!

[Grefter]

I feel like I got drunk dialed by FFRK.

[Magic Fanatic]

I think Jo'ou has a point for me and FF8 Synergy.  To wit:

Squall's Revolver
Squall's Shear Trigger
Rinoa's Valkyrie
Rinoa's Rising Sun+
Fujin's Chakram (Shared Throwing weapon with a MAG bonus)
Running Fire (Gun with a shared SB)
Estharian Helmet (Helmet with MAG/MND bonuses attached)
3x Ten-gallon Hats
and to top it off, a Flail++.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

adele - hello.mp3

[Cotigo]

Ff5 peeps.

Old man.and princess are lv capped.

Buttz is 45, Gilike is 30.

Ran out of eggs.

Drat!

Amen.