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[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Yes, both Gilgamesh and Necrophobe are Blind-vulnerable and physical-heavy.

Man, I still haven't even crafted Blizzaja.

Hitting Calamity Exdeath with Ice is a target score and I want to have a sufficient battle portfolio against him, so Blizzaja at a R3 minimum is imperative. Thundaja and Firaja are already covered at R4, at least, Diaga at R4 if I have the room will also help. Maybe I could run Vivi/Rydia/Lenna/Y'shtola/Sazh for that battle.

[Scar]

Bah.

Beat gilgi n pet in ++ and lost 4 medals.

Gotta redo the dam thing. Shame too because I had no issues with the fight. Need more damage I guess.

[Captain K]

Beat Necrophobe, was really easy this time due to RNG.  Got Shellga off before any of the barriers attacked, and Necro didn't use Sap at all and only used his Wind Slash once.

I never realized how much of a Blue Mage Gilgamesh is, now I really want them to add Blue Magic.

[Scar]

Dang, yeah necrophobe was easy. Mastered that 1st attempt.

Still have to redo the previous fight.

What am I gonna do with all this upgrade mats doh?

[Cmdr_King]

I have to say, after being PRETTY disappointed at a few story dungeons for neglecting it, Big Bridge making the effort to loop music between fights was much appreciated (even if they didn't QUITE manage it and settled for just using the same track for both).

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

13 runs, five Greater Blacks, about 63k XP from farming Ultima. Not too bad, not at all.

[Cotigo]

Daily, Daily, give me your answer do... Forgot to report on Sundaily, running only Zack and Relm got him to 71 and her to 66. Not bad. Relm's RM2, and EXP+ materia, also popped, so dungeoning is actually returning poor returns instead of garbage returns on that front. Black Power day has been kind, plenty of Greater Black and Greater Powers, two Major Blacks already. A couple weeks should herald the age of R2 Meteor, after which point I'll probably shift production back to R2 Full Break then getting my ajas to R5 and working honing Ruinga and Drainga, in roughly that order.  Also got Curaja to R5 just from Calamity battle rewards this week, holy hell getting R5 4* hones is expensive. Like, finally-eat-through-my-OrbfestII-gil-horde expensive. Going back to doing Wednesday and Saturday dailies all day as well, since I'm hurting for basically all of those orbs, also last week kinda absorbed all my time and doing only dailies at least gives me the illusion of freedom.

Watched a couple videos of Rufus and Dark Nation. It's looking like I may be able to swing it with a physical setup that has Dispel, thinking RamZackRiasErisOg, Agrias mostly for tanking and dispel, Aeris and Mog for obvious reasons. Definitely going to throw 15 Mythril at Zack's banner, though, because having a Hastega RW puts it well within the realms of possibility instead of a longshot. The only successful videos out I've seen so far had similar setups to me but much nicer SSBs. Running Scream instead of SG also seems like worth trying once, but with that much MT hard hitting damage... eh.

[Magic Fanatic]

So I finally got Vivi's RM2 while running Tuesdailies, so now I have to wonder.

Which is better: Vivi's Devotion or Ashe's Vow of Vengeance?

On one side, Vivi's Devotion has +20% MDamage vs. VoV's mere 17%...  But on the other side, VoV only lowers a stat that Black Mages don't actually care about.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

VoV's 10%. And Devotion is overall better, that's a nearly 40% damage boost to magical damage compared to VoV's 18%~ and it's only a sub-10% durability loss from a class that runs in the back row -and- usually has high Res. If you're running multiple mages, you're likely fielding both RMs anyway, though.

Gotta love exponential damage formulae.

[Nephrite]

Since VoV affects the magic stat the overall damage increase is actually 17%.

EDIT: Still worse than Devotion, but at least it's not a bad alternative if you're running two mages.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I noted the stat and overall boosts. Non-linear statistical effects are a thing.

[Cotigo]

Ohhhhhh snap, guys. I just checked out the +++ reward for Vincent's event. It's an Full Break dance. A full break dance that hones with all the Major Orbs I currently have no use for.

Omg DeNA release a Mog MC2 and just solidify how hard you want that Moogle riding top in my A team. Unf. That move seriously bumps him up in usefulness to me, and he was already pretty dang high.

[Grefter]

And you people wanted Blue Magic.

Fuck that noise you get Breakdancing Vincent instead.

You don't deserve something this good from this game.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Did an 11-pull and the 100-gem pull for Squall's SSB banner. The 100-gem pull yielded a 5* Blitz Helm and the 11-pull yielded me a -second- Blitz Helm and an Inferno Fang. Good results all in all, I can finally retire the 10-Gallon Hat and I badly needed physical synergy for FF8. Also, full hat party hype is a go-go.

[Cotigo]

Fuck that noise you get Breakdancing Vincent instead.

Breakdancing Vincent

Breakdancing

Break dance

Oh my fucking god why did that not click sooner

PS as cool as that would be Vinny can't use dances. Would you accept breakdancing Kefka? Cuz I totally accept Breakdancing Kefka.

Edit: After finding this out, Lightning and Wind day dropped in priority compared to Dark Holy day, so I stopped farming and took on Ultima Weapon. No medals lost. Need… 12 more Major Holy orbs, so I wish I hadnt dumped so many into Alexander, but I needed them at the time so whatever. I'm drowning in Whites and Darks, though, so that's all I need. Won't have R2 Break Fever for Rufus sadly, but certainly soon. Gonna wait on more videos to come out before I try tackling Rufiosus, so probably gonna dungeon until I give it a try this evening. I'm also pretty close to R4 Indoor Spell, though, so I mau just keep farming for now.

Plus side, not caring so much about Full Break anymore, so R4 Thundaja, R4 Power Breakdown, and R5 Waterja should all be happening soon. Though since my best team now is far and away physical oriented, maybe I should invest more in abilities for Zack and Gilgamesh.

[Grefter]

i thought that was the joke

also i didn't pay attention to the list but someoen here listed like a billion fucking skillsets vincent has thought one was dancer

[Captain K]

Still doing single pulls on Bartz banner.  Got a Flametongue tonight, which will go wonderfully with my r4 Firaga Strike.

[Meeplelard]

Single pull from FF8 Banner gave me a 3* FF3 Armor, well poop.

I MOSTLY finished the Bartz/Gilgamesh Event, failing to Champion Necrophobe, even with a Mythril +2 Ability boost.  The saddest part?  Lenna was killed on his last action; he was blinded, used Vacuum Wave, it hit 2/5 characters, and Lenna got critted...I am NOT S/Ling that entire fight because it's a pain.  I don't need 20 Giant Scarletites, so I'm just losing the 3 Major Lightning Orbs, meh.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

i thought that was the joke

also i didn't pay attention to the list but someoen here listed like a billion fucking skillsets vincent has thought one was dancer

They actually buffed Yuffie to have Dance 4. Vincent getting Dancer was speculation that sadly didn't pan out.

EDIT: completed Seifer event's autobattle half. Should be done with it tonight at worst.

[Grefter]

You can all go back to knowing the game sucks then.

[Cotigo]

Hey, you guys are now where JP was at in... April? Whenever I played the game and then made a big deal about quitting then succumbed to obsession months later.

OK, after analyzing Rufus videos I think I certainly have a chance of winning, if not a chance of mastery.

So, tentative setup:

Ramza (Power BD, Armor BD), Katana damage 1.2x, Masamune
Zack (Indoor Spell, Drain Strike), Start: Aspir, Damage 1.2x, Zack's Glove
Mog (Break FEVAH!, Curaja), Power of Mako
Aeris (Protectga, Curaga), Skill use->SB gauge UP
Agrias (Dispel, Reflect), Fancy Wristwatch (weak MT heal SB)
SG/SRS

So, Agrias and Dispel/Reflect. I have a really good feeling that Agrias, especially since she's not at L80, does not have the durability to do Draw Attack+Drain Strike, although being perfectly honest that is Plan B. Dispel/Reflect is possibly a useful combo because I won't be casting any magic on Rufio or Black Panther, and Black Panther routinely hastes Rufio and himself. I'm pretty sure hasted Rufio is going to wreck my butthole pretty hard, so I need Dispel, and once I get reflect up on both of them I get the buff, which will help me immensely no matter who gets it. Really, the only characters that it doesn't help me to get it on would be... Agrias, and that's it. Everyone else helps me immensely by either making my healing more reliable or boosting my damage output. It SEEMs like a sound strategy, anyway...

though, that said, this is a strategy recommended by Kongbakpao, so I totally imagine this will blow up in my face. Still, it's just so cool that even if it doesn't work I'll be glad to spend the timebux on the off chance that it does work.

The 4-digit MT damage blasts of doom seem to all come from Mako Cannon, and he seems to either start spamming that at 50% HP or when Black Panther dies (pretty sure the former despite KBP's claim otherwise), so I'll save my Aeris heals for the last half of the fight. For SCIENCE!, and also for the chance of more hastes coming my way, I'll leave Black Panther alive until almost the very end on my first try. If it is in fact below 50%, I'll probably save my first SG until Rufio's at about 60% or so, relying on Protect, Power BD and Break FEVAH to carry me through the first phase. I'll probably also kill off Black Panther ASAP and save my second BEAVER for when I'm about to knock him into his weak phase.

Hojo, I have no reason not to try because of the absurdly low (and thus terrifying) Timebux cost. It looks like I'm gonna want to Tauntaliate for mitigation more than anything, since he seems to have two separate 4x strike attacks that deal status.

He also has no mastery reqs, meaning I can only lose like one medal or something. Terrifying.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Did some pulls.

I seem to be getting nothing but hats. (For 5-stars, anyway, who cares about non-5-stars?)

In JP, I got Relm and Yuffie's hats. Yay?

In Global, I got the FF6 Oath Veil, and oddly enough, the FF4 Gold Hairpin... from the FF8 banner that just happened. ...why?

I mean, this is great for my mage team, but still weird.

Now I just need a hat that gives MT healing in my Global account. Snowpedia, when's the next one coming out?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Next MT healing relics are Eiko's Golem Flute (Cura+Hastega) and FF9 Healing Rod, both on Zidane's second banner next week. I'm dropping 100 mythril minimum on that. After that, Yuna's Lullaby Rod makes a return on Lulu's first banner.

Also, FF4 Golden Hairpin was on Golbez's banner and both hats you got are currently on the non-featured relic draw (IIRC, from the 5* odds, there's a 1-2% chance the relic you get isn't from the banner draw). Not a bad find, got one of those on Auron's 100-gem pull.

[Grefter]

*Asserts dominance.*

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

*Know your place, Margulis.*

At least, do it right.