Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Shale]

Speaking of MC2s. Does that just refer to getting a second MC for a character, or are they substantively different somehow? I thought that all the character/MC quests came with a note that if you already have that reward from a prior dungeon, you get a Growth Egg.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

There's a distinct, second Memory Crystal that cap-breaks L65 PCs and lets them go up to L80. Right now, only Cloud and Squall have them, but starting with this week's Seph event, there'll be at least one new MC2 on events. They are, however, locked behind ++ fights as a rule of thumb.

[hinode]

Man, I went from 299/300 equip slots yesterday down to just 207/300 thanks to upgrade material being split off.

[Cotigo]

Well, new orbfest is good news for Shale then. That should be plenty of farming to get everyone in the aforementioned party up to L65 before he has to try for the blank MC2.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Did a pull on the Sephiroth SSB banner and got Reno's fighter-mage stick! Super excited because now I can finally use Terra as a mixed-build character as intended. It's not the Enhancer, but it's definitely filling a niche I needed. And hey, I guess it makes Reno useful?

Working through the Sephiroth autobattles in preparation for USOrbfest.

I'm not entirely sure which banners of Vale to pull on. Banner 1 has two Thrown Mage weapons which I've been coveting, so that's a lock. Banner 4 has Lulu's Pin, Yuna's Staff, a Terra relic, and some much-needed FF13 synergy, so that's a lock, but I've got one more pull left. Can't decide between Organics (and the horrible prospect of a fourth Sentinel's Grimoire) or Tidus' SSB (because I really like Tidus and Celerity 5 on a Lv80 character is going to mean more SSB usage in the near future).

Hmm... maybe banner 5 then? Gets me a shot at -two- SSBs, plus a MT healing relic, ANOTHER shot at a Thrown Mage weapon, and a shot at an upgraded Tidus sword.

Oh man, if US Orbfest actually drops Major Orbs at a decent rate, I might be able to hone Full Break R2 and Blizzaja R4 before Exdeath! (So Snow you must be hoping for... what? R5 Blizzaja? R2 FLARE?!)

[Captain K]

Snow would have to make R1 Flare before working on R2.

Put Tifa as my RW if anyone needs more PAWNCH against Sephiroth event bosses.  Got enough record synergy that her multi-hit SB is respectable.

Also note that you only have to kill one of the three turks for them all to run away.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Man, I also pulled on Seph's banner and got Reno's baton AND the Dragon Bracer. I really wanted Reno's weapon for reasons of A) mixed weapon type with high MAG; and B) FFVII mage stat stick. My very first shared Shellga equip also ain't bad.

Cap'n: I actually -do- have R1 Flare!

[DjinnAndTonic]

Whoa, trippy. You got the Shellga bracer too? Did you also get the Turks uniform? (It was a triple 5* 11-pull).

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

No, just those two and a bunch of 4*s that got me to fake-6 a bunch of scattered items (including FFV and 9 physical synergy), and they were spread over three pulls. You were far luckier than I, but I'm fine with the results I got anyway, since I needed a shared SB Shellga, I wanted another bracer and Reno's baton was my second chase relic on that banner. I'm suspecting that, by the end of the year, I'll have no real reason to pull ever again until the next Soul Break celebration.

[Grefter]

Did a pull on the Sephiroth SSB banner and got Reno's fighter-mage stick!

Man, I also pulled on Seph's banner and got Reno's baton AND the Dragon Bracer.

rekt

Edit - Better choice of thing.

[Shale]

I'll be damned, I pulled off the Elite Floating Continent dungeon for Locke's MC. Atma wasn't even the problem, despite whiffing on every use of Intimidate (goodbye, mastery) -- it was Nelapa who forced a restart, wiping out both my lightning users before I could get Stoneskin II up and killing me slowly from there. Revived with Mithril and got a much better starting ATB the second time around. So that's nice. On to the Sephiroth event! I'll at least get his MC out of that one, and hopefully Red 13 and Cid's - how bad can difficulty 65 Palmer be, anyway?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Palmer can be blinded and gets -completely- shut down by it. You can just craft Blindga, especially considering it starts out at four uses. Dragon, which walls Reno's MC, also eats it to Paralysis if you have better luck with it than you did with Ultima. After that, you can just level up your priority PCs on the Christmasfest until bonus battles arrive, they're not coming until Thursday night.

By the way, congrats on picking up Locke's MC!

Speaking of which, grabbed all MCs on the event and cap-broke Reno and Cid. Watching a mage deal 3k damage to Elite mobs with a basic physical is kind of funny.

I also need to draw out my plans for Orbfest. R4ing the remaining 4* Black Magics feels like a given (Bioga, Drainga, Blizzaja and Darkra). Maybe honing Armor Breakdown some and R4ing Power Breakdown for completeness' sake. If I manage to R5 any given 4*, I'll consider it a victory as is. Another option would be R5ing Curaja, it's already at R3. Picking up enough orbs for R4 Lifesiphon would be nice too. Maybe saving up for Banish Raid.

[Cotigo]

Shale, another thing regarding bosses that die to status: If you shut down the application from your phone's app manager, then restart, you can restart from the beginning of the fight without having to spend the stamina again. You can do this repeatedly to make sure Blind or Paralysis procs on the appropriate bosses to make your life easier.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Reno's a fun PC, but I kinda wish he was better. His general stat spread is actually pretty decent (solid speed! HP and defense between ranged support and frontline fighter level! Decent RES!), but his offensive stats fall in a very awkward place: Wakka-level attack and Quististastic magic means you end up sorta underwhelming on both physicals and magic, which means he's effectively below the sum of his parts. His relic SB isn't too hot either, one-hit AoE with 40% paralysis? At least the weapon itself is a great stat stick for mages in general, especially in FF7 dungeons. It'd be cool if he had Combat 4, too, since it'd give him a niche as a SB-building mage.

EDIT: Yesterday's upgrading spree (besides the Telescopic Baton and the Dragon Armlet, I got spares for combining at least five pieces of fake-5*s into fake-6*s) left me more or less completely dry on upmats and I haven't even finished upgrading the newly-mint 6* Royal Crown. I may end up having to hit up the upmat daily on Friday once.

[Cotigo]

Woke up to find out they updated the daily dungeons. The Ghysal Greens system seems like a nice addition (though you can't buy Major orbs with it), but more importantly they reset the mastery/clear requirements, meaning I just got a fuckload of free Major orbs and mythril. Unfortunately I never did get the mythril from the Upmat dungeons but oh well, I'll just have to live with not having that 4 mythril.

[Shale]

Smacked down Palmer, yay. Got him with Intimidate and that was that.

Oh, also! Friend code XT1h. I just set Sunbath for my RW.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Awesome! I'll add you later, could use another AoE attack up RW.

[Meeplelard]

Finished the main part of the Reno quest.  I should note I spent more on the Mog banner than I'm willing to admit (I wanted Holy Lance AND Minerva Bustier, would settle for one).  What do I have to show for it as far as 5* go?

FF6 Burning Knuckles: ...well, it's better than Tifa's Grand Glove for power, I guess, also buffs Zack's Fire Spellblades!?
FF13 Kaiser Knuckles: At first I thought this was Sabin's, and thinking "when the hell am I going to care about 2 FF6 Claws?" but then realized it's FF13...which ok, that's useful, since Snow has a legit Synergy weapon now, and he's the one good Monk.
FF13 Some 5* Light Armor too lazy to check: This was a "...well, that's unexpected" moment but eh, whatever.
FF6 Genji Helm: Actually good!  Decent Shared Soul Break, good stats, yeah, I'll live
FF6 Mystery Veil: Like the Genji Helm, really.
FF6 Darts: ...well, Setzer is happy I guess
FF6 Darts mk2: ...GOD DAMN IT!  Go to hell game !  I mean, 2 Ninja Chainmails? Ok, that's a legit 5* Armor many people can use that!  2 Assassin's Knives?  It's a knife, it insures I have 2 5* weapons (if weak ones) that any character can use.  2 Darts? When the hell am I going to care about that? I mean, yeah, Setzer's a Support 5 character with FF6 synergy and it'd get him better synergy, but seriously, GOD DAMN IT GAME!!!!


And no Holy Lance or Minerva Bustier . 

Valigarmanda also trolled me.  About to win with mastery since his health was literally one poke away from killing...*Blizzaga* *Shadow dies*
...yeah, I just refought him, figured getting a 2nd chance at a 4* Orb is just better than S/Ling for another good run.  This time I brought just a stronger team (swapped out Strago and Setzer for Terra and Vaan...won't go into details why I wasn't optimally set up before), and ripped it apart.


And DeNA's mean for releasing so many big events in the next few weeks.  At least it seems we'll be getting the Beginner's Banner earlier than expected, hopefully they don't change the free rewards too much; I want one of those Magic Swords!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Hello, Christmas login bonuses my old friends.

[Captain K]

Finished Sephiroth event yesterday.  Did Elite Leviathan this morning, so I'm 100% caught up on dungeon updates.  Leviathan himself wasn't bad, other than having way too much of the hps.  Luckily Vivi proc'd poison on the first hit so that made it feasible.  Those trash mobs with 2k+ magic damage were horrible though.  Lost three damage medals before Levi's stage.

[Shale]

Wasn't the new grimoire supposed to be one of the Christmas login things?

[Scar]

Ff6 n ff7 events beat to date.  Now I just need to get caught up on story dungeons.

Wondering what this event thing we got notified yesterday is all about, or if it's the beginners thing you all were talking about.

Ih, and the new login bonus has some Ff6 item at the end. I wonder what it does...

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Wasn't the new grimoire supposed to be one of the Christmas login things?

The release didn't make it very clear, but seemingly not at this point. All that's left is to wait and see.

EDIT: It's quite possible they just announce the item's in the gift chest, like they did with the Halloween goodies.

[Cmdr_King]

Ih, and the new login bonus has some Ff6 item at the end. I wonder what it does...

5 star accessories usually have 30-40 stat points, and this is a giveaway, so probably 30.  Given they're calling it a Crystal Orb, probably 30 points to Magic, although!  Could be a non-stat boost.  Given the name that seems unlikely.

[Captain K]

Before you pull on the beginner banner, you might want to see what's available as free choice afterwards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/3x5k9w/no_enhancer_why_dena/

Stormlance Grimoire is actually pretty nice, 4 hits at x2.0 multiplier (same total multiplier as Squall's super soul break), lightning physical attacks.  Usual disclaimer about Tyro's stats apply.

I'll pull after the FFV event is over.  Will probably get the Ras Algethi because I can make mine 7 star.