Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[DjinnAndTonic]

Every. Single. Time. I think of Brynhildr, this comes to mind:

[Cotigo]

Yeah, the hall of crystals is permanent permanent, and you'll build up quite a nice horde from logging in, completing lower level Abyss fights (which become temporarily unavailable during the leadup to releasing a new 6* ability, but never permanently unavailable. When the Abyss is open for business you can do all available events) and completing events. Since it reopened I got every MC2 lode I could possibly acquire, and have enough that I can get MC2s for all but 6 characters now.

I'd still try for the MC2 now because Lightning is apparently pretty good, but you won't permanently lose her MC2 so it's not a huge deal.

A couple other caveats are that a number of characters get their MC2 released only through the Hall of Rites, so the more unique MC2s you have, the more blank MC2 lodes you'll have for those characters. Additionally, after a unique MC2 is released, there seems to be a 2-3 month turnaround time for them being available in the Hall of Rites. Notably, Ramza's and Agrias's weren't available there until late December, and we had that event in late September/early October.

EDIT: So, sick of losin Stamina, I started taking my A team into 110+ difficulty dungeons, swapping out WaifuRamza (;_;) for characters whose RMs I am trying to grind out. Really underscores how ridiculous BSSBs are. Weakness hitting Storm Strike dealt more damage than the 5* charge ability we just got for free in JP. Ridic.

I now also have cleared out every FF8, FF1, FF2, FF11 and FF14 realm, and have every MC1. Completionism go.

Autoreflect is the worst RM ever and I have to wear it until Red 13's RM2 drops. This is pretty obnoxious.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Autoreflect is the worst RM ever and I have to wear it until Red 13's RM2 drops. This is pretty obnoxious.

Um, you don't have to run -any- RM in order to unlock further RMs. I unequipped Red's RM1 as soon as I got it and got his RM2 in less than a day's worth of stamina.

[Magic Fanatic]

Autoreflect is the worst RM ever and I have to wear it until Red 13's RM2 drops. This is pretty obnoxious.

I hesitate to call an Auto-Reflect RM the worst ever when we have stuff like Heart of the Dragoon, Blessing of Alexandria/Father's Pride, Blitz-Eye...  Yeah, there's a good list of RMs that are worse than it.  At least Planet Guardian has a gimmick use of putting it on someone with Magic Lure for a portion of the fight, if you think the fight's going to be short enough, or at least as your other people focus on putting up the appropriate mitigation turn 1.

That said, Jo'ou is correct.

[Meeplelard]

Beat Yuffie's Event Quests.  The 4th Solo was a pain in the ass because I needed to buff Yuffie to level 60, and have Shadowsteel hit early in the fight AND get to him without taking too much damage but those enemies with Iron Strike are just bullcrap.  One run pissed me off because I got him down to like 2 hits and I win, but nope, the last 5 turns he did nothing but Iron Strike, and I needed either my last Shadowsteel to kick in with Sap, Yuffie to critical, or him to use something OTHER than Iron Attack on two of those turns...but nope! RNG told me to **** off, so S/L.

Godo was beaten with him Beast Swording Yuna right before the final hit but since I didn't care about mastery, I just went with it; odd not caring about a death but so it goes.

Also finally created a NO REGRETS Meteor

[Cotigo]

Mmph, chalk that up to misunderstanding the Japanese. I guess what its saying is "have already acquired" instead of "while equipped"

Well, that makes my B team a lot less shit then now doesn't it. At least playing with new RMs let me see some that I would have just skipped over (Steiner's RM2 was pretty neat, if niche, for example.)

[Captain K]

Auto reflect is really damn good for bosses that counter magic.  Let's you start off attacking without setup time.

[Cotigo]

Yeah at the sake of not being able to directly heal the person reflected. If a boss counters magic, go physical. You guys are starting to enter the era of physical dominance these days anyway.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Current Greater Orb rate for today: 1 per 24 stamina. Currently sitting on 120 Greater Holies after the shattering spree yesterday. Should be enough for R3 Banishing Strike, at least (my GPO stash ain't so great and I hesitate to shatter Major Powers as of now).

[Scar]

Fuck ff13 and it's events.

[Captain K]

I concur.

[Cmdr_King]

Fang's event is mostly okay.  'cept Barthandelus.  Granted after a token attempt I decided not to even bother with him so.

Actually I just want Beatrix's event to drop now.  Well not NOW now, but y'know, stuff.

Since I'm not feeling like bashing my head against Bart, elite clearing.  FFVIII's entirely done now, which is a nice feeling.  Cleared up FFXIII the other day as well.  Bit at a loss as to what other realms to tackle next though.  FFIX can wait until I see what treasures the Beatrix banners yield... hm.  Actually, should see what FFXII looks like with more of an A-Team setup.  Ended badly last time but let's see if we can't fix that.

[Shale]

Lightning MC2 get. Used three mythril restores on the boss rush (mid-battle for the twins, mid-battle for Brynhildr, before Bahamut), mastered Warmech on the first try even though I forgot to swap out Lightning's Stop for something that could actually be useful. Huzzah.

[Nitori]

where were you when sephiroth saved video games



permanent vale of memories when

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

VSM writhes in his grave. Also, Sephiroth will be reissued next month on the Advent Children event with his MC1. Somewhere in-between we may get the permanent Hall of Rites.

[Grefter]

Signeur Tori. Plays FF Nostalgia game.

Signeur Tori gets rewarded with memories of the most famous backstabbing in gaming history.

Where are your gods now Ephraim?

[Captain K]

Gratz Nitori.  You can use that to sap Godo!

[Cotigo]

Not only does Seph get reissued with Advent Children, when the Hall of Rites comes out he will have his MC2 there. Least he did in JP.

EDIT: Can yall not recruit event issue characters through quests? IIRC I actually got Seph through doing the Special Quest for the Neibelheim classic dungeon.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

We can. And Seph with his SSB is honestly usable as of now even at L50, his overall stat spread is way too good.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Anyhow, done all Yuffie bonus battles besides Ultimate Godo, who still needs 33 more stamina before being attempted. Regardless, not a hard batch: boss rush outside of Schizo is utter Paralysis-bait, Materia Keeper also bites it bad to Paralysis (and Blind. And Slow) and the Four Siblings are pretty fragile to the point I just Meteor'd my way to victory.

[Magic Fanatic]

So I just mastered Ultimate Godo.

Never even used the RW I picked out (Blade Beam Cloud).

Bartz L61 - Butterfly Edge+, Adamant Bangle, Wolf Earring - Steal Power R4, Lifesiphon R4 - Dragoon's Determination - Blade Wing
Aerith L57 - Wyrmfang, Tungsten Bangle, Pearl Necklace - Curaga R5, Shellga R2 - Lionheart - Salvation (from the Tungsten Bangle)
Red XIII L65 - Crystal Glove+, Edincoat, Omega Badge - Full Break R2, Magic Breakdown R3 - Mako Might - Lunatic High
Yuffie L50 - Dragon Claw, Holiday Mittens, Fury Ring - Tempo Flurry R5, Steal HP R4 - Self-Sacrifice - Inspiring Light (from the Holiday Mittens)
Y'shtola L65 - Thyrus++, Shinra Helmet, Emerald Ring - Curaga R5, Diaga R3 - Dr. Mog's Teachings - Stoneskin II

I know this is just a function of me having a native Wall, but that fight was a LOT easier than I was expecting, especially compared to Ultimate Bart.

[Cotigo]

Speaking of Native Walls, luckily for me the collaboration event with Mobius Final Fantasy came up before the FF14 event, and in the event store there was like 10 mythril available. I'll reach 150 easily before the FF14 event, and have a pretty good chance of getting 200. Thyrus pls kthx

(watch as they don't release thyrus, or more likely I get every item on the banner but thyrus)

[Magic Fanatic]

Thing today.

Wake up.  "Eeeeh I don't feel like doing an actual stage right now, I'll just do the daily dungeon today."

How am I rewarded?

Red's RM3 at the end of the first stage.  Very nice.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Done with Ultimate Godo. Only the first two turns were kinda nasty (having SSII and Shellga both tied to the same person sometimes sucks), but once I managed to stick two magic mitigations before the first Bioga, the fight went smoothly. AoE healing lords over Godo pretty well.

[Meeplelard]

Yuffie's event completed here too.

Highlights:

-Had to fight Materia Keeper 4 times total INCLUDING the S/Ls.  First fight, he thinks he's Sephiroth and murders Aerith with an ST Physical.  S/L.  Second fight, I win with little difficulty! ...only to see Sap is a requirement and I lost 2 medals on damage.  Attempt #3, this time with Yuffie using Shadowsteel instead of Tempo Flurry...yeah, you can probably see what I did wrong THERE.  Attempt #4, this time with Tempo Flurry on Zack and Shadowsteel on Yuffie, I win!

-The Big Four, I think "this won't be so bad Protectga, some Power Breakdowns and Steal Powers, I'm good!" 2 turns in, big MT Attack, I see half my team die...and I forgot to put on Power Breakdown too still using Magic Breakdown, oops!  Ok, wasn't the attack alone but you get the idea.  Out of stamina, go to bed, wake up, replace level 40 Aerith with Level 63 Yuna who has Hymn, give Power Breakdown to Red, victory!  Used Rinoa for Slow because I couldn't be bothered to remember who Staniv is, so Dr. Mog's Teachings -> Angel Wing Quake -> All of them at Slow now!  Also learned that Slow hits even if they immune Earth, which is weird because one of them is clearly immune via Flying but hey, good to now.

-Godo was...a joke, frankly.  He got ONE good attack the entire fight, which was a Biora late in the fight when Shellga was down, dealing 1k to all, but honestly, and otherwise his only 4 digit damage was his opening physical on Yuffie.  If you can get past turn 1, you get ANY of your mitigation up, you should be good to control the fight since it's really getting past that mitigationless first turn.  Otherwise? Steal Power + Magic Breakdown, Full Break, Shell/Protectga, Shield Grimoire, Hymn of the Fayth for added insurance, easy win.  Even had PP as my RW which I don't think I needed but it did speed the fight up.

A very simply and refreshing ultimate after the whore that was Bartandelus.