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[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SURPRISE HEALING SSB BANNER OUT OF NOWHERE ohgod spent 100 mythril on this and got Seraphim's Mace + 2 Chocobo Brushes no ragrets

[Cmdr_King]

Got rekt on a 100 Gem draw.  Not really feeling this is worth a huge investment, albeit I have like 150 Mythril right now which is more than I've had at once since... um.  December?  Yeah.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Iunno, I had precisely zero h85 AoE heals until now and all of the banner's offerings would've been highly welcome. I was waiting really eagerly for that banner and getting it early was a great surprise. No Dreamstage, but getting two potent Medicas on realms I had nothing non-shared and a real FF6 5* rod (at 6*, even mind rods become really potent under synergy) certainly was worth the mythril. But YMMV and all.

[Cmdr_King]

Yeah, I have Vanille's Miracle Prayer so I'd mostly be trying for Dreamstage.  I also don't often bring medicas to content to start with so yeah, doesn't feel like a huge need for me.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I've been forgoing Wall more and more (I just don't like feeling myself forced to Y'shtola and/or Tyro, and I'm running all CMs so far), so Medicas gain in value quite a lot for me. But yeah, fair enough.

[Magic Fanatic]

Surprise Healing Banner 100-Gem Draw: Got a second Crescent Wish.  Should I have two 5* Rods for FF8, or one 5*+ Rod?

[Nitori]

100 gem Healing Staff

rip selphie forever this is my new war dance backup in case i need shout

[Scar]

Didn't pull.

Also ultimate Levi wrecked me.

[Shale]

CM'd Melusine's face off with full medals. Leviathan'll be trickier since I can only carry two lightning moves before sacrificing critical party roles (boostga, break monkey, or healer) but I'll give it a shot.

Not pulling on the medica banner despite lacking a Curaga-level move because healing hasn't been my problem in a long time. I'm fine continuing with what I've got there.

[Shale]

Okay, Leviathan's not particularly tricky after all. First try, full medals. The "three lightning attacks to avoid Tidal Wave!" thing is a lot less threatening on a slow boss -- more than once I had Bartz charging Dismissal when water phase started, and I still had ample time to unload two Lightning Jumps from Gilgamesh and one Thundaga Strike from Bartz.

[Cotigo]

Finished the FF14 event. U++ Garuda was pretty easy, I was way overtuned for it. By this point you'll be in possession of 5 Wind resist accessories which combined with Wall and building for defence after reaching the ATK softcap neutered her. Even her adds' suicide move didn't break 4 digits on anyone but Terra who was built for magic.

This is before getting into the fact that her big ITD attack is Magic, and she doesn't really cast other magic often, so if you have Magic Blink it doesn't even matter.

Also, since Y'shtola can use Rage I made a second one so she could put up her BSSB and the Liberty Staff's Faithga basically at will. Her BSSB is just so stupid I love it.

Preeeetty sure I have enough stuff to tackle the nightmare dungeons tomorrow.

[Cmdr_King]

23 draws on FFXI banner:

1x Ultima Sword (copy)
2x Red Hat
1x Gauntlet
1x Dagger of Resolve
1x The Ogre

um... that'll do.  I hadn't even planned to draw on this one but too sexy.

[Magic Fanatic]

23 draws on the FFIX banner:

4x Beatrix's Thunder Gauntlets
1x Freya's Dragon Knight's Greatcoat
1x Generic Gauntlets
1x Generic Off-Banner Basilisk Claw (FF7)

...Bah.

[DjinnAndTonic]

44 draws

Red Cap Red Cap Red Cap Red Cap Thunder Gloves Red Cap Zidane's Burst and Freya's Super.

Fuckin' Cap.

At least Quina dropped its RM in the first fight. Support DMG Up is useful but fuck grinding FF9 dungeons.

[Grefter]

but fuck grinding

Wiinkyface emoticon.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Still moving through FFIX's event. + to +++ battles left. Once I'm done with the fights, I'll egg Quina up to 65 because I need a usable Support for the Cid Missions. At least I got its RM2 during the autobattle parts of the event. Also scored Minwu's RM2 while at it, so 'tis not bad at all. I considered pulling on the banner, but I'm already so obscenely stacked on FF9 stuff that I can't remotely justify anything besides a 100-gem pull. Besides, I'm waiting for Vaan's BSB banner.

[Meeplelard]

FF9 Event done for time being.

Did 100 Gem Draw and got Quina's Fork.  On one hand, fuck Quina in RK since everything that pisses me off somehow can be applied to Quina, including this weapon...on the otherhand, it's an FF9 Synergy Spear so I can still use it for Freya, who doesn't actively piss me off in this game.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, maintenance is over and we got no QoL changes. HOWEVER:

A) We got the Thief skill rebalancing, which means now all Thief skills have 1.2s charge time.
B) Orbfest starts tomorrow, with phases such as Power, Black and Wind and Lightning, Holy and Non-Elemental. Even Ice, Summon and Earth feel welcome to me, since Earth will become a common ingredient for clutch skills.
C) We're likely getting guaranteed 5*s early.
D) We got Rikku's Dance 5 upgrade but not Celes' Knight 5? DeNA pls.

[Meeplelard]

Amusingly, the update mentions Thief's Knife's Burst Commands being given the same buff as Thief Skills...even though said relic doesn't exist in Global yet...

[Magic Fanatic]

Ultimate and Ultimate + Cid Missions done.

Steiner L70 - Fira Strike R5/Aerora Strike R4 - Spellblade Master (THIS WAS A MISTAKE) - Thunder Slash
Beatrix L69 - Lifesiphon R4/Saint Cross R3 - Battleforged - Rose of May
Quina L65 - Full Break R3/Magic Breakdown R3 - Dr. Mog's Teachings - Mighty Guard (IX)
Freya L65 - Dragoon Jump R3/Wind Jump R4 - Power Pulse - Cherry Blossom
Eiko L66 - Curaja R5/Slowga R3 - Knight's Charge - Emerald Light
RW: Sentinel's Grimoire

Fight got easier as I killed things, so it was actually the most dangerous at the start.  Took me a few tries to get it down, because they'd gang up on someone to start off with.

Ultimate + Mastery is kind of a question for me.

Zidane L65 - Steal Power R4/Dismissal R4 - Winds of Rabanastre - Shift Break
Beatrix L69 - Lifesiphon R4/Saint Cross R3 - Battleforged - Rose of May
Quina L65 - Full Break R3/Magic Breakdown R3 - Dr. Mog's Teachings - Mighty Guard (IX)
Freya L65 - Dragoon Jump R3/Wind Jump R4 - Ace Striker - Cherry Blossom
Eiko L66 - Curaja R5/Rallying Etude R2 - Knight's Charge - Emerald Light
RW: Sentinel's Grimoire

So.  Eiko died at the 55% mark.  Instead of restarting, I decided to see how far I could get.  At the 70% mark, Zidane died.  At the 90% mark, Freya died.  at the 98% mark, Quina died.  Beatrix makes a clutch win with a last-ditch Saint Cross.  I didn't expect to do too well considering how long that took me.  Maybe run it a second time to get Mastery.  Then I see the Medals screen.  Out of 18 medals, I lost 1 for damage taken and 2 for Characters KOed.  Alright then.  I'll take it.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Ultimate Black Waltzes

Welp, pretty simplistic. The setup:

L80 Zidane (Lifesiphon R4, Thief's Revenge R3, Dragoon's Determination)
L80 Steiner (Firaga Strike R4, Aerora Strike R5, Rebel's Might)
L80 Kuja (Memento Mori R3, Dark Zone R3, Mako Might)
L80 Eiko (Curaja R5, Shellga R2, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L70 Quina (Magic Breakdown R4, Full Break R3, Gifted Artist, shared Protectga SB)

RW: Y'shtola SSII

All my AoE came from Zidane, Steiner and Kuja SBs, which doesn't amount for that much. But they're individually fragile, so I could just pick them off one by one with Lifesiphon spamming. I didn't bring Shout because I realized I could break the softcap with Zidane through equipment alone and Steiner could ram the cap just by hitting weakness, while Kuja's setup is self-sustaining buff-wise. No real surprises, full-medaled this. Funnily, the physicals actually hit a bit harder than the magic, but they're infrequent and ST, so whatever.

Ultimate+ Nova Dragon

Once again, not much. Setup:

L80 Zidane (Lifesiphon R4, Thief's Revenge R3, Adventurer's Dagger)
L80 Steiner (Aerora Strike R4, Draw Fire R4, Rebel's Might)
L80 Beatrix (Protectga R2, Saint Cross R3, Pride of the Red Wings)
L80 Eiko (Curaja R5, Shellga R2, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Quina (Magic Breakdown R4, Full Break R3, Gifted Artist)

RW: Ramza Shout

So, Nova Dragon's nasty AoE Gravity is only a counter to magic, while his counters to physicals -and- Psychokinesis attacks are Draw Fire-bait. And Steiner is bulky as -fuck-. Welp, that's half the problem solved. The AoE Twister interrupt also gets countered by a Medica (even a shared one with Cetra's Destiny works. On my end, I had Eiko with both her healing SBs and 530 MND, sooooooooooo...). Pretty rote fight, all things considered. Lost one medal on damage, no surprises otherwise.

[Meeplelard]

Cid Mission'd both fights, though only a clear on Nova Dragon as things went south late in the fight, and Steiner barely pulled off the kill.   Team was Steiner/Beatrix/Quina/Kuja/Eiko for Black Waltzes with Kuja replaced for Freya against Nova Dragon.

Went back in with a stronger team of Cloud/Beatrix/Mog/Arc/Ramza and mastered Nova Dragon.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOORBFEST

360 stamina in on the + dungeon yielded three Major Summon and a Major Earth so far. We're off to a good start.

[Shale]

We're getting a SSB/BSB Lucky Draw, maybe as soon as tomorrow. The banner doesn't mention half-price pulls but it also doesn't mention a limit of one per player.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I saw that. Not sure on what to do about it, since it's unlikely to come with a guaranteed 5* tag.