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[Scar]

Your luck is fucking insane.

I'm tempted to pull on banner 2 just for the off chance of getting tyros burst. I mean, the burst is nice, but I'd love for him to get a stat boost.

Which reminds me...I should pump him up with motes...

[DjinnAndTonic]

Speaking of insane luck. I decided to try out the Meltdown nightmare on my longest commute today. I figured for one stamina I could go in and see what I needed to tweak to get it right. Instead he decides to bust out Lightning and Water weaknesses right away and I'm like "shit this is it, better make it count". I had grabbed a Terra BSB RW for fun but since he decided to stay in Water/Fire/Earth weakness the entire time, I was destroying his HP with the Burst Cmds and Rinoa's Brothers SB. It was pretty scary towards the end when I was needing to use fucking Celebration Grimoire (twice!) for backup healing to Relm's Lakshmi (hey Sentinel wasn't helping anymore since he was busting out Res-ignoring bullshit).

Just barely got Mastery so I never have to do it again and I'm glad I didn't have go through Meeple's tortuous experience.

So yay! Now I can make Meltdown. I don't run Mage Meta ever unless the fight makes me, so I'm not sure I SHOULD. But I guess it's an option now.

I'm wondering what my first 6* ability should be? Leaning the Spellblade one coming up but Meltdown seems to be the popular choice. If I had Exdeath's GC it'd be a lock due to restoring charges of a two-use ability but since I have Celes' Super Runic instead, Spellblade seems like the smarter choice.

[Nitori]

http://i.imgur.com/1UFEaq8.jpg

i swung twice and hit myself in the head, once

[Grefter]

this is it

[Meeplelard]

So new classification of Soul Break in japan in "Ultra Soul Break."  No, not a power creep, and I specified "Classification" instead of "Tier" because it's clearly not an upgrade.

It's clearly a solution to "OSBs for Soul Breaks that aren't about dealing damage" like pure stat buff ones or Medicas because who needs a 12k healing Medica when no one has above 9999 HP, and healing usually doesn't even get that high even with Curaja.  Sounds like they can't BDL for damage ones (Faris'), but they can apply 2ndary effects, sort of avoiding the whole Power Creep situation to some degree, since their damage potential is limited.  Basically, it's an alternative to OSBs that are less about raw damage, more about the special effects.  Suppose that works better than them going "Here's a 10x OSB with Hyper Break, that's totally fair trade off right?!" like they did with SSBs and BSBs.  At least now, there's a hard damage cap on USBs even if they are as strong, and we've seen OSBs hit hard enough to make 60k damage a detriment in that regard.

[Nitori]

http://i.imgur.com/FnYWOmq.jpg

hello everyone

[Scar]

I can't tell who that xi character is.

[Nitori]

It's Curilla, never played XI myself though

[Cotigo]

On the Pick Up Lucky Draw, I got Rikku's Burst, Cait Sith's Critical Up SSB,  and Ovelia's dress. I think something else, but it was a few days ago so I forgot.
Skipped Lucky Draw 1.
Lucky Draw 2, I got Gafgarion's EnDarkness burst (because I needed more FFT synergy), Yuffie's Enwater Burst, and Edge's Enwater Burst. Hey, all bursts, sick.
Lucky Draw 3, I got Luneth's Enwind Burst, Vivi's Enfire Burst, and Sara's Burst.

That gives me... 2 Enfires, one Enthunder (but only that, lol, useless), Endarkness, 2 Enwaters, and an Enwind SB, four of which are Bursts, 1 an SSB, and one a regular SB. Neat. The only one that really changes up things for me is that I now have a reason to hone the physical darkness skills, I suppose. Vivi's burst will change up my FF9 CM teams, at least.

I'm also pretty sure the amount of BSSBs I have now is ridiculous, too, but there's one more banner (Ultros' Selection, I believe) to get through before I start documenting

[Shale]

In keeping with my usual lazy-ass schedule, I knocked out the FF6 ultimates today. I got CM mastery on U+ Ultros with one S/L, so I don't have an excuse to pull on the banner again -- fine by me, after the headache that was U+ Bartz even with a way stronger FF5 team.

[Nitori]

http://imgur.com/a/2KVpI

disco balls

[DjinnAndTonic]

Nice!
I just nabbed Tidus' Overflow, Cecil's BSB, and Yshtola's BSB from that. (Also two more Platinum Swords and a third Celescalibur so now I have two 8* Swords!)

It's no Terra OSB, but it does synergize with my setup nicely!

[Cotigo]

So I have exactly 3 of the items on this banner.

For my free pull I got another Platinum Sword and Blood Sword. Oh well, both are at 6 and 7*s now, respectively. Oh, Except, Wait, I Rosetta Stoned my Platinum Sword a while ago since I had so much FFT synergy. That... was dumb. Of course it's going to be on every celebration banner I'm ever going to seriously want to pull on. Oh well, lesson learned.

Gonna do some finaggling to see if I can pull off more pulls on the banner before it goes away at the end of the day.

EDIT: Mythril Present Dungeon did. Pulled. 1/11.

...

Oh.

OK then.

[Scar]

Apparently guaranteed 5 stars drops tomorrow with the celebration banners.

Well...that changes things.

[Shale]

JUST A LITTLE.

[Nitori]

http://imgur.com/a/HKpH3

never stop believing

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

WELP.

Anyhow, Sanctuary Guardian U+ roasted. Setup:

L66 Jecht (Dark Bargain R4/Lifesiphon R4, Rebel's Might)
L65 Paine (Saint Cross R3/Banishing Strike R4, Holy Knight's Pride)
L80 Rikku (Enveloping Etude R2/Thief's Revenge R3, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Yuna (Curaja R5/Shellga R2, Ace Striker)
L80 Wakka (Magic Breakdown R4/Full Break R3, Secrets Of The Qu)

RW: Shout

Pretty much lol, though Jecht died late in the battle after dropping his SSB, I wasn't paying much attention. The fight's highlight was dropping a 50k damage Burst from Rikku, which was just silly. Rikku can even run as a pure buffing unit in a mage team if I want, since she has okay offense with her burst commands and can run at nearly +50% ATK just with her Mug command and Burst stat buffs, which is pretty sexy. Imperil Water also works decently with Waterja and Terra's Chaos Watera, so that's also good.

[Magic Fanatic]

The U+ really did feel easier than normal.  Thinking it's because I have decent FFX synergy, but eh.  Had to do the fight twice, because I forgot to equip a Water skill the first time.

Highlights:
Tidus Powerchaining into an instant RW summon.  Still turn 2, but that's fun to do.
Braska pulling off 42K with Aeons of Wing and Flame.  512 base MAG + Devotion + Lulu spending meter on the FF13 Halloween hat Faithga, but worth it.  Became 8 hits of 5300ish damage each.  This is really one of those SBs that needs buffing for it to be worth anything, kinda like Zack's Rush Assault.
Yuna spending most of her time in the first half of the fight using Diaga instead of Curaja, because the incoming damage was so tiny.
Me ignoring Protect and Haste because I had no source of Dispel, and didn't want to bother spending eggs on Paine.
Lulu using a Shared SB Cure Medica and it being actually worth something.

[Meeplelard]

Cid Mission'd U+ with little difficulty. Took me 2 attempts but only because first try, I didn't bring Banishing Strike, so Protect gave it that durability push that outlased SG RW. Oh well, easy enough fix.  Also gave Auron Mirror of Equity to increase his offense over Lifesiphon, considering he was getting gauge fast enough with Fire Blossom.

[DjinnAndTonic]

G5 4 3BF is HERE!

11-pull in celebration. Yda's SSB, Yshtola's SSB, and Shadow's SSB!

Good stuff! Not Jecht's balls or Tifa's fist, but it'll do.

[Cotigo]

So, uh, yeah, that happened.

I had just fixed my sleep schedule but I rekt it again trying to get every mythril available to me before midnight JP time (9AM my time) since all the OF Fest banners fill me with apathy. I just barely got enough to pull again, got Bartz's OSB and a third Shout. Neat. Can't really complain, netting that OK BSB and all, but maaaaaaaan I really should have prioritized sleep. @_@

Good stuff! Not Jecht's balls or Tifa's fist, but it'll do.

A day where DJ finds out his master was just pretending to throw a ball the entire time, and there were no balls to begin with.

I am sorry for your loss.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Woof?

What do you mean there are no balls? Riot!

On topic: I can give Monk 6 to five characters. One of them will be Jecht because he equips swords and might actually have a use for Lifebane. One will be Yda when they open her Spheregrid because I have her ATK up SSB. After that, maybe Amaranth because I have his Shell/HiRegen SB and he can't use much else besides MNK so if I'm ever stuck using him it might be worth it.

That leaves only Zell, who I have a crappy self-buffing+dmg SB for. Sabin has his first SB. Yang, Refia, Tifa, Galuf don't have anything for but apart from Refia don't seem worth using. Snow is worth using but not for MNK. I might give him KNT 6. Depends on how many PCs you can buff with the KNT motes they give us.

Who is everyone else buffing? Tyro maybe?

[Magic Fanatic]

A lot of these banners looked good, so I was heavily tempted to buy gems so I could pull on these.  Luckily, I managed to talk myself out of it.  Instead, I'm going to annoy everyone with a list of relics I have so I can further convince myself I don't need to pull on these banners!  Natural 5*s and up, of course.

Core:
Sentinel's Grimoire
Celebration Grimoire
Rune Staff
Behemoth Knife (Shared SB - 3.3x NE MT BLM damage on a dagger that doesn't increase MAG)
Keeper's Grimoire

FF1:
It's nothing!

FF2:
Flame Shield (Gordon's Goddess's Bell)

FF3:
It's nothing!

FF4:
Flame Sword (Shared SB - 1.6x MT Fire PHY)
Stoneblade (Shared SB - 2.1x PHY, 20% Petrify)
Kotetsu (Edge's Eblan Dual Wield)
Artemis Bow (Rosa's Divine Heal SSB)
Fabled Harp (Edward's Fabled Song)
Gold Hairpin
Dark Helm (Shared SB - 2.1x Dark PHY, Ranged)
Diamond Armor+
Dragon Gloves (Shared SB - 3.3x MT Fire BLK)

FF5:
Air Knife (Bartz's Blade Wing)
Excalibur (Bartz's Trueblade of Legend SSB)
Ragnarok (Bartz's Ragnarok BSB)
Thor Hammer (Galuf's Fist of the Dawn)
Partisan (Shared SB - 1.6x MT PHY + 20% Sleep)
Moore Branch (Exdeath's Grand Cross)
Judgment Staff
Power Staff (Lenna's Flames of War)
Yoichi's Bow+ (Faris's Sea Lord's Broadside)
Beast Killer (Krile's Unspoken Bond SSB)
Fire Lash+ (Krile's Sheepsong SSB)
Ninja Suit

FF6:
Zantetsuken+
Rune Blade (Celes's Spinning Edge)
Golden Spear
Dragon Claws+ (Sabin's Razor Gale)
Maduin's Horn (Terra's Magitek Missile SSB)
Chocobo Brush (Relm's Portrait of Lakshmi SSB)
Rising Sun (Locke's Mirage Dive)
Darts (Setzer's Dive Bomb)
Mystery Veil (Shared SB - Cure Medica)
Minerva Bustier (Terra's Trance Flood)
Gaia Gear+
Thief's Bracer+ (Shared SB - MT 40% Slow)

FF7:
Shark (Shared SB - 2.1x PHY, Ranged, 50% Stop)
Basilisk Claw
Butterfly Edge+
SOLDIER Sword+
Apocalypse (Zack's Apocalypse SSB)
1st Fusion Sword (Cloud's Fenrir Overdrive BSB)
Yoshiyuki (Sephiroth's Black Materia SSB)
Pole Axe+ (Cid's Hyper Jump)
Crystal Glove++ (Tifa's Waterkick)
Platinum Fist++ (Tifa's Burning Arrow)
Master Fist (Tifa's Dolphin Blow SSB)
Zack's Gloves (Zack's Air Raid)
Diamond Pin (Red XIII's Lunatic High)
Gatling Gun (Barret's Grenade Bomb)
Circlet (Shared SB - ST Cura, Magic +30% for 25s)
Shinra Helmet
Sephiroth's Coat+ (Sephiroth's Nibelheim Nightmare)
Edincoat
Adamant Bangle
Precious Watch++ (Shared SB - Cure Medica)
Chocobracelet (Shared SB - MT Medium Regen)
Holiday Mittens (Shared SB - MT ATK+15% for 25s)

FF8:
Inferno Fang (Shared SB - 2.0x Fire PHY)
Revolver++ (Squall's Rough Divide)
Shear Trigger (Squall's Fated Circle)
Cutting Trigger (Squall's Blasting Zone SSB)
Hyperion (Seifer's Demon Slice)
2x Crescent Wish (Selphie's Dreamstage SSB)
Valkyrie (Rinoa's Angel Wing Bolt)
Rising Sun++ (Rinoa's Angel Wing Quake)
Fujin's Chakram (Shared SB - 3.3x MT Wind BLK)
Running Fire (Shared SB - 1.7x MT PHY, Ranged)
Estharian Helmet
Galbadian Elite Armor

FF9:
Orichalcum (Zidane's Shift Break SSB)
Defender (Steiner's Thunder Slash)
Coral Sword
Save the Queen (Beatrix's Seiken Stock Break)
Needle Fork (Quina's Mighty Guard (IX))
Oak Staff (Vivi's Doublecast Venom)
Ice Staff (Shared SB - 4.9x Ice BLK)
Golem's Flute (Eiko's Emerald Light)
Dragon Knight's Greatcoat (Freya's Cherry Blossom SSB)
White Robe (Shared SB - 20% Raise)
Gauntlets
4x Thunder Gloves (Beatrix's Rose of May)

FF10:
2x Celebration Blade (Shared SB - 2.1x PHY, 50% Slow)
Buster Clas (Rikku's Hazardous Shell)
Royal Scepter+ (Shared SB - Cure Medica)
Lullaby Rod (Yuna's Hymn of the Fayth)
Rune Rod (Shared SB - 3.3x MT Poison BLK)
Mage's Staff (Shared SB - Cure Medica)
Braska's Staff (Braska's Aeons of Wing and Flame SSB)
All-Rounder (Wakka's Attack Reels)
Defense Veil+
Al Bhed Jumper

FF12:
Danjuro+
Lohengrin
Stoneblade (Ashe's Maelstrom's Bolt SSB)
Kogarasumaru (Vaan's Windburst)
Gungnir
Musk Stick (Shared SB - Cure Medica)
Aldebaran (Balthier's Strahl Strafe SSB)
Chanter's Djellaba

FF13:
Glaive (Fang's Pulsar Burst)
Wyrmfang (Vanille's Oerba's Boon)
Skycutter+ (Hope's Brutal Sanction)
Ninurta (Hope's Divine Judgment BSB)
Evil Lantern
Deneb Duellers (Sazh's Caltrop Bomb)
Goddess's Tribute
Tungsten Bangle (Shared SB - Cure Medica)

FF14:
Yoshimitsu (Thancred's Dancing Edge)
Cobalt Katzbalger+ (Shared SB - 1.7x PHY, Ranged, User ATK +30% for 25s)
Thyrus++ (Y'shtola's Stoneskin II)
Lominsan Bow+
Evoker's Horn (Shared SB - 4.7x BLK, RES -30% for 15s)
Ninja Chainmail+ (Thancred's Death Blossom)
2x Ninja Chainmail (See above)

FFT:
Main Gauche (Delita's Crush Armor)
Platinum Sword (Ramza's Shout SSB)
Chameleon Robe

[Meeplelard]

100 Gem Draw on the first banner, Tifa's BSB.

I am no longer allowed to say she sucks...at least in the context of character worth in RK...

Also crushed Ultima Weapon.  Might do the "Create several copies of Lifebane, breakdown to get more crystals to hone up stuff" strategy.  Lifebane seems kind of crappy honestly since most users aren't the greatest (granted, I say this AFTER getting a BSB one of said users...), and it's gimmick seems pretty annoying to raise make it worth using.  Also the other 5* Combat skill down the line just seems like a straight up better option, using the same gimmick, and on more characters (are there any MOnks who DON'T have Combat 5?)

[Magic Fanatic]

Okay, so Monks feel pretty legit thanks to Meteor Crash.

Base set-up:
Synergy in the Monk dungeon
Vs. The Weapon Watches, Part 4
Galuf L68 - 444 ATK after Synergy - Meteor Crash R2/Piercing Strike R4 - Balamb Firebrand RM

Turn 1: Meteor Crush: 2x 3550 = 7100
Turn 2: Piercing Strike: 9150
Turn 3: Piercing Strike: 9150
Turn 4: Meteor Crush: 2x 6350 = 12700
and so on.
Aside from that first turn, dealing an average of 10300 damage/turn seems pretty appealing.