Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Captain K]

I heard this game was having an anniversary so I downloaded it to draw things that other people wanted and piss them off.

Free draw on the player's choice banner:



Okay that's not bad, but probably not piss off material.

One draw on the Keeper's Choice banner 1:



Wtf why is that still a thing.  This game sucks.

Back to the Player's Choice banner:



Oh yeah that looks like something someone will be jealous over.  My work is done, back to not playing this game.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Well, two pulls on banner 1 net me -another- White Mage Robe and Abel's Lance. Sorry, Scar. Remaining mythril goes to a pull on banner 2 and one on banner 3. Picking up five new bursts and Cloud's OSB already made the anniversary fest worth it, though.

[Meeplelard]

New banner.  FIrst the 100 Gem Draw gets me Arc's SSB.  Well, can't complain about that; not what I wanted per se, but it is something I don't have and holy, more Holy Boosting Gear is nice, especially with the Raines' BSB I just got.

Anyway, Banner 1 looked neat so might as well do a 50 Mythril pull; my only dupe can be Kain's BSB which will suck because, jokes aside, I already have a reforged (or at least a 5++*) variant so it wouldn't really do me any good.  Main thing I want is Maria's BSB.

My results?

Me for the past few days: Man, Sephiroth has major issues.  He's like the only Darkness 5 character who can't use any sort of legitimate Magic weapons since he can't use Rods or Swords, has a pretty shakey moveset, and outright needs relics to be relevant.  What a waste of good stats!  I can't see myself using him, might as well breakdown all those Non-Dark Bargain Darkness abilities since I won't be using those!  I mean, my actual Darkness 5 physical characters like Leon have stuff like Knight 5 to fall back on anyway!





I brought myself despair...when I just realized I had shattered those darkness skills...

(to be clear, yeah, 2/11 was all I got)

[Scar]

Chased hard.

Didn't succeed.

Yup. I'll see myself to sleep now.

[Shale]

Pull 1: Edge SSB.
Pull 2: holy crap, 4/11 with two disco balls! Turned out to be double Arc SSBs and double OK OSBs.
Saltiness from seeing four shinies turn into only two moves got me to dip into my reserves for a third pull. 2/11: Orichalcum Dirk and Abel's Lance!
....sorry, Scar.

[Meeplelard]

Amusingly, I had that "ooh, 4!" moment turning out to be only 2 myself in a celebration.  I once got 2 Agrias Defenders, and 2 Edea Crowns that way.  Granted, the latter was what I wanted at the time, so I couldn't really complain.

...then there was that time I did a 50 pull on an FF6 banner and got 3 Cat-Ear Hoods...for the record, I now have at least had 5 of them, because I got another in a different pull, and when the first Healer Lucky Draw happened, game thought it'd be funny to hand me a 5th (that same draw also gave me Oerba's Boon, though, and seeing as all I wanted was a useful Soul Break I didn't have for Nightmare Altenna, I couldn't complain too much...still a troll moment.)


Tempted to do another draw on this banner, but I already have Kain's BSB, both Sephiroth relics, Arc's SSB, and don't really have much use for Braska's thanks to Leylines.   Would like Maria's Bow, but I could also draw on the FF2 Banner still in the next few hours...

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Done with bonus battles and raid in the current FF6 event. Dear lord, Phantom Train was a pain in the ass. Miserable offense, but the status is so annoying. I brought OK with Affliction Break and Terra for ultimate Scorching Flames spam, both with Confuse + Slow resist, and it was still obnoxious as shit. First, my OK was petrified (AND NONE OF THE HEALERS BROUGHT ULTRA CURE), then Terra got confused. The fight finally ended when Phantom Train hit Terra with Wheel, she broke out of confusion and I dropped a 99999 damage OSB on its head, rage-ending the fight. Funnily, the SB alone was responsible for about at least a third of the total damage dealt.

[Meeplelard]

Finished the entire event myself, including the Multiplayer stuff which I did solo, because I have Terra's...well...everything and Ashe's BSB.  Nuking him down isn't going to be very hard, especially when Papalymo adds a Raines RW in the mix.  There was lots of explosions and lightning bolts thrown.  Also, used a bunch of summons to get around countering.

Not to mention I did this...




Oh, did the 100 Gem Draw on the latest banner.  That won't give me anything go-...



...well that ends any real reason to even consider doing a real draw on this banner!

(yes, I should take a screenshot of the actual draw in the future, keep forgetting to do that)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Banner 2! Up to two pulls reserved - one at least I'll save for banner 3.

Pull 1: Three 5*s! ... Crystal Glove, Holy Shield and Quistis' Dress. All dupes.
Pull 2: Two 5*s... Enuo's Scourge and Tactician Magician's Cuffs. That's more like it.

This is my sixth Burst from the Anniversary banners and it's one I wanted. Not the grand prize of Yuna's Summoner Garb, but that'll do nicely - also justifies the MC3 lode I spent on Shantotto. Exdeath's staff also gives me a long overdue stackable MAG buff that doesn't overlap with Potato's Leylines or OK's Vessel of Fate in any way, on a better character than Braska. MAG+RES is also a combination I previously lacked, so it plays nicely with Serah's Endless Blessing as well.

It'd be cool to stack together Vidofnir's Quick Cast 5 with Play Rough's fastcasting commands, but that ain't very practical off mage SB building. Oh well, fun theoreticals. Hopefully I'll get something good like Relm's or Raine's Bursts in my alloted phase 3 pull, but I'm pretty happy with my current spoils. Lots of fun toys and new - or new old - characters to play with.

[Grefter]

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

hi greftar

[Grefter]

I was just looking for a good Ivan Draygo one, but it was right there.   Also this is the only place I get to annoy you because FB actually sucks at who I want to add as friends.  I was waiting for it to suggest people because I am too lazy to search.  It ended up taking Djinn adding me to get him even though it got his adorable BF straight away.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

You're better off bugging me on Twitter if you want social network contact, I look at Facebook roughly once a trimester.

[Grefter]

You mean talk to you on FF5-4JF machine?

Edit - I kid, it is also great for comedy.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I follow that feed, it's fucking great. Also, Twitter is the perfect social network for existential dread.

[Scar]

Oh. So phase 1.

5 pulls...

2 sephy osb, 1 sephy glove

3 arc robes

1 braska robe

2 edge jackets

Yay.

*hangs self*

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Anyhow, slaving away at Nemesis Infinity. My current setup:

L99 Alphinaud (Shellga R4/Bahamut R4 - Lionheart)
L99 Eiko (Curaja R5/Protectga R3 - Knight's Charge)
L99 Faris (Full Break R3/Magic Breakdown R4 - Battleforged)
L99 Vanille (Haste R5/Ultra Cure R4 - Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L99 Loserface (Wrath R4/Exhausting Polka R4 - Mako Might)

RW: Edge's Eblan Doppleganger

This feels like my most viable setup for scraping a win against Nemesis, but it's tough: though I have both native Last Stand and Radiant Shield, them being Minfilia's and Alphinaud's means I can't bring both to this fight. I'm considering forgoing Exhausting Polka and slapping another Wrath on Loserface, since I need constant - CONSTANT - SG uptime, but I also try to juggle Keeper's Tome in the shuffle, which helps a lot when Nemesis starts spamming Ethereal Cannon. Offense is a bit of a problem, since Aerial Blast doesn't do all that well when not exploiting en-element shenanigans, but I don't think I have much of an alternative here. Most of the damage comes from Nemesis himself anyway. I got him below 20% health once and I consistently get him below half health, but I need to micromanage the buff timing a bit more closely to make it happen. Maybe a well-timed Keeper's Tome when he starts dropping Boundless Ethereal Cannons will buy me enough time. Sandbagging for XIII and IX synergy might help a bit too. Come to think of it, Eiko and Aerith would perform near-identically, since only Faris uses the crit boost but Aerith's durability sucks a bit less. I'll see what can I do. Y'shtola's not an option, I'd have to give up both native Radiant Shield and Last Stand for her.

EDIT: Apropos of nothing, I like how DeNa bothered to pick up Shantotto's US dub voice clip for Play Rough's laugh. It's actually eerier than JP's voice clip.

[Meeplelard]

Hopefully they do the same thing with Zack's CSB, just because Moonspeak doesn't work as well for the nostalgia as "You can do it Zack!" "YEAH I'M ON FIRE NOW!"

[Cmdr_King]

Banner 1 trip report:

Tyro USB
Kain BSB (sorry Scar)

Tyro USB is a bit of a hodgepodge, but is overall pretty good using it a bit in multiplayer.  Curious how it shakes out in easier U++ tier fights.

Also threw some mythril at the FFVI banner and only got Sabin's medica SSB, although that was enough to do the CM so my FFVI isn't as dated as I feel like it is.  Shadow's SSB holds up way better than anything else from it's era (like, "probably the best raw damage SSB" holds up)

Since that was disappointing as hell, and I had like 70 mythril, also went for Banner 2.  Report...

Faris USB
Krile BSB
Quistis BSB
Minfilia SSB

Minfilia was already one of my most-used characters because The Echo is damn good, and more boostga options are good even if they don't stack with Shout.  I mean, I did just get a shiny new Hastega.  Quistis burst makes me happy, and Krile burst gives me an actual good offensive tool in FFV which I lacked previously.  Faris USB... looks a bit underpowered on paper, but my only point of comparison is Tyro's quirky thing.  And y'know, I mean underpowered by the standard of OSB/USB tier crap, so still good.

[Meeplelard]

Faris' USB is "underpowered" since it's the first damage USB, so it's basically just an SSB with one more effect.  Case in point, most Hyper Break SSBs are just Hyper Break w/ Damage attached.  Faris' you'll notice is that + Stun.  Granted, it also has Leo's "variable damage based on number of enemies" factor to allow for viability on AoE and ST.

It's not exciting, no, especially when the EX Mode USBs start to kick in, but it's the usual scenario of early-gen tier soul breaks having something about them because they're working them out.

Happened with Stormborn (first En-Elemental, where they learned En-Elemental is a bad Soul Break effect on it's own), Pulse of Life/Flame's of Rebirth (first Medica SSBs, teaching them Reraise is not better than most of the standard Soul Break effects), and Tyro's OSB (attempt at making a utility OSB...it backfired horribly, and basically solidified immediately that OSBs exist for shear damage and should remain that way.  Oddities like Orlandu and Noctis aside, they've kept OSBs to just that, albeit taken a more creative route with variable damage allowing for flexibility on the multiplier...speaking of which, add Vaan and Gilgamesh to that list, since that was a good way to NOT do variable damage OSBs, and I believe they were the first two)

[Shale]

I have too many dupes on banner 3 for it to be worth 50 mythril, but I figured I'd toss 100 gems at it in hopes of the Shura Gloves. No go, but I got Laguna's boostga gun -- which makes three 100 gem pulls in a row that produced a relic! Nice.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Banner 3's alloted pull net me... a fucking Sirius. Welp, that's it for my shot at a smooth Nemesis clear. Back to the slaving mines, none of my alternative setups worked as well as my first one - right now, I'm gonna attempt a slight spin on the last party replacing Eiko with Minwu. Maybe the instant Curaja and improved durability, alongside a second AoE Curaga, will make a difference. Juggling with the burst (which I'll likely need for the Hastega and possibly for an extra MAG debuff layer besides the instant Curaja) might prove a wee bit difficult, though.

[Shale]

"Oh shit the FF6 event ends off-schedule. I should do that."

*24 hours later*

Okay, Terra was an utter joke; despite the 3000 fixed AOE I still didn't even need a medica to win. RW Raines, use Celes' default SB to stack magic mitigation, cruise to victory. Relm was charging Portrait of Lakshmi when Strago got the final hit in. I probably didn't even need Setzer's Full Breakdown SSB, although I'm not complaining that I got it. And Dullahan was one of the easiest U++ fights so far -- even with Stop landing twice on everybody other than Yda, her burst and some Swiftspell-ing was enough to tear him apart. Now I just have to deal with Phantom Train, and I think that is the time for Sabin's party Esuna to shine.

Edit: Done! No S/Ls on either difficulty, thank you Soul Spiral. Going full healer (OK with Esuna, Sabin with Soul Spiral and Lifesiphon so he could spam it, Eiko with Ultra Cure and burst) was exactly the right strategy, and despite the lack of DPS characters even with only a slight holy weakness to take advantage of Raines was hitting the D200 train for 4x7500 with command 1, and straight 9999s with repeat casts of the entry. Also got very lucky and only saw Ultimate Saintly Beam once in the Apocalypse fight.

Now for the real anniversary gameplay, by which I mean slot machines. I have 110 mythril now, and have budgeted two pulls for banner 4. Question is, do I blitz some realm dungeons and pick up enough extra that I can also try my luck with a full pull on banner 3? The dupes are there but the shinies are shiny. Hmmmmm.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

HOLY FUCKING BABY DINOSAUR JESUS IN A SPANDEX SUIT INFINITY NEMESIS VANQUISHED



AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA



THESE ARE THE SHADOWS TO HAUNT YOUR NIGHTMARES TO YOUR VERY LAST BREATH



FUCK YOU NEMESIS

Ahem.

ANYWAY. Yeah, finally, FINALLY succeeded. Indeed, Minwu made all the difference by providing an extra layer of mitigation with Spell Sap XVI (that extra 8% -actually mattered-, amazingly. The difference between a 4-digit and a 3-digit Ultima by the later legs of the fight) and those hella clutch instant heals with Will of the White Mage and Cure X both. That Curaise there? Also made the difference between life and death. Once Nemesis started his Boundless Ethereal Cannon spam, he hit Vanille with it twice and killed her. Then, he dropped one on Minwu and Faris, so I timed a Curaise on Vanille, used my second shot of Edge's Eblan Doppleganger RW once she was back up, queued up Sentinel's Grimoire in-between and dropped Transcendent Dream in order to get back up on my feet. Tyro eventually perished anyway, but at that point Nemesis was at like 7% mHP and I felt I could make it to the shore. The parting shot was a reflected -three-digit-damage- Ethereal Cannon on Alphinaud while he was charging Aerial Blast. That has to be insulting. This is, without a doubt, the hardest fight I've ever mastered in this game. Holy shit.

Anyhow, I can resume the scheduled orb farming and XP grinding. I have Laguna's SSB to master and Pecil and Kain are already past L90.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Now for the real anniversary gameplay, by which I mean slot machines. I have 110 mythril now, and have budgeted two pulls for banner 4. Question is, do I blitz some realm dungeons and pick up enough extra that I can also try my luck with a full pull on banner 3? The dupes are there but the shinies are shiny. Hmmmmm.

Problem there is you already have one of the top-tier prizes (Raines BSB. BY THE WAY, his MC3 is dropping tonight) and the boobie traps are pretty bad on your context (I mean, you already have the claws, Sabin's armlet, Fire Lash -and- now Sirius, right?). If you're gambling for Shura Gloves, might as well drop a few on the DU Lucky Draw on Sunday instead. The OSBs are underwhelming to boot. I tried a gamble 11-pull for one of Relm's brush, Golbez's rod and Cid's claws (and god, do I wish I could take that pull back, considering it was motivated by Nemesis), but Iunno. The spare mythril feels better served on future banners like FFT's next offering or Squall's utterly nuts BSB2.