Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Shale]

Milestone: Thanks in part to my recent mythril hoarding, all of my characters with BSBs, OSBs or USBs, and the three characters with particularly unique SSBs (Galuf, Edge, Raijin) are all level 99. Yay grinding!

Edit: FF8 Torment D200 has been Cid'd. Went with a Wall RW instead of a faithga and Edea's burst still tore through him like tissue paper. Of course, then she died from MM doom about 10K short of the kill, but the rest of the team was able to make that up.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I went mageyland for the CM as well (Rinoa CSB and BSB2 shouldn't go to waste!). Fujin master race once again, once she starts dropping those wind commands she becomes insanely fast - as if having an amazing, Wrathable instant stackable debuff SB wasn't enough. I regret nothing about legend diving her. For the Jump Start CM, I plan to run Rinoa CSB + Cloud USB RW + Chant + either Raijin spamming Aura or Aphmau spamming Overdrive on BSB2 Squall. D250 Ruby Dragon melted like butter off SOLDIER Mode BSB2 offense (27k a HIT on command 2. That thing deals eight hits at three junction levels), I just want to see how bad it can get with stacking elemental damage boosts even further.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Update report on melting Ruby Dragon's face: I had a max-level Löwen Roar deal 67k damage per hit, totalling over 530k damage off a single command.

On less massacring news, I FINALLY managed to pull off a clear on Magicite Liquid Flame, running Terra/Lulu/Onion Knight/Curilla/Vanille and leaving Terra and Lulu BSB CMD2 and Radiant Shield pings as my offense. Not a pretty fight (clocked out at 1m 06s), but ultimately rather safe - Curilla USB is -super- good in conjunction with her relic legend materia, she was mitigating a LOT of Liquid Flame's physicals very well, and it's hard to say no to that delicious ultrastackable ATK+MAG+DEF buff along with Radiant Shield. I'm definitely giving her my next MC3 now that I level-capped Aphmau. Terra did Terra-y things, mainly building gauge for Omen => Blood of Espers and tossing out 20k damage Chaos Wateras at ninja speed, while Lulu provided the necessary backup. I went offensive with OK of all things, which was actually a -good- choice because instacasting helps cycling through Liquid Flame's three forms much faster and I didn't want Tornado form getting turns to slam me with Savage Firaga. My current goals now are farming Fenrir and Sealion until I have at least one L99 Magicite for each of those elements.

Tangentially, Enkidu is my new best friend.

[Shale]

Magicite Golem down! Used Alphinaud for someting like 90% of the total damage; Zidane was there too, but just for imperils, and only managed to break through Earthen Wall in the final 10 seconds of a 1:19 victory. Not sure what I can do to meaningfully improve on that time without another magic-based wind SB, but I'll at least have to go back and get mastery -- Golem's very last action was an Earthen Fury that killed Zidane and Porom, costing me that last medal.

Ruby Dragon D250 and D300 were simple even without physical ice moves. I did have to treat the D300 CM like an actual fight instead of a "how broken can Ultra Cross Slash be?" test case, but Edea's burst still shreds him.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Six pulls on Bartz banner, six 1/11s, but they net me: Bartz' BSB3 and USB, Faris' USB, Dorgann's BSB and 7* Faris Bracers and Dorgann's Sword. I think I can finally pull off a sub-1:00 victory against Liquid Flame now. In more mundane news, also honed Meltdown and Snowspell Strike to R3. Life's good.

Also got a 0:31 clear on Sealion by running OK and Edward as dual-Entrust batteries for Terra. I'm -so close- to pulling a sub-30 run off but no dice yet. Maybe I should drop a gauge on Potato for earlier burst damage. 

[Shale]

One pull on the FF5 banner: Faris imperil wind SSB, Galuf en-fire/critga SSB, Bartz BSB3. That's my Hydra team settled, and I think Faris can help my Golem team more than Zidane just by virtue of having Wrath to power her imperil.

Tempted to try again for Bartz's LMR and/or USB, but I think I can stay strong and wait for the 30th anniversary SNES banner.

Also, I ran down my stamina farming Fenrir after ignoring Magicite since that Golem run, and came away with two copies of Enkidu and one of Fenrir (after getting nothing but Wing Raptors up to now). RNG likes me today!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

This weekend I decided to try my hand at Sealion speed run while my boyfriend was napping and I fucking did it. 0:27 run on Sealion running dualcast on Terra, Gathering Storm on Potato and Ace Striker on Edward, along with Mako Might on Eiko for a safe way to activate Terra's Trance. Running that R3 Meltdown instead of wrathing all day with Terra actually makes a hell of a difference, especially when running off Tranced casting times. Today, I tried again running Curilla instead of Onion Knight and Battleforged on Terra instead of Dualcast and made it at 0:29. I'm pretty sure I can pull these runs consistently now, which is great. Curilla USB is quietly amazing at what it can do. I'll attempt Hydra and Liquid Flame again once I have Bartz at L99 and Record Dived.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Magicite update: 0:58 clear on Liquid Flame all thanks to Bartz' USB. It almost makes me want to try for his LMR again, the results are simply -incredible-. I was dropping an absolute minimum of 26k a pop from an Engulfing Twinstrike (usually more, an Eight-Strike Barrage proc and nothing else produces nearly 40k damage. A dualcast proc adds more 20k. If I can optimize damage enough, I can slap the dualcast RM and gamble for EVEN MORE damage, since it allows for triplecasts, making the whole thing absolutely ridiculous). I'll have to hone the fire 5* spellblade ability now, since Thundering Twinstrike doesn't interact with the USB. Regardless, holy shit is this thing -good-.

Also cleared MO Archeoavis with a Reddit group. I ran the only offense and derped on giving Bartz a ranged weapon, but his USB is so good it actually didn't matter so much before the last phase (I still managed nearly 20k Snowspell Strikes from the back row. It kinda murdered the procs, but I still could eke over 10k from an ESB, so it could be worse). The last phase I handled with Cloud spamming Omega Drive and his OSB. Nice. This set of battles gave me -exactly- the motes I needed to fully Legend Dive Bartz to boot, and I couldn't be happier.

[Nitori]

funny glitch I drew 1/11 Edward SSB and my phone played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpchuUkHzjc instead of the normal music

[Shale]

5/6 Magicites down, only Liquid Flame left because my water options are puny and the slow pace of the fight means very little SB charging. I've only managed to beat Golem and Bismarck once each, so there's room to improve there too.

FF4 torment was a surprisingly big pain in the ass for a holy weak fight. CM is definitely not happening; I had to swap out Faris with Minfilia on my A team just to kill the dragon in time.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm currently on full farming mode with all Magicites, being able to consistently sub-30 Sealion and getting closer and closer with Golem, Fenrir and particularly Hydra. I can now sub-1:00 Liquid Flame, but I still need better water options for something better than 50 seconds. Now that I have Rafa's BSB and USB, I'll attempt a sub-30 clear on Bismarck as well as soon as I can L99 her, but I may need to pull off some battle-start Entrust shenanigans as well.

And yes, FF4 torment is surprisingly tough. The Jump Start in particular took me some five tries and I have Pecil's BSB+USB and a decently honed Guardbringer.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

My results on Bismarck so far: my times range between 35 and 38 seconds. I wonder if Legend Diving Rafa can make the difference there, since there's about 66 more MAG and some Black Magic + Lightning boosts to be accrued there... though what would really make the cut there would be more instacast options. Allegro con Moto is an interesting strategy, at least. THIS SAID, the RES boost and pseudoparasitic healing from Rafa's Burst is a lifesaver against Bismarck regardless, really eases on the need to heal and makes a single-healer strat viable as long as I make things quick. Compared to Raines BSB, it's less offense, more survivability. And, if I can spare an Entrust bot, she always has the option to En-element with her USB, which -does- make her, if I care, a one-stop shop for my MAG buffing needs on mage parties. Fun stuff.

[Shale]

"Sweet, fest banners are posted, let's see what we've got."

DeNa: *Replaces Yuna BSB2 with Revenge Of Tiny Bee*

" ....So, FF6 banners!"

[Scar]

Joy.

I tried for Delita's items, got dupes and Ophelia lm.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

"Sweet, fest banners are posted, let's see what we've got."

DeNa: *Replaces Yuna BSB2 with Revenge Of Tiny Bee*

" ....So, FF6 banners!"

I've never been so happy that the fest banners utterly blow, I can drop all my Mythril on those sweet Lucky Draws with zero regrets. I might drop a pull on banner 1 for that elusive FF1 synergy and 4 because Tidus, Shantotto and Rikku USB are totally sweet (and heck, I actually WOULDN'T MIND TINY BEE. Aphmau's BSB would be really great too), but even that depends on the Lucky Draw results.

This said, one pull on the soundtrack banner got me two Fairy Flute dupes, a Conductor dupe and Noctis' USB-level party-wide instant instacast SSB. I have a strong urge to Legend Dive him now.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

On the first broke-ass Lucky Draw, DeNa gave to me Deuce and Arc BSBs. Considering I went in 7/18 and got a) no dupes; b) a much-desired stackable buffing medica; c) a BSB for a healer whose relic LM I -have- and it's -good- with the BSB; d) such healer also has doublecast WM on her LD; e) a good BSB for another bard, so one more Allegro con Moto user; f) husbando Arc, I guess I'm in a pretty good place right now. Two more MC3s on the loan bank and I very much may legend-dive Deuce to boot.

[Shale]

Dupe Ceodore BSB and third Rosa BSB. Should've saved my mythril.

[Magic Fanatic]

First shot at the LD...  Lenna BSB and Ovelia BSB.  Neither are dupes, so...  Win overall?

[Scar]

First lucky draw gave me Ovelia's burst.

That's my 4th relic for her including a LM that I'm not sure is any good.

I drew on the Shadow banner and got Setzer's LM. Looks pretty meh.

Today's banner netted me Curilla and Edges ultra relics along with Fang burst2.

I didnt even know Fang had a second burst. Now I have both. Does it matter which I use? She's my first double burst person.

[Meeplelard]

Struggling with Jump Start Bahamut still, beat the other Torments though.

As far as lucky Draws?

Healer: Lenna's BSB.  eh, I don't have a medica for that realm, so that's something.
BSB/CSB/USB: Yda's USB, Deuce's USB, Garnet BSB1 (dupe) and Edgar's BSB.

Can't really complain so far.

[Shale]

Today's lucky draw: Snow BSB1, Auron BSB1, Warrior of Light CSB, and.....Y'shtola USB. Neither burst is very good overall, but Snow's is my first-ever physical ice tech, and that holy chain is going to be Cid Raines' best friend. The USB is.....uh, +10 MND for my go-to healer?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

The second Lucky Draw: 1/11, Leila's BSB. Um I guess it's not a dupe?

This said, I also did a drunken 11-pull on the FF6 banner and landed meself Setzer's USB and SSB1 along with Shadow's SSB last night, so I suppose RNG giveth, RNG taketh away.

[Cmdr_King]

Lucky 1- Deuce and Sarah bursts.  Well, I guess it's uncommon realms I didn't have anything good in.

FFVI 1 100 Gems- Umaro burst.  This is a strange little thing.  Not enough to make me forget it's fucking Umaro (even if FFRK Umaro is Better Sabin)

Lucky 2- Lightning USB.  Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

*This gives me a +40 Lightning, with SSB1, BSB1, OSB, and USB.  Heeeeeeeeeee.

[Shale]

Oh, also, glimpse into the JP future:

Tyro USB3: Party Protect, Shell, Haste & Wall.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Rikku USB RWpremacy, move over. Though I guess, at this point in the game's life, it makes sense.