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Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

What the hell

I thought I would be up there for like, shamefully doing an 11 pull a couple of times and a bunch of the 100 gem pulls.

I wish I could see how much I spent in total though, I'm sure it's way more than buying actual FF Games

You spent round $150 (or less) since you started playing? You're part of a small fraction in terms of people spending money but unless you start spending that on a weekly basis you aren't a whale or even close to it.

Like I said a few posts above yours:

Evil Fluffy posted:

"I spent a hundred dollars on this banner" is not a whale.

"I spend a hundred dollars on every banner" is more what game developers mean when they use the whale label. Whales don't spend hundreds per year, they spend thousands if not tends of thousands when you start dealing with the wealthy/crazy whales.

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acumen
Mar 17, 2005
Fun Shoe
Thanks for making me feel better about spending a few hundred dollars on this phone game Evil Fluffy :unsmith:

PhysicsFrenzy
May 30, 2011

this, too, is physics


:stare:

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

yup. that's Dusk's Decree alright.

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???
Why'd you take it out of OSBfest, dena :qq:

PhysicsFrenzy
May 30, 2011

this, too, is physics
Firion died halfway through and our second player was like level 60 and wiped early on. She was our sole DPS and we had absolutely no right to win even with her making GBS threads out damage :stare:

Kanos
Sep 6, 2006

was there a time when speedwagon didn't get trolled

PhysicsFrenzy posted:

Firion died halfway through and our second player was like level 60 and wiped early on. She was our sole DPS and we had absolutely no right to win even with her making GBS threads out damage :stare:

It is fair and reasonable that one of the most reliably good attach element mage BSBs in the game comes on a piece of armor that also boosts said element. :haw:

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???
When's the next time it shows up? Do I really have to pull on Vayne 2 for it?

Kanos
Sep 6, 2006

was there a time when speedwagon didn't get trolled

Adel posted:

When's the next time it shows up? Do I really have to pull on Vayne 2 for it?

It should be on the Valigarmanda nightmare banner, which incidentally is shaping up to be an absolutely insane mage banner if it is curated to SSB+ like recent nightmare banners have been.

1st AD
Dec 3, 2004

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: sometimes passing just isn't an option.

I wiped with ~10% HP left, there was only 1 burst medica and then nobody had mitigation except for my team of Ramza and OK - spent the last half of the fight playing support.

Thundercracker
Jun 25, 2004

Proudly serving the Ruinous Powers since as a veteran of the long war.
College Slice
Multiplayer Apocalypse is definitely a fun chaotic experience. Mastered Gil with a ridiculous team. Like 4 medicas. 2 tauntaliators. And two DPS. Except one was a backrow firion that barely did any damage except on his BSB entries.

Almost everyone got KOd and revived once and by the end we were manually attacking the tauntilating Gilgamesh because the DPS were dead.

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby
Yay, mastered all Nightmares, and stamina is due to max out just a little after 8PM EST. 'Twas a good day for FFRK.

Edit: Reddit search isn't working well at the moment, and I was wondering what the current split was between O/BSB, SSB, Unique, and off-banner for standard event banners, and what a reasonable split for the OSB Fest might be.

For standard banners at this time it's 1%~ per OSB/BSB/Unique, and 2%~ per SSB, with a very low chance of off-banner yea?

For the festival would you expect 1% for each of the 4 OSB/BSB and 2% for each of the SSB/Unique? I presume it's impossible to know until some data is collected?

kalensc fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Dec 23, 2016

Referee
Aug 25, 2004

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Is today when OSBFest starts?

Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism

IllegallySober posted:

Is today when OSBFest starts?

That's monday. Today is the casino orbfest stuff or whatever it is.

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

kalensc posted:

Yay, mastered all Nightmares, and stamina is due to max out just a little after 8PM EST. 'Twas a good day for FFRK.

Edit: Reddit search isn't working well at the moment, and I was wondering what the current split was between O/BSB, SSB, Unique, and off-banner for standard event banners, and what a reasonable split for the OSB Fest might be.

For standard banners at this time it's 1%~ per OSB/BSB/Unique, and 2%~ per SSB, with a very low chance of off-banner yea?

For the festival would you expect 1% for each of the 4 OSB/BSB and 2% for each of the SSB/Unique? I presume it's impossible to know until some data is collected?

Yeah iirc banners like event banners and fest banners have lower % odds for the top billing items at a little over 1%, whereas the consolation prizes are a little above 2%. I think off-banner 5*s clock in at around .5%. Only Lucky Draw banners lack any bias whatsoever towards any tier of SB in particular, and of course being lucky draws lack shared and non-SB 5* entirely.

Also, all the FF stuff is on sale on Steam for 50% off! Picked up IV/TAY and V. I've heard it's possible to mod the original graphics back into the PC version of FF5, anyone know how to go about doing this?

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???

Kanos posted:

It should be on the Valigarmanda nightmare banner, which incidentally is shaping up to be an absolutely insane mage banner if it is curated to SSB+ like recent nightmare banners have been.

Well gently caress me, it was nice knowing you, spare mythril.

ApplesandOranges
Jun 22, 2012

Thankee kindly.

Adel posted:

Well gently caress me, it was nice knowing you, spare mythril.

Note that if you're hunting for Dusk's Decree specifically, Vayne 2 has a higher chance of getting it. But the Summoner banner has a better pool if you want to build around a mage team.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
Alright, I'm gonna lay out what gear I have, and I guess maybe help me see what holes need to be plugged up, or which characters I need to be using?


III
Lust Dagger (8 Ranged wind to one/target and raise partys Defense a moderate amount)

IV
Dream Harp (Haste to all allies and raise Mind a moderate amount)

V
Excalibur ( 5 attacks/raise defense)
Thors hammer ( 1 attack 1 target/ raise partys attack.) Adds small boost to Lit damage
Mace of Zeus (Restore large amount of HP to all/ Temp raise Res a moderate amount)
Artemis Bow (also Aevis Killer and Yoichis bow, but I figure Artemis sort of superseded them)


VI
Theifs Knife (5 attacks/all. Lower fire res./ Haste/burst)
Partisan (Psn to all, with mod chance to Psn)


VII
Zack's Gloves
Atomic Scissors

VIII
Cresent Wish
Red Scorpion/Beast Killer
Valkyrie/Rising Sun/Shooting Star
Vega


IX
Orichalcum/ The ogre
Save the Queen
Partison
Asura's Rod
Fairy Flute


X
Braska's staff

XII
Killer Bow

XIII
Overture
Glaive
Rhomphaia
Peacemaker



ARMOR:

V
Bartz Cloak

VI
Cat Ear Hood


VIII
Party Dress
Sorceress Gown


IX
Golden Hairpin


XIV
Temple Gloves

FFT
Grand Armor



I skipped over several obviously out of date items. I noticed that I have several wind items. I pulled on the Lucky pull and got 6 *s, then pulled on the current banner and just got Butz cape.

My team lately has been:
Selfie
Quistis
Rinona
Faris
And either Laguna or Edea, depending on the fight.


Edit: ....gently caress, Orbfest. Now, I regret pulling on that.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


RK has been running like hot garbage for the last half hour for some reason

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
I was just coming in here to complain about that. Like in the past 5 minutes, just started locking up with a black or white screen.

UHD
Nov 11, 2006


Nihilarian posted:

RK has been running like hot garbage for the last half hour for some reason

orbfest rush

must get all the orbs gogogogogogog-*server dies*

Koobes
Nov 6, 2012

Nihilarian posted:

RK has been running like hot garbage for the last half hour for some reason

Orbfest stressing their servers for some reason.

Geocities Homepage King
Nov 26, 2007

I have good news, and I have bad news.
Which do you want to hear first...?

Nihilarian posted:

RK has been running like hot garbage for the last half hour for some reason

:same:

I assumed it was just me since no one else had commented.

Subvisual Haze
Nov 22, 2003

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault.

Nihilarian posted:

RK has been running like hot garbage for the last half hour for some reason

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Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
I was stuck on a blank screen with a loading circle and an upside down android robot in the upper left corner.

Well I spent 100 stamina so I'm not too worried at the moment. Still haven't gotten any chips though.

Combo
Aug 19, 2003



ZarathustraFollower posted:

So I started back at the end of November, and slowly powering up. Looking forward to orbfest, and got enough mythril for 4 rolls coming up (planning on 2 on osb banner 1 and 2 on ff xiv). Managed to get galuf's gauntlet and bartz's cape + excalibur off 1 11 pull too. Got some of the 4* breaks, and life siphon. Its fun seeing a team slowly forming.

If I get on discord sometime, is it possible to get goons to carry my rear end through some of the multi for the rewards?

The first orbfest (around this time or thanksgiving last year I think) is where I really started to get rolling on content. I got some decent items from the draws and a pile of orbs so I could finally make some of the important 4* stuff I needed. Get as much out of it as you can, because you're already better off on items than I was at this time last year.

Friggin Firepants
Jul 11, 2006

My god, these friggin firepants.
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Alxprit
Feb 7, 2015

<click> <click> What is it with this dancing?! Bouncing around like fools... I would have thought my own kind at least would understand the seriousness of our Adventurer's Guild!

Yeah this stuff usually evens itself out with time. I spent a good bit of stamina, so I'm not too worried. Getting lots of Cactuars even in the Heroic dungeon so far though, I wonder how the EXP will be in total?

I also did manage to do one 10-set of Roulette rolls and I got mostly orbs and one 4* Mote. C'mon, big money.

Combo
Aug 19, 2003



Twelve by Pies posted:

I was stuck on a blank screen with a loading circle and an upside down android robot in the upper left corner.

Well I spent 100 stamina so I'm not too worried at the moment. Still haven't gotten any chips though.

Yep same for me, its been really spotty and I keep crashing. I'm back in with (so far) no trouble now, doing the 60 stam dungeon.

acumen
Mar 17, 2005
Fun Shoe
2000 chips spent, nothing interesting yet. Gonna be real sore if I don't get that 10 mythril.

Combo
Aug 19, 2003



Apparently I spoke too soon, can't even get in now.

Geocities Homepage King
Nov 26, 2007

I have good news, and I have bad news.
Which do you want to hear first...?

acumen posted:

2000 chips spent, nothing interesting yet. Gonna be real sore if I don't get that 10 mythril.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've been led to believe if you keep farming the orb fest dungeon (and why wouldn't you) you should get enough chips to win everything.

Zone of Danger
Apr 21, 2010

Geocities Homepage King posted:

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've been led to believe if you keep farming the orb fest dungeon (and why wouldn't you) you should get enough chips to win everything.

This was my experience when I played this event in JP. As long as you keep your stamina roughly spent you'll get enough chips.

triplexpac
Mar 24, 2007

Suck it
Two tears in a bucket
And then another thing
I'm not the one they'll try their luck with
Hit hard like brass knuckles
See your face through the turnbuckle dude
I got no love for you

Combo posted:

Apparently I spoke too soon, can't even get in now.

They better bring back apology mythril!!

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???

ApplesandOranges posted:

Note that if you're hunting for Dusk's Decree specifically, Vayne 2 has a higher chance of getting it. But the Summoner banner has a better pool if you want to build around a mage team.

Vayne 2 doesn't thrill me and my 12 synergy is pretty OK so I'd like to avoid pulling on it if I can. At least with the summoner banner I can pick up other cool stuff when I fail to get Dusk's Decree.

Kanos
Sep 6, 2006

was there a time when speedwagon didn't get trolled
The interesting question is if summon nightmare will feature relics for Seymour/Yuna's BSB2 in the pool. We'll likely get it before the next FFX event(which introduces those things), but the translated splash banners have Seymour on them as getting synergy for the nightmare because he was released before the event in JP.

Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism

Kanos posted:

The interesting question is if summon nightmare will feature relics for Seymour/Yuna's BSB2 in the pool. We'll likely get it before the next FFX event(which introduces those things), but the translated splash banners have Seymour on them as getting synergy for the nightmare because he was released before the event in JP.

The dates I've seen have the FFX event for the 19th and the nightmare on the 24th.

Kanos
Sep 6, 2006

was there a time when speedwagon didn't get trolled

Kawalimus posted:

The dates I've seen have the FFX event for the 19th and the nightmare on the 24th.

Really? drat, that's a lot farther away than I expected for the nightmare and there's so many insane banners coming through in the meantime. Stop taking my mithril, game. :smithicide:

Alpine Mustache
Jul 11, 2000

Why am I accumulating chips in the dungeon but when I go to the roulette wheel it says zero?

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Panic! at Nabisco
Jun 6, 2007

it seemed like a good idea at the time

Alpine Mustache posted:

Why am I accumulating chips in the dungeon but when I go to the roulette wheel it says zero?
You only officially get them once the run is finished.

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