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Related question: do you have to entirely finish the event dungeon to keep whatever drops you've gotten or can you retreat after one completed set of battles and keep whatever they shat out?
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Piebald Hell posted:Related question: do you have to entirely finish the event dungeon to keep whatever drops you've gotten or can you retreat after one completed set of battles and keep whatever they shat out? I think in most cases you get the rewards the instant the dungeon is cleared. Chips might be different but I haven't tried to verify.
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Piebald Hell posted:Related question: do you have to entirely finish the event dungeon to keep whatever drops you've gotten or can you retreat after one completed set of battles and keep whatever they shat out? You only need to complete a dungeon to receive the completion bonuses.
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Dec 28, 2016 03:48
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MannersPlease posted:As a very new account do I want to just do all the realm stuff as fast as possible or should I be spamming this golden vault while it's an option? Try doing the Golden Vault stuff as much and for as long as you can stomach it. Normally you have to do daily dungeons to get lots of orb drops or lots of XP and XP dungeons only happen on Sundays. The Golden Vault event combines both. This is the best chance you have at getting a team of five up to a level where they can do stuff as well as get the orbs to outfit them with decently-honed abilities. Unfortunately, though, your 44 Stamina is going to be a problem (unless you wake up every two hours and please don't do that to yourself) and the Golden Vault also happens to run at the same time as the seasonal banners so it's a prime opportunity to spend some Mythril to really get started off right. Would you happen to have all of your Mythril still with you? What banners have you tried pulling from and what 5* items did you get?
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Roulette tally: Lucky Dice, MC3 Lode, MC2 Lode, Gold Sword, Conductor's Tuxedo, Rosetta Stone All Major Dark Orbs and Souls of a Hero 1 away from completing Major White, Non-Elemental, Earth, and MC1 Lodes Doing pretty well. I just got the two 5* equipments just now, so I'm gonna do upgrades and junk. Pretty well on track to completing the roulette before things are gone.
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Yeah I don't know exactly where I'm at as far as how many chips I've had but I feel like I'm roughly halfway there. No lucky dice yet but MC3, MC2, Gold Sword, Tuxedo, 8/10 mythril, and some other goodies.
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:Try doing the Golden Vault stuff as much and for as long as you can stomach it. Normally you have to do daily dungeons to get lots of orb drops or lots of XP and XP dungeons only happen on Sundays. The Golden Vault event combines both. This is the best chance you have at getting a team of five up to a level where they can do stuff as well as get the orbs to outfit them with decently-honed abilities. Unfortunately, though, your 44 Stamina is going to be a problem (unless you wake up every two hours and please don't do that to yourself) and the Golden Vault also happens to run at the same time as the seasonal banners so it's a prime opportunity to spend some Mythril to really get started off right. Would you happen to have all of your Mythril still with you? What banners have you tried pulling from and what 5* items did you get? I dropped 30bux into today after I figured I would be sticking with it for a while. I did each of the "first rare draw" deals on each banner with that as well as the "half off" banner. 1.3k coins remain and I figure I'll just use that on the cheap 1-time as new banners come around. I used my 50 mythril on an 11 pull on the terra banner? Or maybe I drew twice? Or maybe a 50 and a 15? I honestly only remember doing one 50 mithril and then all the single pulls with coins, but not sure if my results line up with that at all. I didn't know/dont remember what I did the first day, It's been a couple days and I'm just starting to figure out what is what to the point I even understand your questions :P I have 25 mithril currently, and apparently only have 39 stamina. So I guess that's maybe a day of normal dungeons to get to 45 instead of just a few? Still close enough though. Would assume 50 mithril by the time I hit that 45 cutoff for hard vaults. 5 Star weapons are: Zantetsuken (vi), Gold Sword (vii), x2 Thyrus (xiv), x2 healing staff (ii). some more assorted 3 and 4 star weapons 5 star armors are: Golden Hairping (ix), Keepsake Ribbon (vii), Tiara (vi), x2 tin armor (ix). 5 star access: Locke Bandana, Cloud Goggles Currently using Gilgamesh, Leo, Cloud, Terra, cat lady with the staff. crafted retaliate and an extra double hit. still have plenty of XP eggs, a few character unlocks, etc. The game threw a bunch of stuff at me right when I started. MannersPlease fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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1/11 Thyrus. Eh. Needed wall but that's kinda sad. Let's try again. 1/11. Thyrus. Game is loving hard.
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MannersPlease posted:I dropped 30bux into today after I figured I would be sticking with it for a while. I did each of the "first rare draw" deals on each banner with that as well as the "half off" banner. 1.3k coins remain and I figure I'll just use that on the cheap 1-time as new banners come around. As other goons have said, Orbfest is a rare, incredibly helpful opportunity. Skills and their hones matter just as much as equipment if not moreso after a certain point, so by drowning yourself in 3*/4* orbs, you'll get a solid hand up to making the abilities you need once you can't just autobattle through every stage. You need more stamina, to be sure, but the orbs are more important as long as you keep running it and don't let the stamina that refills go to waste. You'll probably lose out on a solid bit at night (please don't forsake sleep for a mobile phone game) but the levels, gil, and orbs you get from running these dungeons are far more important than stamina in the long run, and a lot harder to get outside of events like this. That said, I'd suggest using one of your Hero Souls (either one you have or one you get in the roulette) to grab Steiner; Magic Sword Firaga plays amazingingly well with Terra's Fire Beam and can let Rusty replace Cloud in your team until you get a solid grasp on where you want to go with skills and teambuilding. I'd recommend combining the Healing Staffs and Thyruses - you rarely need more than one White Mage in a dungeon and Terra can't use staffs - but that's personal opinion. Definitely keep the Tin Armors separate; two pieces of synergy armor, even heavy armor, is always better than one. KataraniSword fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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IllegallySober posted:Did the math and I need 22 more Gold Knight waves to max out the roulette wheel. I feel a little better about that now since we still have a week left in the event. I decided to check and see how many I need. At 2600 chips per wave, I need 24 more waves to get everything, assuming I did the math right (multiplied items remaining by 100, then divided by 2600). I'm still pretty nervous about being able to get the chips I need, especially considering that I haven't seen any gold knights today.
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I've gotten about 70k chips so far. Phase 2 has been good to me.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I decided to check and see how many I need. At 2600 chips per wave, I need 24 more waves to get everything, assuming I did the math right (multiplied items remaining by 100, then divided by 2600). I'm still pretty nervous about being able to get the chips I need, especially considering that I haven't seen any gold knights today. Keep in mind we're only on phase 2 still, there's 3 more to go.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I decided to check and see how many I need. At 2600 chips per wave, I need 24 more waves to get everything, assuming I did the math right (multiplied items remaining by 100, then divided by 2600). I'm still pretty nervous about being able to get the chips I need, especially considering that I haven't seen any gold knights today. I've got some bad news. They only drop 2400 per wave. Edit: Combo posted:Keep in mind we're only on phase 2 still, there's 3 more to go. Also, there are only 4 phases. Four orb phases, and the materials "phase" runs concurrently with all the rest. So we're really at 3/5, or 2/4, depending on how you look at it.
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Combo posted:Keep in mind we're only on phase 2 still, there's 3 more to go. Two more. That said, check in on where you stand near the end of phase three. If you're still well behind on roulette chips, celebrate and start spending mythril on this orbfest, because you're the magical unicorn for whom this orbfest is a good use of refreshes and P3 is a good time to do those. (Yes, I know we all need dark orbs, but given that white and fire are duds, P2 is basically only as good as Fridaily with a much higher XP return) Chevy Slyme fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Schwartzcough posted:
Ah yeah I'm thinking of banners. Even still, he's probably doing ok.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Two more. It's fire and dark. 
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ETB posted:It's fire and dark. Dunno why I typed holy. Holy isn't a dud. Fire absolutely is though.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Dunno why I typed holy. Holy isn't a dud. Fire absolutely is though. I'd still strongly disagree, given that Fire Orbs are required for Fires Within, Meteor Crush, and other fun new skills.
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I couldn't keep it in my pants and did a pull on Overstrike1 despite all the dupes. 2/11, Tin Armor (dupe) and Minwu's SSB. While an instant medica is not bad, I'm still mad at myself. I wish Minfilia 1 would just hurry up so I can get it over with.
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ETB posted:I'd still strongly disagree, given that Fire Orbs are required for Fires Within, Meteor Crush, and other fun new skills. yeah i'm looking at a deficit of fire orbs, especially since they're used for twin firestrike, thunderstrike, and the 5* ninja fire scroll. holy otoh i've got more than i know what to do with still what i could really use is more wind and dark orbs. stupid thief skills.
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Yeah, I've got so many extra holy I'm thinking I'll just take Saint Cross to R4.
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Schwartzcough posted:Yeah, I've got so many extra holy I'm thinking I'll just take Saint Cross to R4. Depends if you wouldn't rather just have a second SC copy instead. R4 Saint Cross is mostly only if you're using a Paladin that's also covering a buff, like Beatrix or Agrias.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Depends if you wouldn't rather just have a second SC copy instead. R4 Saint Cross is mostly only if you're using a Paladin that's also covering a buff, like Beatrix or Agrias. That's exactly why I want it, yeah. It comes up somewhat frequently (although less so now that I have Beatrix's BSB).
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Thing with Fire orbs is that they used to be a dud. Which in turn warps how older players see things. Not only there weren't any good uses for them, when the good Fire-skills arrived, veterans already had piles of fire orbs in storage. Now we have things like Dragoon Jump, Meteor Crush, Fires Within, Chain Firaga, Bio Grenade. And then in the future will have the Chain Fira Strike, Chain Thundara Strike, Chain Waterga, the new ninja ability, etc etc. I am going to be bottlenecked by Fire very soon.
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Combo posted:If it were me: Thanks! I'll level up Beatrix and try out your suggestions.
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KPC_Mammon posted:Thanks! I'll level up Beatrix and try out your suggestions. No problem! No doubt someone else can come up with something better but I think that's what I'd do anyway. Then again I love physical teams and you have some stuff to take advantage of it.
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Attestant posted:Thing with Fire orbs is that they used to be a dud. Which in turn warps how older players see things. Not only there weren't any good uses for them, when the good Fire-skills arrived, veterans already had piles of fire orbs in storage. I have 139 major fires stockpiled without even touching my thousands of 3 and 4 star orbs, and have already honed Dragoon Jump and Chain Firaga to R3, Bio Grenade and Meteor Crush to R2. Fire is definitely still a dud for me.
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Attestant posted:Thing with Fire orbs is that they used to be a dud. Which in turn warps how older players see things. Not only there weren't any good uses for them, when the good Fire-skills arrived, veterans already had piles of fire orbs in storage. Major Earth Orbs are the same way - also for Meteor Crush/Fires Within/Bio Grenade, but also for Saint/Gaia Cross, Chain Stonega, Chain Biora... Meanwhile, Major Holy Orbs are only important for Alexander, Saint Cross and Multi Break, unless you really want Sapphire Shot honed up. Ultra Cure can't come fast enough to eat up these White and Holy orbs.
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Meh. Why are there so few AoE skills? Is there even a non-5* BSB insta heal? :T
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Piebald Hell posted:Meh. Why are there so few AoE skills? Is there even a non-5* BSB insta heal? :T AoE is very powerful, so most AoE skills are 4* or above. Though for lower skill tiers, you do have the 3* elemental summons, and 3* ninja magic. Instant abilities are almost exclusively soul break related, except for one notable exception (Powerchain). Again, due to it being a super powerful effect. (edit) Ditto on AoE heals. That is almost entirely soul break exclusive, with the small exception of party-wide Regeneration buffs. Attestant fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Can you get a Record Materia after any round in a stage or only in the last one? I've only gotten a single random one and it was Refia's in the last round of the last stage of one of those orbfest dungeons. Or in other words, what's the best way to grind those stupid things?
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AnotherGamer posted:Can you get a Record Materia after any round in a stage or only in the last one? I've only gotten a single random one and it was Refia's in the last round of the last stage of one of those orbfest dungeons. You need to complete the stage, but not the entire dungeon. Generally, the best way is to repeat something like a 2-stamina dungeon stage over and over, preferably with multiple characters that you want RM drops for. But currently you just wanna run Orbfest normally, of course.
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You can get them after any round in a stage, potentially for multiple characters at once, so long as you're fulfilling the relevant conditions. So the ideal way to grind for them is to go to one of the very early dungeons at 2 stamina per 3 rounds with as many characters as you can fit who need some RM ground up. That said, if you're already doing something else like story dungeons/event dungeons/orbfest grinding it doesn't hurt to pack the group with such characters if you can get away with it.
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NGDBSS posted:You can get them after any round in a stage, potentially for multiple characters at once, so long as you're fulfilling the relevant conditions. So the ideal way to grind for them is to go to one of the very early dungeons at 2 stamina per 3 rounds with as many characters as you can fit who need some RM ground up. That said, if you're already doing something else like story dungeons/event dungeons/orbfest grinding it doesn't hurt to pack the group with such characters if you can get away with it. Just to clarify though, you can't infinitely S/L a single round in hopes it would drop the RM from one of the monsters. You need actually complete that round of the stage, and then the entire stage, to actually get the RM (or any other loot, for that matter.) So effectively rounds do not matter (even if you can get them in any of the three.)
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Attestant posted:Just to clarify though, you can't infinitely S/L a single round in hopes it would drop the RM from one of the monsters. You need actually complete that round of the stage, and then the entire stage, to actually get the RM (or any other loot, for that matter.)
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Attestant posted:AoE is very powerful, so most AoE skills are 4* or above. Though for lower skill tiers, you do have the 3* elemental summons, and 3* ninja magic.
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4 11-pulls because Christmas presents and boredom combined result in suboptimal behavior. Final tally: 3x Tiara (combined and reforged into a superhat; 43 MAG before RS sounds like the best idea ever, right?) 1x Platinum Sword (combined with my original Platinum Sword) 2x Thyrus (combined with my original Thyrus then reforged; I now have a new generic superstrong mind stick) 1x Shura Glove (I heard good things about Refia BSB but I'm not certain whether or not it's worth giving up PCecil BSB) Not that great of a haul, especially given how I had Vivi's BSB already so he does the whole "EnFire mage" thing better than Terra. This is I suppose karma catching up to me for my 5/11 BSB-only Lucky Draw pull and then a 3/11 on the Buff-only Lucky Draw that was also all BSBs. Anyways, Valigamaria died a fiery death at the hands of Exdeath, who set up Grand Cross and then just kept spamming 9999x3 Meltdowns while the rest of the party sat around and did basically nothing. Exdeath continues to not disappoint.
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Nihilarian posted:Powerchain isn't instant, although it's as quick as most Celerity skills. Quick Hit and Stitch in Time are both instant, though. It makes other things instant, but yeah, I didn't explain that clearly. Also forgot about those other two entirely. I actually thought that Quick Hit was just... Very quick.
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the Orb of Zot posted:1x Shura Glove (I heard good things about Refia BSB but I'm not certain whether or not it's worth giving up PCecil BSB) Just going to quote  that I posted on the reddit recentlyquote:
Personally if you have an Excalibur rosetta'd to +20 and platinum shield Cecil is still great and perfectly usable for doing 9999 x2 every turn. It's final fantasy, most of the bad guys are holy weak. Refia has the benefit of choosing to go ranged, fires within generally heals for 2k per use, and she can self-boost. Her BSB entry and command 1 have far more potential for single target damage. Beasteh fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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