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rabidsquid
Oct 11, 2004

LOVES THE KOG


Yeah holy poo poo that's a stacked set of TMs

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Vax
Dec 29, 2011

delicious!
Captains TM Logbook Stardate 382.73192.3

☑ +30% MAG
☑ DualWield
☑ DualCast
☑ DualWield
☑ Excalibur
☑ Excalibur
☑ DualCast
☑ DualWield
☑ Omnirod
☑ PowerOfCreation
☑ DualWield
☑ Omnirod
☑ Omnirod
☑ Sakurafubuki
☑ BladeMastery

Currently farming:

☐ +30% MAG ~20%
☐ +30% MAG ~10%
☐ BlackCowl ~90%
☐ ChampsBelt ~5%
☐ ChampsBelt ~5%

Would probably make sense to slot in KaiserKnuckles when BlackCowl is finished right?

Vax fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Jan 5, 2017

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied

Scrublord Prime posted:

Nah, focus on your murdersquad first. Locke isn't gonna clear content, he'll just help when farming drops (aka 90% of that is just the Vortex of Awakening). Leave leveling him for a rainy day or something. Get your best characters up so you can clear content, advance the story, and be able to do stuff that improves your team like events or trials.

e: Also there's no cap for sacred crystals. The RNG is just a colossal rear end in a top hat with them nowadays. Awakening INT sounds like the most efficient way to get them, although I have abhorrent luck and stick to PRO.

Here is my dilemma: I need another 30+ or so sacred crystals to get my murder squad up to par. I have been stuck at Veritas of the Heavens pop-up, no-companion fight in Ambel for two weeks. I fought him again earlier this week and saw some improvement from when I had a worse off squad. Before it was a 1/10 of his health, now it is 1/3 of his health. Luckily Vaan can now have Full Break down the line, but after that I still feel kind of hosed and wonder if I just need more heavy damage instead of trying to do it with a balanced party.

I just got Exdeath, Charlotte and Vaan to 5* (now levels 50, 1 and 1 respectively), but need my Lenna (4* 57), and CoD (4* max) up to par. I could probably prepare 2 or 3 more units to swap in to try to fit in niche spots. I figured I have waited this long that, if I paused and popped in Locke I can make this a very small percentage more tolerable. I mean I did get 12+ or so today JUST doing INT. I know his drop rate increase isn't something I should be dropping my hopes into, but it's just a thought.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Your best bet for sacred farming was the Maze and now thats gone till a few months.

Hayate has become my new bedile right now. Sure his tm is great, but Im at the point that I can field and entire team of him to farm his.

Trilin
Dec 15, 2009

Ah! There he is!

hagie posted:

Here is my dilemma: I need another 30+ or so sacred crystals to get my murder squad up to par. I have been stuck at Veritas of the Heavens pop-up, no-companion fight in Ambel for two weeks. I fought him again earlier this week and saw some improvement from when I had a worse off squad. Before it was a 1/10 of his health, now it is 1/3 of his health. Luckily Vaan can now have Full Break down the line, but after that I still feel kind of hosed and wonder if I just need more heavy damage instead of trying to do it with a balanced party.

I just got Exdeath, Charlotte and Vaan to 5* (now levels 50, 1 and 1 respectively), but need my Lenna (4* 57), and CoD (4* max) up to par. I could probably prepare 2 or 3 more units to swap in to try to fit in niche spots. I figured I have waited this long that, if I paused and popped in Locke I can make this a very small percentage more tolerable. I mean I did get 12+ or so today JUST doing INT. I know his drop rate increase isn't something I should be dropping my hopes into, but it's just a thought.

What's the dilemma exactly?
Locke brings nothing and is basically a waste of resources.
You need levels, badly, and that's most likely your biggest issue.
Full Break ruins the guy, so get that and things should be a great deal easier.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


1/2 pull was Locke #6...

So we have a new daily quest to clear the "Memories of the Aquapolis" event at least once...

:gumi:

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
I guess I was hoping to eek out a few more crystals with his Treasure Hunter.

Ghosts n Gopniks
Nov 2, 2004

Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.
Gave up, downloaded Nox, Earth Shrine entry macro running, already feeling less gimped. (only one crash in 60 minutes, too) (four and a half days with refreshes constantly running and that's a team of TM from 0%-100% going by my calculations.)

What's the best character I can give the ELT players for when the event goes up? Utilitarian though Holy damge-less Noctis or ExDeath with whatever's best against Dark Fina ELT damage and debuffs? Could boost up a CoD but poo poo for gear and TMs. Can bring a beefed up Vaan for break+focus, can throw a WoL in. Hm.

Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jan 5, 2017

hey girl you up
May 21, 2001

Forum Nice Guy
You need levels now, not crystals. Lenna is fine for now with cura. If you're close to awakening CoD then do it, but she'll be more useful at 4* level 60 than low level 5*.

Get Charlotte and Vaan up to level 80 for Shellga and Full Break and it'll be a much different fight. If you haven't already, go to Lanzelt Ruins Exploration, open the silver chest, and craft a baraerora to increase your party's wind resist. He'll have ~50% less magic attack, and your party will have 40% more magic defense plus 50% elemental resist.

That'll bring a 1000-damage aero attack down to 175 damage.

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
I'm going to work up CoD now, and just level the group together over the weekend.

Ghosts n Gopniks
Nov 2, 2004

Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.
From the corner of my eye I see the title screen back on Nox, so I pause the macro and log in again and

Servaetes
Sep 10, 2003

False enemy or true friend?
I still don't know what an Arianna Grande is

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Servaetes posted:

I still don't know what an Arianna Grande is

Your new waifu.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Somewhere between an Ariana Tall and Ariana Venti, I expect.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

*ribbit*

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Somewhere between an Ariana Tall and Ariana Venti, I expect.

:yeah:

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
I went from "eh, whatever" to "ARIANA GRANDE HYPE!" after seeing reactions both here and on Reddit. Praise our BDSM Bunny Popstar now and forever.

Ghosts n Gopniks
Nov 2, 2004

Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.
I've got four Sazh, how many 20 sided die should I get?

Acelerion
May 3, 2005

I've already got massive Orlando sized blue balls from all these tickets. If I have to wait another week for bunny waifu to run its course then i...well...

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
Better Fran even has her own remixed theme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoubpSwlEk

(missed opportunity to add Florence + The Machine to the banner so we could have that Stand by Me cover in-game)

Servaetes
Sep 10, 2003

False enemy or true friend?
Man, I hope this pays off for the folks that make this game. Seems like an insanely big gamble for a little game to put so many eggs in the whatever tier celebrity this chick is. They seemed to put a lotta effort into this.

Google says she hangs onto Nicki Minaj, who I also barely know but she hung on Kanye, who hung off of Jay Z, etc, so I hope this doesn't end up totally pear shaped. I think it's really dumb because I don't think the idol poo poo in Japan carries over to the US but I ain't gonna stop playing over it

PaybackJack
May 21, 2003

You'll hit your head and say: 'Boy, how stupid could I have been. A moron could've figured this out. I must be a real dimwit. A pathetic nimnal. A wretched idiotic excuse for a human being for not having figured these simple puzzles out in the first place...As usual, you've been a real pantload!

Dias posted:

Better Fran even has her own remixed theme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoubpSwlEk

(missed opportunity to add Florence + The Machine to the banner so we could have that Stand by Me cover in-game)

Nothing says celebrity cash in like a generic twitter endorsement and not even doing an interview discussing your character.

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
She hit #1 and #2 on Billboard Hot 100 multiple times, both in US and Japan. I guess that plus her fitting the idol look and being interested in Japanese stuff is why they're working together.

Palleon
Aug 11, 2003

I've got a hot deal on a bridge to the Pegasus Galaxy!
Grimey Drawer

MrLonghair posted:

I've got four Sazh, how many 20 sided die should I get?

Zero

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Sell your sazhs into indentured service

Also I dont think ariana is going to be gacha anymore. She'll probably be an event character, hell if she's a good support/healer unit and a new player can risemara him/herself into an orlandu they'll have most bases covered

Servaetes
Sep 10, 2003

False enemy or true friend?

Dias posted:

She hit #1 and #2 on Billboard Hot 100 multiple times, both in US and Japan. I guess that plus her fitting the idol look and being interested in Japanese stuff is why they're working together.

Well perception of good music loving sucks and has for a while then holy hell

Shark Tower
Dec 31, 2008

MrLonghair posted:

I've got four Sazh, how many 20 sided die should I get?

chiz, noct and lightning can stack the evade with their own. Crit boost's also apparently better than atk+ at some really high base atk, but I forget where I saw the math for it (somewhere on reddit)

Dies don't stack with other dies though fyi.

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo

Servaetes posted:

Well perception of good music loving sucks and has for a while then holy hell

Pop music is mostly trash and has always been. The music you like is also garbage. That's just how these things work.

Servaetes
Sep 10, 2003

False enemy or true friend?

Dias posted:

Pop music is mostly trash and has always been. The music you like is also garbage. That's just how these things work.

Incorrect. The music I listen to is cool and handsome and very sexy.

rabidsquid
Oct 11, 2004

LOVES THE KOG


i've been listening to a lot of Grouper and cLOUDDEAD lately, which means im a piece of poo poo most likely

edit: oh and Boards of Canada and Three Trapped Tigers :unsmigghh:

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo

rabidsquid posted:

i've been listening to a lot of Grouper and cLOUDDEAD lately, which means im a piece of poo poo most likely

edit: oh and Boards of Canada and Three Trapped Tigers :unsmigghh:

Okay, but what music have you been listening to?

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Dias posted:

Better Fran even has her own remixed theme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoubpSwlEk

(missed opportunity to add Florence + The Machine to the banner so we could have that Stand by Me cover in-game)

For bonus entertainment, read the comments where dorks are bitching about their fantasy immersion.

Garth_Marenghi
Nov 7, 2011

Cartoon Man posted:

For bonus entertainment, read the comments where dorks are bitching about their fantasy immersion.

Just a FYI
If you make fun of somebody posting an Ex-Death team and you will soon have enough Ex-Death to make your own.

interrodactyl
Nov 8, 2011

you have no dignity
Any idea when the orlandu banner is? That's the only thing that would convince me to pick this up again since I've got 30k lapis and 70 tickets stocked up

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


interrodactyl posted:

Any idea when the orlandu banner is? That's the only thing that would convince me to pick this up again since I've got 30k lapis and 70 tickets stocked up

It's supposedly after the Dark Fina banner, but it may be Bunny Burrito Grande instead. Of course :Gumi: doesn't have to follow the Japanese release schedule exactly, so who knows.

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby

MrLonghair posted:

Gave up, downloaded Nox, Earth Shrine entry macro running, already feeling less gimped. (only one crash in 60 minutes, too) (four and a half days with refreshes constantly running and that's a team of TM from 0%-100% going by my calculations.)

What's the best character I can give the ELT players for when the event goes up? Utilitarian though Holy damge-less Noctis or ExDeath with whatever's best against Dark Fina ELT damage and debuffs? Could boost up a CoD but poo poo for gear and TMs. Can bring a beefed up Vaan for break+focus, can throw a WoL in. Hm.

Were you on Memu before? I started trying this out yesterday and it's been crashing after a few minutes at most, but my laptop is fairly out-of-date. If Memu -> Nox helped you out then I'll give it a shot too.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Dias posted:

Better Fran even has her own remixed theme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoubpSwlEk

(missed opportunity to add Florence + The Machine to the banner so we could have that Stand by Me cover in-game)

If that video's audio track is the actual song, I approve.

Dias posted:

She hit #1 and #2 on Billboard Hot 100 multiple times, both in US and Japan. I guess that plus her fitting the idol look and being interested in Japanese stuff is why they're working together.

That means nothing about musical merit, though, only who had a better marketing campaign.

Servaetes posted:

Well perception of good music loving sucks and has for a while then holy hell

Out of touch? Us?

No. It's the children who are wrong.

But for real though, no joke, kids will buy what they're told to buy. Or stream. Or Snapchat or whatever.

Nothing against her personally, and I'm not gonna insult her as a person. This should go without saying.

Servaetes posted:

Incorrect. The music I listen to is cool and handsome and very sexy.

The music I listen to is an acquired taste and not for babby. Honestly, if one has been pushing back against what's popular one's entire life one probably has good taste, no matter the preferred genre.

Got another Locke today. Garland is the only 3* base I don't have at this point... I may ramp down on pulls if the game doesn't give me a natty 5* soon.

I hope Arianna's unit is good. Very few things would bum me out more than if I was put into a video game and I was a terrible character to use.

Ghosts n Gopniks
Nov 2, 2004

Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.

kalensc posted:

Were you on Memu before? I started trying this out yesterday and it's been crashing after a few minutes at most, but my laptop is fairly out-of-date. If Memu -> Nox helped you out then I'll give it a shot too.

I was nowhere, simply resisting the incredibly smooth and easy process it was to begin macroing :unsmith: Nox still, after all these hours, only a single crash, and that was of FFBE itself. I might be lucky, and my PC was built using meh parts in 2012.

e: average lap is 38-39 seconds, fastest attackers in slot 1 and 3

Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jan 5, 2017

AegisP
Oct 5, 2008

Cartoon Man posted:

It's supposedly after the Dark Fina banner, but it may be Bunny Burrito Grande instead. Of course :Gumi: doesn't have to follow the Japanese release schedule exactly, so who knows.

Also, it's after the Dark Fina banner assuming they don't catch up and give us the completely skipped Type-0 banners.

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

If that video's audio track is the actual song, I approve.

That means nothing about musical merit, though, only who had a better marketing campaign.

The music I listen to is an acquired taste and not for babby. Honestly, if one has been pushing back against what's popular one's entire life one probably has good taste, no matter the preferred genre.

Yeah, it's a remix of one of her songs. Sounds pretty good, to be honest.

Eh, it's not really about that, I'm just saying why they'd pick her for a collab. She's pretty popular in both big markets for FFBE, I feel.

Also what you said is one of my pet peeves as someone that had his hipster phase and now doesn't care that much. Listen to what you like, don't feel superior because you're a grindcore or noise or avantgard classical music fan because that's dumb. Plus most of the time these statements come from people that listen to masturbatory prog metal, the daddiest of all genres. But that's neither here nor there.

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Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


No Music Discussion in the Final Fantasy Brave Exvius thread. What's next, Don't Post Porn here?

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