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For those still having problems with the U, a little elaboration on its mechanics; The final enemy spams 100% chance counters of that paralysis move past half life. Summons ignore all counters. Alphinaud Burst is Sum-classed and will punch through this bullshit and hits weakness on the first two bosses. Take Aerial Burst.
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CaptainPsyko posted:FYI, for those working on the Torment dungeon: I've just set up Tidus as my RW with his BSB at 9qBd. Somewhere around 700 attack with +40% water damage with synergy. (I could also put up the OSB instead if people would prefer that? I suspect BSB pulls ahead if you can put some basically competent attackers in to spam command 1 with enwater for a few rounds.) The BSB is good for sustained DPS, but the OSB may be the better choice for helping burn through the last 10~15% of its HP quickly when you're getting wrecked by the weak phase and barely hanging on.
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Subvisual Haze posted:Zidane is best taken slow. Have someone with draw fire or knights cross to keep the debuffs off everyone else. Haste to cancel his slow, dispel to cancel his buffs, protectga, power breakdown and full break neuter him even without a wall. Even better, you'll enter the bad half of the fight with limit breaks ready to go because you've been inching his health along. Yeah, there are two options for Zidane. Either take it slowly and cautiously as you describe, or bring Affliction Break, Slow resistance (there isn't much of it yet), and a Draw Fire punching bag and try to obliterate him before he can Slow your primary DPS. He's made of wet tissue paper so there's not much middle ground. And yes, Zidane is easily one of the most annoying/frustrating bosses in the history of the game.
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Congrats to Alphinaud for doing approximately 500k of the 250's massive HP pool in my wacky ultra-defensive strat for mastery. 
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Zurai posted:Yeah, there are two options for Zidane. Either take it slowly and cautiously as you describe, or bring Affliction Break, Slow resistance (there isn't much of it yet), and a Draw Fire punching bag and try to obliterate him before he can Slow your primary DPS. He's made of wet tissue paper so there's not much middle ground. Draw Fire is borderline worthless for Zidane because it doesn't work on steal/mug and his other non-AOE attacks are negligible, assuming he uses them instead of mug/steal or a gently caress you AOE in the first place. e: Love wiping with the fight almost won because this game has garbage UI. Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:Draw Fire is borderline worthless for Zidane because it doesn't work on steal/mug and his other non-AOE attacks are negligible, assuming he uses them instead of mug/steal or a gently caress you AOE in the first place. The point of Draw Fire is that nobody else in the party - most notably, your healer - will ever get stunned while it's up.
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kalensc posted:I'm assuming you did this but just forgot to write it, but for anyone unfamiliar with CR BSB Command 2 has a Mag+ Res- buff. Nah, my numbers were from just going directly into spamming command 1, without using command 2. The comment I was responding to was answering the question of "should I use command 2, then spam command 1, or what" and the poster replied "just use command 1 because you'll do 9999x4", which doesn't seem right. I had a level 79 Kuja with his glove and his SSB rod, open with Endark (but not using Memento Mori), and he wasn't hitting 9999x4 on Steiner; just about 8500, like I said. So maybe Memento Mori is more helpful than Endark somehow, or CaptainPsyko and Zurai DID use command 2 before spamming command 1, or something.
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SageAcrin posted:For those still having problems with the U, a little elaboration on its mechanics; I took the RW for a ride but with my Most Valuable Skill being Garnet's Native Burst, which I brought because its 1st Command is a preview of Ultra Cure but ended up letting her being the heaviest hitter on that stupid weak phase, I only used it to let her shoot down Abbadon in two Turns. (8k Entry + 40k Command 1 spam + 30k support from Spellblade & Ninja Magic) If the rest of the party on that fight were as good as her at non-Ninja Magic, though...
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Evil Fluffy posted:Draw Fire is borderline worthless for Zidane because it doesn't work on steal/mug and his other non-AOE attacks are negligible, assuming he uses them instead of mug/steal or a gently caress you AOE in the first place. Yeah no. His Zurai fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Yeah, I let up on Gaia Cross for a few seconds and BAM 4 of my 5 people were stunned. I did not make that mistake twice
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Heck, let's examine Zidane's AI:TFMurphy on reddit, bold mine posted:Normal Pattern: So in Default phase, 80% of his random attacks are susceptible to Draw Fire, including both his Stun and his Confuse. In Weak phase, 65% of his random attacks are susceptible. In Very Weak, still 30% of his attacks can be Drawn, and it's arguably the most dangerous 30%.
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Jan 18, 2017 01:17
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3/11 Irvine's Exeter, Mustadio's Romandian Pistol, Garnet's Royal Gown More synergy, I guess. Overall my synergy is pretty bad still.
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OSBs are listed as options to drop off the lucky banner fyi, including Zidane's.
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Got Twin Lance(Squall BSB), Sphariai(Yda SSB), and Mace of Zeus(Vivi SSB). Kind of blah, but they're non-dupes at least.
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Just pulled on the Lucky Draw! Zidane's OSB and Selphie's BSB. Well, uhm, this is my third OSB. I'm not too sure what to think about that.
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Freya BSB and Laguna's Imperil Ice SSB . First BSB for IX and first Ice SB. My RW has almost always been dual breaks for stacking, so Freya's BSB will be a nice addition. I got ATK/DEF (Freya), ATK/MAG (Fang, Wol, Fran, Agrias), ATK/RES (Leila) and MAG/RES (Palom).
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Jan 18, 2017 02:10
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Squall's Cutting Trigger and Ovelia's Healing Staff. I feel kind of gypped right now.
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 Welp. I had her Holy Shield so I guess Minfillia Waifu Complete now. Also I didn't have a relic for Amarant so that's nice, even if he's not the best character ever. I'm happy with this. EDIT: Oh hell yeah and it's my first +Holy sword, finally! YoshiOfYellow fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Lucky draw is lucky.  I now have enough fire bursts and fire perils that I can make a themed team (I also have Locke's and Krile's fire bursts, plus a L99 Terra with fire beam and blood of espers. And another MinFin break. She may supplant Cecil in some groups.
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acumen posted:
Cosmic Afro posted:Just pulled on the Lucky Draw! I AM SO GOD drat JEALOUS My lucky pull was 1/11, Laguna's first SSB. Now I have all three of Laguna's SSBs. I guess you could call me the man with the machine gun.
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2/11, a dupe omnirod and Kuja's punisher staff. I now have Kuja's gloves and staff but am still not super inclined to use her (him?).
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Combo posted:2/11, a dupe omnirod and Kuja's punisher staff. I now have Kuja's gloves and staff but am still not super inclined to use her (him?). he's a he
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2/11, Squall's BSB and Steiner's Sword Art Climhazzard. If there were two realms I didn't need more swords in, that would be them.
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Jan 18, 2017 02:13
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Zell's SSB and Vivi's SSB 
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I got Deployment Tactics off of the lucky pull, and then pulled in FF9-2. I already got Tin Armor on a dollar pull, so Steiner BSB would be a nice catch. Guess what I got two dupes of instead? 
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Dupe Almasy Revolver/11  Anyway, despite the description it looks like OSBs are, in fact, included in the Lucky Draw 
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Jan 18, 2017 02:18
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 Locke appreciates the Fire BSBs. That loud thump you heard was Refia shoving Yda out of the way to get her hands on these.
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2/11 Rising Sun and Healer's Circlet. Was kinda bummed about the Rising Sun but now I've got Y'Shtola's BSB and Wall, which means I don't have to choose between her and a healer and can actually bring a native wall along for more fights. Yay! Though of course my other healer is Vanille with her BSB and now I don't know which one is better... Actually now that I think about it I doubt Y'Shtola would ever have time to be on both Wall and healing duty Maybe if I just bring Curaja and Wrath and let other people haul around proshellgas, which is the nice thing about having a bunch of insane knight relics on people with access to White 4.
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Well my global mage team just went from ridiculous to just about unbeatable. 3/11 Royal Dress (nice to have but I'm spoiled for choices on Garnet), Cardinal #3, and Lilith Rod (XIV). Welcome to the A Team, Papalymo. Line up beside Cid Raines and Onion Knight for the party magic buffs and prepare to unleash fiery doom on my enemies.
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A memory crystal... for the WARRIOR??????  Anyway, got a pretty nice lucky draw with 4 rainbows. 2 repeat weapons, the IX Enhancer, and the Tin Armor, so it's Steiner's day today.
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 The Machine Gun and Wizard Rod are dupes, but the BSBs are new. Anyone happen to have Thancred's BSB? It flew under my radar since the first FFXIV banner was so much more hyped, but it sounds like it might work on a mage team since the commands are all Ninja damage.
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Hey, not too shabby. Got a Red Scorpion for Quistis, a Bismarck for Irvine, and my first disco ball, Punishment, for Squall. While I don't really care about VIII, nice to get some synergy and an OSB for 25 mithril.
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Would you guys say that eikos ssb is an upgrade to penelos ssb as a medica? Also is rinoas bsb good
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3/11 Sirius (VIII), Zidane's Vest, Lightbring (IX) Finally I have a knight worth a drat to do holy damage with!
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Lucky Draw was pretty much a complete and utter bust; 1/11, with the 1 being Steiner SSB1. Already have an augumented 5* holy sword (PCecil's Excalibur), the SSB does nothing but damage, I already had a better SSB for Steiner anyways, it's in one of my stronger realms to begin with (9 for me is much better off than 8 or Tactics [which is really just Shout + Tailwind at this point] at any rate, and melee-wise much better than 14), it's on a character I will never use outside of CMs given my much better options (and considering how strong my mage options are, probably not even that), and to rub it all in the SSB is DEF-based and thus insanely hard to get decent damage out of. Literally the only bright spot is the sword is pretty good in terms of stats (128 ATK and +Holy), but even that's kind of soured by the fact we literally just finished a 9 event and won't get another one for a few months. Oh well.
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Now I have Shout. Mythril well spent! Also a whip less useful for Quistis and more for being an 8-synergy weapon Krile can use.
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