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Zurai posted:Chains are amazing and I'm actively hunting for more in Japan. And no, you don't need an entire team dealing the appropriate damage type for it to work amazingly well. Take this as an example; about 2/3 of the chain gauge increase in that video is from a single character (I ended at 77%; there's 11% from the entry, 2% from Tidus's OSBs, and 12% from Rikku's BSB and one command 1, which leaves 52% from Edge).
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Apr 24, 2017 03:01
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Nihilarian posted:is Shantoto's chain any good in relation to other chains? Lightning is one of the easiest elements to build Chain gauge on. So there's that.
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Apr 24, 2017 03:02
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RagnarokAngel posted:Even without dupes i can't imagine looking at that banner and going "Yeah no this looks like a good use of my time/money" Yeah the banner is kind of trash with a horrendous booby prize.
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Apr 24, 2017 03:20
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Oddly enough, I found A++ Mandragoras super easy. Opening turn is a pain, but once mitigation is up summon spam ends the fight insanely fast. Ultros was the opposite. Not very threatening at all, but 1.2m HP is a bitch to cut through.
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Apr 24, 2017 04:13
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 It's not a chain but I heard it has a great animation, and it'll help my lightning team regardless.
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Apr 24, 2017 05:08
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Nihilarian posted:It's not a chain but I heard it has a great animation, and it'll help my lightning team regardless. It is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHtxFmzEt1o
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Apr 24, 2017 05:26
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I wish we got the pixel-like damage numbers like Japan. I don't even know why. I just like them.
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Apr 24, 2017 05:46
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Nice looking at what it does, man, that would have been nice to have against Hein, huh.
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Apr 24, 2017 05:56
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Nihilarian posted:Nice You don't even know, he pretty much gets bodied with Shantotto's BSB. Though Lulu and Matoya have similar BSBs, just with a different primary element.
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Apr 24, 2017 06:02
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Nihilarian posted:Nice I ended up in a group for hein with 3 shantotto bsbs. Yeah it worked out pretty well you could say.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:06
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Is there any way to sort or organize the RM screen? [edit] Nevermind you can favorite some.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:25
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Not really, your best bet is just going by favorites to sort your most used ones, but when doing so it auto-sorts them by series.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:28
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God dammit, had a really good team for Apoc ++ Orthos and then in his last phase it got laggy as poo poo and he did haste + ultimate tentacles + ultimate tentacles + aqua breath all while a medica was queued up and killed everyone. This fight is such a loving slog, ugh
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Apr 24, 2017 09:04
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Disconnected on an Apoc++ Mandragoras the turn before we won 
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Apr 24, 2017 09:46
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Can you cast reflect on Orthos? Wondering if it might be easier to take a physical only team, that counter Haste is brutal.
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Apr 24, 2017 10:13
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Prism posted:I wish we got the pixel-like damage numbers like Japan. The non-pixeled numbers are also a "we don't want global players to see unfamiliar/old stuff in this game based on 16bit nostalgia" thing like how they images from the remakes of the NES/SNES games instead of their original, non-garbage screenshots like Japan had. I think Japan's banners were/are different too. I definitely didn't recall Anorexic Reno being on the relevant FF7 banners there. It was always fun seeing that global actively spent time and resources to diminish the nostalgia factor to use more recent stuff because "people would recognize it" as if that's a good thing for 3-6 and their ugly-as-hell low quality 3D or blandly ugly sprites.
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Apr 24, 2017 10:39
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KPC_Mammon posted:Can you cast reflect on Orthos? Wondering if it might be easier to take a physical only team, that counter Haste is brutal. generally most bosses that have counter buffs on themselves are immune to reflect for this express reason
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Apr 24, 2017 12:08
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So since Ultros has mastery conditions that require you to hit him with a fire and a lightning attack, what happens if you use Shantotto's BSB on him? Would you get both mastery conditions, or would it only count as one of the two elements? If so, which one? And would it trigger his counter that he does when he gets hit with fire?
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Apr 24, 2017 12:45
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Uncle Ulty posted:So since Ultros has mastery conditions that require you to hit him with a fire and a lightning attack, what happens if you use Shantotto's BSB on him? First off it counts for both, and secondly due to her BSB providing Shantotto with En-lightning it should register as lightning over fire.
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Apr 24, 2017 13:21
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Evil Fluffy posted:I think Japan's banners were/are different too. I definitely didn't recall Anorexic Reno being on the relevant FF7 banners there. It was always fun seeing that global actively spent time and resources to diminish the nostalgia factor to use more recent stuff because "people would recognize it" as if that's a good thing for 3-6 and their ugly-as-hell low quality 3D or blandly ugly sprites. Our regular numbered event banners are the same, typically a new character gets center stage. This is the banner you're probably thinking of, but in japanese. Our special/fest event times and banners do get shuffled around slightly, and we miss out on 90%+ of the collab events, but on the whole Global doesnt miss a whole lot over nostalgia reasons (There are a handful of abilities missing, things like bard motes, and Eiko's Record Drive for no real reason in particular; stuff that all came out in skipped events but wouldnt be hard to throw in). Sometimes we even get something first. Theres a couple mediocre/bad examples (Stormlight Grim and one of the Samurai abilities are "Global exclusive") but some things like the 25 myth Lucky Draws were done on Global first, and seem to be sticking around a bit longer than the Japanese versions DU ones (They switched to a Free 1x pull and then multiple regular cost pull system on what would have been this last DUpdate, while we retained the 25-11x draw). Hopefully we keep it, its insanely popular and next month is X/V synergy and I have next to nothing in those realms
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Apr 24, 2017 14:16
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Cador_2004 posted:First off it counts for both, and secondly due to her BSB providing Shantotto with En-lightning it should register as lightning over fire. Oh cool, that makes sense. I completely forgot about the Enlightning, thanks!
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Apr 24, 2017 14:43
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Cador_2004 posted:You don't even know, he pretty much gets bodied with Shantotto's BSB. Though Lulu and Matoya have similar BSBs, just with a different primary element. Lulu lacks Lightning on hers, while the other two commit fully to the Fire/Ice/Lightning trifecta that Hein's wallchange uses, meaning there's one phase she can't just fall back on the BSB for raw weakness damage. Even in the fight where it's at its best, Lulu's BSB is crap.
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Apr 24, 2017 15:57
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Cleared D160 with a team that had a Shantotto Lightning Chain and a Shantotto BSB to go along with my Garnet BSB2. Failed a few times at D220, then ran into them again.  Othros went down after that, his phase 2 was such a slog in previous attempts.I'm debating just not bothering with Mandragoras D220. I mean D200 wasn't even tough, it was just such a slog between five enemies, MP lag, and half the party being comprised of healers and supports. If there were Vitality Motes on the line maybe, but the rewards are just upgrade mats and Dexterity motes. I've been running Sabin + Mog for Esunaga and debuffs, but I might consider dropping Mog for someone like Refia if I was gonna run D220; once you get past the first few turns while you set up mitigation, the incoming damage is pretty low til the last bits.
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Apr 24, 2017 16:30
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Did the CM with my A-Team except I replaced Orlandeau with Shantotto and used OK BSB RW instead of Shout. It was pretty hilarious. Shantotto is amazing at 99 with her final RM.
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Apr 24, 2017 16:34
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KataraniSword posted:Lulu lacks Lightning on hers, while the other two commit fully to the Fire/Ice/Lightning trifecta that Hein's wallchange uses, meaning there's one phase she can't just fall back on the BSB for raw weakness damage. Lulu's BSB is just incredibly terrible. It's also, to the best of my knowledge, the only black magic BSB with attacking commands which can be reflected. Its only redeeming factor is that it's one of two +ice armors in the entire game and it's super valuable just for that but uh, yeah, BSB itself is crap.
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Apr 24, 2017 17:03
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Beat the mandragoras D160 with OK+Y'shtola. Not that the fight is hard but Y solo healing it felt great. Asylum is ridiculous. OK's Fire Veil spam was pretty strong too considering it's a 3* skill
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Apr 24, 2017 18:05
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ApplesandOranges posted:I'm debating just not bothering with Mandragoras D220. I mean D200 wasn't even tough, it was just such a slog between five enemies, MP lag, and half the party being comprised of healers and supports. If there were Vitality Motes on the line maybe, but the rewards are just upgrade mats and Dexterity motes. I've been running Sabin + Mog for Esunaga and debuffs, but I might consider dropping Mog for someone like Refia if I was gonna run D220; once you get past the first few turns while you set up mitigation, the incoming damage is pretty low til the last bits. The 240 isn't really too much worse than the 200, based on the experience I had last night. The only time we were really in any serious danger was right at the beginning, when OK ate about 6000 damage before mitigation and ended up silenced all at once. (Through a Rose Corsage's major resist, I might add.) Past that they don't really take that much longer to melt down if you use AoE DPS. A Raines, Vivi, Desch and summon!Alph did just fine.
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Apr 24, 2017 18:28
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KataraniSword posted:The 240 isn't really too much worse than the 200, based on the experience I had last night. The only time we were really in any serious danger was right at the beginning, when OK ate about 6000 damage before mitigation and ended up silenced all at once. (Through a Rose Corsage's major resist, I might add.) Just cleared it after a fight that was close to 50 minutes long, holy crap. Sabin was definitely pulling his weight with Soul Spiral, but by the end of it we were all auto-attacking while waiting for our gauges to replenish themselves. We didn't even really come close to dying (having four healers will do that), but it was a slog and a half since we had to take them down one at a time (our only AoE was Luneth's command 2). Should really have brought Garnet instead of Luneth for more damage and to apply a weakness, but hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
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Apr 24, 2017 18:32
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Yeah, unlike the original U+, I feel like the ability to have two (or three, or four) healers means AoE is the far better option over single target/lockdown for the Mandras. Dispel is important too, even if you have to rely on single-target variants.
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Apr 24, 2017 18:34
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I cleared the mandragoras battles last night. D200 wasn't too bad. I actually stepped away twice to check on laundry and on the second time, my team won. It was a pretty OP team though, and I had personally brought Tyro with USB and Y'shtola with SSII and Asylum. Loaded up on wrath for both and basically tried to cover all the major mitigation and anti-debuffing my team needed.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:12
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This U++ was so not fun. Only being able to damage him with half my team for the first half sucked really hard, especially because I couldn't squeeze in enough buffs for both physical and magic. Once I got him to the second half it was a damage race that I won but holy the first part was so painful.
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Apr 24, 2017 23:16
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Elephant Ambush posted:This U++ was so not fun. Only being able to damage him with half my team for the first half sucked really hard, especially because I couldn't squeeze in enough buffs for both physical and magic. Yeah, even doing it with a mixed team via OK BSB was a a headache because two characters can't output enough damage to make it comfortable.
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Apr 24, 2017 23:19
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Yeah, not a fun U++, though it was the first one I've had to actually pay attention to in a while, so I guess I'm glad they're experimenting with ways to shake things up a bit. I didn't read the tips page closely enough so I missed the thing about his AoE silence attack, it was real fun sitting there waiting for silence to fall off of my mages during his phys-invulnerable stage. Still mastered it somehow, but whew it was close.
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Apr 24, 2017 23:39
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Are there any RMs that duplicate Black Mage's Awakening and Flowers of Trabia? When I'm just Autoing through dailies or low-level stuff, having those really helps out, but only having two for my mages is a pain. All the others in my RM list seem to have 'has a chance' in the description, and they're usually pretty lovely chances. There's a bunch of Haste at battle starts, several attack-alls, several instant-attacks...but stuff that helps Mages out on Auto is pretty scarce.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:49
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CoD's RM4 is a more powerful Black Mages' Awakening, and Vanille's RM4 is a non-elemental Flowers of Trabia, respectively. Though that requires bringing both to level 99 and getting all of their other RMs.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:55
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Pyroclastic posted:Are there any RMs that duplicate Black Mage's Awakening and Flowers of Trabia? When I'm just Autoing through dailies or low-level stuff, having those really helps out, but only having two for my mages is a pain. All the others in my RM list seem to have 'has a chance' in the description, and they're usually pretty lovely chances. For BLK, you have Inflame (Maria). For WHT, you have Lady of Ivalice (Ovelia). The rest are level 99 rewards, like Desch's.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:54
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Since the newest raids opened up, I haven't been able to complete a single MP match, its really frustrating. Constant crashing on my ipad. I guess I'm going to have to try and muddle through in solo 
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Apr 25, 2017 06:16
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ApplesandOranges posted:For BLK, you have Inflame (Maria). You also have Black Mage's RM3 (Fire elemental), Cloud of Darkness's RM2 (Dark elemental) and Emperor's RM2 (Wind elemental). All of them are AoE and elemental, so they can occasionally cause issues, but by the numbers they're easily on par with Black Mage's Awakening and Inflame, if not minorly better. They're all available off of said characters' MC2s, too, so no levelling to 99, just to 65.
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Apr 25, 2017 06:20
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I must express my frustration at nearly killing Apoc Orthos in Solo, only for my game to crash as Fujin cast the killing spell. There is so much salt right now. And frustration at probably needing a new ipad.
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