Scrublord Prime posted:

Dunked on 3* Shiva Trick was to bring Bedile!


Ulrica was 100% dodge, 30% ice resist, and Odin. Counter spam did 99% of the damage in the fight. Minfilia was 100% ice resist with Mirage Vest, Ankh of the Goddess, Great Raven Cape, and >=22 MP per turn regen and responsible for keeping Ulrica ice resist up. Bedile held onto Ifrit and Concealing Cloth and hid until the summon gauge was full, summoned Ifrit, then took a dirt nap.

Turn 1 is the double Shooting Hail and Osmose. No ice damage so Minfilia would use Mirage so she'd dodge the attack. Ulrica has 100% dodge and does w/e. Bedile hides forever. Osmose didn't drain either's MP but I brought Ethers so Ulrica could refill Minfilia's MP just in case.

Turn 2 Minfilia uses her +70% ice resist so Ulrica wouldn't eat blizzajas. Since Minfilia has the Great Raven Cape on Ulrica ate 99.9% of the regular attacks without an issue. Turn 3 is the next Shooting Hail so Minfilia uses Mirage again. Minfilia's rotation was simple: If it wasn't Diamond Dust time but Shooting Hail time use Mirage. Otherwise use her Frozen Guard every turn to make sure it wouldn't fall off during the threshold.

Once Shiva hit the threshold to use Diamond Dust Minfilia would use the Reraise ability. She wouldn't die via DD but the goal was for her to die on the following turn. Ulrica would Fingersnap herself to remove the Ice Imperil and Minfilia would refresh Frozen Guard. Shiva attacks and kills Minfilia due to her Ice Imperil and reraise during Blizzaja and regular attacks. Blizzaja bounces off due to 100% ice resist and Ulrica takes the regular attacks. Resume rotation.


Once all three thresholds were passed Ulrica used her LB and got her huge ATK buff and wrecked Shiva. Minfilia shifted to Mirage/Mirage/Frozen Guard at that point. Why Mirage when Shooting Hail wasn't going to be used? Because even with the Great Raven Cape Minfilia ate two regular attacks in my battle. One popped her for 11k damage but due to Frozen Guard spamming I got her back up before Frozen Guard had to be refreshed. She dodges the other due to Mirage stacks.

Took two tries, first one I had Minfilia at 30% ice resist with Ifrit but things relied on turns falling in the right order to work out so I added Bedile and that fixed everything. I did have >100% ice reist with a "what harm could it do?" until Minfilia survived the follow up DD turn and her Reraise fell off. Thankfully I again had enough time to raise her and get Frozen Guard refreshed before it became an issue.

tl;dr Brave Exvius has Pokemon Gen 1 misses but in target chance form

hagie posted:

I can’t believe you leveled an Ulrica

Evil Fluffy posted:

6* Ulrica is a "if you didn't Stop me or kill me god help you" unit for the arena. I had one survive without stop and she killed everyone on my party, except for Ayaka, with her AOE counter spam.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

That Ulrica has Lucii Rings, I assume? I'm jelly.

Was able to clear Shiva and first mission with a doggo friend, need to go back for the Esper summon and 5-Man.

You can, um, put that Ulrica up as a friend for a while if you want. I'm sure multiple people wouldn't mind as long as they know the strategy and have a good green mage...

BDawg posted:

I took a lap and got the following.

Basch 2
Aranea
Yuna
Elfreeda 2

Pretty happy with the results. I’d love a Willy, but for 7* tanks have Basch and Merc Ramza.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Merc Ramza is getting a global exclusive buff to the enhancements that gives him a damage mitigating provoke. If it’s a 100 taunt then he’s very comparable to willhelm. Probably better than him at 6*, pretty interchangeable at 7*

Zyrus enhancements all involve building his limit break and smoothening his damage his damage by not having to precast certain abilities to get max damage. It seems pretty interesting, remains to be seen if his damage is good enough to bring on non dragon fights

Scrublord Prime posted:

I put her up if you want to try huge counter strats for Shiva 3*. Hopefully your support doesn't get sniped! :gumi:

PaybackJack posted:

With Ramuh's exp gain trait and the event hat, combined with my growth eggs and x4 Action; we're up to x4.55 bonus exp.

I figured I would have maxed it with the Growth Eggs and Actions but apparently EXP is not on the usual 300% cap.

WebDO posted:

Now if only anything but cactuars mattered fit XP you'd be on to something

jetz0r posted:

Cartoon Man posted:

They say that the majority of the unit’s “boost” in power and skills comes 5-10 levels beyond 100, and that it’s not necessary to power level most 7* units to max immediately.

Cartoon Man posted:

They say that the majority of the unit’s “boost” in power and skills comes 5-10 levels beyond 100, and that it’s not necessary to power level most 7* units to max immediately.

jetz0r posted:

I switched my friend unit to a Shiva carry.

You do need to pay attention and use Bushido - Freedom on yourself on the threshold turns (80/60/40, aka the turns she heals). Long press on Noctis, choose target, then select freedom and clear the ice debuff. Bring along a Hide unit with Ifrit,and keep hiding until the esper gauge gets filled, then summon Ifrit for the moogle achievement.

Standard damage rotation of LB, Point Blank Warp Strike, and Warp Strike for him. With some Point Warps to recover mana when you get close to 100. After the 3rd threshold, you can auto and afk if you really want to.

WebDO posted:

So my 5* of disappointment surprisingly gave me a Basch instead of total garbage, but I already have a good Doggo. So uh, which one is better at face tanking magic?

WebDO posted:

So my 5* of disappointment surprisingly gave me a Basch instead of total garbage, but I already have a good Doggo. So uh, which one is better at face tanking magic?