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Fister Roboto posted:Fun fact: if you can skip all the scripted Black Cauldrons, killing him before the third one, then you can sub-30 the fight. Nerp! Protectga is mandatory. Every time I drop it someone dies. I am so confused about this fight  It's so unfair.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Nerp! Protectga is mandatory. Every time I drop it someone dies. Might be good to take a break from it. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
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Aug 6, 2018 01:27
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OK, who had the bright idea to not let you take Roaming Warriors into Realm Dungeons with you? 
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ETB posted:Might be good to take a break from it. It's not going anywhere anytime soon. No! I need to find a consistent sub 30 team! The RNG is also a factor in who Hades chooses to target with single target attacks. OMG this is so aggravating. Elephant Ambush fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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Aug 6, 2018 01:45
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Elephant Ambush posted:Nerp! Protectga is mandatory. Every time I drop it someone dies. If you bring Shelke as an entrust bot, you can use Iris's SSB for hastega, and then entrust to her for her BSB, and then use her commands for healing. This will let you put protectga and shellga in her two slots. After the dispel, you don't have to worry about recasting shellga, because all the magic damage he does after that is piercing, other than Black Cauldron.
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Aug 6, 2018 01:54
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Elephant Ambush posted:Here is my current team: ETB mentioned team order for Strike positioning but another thing to consider is to put Assault Sabre users in the top and bottom slot only, to minimize their taking of hits from Strike. I also used Orlandu, Marche, and Ramza but went two Assault Sabre users and one Divine Cross+Guardbringer
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Aug 6, 2018 02:03
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I'd love to get Paine poo poo but water is probably my best element and i have 3 dupes and Tidus chain already
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Aug 6, 2018 02:13
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I want Rikku's water chain real bad but there are so many dupes and some garbage (like Rikku's LMR) that I just can't pull 
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Aug 6, 2018 02:44
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Paine LMR and USB. Seems good?
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Aug 6, 2018 03:01
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I must analyze my choices. Water is by far my weakest element with only one single character I have specializing in it (Yuffie), and no chain or other support available. So with that in mind, here are my dupes: Oritsuru (Yuffie USB) Twilight Steel (Tidus BSB) Mutsunokami (Edge BSB) Tidus's Armguards x2 (Tidus LMR) Warrior's Targe (Rikku LMR) I might have the Rikku BSB on the banner but I don't remember, there's a million Targes out there. Pull for discos, or is it a lost cause with too much risk?
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Aug 6, 2018 03:06
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Alxprit posted:I must analyze my choices. Water is by far my weakest element with only one single character I have specializing in it (Yuffie), and no chain or other support available. So with that in mind, here are my dupes: I'd definitely pass. You've already got a very powerful water team (Tidus BSB is insanely good with a source of enwater) and that's a ton of dupes.
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Aug 6, 2018 06:24
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I went ahead and pulled on the water banner, cause I don't think I had a single water relic yet. Got rikku's chain (my first chain) , rikku's burst, and yuffie's burst, I'll take it
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Aug 6, 2018 06:39
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The water banner is a very nice banner that I can never pull on - somebody please shoot me if I consider it. I still don't have Oritsuru or any water chains at all, but I sure do have 10/14 dupes here thanks to fruitlessly chasing them in the past!
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Aug 6, 2018 06:51
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Should I pull on this banner or wait for the special fests/banners to pull a random water relic? I have tidus' chain and bsb1 (razmazztaz) and wakkas USB but with no other water relics. Tidus is fully dived being pretty much my only core and I don't really have any other teams. Im still a noob waiting with like 450 mytrhil and only just cleared a majority of the old nightmare dungeons.
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I’d want to get a source of EnWater for Tidus and Yuffie gear but I have a stacked Rikku already, Edge BSB, and Paine USB. I think I have too many dupes to pull on this banner and my recent pull luck would give me Rikku gear. FFVII needs me.
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Aug 6, 2018 14:09
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Fister Roboto posted:I'd definitely pass. You've already got a very powerful water team (Tidus BSB is insanely good with a source of enwater) and that's a ton of dupes. My only source of enwater on Tidus is his LMR. 
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The next fest water banners are strong but magic oriented so might take several pulls to get a team together since magical water was pretty rare before them. And I don’t think any other water centric banners are up anytime soon. That said Yuffie’s usb2 is on ffvii banner 2, Tidus gets a brave usb2 in the pre-X torment banner, and Bartz keeps popping up here and there. This is really similiar to the ice situations where banners tend to be dupe fests because of Squall’s relics always being there.
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Alxprit posted:My only source of enwater on Tidus is his LMR. You say this like starting a fight with instant free enwater is a bad thing. Turn that frown upside-down! 
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Aug 6, 2018 14:28
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Alxprit posted:My only source of enwater on Tidus is his LMR. Same! thankfully it is enough for me for now, I definitely want to get a way to renew it for longer fights tho. For Yuffie I'm stuck with her BSB1 which often isnt worth it
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Ouch that bomb fight hurts, I'm rolling: OK (pUSB+break) Tidus (AOSB, USB, glint) except I don't have sapphire shot so I'm using lifesiphon yuffie USB2/BSB2 water ninja stuff she's fully LD'd edge USB/BSB fully LD'd water ninja stuff selphie USB for last stand. I'm thinking of dropping tidus for entrust bot (I'd probably use tyro and use waterchain RW) since I don't have water skills for him. I've got enough hones on one set of water ninja stuff to last the whole fight so I have edge with those and yuffie uses BSB2 for imperil water and to get hones back on my less honed water ninja stuff.
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I basically ignored the little bombs and kept Selphie entrusted so she could pop her USB whenever something exploded (with Edge SSB as a backup). So your strategy might work (maybe give OK wrath+entrust too?), although you might be a little light on DPS if you have to rely on bsb commands and ether. Regardless, with those Tidus goodies, I would hone up sapphire shot ASAP.
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Alxprit posted:My only source of enwater on Tidus is his LMR. rujasu posted:You say this like starting a fight with instant free enwater is a bad thing. Turn that frown upside-down! Yeah, enelement LMRs are great. Like I said you've got a solid water team. With two entrust bots and a healer, you could easily sub-30 Marilith, if you haven't already.
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eelmonger posted:I basically ignored the little bombs and kept Selphie entrusted so she could pop her USB whenever something exploded (with Edge SSB as a backup). So your strategy might work (maybe give OK wrath+entrust too?), although you might be a little light on DPS if you have to rely on bsb commands and ether. Regardless, with those Tidus goodies, I would hone up sapphire shot ASAP. Yeah, that's my next goal, I have him and laguna USB/BSB1, so it's time to do it. Perhaps I'll dump the break and toss entrust/wrath on OK and keep tidus in the mix, his soul juice takes loving forever to build with lifesiphon. I have 2 JS's left, the XV and FF2 ogre/redsouls so I think I'm going to focus those and run a bunch of powerup dungeons this week, a big limiting factor for most of my teams atm is lack of hones for stuff, most things are sitting at R2 right now with some stuff higher (one set of ninja water stuff, one set of chain spells, meltdown and UC/curada) MF_James fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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Fister Roboto posted:Yeah, enelement LMRs are great. Like I said you've got a solid water team. With two entrust bots and a healer, you could easily sub-30 Marilith, if you haven't already. You really think so? I would absolutely kill to have Marilith's set of magicite to make my extraordinary Gilgamesh Chain team even stronger. Maybe I'll just have to try it raw one of these days. Just don't know how I feel about a second Entrust.
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Absolutely. Tidus's BSB makes him a prime target for entrusting, because it's instant cast AND grants him instant cast 1. This lets you alternate between casting it and Sapphire Shot with one entrust bot, or chain casting the SB with two.
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I hate this wall. I can't get more than 13 pushbacks using both a chain and imperils. I even used an exact team from reddit and couldn't do it. I assume it was my poor execution. Between this and Hades I'm really discouraged lately 
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Are the ninja dark abilities good? I'm going to have a lot of trouble pulling together DPS for 3* dark magicite, I'll have to check what I've got vaulted and stuff but all I can think of off the top of my head is Orleandu BSB, Sipher chain with his... SSB..., and maybe a thing for golbez. So I might end up honing the ninja stuff up and slap it on yuffie or edge if it's useful, despite not having an SB to back them.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I hate this wall. I can't get more than 13 pushbacks using both a chain and imperils. I even used an exact team from reddit and couldn't do it. I assume it was my poor execution. Don't feel pressured to complete absolutely everything always, some things might be too difficult for you with what you have and that's OK, it's a gatcha game, they push that difficulty to try to get you to spend. It's not worth stressing out over. I got the 2nd lowest reward for the wall and that's cool, poo poo is annoying as gently caress so screw it.
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MF_James posted:Are the ninja dark abilities good? I'm going to have a lot of trouble pulling together DPS for 3* dark magicite, I'll have to check what I've got vaulted and stuff but all I can think of off the top of my head is Orleandu BSB, Sipher chain with his... SSB..., and maybe a thing for golbez. So I might end up honing the ninja stuff up and slap it on yuffie or edge if it's useful, despite not having an SB to back them. I'm going to assume you mean holy magicite. A doublecasting ninja with dark chain going should do pretty good dps against Mist Dragon. If you have an imperil dark magicite from shadow dragon, that can also help significantly.
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FruitPunchSamurai posted:I'm going to assume you mean holy magicite. A doublecasting ninja with dark chain going should do pretty good dps against Mist Dragon. If you have an imperil dark magicite from shadow dragon, that can also help significantly. Yeah meant holy, I haven't beaten the dark magicite yet because my holy needs work as well, I've got orleandu and beatrix but not enough hones on rear end saber to make it through the fight.
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MF_James posted:Are the ninja dark abilities good? I'm going to have a lot of trouble pulling together DPS for 3* dark magicite, I'll have to check what I've got vaulted and stuff but all I can think of off the top of my head is Orleandu BSB, Sipher chain with his... SSB..., and maybe a thing for golbez. So I might end up honing the ninja stuff up and slap it on yuffie or edge if it's useful, despite not having an SB to back them. Yuffie Edge and Shadow don't need any SB to be good. Their doublecast dive combos with strong ninja attacks that build well off multicast procs. Particularly with a chain.
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Bruceski posted:Yuffie Edge and Shadow don't need any SB to be good. Their doublecast dive combos with strong ninja attacks that build well off multicast procs. Particularly with a chain. Plus, if any boss has particularly obnoxious attacks that get stopped by pblink they basically pay their own way into the fight. This isn't so much a thing for the Holy magicites, of course, but it makes the ninjas a godsend against Ixion and nice to have vs Maliris.
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MF_James posted:Ouch that bomb fight hurts, I'm rolling: Also note that all enemies enter the fight hasted. I haven't cracked it yet myself but dispelling that is probably handy if you can fit it in.
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Bruceski posted:Also note that all enemies enter the fight hasted. I haven't cracked it yet myself but dispelling that is probably handy if you can fit it in.
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NGDBSS posted:They also all have 600+ SPD, so most of their turns won't be filling up ATBs so much as cast times. It's perfectly skippable, like nearly any instance of enemy haste outside multiplayer. Ah, okay. The time I brought Dispel seemed to go a lot better so I assumed that was it.
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I still need to do the Demon Wall fights before they go away tomorrow, any tips for party setups? Will astra cancel the guaranteed blind/silence or is that ignored just like equipment resist?
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Grozz Nuy posted:I still need to do the Demon Wall fights before they go away tomorrow, any tips for party setups? Will astra cancel the guaranteed blind/silence or is that ignored just like equipment resist? Yeah, astra always works on status effects, even auto-hit ones. But you can also avoid the blind and silence by making a team with front row casters and/or back row fighters.
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I barely got my 15 pushes in on Demon Wall, so I'm no expert, but here's some things that helped me: - Slow roll at the beginning. It doesn't take a lot to push him back at the start and any damage over the threshold is wasted. I used this time to wrath up a ton of bars so I had them when you need to do a ton of damage quick. - Follow the AI thread on Reddit to see when you need to use your RW. If you've got a couple soul breaks ready to go and he's about to wail or interrupt, using your RW to stop him and then damaging him enough to push to the next phase can be huge. - Wait out the wail. The debuff is so huge and resources are so tight that attacking with it on is basically wasting a turn. It lasts a very short time so just let it pass. - Defense doesn't matter, everything is either gravity or long range and ignores defense. So just gear for offense. If it helps, I used my Tiamat team: Squall BSB2, Ayame BSB, Aphmau USB, OK pUSB, and Shelke actually used her BSB at the end when she ran out of entrusts.
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Japan's latest monthly report is out; the event details: 1) (Aug 9) Torment Dungeon - FFXI 2) (Aug 10) FFXI  We already knew, of course, but to reiterate, Lilisette joins the roster and Ayame, Curilla, and Prishe also feature. New 5* Samurai ability (which is all but guaranteed to be the Ice version of Iai Hellfire) 3) (Aug 11) Terror! Seven Freak Paintings!  Boss event, 8 bosses (1 new one a day), "Hidden Tool Record" as a reward. 4) (Aug 14) Corridor of Trials Wind weakness, final boss is Cmd. Grand Horn (VII), a copy of 5* Thief Dash & Slash on reward. 5) (Aug 15) Purgatory Multiplayer Hojo (VII) this month. 6) (Aug 17) FFXIII-2  Focusing on Serah, Fang, and Vanille, with a reissue of Hope's wardrobe record. 7) (Aug 18) Crystal Tower Xande Clone (III), Piett (T0), Fenrir (XII) & powered-up Dycedarg (T) 8) (Aug 22) Record Dungeon Update First half of Chapter 6- FFII with Josef's heroism, FFIX with Zidane's party in the Evil Forest. 9) (Aug 23) Torment Dungeon - FFI 10) (Aug 24) FFI  It's payday for the Mobius crew - and, well, everyone but Thief (I) and Matoya, actually. 11) (Aug 30) 5* Earth Magicite dungeons - Magic ineffective boss is Hecatoncheir (XIII) - Physical ineffective boss is Adamantoise (XV) 12) (Aug 31) FFV  Another end of the month for V, the focus is Bartz, Faris, Lenna, Krile... and Kelger & Gogo (V). Ticking off more USB/diveless characters! And the monthly new 6* abilities 6* Samurai, Warring Chill: 5 single-target Ice physical attacks, 50% critical rate under Retaliate or High Retaliate (5 x 0.85) 6* Machinist, Frost Offering: 4 single-target Ice ranged physical attacks, 50% chance to inflict minor Imperil Ice (4 x 0.85) 6* Witch, Scary Blizzard: 6 single-target Ice magic attacks, 2.60s CT (6 x 2.60 each)
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