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Psiwri posted:Yeah its a solid start but its still got the core problem of the element. Sadly a friend of mine is set on playing dark and I didn't get any Bahamut draws across 120 accounts haha. 120 accounts. Jesus gently caress.
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How to Yoda: a primer. Lots of SSR tier lists make a lot of mention about how powerful Yodarha is for a starter character. And he is! But only if you use him correctly, and most places don't really spell out the mechanics at work. Why he is special: A 999,999-damage charge attack. How do you do it?: He starts with a buff "triple shroud" at the beginning of a fight. It has three charges, and doing anything with him uses one or more charge. His normal attack and skills consume a charge, and his charge attack consumes all of the charges. It also does an extra 333,333 damage per charge it eats, so you want to trigger his charge attack when he has all three charges to drop over a million damage. What's the catch?: He recasts triple shroud on himself every four turns. This means you have to take care to manage his charge level and wait for the recast to buff him up before you unleash the charge attack. (At level 45 he gets his third skill which lets you manually cast the buff and makes life more convenient, but don't waste it because it has a long cooldown.) What's the BAD catch?: When his buff is depleted, he sucks. He does pitiful damage, he has pitiful defense, and he'll probably instantly die because bosses seem to target him specifically when the buff drops. So there is a gap of at least one round where he's hugely vulnerable and very likely to die. What do I do about it?: You use his second skill. It gives him 100% dodge for a turn. And as an extra protip, if you use his second skill while he still has his buff up, it spreads the dodge to the entire party, so that's something to consider if you're about to suck down a raid boss's ultimate attack. So when you're using Yoda, a normal fight should look like this: Round 1 - Attack (Charges drop to 2) Round 2 - Attack (Charges drop to 1) Round 3 - Attack (Charges drop to 0, charge attack should be ready) Round 4 - Hymn of the Hundreds to stay alive this turn, laugh as all of the attacks bounce off of him (He'll recast triple shroud at the end of the turn, back to three charges) Round 5 - Ultimate Flash (Do a million damage, charges drop back to 0) If what you're fighting is still alive at this point, Yoda is probably hosed and about to be one-shotted. You can use his third ability to rebuff him immediately and improve his odds of survival, or if you have another character with a defensive skill, you can use them to keep him alive. He'll be without the buff for three turns if you don't use Perpetual Rotation to rebuff him, so he'd need to be protected for that long until he's in a position to start the process over again.
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You honestly aren't likely to be able to clear enough of those boss fights to get the mcguffins to trade for Chun Li or Karin with the resources you've described. You might be able to get enough for one of the weapons, though, so that has value if you can pull it off.
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Apr 16, 2016 05:12
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Broadly speaking, the game punishes jack of all trades. Huge amounts of overall effectiveness comes from weapons, weapon skills, and summons. So even if, for example, you have three top-tier fire characters for a party, you're still relatively gimped if you don't also have a good fire summon and fire weapons. The summon's aura alone can easily provide a 40+ percent boost to your attacks. The weapon skill on each SSR weapon you have equipped could be adding another 6+ percent. Do the math real quick and you'll see that your party's power can be tripled by the right equipment. So the question is less 'what characters do I need?' and more 'if I get these characters, do I have the other stuff to support them, or can I acquire it easily?' Tsurupettan posted:If I get the Special Pick ticket, what's the best things to grab with it? So far I have these for SSRs: RNJesus was not overly kind to you at this point. You have a fire summon, a water attacker, and a light support. Satyr isn't so good that I'd feel inspired to build a fire team around him. Katalina is good, so going for more water probably wouldn't hurt, especially if you do the Cocytus fights to pick up his summon for free. Then you'd have a couple good water characters and a decent water summon to go with them. Sophia's great support, and none of her skills specify that they work better on light element, so she doesn't really lose usefulness if you stick her in another element's party.
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Apr 16, 2016 08:51
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The casino sells five half elixirs per day, just play some poker and scoop those up, between that, rank ups, and the daily Twitter reset, you can play a ton. Makes grinding the higher cost boss fights for the SSR Street Fighter weapons a lot easier.
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Apr 18, 2016 17:22
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Lucifer plus any good light character is pretty much a rock solid foundation for a kickass light team, you should take that offer.
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Apr 18, 2016 19:45
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So Awful is losing all of its buffs, in case anyone's around who can turn them back on.
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Apr 20, 2016 08:28
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I very much want to know what setting got them those skill buttons beneath the character portraits. That would be an immense convenience upgrade.
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Apr 20, 2016 22:01
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grrarg posted:I think I'm addicted to entering the Casino to listen to the greeter girl. Jakku-potto, jakku-potto...
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Apr 21, 2016 04:02
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Drakes posted:Browser extension for quality of life features, not responsible if bad things happen. But seems legit I blew my crystals banking on either getting her or getting some vaguely-useful crap and the crystals back, so fingers crossed on my end! Also, I found that Chrome extension a little bit ago, it's great so far. I also found this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...nfjcocngcdiphhg that lets you put the browser version of their games in a Chrome window on its own without having that debugging junk everywhere.
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And apparently my bet's paid off, refunds incoming for crystals used today on item rolls. Didn't get the briefly-OP wind girl, but I did get the new SR fire catgirl, and her powers look fairly fun, so bonus.
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Apr 21, 2016 05:53
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As long as you're in the crew before the guild war starts, it's all good. We have a few days.
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Apr 22, 2016 21:01
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They're also necessary for the rusted weapons to make into bahamut weapons. Unfortunately the couple that've dropped for me thus far are for race combos that aren't useful to me.
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Apr 28, 2016 05:37
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So okay, burning gems through legfest, get a couple of decent pulls. Get Albert and Apollo and already had Sophia and think, "well that's three quarters of a good light team, I suppose I'll use the starter pick on another light to finish it off". I buy the starter pack, use the ten pull ticket from it. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  There goes my easy decision about which direction to go.
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Apr 28, 2016 18:19
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Ugh, some of these characters' mechanics are hurting my brain. Or rather, trying to make sense of the Japanese wiki writeups of them through Google is hurting my brain. I got Rosetta and am trying to work out what her deal is. I can definitively say that she has a shield that you can activate that also taunts monsters. I believe that the shield gets stronger the more she's attacked while it's up. I also believe that it debuffs the things attacking it, with stronger debuffs as the shield level rises. And apparently deactivating it applies a big attack buff to the party. A lot of this is conjecture thanks to the awful translations; I'm going to have to run her through some fights and keep an eye on what goes on before I'll feel comfortable with how she works. Korwa's description is another train wreck. "All allies gain Espirit (Uses 2 Fil)" Really. Thanks game, that's loving helpful. Really clears everything up. At least in her case after you've cast her buffs you can inspect them and find out what they actually do.
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Apr 29, 2016 06:04
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The game also decided that this needed to be on my boat: I did my best to reject the catboy date rape squad, but no matter which dialogue option I picked, they wouldn't leave. I've taken to locking the cabin doors at night.
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Apr 29, 2016 06:16
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Drakes posted:This spreadsheet may contain whatever details you're trying to figure out: grrarg posted:What about this spreadsheet? I'd been using that spreadsheet, but the version I was trying to read had formatting issues where the text was chopped off. This is suddenly much more useful, thanks for the links.
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vulturesrow posted:I havent had much time to sink into the game so I'm looking for some advice to focus my efforts. I got one of the accounts our good forums poster Psiwri rolled up and here is what I have: Lucifer's completely useless to you without light characters, keep him on the back burner until you have a light party to take advantage of his huge light buff. As for the others, Cagliostro and Yuel are both great characters for their element. Try to scrape together weapons, summons, and other characters as needed to get a fire team and earth team based around them. Valatar fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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Apr 29, 2016 08:47
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grrarg posted:What does the +X mean on summons? Boost damage when called, or does it affect the passive aura too? So far as I'm aware, +x on summons and weapons only boost the health and attack they give your team. They don't affect the aura, they don't affect the ougi or active summon effect.
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Welp, my last 10-pull got no SSRs. But I was super-lucky with my earlier pulls, so can't complain. I spent my starter ticket on birdman, and holy poo poo. With Petra and Korwa's buffs and his self-buff, even at low levels he's crunching out damage like no tomorrow. I can definitely see why people were saying that pre-nerf Korwa was insane.
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Psiwri posted:That's an awfully optimal mvp deeps mania team you have there. It's slow, though. Korwa takes several rounds to toss out enough thread to set up her buffs. I can join a raid with Yoda and have him poop out a million damage within about fifteen seconds, and even then sometimes the boss is dead before I can pull the trigger. That's only an issue when pugging, of course. For my own raids where I'm not having to race high-level players, yeah, I think they're gonna be great.
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Kitten Baubles posted:So I have hundreds of R weapons from guild wars. What should I do with them? Sort them by skill level. Those with no skill (it'll show a - for their level) are useless and should just be used as exp fodder for other stuff. Those with a skill should be fed to your better weapons to raise their skill level.
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May 2, 2016 21:24
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Kitten Baubles posted:Cheers! This chart here tells you how many things you need to feed a weapon to get a guaranteed level up.
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Yoda Protip (which is a pretty obvious one but might help newbies): When you're raiding during the guild bonus hours, Yoda's doing 99% of your damage. So gently caress off the rest of your SR/SSR team and stick in some random rares. You'll receive a significant medal bonus for having rares in a raid battle, without really impacting the damage you're doing. It's win/win for you.
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Potsticker posted:I feel kind of sad seeing that. I mean if it makes them happy then whatever, but you really can go a long way in this game starting with SRs and Rs and just building a solid weapon pool. You realy don't need to reroll a million times or whale out to start. Yeah, and there are some gems hiding in the SRs and Rs. Some solid performers and some with interesting gimmicks. If I'm not going into something I expect to be a close fight, I'll stuff a couple of Rs into the sub slots to get them some levels. I'm not yet so awash in materials that I can afford to max limit break non-primary characters, but I am working on polishing them up to mess around with.
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Raitzeno posted:That's so condescending it's almost cute, now please enlighten me on how. Not everyone has been playing this since the age of moonrunes and knows the game inside and out. There are element-themed events in the rotation, just have to wait for them to pop up. In the meantime, you can fight the 3-day rotation bosses and trade in their loot for weapons in the store. And you get medals for fighting in raids that can also be exchanged for elemental weapons in the store.
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Raitzeno posted:That's much more helpful, thank you. When you say 3-day rotation bosses, which ones are those / how do I get to them? I'm up to the beginning of the island with Celeste, i think, in the story. The special tab on your quest screen, they're the "showdown" option and rotate out every few days.
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My understanding is that the star fest will get you a SSR. But not necessarily a SSR character. Non-character weapons and summons count, as far as the star fest cares. For characters, wait for a surprise ticket where you can just pick one, or the legend fest at the end of the month that does boost character odds.
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Crono S. Magnum posted:So if I didn't get any SSR characters or weapons from the last legfest, is it a better idea to just save up for the next one? "Saving up" is a bit of a misnomer here, since it's not possible to roll for the star gacha with crystals. Crystals are only good for the normal legend gacha and should always be saved for a legend fest. Star gacha and surprise gacha can only be rolled for mobacoins, i.e. cold hard cash, so at that point the real question is whether you want to spend real money on it. Of the two, surprise is unquestionably the better deal, since you get to flat out pick your SSR and can then keep the 10-roll ticket for a legendfest. They are of course also much less common.
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Fire Yoda and run. For most of these fights odds are very high that you'll barely have time to fire the Yodacannon before the boss dies, so fancy tricks are pretty pointless. I have Sherlock Draph on my Yoda raid team in the off chance that his nuke scores big, but aside from him it really doesn't matter one bit. Even if the fight does let you go for more than one round, the non-Yoda part of your team might contribute ten percent of the overall damage, so it's not worth sweating over.
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I figure I'll just run a variety of elements and aim for Grande friends with those teams. I did notice I had a lot of Wind SRs (but only 1 Wind R) if I wanted to do something like work toward Anat.
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Psiwri posted:I still have two left from my link on the first page. I'm honestly amazed that 18 hasn't gone yet, that's a solid start. Thanks for doing that, you can reach me at my SA name at Gmail.
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May 11, 2016 04:19
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Just unlocked birdman's fifth star!  Now have to get him another 3.8 million xp. 
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Quirkk posted:What's the best way to get materials for raising my weapons skills? All I seem to pick up is angel weapons and myhtril weapons. You can buy the skill boost stones in the casino for 20,000 tokens, up to 50/month. Get SR weapons from Omega fights, feed those to your other weapons for skills. Rare monsters tend to drop R weapons with skills, but you need some of those for the guild war character quests, so don't burn those willy-nilly.
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May 17, 2016 22:12
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loving finally got Raphael to drop after fighting the event boss well over a hundred times, stacking bounty hunter for each fight. Switched to the wind boss for the hell of it, two fights later Red Sun drops. I guess all those other fights turned out useful in the end since I had the mats laying around to immediately buy out the other three copies of Red Sun from the event store and max it. Guess I'll keep it in storage in case I ever get a decent fire team together. More importantly, I'm finally free from replaying that same fight eternally and can go through storyline stuff while it's half off.
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May 21, 2016 09:38
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Potsticker posted:I had some people ask me if we were going to try the level 90 Nightmare boss this time around and donated some meat chunks towards it. If people are up for it we need 10 Bait Chunks total and I was thinking it'd be during the (American Evening) Strike Time, but I'd like to hear everyone else's thoughts. I'm good for taking a shot. Even if I just suck and die I can guarantee a million damage to it before going out.
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Siegfried's attack buff will stop debuffing his defense and instead buff his defense. That's pretty big. The catch is that, like birdman, this change doesn't kick in until level 100, so it takes a small eternity to get him to that point.
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Grrarg was the sound I made when the fucker died literally as I was reaching for the attack button that would've fired off Yoda and given me second place.
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Finally got a Bahamut horn to drop, right after getting the dagger to MLB.
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