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Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Pander posted:

*tons of fest content out*

*only runs mote dungeons*

I�m just running exp dungeon to get magicites up. After getting utterly thrashed by Tiamat to the point of no return my confidence to try the harder content is very low.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2018 17:29

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 11:47

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

My water stuff is good enough to sub 30 Liquid Flame and sub 40 Marilis at this point! This banner has Snow�s CSB on it and maybe it can finally get me to about half health on Tiamat for a change!

I know it�s one of the new chains but man it doesn�t help me actually feel like I can try to beat Tiamat with anything more than a rolled up ball of paper.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 02:22

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Tiamat is awful and it's hard to imagine that soon 5* magicite will be rolling out that is like 10x worse.

my 'good' ice options are:

Physical:
Squall BSB2/OSB
Ayame BSB

Magic:
Serah USB

So yeah, that's definitely not enough. Man, I'd hate to see the 5* wind magicite, if the two other magicite bosses are two of the hardest bosses in the entire series.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 02:35

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

At least this pull led to sub 30 on a 4* Magicite! :toot:

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 04:28

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

From my own personal experience :flaccid:

sums up Squall nicely

# ¿ Jul 2, 2018 17:58

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

i knew this fest was gonna be crap when I got three USBs in RoP that perform breaks, and when I pulled two of Metamorphosis Claws in banner 1, that were added to the banner and are stuff everyone and their mothers already have.

Yeah I got Rikku CSB in banner 4, but, man, I'm never gonna beat Tiamat.

Never pull. Ever.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2018 02:38

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

i'm even pulling horribly in the JP version, I pretty much 0/11ed FFVI's banner 2.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2018 19:13

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

rabidsquid posted:

i've just started doing magicite recently as well and one thing i've noticed about it is that a few things make an enormous difference. i've always considered my water my best element but my water team of literally just edge and tidus did living flame in 26 seconds with zero magicites equipped, and then with the help of a magicite on sea lion and with three dps its a bit of a struggle to break 30 seconds.

i cant put a dent in golem and fenrir, and it took me something like 41 seconds to do bismarck and hydra. i knew my wind and earth were kind of shabby but i thought my lightning was Pretty Good. and in other content i think my various elements are relatively on par. you know what the difference is my two sub 30 clears and my 40+ or cant clear at all is? vivi can triple cast with his USB and legend dive. none of my lightning team has w-cast of any kind (technically vivi can do this as well but no en-element for lightning) none of my wind team has double cast other than vivi but i dont have the hones on tornado and meltdown to deal with his w-ability eating up charges. and the reason i absolutely crush living flame with just two dps when all the others require three? edge can en-water and double cast and has a chase. edge can add 17 hits to a chain and honestly i would say he probably did 80% of the damage even with tidus chain.

i know people have done 3* magicites without chains at all but from my personal experience doing them en-element and chain building vastly outweigh whatever else you can be doing. as for boosts it helps to not have a mixed damage team. i had one for hydra and i felt like i was barely plinking it. i should probably be able to sub 30 all of the magicites with what i have but that probably requires more dives. but yeah, chain+en-element and double cast absolutely whips the rear end of these things. edit: i had a chain for all of the magicite i've beaten so i want to emphasize that edge in particular is what helps me blast living flame so hard. i wonder if just slapping the earth ninja skills on him would help with my earth team and take away the mixed damage or if the lack of en-element will hurt it too much.

Chains are why I can sub 20s Mist Dragon, thanks to Seymour, and why I can probably clear Siren pretty quickly with a physical based dark team. Of course, I'd have to get over that huge hurdle known as Tiamat before I can access her. gently caress.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2018 14:30

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Prav posted:

gau has one hell of an USB coming up, incidentally

Unfortunately that shares a banner with Gogo VI stuff, and Gogo is probably the worst non Core character in the game, with the worst 5* piece of equipment in his LMR.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2018 18:49

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

My DU lucky pulls have been miserable as can be over the last few months. I figured, what the heck and did a 100 gem pull on the Type-0 CT banner to see if I can come up with another excuse to not pull on the lucky.

This works!

# ¿ Jul 10, 2018 02:47

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Not the best use of 25 mythril, as I don�t see myself using Reno without a relevant soul break. The BSB does give me an excuse to keep the exp dungeon train rolling so I can keep leveling magicites :v:

# ¿ Jul 11, 2018 14:39

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

I didn't believe in the JP's new free draw rates after I got a 1* knife from it.

Now, I am!

# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 22:07

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

2/4 on 5 star pulls in the new daily draw in the JP version, I got Vincent's glint today :stare:

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 22:24

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Oooooof

I got the 6* I didn�t actually want at this time, with my current FFT/Holy situation. Yikes.

I got the Dud. *Homer smiles slowly*

# ¿ Jul 16, 2018 02:11

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

ceaselessfuture posted:

Get Alma's BSB and you'll see how drat good she is. No joke!

Yeah, but I don't have the mythril to try again, and this wasn't the 6* I was looking for to begin with. With Marche USB/Orlandeau OSB/Meliadoul USB out there to help with my FFT/holy DPS, I felt like this was a missed opportunity.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2018 03:43

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

*looks at recent pulls - 2x dupe Raines BSB/Elarra LMR, Alma USB, Amarant USB*

I'm tempted to take that account to be perfectly honest.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 02:32

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

rabidsquid posted:

having a different account wont make you stop hating every single pull you make

True, but, drat, a lot of that stuff owns.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 13:47

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

JP got a SSB+ banner for each realm,which was 15 mythril per 11 pull, for one of their fests. This should be coming up in Global, and the good thing is they don�t go away.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 14:13

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

KataraniSword posted:

I can only hope and pray that they replace the Newcomer Banners so we stop having to scream at people to not pull on the newcomer banners.

Also, it's 15 mythril for the first 11 pull per realm, full 50-mythril price after that.

Yeah, I forgot that part, but still, they never go away. Of course they�re curated up to a certain point but there still is a chance to get a lot of great stuff you may have missed. You can also get Greg SSB.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 14:24

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Nephrite posted:

I'm so sorry. There's a support group for it.

Fran's not included.

I have that thing too. I shouldn�t be surprised I pulled it, Fran likes to break stuff. Bleh.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2018 02:26

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

That Banner 2 is definitely worth saving mythril for. Banner 1 has good delita stuff, but the Orran USB seems to be a bit of a wet fart, mainly because I've soured on breaks lately(granted, there IS the possibility I may not be using them right. I kinda feel even using multiple breaks lately is kinda underwhelming). The magic blink and instant cast are pretty neat, though.

I do hope that eventually there's justice for breaks.

Armitage fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jul 26, 2018

# ¿ Jul 26, 2018 12:38

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

The 180 is a fucker. I�m gonna take a break for a bit, sweet jiminy christmas.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2018 19:06

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

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.

Armitage fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Aug 6, 2018

# ¿ Aug 6, 2018 14:09

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

I keep getting the Never Pull pulls with these.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2018 02:26

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

MarquiseMindfang posted:

Curilla seems like a secret monster.

Her USB1 is low key solid.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 14:03

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

If you have an Exdeath soul break that acts as a Runic for the FF2 Jump Start, it ends up not being that bad. It still can get tricky as heck, though but it does give you some breathing room to heal from time to time.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2018 15:29

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Yet another 1/11

I�ll happily take it this time!!

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 02:15

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

I dove Vincent and I got to thinking, I would like his cool doublecast bandana!

Solid, solid as a rock!

Plus my first new Cloud item since his OSB back in 2016!

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 02:50

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

the FF7 d240 was a ginormous pain in my butt, but I beat it. I don�t think I can get the d280 below 40% yet. I did get Cuch below 40% this time though and got enough rock candies to get Chain Firaja

With Chain Firaja on Vincent, I tackled Isgebind again.

The early Trance activation on Vivi helped, but 8�ve shaved roughly 6-8 seconds off my previous average times against Isgebind with Vincent�s CSB and Chain Firaja!

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 20:01

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

I can�t do this pull with VIII coming in a few weeks!

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 17:38

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

This is definitely the equivalent of a 16 billion seed beating a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament. I was sure this wasn�t possible but Curilla is low key good at high level poo poo.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 17:36

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Zonko_T.M. posted:

What do you have for Curilla? What makes her good with high level stuff?

Her USB boosts ATK/MAG/DEF and gives a radiant shield which is useful when the damage comes in hot and heavy

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 19:20

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Bullshitted my way through this fight, third time�s the charm and my first clear is a sub 30s!

I�m starved for holy stuff though, so Hades might not be achievable for awhile.

Physical:
Cecil: BSB2/Glint
Beatrix: BSB1
Celes: SSB/BSB1
Orlandeau: BSB
Marche: BSB

Magical:
Rem BSB/USB
Raines BSB

And that�s about it off the top of my head.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 22:19

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

You must be joking ri....

# ¿ Aug 29, 2018 14:35

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

What you get from the 5/6* pool is everything released to date, so what pops out of the rainbow/disco ball could be anything from a generic stat stick to a top tier USB.

The pools do get updated, I believe, after an event ends. Correct me if I�m wrong, of course.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2018 14:55

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Man, it was nice to have the new rates for a bit for daily draw, but I think I can go back to ignoring it. Got lucky yesterday and got a 4*, but three of the last four days was 1*, so it looks like the rates are back to what it was before.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 14:06

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Merry Quistmas guys!

RoP:

0 - Nine USB
FFT - Ramza SSB (chant) (dupe)
XV - Prompto USB (dupe)
XIV - Yda USB
XIII - Fang BSB (Rhomphaia)
XII - Fran USB (Hunting Crossbow), Vayne OSB
XI - Shantotto LMR

I gathered around the Quistmas tree and opened my presents!

Seifer Claus ignored the fact that I�ve been naughty all year and stuffed my stockings full of stuff!

# ¿ Sep 14, 2018 02:23

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

RoP:

0 - Nine USB
FFT - Ramza SSB (chant) (dupe)
XV - Prompto USB (dupe)
XIV - Yda USB
XIII - Fang BSB (Rhomphaia)
XII - Fran USB (Hunting Crossbow), Vayne OSB
XI - Shantotto LMR
X - Paine LMR

Fest doesn�t really seem to grab me right now. Not enough holy options on banner 5, too much dark stuff and I�m good with that I think!

I decided to go for a third pull on FF8!

8/33! Four discos! I�ll have to get Quistis stuff another way, but overall I did really good here!

# ¿ Sep 15, 2018 16:33

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Alright I don�t get to say a single dang word for a week about daily pulls unless it�s what I actually pull

Also, this is my RoP

RoP:

0 - Nine USB
FFT - Ramza SSB (chant) (dupe)
XV - Prompto USB (dupe)
XIV - Yda USB
XIII - Fang BSB (Rhomphaia)
XII - Fran USB (Hunting Crossbow), Vayne OSB
XI - Shantotto LMR
X - Paine LMR
IX - Freya BSB
VIII - Quistis SSB1 (dupe)
VII - Tifa USB1
VI - Kefka BSB

I was hoping changes to the fest banners would entice me more to pull, but I just may throw one pull at banner 4. I am tempted to go for pull #4 on FFVIII banner #1!

Armitage fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Sep 19, 2018

# ¿ Sep 19, 2018 14:41

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 11:47

Armitage: Aug 16, 2005; "Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Current RoP tally!

0 - Nine USB
FFT - Ramza SSB (chant) (dupe)
XV - Prompto USB (dupe)
XIV - Yda USB
XIII - Fang BSB (Rhomphaia)
XII - Fran USB (Hunting Crossbow), Vayne OSB
XI - Shantotto LMR
X - Paine LMR
IX - Freya BSB
VIII - Quistis SSB1 (dupe)
VII - Tifa USB1
VI - Kefka BSB
V - Kelger SSB, Exdeath LMR
IV - Golbez SSB (dupe), D. Cecil ASB

# ¿ Sep 21, 2018 02:12

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