For me this entire success rate up event has been bunk. Been running parades and trying to skill up since it supposedly started on Sunday, but all my fuses have been around 90% normal success.
Can definitely concur. Ran pots all day yesterday for 1 blue pot. And now I have 5-7 of every other kind.(didn't get the blue one I needed).
Zan, you have a good start to a spark/crit team, which is next style of OP team. But I don't htink you'll have the cost to run it for a while. (also you need to get aisha and bahamut to 6 and SBB aisha)
What's the rest of that team like? I have a Duel-GX II which has the same BB effect (can't wait for his 20 hit SBB) and I presume a Zebra is also needed?
Duel GX is the superior sub for it, I think it's Duelmex/Fel and Behemoth leads, Michelle, Duel GX, Doug, Doug. I'm not sure if it works as well without Michelle/DGX 6* since they gain a lot of hits from it. I know you can sub a zebra in there as well.
When Centaur/Katgutsuchi gets his 6* form, his SBB will be superior. Boost spark damage AND crit rate for 3 turns. I mean... shit. Would be nice to know if that spark damage effect stacks, though I recall a video posted earlier about a Zebra lead, 6* Magress friend lead, Duel GX, and 3 Kikuris doing ridiculous levels of damage to a Lv. 3 Lico when the maidens were the special summoning events. It might just not even be necessary.
Ran the metal parade yesterday... Got 11 fusion materials for Fire. I didn't need them. So I fused them and cleared out the rest of my energy... Got 3 Fire Crystals in 3 runs, two in one run.
Do I just have a really crappy Atro, or do they genuinely not have any form of hit points? He's 1-1.5k below everyone else, always.
Edit: Actually, is this just a light element "thing"?
All of the starters are actually really bad.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
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Man, I'd kill for any Crystals showing up in my Parade runs. Haven't seen one since the Super Parade.
KiTA is your Atro an Oracle? I think Atros in general have an anemic level of health, but an Oracle Atro would have it the worst.
I have a level 80 5* Oracle Atro. It has 3489 hp. I don't see any reason to upgrade this to the 6* version, even if I get the materials. Which is a shame, since Atro's SBB gives a defense/attack buff.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
I actually should probably evaluate my teams a bit more, see if I could be doing better.
My current go to team is:
Kikuri 5*Lord Leader
Xenon 4*A
Lorland 4*L (ready to evolve but I don't have the cost to handle it - also, holy crap, his 5* costs 20!?)
Selena 5*A
Lancia 5*A
My other team that I'm trying to segway into using, is a dual dark/light team:
Xenon 4*A Leader
Estia 4*O
Atro 5*B
Magress 5*G
Kikuri 5*L
I'm not sure Xenon and Estia are worth using really. Their BBs are quite nice, though.
My full unit list is as follows:
Fire:
Zegar 2*B
Galant 2*B Lancia 5*A R
Lorland 4*L R
Vishra 4*G R
Vishra 4*O R
Vargas 3*A
Zegar 2*G
Water:
Selena 5*A Leviathan 3*G R (My first Rare pull)
Stya 2*L Reeze 4*O R
Selena 3*L
Earth:
Lance 3*L
Nemia 2*A Il & Mina 4*O R
Lario 2*B
Thunder:
Eze 3*L
Weiss 2*L
Weiss 3*O
Weiss 4*G Kushra 4*G R
May 2*A (For Karl fight)
Light:
Atro 5*B Luna 4*B R
Maria 4*A Valkyrie 3*B R (Apparently I sold / fused a few of these thinking they were Angels. Goddamnit.)
Alma 2*B
Estia 4*O
Atro 2*B Luna 2*B R
Archangel 2*L
Dark:
Magress 5*G
Mifune 2*A Kikuri 5*L R
Xenon 4*A
Mifune 2*L
Skeleton King 2*L
I honestly don't have that many rares, and not that much stuff in general. Maybe I should whale a bit, or start farming for some of the uncommons.
Do I just have a really crappy Atro, or do they genuinely not have any form of hit points? He's 1-1.5k below everyone else, always.
Edit: Actually, is this just a light element "thing"?
All of the starters are actually really bad.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
That's just the power creep. All the 5*'s have pretty much old 6* stats. The newest thing is the best thing stat-wise.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
I actually should probably evaluate my teams a bit more, see if I could be doing better.
My current go to team is:
Kikuri 5*Lord Leader
Xenon 4*A
Lorland 4*L (ready to evolve but I don't have the cost to handle it - also, holy crap, his 5* costs 20!?)
Selena 5*A
Lancia 5*A
My other team that I'm trying to segway into using, is a dual dark/light team:
Xenon 4*A Leader
Estia 4*O
Atro 5*B
Magress 5*G
Kikuri 5*L
I'm not sure Xenon and Estia are worth using really. Their BBs are quite nice, though.
My full unit list is as follows:
Fire:
Zegar 2*B
Galant 2*B Lancia 5*A R
Lorland 4*L R
Vishra 4*G R
Vishra 4*O R
Vargas 3*A
Zegar 2*G
Water:
Selena 5*A Leviathan 3*G R (My first Rare pull)
Stya 2*L Reeze 4*O R
Selena 3*L
Earth:
Lance 3*L
Nemia 2*A Il & Mina 4*O R
Lario 2*B
Thunder:
Eze 3*L
Weiss 2*L
Weiss 3*O
Weiss 4*G Kushra 4*G R
May 2*A (For Karl fight)
Light:
Atro 5*B Luna 4*B R
Maria 4*A Valkyrie 3*B R (Apparently I sold / fused a few of these thinking they were Angels. Goddamnit.)
Alma 2*B
Estia 4*O
Atro 2*B Luna 2*B R
Archangel 2*L
Dark:
Magress 5*G
Mifune 2*A Kikuri 5*L R
Xenon 4*A
Mifune 2*L
Skeleton King 2*L
I honestly don't have that many rares, and not that much stuff in general. Maybe I should whale a bit, or start farming for some of the uncommons.
I would eventually make a rainbow team out of your Kikuri, Twins, Lancia, Reeze OR Leviathan and Kushra. Though without a rainbow power 50% leader, you could probably change the units up a bit to whatever is strongest/preferable. We'll see if Estia/Xenon are worth keeping when the new event hits.
Reeze at 5* is pretty strong, and has one of the more useful arena BBs when it triggers. Leviathan is worth powering up just for his 6* leader ability, seeing as you have no other units that have the same effect.
When you start hurting for room in your roster, get rid of Skeleton King, Archangel, May, Maria, Alma, Lunas, Mifunes (though your Anima Mifune makes a strong arena unit for 5*) Lario, Weiss, Stya, Galant, Nemia and Zegars. They're all farmable, or don't have 6* evolutions, so they end up just being wasted space when you really need room to stockpile evo/fusion materials.
The dev announcement gave me my first Metal Key. Whats going to happen when I use it for the metal parade? My energy max is 19. How do I make the most of it?
The dev announcement gave me my first Metal Key. Whats going to happen when I use it for the metal parade? My energy max is 19. How do I make the most of it?
Metal Parade is a special dungeon that costs 15 energy. You'll get... 1000? 1500? XP out of it. I usually try to time my uses so that I level up after doing it as much as I can, so I can immediately do it again for "free."
It's a 5 fight dungeon where you fight Metal Ghosts. Very easy. Those ghosts are only used for either leveling up your team very fast, or turning mimics into Metal Mimics which are used for some super evolutions later on.
In short, make sure you have 15 stamina, try to aim for 1000... 1500? XP before next level before using it, and don't forget you can get a free key every few days in the administration hall in game.
Each run of Metal Parade gives 1,000xp and costs 15 energy.
If you have 19 energy, just farm regular quests until you are <1,000xp from a level up, then charge up 15 energy, enter the parade, and complete the parade for the level, then complete it again.
You can get more keys from the Imperial City, they give them out starting at midnight, and 4 times a week I think.
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Do I just have a really crappy Atro, or do they genuinely not have any form of hit points? He's 1-1.5k below everyone else, always.
Edit: Actually, is this just a light element "thing"?
All of the starters are actually really bad.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
That's just the power creep. All the 5*'s have pretty much old 6* stats. The newest thing is the best thing stat-wise.
The starters are still really bad for their evolution tier.
Compare all of the 5* starters to other 5* units. They make Agni's group look good. The 6* Starters are just barely better than most 5* units in terms of stats.
And I would actually rate Magress > Atro >>> Vargas >> Eze > Lance > Selena.
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Do I just have a really crappy Atro, or do they genuinely not have any form of hit points? He's 1-1.5k below everyone else, always.
Edit: Actually, is this just a light element "thing"?
All of the starters are actually really bad.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
That's just the power creep. All the 5*'s have pretty much old 6* stats. The newest thing is the best thing stat-wise.
The starters are still really bad for their evolution tier.
Compare all of the 5* starters to other 5* units. They make Agni's group look good. The 6* Starters are just barely better than most 5* units in terms of stats.
And I would actually rate Magress > Atro >>> Vargas >> Eze > Lance > Selena.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm saying that with the way new units are coming out, it's going to keep happening. Look at Alice/Will tier, they're already showing their age with each new 6* tier that comes out, Lemia tier 6* also don't hold up to even the 5*'s coming out.
They still have their perks with their skills and effects like the starters though.
Lunaris tier is a tick off 6*'s up to Logan tier, but we'll see what happens. Hopefully it starts to level off a bit.
I'm hoping they just buff all those older 6* units like the starters and such by like, 10-20% flat. No need for new 7* evos or whatever. Just raise the stats so they're in line with the new generations they'll keep wanting to put out.
Each run of Metal Parade gives 1,000xp and costs 15 energy.
If you have 19 energy, just farm regular quests until you are <1,000xp from a level up, then charge up 15 energy, enter the parade, and complete the parade for the level, then complete it again.
You can get more keys from the Imperial City, they give them out starting at midnight, and 4 times a week I think.
Metal keys are handed out once per day from the Summoner's Guild in the Imperial City on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Jewel Keys are handed out on Wednesday.
Probably after whatever this Inferno arena event that's going on. Fire unit summon rates are up. I'm tempted to hit it because I want some of the later gen units like Centaur, Farlon or Aisha. But knowing the RNG, I'll end up with Dragon Graven or Fire Beast Zegar, or a completely unrelated element.
Probably after whatever this Inferno arena event that's going on. Fire unit summon rates are up. I'm tempted to hit it because I want some of the later gen units like Centaur, Farlon or Aisha. But knowing the RNG, I'll end up with Dragon Graven or Fire Beast Zegar, or a completely unrelated element.
Thunderbird is always watching.
Also we apparently need Xenon/Estia in out squads for the next tower event hrmm....
Xenon Prologue is up. One day only. Requires Xenon and Estia, as mentioned.
I don't know how many levels are in the event, but the first one I'm burning through without much effort at all with my duo black/white team. Xenon leader, Estia, Kikuri, Atro and Magress. Wish I had had time to level Magress past 20. :P
So the rare mob is in this one, "Miracle Bulb." Required for both Estia and Xenon's 5 Star Evo. I got one my first run of Xenon Prologue 2, so it might not be a huge pain in the ass. I suggest getting 3, because...
There's also a new mob, like the twins: Xenon & Estia.
Light, 5 star, max level 80. Leader skill: 30% atk boost + 5% HP boost to everything NOT a light/dark unit; BB is Xenon + Estia's BBs at the same time (8 hit Light + Atk + Def buff for 2 turns). Unit is based on their pre-curse form. Pretty much designed to be a leader that will help out other players (and get you a ton of honor points). Not a bad idea, all things considered.
No evo for Xenon & Estia yet, but I wouldn't put it past them.
... Actually, I wonder if they might do a thing where you need Xenon and Estia to evolve Xenon & Estia to a 6 star form based on their post-curse form. That would be kinda interesting.
It's NOT a very hard dungeon at all so far. My only problem is my duo light/dark team doesn't have any healer. Why isn't Estia a healer, again?
Edit: Bosses appear to take the same form as the tower - they pick an element, throw one Rare + 2 Uncommons at you. For example, this one is Great FAlcon Ziz + two High Dancer Mays; the previous was a Valkyrie + 2 Wyverns. As in the tower, killing the two backup dancers first is a lot easier, and on yeah, AOE BB spam is still bullshit. (Fuck YOU, Ziz.)
Edit: Got a second Miracle Bulb in my second run of Prologue 1, and 2 more so far in Prologue 3.
Edit: X&E is not a 100% drop. They also extended it to 3 days.
Edit: After watching Ziz skullfuck me with AOE Spam bullshit + Paralysis (6 people alive but only 1 could move...) I switched my team, grabbed my Twins and my Chef.
X&E fight is a bit bullshitty. They auto buff their attack and defense at 50% HP with a nasty AOE. They attack 3-5 times a turn, and have a BB that is basically "hit them until they die". It was doing 2000+ single target damage to light units with a DEF buff up.
Stamina costs are 15/25/35, which puts the last one on that wonderful plateau that if I was going to gem it, I'd be wasting ~17 stamina to do so. Icky.
Xenon: Run the first tower 1-100 floors to get a Xenon. He can appear and drop on any floor.
Estia: Run the second tower 101-200 to get Estia. Can only be run once you've beat the first tower. Estia's drop rate was (is?) considerably lower than Xenon's.
I got my Anima X&E unit on first drop. @KiTA is right in that I wouldn't put it past them to make a 6* evo based either on having 5*Xenon and 5*Estia fused in, or another Miracle Bulb. Right now I only have a 5*Xenon. The bulb isn't any harder to kill than an idol/pot. X&E's attack animation is cute, and for a 5* unit, their stats are pretty good.
Estia's floors are significantly harder, including Estia herself, and the EXP for the tower floors is not that great. Comparatively, the Prologue event is a walk in the park. I feel like they screwed up in setting up the difficulty.
So, how many of the new unit (Xenon and Estia) is enough? I've already got two. It has decent stats and the leader skill and BB isn't terrible. Best of all, it comes in 5 star form, so there's none of that evolution bullshit. It's a solid addition to my light team. You could potentially make an entire team out of them.
[edit] Anyone notice how remarkably easy this new dungeon is? And the unit is remarkably easy to capture, especially considering how strong it is. Hopefully they won't lower the capture rate. Everyone should capture it before the developers lower the capture rate or up the difficulty level.
Apparently the leader skills is 30 percent atk, 5 HP and Rec for anything not light/dark. Again, good as a friend, not so great as a rainbow leader as they don't affect themselves.
I don't think this is the end of this event. I had the impression they were going to have us go after the witch that cursed X and E. And I remain convinced that there is a "dark" X&E evo upcoming.
Ah well, at least Estia's new face in X&E is a bit less derpy. Hopefully they can backport that face to Estia herself. :P
I'm torn on blowing more energy for another Miracle Bulb or not. I don't want to say they'll definitely give XE an evo. I suppose if they do, they wouldn't just spring it on us and leave those who didn't bother farming a third bulb on a limited time exclusive dungeon out.
Think I'll just spend my energy on the usual stuff - fulfilling the daily quests and parades.
Speaking of the daily quests though, kind of tempted to take an Angelic Foil, but if the Fire rate event is still active when we hit 1500 points, I'll go for a ticket.
I went and ran all three of the prologue levels without any problems and only saw XE once and one Miracle Bulb (neither dropped). I hope the drop rates are as high as suggested on this thread. I'm just waiting for my energy to recharge so I can run the level 3 version again.
I'm torn on blowing more energy for another Miracle Bulb or not. I don't want to say they'll definitely give XE an evo. I suppose if they do, they wouldn't just spring it on us and leave those who didn't bother farming a third bulb on a limited time exclusive dungeon out.
Think I'll just spend my energy on the usual stuff - fulfilling the daily quests and parades.
Speaking of the daily quests though, kind of tempted to take an Angelic Foil, but if the Fire rate event is still active when we hit 1500 points, I'll go for a ticket.
Eh, if they give a new evo for them I'm sure they'll bring the dungeon back as well.
I'm torn on blowing more energy for another Miracle Bulb or not. I don't want to say they'll definitely give XE an evo. I suppose if they do, they wouldn't just spring it on us and leave those who didn't bother farming a third bulb on a limited time exclusive dungeon out.
Think I'll just spend my energy on the usual stuff - fulfilling the daily quests and parades.
Speaking of the daily quests though, kind of tempted to take an Angelic Foil, but if the Fire rate event is still active when we hit 1500 points, I'll go for a ticket.
Eh, if they give a new evo for them I'm sure they'll bring the dungeon back as well.
There's absolutely no way we won't be seeing this again. They'll be bringing this event back every few months from now on.
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Duel GX is the superior sub for it, I think it's Duelmex/Fel and Behemoth leads, Michelle, Duel GX, Doug, Doug. I'm not sure if it works as well without Michelle/DGX 6* since they gain a lot of hits from it. I know you can sub a zebra in there as well.
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Ran the metal parade yesterday... Got 11 fusion materials for Fire. I didn't need them. So I fused them and cleared out the rest of my energy... Got 3 Fire Crystals in 3 runs, two in one run.
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Edit: Actually, is this just a light element "thing"?
KiTA is your Atro an Oracle? I think Atros in general have an anemic level of health, but an Oracle Atro would have it the worst.
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All of the starters are actually really bad.
They need their 6* forms to be better than other 5* units and are weaker than almost every single 6* unit. They just got their 6* forms first so they were really good for a little while.
Both 5* Farlon and Centaur are on par, if not better than, 6* Vargas in terms of stats. Once you get a fifth non-starter 6* unit of that element, I don't really see a reason to use the starter.
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I have a level 80 5* Oracle Atro. It has 3489 hp. I don't see any reason to upgrade this to the 6* version, even if I get the materials. Which is a shame, since Atro's SBB gives a defense/attack buff.
Both mine are Breakers.
I actually should probably evaluate my teams a bit more, see if I could be doing better.
My current go to team is:
Kikuri 5*Lord Leader
Xenon 4*A
Lorland 4*L (ready to evolve but I don't have the cost to handle it - also, holy crap, his 5* costs 20!?)
Selena 5*A
Lancia 5*A
My other team that I'm trying to segway into using, is a dual dark/light team:
Xenon 4*A Leader
Estia 4*O
Atro 5*B
Magress 5*G
Kikuri 5*L
I'm not sure Xenon and Estia are worth using really. Their BBs are quite nice, though.
My full unit list is as follows:
Zegar 2*B
Galant 2*B
Lancia 5*A R
Lorland 4*L R
Vishra 4*G R
Vishra 4*O R
Vargas 3*A
Zegar 2*G
Water:
Selena 5*A
Leviathan 3*G R (My first Rare pull)
Stya 2*L
Reeze 4*O R
Selena 3*L
Earth:
Lance 3*L
Nemia 2*A
Il & Mina 4*O R
Lario 2*B
Thunder:
Eze 3*L
Weiss 2*L
Weiss 3*O
Weiss 4*G
Kushra 4*G R
May 2*A (For Karl fight)
Light:
Atro 5*B
Luna 4*B R
Maria 4*A
Valkyrie 3*B R (Apparently I sold / fused a few of these thinking they were Angels. Goddamnit.)
Alma 2*B
Estia 4*O
Atro 2*B
Luna 2*B R
Archangel 2*L
Dark:
Magress 5*G
Mifune 2*A
Kikuri 5*L R
Xenon 4*A
Mifune 2*L
Skeleton King 2*L
I honestly don't have that many rares, and not that much stuff in general. Maybe I should whale a bit, or start farming for some of the uncommons.
That's just the power creep. All the 5*'s have pretty much old 6* stats. The newest thing is the best thing stat-wise.
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I would eventually make a rainbow team out of your Kikuri, Twins, Lancia, Reeze OR Leviathan and Kushra. Though without a rainbow power 50% leader, you could probably change the units up a bit to whatever is strongest/preferable. We'll see if Estia/Xenon are worth keeping when the new event hits.
Reeze at 5* is pretty strong, and has one of the more useful arena BBs when it triggers. Leviathan is worth powering up just for his 6* leader ability, seeing as you have no other units that have the same effect.
When you start hurting for room in your roster, get rid of Skeleton King, Archangel, May, Maria, Alma, Lunas, Mifunes (though your Anima Mifune makes a strong arena unit for 5*) Lario, Weiss, Stya, Galant, Nemia and Zegars. They're all farmable, or don't have 6* evolutions, so they end up just being wasted space when you really need room to stockpile evo/fusion materials.
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You think a rainbow team of my rares is worth using? Hm.
Metal Parade is a special dungeon that costs 15 energy. You'll get... 1000? 1500? XP out of it. I usually try to time my uses so that I level up after doing it as much as I can, so I can immediately do it again for "free."
It's a 5 fight dungeon where you fight Metal Ghosts. Very easy. Those ghosts are only used for either leveling up your team very fast, or turning mimics into Metal Mimics which are used for some super evolutions later on.
In short, make sure you have 15 stamina, try to aim for 1000... 1500? XP before next level before using it, and don't forget you can get a free key every few days in the administration hall in game.
If you have 19 energy, just farm regular quests until you are <1,000xp from a level up, then charge up 15 energy, enter the parade, and complete the parade for the level, then complete it again.
You can get more keys from the Imperial City, they give them out starting at midnight, and 4 times a week I think.
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The starters are still really bad for their evolution tier.
Compare all of the 5* starters to other 5* units. They make Agni's group look good. The 6* Starters are just barely better than most 5* units in terms of stats.
And I would actually rate Magress > Atro >>> Vargas >> Eze > Lance > Selena.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm saying that with the way new units are coming out, it's going to keep happening. Look at Alice/Will tier, they're already showing their age with each new 6* tier that comes out, Lemia tier 6* also don't hold up to even the 5*'s coming out.
They still have their perks with their skills and effects like the starters though.
Lunaris tier is a tick off 6*'s up to Logan tier, but we'll see what happens. Hopefully it starts to level off a bit.
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Metal keys are handed out once per day from the Summoner's Guild in the Imperial City on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Jewel Keys are handed out on Wednesday.
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Thunderbird is always watching.
Also we apparently need Xenon/Estia in out squads for the next tower event hrmm....
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I don't know how many levels are in the event, but the first one I'm burning through without much effort at all with my duo black/white team. Xenon leader, Estia, Kikuri, Atro and Magress. Wish I had had time to level Magress past 20. :P
So the rare mob is in this one, "Miracle Bulb." Required for both Estia and Xenon's 5 Star Evo. I got one my first run of Xenon Prologue 2, so it might not be a huge pain in the ass. I suggest getting 3, because...
There's also a new mob, like the twins: Xenon & Estia.
Light, 5 star, max level 80. Leader skill: 30% atk boost + 5% HP boost to everything NOT a light/dark unit; BB is Xenon + Estia's BBs at the same time (8 hit Light + Atk + Def buff for 2 turns). Unit is based on their pre-curse form. Pretty much designed to be a leader that will help out other players (and get you a ton of honor points). Not a bad idea, all things considered.
No evo for Xenon & Estia yet, but I wouldn't put it past them.
... Actually, I wonder if they might do a thing where you need Xenon and Estia to evolve Xenon & Estia to a 6 star form based on their post-curse form. That would be kinda interesting.
It's NOT a very hard dungeon at all so far. My only problem is my duo light/dark team doesn't have any healer. Why isn't Estia a healer, again?
Edit: Bosses appear to take the same form as the tower - they pick an element, throw one Rare + 2 Uncommons at you. For example, this one is Great FAlcon Ziz + two High Dancer Mays; the previous was a Valkyrie + 2 Wyverns. As in the tower, killing the two backup dancers first is a lot easier, and on yeah, AOE BB spam is still bullshit. (Fuck YOU, Ziz.)
Edit: Got a second Miracle Bulb in my second run of Prologue 1, and 2 more so far in Prologue 3.
Edit: X&E is not a 100% drop. They also extended it to 3 days.
Edit: After watching Ziz skullfuck me with AOE Spam bullshit + Paralysis (6 people alive but only 1 could move...) I switched my team, grabbed my Twins and my Chef.
X&E fight is a bit bullshitty. They auto buff their attack and defense at 50% HP with a nasty AOE. They attack 3-5 times a turn, and have a BB that is basically "hit them until they die". It was doing 2000+ single target damage to light units with a DEF buff up.
Stamina costs are 15/25/35, which puts the last one on that wonderful plateau that if I was going to gem it, I'd be wasting ~17 stamina to do so. Icky.
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Estia: Run the second tower 101-200 to get Estia. Can only be run once you've beat the first tower. Estia's drop rate was (is?) considerably lower than Xenon's.
I got my Anima X&E unit on first drop. @KiTA is right in that I wouldn't put it past them to make a 6* evo based either on having 5*Xenon and 5*Estia fused in, or another Miracle Bulb. Right now I only have a 5*Xenon. The bulb isn't any harder to kill than an idol/pot. X&E's attack animation is cute, and for a 5* unit, their stats are pretty good.
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[edit] Anyone notice how remarkably easy this new dungeon is? And the unit is remarkably easy to capture, especially considering how strong it is. Hopefully they won't lower the capture rate. Everyone should capture it before the developers lower the capture rate or up the difficulty level.
Apparently the leader skills is 30 percent atk, 5 HP and Rec for anything not light/dark. Again, good as a friend, not so great as a rainbow leader as they don't affect themselves.
I don't think this is the end of this event. I had the impression they were going to have us go after the witch that cursed X and E. And I remain convinced that there is a "dark" X&E evo upcoming.
Ah well, at least Estia's new face in X&E is a bit less derpy. Hopefully they can backport that face to Estia herself. :P
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Think I'll just spend my energy on the usual stuff - fulfilling the daily quests and parades.
Speaking of the daily quests though, kind of tempted to take an Angelic Foil, but if the Fire rate event is still active when we hit 1500 points, I'll go for a ticket.
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Eh, if they give a new evo for them I'm sure they'll bring the dungeon back as well.
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There's absolutely no way we won't be seeing this again. They'll be bringing this event back every few months from now on.
The Global only event. It's a series of 2, now 3, dungeons with three fairly powerful 5 star units as the reward.
Edit: And by fairly powerful, boy howdy -- X&E has some really crazy stats for a 5 star.
Still though, for a free* unit, it's not bad at all.
*If you consider the amount of stamina, garbage exp and probably gems you used to beat both towers and capture both of them "free"
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