Yeah, my SBs are... awful at best, and I was off for a couple weeks, so missed a few things in the middle. I've got WoL's dumbass sword, Celes and Shadow's weapons (yet not Celes and Shadow), leaving just Bartz and Rinoa, and I don't have their MC1s, so they're not regulars generally. And Tyro's blehness too, I guess. Made a bad beginner banner pick because I was dumb. I've been saving up mithril for the last few weeks since I do have a couple decent X swords already, and the bonus battles for this event look pretty easy, but I already have a bunch of 5* VII swords and katanas too, so I'm not sure I can justify pulling on that, despite how tempting Cloud's thingy is. Maybe I'll get lucky with VIII and get Mighty Guard and a couple heavy armors so my guys stop being so glass cannony.
and then he dropped a major power orb! took a decent number of S/Ls to get through the first phase since i don't have any AoE damage except R3 ruinga, but only took 2 tries that got through the beginning. can finally give the FFX event a look.
Yuna is going to have to step up her game for me to use her in the FFX event when I have healing monster Lenna right there.
The only reason I use Yuna instead of Lenna in my party right now is because Yuna can use summons (I have a physical-focused party that usually only runs one black mage) and I have a shared Medica.
Some of the WHMs have Shellga as a default, like Eiko, that's pretty good. Gilgamesh has a self +35% ATK boost, which is good. Celes gives the party +50% RES that stacks with Shellga, which can be handy.
Most of the ones that do damage are underwhelming once you start making 2* abilities.
I've just been working on getting caught up on story dungeons. I'm on DU15 now. Yay!
Is there somewhere in-game you can check what Dungeon Update you're on, or do you have to refer to external sources?
Does anybody have a default SB that isn't garbage?
A rare few. In addition to the above you have Aeris being extremely helpful at times with aoe stop. Lenna's I didn't consider terrible until the addition of Momento of Prayer. White Mage at least has a medica which is pretty solid as seen by the desirability of shared SB medicas (which I think is the same level as hers). P. Cecil offers up a micro wall which if you are using him and don't have another wall is handy.
You might note that these all seem kinda meh at best. That's kind of the level you get at best unless you are Celes. Celes SB is really nice cause it stacks with everything.
You could kind of say now that Tyro's default soulbreak is decent, relative to other default soulbreaks, if you replace his original default with the new one from the 10m download book.
Things to look for in natural SBs. Any kind of buffs (shelga, regen, +stat%) will all be good, for a natural SB. Less good but still decent are debuffs, like Vanilles deshell. Debuffs suffer from a lack of stackability since you can get the same effect from breaks/down and dances. Finally status effects can be useful against bosses weak to them.
For the most part, anything that is pure damage is garabage. About the only one worse than Yuna's is Terra's, unless you happen to have a magic sword.
All caught up on dungeons, which is good since the next few days seem pretty busy with events. Jecht's bonus stuff tonight, Goldo's tomorrow then Cloud's event starts on Saturday.
I'd argue Terra's is the worst natural SB (by a non-core character) in the game, followed by Rinoa, THEN Yuna. Terra and Rinoa's have better damage multipliers than Yuna, but they're both single-target and based on their attack stat. Rinoa's is ranged, so she's at least got that going for her over Terra.
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White Mage and Black Mage have better SBs than Terra. Probably summoner too.
First half of the fight with mitigation spells are doing 1k ish single target 600ish aoe.
Then, for reasons I cannot discern his spells start doing 2500 aoe and 4k single target through shell, sg, and full break.
What the actual fuck? I can get him down to 1/3 health or so, being sure to refresh mitigation, and he will, without fail, wipe me in a single two cast turn if I push him any further.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
Edit: and I'm not talking about hurricane, his elemental spells.
I think I might have said this before, but what they ought to do is add some sort of quest or upgrade system to allow players to permanently improve the default SBs.
First half of the fight with mitigation spells are doing 1k ish single target 600ish aoe.
Then, for reasons I cannot discern his spells start doing 2500 aoe and 4k single target through shell, sg, and full break.
What the actual fuck? I can get him down to 1/3 health or so, being sure to refresh mitigation, and he will, without fail, wipe me in a single two cast turn if I push him any further.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
His spells all get stronger in his last phase; he basically upgrades his -agas to -ajas. Though, if you have Shell, SG, Magic Breakdown and Full Break active, they shouldn't be hitting quite that hard, unless your base Resistance amounts with equipment are super low.
yea even with the ajas through SG/Shell/Magic Breakdown/Full Break they didn't even crack 1000. The Holy and Flare would get to 1500ish and I lost tyro to a hurricane/flare combo, but lol no death requirement.
If you're having trouble taking that much damage even with all those layers of mitigation, consider bringing something like Heroic Harmony as a RW (if you have Native Wall, that is.)
If you're having trouble taking that much damage even with all those layers of mitigation, consider bringing something like Heroic Harmony as a RW (if you have Native Wall, that is.)
If you're having trouble taking that much damage even with all those layers of mitigation, consider bringing something like Heroic Harmony as a RW (if you have Native Wall, that is.)
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It's a scary notion, honestly. Another 109 mythril that's not going anywhere, but after that it's all events, daily login bonuses and random DeNa gifts. I might actually have to stop impulse spending so much mythril all the time. Fortunately what I've spent so far has gotten me sufficiently good shit to do anything short of physical lifesiphon SSB spam teams.
I must be dense or something, but I don't understand what's going on in that updated UI screenshot. Furthermore, I don't have a problem whatsoever with the current system. Pick a realm, pick classic or elite, and go. There's nothing at all bad, broken, or disorganized about the current UI.
I must be dense or something, but I don't understand what's going on in that updated UI screenshot. Furthermore, I don't have a problem whatsoever with the current system. Pick a realm, pick classic or elite, and go. There's nothing at all bad, broken, or disorganized about the current UI.
The dungeons unlock in a certain order....the tree setup shows you that order and just lets you go from one to the next without unnecessarily bouncing between realms and screens. It's basically more efficient in every way.
By comparison the old method is very much bad, broken, and disorganized.
It also shows you at a glance where characters unlock.
Again, better in every way.
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That screenshot shows the dungeons as they unlock in a sort of matrix. It separates them into dungeon updates and when you beat the last classic or elite it says Coming Soon instead of pointing to the next dungeon. I believe the screenshot is showing FF5 Dungeon 31-33 and FF10 Dungeon 24 and 25 (Tyro is on 25).
I'd argue Terra's is the worst natural SB (by a non-core character) in the game, followed by Rinoa, THEN Yuna. Terra and Rinoa's have better damage multipliers than Yuna, but they're both single-target and based on their attack stat. Rinoa's is ranged, so she's at least got that going for her over Terra.
I don't know, Setzer's is amazingly bad. Sure, you have a 1 in 6 chance of doing 6666 damage, but if you don't you do at most 555 damage, more likely in the double digits or less.
Pretty much all default SB's that aren't a buff or status effect are bleh. Little more than a slightly enhanced regular attack, which probably mathematically doesn't even work out given the increased ATB time for it.
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When I just want to run through a bunch of elites in the same realm with the same crew (probably because they're all realm synergy) the classic/door view is best. When I'm just clearing story content, I like the flowchart view, because fuck all that trying to jump around between realms business. Similarly, if I want to find a mission that costs exactly 57 stamina because that's how much I have and I'm going to get a refill from whatever I do, I find it easier to click through the flowchart than to hop between realms, since the flowchart shows what you've already done at a glance, rather than needing to click into say VI and scrolling down the whole list before realizing no, I've already done all of those except for two that are 80 stamina.
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and then he dropped a major power orb! took a decent number of S/Ls to get through the first phase since i don't have any AoE damage except R3 ruinga, but only took 2 tries that got through the beginning. can finally give the FFX event a look.
I've just been working on getting caught up on story dungeons. I'm on DU15 now. Yay!
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Edit: It's a 1.1 multiplier non-elemental AoE attack. A 1* black magic spell has a 1.5 multiplier.
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The only reason I use Yuna instead of Lenna in my party right now is because Yuna can use summons (I have a physical-focused party that usually only runs one black mage) and I have a shared Medica.
Does anybody have a default SB that isn't garbage?
Most of the ones that do damage are underwhelming once you start making 2* abilities.
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A rare few. In addition to the above you have Aeris being extremely helpful at times with aoe stop. Lenna's I didn't consider terrible until the addition of Momento of Prayer. White Mage at least has a medica which is pretty solid as seen by the desirability of shared SB medicas (which I think is the same level as hers). P. Cecil offers up a micro wall which if you are using him and don't have another wall is handy.
You might note that these all seem kinda meh at best. That's kind of the level you get at best unless you are Celes. Celes SB is really nice cause it stacks with everything.
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For the most part, anything that is pure damage is garabage. About the only one worse than Yuna's is Terra's, unless you happen to have a magic sword.
All caught up on dungeons, which is good since the next few days seem pretty busy with events. Jecht's bonus stuff tonight, Goldo's tomorrow then Cloud's event starts on Saturday.
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First half of the fight with mitigation spells are doing 1k ish single target 600ish aoe.
Then, for reasons I cannot discern his spells start doing 2500 aoe and 4k single target through shell, sg, and full break.
What the actual fuck? I can get him down to 1/3 health or so, being sure to refresh mitigation, and he will, without fail, wipe me in a single two cast turn if I push him any further.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
Edit: and I'm not talking about hurricane, his elemental spells.
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His spells all get stronger in his last phase; he basically upgrades his -agas to -ajas. Though, if you have Shell, SG, Magic Breakdown and Full Break active, they shouldn't be hitting quite that hard, unless your base Resistance amounts with equipment are super low.
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It's about damn time. Now I just have to work through... 109 elite dungeons. Yeesh.
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And yet I do it anyway. I keep fighting...to farm those orbs. Any answers I find are a bonus.
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It's a scary notion, honestly. Another 109 mythril that's not going anywhere, but after that it's all events, daily login bonuses and random DeNa gifts. I might actually have to stop impulse spending so much mythril all the time. Fortunately what I've spent so far has gotten me sufficiently good shit to do anything short of physical lifesiphon SSB spam teams.
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The dungeons unlock in a certain order....the tree setup shows you that order and just lets you go from one to the next without unnecessarily bouncing between realms and screens. It's basically more efficient in every way.
By comparison the old method is very much bad, broken, and disorganized.
It also shows you at a glance where characters unlock.
Again, better in every way.
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I don't know, Setzer's is amazingly bad. Sure, you have a 1 in 6 chance of doing 6666 damage, but if you don't you do at most 555 damage, more likely in the double digits or less.
Also, bonus question - are the Jecht bonus battles dropping tonight?
Yes and has been ever since the ui update.
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