MND affects the duration of "named" status effects like Protect, Shell, Regen, Haste, Stop, Slow, etc. It doesn't affect miscellaneous stat ups and stat downs, like +50% ATK or -40% ATK/MAG.
So in the case of Shout, Ramza's MND will determine how long everyone is hasted for, but in all circumstances the party will have +50% ATK for 25 seconds.
Just realized that when I tried fighting Bahamut Fury to rest out Sephiroth, I had Sephiroth equipped with the Mememto Ring for the purpose of evading Exaflare. I'll let you figure out why that's a bit messed up.
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
Wow everyone pulled on this non curated banner right before osbfest!
To be honest, I'm not sure there are that many OSBs I care about. I got extremely lucky and got the one that's most useful to me, but until we get the Holy ones they're kinda bleh (like the early BSBs).
It's a gambling thing. A new banner with the chance of Onion Gauntlets is gonna draw people in. Especially people who have had and enjoy seeing lucky pulls from banners.
I just had poor impulse control. Half price banner, why not?! Well cause my mythril count was actually pretty low, but oh well. Pulling is fun, even if I should have waited.
I rationalized it by telling myself I still have a ton of extra mythril in addition to what we're getting due to having lots of realm dungeons to catch up on, but honestly I'm having a bit of buyers remorse
I always justify it by saying "25 mythril is nothing!" but 25 mythril is indeed something. It's half way to making another good pull on a better banner.
Most of the time I'm all about pulling on Lucky Banners, especially when i was newer to the game and pretty much every soul break was an asset. But I'm also just now reading about how good the FFXIV banner will be, and that in conjunction with the OSBfest is just a lot at once.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
Gotta stay strong. I need Mythril for:
FFV: Up to 100
FF14: Up to 200
TG Cid: Up to 100
If theyre's any leftover (ha!):
OSBfest
Cid Raine's BSB
Maybe refreshing during Orbfest, but I think not this time.
Saving for 2nd Anniversary Lucky banners and Fest banners.
How viable is it to turn Ramza into a SB battery? Have some other support do the breakage and have Ramza do nothing but Shout, charge up SB via Lifesiphon and Entrust to whoever needs a charge?
Entrust doesn't really charge THAT much, is the problem.
I think the bigger problem is that you have timing issues - if you're trying to juggle Shout and Entrust you may have to push one or the other back for a turn or two. It's much worse than trying to juggle two SBs because Entrust transfers your entire bar instead of just using up one gauge.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
hope you're all preparing for the 2nd anniversary celebration 255 nemesis fight
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
Yeah, I'm not pulling specifically for that fight. If I get the pieces, cool beans; if I don't, eh. Six months ago I wouldn't have wanted to be unable to clear it; nowadays I'm a bit more pragmatic.
hope you're all preparing for the 2nd anniversary celebration 255 nemesis fight
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
have fun
doesn't give me anything, kinda don't care. it's a trash fight made trash on purpose. shrugggg.
though, speaking of things that do give me something, this FF7 CM is hard. I've gotten him down to about 10-15% a few times, but it's so difficult to get over the hump without a native hastega or boostga or any real damage SBs. Can't get out enough damage before walls runs out
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
hope you're all preparing for the 2nd anniversary celebration 255 nemesis fight
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
have fun
I've been basing a lot of my pull decisions on that fight. Based on various threads at the time, the common pieces to success were (and keep in mind you can only have one piece per realm):
Stacking -MAG debuff such as Vaan's BSB (12, various)
Wall (Core or 14)
Guts (4, 6, 8, or 14)
Instant cast Medica (2, 3, 13)
Healing BSB with command Medica (various)
Reflect Damage (14)
Hastega (various)
One of these can be RW'ed, the others you need naturally. Note there is some overlap between categories.
hope you're all preparing for the 2nd anniversary celebration 255 nemesis fight
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
have fun
I've been basing a lot of my pull decisions on that fight. Based on various threads at the time, the common pieces to success were (and keep in mind you can only have one piece per realm):
Stacking -MAG debuff such as Vaan's BSB (12, various)
Wall (Core or 14)
Guts (4, 6, 8, or 14)
Instant cast Medica (2, 3, 13)
Healing BSB with command Medica (various)
Reflect Damage (14)
Hastega (various)
One of these can be RW'ed, the others you need naturally. Note there is some overlap between categories.
Overlap, indeed; that's 7 things you "need" to bring.
BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
I could theoretically do that fight with a combo of
Vaan
Ramza
Relm
Tyro
Alphinaud
Although apparently more than one medica is strongly advised, if I get Y'shtola's BSB i'll be in much better shape but then I'd need to switch her with Alphinaud
hope you're all preparing for the 2nd anniversary celebration 255 nemesis fight
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
have fun
doesn't give me anything, kinda don't care. it's a trash fight made trash on purpose. shrugggg.
though, speaking of things that do give me something, this FF7 CM is hard. I've gotten him down to about 10-15% a few times, but it's so difficult to get over the hump without a native hastega or boostga or any real damage SBs. Can't get out enough damage before walls runs out
Try delaying the first Wall until 80% or so. You can deal with the damage with Protectga and breaks. Its the Scorchers that will kill you and they don't start until the boss hits 71% or somewhere near there. That should let your second Wall last until the end.
hope you're all preparing for the 2nd anniversary celebration 255 nemesis fight
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
have fun
I've been basing a lot of my pull decisions on that fight. Based on various threads at the time, the common pieces to success were (and keep in mind you can only have one piece per realm):
Stacking -MAG debuff such as Vaan's BSB (12, various)
Wall (Core or 14)
Guts (4, 6, 8, or 14)
Instant cast Medica (2, 3, 13)
Healing BSB with command Medica (various)
Reflect Damage (14)
Hastega (various)
One of these can be RW'ed, the others you need naturally. Note there is some overlap between categories.
7 has an Insta cast medica as well. I am missing 2 items off that list sadly, and both of them are the newest effects. I like to make due with less than what people say is required, but I don't see a way around a group death insta gib. Reraise just doesn't seem like it will cut it.
Guts is what Reraise should have been from the start, there's a reason they only put out a couple Reraise medicas.
Before the power creep of Shout it was semi-useable. Losing haste hurt, but really if you are dying at any point other than the very end of the fight you have some serious problems so you didn't lose out on a ton of actions. The post Shout world of balancing around huge attack/magic buffs just leaves it completely junk.
Is Guts something like prevents what would be a deathblow, instead of the equivalent of using Raise after a KO? My main WHMs are Eiko and Aeris, both who have Medica/Reraise, and the latter is pretty useless considering it wipes out all of their buffs
With Guts status, if you would die, you instead get reduced to 5% HP (or raised to it, if you were lower than that when you took the fatal damage). I reckon that act of surviving removes the Guts status.
Even with RW Dusk Decree, the Ultimate was WAY harder than the non-CM U+ and U++. Heck, the only butt-clencher during the U++ was when I got unlucky once and Hexaflare only missed two people.
Man y'all make it seem like I got extremely unlucky on the U++. I haven't had to reset that many times in forever. He kept double hitting one person with Hexafang before any mitigation could be put up and killing them. With absolutely insane consistency.
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So in the case of Shout, Ramza's MND will determine how long everyone is hasted for, but in all circumstances the party will have +50% ATK for 25 seconds.
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I didn't!
Mostly because I'm not sure if I'll have enough mythril to pull on both >_>
FFV: Up to 100
FF14: Up to 200
TG Cid: Up to 100
If theyre's any leftover (ha!):
OSBfest
Cid Raine's BSB
Maybe refreshing during Orbfest, but I think not this time.
Saving for 2nd Anniversary Lucky banners and Fest banners.
I think the bigger problem is that you have timing issues - if you're trying to juggle Shout and Entrust you may have to push one or the other back for a turn or two. It's much worse than trying to juggle two SBs because Entrust transfers your entire bar instead of just using up one gauge.
a fight where you have to do 500k damage to a boss who routinely does 99999 to everyone every 7th turn
and aoe slows
and spams instant 3k+ attacks that ignore defense and blinks
(hint: guts/last stand and radiant shield)
(ps if you bring more than one character from a certain realm the boss buffs himself to be literally unkillable)
have fun
That reminds me of the absolute fuckfest that was Omega, where lol hope you like RNG cause if Stop ever falls off you die
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Nah fuck that.
doesn't give me anything, kinda don't care. it's a trash fight made trash on purpose. shrugggg.
though, speaking of things that do give me something, this FF7 CM is hard. I've gotten him down to about 10-15% a few times, but it's so difficult to get over the hump without a native hastega or boostga or any real damage SBs. Can't get out enough damage before walls runs out
I've been basing a lot of my pull decisions on that fight. Based on various threads at the time, the common pieces to success were (and keep in mind you can only have one piece per realm):
Stacking -MAG debuff such as Vaan's BSB (12, various)
Wall (Core or 14)
Guts (4, 6, 8, or 14)
Instant cast Medica (2, 3, 13)
Healing BSB with command Medica (various)
Reflect Damage (14)
Hastega (various)
One of these can be RW'ed, the others you need naturally. Note there is some overlap between categories.
Overlap, indeed; that's 7 things you "need" to bring.
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Vaan
Ramza
Relm
Tyro
Alphinaud
Although apparently more than one medica is strongly advised, if I get Y'shtola's BSB i'll be in much better shape but then I'd need to switch her with Alphinaud
Then again, RK has Papalymo using Enochian, and Thancred using mudras, so it's kind of past the point of being a thing to complain about, I suppose.
but the p r e s t i g e
Try delaying the first Wall until 80% or so. You can deal with the damage with Protectga and breaks. Its the Scorchers that will kill you and they don't start until the boss hits 71% or somewhere near there. That should let your second Wall last until the end.
Did nobody kill him with their own damage, and leave the Radiant Shield out?
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7 has an Insta cast medica as well. I am missing 2 items off that list sadly, and both of them are the newest effects. I like to make due with less than what people say is required, but I don't see a way around a group death insta gib. Reraise just doesn't seem like it will cut it.
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Before the power creep of Shout it was semi-useable. Losing haste hurt, but really if you are dying at any point other than the very end of the fight you have some serious problems so you didn't lose out on a ton of actions. The post Shout world of balancing around huge attack/magic buffs just leaves it completely junk.
Reraise kind of had to be included because it's something of a traditional FF buff, though.
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Even with RW Dusk Decree, the Ultimate was WAY harder than the non-CM U+ and U++. Heck, the only butt-clencher during the U++ was when I got unlucky once and Hexaflare only missed two people.