I have to say, more than trying to have a super ultra OP team (since I don't spend/play enough to ever get that), my (really) long term goal is to put together parties with my favorite characters from my favorite FF games. Something like:
FF4: Cecil, Kain, Tellah, Rydia, and Rosa (I'd totally try and get Palom and Porom if they ever release those)
FF6: Locke, Celes, Terra, Edgar and Sabin
FFT: Ramza, Cid, Delita, Agrias, and Rafa (if she ever gets released)
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
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Hah spent a while yesterday killing the robot trial on JP. Don't have Rem or any of the good re-raise characters to prevent having to raise someone every turn (or Rikku's TM or the dps to try doing the body first) , so had to dedicate someone to raising every turn (rikku's 70mp raise) and use a friend Ramza + occasional help from Tilith to keep MP up.
Then today they announce some details of new enhancements and Charlotte's 6*. Looks like she has a new skill that completely negates that mechanic making the whole thing a lot easier. Oh well.
Looked at the new enhancements on JP's side. The Luneth enhancements don't seem that great? I think? Would need to see actual numbers, but some of those enhancements they gave to other characters knocked it out of the park. Luneth gets some damage up and is forced to use a lower tier skill to turn Cut Through into an upgraded skill. I guess depending on how good that upgraded skill is, then it makes a difference. I'd hope for at least a multi-hit chain attack like all the good 5* base units have.
Bartz and Exdeath got some big love, though. I'm excited for those. Everyone has an Exdeath and Bartz by now and their enhancements are great. Turning Bartz's 540% Hybrid attack into a stronger skill (making it on par with other non-hybrid skills most likely) and AoE is nice. Exdeath's Meteor now does MORE damage and multi-hits!
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Looked at the new enhancements on JP's side. The Luneth enhancements don't seem that great? I think? Would need to see actual numbers, but some of those enhancements they gave to other characters knocked it out of the park. Luneth gets some damage up and is forced to use a lower tier skill to turn Cut Through into an upgraded skill. I guess depending on how good that upgraded skill is, then it makes a difference. I'd hope for at least a multi-hit chain attack like all the good 5* base units have.
Bartz and Exdeath got some big love, though. I'm excited for those. Everyone has an Exdeath and Bartz by now and their enhancements are great. Turning Bartz's 540% Hybrid attack into a stronger skill (making it on par with other non-hybrid skills most likely) and AoE is nice. Exdeath's Meteor now does MORE damage and multi-hits!
Looked at the new enhancements on JP's side. The Luneth enhancements don't seem that great? I think? Would need to see actual numbers, but some of those enhancements they gave to other characters knocked it out of the park. Luneth gets some damage up and is forced to use a lower tier skill to turn Cut Through into an upgraded skill. I guess depending on how good that upgraded skill is, then it makes a difference. I'd hope for at least a multi-hit chain attack like all the good 5* base units have.
Bartz and Exdeath got some big love, though. I'm excited for those. Everyone has an Exdeath and Bartz by now and their enhancements are great. Turning Bartz's 540% Hybrid attack into a stronger skill (making it on par with other non-hybrid skills most likely) and AoE is nice. Exdeath's Meteor now does MORE damage and multi-hits!
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The compensation, at a minimum, should include as much NRG as the maintenance duration would have regenerated, and as many gears as one could farm running the 13 NRG stage constantly throughout. 5 hours' worth of NRG and 200 lapis is pretty silly.
What was supposed to be in this update anyway? The holiday UI? I'm guessing that's what screwed things up.
my guess is that they tested and found another infinite arena bug or other game breaking issue with the arena and instead of going with it instead stopped to fix it.
if it was a UI glitch, unless it was literally unplayable, they would have just rolled it out as a bug.
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The reddit forums are feeling super entitled today. It's not as if time and time again, someone doesn't remind them of how bad Gumi is at this sort of thing, and that ex-Gumi AMA kind of confirmed all the worst fears about their dev team. It really shouldn't be so surprising.
This event has just been the worst, though. I'm not even upset about the arena orbs or whatever because it's not like other people are getting in raising their ranks before I can. We're all locked out. The fact that the currency drops are so LOW, but the price of the items are the same as they've been for other events where we got 3-5x more currency is a joke. I need 17000 gears to get the last 3 tickets. I might not even bother trying for the cheapest moogle. I might just do the work for the 100 gigantuars though. It's roughly equivalent to use a Lightning unit to get 200 gears and get two of them for about the same NRG as it would be to run Miranda Coast for the same exp, in about 1/10th the time, and the occasional 500/1000 bonus gears would make it faster.
I've only dabbled in FFRK, but does it have the same issues that BE has? Or is its team/code better? I'm kinda debating whether to spend more time in RK over BE, if theres a continuing preponderance of technical issues with BE. :sad:
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
The reddit forums are feeling super entitled today. It's not as if time and time again, someone doesn't remind them of how bad Gumi is at this sort of thing, and that ex-Gumi AMA kind of confirmed all the worst fears about their dev team. It really shouldn't be so surprising.
This event has just been the worst, though. I'm not even upset about the arena orbs or whatever because it's not like other people are getting in raising their ranks before I can. We're all locked out. The fact that the currency drops are so LOW, but the price of the items are the same as they've been for other events where we got 3-5x more currency is a joke. I need 17000 gears to get the last 3 tickets. I might not even bother trying for the cheapest moogle. I might just do the work for the 100 gigantuars though. It's roughly equivalent to use a Lightning unit to get 200 gears and get two of them for about the same NRG as it would be to run Miranda Coast for the same exp, in about 1/10th the time, and the occasional 500/1000 bonus gears would make it faster.
The best place to farm exp at the moment gives 66k/13 energy, takes a long time, and is a fair bit of effort. Elite here is 13 energy too, and gives ~100 gears BASE, so as long as you can bring enough units to hit 100% bonus, which is trivial now that a friend Lightning gives that alone, you're getting close to that for a fraction of the effort. And if you can bring any more bonus units over that, or hit a metal cactuar basically ever, you're doing much better than the best exp farm otherwise. Plus, the experience is banked for the future for whatever you might pull in the future. You probably need to be able to hit around 200% on the bonuses for the Pro level to surpass the very best normal farm, but just a friend Lightning absolutely gets you better return rate than the Exp Vortex.
FFRK is handled by a totally different developer, and right now is not a bad time to start getting into it as they're building up to an Orbfest/10 day long event of really great relics shared across banners that only last for 2 days instead of the usual 10. Basically, expect a lot of premium currency as presents and the currency in general in that game is much more consistent than it is in FFBE.
Maintenances only happen every couple of months, and there has rarely been an extension for no real reason. I can't recall the last time there's been a game-breaking bug, either. The game is very optimized for many devices, and runs fairly well without crashes.
I'm at the point in FFRK where it's not exactly 'fun' anymore (I have been playing over a year). I just log in and go through the motions of the events where I auto-battle everything and move forward with the content. I'm having way more fun with FFBE right now.
But it should speak volumes that I still login to FFRK even if I'm not enjoying it as much as I used to.... I've been playing over a year on a gacha game. I've never played a game so consistently in my life.
Rates of items on a HIGHLY anticipated banner got messed up because they fucked around with event order and pushed a banner from BEFORE a buff in rates in Japan to AFTER the rate change in Global's timeline. It was definitely a fuckup though because partway through it, the error compounded and ended up adding another relatively random (but very good) relic having nothing to do with those banner(s) to it. The rate of the primo items on the banner that people were chasing wasn't affected either. The fuckup meant that the lesser prizes weren't as 'common' as they should have been going by other banners at the time, which resulted in off-banner stuff (not necessarily worse, but much more likely to be than not) being significantly more common than it should have been or ever was on any banner.
I think what mostly upset people is that DeNA's response was "Nothing's wrong. Everything's working as it should." And since the rates aren't published...
Global FFRK had one major backlash against it. They had a banner pull for Final Fantasy Tactics (the first banner for that realm in game) and it contained the arguably hypest item in the game at that time, that to this day is still among the top 5 most useful relics you could have.
DeNA messed with the rates for that one banner, increasing the odds that you would pull an off-banner item, which in turn lowered your chances of getting anything from the banner itself, including the top prize. It was very quickly found out about, and DeNA owned up to it eventually, but never made any public apology or compensated for it directly. Since that banner, however, they haven't really done anything to mess with the draw rates again, and have actually been really good about bringing JP content over, and in many cases, improving on some of the JP content by increasing the rewards for Global.
I mean, yeah, they messed up real good that one time, but if you're willing to forget/forgive/overlook it, they seem to have learned their lesson.
Barring that issue, FFRK on the whole is a more friendly game to clear content on and use your time quickly with than FFBE, which is a bit more demanding and grindy. It's an interesting contrast. You can play FFRK on autopilot for the most part once you get strong enough, which leads some people to boredom, but then you have FFBE which, clearly, is much more grindy. You feel your time is spent better, unless you can't enjoy the grindy nature of these events.
Since it just came up, I was hunting around and saw this anecdote about Agrias 6* vs Orlandu
I used 3 Orlandu to one-turn kill [Gilgamesh Trial]. I then used 3 enhanced Agrias' using the exact same gear (maxed attack from stat pots on all 6 units) and the 3 Agrias were only able to do 60% of Gilgamesh's HP in one turn.
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So the attack difference between the two does add up especially when you consider the chaining multipliers/elemental resistances, etc. Practically speaking 60% of Gilgamesh in one turn is still a lot of damage though.
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And the whales will have 5 dual wielding aurora scarf wearing Lightnings drudgingly auto attacking their way to victory.
FF4: Cecil, Kain, Tellah, Rydia, and Rosa (I'd totally try and get Palom and Porom if they ever release those)
FF6: Locke, Celes, Terra, Edgar and Sabin
FFT: Ramza, Cid, Delita, Agrias, and Rafa (if she ever gets released)
You are paralyzed, stop fucking attacking me.
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Ug, still haven't pulled a Hayate. Am hoping he comes along for the ride when I make too many pulls for Orlandu.
Then today they announce some details of new enhancements and Charlotte's 6*. Looks like she has a new skill that completely negates that mechanic making the whole thing a lot easier. Oh well.
8 hours of nrg does nothing to compete with 10 hours of maitenence.
Bartz and Exdeath got some big love, though. I'm excited for those. Everyone has an Exdeath and Bartz by now and their enhancements are great. Turning Bartz's 540% Hybrid attack into a stronger skill (making it on par with other non-hybrid skills most likely) and AoE is nice. Exdeath's Meteor now does MORE damage and multi-hits!
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And it changed the icon! How will I know which icon to push to get my digital crack?!
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBraveExvius/comments/5h5sjc/jp_charhayate_new_veritas_batchstory/
Keep in mind these are 3rd wave enhancements. 6 months minimum before we see these.
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- Trial Boss: 2-Headed Dragon added
- December bundles updated
- Holiday UI skin updated
- Various minor bugs have been addressed.
Fixes:
- Descriptions should be showing in the monster guide
- Skill descriptions should be properly formatted
- Arena minimum and maximum rank bug fixed
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How do you fuck up this bad every single week?
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What was supposed to be in this update anyway? The holiday UI? I'm guessing that's what screwed things up.
But we all know that'll never happen and people will either quit cold turkey, or keep playing until the next 12 hour delayed maintenance.
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my guess is that they tested and found another infinite arena bug or other game breaking issue with the arena and instead of going with it instead stopped to fix it.
if it was a UI glitch, unless it was literally unplayable, they would have just rolled it out as a bug.
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Characters
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This event has just been the worst, though. I'm not even upset about the arena orbs or whatever because it's not like other people are getting in raising their ranks before I can. We're all locked out. The fact that the currency drops are so LOW, but the price of the items are the same as they've been for other events where we got 3-5x more currency is a joke. I need 17000 gears to get the last 3 tickets. I might not even bother trying for the cheapest moogle. I might just do the work for the 100 gigantuars though. It's roughly equivalent to use a Lightning unit to get 200 gears and get two of them for about the same NRG as it would be to run Miranda Coast for the same exp, in about 1/10th the time, and the occasional 500/1000 bonus gears would make it faster.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
The best place to farm exp at the moment gives 66k/13 energy, takes a long time, and is a fair bit of effort. Elite here is 13 energy too, and gives ~100 gears BASE, so as long as you can bring enough units to hit 100% bonus, which is trivial now that a friend Lightning gives that alone, you're getting close to that for a fraction of the effort. And if you can bring any more bonus units over that, or hit a metal cactuar basically ever, you're doing much better than the best exp farm otherwise. Plus, the experience is banked for the future for whatever you might pull in the future. You probably need to be able to hit around 200% on the bonuses for the Pro level to surpass the very best normal farm, but just a friend Lightning absolutely gets you better return rate than the Exp Vortex.
Maintenances only happen every couple of months, and there has rarely been an extension for no real reason. I can't recall the last time there's been a game-breaking bug, either. The game is very optimized for many devices, and runs fairly well without crashes.
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But it should speak volumes that I still login to FFRK even if I'm not enjoying it as much as I used to.... I've been playing over a year on a gacha game. I've never played a game so consistently in my life.
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Rates of items on a HIGHLY anticipated banner got messed up because they fucked around with event order and pushed a banner from BEFORE a buff in rates in Japan to AFTER the rate change in Global's timeline. It was definitely a fuckup though because partway through it, the error compounded and ended up adding another relatively random (but very good) relic having nothing to do with those banner(s) to it. The rate of the primo items on the banner that people were chasing wasn't affected either. The fuckup meant that the lesser prizes weren't as 'common' as they should have been going by other banners at the time, which resulted in off-banner stuff (not necessarily worse, but much more likely to be than not) being significantly more common than it should have been or ever was on any banner.
I think what mostly upset people is that DeNA's response was "Nothing's wrong. Everything's working as it should." And since the rates aren't published...
DeNA messed with the rates for that one banner, increasing the odds that you would pull an off-banner item, which in turn lowered your chances of getting anything from the banner itself, including the top prize. It was very quickly found out about, and DeNA owned up to it eventually, but never made any public apology or compensated for it directly. Since that banner, however, they haven't really done anything to mess with the draw rates again, and have actually been really good about bringing JP content over, and in many cases, improving on some of the JP content by increasing the rewards for Global.
I mean, yeah, they messed up real good that one time, but if you're willing to forget/forgive/overlook it, they seem to have learned their lesson.
Barring that issue, FFRK on the whole is a more friendly game to clear content on and use your time quickly with than FFBE, which is a bit more demanding and grindy. It's an interesting contrast. You can play FFRK on autopilot for the most part once you get strong enough, which leads some people to boredom, but then you have FFBE which, clearly, is much more grindy. You feel your time is spent better, unless you can't enjoy the grindy nature of these events.
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So the attack difference between the two does add up especially when you consider the chaining multipliers/elemental resistances, etc. Practically speaking 60% of Gilgamesh in one turn is still a lot of damage though.
It'll now be down for... 20 hours. Might as well go for the full 24 at this point.