U+ CM dusted off. Must more straight forward that I ever dreamed it would have been.
Seifer with Bounty Hunter RM, Banishing Strike and Gaia Cross soaked all the hits.
Zell did his thing quietly, then exploded onto the stage
Rinoa being all flashy with her 9999s on Chain Blizzaga and Bahamut
Selphie healed and took selfies because nothing else was happening
and Irvine did his usual thing in just showing up
But yes, my pulling priorities are now virtually on nothing but BSBs. Good BSBs are just so darn valuable in terms of taking pressure off hones and providing utility. Zell's makes him a complete self-sufficient damage dealer. If I wanted to, I could put Lifesiphon, Meteor Strike on him and he'll buff himself up to the ATK soft cap without an external boostga then proceed to chain 4 hit instant cast attacks. Or, I could skip Lifesiphon, put Exploding Fist on him and just let him hit Burst mode at around ATB 5-6 naturally
Man, quistis' skill set is just such a bummer. I really don't want to have to dive her for 5* black magic buttttt
If Wrath into mage OSB is good enough to clear Nemesis (it is), it should be good enough for most content, I'd think.
It wouldn't be so bad if Fujin wasn't right there being better or equal in everything. It's still generally fine yes, but you can't deny 4* 4* 2* is a real sad skillset.
Man, quistis' skill set is just such a bummer. I really don't want to have to dive her for 5* black magic buttttt
If Wrath into mage OSB is good enough to clear Nemesis (it is), it should be good enough for most content, I'd think.
It wouldn't be so bad if Fujin wasn't right there being better or equal in everything. It's still generally fine yes, but you can't deny 4* 4* 2* is a real sad skillset.
She was my first SSB, I think (shell+hastega+major regen when that was a HUGE deal) so she was a staple in my team for a long time, and yeah....it was frustrating.
If I were going to invest 4* motes into Quistis, I'd probably give her 4* White Magic before 5* Black Magic. I should think that Protectga + Wrath with an OSB should be pretty good.
Can I mention that I love how hilarious the Squall U fight went?
Attacked once. Then spent the rest of the fight Drawing and Junctioning and never doing anything with the draws. Someone needs to tell him to stop playing with his cards.
I was just on a raid team for the 200 Bahamut where nobody apparently thought to bring Shellga, and we completely stomped him into the ground. Two Firions and a Selphie was enough to keep M. Blink up almost the entire time, and we always had one up for Megaflare. I was exasperated at first, but it worked.
This was pretty straightforward with as many stat sticks and SSBs as I have. Several errors made, the most critical of which was using the hastega before Biggs cast his first Slowga, oops. As a result of that, Seifer never got around to casting his shared Shellga, which means Selphie got blown up before she could cast Dreamstage, ow. Still got there though.
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I was just on a raid team for the 200 Bahamut where nobody apparently thought to bring Shellga, and we completely stomped him into the ground. Two Firions and a Selphie was enough to keep M. Blink up almost the entire time, and we always had one up for Megaflare. I was exasperated at first, but it worked.
That's actually okay, because all of Bahamut's attacks ignore DEF, ignore RES, or, while being affected by RES, ignore buffs to RES. Only stacking debuffs mitigate damage.
So, my FF8 offensive synergy is pretty great now, but despite pulls on banners and lucky draws I still have next to zero utility or support for the realm. Raijin's Last Stand is the entirety of it; I have no party boost or faith, no hastega, no medicas. Damage out the wazoo, but nothing to make CMs easier.
Part of me wants to do a pull on banner #2, because it's got a stacking hyperbreak, TWO hastegas, a medica, and the only dupe I have on it is Rinoa's Dress. It also has Edea's 6-hitter and that awesome Quistis combo. The other part of me says, who gives a shit about CMs?
BUT, while the next FF8 event banners have some wacko shit on them, this event's Banner 2 has the best concentration of utility on it by far, and unlike Selphie's USB, they're all in the 2% SSB slots. Whiffing on the top half of the banner would actually be just fine.
BUT BUT, who gives a shit about CMs? The only stuff on this banner that'd make either of my A teams would be the Quistis Combo, neither parts of which I have, or the Edea BSB, which is awesome but I do already have a 6-hitter.
Probably just going to continue to save for the Anniversary + concurrent FF2 banner for Maria's OSB... though the banner it's on is pretty weak in a vacuum and will be exceptionally so when up against Fest banners.
So insane it deserves a separate post; JP's 2nd Anniversary Fest banners had 10 items apiece; the top six were all USB/OSB/BSB, the bottom four were SSB. These banners are going to have so much value, you better have a damn good reason to pull on a concurrent event banner.
The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
That's a funny-looking CM. Starts off weak to fire, switches back and forth between fire and ice weakness every time its current weakness is exploited. So RW Serah's BSB, and one mage uses command1 and another uses Firaja or Chain Firaga every turn. Maybe use Seifer for Draw/Lure. It's all about the multipliers... if it's a weaker CM Ifrit, lots of us are ready now. If it needs stacking mitigation, that's gonna be a problem for my CM team.
BTW - please don't complain if you have "only" 8 BSBs. I have Tyro, Sephiroth, Ashe, Kuja, Fang and Minfilia. I started during the first event. 8 BSBs is luxury.
I'm pretty sure you could spam Lulu's first BSB command at it and not even blink. Granted, you'd have the problem of figuring out which weakness you're hitting, but still.
The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
That's a funny-looking CM. Starts off weak to fire, switches back and forth between fire and ice weakness every time its current weakness is exploited. So RW Serah's BSB, and one mage uses command1 and another uses Firaja or Chain Firaga every turn. Maybe use Seifer for Draw/Lure. It's all about the multipliers... if it's a weaker CM Ifrit, lots of us are ready now. If it needs stacking mitigation, that's gonna be a problem for my CM team.
BTW - please don't complain if you have "only" 8 BSBs. I have Tyro, Sephiroth, Ashe, Kuja, Fang and Minfilia. I started during the first event. 8 BSBs is luxury.
Palom's BSB covers both fire and ice, and has powerchain if hitting a weakness.
So... it'll tear that guy up like you wouldn't believe.
I was just on a raid team for the 200 Bahamut where nobody apparently thought to bring Shellga, and we completely stomped him into the ground. Two Firions and a Selphie was enough to keep M. Blink up almost the entire time, and we always had one up for Megaflare. I was exasperated at first, but it worked.
That's actually okay, because all of Bahamut's attacks ignore DEF, ignore RES, or, while being affected by RES, ignore buffs to RES. Only stacking debuffs mitigate damage.
All ults stomped. Nothing really interesting to say. CM was simple with native Shout-like (Laguna's Visions and Quistis's MG8) letting me RW Asylum to make up for the lack of a medica, and Squall's enIce into OSB made things simple. TGCid's OSB empowered by Raijin's armor was also good enough to cut off around 40% HP on each thug per use for the U++.
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The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
U+ is going away? Do we still earn MC3s just in a different way?
The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
U+ is going away? Do we still earn MC3s just in a different way?
Yeah, Ultimate fights will be Ultimate/Ultimate++/Ruin+ going forward. It's still three fights, they're just turning up the numbers a tad.
The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
U+ is going away? Do we still earn MC3s just in a different way?
Yep. Not the FFXII event next week, but the one after (Penelo USB, probably late April) is the last U+. MC3s are moved to U, CMs are moved to U++, and a new difficulty is added at the top of the ticket that gives two crystals for first time clear, and another one plus five rosettas for mastery.
Webt back and mastered the FF7 torment 250, but I think I'm going to hold off until next time before trying the FFX 250. My X synergy is still bad, and I don't really have very many SBs that do water damage and 0 imperil water/enWater
The next FFVIII CM amuses me, because it just shows off the crazy power creep. It's in the era where U+s no longer exist, so it's a U++, and has only slightly lower stats than Mote Ifrit. Granted, the big thing is that its speed is significantly less, and it has scripted haste/blindgas that ease off some of the damage, but yeah. That's the future.
U+ is going away? Do we still earn MC3s just in a different way?
It goes from U/U+/U++ to U/U++/U+++.
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I was super worried for a moment there they were pushing MCIII's to U++, which I haven't gotten on farm quite yet, so I'm glad to hear those are coming down one instead.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
So the existing rewards from the U+ are spread more or less evenly between the U and U++ (net gain of 10 majors between the two), except for a loss of one rosetta stone. A net overall gain of 3 crystals and 4 rosettas per event.
It's smart they're moving MC3s down to U, a lot of my friends can do U fights but have trouble getting to U+, and missing those MC3s is real sad for them.
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Its weird since they are continually jacking up the numbers, and the difference between sub U and U fights are often just stat multipliers and a glow, you'd think they'd keep U+ and add a difficulty so newer players still feel like they are making progress.
I can understand why adding yet another bonus battle might feel cumbersome, but the trade-off now is that U and U++ might feel like too much of a jump for a lot of people
I can understand why adding yet another bonus battle might feel cumbersome, but the trade-off now is that U and U++ might feel like too much of a jump for a lot of people
We do have about 3 months of power creep until then.
And in six months, two fests from now, banners will have 2 (O/U/LC)SBs, 3 BSBs, two legend materia, and four SSBs. SBs and generic relics? Not even a thing anymore.
I feel like I should have enough, but w/o boostga/faithga I need to chose between RW wall and damage... And I don't have the greatest hones.
I might suggest RWing Wall and having someone carry Haste. Haste is a good idea against Biggs and Wedge anyway, since they like to cast an AOE Slowga spell. If doing that doesn't give you enough damage potential, then you can always bring Shout or Sheepsong or VOF RW, and have Seifer use tanking Knight abilities to help soak damage.
Seifer with Draw Fire/Gaia Cross and Banishing Strike is all you need for mitigation for that fight along with the standard Shellga/Protectga.
I RW'd Vessel of Fate for my CM run for the 30/30 and Hastega then proceeded to obliterate with a level 99 Rinoa using Chain Blizzaga + Bahamut. If I needed additional hones, I could have used the burst commands and technically, it would have been better to use the burst commands instead of Chain Blizzaga but whatever.
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Seifer with Bounty Hunter RM, Banishing Strike and Gaia Cross soaked all the hits.
Zell did his thing quietly, then exploded onto the stage
Rinoa being all flashy with her 9999s on Chain Blizzaga and Bahamut
Selphie healed and took selfies because nothing else was happening
and Irvine did his usual thing in just showing up
But yes, my pulling priorities are now virtually on nothing but BSBs. Good BSBs are just so darn valuable in terms of taking pressure off hones and providing utility. Zell's makes him a complete self-sufficient damage dealer. If I wanted to, I could put Lifesiphon, Meteor Strike on him and he'll buff himself up to the ATK soft cap without an external boostga then proceed to chain 4 hit instant cast attacks. Or, I could skip Lifesiphon, put Exploding Fist on him and just let him hit Burst mode at around ATB 5-6 naturally
If Wrath into mage OSB is good enough to clear Nemesis (it is), it should be good enough for most content, I'd think.
It wouldn't be so bad if Fujin wasn't right there being better or equal in everything. It's still generally fine yes, but you can't deny 4* 4* 2* is a real sad skillset.
She was my first SSB, I think (shell+hastega+major regen when that was a HUGE deal) so she was a staple in my team for a long time, and yeah....it was frustrating.
Turns out U++ Raijin can use his Counter attack on your team in response to U++ Fujin casting Haste on him.
So, that's a thing.
Helps that she has a stitch in time command too
Attacked once. Then spent the rest of the fight Drawing and Junctioning and never doing anything with the draws. Someone needs to tell him to stop playing with his cards.
How do folks find you for this silence? I've been pugging it but I could bring my TG Cid and Y'shtola to help out if needed.
This was pretty straightforward with as many stat sticks and SSBs as I have. Several errors made, the most critical of which was using the hastega before Biggs cast his first Slowga, oops. As a result of that, Seifer never got around to casting his shared Shellga, which means Selphie got blown up before she could cast Dreamstage, ow. Still got there though.
That's actually okay, because all of Bahamut's attacks ignore DEF, ignore RES, or, while being affected by RES, ignore buffs to RES. Only stacking debuffs mitigate damage.
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Part of me wants to do a pull on banner #2, because it's got a stacking hyperbreak, TWO hastegas, a medica, and the only dupe I have on it is Rinoa's Dress. It also has Edea's 6-hitter and that awesome Quistis combo. The other part of me says, who gives a shit about CMs?
BUT, while the next FF8 event banners have some wacko shit on them, this event's Banner 2 has the best concentration of utility on it by far, and unlike Selphie's USB, they're all in the 2% SSB slots. Whiffing on the top half of the banner would actually be just fine.
BUT BUT, who gives a shit about CMs? The only stuff on this banner that'd make either of my A teams would be the Quistis Combo, neither parts of which I have, or the Edea BSB, which is awesome but I do already have a 6-hitter.
Probably just going to continue to save for the Anniversary + concurrent FF2 banner for Maria's OSB... though the banner it's on is pretty weak in a vacuum and will be exceptionally so when up against Fest banners.
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That's a funny-looking CM. Starts off weak to fire, switches back and forth between fire and ice weakness every time its current weakness is exploited. So RW Serah's BSB, and one mage uses command1 and another uses Firaja or Chain Firaga every turn. Maybe use Seifer for Draw/Lure. It's all about the multipliers... if it's a weaker CM Ifrit, lots of us are ready now. If it needs stacking mitigation, that's gonna be a problem for my CM team.
BTW - please don't complain if you have "only" 8 BSBs. I have Tyro, Sephiroth, Ashe, Kuja, Fang and Minfilia. I started during the first event. 8 BSBs is luxury.
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Palom's BSB covers both fire and ice, and has powerchain if hitting a weakness.
So... it'll tear that guy up like you wouldn't believe.
Oh is that it. I thought he only ignored Def. I should probably read these things more closely.
U+ is going away? Do we still earn MC3s just in a different way?
Yeah, Ultimate fights will be Ultimate/Ultimate++/Ruin+ going forward. It's still three fights, they're just turning up the numbers a tad.
Yep. Not the FFXII event next week, but the one after (Penelo USB, probably late April) is the last U+. MC3s are moved to U, CMs are moved to U++, and a new difficulty is added at the top of the ticket that gives two crystals for first time clear, and another one plus five rosettas for mastery.
It goes from U/U+/U++ to U/U++/U+++.
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I was super pumped to try this CM, because I have lots of FF8 gear. Then I looked at my team and realized this might not go so well.
Rising Sun (SB)
Twin Viper (OSB)
Machine Gun (SSB AOE Slow)
Dreamstage (medica+blink)
Lions Roar (BSB)
Almasy Revolver
Fujin coat
I feel like I should have enough, but w/o boostga/faithga I need to chose between RW wall and damage... And I don't have the greatest hones.
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U
1st: Accessory, MC3, 12 3* motes
Master: 5 majors, 5 majors, 1 crystal
U++
1st: 1 crystal, 1 crystal, 18 3* motes
Master: 20 scar, 20 adaman, 5 majors
R+
1st: 1 crystal, 1 crystal
Master: 5 rosetta, 1 crystal
So the existing rewards from the U+ are spread more or less evenly between the U and U++ (net gain of 10 majors between the two), except for a loss of one rosetta stone. A net overall gain of 3 crystals and 4 rosettas per event.
E: Oh, and the CM is 3 majors instead of 2.
We do have about 3 months of power creep until then.
And in six months, two fests from now, banners will have 2 (O/U/LC)SBs, 3 BSBs, two legend materia, and four SSBs. SBs and generic relics? Not even a thing anymore.
I might suggest RWing Wall and having someone carry Haste. Haste is a good idea against Biggs and Wedge anyway, since they like to cast an AOE Slowga spell. If doing that doesn't give you enough damage potential, then you can always bring Shout or Sheepsong or VOF RW, and have Seifer use tanking Knight abilities to help soak damage.
I RW'd Vessel of Fate for my CM run for the 30/30 and Hastega then proceeded to obliterate with a level 99 Rinoa using Chain Blizzaga + Bahamut. If I needed additional hones, I could have used the burst commands and technically, it would have been better to use the burst commands instead of Chain Blizzaga but whatever.
Inevitable Fate makes me wish I hadn't shattered my free copy of Morbid Countdown for Orbs.