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[FFBE] FFBE Story Event. Spend tons of NRG, get modest amounts of materials.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Wait which one is Randi?

    aziz ansari has this bit he does in this standup routines

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    This is my new thing, apparently. Just got into it a couple weeks back. @Magus` just sent a request, so expect one from Dannage with a max awakened Rain.

    620081462 is my code

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Wait which one is Randi?

    Randi is from Secret of Mana on the SNES.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Ooh, a chance for more 6* materials! Yay! Too many people to upgrade.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Yeah I've been leveling the mech mage from the previous event because I didn't really have anyone else to pump larlars into. I don't know if she'll be worth my time but it'd be fun to put her in my arena group for shits.

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Oh thank god. I finally completed the TM "Drink". My Characters are SO Thirsty...

    Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum
  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    I completed both Fire Beam and Blizzard Beam just for fun. I also can't bring myself to get rid of Biggs/Wedge. They die so often that I don't want to contribute to that death toll.

  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    SutibunRi wrote: »
    I was so close to dealing with the Trial.. and then messed up my turn order and got RHMs Noctis blown away :bigfrown:
    But Yay for 2 Y'Shtolas, and more than 5 of all the other event units, I'm keeping 5 of Yda and Papalymo around for a bit, toss them into the TMR farm, decide down the line if I want to farm up 5 of their rewards or if I want to fuse them after they get some trust.

    In general you will want to merge them, and not farm their TMRs. Their TMRs are "just OK" compared to other units, although they are good to have, and what is typically done with these raid reward units is merge them together to get their TMRs. For example, you've got, after only 3 days, more than 5 of each Yda and Papalymo, and the raid continues for 14 days. That means that you'll likely get at least 20 to 30 of each 4-star unit even if you're not really trying.

    You can't stack Yda's TMR, and Papalymo's is for mages. In addition, they come back in a couple months for the next FFIV raid!

    So, don't waste your TMR farming resources on them. Get a couple of their TMRs from merging and then if you have leftovers, just wait until the next raid.

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  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Talith wrote: »
    Magus` wrote: »
    Removed 12 dead accounts from NY friend list. Talith and "Zerth" haven't logged in in 10+ days but I'll give them a bit more leeway.

    Friend code is 919304021 for those who don't have me. Currently using 1044 attack Olive with Stone Killer and Golem (no cover!).

    I was kept away from the game for long enough to be set free \o/

    It's off my phone now but I still have the emulator squirled away at work waiting for Rikku and Ashe banners. Just to roll and have the satisfaction of rolling all those stored tickets.

    I'm done though.

    @Talith Not a big deal, but when you have a sec, could you log in and swap Dragon Killer for a more neutral materia on your TGCid? :)

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Talith wrote: »
    Magus` wrote: »
    Removed 12 dead accounts from NY friend list. Talith and "Zerth" haven't logged in in 10+ days but I'll give them a bit more leeway.

    Friend code is 919304021 for those who don't have me. Currently using 1044 attack Olive with Stone Killer and Golem (no cover!).

    I was kept away from the game for long enough to be set free \o/

    It's off my phone now but I still have the emulator squirled away at work waiting for Rikku and Ashe banners. Just to roll and have the satisfaction of rolling all those stored tickets.

    I'm done though.

    @ Talith Not a big deal, but when you have a sec, could you log in and swap Dragon Killer for a more neutral materia on your TGCid? :)

    Sure. :+1:

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Oh I really yearn to be free of this game. I sometimes imagine what it would look like if I had free time in the morning.

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  • GriswoldGriswold that's rough, buddyRegistered User regular
    I'm gonna have a lot of Thancred TMRs when this raid is over, aren't I

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    Yes. First raid got me double digits in Thancred TMRs. This one already got me one and I only did a couple 5000 pulls (granted I did have a mostly done Thancred from Ifrit raid).

    Keep the TMRs though, since we will likely in the future get the ability to craft them into enhanced versions. And by future, I mean JP just got this ability. Thancreds TMR goes from 10% ATK/HP to 15% ATK/HP which is really nice for essentially free TMRs.

  • BlehBlehAmigaBlehBlehAmiga Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    Oh I really yearn to be free of this game. I sometimes imagine what it would look like if I had free time in the morning.

    I gave up arena and feel pretty good about it still. I suppose I could do the 5x/day for the bonuses but even that I'm fine skipping for a while. That said i have a ton of coins/tickets/saved up pots and don't feel I need it for a long time anyway.

    ffbe ign: Kas
  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    Oh I really yearn to be free of this game. I sometimes imagine what it would look like if I had free time in the morning.

    I gave up arena and feel pretty good about it still. I suppose I could do the 5x/day for the bonuses but even that I'm fine skipping for a while. That said i have a ton of coins/tickets/saved up pots and don't feel I need it for a long time anyway.

    That 10% Moogle is what keeps me going.

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    I pretty much just do the minimum 5 per day Arena for the rewards, and that's usually sufficient to get the 10% Moogle. My desire to do more than that died after I finally got the 100 streak trophy.

  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Cruor wrote: »
    I pretty much just do the minimum 5 per day Arena for the rewards, and that's usually sufficient to get the 10% Moogle. My desire to do more than that died after I finally got the 100 streak trophy.

    Yeah 5 is my max a day. Sometimes I don't even get that much... If I have to do the Coliseum for my daily quest then I usually just do the two arena fights and be done with it.

  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2017
    So I can only get Fryevia+Fryevia to chain completely and reliably on my phone about 10% of the time. I recorded a MeMu macro where I press 3, then 6 (I've got party positions 1-6 hotkeyed) and set up the macro to run once at 4x acceleration. Boom, every time now I get a perfect 27 chain of two dual-wielding Fryevias.

    There's only a 2 frame window where you can get the 27-chain, and it's nearly impossible otherwise.

    Rius on
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  • BlehBlehAmigaBlehBlehAmiga Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Oh I really yearn to be free of this game. I sometimes imagine what it would look like if I had free time in the morning.

    I gave up arena and feel pretty good about it still. I suppose I could do the 5x/day for the bonuses but even that I'm fine skipping for a while. That said i have a ton of coins/tickets/saved up pots and don't feel I need it for a long time anyway.

    That 10% Moogle is what keeps me going.

    Yeah it's nice, but between being pretty set on TMs, having a bunch of moogles doing nothing, plus TM farming anyway I felt it was a small price to pay for the sanity gain.

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    urahonky
  • BlehBlehAmigaBlehBlehAmiga Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Rius wrote: »
    So I can only get Fryevia+Fryevia to chain completely and reliably on my phone about 10% of the time. I recorded a MeMu macro where I press 3, then 6 (I've got party positions 1-6 hotkeyed) and set up the macro to run once at 4x acceleration. Boom, every time now I get a perfect 27 chain of two dual-wielding Fryevias.

    There's only a 2 frame window where you can get the 27-chain, and it's nearly impossible otherwise.

    Yeah same, wish they hadn't made it so hard. A completely nonscientific test of roughly equivalent (realistically stronger) Orlandu's vs Fryevias and I get a good bit more damage on the raid with Fryevia. Maybe his spirit is just lower, didn't check. I can kill him with just 2 Fryevia even if the chain doesn't work which is nice, but would be way more inclined to use her if I didn't have to macro to chain consistently.

    BlehBlehAmiga on
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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    Oh hey, I just got my first rainbow pull from the raid summon. Y'shtola.

    Is she any good?

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  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    Y'shtola is going to be your best healer unless you happened to pull Rem, or if you have a Refia and a Dualcast for her. Y'shtola has native Dualcast, which is extremely helpful, plus Curaja + Esuna + Raise, and she can buff party DEF or SPR as well. She even has some offensive magic and an ability that zeroes out her SPR in favor of massively boosted MAG.

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    So, better than my current healer, Rosa, is what you're saying

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    Y'shtola is an amazing healer out of the box with innate dualcast and her LB is straight damage mitigation. You'll need to give her an accessory/materia to ensure that she won't get hit with the disabling status effects (stone, confuse, paralyze). Also, be sure to get enough of her awakening materials from the raid to get her to 6*, since those materials are only available from the raid.

    In reference to Titan in the raid, his SPR and DEF are equivalent. I think you may be seeing more damage from Fryevia, even with lower stats, due to how MAG is calculated in DW as opposed to ATK. ATK is calculated as such (from the wiki, bold mine):
    For example: A unit with base ATK of 200 wields 100 ATK weapon and 50 ATK weapon
    The stats will show 350 ATK, but this rating is not used in any damage calculation.
    Any physical skill (except limit bursts) will attack first with 300 ATK and then with 250 ATK.

    But, apparently, for Hybrid or MAG based physical attacks (like Sunbeam) your full MAG value is used for each attack. So if you have 2x Fry's Needle, you're getting the full (base MAG) + 224MAG for each attack.

    At least that's what I've seen posted elsewhere, I haven't looked too hard into it yet.

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Griswold wrote: »
    I'm gonna have a lot of Thancred TMRs when this raid is over, aren't I

    We could kill the Sworn 6 with our armies of Thancreds.

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Giant of Babel is a walk in the park. That's quite a lot of awakening materials and a 5 star moogle for 40 energy.

    Thanks Gumi.

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    As soon as this stupid vortex shits out one last Support Giancryst for me (grumble grumble) I'll go back through Giant of Babel for the sweet sweet Lapis. Also at the time I wasn't able to beat Golbez, so that 10% Moogle is ripe for the picking.

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Giant of Babel is a walk in the park. That's quite a lot of awakening materials and a 5 star moogle for 40 energy.

    Thanks Gumi.

    Power Creep is... power creepy.

    A 660 Atk Lightning. Those were the (awful) days.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Giant of Babel is a walk in the park. That's quite a lot of awakening materials and a 5 star moogle for 40 energy.

    Thanks Gumi.

    Power Creep is... power creepy.

    A 660 Atk Lightning. Those were the (awful) days.

    fortunately we've reached the point where power creep stops being as absurd

    titan is evidence of that

  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Giant of Babel is a walk in the park. That's quite a lot of awakening materials and a 5 star moogle for 40 energy.

    Thanks Gumi.

    Power Creep is... power creepy.

    A 660 Atk Lightning. Those were the (awful) days.

    fortunately we've reached the point where power creep stops being as absurd

    titan is evidence of that

    I wouldn't hold my breath. We'll have to see the next event... We got Titan way ahead of schedule so that my be it.

  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    Haha, Wilhelm is the perfect fit for my Ring of the Lucii. He doesn't have a lot of MP and his ability use can drain it pretty fast, but he's taking tons of hits usually and the Holy procs restore a bunch of mana. Someone on a youtube comment mentioned that his Eye For An Eye (doubles Counter rate) affects Holy procs, which I'm trying to confirm.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Giant of Babel is a walk in the park. That's quite a lot of awakening materials and a 5 star moogle for 40 energy.

    Thanks Gumi.

    Power Creep is... power creepy.

    A 660 Atk Lightning. Those were the (awful) days.

    fortunately we've reached the point where power creep stops being as absurd

    titan is evidence of that

    We got Maxwell even further ahead of schedule and people found a way to RNG through that too.

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    That's a great idea for Wilhelm. I assume Xon's TMR could be a budget version of that with Snack, but since there's a variety of things that could proc (including a DEF debuff...) it's less than ideal.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    I never did any of the old bosses, and I see them available in the list.

    Oh look, the first one I do gives me a sword that has higher attack than any I have so far! Guess I'm going to have to go through all these!

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    Giant of Babel is a walk in the park. That's quite a lot of awakening materials and a 5 star moogle for 40 energy.

    Thanks Gumi.

    Power Creep is... power creepy.

    A 660 Atk Lightning. Those were the (awful) days.

    fortunately we've reached the point where power creep stops being as absurd

    titan is evidence of that

    I wouldn't hold my breath. We'll have to see the next event... We got Titan way ahead of schedule so that my be it.

    I meant power creep of characters

  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    6.1k HP, 500 DEF, 282 SPR, with 25% evade and 60% Counter (and apparently 50% Counter Holy, which restores 60mp per activation thanks to Man-Eater from Diabolos.) And that's with pretty weak Materia equipped, and no SPR from the shield slot. Wilhelm is a beast.

  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Sozhe's TMR would also be great if you have one. He's next in line as it would good on any tank or healer.

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  • CiriraCirira IowaRegistered User regular
    Rius wrote: »
    6.1k HP, 500 DEF, 282 SPR, with 25% evade and 60% Counter (and apparently 50% Counter Holy, which restores 60mp per activation thanks to Man-Eater from Diabolos.) And that's with pretty weak Materia equipped, and no SPR from the shield slot. Wilhelm is a beast.

    I still kind of want to pull for a Wilhelm, but I lack a Noctis so I don't have the Ring of the Lucii.

    urahonky
  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    Ring of the Lucii is certainly not required, but a source of MP Regen is. He lacks Auto-Refresh, so you'll want a Ling (who works great with him, with her Breaks to his Buffs), or a Soluna Band accessory, or something.

    As with all base 5* units, he's not required for any content. I didn't spend money (apart from that $12 bundle a while back, some of which lapis went towards daily pulls), but I did throw every ticket I had at the banner.

    urahonky
  • CiriraCirira IowaRegistered User regular
    Rius wrote: »
    Ring of the Lucii is certainly not required, but a source of MP Regen is. He lacks Auto-Refresh, so you'll want a Ling (who works great with him, with her Breaks to his Buffs), or a Soluna Band accessory, or something.

    As with all base 5* units, he's not required for any content. I didn't spend money (apart from that $12 bundle a while back, some of which lapis went towards daily pulls), but I did throw every ticket I had at the banner.

    I've done 2 11 pulls and used all the tickets I had at the time on the banner. I've got a single Abel, 3 Graces, and 3 Jeans from the banner. That's it for a whole lot of pulls. I've been doing the dailies as well. I just like his appearance and he seems like a nice upgrade to Cecil (who doesn't even leave the bench sometimes now).

    To be fair my teams don't really need a tank better than Cecil typically. I've got Ling, Two Orlandeus, Fry, Olive, and a few other 5 stars that don't see much usage. Tank is really the only area (other then maybe healer? but Refia and Y'shtola cover that fine) that doesn't have a good solid beef option.

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