I like the sound of abilities that can imperil and I like the new role machinists might be able to take where they are imperil kings instead of where they were mostly status ailment exploiters, since it's pretty obvious there's no future for status ailments except in gimmick fights.
According to the reddits, the minor imperil is only 10% of a vulnerability, where most proper SB imperils do 20%, and imperils will only stack up to six times regardless of value, so if you spam the ability, you'll at best get -60% instead of a full 100.
It's a shame Prompto doesn't get an EnLightning effect on anything (LMR or SB) because being able to boost his damage and make enemies vulnerable would make him real good. Hopefully his weapon selection includes being able to use swords (unlikely) or one of his relics is a non-RS lightning boost gun. Maybe that USB. Dreeeeams...
Imperil only stacks to 60% anyways unless they change that at some point. Getting to 60% now typically happens at the very end of the fight because it takes 3 SB bars to make it happen. I honestly don't see this as much of a limit on imperils even if they do up the stacking for SB based imperils.
Until Full Throttles at least.
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
This is great for everyone who has crap luck pulling imperils.
Oh man, I just imagined someone equipping Prompto with his dualcast Machinist Relic LM, his macinist imperil Lightning LM, the dualcast Machinist RM, and Spark Offer. Amazing.
Oh man, I just imagined someone equipping Prompto with his dualcast Machinist Relic LM, his macinist imperil Lightning LM, the dualcast Machinist RM, and Spark Offer. Amazing.
Oh man, I just imagined someone equipping Prompto with his dualcast Machinist Relic LM, his macinist imperil Lightning LM, the dualcast Machinist RM, and Spark Offer. Amazing.
Imagine Reno with his BSB and Mustadio with Tempest Snipe taking advantage of that. Machinist meta incoming!
I hope they make a Bio element equivalent some day. I'd put that on Edgar and never look back.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
So just mastered the U++ CM.
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
I didn't either. Checking the AI thread, it looks like it only uses it if either:
It spends 7 turns without shifting weaknesses (~30% chance, give or take a little depending on HP)
It uses its weak basic attack, which it has only a 7% or 10% of doing depending on HP
Who's got two thumbs and didn't bother honing more summons, made due with what was available, and beat Valigarmanda anyway?
This guy.
Nightmares are done, man.
Brought Potato for Ley Lines, Y'sh for healing, and just had Alphinaud, Yuna, and Tyro for damage output. Summon RWs are like spotting bigfoot so I settled for Garnet's summon BSB, which worked out pretty well.
I've been debating who to MC3 since I have a few crystals and a handful of 80s, but I think I might boost Yuna and Papalymo; might work nice for a mage team.
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Hoping for some Kain/Ceodore stuff tonite
Bottom of the barrel is weird on this banner though, Rosa's first ever unique relic? Haha what
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
Who's got two thumbs and didn't bother honing more summons, made due with what was available, and beat Valigarmanda anyway?
This guy.
Nightmares are done, man.
Brought Potato for Ley Lines, Y'sh for healing, and just had Alphinaud, Yuna, and Tyro for damage output. Summon RWs are like spotting bigfoot so I settled for Garnet's summon BSB, which worked out pretty well.
I've been debating who to MC3 since I have a few crystals and a handful of 80s, but I think I might boost Yuna and Papalymo; might work nice for a mage team.
Can you post the full setup I'm still procrastinating that one.
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
It took me a few tries to do the CM, and I think I saw ultimate presses occasionally in my attempts even cycling the weaknesses quickly. They aren't that much worse than his regular AOEs as he gets weaker if you aren't running wall, I think they were 2k something damage with a regular support break suite.
I think I lost 2 or 3 party members at the end but still got mastery.
Oh dear. I need to be careful about my habits with this game. More then once today I actually considered going an 11-pull with gems only, just to grab something on this night's banner.
No good relic today won't come back on a future banner, and even that banner ain't half bad because it has P. Cecil's USB on it, and a lot of it is Kain and Ceodore relics.
Also, try to think of it as this - would any relic you pull today immediately put the character on your A Team? Ignore the favourtism of the characters for a moment, if you can. The team you use to clear content (Apoc+ stuff), would you immediately switch that line-up around because you got Kain's OSB or Ceodore's SSB? Ceo's BSB, sure, it's a party-changer because off-healer medica with strong commands, and Ceodore can fill a lot of nice roles, but your odds of pulling that relic are low enough that you shouldn't consider it the item you would get by a single 11-pull, so you have to expect the worst, which is not getting it, but getting something of lesser value.
Now, with that in mind, would you still pull on it today?
This is usually how I talk myself down from pulling on banners, and why I have 450 mythril again after the last fest.
No. none or it would cause a major shakeup. Even Ceodore's BSB would only be a Paradigm Shift on my Holy Crit team; a defensive alternate pick when compared to Delita. And I'm kidding myself if I keep saying that CID's imperil would he a game changer for my Lightning Magic team (I'll wait for Prompto)
I've got just shy of 425 mythril, and I'm half-expecting to drain probably close to all of it into USquall, UCloud, and URelm. It should be a fun or frustrating monthish... in about a month.
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
It took me a few tries to do the CM, and I think I saw ultimate presses occasionally in my attempts even cycling the weaknesses quickly. They aren't that much worse than his regular AOEs as he gets weaker if you aren't running wall, I think they were 2k something damage with a regular support break suite.
I think I lost 2 or 3 party members at the end but still got mastery.
I'm a bit confused by the bolded part there, can you explain?
Who's got two thumbs and didn't bother honing more summons, made due with what was available, and beat Valigarmanda anyway?
This guy.
Nightmares are done, man.
Brought Potato for Ley Lines, Y'sh for healing, and just had Alphinaud, Yuna, and Tyro for damage output. Summon RWs are like spotting bigfoot so I settled for Garnet's summon BSB, which worked out pretty well.
I've been debating who to MC3 since I have a few crystals and a handful of 80s, but I think I might boost Yuna and Papalymo; might work nice for a mage team.
Can you post the full setup I'm still procrastinating that one.
Popped wall and Ley Lines at the start. I think I had Yuna RW early on to build meter. Y'sh wrathed up Papalymo dropped shell and just cured, otherwise it was blasting summons until phase 2.
Once Yuna had enough meter I BSBed and did C1 to summon then attack x 2. Then, Alphinaud BSBed, did a couple of C2 to restore Tiamat uses and then just C1 the rest of the time. Managed to hit the barriers at the right colors to meet the medal conditions, didn't capitalize on killing the adds for skill refresh though. Once Tyro was out of summons I used the RW for him, and kept C2 for that.
Popped Ley Lines again when I had SB, Y'sh dropped Asylum and later another Wall for good measure. Otherwise it was all Alphi/Yuna/RW BSB spam til the end.
Beginning damage was okay with just Ley Lines but Tenants of the Faith + Ley Lines once I had meter was what really did the work. If I could have figured out a better way to squeeze the buffs in at the start and Wall/shell it probably would have been better.
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
It took me a few tries to do the CM, and I think I saw ultimate presses occasionally in my attempts even cycling the weaknesses quickly. They aren't that much worse than his regular AOEs as he gets weaker if you aren't running wall, I think they were 2k something damage with a regular support break suite.
I think I lost 2 or 3 party members at the end but still got mastery.
I'm a bit confused by the bolded part there, can you explain?
Wall works on his regular attacks, but not ultimate press. So without wall his regular spells are nasty enough, especially when he goes into weak mode at low health, that ultimate press isn't that much worse.
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
It took me a few tries to do the CM, and I think I saw ultimate presses occasionally in my attempts even cycling the weaknesses quickly. They aren't that much worse than his regular AOEs as he gets weaker if you aren't running wall, I think they were 2k something damage with a regular support break suite.
I think I lost 2 or 3 party members at the end but still got mastery.
I'm a bit confused by the bolded part there, can you explain?
Wall works on his regular attacks, but not ultimate press. So without wall his regular spells are nasty enough, especially when he goes into weak mode at low health, that ultimate press isn't that much worse.
Well that is certainly now how I would have described it, as the power of the ultimate press is the same either way. But alright, I guess that's one way to look at it.
Did the Ultimates on my main account, the U and U++ were nice and easy, but the A+ was a bit tricky. My first run failed because I didn't see that Y'shtola's burst mode had worn off until too late, so instead of refreshing Asylum (which was ready) I had her do a regular attack. Whoops. The second run failed because I didn't handle refreshing protect and shell properly. The third attempt worked well enough, Vaan ended up dying near the end but I completed with 3 medals lost (1 for turns, 2 for damage) and got my 5 rosetta stones. I'm not looking forward to attempting it with my alt account, as I have a lot fewer options for water damage.
Question for the tech-savvy among us: Would it be possible for me to play FFRK via remote access to my home computer with emulator? (Delay-wise, that is.)
Question for the tech-savvy among us: Would it be possible for me to play FFRK via remote access to my home computer with emulator? (Delay-wise, that is.)
Depends on your connection(s) and the criticality of being... well, quick. I'd certainly be confident if it was just auto-ing through stages, but less so if you were trying to do something actually serious like a Torment or U++.
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Who's got two thumbs and didn't bother honing more summons, made due with what was available, and beat Valigarmanda anyway?
This guy.
Nightmares are done, man.
Brought Potato for Ley Lines, Y'sh for healing, and just had Alphinaud, Yuna, and Tyro for damage output. Summon RWs are like spotting bigfoot so I settled for Garnet's summon BSB, which worked out pretty well.
I've been debating who to MC3 since I have a few crystals and a handful of 80s, but I think I might boost Yuna and Papalymo; might work nice for a mage team.
Can you post the full setup I'm still procrastinating that one.
Popped wall and Ley Lines at the start. I think I had Yuna RW early on to build meter. Y'sh wrathed up Papalymo dropped shell and just cured, otherwise it was blasting summons until phase 2.
Once Yuna had enough meter I BSBed and did C1 to summon then attack x 2. Then, Alphinaud BSBed, did a couple of C2 to restore Tiamat uses and then just C1 the rest of the time. Managed to hit the barriers at the right colors to meet the medal conditions, didn't capitalize on killing the adds for skill refresh though. Once Tyro was out of summons I used the RW for him, and kept C2 for that.
Popped Ley Lines again when I had SB, Y'sh dropped Asylum and later another Wall for good measure. Otherwise it was all Alphi/Yuna/RW BSB spam til the end.
Beginning damage was okay with just Ley Lines but Tenants of the Faith + Ley Lines once I had meter was what really did the work. If I could have figured out a better way to squeeze the buffs in at the start and Wall/shell it probably would have been better.
Oh... Hmm, I feel like you misrepresented by not saying you had alpha BSB native lol.
100 gems got me Ceodore's Force Armor, with his Enholy SSB! Huh!
Not sure what to think about that.
On the one hand, it's an Aura SB, which are always nice. On the other ha d, it's mechanically identical to the entry of Pecil's BSB, which I've had forever, without the addition of Burst Mode. On the other hand, it's shiny and new, and has a badass animation.
The most dangerous thing about this is that it makes me want to build up to 50 myth and pull again, chasing his BSB, to complete the combo and have an ultra-badass Holy user. It'll come back, but that's 14 events from now. Then again, when it does, it'll be surrounded by banners that aren't quite as tempting as USB Cloud or BSB2 Celes.
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I'll just try to hold off. I can totally use Ceodore if I really want to with just Cross Slash.
Enlong on
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
I like FFIV and my synergy could always use help, but I have 2 bursts and it seems hard to justify a pull. Of course, dark Cecil and edge are my bursts.
For those not in the know, this be the future FF4 banner(s). I'm interested in it, but WAAAAAAAY more in banner1 than banner2. Kain's stuff would be nice, but I've got holy for days. Edge's stuff would be nicer, and work especially well as a supplement for his Doppelganger for Full Throttles.
Anyone have some tips for the Battle of Aeons Apoc+ fight?
Ixion dispel just makes me die way too fast
PBlink evades the dispel. If you can cover all the rest of the stuff, Penelo's USB is almost tailor made to counter it. Instant + PBlink + Heal + HP Stock. That'll put you at full (or close to it), evade it, and give you some overheal buffer. From there, it uses it every 7 turns. If you count, you can use the RW again, and since it's instant, you don't need to worry too much about timing. That should get you around 13ish of its turns. Save up your SBs and unload on him. You'll still need to worry about his single target dispel, but the AoE and stop will be off the table.
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Another option that's solid which you're more likely to have natively is Arc's Word of Kindness. Same as Penelo's USB, but without the overheal.
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I did a 50-pull on my alt since I don't care as much about getting Cloud's thing on there. Plus I'd like some weapons and this has three nice burst weapons at the top end.
So naturally I 1/11'd Kain's OSB armor.
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Then yeah, it doesn't really change much.
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Until Full Throttles at least.
Imagine Reno with his BSB and Mustadio with Tempest Snipe taking advantage of that. Machinist meta incoming!
Yuna healing with Miracle Veil and auto haste
Braska healing with a shared Medica and Auto haste
Wakka debuffing -MAG with auto haste
Jecht with Sapphire shot, his BSB and his boostga
Seymour with Memento Mori and RW play rough
Got scary at the end, but play rough murdered that blob. Didn't see any Ultimate Presses.
I didn't either. Checking the AI thread, it looks like it only uses it if either:
It spends 7 turns without shifting weaknesses (~30% chance, give or take a little depending on HP)
It uses its weak basic attack, which it has only a 7% or 10% of doing depending on HP
No wonder.
This guy.
Nightmares are done, man.
Brought Potato for Ley Lines, Y'sh for healing, and just had Alphinaud, Yuna, and Tyro for damage output. Summon RWs are like spotting bigfoot so I settled for Garnet's summon BSB, which worked out pretty well.
I've been debating who to MC3 since I have a few crystals and a handful of 80s, but I think I might boost Yuna and Papalymo; might work nice for a mage team.
Bottom of the barrel is weird on this banner though, Rosa's first ever unique relic? Haha what
Can you post the full setup I'm still procrastinating that one.
But I really like the idea of a Knight BSB that heals on entry, and then keeps healing or esunas.
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It took me a few tries to do the CM, and I think I saw ultimate presses occasionally in my attempts even cycling the weaknesses quickly. They aren't that much worse than his regular AOEs as he gets weaker if you aren't running wall, I think they were 2k something damage with a regular support break suite.
I think I lost 2 or 3 party members at the end but still got mastery.
That's a bad sign.
Also, try to think of it as this - would any relic you pull today immediately put the character on your A Team? Ignore the favourtism of the characters for a moment, if you can. The team you use to clear content (Apoc+ stuff), would you immediately switch that line-up around because you got Kain's OSB or Ceodore's SSB? Ceo's BSB, sure, it's a party-changer because off-healer medica with strong commands, and Ceodore can fill a lot of nice roles, but your odds of pulling that relic are low enough that you shouldn't consider it the item you would get by a single 11-pull, so you have to expect the worst, which is not getting it, but getting something of lesser value.
Now, with that in mind, would you still pull on it today?
This is usually how I talk myself down from pulling on banners, and why I have 450 mythril again after the last fest.
Also, UltraCloud is (possibly) 3 events away.
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Thanks.
I'm a bit confused by the bolded part there, can you explain?
Spoilers for wall of text
Yuna (L80), Shiva R2 Bahamut R2, BSB2, Timeless Wisdom RM
Tyro (L99), Leviathan R2 Syldra R2, Wall, MM RM
Papalymo (L80), Curaise Shellga, Ley Lines, Dr.Mog RM
Y'shtola (L99), Ultra Cure Wrath, Wall and Asylum, Ace Striker RM
RW: Garnet, Dagger of Resolve BSB
Popped wall and Ley Lines at the start. I think I had Yuna RW early on to build meter. Y'sh wrathed up Papalymo dropped shell and just cured, otherwise it was blasting summons until phase 2.
Once Yuna had enough meter I BSBed and did C1 to summon then attack x 2. Then, Alphinaud BSBed, did a couple of C2 to restore Tiamat uses and then just C1 the rest of the time. Managed to hit the barriers at the right colors to meet the medal conditions, didn't capitalize on killing the adds for skill refresh though. Once Tyro was out of summons I used the RW for him, and kept C2 for that.
Popped Ley Lines again when I had SB, Y'sh dropped Asylum and later another Wall for good measure. Otherwise it was all Alphi/Yuna/RW BSB spam til the end.
Beginning damage was okay with just Ley Lines but Tenants of the Faith + Ley Lines once I had meter was what really did the work. If I could have figured out a better way to squeeze the buffs in at the start and Wall/shell it probably would have been better.
Wall works on his regular attacks, but not ultimate press. So without wall his regular spells are nasty enough, especially when he goes into weak mode at low health, that ultimate press isn't that much worse.
Well that is certainly now how I would have described it, as the power of the ultimate press is the same either way. But alright, I guess that's one way to look at it.
Did the Ultimates on my main account, the U and U++ were nice and easy, but the A+ was a bit tricky. My first run failed because I didn't see that Y'shtola's burst mode had worn off until too late, so instead of refreshing Asylum (which was ready) I had her do a regular attack. Whoops. The second run failed because I didn't handle refreshing protect and shell properly. The third attempt worked well enough, Vaan ended up dying near the end but I completed with 3 medals lost (1 for turns, 2 for damage) and got my 5 rosetta stones. I'm not looking forward to attempting it with my alt account, as I have a lot fewer options for water damage.
Depends on your connection(s) and the criticality of being... well, quick. I'd certainly be confident if it was just auto-ing through stages, but less so if you were trying to do something actually serious like a Torment or U++.
Oh... Hmm, I feel like you misrepresented by not saying you had alpha BSB native lol.
Not sure what to think about that.
On the one hand, it's an Aura SB, which are always nice. On the other ha d, it's mechanically identical to the entry of Pecil's BSB, which I've had forever, without the addition of Burst Mode. On the other hand, it's shiny and new, and has a badass animation.
The most dangerous thing about this is that it makes me want to build up to 50 myth and pull again, chasing his BSB, to complete the combo and have an ultra-badass Holy user. It'll come back, but that's 14 events from now. Then again, when it does, it'll be surrounded by banners that aren't quite as tempting as USB Cloud or BSB2 Celes.
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I'll just try to hold off. I can totally use Ceodore if I really want to with just Cross Slash.
One more to go!
I had his BSB from a previous lucky draw...
...I'm going to call him captain dragoon from now on.
I'm feeling the urge to make a pull, but I'm trying to fight it!
Ok then
I guess it imperils earth.
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Just remember that in 14 events, almost all the grand prizes on this banner return.
That's like three months away, though!
You'll have more mythril, then!
For those not in the know, this be the future FF4 banner(s). I'm interested in it, but WAAAAAAAY more in banner1 than banner2. Kain's stuff would be nice, but I've got holy for days. Edge's stuff would be nicer, and work especially well as a supplement for his Doppelganger for Full Throttles.
Ixion dispel just makes me die way too fast
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PBlink evades the dispel. If you can cover all the rest of the stuff, Penelo's USB is almost tailor made to counter it. Instant + PBlink + Heal + HP Stock. That'll put you at full (or close to it), evade it, and give you some overheal buffer. From there, it uses it every 7 turns. If you count, you can use the RW again, and since it's instant, you don't need to worry too much about timing. That should get you around 13ish of its turns. Save up your SBs and unload on him. You'll still need to worry about his single target dispel, but the AoE and stop will be off the table.
E:
Another option that's solid which you're more likely to have natively is Arc's Word of Kindness. Same as Penelo's USB, but without the overheal.
So naturally I 1/11'd Kain's OSB armor.
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