Final count: 10/95, which is well below the expected ~13.3. But well, I expect to be below what's expected.
What's crazy is I went about 30 something misses, then had five relatively close hits, then another 30 misses, another four hits during the fest, and then nothing until one hit last week.
Statistics is the devil, and variance is his name.
The random number generator for FFRK really seems to be quite streaky. I'm sure over time it averages out to what it is supposed to, but there are just large streaks of hits and misses and I think they could do better.
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Final count: 10/95, which is well below the expected ~13.3. But well, I expect to be below what's expected.
What's crazy is I went about 30 something misses, then had five relatively close hits, then another 30 misses, another four hits during the fest, and then nothing until one hit last week.
Statistics is the devil, and variance is his name.
The random number generator for FFRK really seems to be quite streaky. I'm sure over time it averages out to what it is supposed to, but there are just large streaks of hits and misses and I think they could do better.
I think in Japan they had a thing where every miss slightly raised your odds on subsequent pulls until you got a hit.
Part of that's my own dang fault, though. I really should've just brought a lightning imperil team with Shout instead of trying to hit his ice weakness on my CM run. Do you know how many physical Ice users there are in FFIV? None of them.
Part of that's my own dang fault, though. I really should've just brought a lightning imperil team with Shout instead of trying to hit his ice weakness on my CM run. Do you know how many physical Ice users there are in FFIV? None of them.
He resists lightning, so just about any other plan would be better.
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Hmm. I won't be around tomorrow evening, so I either PUG or bat signal MP later in the week.
Turtle got dumpstered. Exdeath runic snuffed his offense, Yuna buffed us and was easily able to keep up with healing, and then OHOHOHOHO and Ashe ruined his day.
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Kain was taking 3k from Wateras through Shell and Wall with moderate resist, and did not survive the Tsunami for 8k Runic was doing approximately fuckall on our run, turtle was doing AOE and partial-AOE attacks
I am curious why the dungeon select screen for Cagnazzo plays the lunar surface music
Kain was taking 3k from Wateras through Shell and Wall with moderate resist, and did not survive the Tsunami for 8k Runic was doing approximately fuckall on our run, turtle was doing AOE and partial-AOE attacks
I am curious why the dungeon select screen for Cagnazzo plays the lunar surface music
Did you not take breaks on that run? In our room we were getting tickled by whatever wasn't getting Runic'd, though we also never saw Tsunami.
Poor Baigan, being Ice weak is the very last thing you want to be against my AoE fight but kill ST team. Ayame with SSS caps as usual, Celes stuck on Banishing Strike duty practically the whole fight but still did plenty with CMD2. The Prishe pain train barely even got started when the fight ended, it was like Turn 7.
It took many resets, but I finally decided to let my physical team have a break and break out the new and improved magic team. Due to the requirements to break Levi, but also slow Asura and kill her first, and the wind resistances in this fight, the only wind user was Fujin, who was honestly just fine bringing piercing wind magics and the RES break on her C2 was still hitting for 7k, which just helped the rest of the team dish out bigger damage. 20k Glare Hands from Golbez and 8k Breaths from Yuna, along with roughly 14k damage from OK.
The worst part about this fight as with the Aeon Trio is random slows just fucking you up. The Dispels aren't so bad as long as you keep Levi's magic broken, and with everyone being in the back row, Asura's counterhits were managed for the most part, though she would occasionally sock someone for 2.5k because her crit rate seemed unusually high.
Kain was taking 3k from Wateras through Shell and Wall with moderate resist, and did not survive the Tsunami for 8k Runic was doing approximately fuckall on our run, turtle was doing AOE and partial-AOE attacks
I am curious why the dungeon select screen for Cagnazzo plays the lunar surface music
Did you not take breaks on that run? In our room we were getting tickled by whatever wasn't getting Runic'd, though we also never saw Tsunami.
We had Full Break on that run, and when we tried it again later we also added Vaan BSB with its accompanying Magic Breakdown and were seeing similar numbers. Most of the other characters in the party were taking a lot less damage, I think the problem might have been that I had non-synergy armor, so my RES must have been a lot less than everyone else's. On the rerun, I switched out the water resist for slow resist which may have been a bad choice, but Kain was still taking a lot more damage than everyone else even if you were to decrease it by 30%. Here's the video of that run:
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What the heck. Yeah, the non-Kain numbers were what we saw. Both my Shantotto and Faris had ~300 RES and Moderate and Major water Resist so most everything tickled.
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Looks like slow resist is pretty important on Cagnazzo MP
The first Cagnazzo try was like a god damn clockwork machine. I never had an online match so smooth. No connecting message at the start, everybody was just there, and not a hint of lag. The whole thing was like playing on speed 5 with perfect reflexes. We completely smoked the fight like it was nothing, and there was no worry or tension at all. And we got expert because we forgot to lower his resistance. Oops.
Cue the rest of the night banging my head against the thing with party after party of failures. The winning one turned out to be one asking for physical dps due to using a reflect strat, which worked pretty damn well. One little screw up at the end, where the guy though he was being clever reapplying reflect, only to bounce it off and reflect one of us. Luckily at that point you're basically aoe healing, so it wasn't a big deal.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
...Lunar Baigan is vulnerable to Slow. And Interrupt, as I found when using Hope for his Dispelga. Well, that would've been important to know for my CM attempts; applying Slow is way stronger than just removing Haste. Thanks for nothin', Dr. Mog.
So, if you have a source of Black/White Runic, definitely bring it to the Leviathan Asura fight. Asura's Dispel and Slow might be the most dangerous spells in that fight.
Cleared it with a variant of my Holy team, packing Agrias, Celes, Pecil, Eiko, and Dancin' Tyro. Ran out of RW Shout about 3/4 through Leviathan's HP, but I had enough survivability to not worry about that.
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Mastered the 220 Asura + Leviathan
You want protectga to be up ASAP and tempo flurry/slowga on both bosses, they are fast and Asura has a brutal physical counter (I saw it crit for 7k)
Some form of runic is very helpful to eat the dispels/slows and blizzajas
Once Asura is down the fight becomes a lot easier but make sure you have wall and shellga back up for when Leviathan is weak phase because he goes crazy
On Friday I went ahead and did a normal 50-mithril pull on the Event Banner.
I got Ceodore's Force Armor on that one. That one looks OK.
Then I was basically offline for the weekend, and this morning I see that there are two half-price Nightmare pulls up. Based on the posts here, you all are calling them Summoning and Combat? I see Yuma and Rydia in one, so I'm guessing that's the Summoning one. Cloud and Lightning in the Combat one I think? The little characters are hard to tell who is who sometimes .
And of course, I'm down to 24 mithril. Hah.
But it looks like the banners are around for a month? So I've got time to build up more mithril.
I just need to do one dungeon to get the last mithril to do the first one, I'll do that here shortly...
Beat Lunar Baigain CM! Ate both Self-Destructs and got only Expert, but that don't matter! I got mastery earlier!
Having Pecil use Slowga instead of Banishing Strike made all the difference early on. It was still quite the rough fight. FFIV needs Dancers. Add Calca and/or Brina, plz.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see when they add Barbaricca in the next FFIV event, and she'll come with BLM 5, Witch 5, and Dancer 5, just because.
On Friday I went ahead and did a normal 50-mithril pull on the Event Banner.
I got Ceodore's Force Armor on that one. That one looks OK.
Then I was basically offline for the weekend, and this morning I see that there are two half-price Nightmare pulls up. Based on the posts here, you all are calling them Summoning and Combat? I see Yuma and Rydia in one, so I'm guessing that's the Summoning one. Cloud and Lightning in the Combat one I think? The little characters are hard to tell who is who sometimes .
And of course, I'm down to 24 mithril. Hah.
But it looks like the banners are around for a month? So I've got time to build up more mithril.
I just need to do one dungeon to get the last mithril to do the first one, I'll do that here shortly...
I might recommend doing the one with Yuna and Rydia first, it has a pretty decent concentration of healer relics, which could be a great pickup for you. But yeah, half-price pulls are going to be good places to spend your mythril for a good while, so you'll probably want to do both eventually.
Beat event stuff last night. Cagnazzo bad at all. Turns out when you have Celes there to neuter his abilities, and Reno there to just shit out lightning damage the fight goes pretty smooth. Reno was hitting for 30k+ per Tempest Snipe. Dude is a beast with lightning damage. I may have to go ahead and dive him to just max it out.
Did the SUMMONER pull today. 1/11. Lann's SSB with its physical attack enhancing armor. I have never been more disappointed, and I don't know if it is possible to be.
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lann ssb/11 is categorically the worst possible result on the summoner banner, sorry
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The random number generator for FFRK really seems to be quite streaky. I'm sure over time it averages out to what it is supposed to, but there are just large streaks of hits and misses and I think they could do better.
I think in Japan they had a thing where every miss slightly raised your odds on subsequent pulls until you got a hit.
Part of that's my own dang fault, though. I really should've just brought a lightning imperil team with Shout instead of trying to hit his ice weakness on my CM run. Do you know how many physical Ice users there are in FFIV? None of them.
He resists lightning, so just about any other plan would be better.
Cagnazzo down with @Wyvern @Ilpala and @TNTrooper
Turtle got dumpstered. Exdeath runic snuffed his offense, Yuna buffed us and was easily able to keep up with healing, and then OHOHOHOHO and Ashe ruined his day.
100 gem got a 3*
Two 11 pulls got me 3x Bomb Core wands, when I already had one from last time.
MWO: Adamski
I am curious why the dungeon select screen for Cagnazzo plays the lunar surface music
Got P.Cecil OSB
FFRK tryin' to make me feel good about my financial decisions, huh?
Did you not take breaks on that run? In our room we were getting tickled by whatever wasn't getting Runic'd, though we also never saw Tsunami.
Poor Baigan, being Ice weak is the very last thing you want to be against my AoE fight but kill ST team. Ayame with SSS caps as usual, Celes stuck on Banishing Strike duty practically the whole fight but still did plenty with CMD2. The Prishe pain train barely even got started when the fight ended, it was like Turn 7.
The worst part about this fight as with the Aeon Trio is random slows just fucking you up. The Dispels aren't so bad as long as you keep Levi's magic broken, and with everyone being in the back row, Asura's counterhits were managed for the most part, though she would occasionally sock someone for 2.5k because her crit rate seemed unusually high.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
We had Full Break on that run, and when we tried it again later we also added Vaan BSB with its accompanying Magic Breakdown and were seeing similar numbers. Most of the other characters in the party were taking a lot less damage, I think the problem might have been that I had non-synergy armor, so my RES must have been a lot less than everyone else's. On the rerun, I switched out the water resist for slow resist which may have been a bad choice, but Kain was still taking a lot more damage than everyone else even if you were to decrease it by 30%. Here's the video of that run:
Thanks to @Frosteey @Bluecyan and @ArcTangent for the clear. You can see an example of Kain getting whacked by Watera around 1:54:
Vaan: 834, Exdeath: 0 (Grand Cross)
Edward: 1519, Garnet: 876
Shantotto: 525, Yshtola: 1297
Kain: 3016, Yuna: 1024
Later when Wall falls off (6:55), the Watera is even worse:
Vaan: 1760, Exdeath: 2482
Edward: 3237, Garnet: 1834
Shantotto: 1096, Yshtola: 2701
Kain: 5392, Yuna: 1858
I guess the takeaway here is wear your water resist, and hold on to your butts.
Garnet's Summon Ramuh is so much fun.
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Not really, compared to water resist. It has a fairly low chance to begin with, and Affliction Break drops it even further.
I probably will when clouds USB is available. :-P
MWO: Adamski
Cue the rest of the night banging my head against the thing with party after party of failures. The winning one turned out to be one asking for physical dps due to using a reflect strat, which worked pretty damn well. One little screw up at the end, where the guy though he was being clever reapplying reflect, only to bounce it off and reflect one of us. Luckily at that point you're basically aoe healing, so it wasn't a big deal.
This is my jam.
Cleared it with a variant of my Holy team, packing Agrias, Celes, Pecil, Eiko, and Dancin' Tyro. Ran out of RW Shout about 3/4 through Leviathan's HP, but I had enough survivability to not worry about that.
You want protectga to be up ASAP and tempo flurry/slowga on both bosses, they are fast and Asura has a brutal physical counter (I saw it crit for 7k)
Some form of runic is very helpful to eat the dispels/slows and blizzajas
Once Asura is down the fight becomes a lot easier but make sure you have wall and shellga back up for when Leviathan is weak phase because he goes crazy
My setup was Vaan/Celes/Setzer/Onion/Y'shtola
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On Friday I went ahead and did a normal 50-mithril pull on the Event Banner.
I got Ceodore's Force Armor on that one. That one looks OK.
Then I was basically offline for the weekend, and this morning I see that there are two half-price Nightmare pulls up. Based on the posts here, you all are calling them Summoning and Combat? I see Yuma and Rydia in one, so I'm guessing that's the Summoning one. Cloud and Lightning in the Combat one I think? The little characters are hard to tell who is who sometimes
And of course, I'm down to 24 mithril. Hah.
But it looks like the banners are around for a month? So I've got time to build up more mithril.
I just need to do one dungeon to get the last mithril to do the first one, I'll do that here shortly...
Having Pecil use Slowga instead of Banishing Strike made all the difference early on. It was still quite the rough fight. FFIV needs Dancers. Add Calca and/or Brina, plz.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
I might recommend doing the one with Yuna and Rydia first, it has a pretty decent concentration of healer relics, which could be a great pickup for you. But yeah, half-price pulls are going to be good places to spend your mythril for a good while, so you'll probably want to do both eventually.
Did the SUMMONER pull today. 1/11. Lann's SSB with its physical attack enhancing armor. I have never been more disappointed, and I don't know if it is possible to be.
Probably Combat. The ratio of items I already own is lower on that one.