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What is Final Fantasy Brave Exvius?
A mobile game for Android and Apple devices, from the company that brings you all things Final Fantasy, in collaboration with A-lim, who handled the Japanese version of Brave Frontier, and Gumi who handled the global release of said game. The plot revolves around a young knight named Rain, and his personal aide/best friend/mentor named Lasswell, and a girl who lost all memories named Fina. The world's crystals are being shattered by a mysterious enemy, and to help restore their power, you require Espers, and the ability to summon the souls of legendary heroes past known as "Visions".
What is with the name of the game?
It's SquareEnix, responsible for making a trilogy of games called Fabula Nova Crystalis. They're kind of known now for making up fanciful words like Crystarium, and Dissidia Duodecim 012, and 358/2 Days. Be the Bravest Exvius you can be, and define that on your own terms, that's what I say.
I've played Brave Frontier and liked/hated it. How does this compare?
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is an expanded spin on Brave Frontier, with whom it shares some similarities. It's another gacha game, meaning you will earn in-game currency, coming in the form of Friend Points and Lapis, to summon new units on a seemingly unfair spreadsheet of hidden factors that emerge in the form of unique characters, and many familiar to the world of Final Fantasy.
You mentioned Final Fantasy characters? I love Final Fantasy!
FFBE has a wide variety of characters from Final Fantasy, with it's own beefy roster of unique names original to FFBE. Characters from Final Fantasy 1 all the way to 15 and even outliers such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy Type-0 are represented. Funny enough, there are no Final Fantasy 7 or 8 characters yet, but expect some to show up in Japan's version, which means at least a 5-6 month wait before we would get them in global. The animation sprites used in this game are gorgeous, by the way.
The roster of characters in game is a mishmash of various Final Fantasy games and Brave Frontier exclusive characters who all have a boring, pointless backstory that is meaningless because let's face it, you're here for your favorite FF character. As previously mentioned, characters are added to the gacha, usually alongside special events that tie into the game they're from (unless it's just more FFBE exclusives). Unlike other games of this type, the rarity isn't just in the higher rank of the unit, but also the characters themselves. You should ignore the fact that the Exdeath you pulled is 3*, for example, because it's possible to increase the rarity of units to their natural cap (Exdeath is capable of reaching 6*, the game's current top rarity.)
Here's a link to a site that will update regularly as the global version gets more characters, and ranks the units by various categories to back up the reasoning for their position in the tier list. http://exvius.gamepedia.com/Unit_Rankings
I'm new, and got a bunch of these characters out of my first 11-pull. Are any of these good? I love Shadow/Sabin/Penelo!
Unfortunately, your Shadow/Sabin/Penelo are some of the worst characters in the game. Yes, they are beloved Final Fantasy characters, but that doesn't exclude them from being King of the Trash Heap. Someone has to be, right? There is a subjective "tier" list of best units, based on role in your team, potential at their role, and overall performance here. Check it frequently as it will update every few weeks as new units are added, and almost always someone will replace the top spot in a given role at any time, with few exceptions.
If you're just starting out and want to know who to look for, below are some of the better units you can expect to see come out of your common blue crystal drop. If you see a prismatic crystal, rejoice, for it will grant a 5* base unit, which range from useful to very powerful and can easily secure a spot on your team!
THIS SECTION SUBJECT TO PENDING UPDATE
3* units to look for: Cecil, Cloud of Darkness, Bartz, Garland, Firion, Exdeath, Kefka, Terra, Vaan, Zidane, Roselia, Faris, Charlotte
4* base units to look for (gold crystal or better): Chizuru, Warrior of Light, Lenna, Garnet, Agrias, Rosa, Amarant, Refia, Snow
5* base units to look for (prismatic crystals only): Lightning, Ramza, Delita, Dark Knight Cecil, Luneth, Gilgamesh
3* base units that if your entire 11-pull is full of, you might want to re-roll: Vivi, Lani, Galuf, Shadow, Penelo, Sabin, Maria, Fran, Clyne, Russell, Bedile, Anzelm, Gilbert, Rakshasa, Medius, Cyan
Helpful Links:
ExviusWiki: Best source for Global version information, with maps for exploration dungeons, quest guides, and unit details.
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Reddit: The reddit community for FFBE, containing info and updates for both the Japan and Global versions. Check here if you want to know what kind of stuff we'll get 5-6 months in advance since Japan gets it first. Also contains useful player-submitted guides, and has a Wiki which is up to date with the current state of Japan's game, so you can look ahead at unit enhancements and trust masteries, that sort of thing.
Friend ID List!:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HfEIPxz_tV42C8dhfSiuVsWJ_f2YQhXiNg5BwiuJCik/edit?usp=sharing
To find your friend ID in the game, tap Home in the upper right corner (on most screens), then the Menu icon in the upper right, then Player Info on the left. Your ID should look like this in your little character card: 123,456,789. This is also where you change your greeting, and rename your character if you like. Adding friends is the only way to use your "guest character" limit break in combat, and only your current party's Leader is shared to friends. Remember to set a Companion Party from the Options in the Main Menu! This way, you will always have a party set up with a specific character that will be shared to your friends, and you should never ever edit that party except to change the Leader if you want to change who you share.
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Quick Glossary of Things:
Lapis: The name of the in-game world. Conveniently, also the premium currency that you'll be getting from doing missions, daily quests, and most events. This is used largely to summon more premium units on banners, but you can also use it to expand your inventory and friend capacity, which is highly recommended. It is never recommended to use Lapis to unlock additional daily dungeons in the Vortex.
Friend Points (FP): Used to summon cheapo units. Most of them aren't worth your time, but a select few are worth holding on to as you accumulate your FP so you can fuse them into a Trust Mastery Reward. More info can be found here.
Trust Mastery Reward (TMR): The reward given for getting a unit's Trust up to 100%. There are a lot of good TMRs that make your life easier or really boost your party's output. That said, TMRs are a luxury, and by no means required to beat the main story content of the game. If you want to get serious about getting TMRs however, you will want to look into setting up an emulator such as Nox or MEmu on your PC and recording a script.
Arena: PVP. Rules change per week which affect the kind of shenanigans you can do, but you never play against another player live - the CPU controls them, and often makes it easy on you. Your worst case scenario is someone who sandbags you with shown unit like Rain, and you end up fighting against 4 Lightnings and a Cecil. Arena rewards include stat pots to fuse to your units to increase their base stats, up to a cap.
Colosseum: Structured fights that have 3 ranks of 5 tiers with 5 classes with 10 battles per class. Great source of Lapis and gear early on. The first two ranks can most easily be beaten with a unit sporting Gravija, such as Exdeath. Kefka's Heartless Angel is a renamed Gravija and works just as well. Most bosses are immune to this, but most of them aren't too bad to deal without it until you get into the S-class of the tier.
Vortex: Daily dungeons are here. When there are no special weekend dungeons, you'll mostly be coming here to use Chamber of Experience or Awakening to strengthen your team. Special events usually show up here tied in to the current rate-up banner featured on the home page. This is where you will be usually end up going to find the Moogle King to trade your event currency in for items. You can also do trial boss fights which reward great gear.
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Just a note to people who are newish -- buy the Sword (Vernard) and the three Accessories from this event, if at all possible. Swords are stupidly rare and this is the best fire one. The accessories have Beast and Demon Killer attached to them, which is a 50% ATK boost against those monster types and that is very rare in Accessory slots.
If you're lucky enough to pull Vargas, don't bother with his exclusive materia. It's just an AoE full break, which is NOT what Vargas should be doing.
Next week, we should all be able to get a 100% bonus unit if we didn't previously get Maxwell. Sad that she's not up today as a surprise
Also, I was not aware Kelsus required shards to awaken. Bummer.
The event grants a ticket for the first stage, so I figured, what the heck, let's do one more pull. Gold, Seria. Yay! Officially done. The currency rates are pretty sweet, I must say -- I think they're unchanged from last time. With two 75% units and a friend 100% (which are plentiful), I came across three metal gods and pulled down 14000 red rock things.
If Noctis/Setzer/Ling/Amelia/Rem do their "fuck your party" attacks, I just immediately retreat and take the loss.
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In other news, I leveled both my Amelias to 100, so I can chain now.
Unfortunately, there are no elemental guns, outside of Sparky and Candy Gun. Neither of those I can get.
They can also wield knives, fists, and those round Xena weapons. With Dual Wield, Second Knife, and my upcoming Bowie Knife, I should be able to cobble up together a Wind element chain. The Finisher doesn't need any specific element (or any element at all), right?
According to the chain reference data on Reddit, Amelia can chain with Chizuru's Phantom Shadow, which is something to keep in mind.
Is it possible for two Amelias to chain with, say, Orlandeau? Divine Ruination has a 7 frame delay between hits and Amelia 5. Theoretically, it should be impossible for Orlandeau to break the chain by inserting two hits between the Amelia chain. My phone is old and laggy, though.
[edit] I probably won't be able to insert Orlandeau in the second chain (created by Dual Wield). There are 70 frames between me ordering the attack and Orlandeau actually scoring his first hit. For Amelia, that's 42 frames. The time difference is almost half a second. Meaning that, if I time it so that the first hit of the Amelia chain and Orlandeau coincide on the first chain, there will be at least half a second delay on the second chain. Probably more.
40 shards - daily login
90 shards - this event
80 shards - March on Titan
5 shard daily quest * 30 days in June = 150 shards
That's 360. You should have 185 so far (not counting the daily quest on the 16th) if you want to summon and awaken him. Bummer.
8 tickets. Maria x3, Aiden, Camille, Faris, Golbez, Amarant.
1 more ticket, rainbow, hoping for a banner unit.. Dark Knight Cecil.
I seem to only have 175 Kelsus Shards.. so I guess I missed a couple.
I also got a DKC today! 18 pulls. We're DKC buddies!
Thanks for the info. I bought some of the 6* awakening stuff first because I have Y'shtola ready to awaken if I can get the rest. I'll switch to the tickets at your suggestion first though.
Units I have (I assume 3* or higher are the only ones that can actually matter?)
Bedile, Vaan, Shantotto, Lawrence, Maria, Medius, King, Minfilia, Thancred, Bartz, Rosa, Yda, Xiao, Kefka, Sozhe, Xon, Biggs, Edge, Papalymo, Luka, Camille, Terra, Zyrus, Edgar, Ludmille. Also the story characters and the ones I mentioned previously.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Summon is around until the end of July. And I'm pretty sure I saw mention of shards coming for the Anniversary. You'll be fiiiine
FFBE: 838,975,107
Dokkan: 1668363315
Jack shit. I got 2 Vanill's and and a Gau and the rest are all 4* max units.
Bah. BAH I say.
FFBE: 838,975,107
Dokkan: 1668363315
Hopefully she'll turn up for me during the anniversary's free pulls; the best thing I have for Olive is that 8 ATK 24 DEF armor, so it'd be an improvement of 49 ATK, 25 DEF and 49 SPR. Ah well.
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I've managed to get her up to 4800 hp, immunity to paralysis & stone, with resistances of: -10/90/40/20/20/20/40/20, and MP refresh of 40/turn. But that's 3 whole HP+15% materia and a 15% hp boots. I can push it over 5k if I ditch the jeweled ring, but she's probably going to need some kind of status immunity for trials/fights since she doesn't have any native.
Refia is so tanky in comparison: easily 700 more hp, 50 more DEF & 100 more SPR in backup gear, plus immunity to all important status effects.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
This is what I've got on mine (w/Shiva). Not fully potted yet.
I'm less than 1 trust away from a Ribbon to replace the ring for when status effects are an issue, and about 5 from Marie's superior elemental resist robe. Other HP upgrades are on the way, but she's looking pretty solid to me.
E: Haven't gotten the Boots yet. I guess I can get around to that too.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Currently DMing: None
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Arena/arena tickets and raids mostly.
He's a heroic talking dog, with dog-themed powers. If that seems relevant to your interests, read on.
* Weapons:Throwing Weapons/Fists/Whips
* Armor: Clothes/Hats/Accessories
Abilities:
* Fetch: Damage one enemy and steal item.
* Play Dead: Reduce targeting on caster.
* Roll Over: Dispel all status effects on caster and self-heal.
* Man's Best Friend: Boost Spr/Def for all allies.
* Top Dog: Boost caster Atk/Def/Mag/Spr 40% for three turns.
* Bloodhound: Nullify enemy evade effects for three turns.
Traits:
* Good Boy: Automatically attack a random enemy whenever healed.
* Seeing Eye: Immune to Blind
* Hachiko: +10% Resist All Elements
Limit Break:
* Leader of the Pack/Puppy Prince/Imperius Rex: Rex summons a legion of dogs (various breeds), and they stampede the battleground (like Sozhe's Imperial Raid) inflicting physical damage (2.5-3.0x) and inflicting a random status ailment on all enemies.
Humm. Well, If your looking to fill a main party until you get more top tier units, Xiao is pretty good in terms that she doesnt need weapons, so shes going to produce decent damage at max levelwithout needing to grind those. Xon has some advantages and you might want to level him if you have the cactars. Luka is also a pretty good healer, Kefka is a decent mage, Bartz can do pretty good damage as well. Even Vaan is decent damage, but not top tier. Ludmille you will want to TM farm for dual Cast eventually.
I didnt see a single one during the original maxwell event.
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Yep!
And you get to stop pulling on this banner! Win-win.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12