The raid summon Ariana looks like she might be a tank? She has a party damage mitigation buff, increased HP and DEF with a small shield and a move that damages and provides damage reduction to herself. Two of those moves are similar to VotE's Protective Barrier and Guarding Smite. At least they're changing up the roles since they're insisting on giving us so many Arianas.
I also realized that with this new event, there are now as many 6* capable Arianas as there are 6* capable FF6 units. Nothing against Ariana, but I weep for my beloved FF6.
Objectively it'd be neat to have a team full of different Arianas, one in each role, but they had to go and mess that up by making one of them a 5* on a shitty banner. I liked this tie-in a lot better when each unit was obtainable.
As much as this batch of enhancements is terribad and should feel bad, it does increase my insatiable Wilhelm lust. I was hoping for enhancements for some of the global exclusives like Ling, Olive, Reberta, etc. Maybe next month.
Yeah while this banner may suck for it unless Arianna is super enhanced Ramza, I'd hope they keep it till the full step-ups. It's not impossible for a F2P player to get 25,000 lapis and if there is a character they really really want (like Cloud) at least they know they'll get them.
Given that Cloud shares a banner with units that are pretty much only for TMR purposes (for him, specifically), it would certainly be a great incentive to introduce step up then. But I'm not holding my breath, and I AM holding my lapis.
A stepup for Cloud would be the worst, in that it'd be tempting as all hell given how critical his TM is moving forward for topend builds.
Is it still considering the doublehand differences in GL? I mean sure it'll be a boost over regular doublehand but will it be enough when you can't stack it the nines?
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A stepup for Cloud would be the worst, in that it'd be tempting as all hell given how critical his TM is moving forward for topend builds.
Is it still considering the doublehand differences in GL? I mean sure it'll be a boost over regular doublehand but will it be enough when you can't stack it the nines?
You can still stack it, just not as easily. Olive here on GL overcaps the doublehand limit with Cloud's TMR + Doublehand + Sparky + Innate + Elfried's TMR.
grrrrr. Okay aigaion....your going to die now. I friggin wanted to try out my emperor on him...was going great..i actually killed the main body..then i fucked up the arms and lost control with no LB crystals . next time I'll have you.
So what kind of sales can we expect next Friday? If any? Thats always been a nice thing about Dokkan. Stones are on sale monthly and it rarely feels like Lapis does the same. (I dont count the bundles that are barely worth it)
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BTW maintenance is early today! Starts in 40 minutes.
Bahamut has been giving me some problems. I think I need more people immune to paralyze because I haven't been able to really get my feet back under me after the opening megaflare.
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You only need one immune person with aoe cleanse, really.
5* Arianna looks pretty good. Not a new bard or really an ayaka competitor, but lots of versatility and can see her being used on a lot of upcoming content. She can play Ayaka's role in a lot of content that doesn't really need curaja level healing though, especially if paired with another source of healing (eg bards if ever, marie, etc). Don't think I'm tossing 25k at her though.
5* Arianna looks pretty good. Not a new bard or really an ayaka competitor, but lots of versatility and can see her being used on a lot of upcoming content. She can play Ayaka's role in a lot of content that doesn't really need curaja level healing though, especially if paired with another source of healing (eg bards if ever, marie, etc). Don't think I'm tossing 25k at her though.
I'm torn because of that AoE imbue water element to attacks. That goes so nicely with my two Tidus' and really helps them out if I ever get the TMs to switch them over to a fixed dice build (which is apparently the way to go for Tidus in JP).
The water imbue is nice, you could probably argue about it either way through.
"MUST HAVE" - ELEMENTAL CHAINS WITH EVERY PHYSICAL ATTACKER REGARDLESS OF GEAR. FD TIDUS MASSACRES. WHAT ABOUT A WATER WEAK TRIAL YOU'D KILL IT, IT MIGHT BE THE ONLY WAY. FD FV WITH TIDUS OMG. EASY MULTI ELEMENT CHAINS FOR THAT LIKE MINOR PERCENT BOOST OR WHATEVER IT WAS. NO MORE HUNTING AROUND YOUR UNITS/GEAR/FRIENDS WHEN A STORY MISSION SAYS "DEAL WATER DAMAGE".
"eh" - still need a water imperil which means Tidus' LB, Arianna's LB, or also bringing along another source (9s,whatever), which makes composition get interesting. FD tidus was doing ok in JP without it (and also really wants a lot of TDH). Imbue can't be dual cast so that means she's not healing or doing other things which might also impact composition.
That being said there will probably be some random GL exclusive trial that you want it for.
She's a really solid unit though. Would like to have her but I have Zarg/Ayaka and bards if we ever get them, plus a ton of other supports so seems like there are better things to save up for.
Game is up early; woohoo. Connection errors abound, probably from too many people slamming the servers. Boo.
Also thanks @BlehBlehAmiga for talking me down from the ledge. Gonna remember saving for Christmas is more important / more likely to yield better returns.
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I also realized that with this new event, there are now as many 6* capable Arianas as there are 6* capable FF6 units. Nothing against Ariana, but I weep for my beloved FF6.
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All signs point to Cloud on Dec 15.
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That wasn't a raid one though, right? I'm talking raid orbs with raid summons.
I mean, it's a terrible banner for it, but alright.
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Is it still considering the doublehand differences in GL? I mean sure it'll be a boost over regular doublehand but will it be enough when you can't stack it the nines?
You can still stack it, just not as easily. Olive here on GL overcaps the doublehand limit with Cloud's TMR + Doublehand + Sparky + Innate + Elfried's TMR.
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No. Those tickets have no rate ups and are never on any banner anyway. Any stepups are banner specific.
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Yeah, I completely forgot maintenance was tonight and didn't TM farm before bed thinking I could set it overnight.
I'm torn because of that AoE imbue water element to attacks. That goes so nicely with my two Tidus' and really helps them out if I ever get the TMs to switch them over to a fixed dice build (which is apparently the way to go for Tidus in JP).
"MUST HAVE" - ELEMENTAL CHAINS WITH EVERY PHYSICAL ATTACKER REGARDLESS OF GEAR. FD TIDUS MASSACRES. WHAT ABOUT A WATER WEAK TRIAL YOU'D KILL IT, IT MIGHT BE THE ONLY WAY. FD FV WITH TIDUS OMG. EASY MULTI ELEMENT CHAINS FOR THAT LIKE MINOR PERCENT BOOST OR WHATEVER IT WAS. NO MORE HUNTING AROUND YOUR UNITS/GEAR/FRIENDS WHEN A STORY MISSION SAYS "DEAL WATER DAMAGE".
"eh" - still need a water imperil which means Tidus' LB, Arianna's LB, or also bringing along another source (9s,whatever), which makes composition get interesting. FD tidus was doing ok in JP without it (and also really wants a lot of TDH). Imbue can't be dual cast so that means she's not healing or doing other things which might also impact composition.
That being said there will probably be some random GL exclusive trial that you want it for.
She's a really solid unit though. Would like to have her but I have Zarg/Ayaka and bards if we ever get them, plus a ton of other supports so seems like there are better things to save up for.
Also thanks @BlehBlehAmiga for talking me down from the ledge. Gonna remember saving for Christmas is more important / more likely to yield better returns.