Tried again with double Tidus. got the Dragon to 45% before RNG stopped giving Rikku LB crystals for her reraise. One Osmose and a Firaga later and total party wipe.
Fuck it. Literally no Idea what I'm suppose to do.
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It's the same as it was in JP. The mechanics are straightforward although there is a point once the dragon dies where RNG could result in Golbez setting your HP to 10 and then doing an AOE attack. Notably, mages are WORSE for this fight as his SPR is significantly higher than his DEF.
For Golbez. For killing the Shadow Dragon quickly, Mages tear the fuck through it since its DEF is 200 while its SPR is 30.
That one-turn-wipe that Golbez has where he follows up Binding Cold with an AoE attack is fucking terrible. Nothing survives that except Rikku, but he can do it every turn depending on RNG and Rikku can't keep up. It's basically RNG whether you survive or not.
I wasted 40 energy trying to get that esper-kill mission. I would have gotten the esper-kill mission on my first try, except that I had Odin as my only damage option and he decided to not do damage.
sigh... Aigaion still eludes me. several more attempts and i still havent gotten the body down a second time. btw, if my Friend unit Enhanced Trance Terra that has 1000+ mag and 7k health is one of you guys? Nice!
Got close to getting Golbez but I screwed up my chain on the last turn with one TT switching to defense instead of using her skill. I may ask someone here with an enhanced Marie to put her up for a short time, having her would make it a lot easier to hit the other missions.
Orlandeau: 900 atk, otherwise nothing special
Dark Veritas: 1050 atk, Crimson blood to help kill the dragon
Rikku: Mystical Skull, Mog Wisdom, Override, Dragon Shield, 2x camouflage
Ace: 900 mag, cat ear hood, on Diabolos
Garnet: Bahamut, Rainbow Robe, 5k health, Holy Wand, Mog Wisdom
Setup: Rikku set up Hyper NulAll, DV & O chained, Ace imperiled, Garnet was on heal duty.
Above 50%: No real danger. Hyper NulAll helps with the damage, and the squishy folks on my team were set up to resist Fire and Lightning so the spells weren't doing much. Since I didn't want Golbez to die too soon, I spent a few turns with DV buffing Dark resist, Ace restoring MP, and when Garnet's LB was up I popped it to get the espers ready. I left Rikku's LB alone. I forgot to use Eccentrick via her pouch, but it wasn't necessary.
49%: Golbez summons his dragon, dialog happens, your HP is set to 50%
Then: Rikku fires off her LB, Ace does Tri-beam Laser, and I chain on the dragon. Ace happens to hit a red tri-beam so the dragon melts. Garnet guarded.
Golbez comes back with setting everyone to 10hp, and some spells. Orlandeau lives, everyone else re-raises. I chain DV and O, cap it with a Bahamut summon, and... Golbez is at 19% health...
Ace jumps to Spirit Hand duty to counter the Osmose and bring up the party's mana, and Rikku's LB ready again. I take a pause turn where I use no abilities to bring up both Garnet and Rikku's LB, so DV and O just plain attack. Ace casts.. Cura! because he's on Lakshmi. Rikku's LB means that it doesn't matter, and this auto-attack round brings up Garnet's LB so she fires it off, filling the gauge. Golbez doesn't do much -- no re-summon, no set HP to 10, but he succeeds in killing Garnet and Orlandeau, who both re-raise. Then that's all she wrote -- Garnet summons Bahamut again, and the DV & O chain ensures he's very dead.
For anyone who's having trouble and wants someone from my team, I'm happy to help. I can put Barb up again afterward.
Got close to getting Golbez but I screwed up my chain on the last turn with one TT switching to defense instead of using her skill. I may ask someone here with an enhanced Marie to put her up for a short time, having her would make it a lot easier to hit the other missions.
I used a friend's GLSakura because Thunder's Protection covers most of the worst stuff (Thunder, Darkness) and I ran my OK for the Fire resist by using Splendor of Water. I did one round with GL Sakura alive when I was giving up that attempt and her dualcast Thundaja alone was responsible for 40% off Shadow Dragon so if I can keep DFina and another Thunder chainer up on that round, I should be able to manage? I hope.
But I have to wait for GLSakura to come back up on my list.
Yeah, the dragon will do a single-target, fixed damage, 999,999 attack every round. Like Aigion, he will essentially one-shot one person a round, though the dragon follows the standard random targeting mechanics instead of always hitting a specific person. So you can provoke to draw the damage.
As @Trajan45 said, always kill the dragon first. If you kill Golbez first, you have to deal with the dragon the same round, or he will just wipe the party every turn.
If you are having issues with Golbez and his random number generator; he won't start setting HP to 10 at random until the dragon is dead. If you have a single-target re-raiser (enhanced WWFina, Rem, Ayaka, Kitty Ariana, Meliadoul are the ones I can think of off the top of my head), you may have a better time leaving both alive and trying for a single round AoE kill.
Bring someone who can provoke, and keep the single-target re-raise on them. The dragon kill KO them every round, they will raise back up, provoke again, re-raise on provoker again. If you can then heal-through Golbez's random assortment of -aga's then you should be ok. Slowly bring both Dragon and Golbez down to single digit hp %. Then kill both in one round with some esper AoE damage.
As long as the Dragon stays alive, Golbez shouldn't activate his "set HP to 10" skill (other than the one time when he breaks 50% threshold).
Edit:
Also, there's very little physical damage in this fight. Dump all your DEF for HP/SPR and Fire/Lightning/Dark Resist% equipment.
Make sure no one is using Carbuncle, Siren, or Shiva as your espers (-50% Dark/Lightning/Fire resist respectively).
Got close to getting Golbez but I screwed up my chain on the last turn with one TT switching to defense instead of using her skill. I may ask someone here with an enhanced Marie to put her up for a short time, having her would make it a lot easier to hit the other missions.
I used a friend's GLSakura because Thunder's Protection covers most of the worst stuff (Thunder, Darkness) and I ran my OK for the Fire resist by using Splendor of Water. I did one round with GL Sakura alive when I was giving up that attempt and her dualcast Thundaja alone was responsible for 40% off Shadow Dragon so if I can keep DFina and another Thunder chainer up on that round, I should be able to manage? I hope.
But I have to wait for GLSakura to come back up on my list.
I can toss up my GLSakura if you want. I think she only gets to like 800 MAG though.
Have to redo Golbez, missed the Esper kill. I'm pretty bad at timing damage chains with Espers. Brought Rikku, Soleil, Ayaka, Orlandeau and friend Orlandeau.
Well got closer with that team. I still cant get enough leeway to get Rikku to do everything she needs to. Missing one Hyper NulAll seems to instawipe me. Sometimes I'm not even sure how I miss it. I cast it, then out of nowhere Rikku will die anyway, and before I have the time to Synth and Hyper shes dead again. Then it snowballs.
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Alright, time to do the community helping thing; hurray.
My friend ID is the spreadsheet in the OP.
I have setup a DV. Stats:
Veritas of the Dark 6 Star
FFBEDB Unit Calculator
Right Hand: Organyx +74ATK+Dark Element
Left Hand: Hero's Shield +48DEF+20%AllEleResistance
Head: Dragon Helm +24DEF+20%Fire/Ice/Lightning
Body: Dragon Mail +45DEF+15SPR+30%Fire/Ice/Lightning
Accessory 1: Ifrit's Claw +30ATK+10%HP+20%Fire+100%Blind
Accessory 2: Sorcerer's Cape +5DEF/SPR+10%ElementalResist
Ability 1: Adventurer-5 +40%ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR
Ability 2: Sworn Six's Pride Dark +30%ATKw/GreatSword+30%ATKw/HeavyArmor
Ability 3: Large Sword Mastery +50% ATK w/ Great Sword
Ability 4: Poison Resistance +100%Poison Resistance
Pot Stats: HP: 450 MP: 75 ATK: 30 DEF: 30 MAG: 30 SPR: 30
Esper: Ramuh HP:3170 MP:6280 ATK:1770 DEF:1225 MAG:6035 SPR:4595
Total Stats: HP: 5361 MP: 341 ATK: 697 DEF: 393 MAG: 308 SPR: 306
Crit Rate: 10% P. Evasion: 0% M. Evasion: 0% P. Counter: 20% M. Counter: 0%
He's completely immune to any damage Golbez can do in the second phase (when he stops doing physical attacks). He's not dual wielding and only has ~700 ATK so he's not exactly a power house. But if you can take him and kill the dragon, Golbez will be unable to wipe him and you can auto-attack to victory.
Edit: as has been pointed out, Golbez can still hurt him with Drain. But his AI should prevent him from Draining and using Blinding Cold (set HP to 10) on the same round. So he shouldn't be able to wipe this unit in one round and give you a chance to recover with an elixir or Phoenix Down someone else or something. So close.
Wait he's immune to Golbez's drain? How? That's the ability that seems to fuck me over. When he double drains on a turn. Or does he stop doing Drain after the Dragon is dead?
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Wait he's immune to Golbez's drain? How? That's the ability that seems to fuck me over. When he double drains on a turn. Or does he stop doing Drain after the Dragon is dead?
Ohhh I'm a bad person who got ahead of himself. This build can't be wiped in one turn, but you're right the Drain can get him. The only saving grace is Golbez can't set your HP to 10 and Drain on the same round. So you have a turn to recover.
I really can't be arsed to farm this raid AND the mog king thing, though. Is there anything in it I really, really need?
The tube shield from The Raid is so far the only item in global that increases provoked chance, so that's pretty unique.
Also the Free Ariana unit has a trust master that gives 25% HP. And the raid coin summon drops moogles for her trust master so you should be able to get that for free.
Golbez down, all missions complete. Team was:
Earth Veritas (provoke and Elixir monkey after the dragon was dead)
WWFina (who again has proved to be an amazing unit post enhancement)
Rikku (for Rikku things)
Orlandeau
Friend Dark Veritas.
Had one full wipe turn where he set HP to 10 and then Thundaga'd, but I had Hyper MightyG up. Also, WWFina Entrust +2 is fucking amazing, especially when paired with Rikku. I do not regret fully enhancing WWFina one bit.
I really can't be arsed to farm this raid AND the mog king thing, though. Is there anything in it I really, really need?
The tube shield from The Raid is so far the only item in global that increases provoked chance, so that's pretty unique.
Also the Free Ariana unit has a trust master that gives 25% HP. And the raid coin summon drops moogles for her trust master so you should be able to get that for free.
Guess I'll try for at least the float, then. I can only do up to PRO reliably, too.
Great news for iOS folks. Looks like with the newest update (11) when you pull up the control center in game there is a small pause in the game before it resumes. You can use this like the mag trick on Android to get perfect chains. I just tried with with Mirage and it worked every time. This does not work with version 10 of the OS.
From Reddit:
Steps:
swipe control center up
swipe control center down to close it
tap on both chainers (not at the same time) while the app is still frozen (similar speed to magni gestures on android)
I should have farmed the story vortex event for more Tech crysts. I just started using Soleil in lieu of WoL for the Golbez fight, but I don't quite have two dances awakened to +2 yet, but even with Schwertz at +2 and Panzer at +1, the 120% ATK/MAG is fucking bonkers and I'm decimating the Ariana raid in 3 turns instead of 6.
Now my only concession is to run the hell out of the gem daily and get 3 more heavycrsysts, which means I might as well wait for the next story vortex event because that's how long it'll take for me to see them.
I'm not sure what's my favourite, but HA HA HA HA HA is up there.
I really hope they make them into stickers. I'd buy a full set for sure to put on my PC case. I'd definitely slap the Wilhelm sticker on the back of my phone case.
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Fuck it. Literally no Idea what I'm suppose to do.
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For Golbez. For killing the Shadow Dragon quickly, Mages tear the fuck through it since its DEF is 200 while its SPR is 30.
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Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I wasted 40 energy trying to get that esper-kill mission. I would have gotten the esper-kill mission on my first try, except that I had Odin as my only damage option and he decided to not do damage.
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It was brutal. There were a few turns that Ayaka was the only one alive and had to res Rikku and re-raise herself just to be safe.
And of course, I'm running without Rikku because I don't have a Rikku.
It's absurd how broken she is.
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Where does the new Story begin? I can't seem to find the beginning.
Orlandeau: 900 atk, otherwise nothing special
Dark Veritas: 1050 atk, Crimson blood to help kill the dragon
Rikku: Mystical Skull, Mog Wisdom, Override, Dragon Shield, 2x camouflage
Ace: 900 mag, cat ear hood, on Diabolos
Garnet: Bahamut, Rainbow Robe, 5k health, Holy Wand, Mog Wisdom
Setup: Rikku set up Hyper NulAll, DV & O chained, Ace imperiled, Garnet was on heal duty.
Above 50%: No real danger. Hyper NulAll helps with the damage, and the squishy folks on my team were set up to resist Fire and Lightning so the spells weren't doing much. Since I didn't want Golbez to die too soon, I spent a few turns with DV buffing Dark resist, Ace restoring MP, and when Garnet's LB was up I popped it to get the espers ready. I left Rikku's LB alone. I forgot to use Eccentrick via her pouch, but it wasn't necessary.
49%: Golbez summons his dragon, dialog happens, your HP is set to 50%
Then: Rikku fires off her LB, Ace does Tri-beam Laser, and I chain on the dragon. Ace happens to hit a red tri-beam so the dragon melts. Garnet guarded.
Golbez comes back with setting everyone to 10hp, and some spells. Orlandeau lives, everyone else re-raises. I chain DV and O, cap it with a Bahamut summon, and... Golbez is at 19% health...
Ace jumps to Spirit Hand duty to counter the Osmose and bring up the party's mana, and Rikku's LB ready again. I take a pause turn where I use no abilities to bring up both Garnet and Rikku's LB, so DV and O just plain attack. Ace casts.. Cura! because he's on Lakshmi. Rikku's LB means that it doesn't matter, and this auto-attack round brings up Garnet's LB so she fires it off, filling the gauge. Golbez doesn't do much -- no re-summon, no set HP to 10, but he succeeds in killing Garnet and Orlandeau, who both re-raise. Then that's all she wrote -- Garnet summons Bahamut again, and the DV & O chain ensures he's very dead.
For anyone who's having trouble and wants someone from my team, I'm happy to help. I can put Barb up again afterward.
Go to the world map, and you'll see an icon towards the top that says "Paladia"
I used a friend's GLSakura because Thunder's Protection covers most of the worst stuff (Thunder, Darkness) and I ran my OK for the Fire resist by using Splendor of Water. I did one round with GL Sakura alive when I was giving up that attempt and her dualcast Thundaja alone was responsible for 40% off Shadow Dragon so if I can keep DFina and another Thunder chainer up on that round, I should be able to manage? I hope.
But I have to wait for GLSakura to come back up on my list.
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If that doesnt work I may break the bank and enhance Marie and try something with her.
I'm feeling desperate here.
Edit: Is the Dark Dragon 1 shot physical? Could I iNochol evade buff WoL?
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As @Trajan45 said, always kill the dragon first. If you kill Golbez first, you have to deal with the dragon the same round, or he will just wipe the party every turn.
If you are having issues with Golbez and his random number generator; he won't start setting HP to 10 at random until the dragon is dead. If you have a single-target re-raiser (enhanced WWFina, Rem, Ayaka, Kitty Ariana, Meliadoul are the ones I can think of off the top of my head), you may have a better time leaving both alive and trying for a single round AoE kill.
Bring someone who can provoke, and keep the single-target re-raise on them. The dragon kill KO them every round, they will raise back up, provoke again, re-raise on provoker again. If you can then heal-through Golbez's random assortment of -aga's then you should be ok. Slowly bring both Dragon and Golbez down to single digit hp %. Then kill both in one round with some esper AoE damage.
As long as the Dragon stays alive, Golbez shouldn't activate his "set HP to 10" skill (other than the one time when he breaks 50% threshold).
Edit:
Also, there's very little physical damage in this fight. Dump all your DEF for HP/SPR and Fire/Lightning/Dark Resist% equipment.
Make sure no one is using Carbuncle, Siren, or Shiva as your espers (-50% Dark/Lightning/Fire resist respectively).
I can toss up my GLSakura if you want. I think she only gets to like 800 MAG though.
FFBE: 838,975,107
Dokkan: 1668363315
My friend ID is the spreadsheet in the OP.
I have setup a DV. Stats:
FFBEDB Unit Calculator
Right Hand: Organyx +74ATK+Dark Element
Left Hand: Hero's Shield +48DEF+20%AllEleResistance
Head: Dragon Helm +24DEF+20%Fire/Ice/Lightning
Body: Dragon Mail +45DEF+15SPR+30%Fire/Ice/Lightning
Accessory 1: Ifrit's Claw +30ATK+10%HP+20%Fire+100%Blind
Accessory 2: Sorcerer's Cape +5DEF/SPR+10%ElementalResist
Ability 1: Adventurer-5 +40%ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR
Ability 2: Sworn Six's Pride Dark +30%ATKw/GreatSword+30%ATKw/HeavyArmor
Ability 3: Large Sword Mastery +50% ATK w/ Great Sword
Ability 4: Poison Resistance +100%Poison Resistance
Pot Stats: HP: 450 MP: 75 ATK: 30 DEF: 30 MAG: 30 SPR: 30
Esper: Ramuh HP:3170 MP:6280 ATK:1770 DEF:1225 MAG:6035 SPR:4595
Total Stats: HP: 5361 MP: 341 ATK: 697 DEF: 393 MAG: 308 SPR: 306
Crit Rate: 10% P. Evasion: 0% M. Evasion: 0% P. Counter: 20% M. Counter: 0%
He's completely immune to any damage Golbez can do in the second phase (when he stops doing physical attacks). He's not dual wielding and only has ~700 ATK so he's not exactly a power house. But if you can take him and kill the dragon, Golbez will be unable to wipe him and you can auto-attack to victory.
Edit: as has been pointed out, Golbez can still hurt him with Drain. But his AI should prevent him from Draining and using Blinding Cold (set HP to 10) on the same round. So he shouldn't be able to wipe this unit in one round and give you a chance to recover with an elixir or Phoenix Down someone else or something. So close.
I really can't be arsed to farm this raid AND the mog king thing, though. Is there anything in it I really, really need?
FFBE: 838,975,107
Dokkan: 1668363315
Ohhh I'm a bad person who got ahead of himself. This build can't be wiped in one turn, but you're right the Drain can get him. The only saving grace is Golbez can't set your HP to 10 and Drain on the same round. So you have a turn to recover.
The tube shield from The Raid is so far the only item in global that increases provoked chance, so that's pretty unique.
Also the Free Ariana unit has a trust master that gives 25% HP. And the raid coin summon drops moogles for her trust master so you should be able to get that for free.
Earth Veritas (provoke and Elixir monkey after the dragon was dead)
WWFina (who again has proved to be an amazing unit post enhancement)
Rikku (for Rikku things)
Orlandeau
Friend Dark Veritas.
Had one full wipe turn where he set HP to 10 and then Thundaga'd, but I had Hyper MightyG up. Also, WWFina Entrust +2 is fucking amazing, especially when paired with Rikku. I do not regret fully enhancing WWFina one bit.
Guess I'll try for at least the float, then. I can only do up to PRO reliably, too.
This is the last time I'll bring it up. Promise. I know I've filled the last page up with me being pissed (at myself)
FFBE: 838,975,107
Dokkan: 1668363315
From Reddit:
swipe control center up
swipe control center down to close it
tap on both chainers (not at the same time) while the app is still frozen (similar speed to magni gestures on android)
Now my only concession is to run the hell out of the gem daily and get 3 more heavycrsysts, which means I might as well wait for the next story vortex event because that's how long it'll take for me to see them.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Steam: TheArcadeBear
At least it vanishes once you get away from the Home screen.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I'm not sure what's my favourite, but HA HA HA HA HA is up there.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I really hope they make them into stickers. I'd buy a full set for sure to put on my PC case. I'd definitely slap the Wilhelm sticker on the back of my phone case.