Holy shit how often are you going to spook me on these fucking banners
last fest on my big banner I had 2/4 discos loved, 1/4 meh, 1/4 dupe and you gave me two more copies of the dupe
arrrrrrgh at least it's a 6* holy sword I guess...and another dark staff I don't need...
5 loved, 2 desired, 1 meh, 6 dupes
Gem Pull 3:
Average again...
Well then. I guess Butz is getting that second reserved Legend Dive then. Sorry Refia.
4 loved, 2 desired, 1 meh, 7 dupes
*looks very hard at balance of owned vs dupes*
Ugh. Nope, can't do it. Missed Celes BSB2 probably forever, missed Terra USB again. Really would've liked the Earth relics here to help out Hydra but it's just too dangerous to keep pulling and I'm down to gems at this point.
First two EX Modes finally, even if only one I actually care about. At least next time IV Torment rolls around I can get that 3CM done I guess as that's the bare minimum of what I was looking for to make Cecil take Celes's spot.
So, apparently, tomorrow's developer comment has some interesting info in it.
Right now people all over the world are playing FF on everything from PS4 to smart phones, and this fall they’ll have a new game to play, FINAL FANTASY Dimensions II.
It’s a game with my own brand of FF in it, and nothing would make me happier than if you gave it a try.
I don't know what the comments were like in the Japanese version, but considering Dimensions 2 came out in Japan well before the festival, it wouldn't make sense for this to be a straight translation of what came before.
So, first of all, yay, a new FF game that is hopefully as fun as Dimensions 1. Second, the chance of us getting characters like Morrow is now more than 0.
100 gems: bupkiss.
50 mythril: 3/11 BSBs for Ceodore, Rydia, and Mog! I finally have a decent mage BSB!
Also f da haters, Ceodore's BSB is solid. Extra healing is gonna he great when the dark magicite dungeon hits.
I will hold off judging until I try having him solo heal a team in crystal tower. If he fails i will go back to hating though.
If you're going to use % healers like Ceodore you pretty much need at least two or three, or else multiple blinks/Last Stand to keep up. I've tried teams like that before, and you quickly start to realize that you're basically using Cura medicas without Curaja as a backup. They work unbelievably well as backup heals, but fare poorly on their own.
100 gems: bupkiss.
50 mythril: 3/11 BSBs for Ceodore, Rydia, and Mog! I finally have a decent mage BSB!
Also f da haters, Ceodore's BSB is solid. Extra healing is gonna he great when the dark magicite dungeon hits.
I will hold off judging until I try having him solo heal a team in crystal tower. If he fails i will go back to hating though.
If you're going to use % healers like Ceodore you pretty much need at least two or three, or else multiple blinks/Last Stand to keep up. I've tried teams like that before using Ramza (Tailwind)/OK (Blowback)/Yuffie (Clearest Tranquil), and you quickly start to realize that you're basically using Cura medicas without Curaja as a backup. They work unbelievably well as backup heals, but fare poorly on their own.
to be fair to Ceodore, he also has a continually-usable single-target heal in the Cure Sword burst command. And he's got White Magic 5, you could fall back on Curaja if you really wanted to. Or Curada.
Speaking of bursts, I have absolutely no idea what to draw in the burst selection.
Just the things that immediately come to mind include: Asylum, The Echo, Aerial Blast, Enochian Firaja, Holy Cross, Meteor XVI, Whisperweed Melody, Mostly Megaflare, Seething Waters... There's too much. Too much I want.
It's kind of interesting having a group of real life friends that play this silly game. We can't help but compare draws, and unfortunately one guy almost always seems to have the weakest luck. His luck isn't even necessarily bad, just he never seems to get the relics he wants the most. This festival his highlights have been OK BSB, Terra USB (though it was on his second draw, and both were 1/11) and Selphie USB (which is great but unfortunately only rarely beats out Rosa USB and/or Y'shtola BSB which he already has). Still, I'm pretty sure Terra's USB (even without her OSB) will let him beat Sealion, which is one of the two he hasn't beaten yet. He'll have to wait for banner 3 to see if any of the relics (other than maybe OK BSB) help him with Fenrir, the other magicite he hasn't beaten yet.
Also looking at it, the RNG in this game is super weird. Both of my accounts have gotten Larsa BSB, Delita USB and Bartz USB (the Delita ones were from different draws at least, BSB, CSB, USB for the alt, 6* draw for the main), plus I almost forgot about Pecil USB (6* draw on the alt, SNES banner on the main). Not to mention the other relics in the past I have gotten on both, including OK BSB (twice on both accounts), SG, Shout (had to chase both SG and Shout on the alt though, SGx4 from the 11/11 KC2 draw), Vaan BSB and Agrias OSB. Just weird coincidences I'm sure.
I'm raiding my vault for Rosetta Stone fodder. Now that I look more closely, I'm almost always putting +element gear on my party members instead of realm synergy gear. Plus, there's no realm synergy in magicite fights. About the only time I use synergy gear is for NE characters like Noctis, and even then I prioritize ATK or MAG over anything else
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I'm raiding my vault for Rosetta Stone fodder. Now that I look more closely, I'm almost always putting +element gear on my party members instead of realm synergy gear. Plus, there's no realm synergy in magicite fights. About the only time I use synergy gear is for NE characters like Noctis, and even then I prioritize ATK or MAG over anything else
Yes, because I have dick all for element gear in certain types. And depending on the fight I sometimes favor highest ATK or highest DEF or highest RES and I have a few different pieces that do slightly different things.
I sent a support ticket about the jump start and the refresh/balance stuff for chips. First one's getting looked into, the second one made it look like they were looking for suggestions, so we may have some news about them.
I sent a support ticket about the jump start and the refresh/balance stuff for chips. First one's getting looked into, the second one made it look like they were looking for suggestions, so we may have some news about them.
Interesting. My suggestion to them would be to gift all GL players 10-15 of those stamina potions they implemented in Japan fairly recently. An extra 1-1.5k stamina would go a long way towards making the drop rate not stressful. Either that or just extend the stages, or re-open all the stages for a few days at the end.
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In related news, Apex Omega is a GIANT ASSHOLE.
Setup:
RW: UltraCloud
Major Fire Resist on Rosa, Moderate on Y'shtola. Moderate KO Resist on everyone else.
Took Lion intending that the Pentabreak would close the MND gap and let Stop actually last long enough to chain. You can watch for yourself to see how well that worked this run. (Hint: It didn't.)
Very RNG focused, if I was even unluckier this run would have failed, though if I was luckier than I wouldn't have taken damage in the last half if things worked as intended. (Though I guess not RNG focused in terms that I didn't care as much who he hit or relied totally on doublecasts)
(Let's not talk about the half an hour of runs trying to do an Entrust into Fujin strat, incoming damage was just too bonkers.)
I'm raiding my vault for Rosetta Stone fodder. Now that I look more closely, I'm almost always putting +element gear on my party members instead of realm synergy gear. Plus, there's no realm synergy in magicite fights. About the only time I use synergy gear is for NE characters like Noctis, and even then I prioritize ATK or MAG over anything else
Yes, because I have dick all for element gear in certain types. And depending on the fight I sometimes favor highest ATK or highest DEF or highest RES and I have a few different pieces that do slightly different things.
Must be a difference in playstyle/party-building. I've always been all offense when it comes to party building, so DEF/RES-heavy items get ignored. As long as my one or two DPS characters have maxed-out ATK/MAG/+element then the rest can wear pretty much whatever I've got left over.
I'm raiding my vault for Rosetta Stone fodder. Now that I look more closely, I'm almost always putting +element gear on my party members instead of realm synergy gear. Plus, there's no realm synergy in magicite fights. About the only time I use synergy gear is for NE characters like Noctis, and even then I prioritize ATK or MAG over anything else
Yes, because I have dick all for element gear in certain types. And depending on the fight I sometimes favor highest ATK or highest DEF or highest RES and I have a few different pieces that do slightly different things.
Must be a difference in playstyle/party-building. I've always been all offense when it comes to party building, so DEF/RES-heavy items get ignored. As long as my one or two DPS characters have maxed-out ATK/MAG/+element then the rest can wear pretty much whatever I've got left over.
I can really feel the difference in durability when people are Bargaining and would prefer to not see them get gibbed by a random crit before I can do anything.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
Lot of Chicken Knives in this thread. Good for y'all.
tbh you don't need any other earth relics but chicken knife for hydra. bartz' usb hard carries earth/water/fire magicite for me.
Chicken Knife has no element though. Great Sword does.
Neither relic has an innate element boost. Latent Power does 6.64x damage on the first cast, and 11.952x damage on subsequent casts if you don't let the aura fall off. Chosen Traveller does 7x damage on cast, and on average adds another 2x for each subsequent spellblade ability (in addition to 2x cast speed for spellblades). We'll call the +30% ATK from Chosen Traveller and the ATK bargain command on the burst a wash. I think in isolation the Ultra deals a bit more earth damage than the earth aura burst (!), though that'll depend some on how much meter you have to spend (more meter to burn favors the burst).
And of course combining the two should be super gross.
Decided to go for a pull on the banner to see if I could nab Celes BSB, Golbez, maybe even Terra USB.
2/11 with a disco. Bartz BSB and Bartz USB. This is fantastic...but they're dupes.
Were it possible I would gladly trade you my 1/11 Golbez BSB for your Bartz BSB3 and Bartz USB. I'd even throw in some miscellaneous items from other recent pulls. :X
I still keep strong def/res armors. I'll put an elemental boost on my main DPS, but everyone else generally just gets to be protected up. Boosts make exceeding the Atk soft cap no problem, so a tiny bit of extra Atk does very little. I also only just this fest got my first 6* armor, so I am going to need to go through and mulch a bunch of ancient low end 5* stuff that falls short, even with RS.
I haven't investigated it yet, but for Omega (Apex), does it cost the 1 stamina if you don't complete the attempt?
Is your orbfest schedule that precise?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: If it was free to try I'd like to get a benchmark for where I am re: 30s, because it'll greatly affect my relic draw plans + if I spend money on pulls.
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tbh you don't need any other earth relics but chicken knife for hydra. bartz' usb hard carries earth/water/fire magicite for me.
Chicken Knife has no element though. Great Sword does.
Neither relic has an innate element boost. Latent Power does 6.64x damage on the first cast, and 11.952x damage on subsequent casts if you don't let the aura fall off. Chosen Traveller does 7x damage on cast, and on average adds another 2x for each subsequent spellblade ability (in addition to 2x cast speed for spellblades). We'll call the +30% ATK from Chosen Traveller and the ATK bargain command on the burst a wash. I think in isolation the Ultra deals a bit more earth damage than the earth aura burst (!), though that'll depend some on how much meter you have to spend (more meter to burn favors the burst).
And of course combining the two should be super gross.
Decided to go for a pull on the banner to see if I could nab Celes BSB, Golbez, maybe even Terra USB.
2/11 with a disco. Bartz BSB and Bartz USB. This is fantastic...but they're dupes.
Were it possible I would gladly trade you my 1/11 Golbez BSB for your Bartz BSB3 and Bartz USB. I'd even throw in some miscellaneous items from other recent pulls. :X
Don't forget that Latent Power has the 20% stat boost from burst mode (likely over the soft cap) as well as a +Spellblade damage boost on C1. That burst is really very good.
As for the Omega fights, I'm pretty sure they only cost stamina if you win. You can easily check for yourself by getting to the screen where it asks you to confirm spending stamina, and it will either say nothing or tell you that the stamina is only used upon success.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
tbh you don't need any other earth relics but chicken knife for hydra. bartz' usb hard carries earth/water/fire magicite for me.
Chicken Knife has no element though. Great Sword does.
Neither relic has an innate element boost. Latent Power does 6.64x damage on the first cast, and 11.952x damage on subsequent casts if you don't let the aura fall off. Chosen Traveller does 7x damage on cast, and on average adds another 2x for each subsequent spellblade ability (in addition to 2x cast speed for spellblades). We'll call the +30% ATK from Chosen Traveller and the ATK bargain command on the burst a wash. I think in isolation the Ultra deals a bit more earth damage than the earth aura burst (!), though that'll depend some on how much meter you have to spend (more meter to burn favors the burst).
And of course combining the two should be super gross.
Decided to go for a pull on the banner to see if I could nab Celes BSB, Golbez, maybe even Terra USB.
2/11 with a disco. Bartz BSB and Bartz USB. This is fantastic...but they're dupes.
Were it possible I would gladly trade you my 1/11 Golbez BSB for your Bartz BSB3 and Bartz USB. I'd even throw in some miscellaneous items from other recent pulls. :X
Don't forget that Latent Power has the 20% stat boost from burst mode (likely over the soft cap) as well as a +Spellblade damage boost on C1. That burst is really very good.
As for the Omega fights, I'm pretty sure they only cost stamina if you win. You can easily check for yourself by getting to the screen where it asks you to confirm spending stamina, and it will either say nothing or tell you that the stamina is only used upon success.
Oh for sure, I'm just at work sans cell phone so thought the friendly folks in the thread might help me out.
Oh. My Gamestop Funbux explicitly can't be used towards gift cards.
Not pulling on that BSB selection gem-only banner after all. C'est la vie.
Er, what? That's how I got all my Google Play credit. There's only three things you can't buy with GS credit, as mandated by their own policy, and that's: Amazon gift cards, gas cards, and Visa cards. However, I got around the Amazon one by using my GS credit to buy a Gamestop gift card, drove to a different Gamestop, and used it to buy the Amazon gift card.
Sorry. I was rude. Sometimes it seems like snarky comments are the only things I ever have to say, never mind actual conversation. I need to learn not to say things just because they come to mind.
Is it worth putting Rosettas into Gogo's BSB rod? It's a native +water rod, but there're so few water mages that I'm not sure who else could use it besides Strago.
Speaking of Google Play credit I had a lapse of judgement and decided to see if I could at least least yank Setzer's LMR from the banner.
2/11: Setzer SSB, Shadow SSB
Nope, not good enough. I have more GS credit, I'll stop by tomorrow and get another Google Play card, let's keep going.
1/11: Setzer BSB, Setzer USB (dupe)
ONE MORE! This was seriously stupid but I was already committed.
3/11: Setzer LMR, Shadow LMR (dupe), Shadow USB(!)
Poor decisions validated! Probably not a good thing. Now I have to swing by Gamestop tomorrow for another Google Play card if I want to pull on Banner 3 come Thursday. But, y'know, now that I know I don't actually need Cloud Cycle I'm wondering if I really ought to. Zidane would be nice but I don't think he's absolutely essential between a team with Cloud, Shadow, and Bartz pumping steroids.
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I will hold off judging until I try having him solo heal a team in crystal tower. If he fails i will go back to hating though.
38thDoE on steam
1st pull: Relm bsb, Celes BSB2, dupe Celes bsb2
2nd pull: dupe Bartz USB, Terra USB
3rd pull: Ceodore bsb
4th pull: Bartz bsb3!!
Bartz now has his unique, ssb, bsb1, bsb2, bsb3, OSB, and USB
MWO: Adamski
Coming in:
5 loved - Terra USB, Bartz USB, Faris USB, Bartz BSB3, Celes BSB2
2 desired - Rosa BSB, Rydia BSB
4 meh - PCecil USB, Gogo BSB, Golbez BSB, Locke BSB
3 dupes - Relm BSB, Mog BSB, Ceodore BSB
100 Gem: 4*
That's fine.
Mythril Pull 1:
That's not promising.
Ew and ew.
5 loved, 2 desired, 3 meh, 4 dupes
Mythril Pull 2:
Okay, finally, that's something.
FUCK OFF DENA
Holy shit how often are you going to spook me on these fucking banners
last fest on my big banner I had 2/4 discos loved, 1/4 meh, 1/4 dupe and you gave me two more copies of the dupe
arrrrrrgh at least it's a 6* holy sword I guess...and another dark staff I don't need...
5 loved, 2 desired, 1 meh, 6 dupes
Gem Pull 3:
Average again...
Well then. I guess Butz is getting that second reserved Legend Dive then. Sorry Refia.
4 loved, 2 desired, 1 meh, 7 dupes
*looks very hard at balance of owned vs dupes*
Ugh. Nope, can't do it. Missed Celes BSB2 probably forever, missed Terra USB again. Really would've liked the Earth relics here to help out Hydra but it's just too dangerous to keep pulling and I'm down to gems at this point.
Summary:
100 Gem: 4*
50 Mythril Pull 1: 2/11 - Mog BSB (dupe), Locke BSB
50 Mythril Pull 2: 2/11 - PCecil USB, Golbez BSB
3000 Gems Pull 3: 2/11 - Bartz USB, Ceodore BSB (dupe)
First two EX Modes finally, even if only one I actually care about. At least next time IV Torment rolls around I can get that 3CM done I guess as that's the bare minimum of what I was looking for to make Cecil take Celes's spot.
To date:
BSB+: 3/11 - Rosa USB, Auron BSB, Barret BSB
6*: 2/11 - Penelo USB, Fang OSB
30x Pull: 2/30 - Bartz OSB, Emperor SSB
Banner 1 100 Gem: Ingus BSB
I don't know what the comments were like in the Japanese version, but considering Dimensions 2 came out in Japan well before the festival, it wouldn't make sense for this to be a straight translation of what came before.
So, first of all, yay, a new FF game that is hopefully as fun as Dimensions 1. Second, the chance of us getting characters like Morrow is now more than 0.
If you're going to use % healers like Ceodore you pretty much need at least two or three, or else multiple blinks/Last Stand to keep up. I've tried teams like that before, and you quickly start to realize that you're basically using Cura medicas without Curaja as a backup. They work unbelievably well as backup heals, but fare poorly on their own.
Although...now I kinda want to try a team with:
Ramza (Shout/Tailwind)
Onion Knight (BSB/Blowback)
Yuffie (USB/BSB)
Sabin (Soul Spiral)
Ceodore (BSB)
Five 40% medicas, Shout + VoF for buffs, Soul Spiral + Ceodore BSB can Esuna...this may actually work.
to be fair to Ceodore, he also has a continually-usable single-target heal in the Cure Sword burst command. And he's got White Magic 5, you could fall back on Curaja if you really wanted to. Or Curada.
Speaking of bursts, I have absolutely no idea what to draw in the burst selection.
Just the things that immediately come to mind include: Asylum, The Echo, Aerial Blast, Enochian Firaja, Holy Cross, Meteor XVI, Whisperweed Melody, Mostly Megaflare, Seething Waters... There's too much. Too much I want.
Also looking at it, the RNG in this game is super weird. Both of my accounts have gotten Larsa BSB, Delita USB and Bartz USB (the Delita ones were from different draws at least, BSB, CSB, USB for the alt, 6* draw for the main), plus I almost forgot about Pecil USB (6* draw on the alt, SNES banner on the main). Not to mention the other relics in the past I have gotten on both, including OK BSB (twice on both accounts), SG, Shout (had to chase both SG and Shout on the alt though, SGx4 from the 11/11 KC2 draw), Vaan BSB and Agrias OSB. Just weird coincidences I'm sure.
Even without an associated aura? That is pretty impressive, I'll have to give him a try on some of those fights after the orbfest is done.
I'm raiding my vault for Rosetta Stone fodder. Now that I look more closely, I'm almost always putting +element gear on my party members instead of realm synergy gear. Plus, there's no realm synergy in magicite fights. About the only time I use synergy gear is for NE characters like Noctis, and even then I prioritize ATK or MAG over anything else
Yes, because I have dick all for element gear in certain types. And depending on the fight I sometimes favor highest ATK or highest DEF or highest RES and I have a few different pieces that do slightly different things.
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Back to normal in our household
2/11 with a disco. Bartz BSB and Bartz USB. This is fantastic...but they're dupes.
Interesting. My suggestion to them would be to gift all GL players 10-15 of those stamina potions they implemented in Japan fairly recently. An extra 1-1.5k stamina would go a long way towards making the drop rate not stressful. Either that or just extend the stages, or re-open all the stages for a few days at the end.
Setup:
RW: UltraCloud
Took Lion intending that the Pentabreak would close the MND gap and let Stop actually last long enough to chain. You can watch for yourself to see how well that worked this run. (Hint: It didn't.)
Very RNG focused, if I was even unluckier this run would have failed, though if I was luckier than I wouldn't have taken damage in the last half if things worked as intended. (Though I guess not RNG focused in terms that I didn't care as much who he hit or relied totally on doublecasts)
(Let's not talk about the half an hour of runs trying to do an Entrust into Fujin strat, incoming damage was just too bonkers.)
Chicken Knife has no element though. Great Sword does.
Must be a difference in playstyle/party-building. I've always been all offense when it comes to party building, so DEF/RES-heavy items get ignored. As long as my one or two DPS characters have maxed-out ATK/MAG/+element then the rest can wear pretty much whatever I've got left over.
1/11. And it's a 6*
Chicken Knife
I'll take it.
I can really feel the difference in durability when people are Bargaining and would prefer to not see them get gibbed by a random crit before I can do anything.
Neither relic has an innate element boost. Latent Power does 6.64x damage on the first cast, and 11.952x damage on subsequent casts if you don't let the aura fall off. Chosen Traveller does 7x damage on cast, and on average adds another 2x for each subsequent spellblade ability (in addition to 2x cast speed for spellblades). We'll call the +30% ATK from Chosen Traveller and the ATK bargain command on the burst a wash. I think in isolation the Ultra deals a bit more earth damage than the earth aura burst (!), though that'll depend some on how much meter you have to spend (more meter to burn favors the burst).
And of course combining the two should be super gross.
Were it possible I would gladly trade you my 1/11 Golbez BSB for your Bartz BSB3 and Bartz USB. I'd even throw in some miscellaneous items from other recent pulls. :X
Not pulling on that BSB selection gem-only banner after all. C'est la vie.
Is your orbfest schedule that precise?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: If it was free to try I'd like to get a benchmark for where I am re: 30s, because it'll greatly affect my relic draw plans + if I spend money on pulls.
Nope, refunded if you failboat.
Don't forget that Latent Power has the 20% stat boost from burst mode (likely over the soft cap) as well as a +Spellblade damage boost on C1. That burst is really very good.
As for the Omega fights, I'm pretty sure they only cost stamina if you win. You can easily check for yourself by getting to the screen where it asks you to confirm spending stamina, and it will either say nothing or tell you that the stamina is only used upon success.
Oh for sure, I'm just at work sans cell phone so thought the friendly folks in the thread might help me out.
Er, what? That's how I got all my Google Play credit. There's only three things you can't buy with GS credit, as mandated by their own policy, and that's: Amazon gift cards, gas cards, and Visa cards. However, I got around the Amazon one by using my GS credit to buy a Gamestop gift card, drove to a different Gamestop, and used it to buy the Amazon gift card.
2/11: Setzer SSB, Shadow SSB
Nope, not good enough. I have more GS credit, I'll stop by tomorrow and get another Google Play card, let's keep going.
1/11: Setzer BSB, Setzer USB (dupe)
ONE MORE! This was seriously stupid but I was already committed.
3/11: Setzer LMR, Shadow LMR (dupe), Shadow USB(!)
Poor decisions validated! Probably not a good thing. Now I have to swing by Gamestop tomorrow for another Google Play card if I want to pull on Banner 3 come Thursday. But, y'know, now that I know I don't actually need Cloud Cycle I'm wondering if I really ought to. Zidane would be nice but I don't think he's absolutely essential between a team with Cloud, Shadow, and Bartz pumping steroids.