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[FFRK] FF13 Event tonight! Or tomorrow, if you're watching Star Wars instead

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    So, I'm going to organize MP this evening around 6PM PST. Hopefully folks can turn out.

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Japan got a bitchload of info about its upcoming events, including its Christmas fest, which is going to have the same "Series Happy" set of draws leading up to it (5 mythril for 3 relics, one guaranteed 5*+, one draw per realm) as they had for 3rd anniversary.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/7hg1ln/jp_ffrk_report_29_ffxvffiffiv_xmas_special_mo/

    Highlights:
    Special damage rush event ala the endless fights (Shinra 100, Tonberry parade, Archaoeaevis endless, etc)

    FF15 Ignis event

    FF1 Revenge (?) event w/WoL dress record

    FF4 DCecil/Barb event (also ft twins and Fusoya)

    Boundless jerks returning for Christmas fest

    Special multiplayer with a magic pot demanding to be hit by various attacks (elementals seemingly)

    Record mission stuff to be displayed in a stream tomorrow (well, December 6th in Japan)

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  • 38thDoe38thDoe lets never be stupid again wait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
    What is a record mission that sounds interesting.

  • FryFry Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Ooh, that dress record for WoL to look like Fighter. *chefkiss*

    Fry on
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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    The WOL dress Record is "Classic Red", which will make him look like a Fighter from FFI.

    The FFIV event will give us After Years costumes for the twins.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    I hate when japan gets good stuff for christmas since it's a good chance we won't get that. Missed the 5 mythril osb pull because of that.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    38thDoe wrote: »
    What is a record mission that sounds interesting.

    That weird side thing where Elarra and Tyro are playable characters on a different leveling system from usual, but (most) party stats/equipment/SBs are hard set. Also, they seem to want to be doing actual FF dungeons where you wander around and such. Those were just a damn headache in FFBE. I can't imagine them plus being hugely handicapped will be any better.

    E:
    Oh, I glossed over it, but apparently the FFXV Ignis event is a collection event where you trade in food.

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  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    Mateus is a bitch of a fight. My mage team just couldn't survive long enough, even with two hastegas. I had to switch to my A-team and UCS it with Noctis, and even then I had three KOs. Somehow I survived the second half of that fight without any breaks or even Wall.

  • 38thDoe38thDoe lets never be stupid again wait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    38thDoe wrote: »
    What is a record mission that sounds interesting.

    That weird side thing where Elarra and Tyro are playable characters on a different leveling system from usual, but (most) party stats/equipment/SBs are hard set. Also, they seem to want to be doing actual FF dungeons where you wander around and such. Those were just a damn headache in FFBE. I can't imagine them plus being hugely handicapped will be any better.

    E:
    Oh, I glossed over it, but apparently the FFXV Ignis event is a collection event where you trade in food.

    Oh. I was being snarky about the other record missions thing that we skipped. Wandering around a dungeon on the phone does sound pretty bad though.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Oh shadow, you killed mateus from 50% in a single turn before I could cast full break so I didn't master.

    You so silly shadow.

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  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    As much as Mateus was a complete bastard in the regular fight, the JS was a complete pushover.

    Friendship ended with Lightning. Now Tidus is my best friend.

    JragghenMadican
  • El FantasticoEl Fantastico Toronto, ONRegistered User regular
    FuSoYa for next surprise broken Burst in the game. Raines level BSB entry and 4-hit instant commands, just because, only CMD1 also comes with a BlackMagic+++ boost.

    I mean, it won't happen, but I'd laugh real hard if it did.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    It'll be another damn MAG/MND boost. Just you wait and see.

  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    He's a sage, it'd make sense for a party mag/mnd.

    Since he's one of the Ur sages in the series, a Raines-like BSB, but with Rapha-style heal ally bits could be thematically appropriate.

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Magicite has made me realize how much I loathe the lack of timers in the main game, or any other way to tell if a stat change has any time left or not. Oh, I just lost a 10-minute boss fight because I forgot that it was time to refresh Wall, and so my most important teammates took 2 hits for 6000 damage per hit. Wonderful.

    It's so nostalgic, isn't it? I think my favorite part of early final fantasy games was how status effects tended to be silent and invisible.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    Accessories, Hero Souls, and Major Eggs being added to the greens store

    https://www.ffrktoolkit.com/ingame_announcements.html#?requestedId=2964&pageNumber=0

    Available FOREVER.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Huh. I never did the 200 CM on this torment.

    *Looks at his relics* oh right, that's probably why.

    Eh, I'll give it a shot.

    E: yeah, no.

    I need to budget a IV pull, I guess.

    Jragghen on
  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Accessories, Hero Souls, and Major Eggs being added to the greens store

    https://www.ffrktoolkit.com/ingame_announcements.html#?requestedId=2964&pageNumber=0

    Available FOREVER.

    Damn, finally a set of petrify resist for everyone. New players are going to want to grind greens so much.

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Darklyre wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Accessories, Hero Souls, and Major Eggs being added to the greens store

    https://www.ffrktoolkit.com/ingame_announcements.html#?requestedId=2964&pageNumber=0

    Available FOREVER.

    Damn, finally a set of petrify resist for everyone. New players are going to want to grind greens so much.

    Pretty sure you only get one of each accessory. They're just not a limited time only deal.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Can I get a second Tama Ribbon?

  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Major eggs are good, though they'll probably be pretty expensive. I'm gonna say...5k each, unless they take this opportunity to adjust the cost of the other items as well.

    Jragghen
  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Javen wrote: »
    Major eggs are good, though they'll probably be pretty expensive. I'm gonna say...5k each, unless they take this opportunity to adjust the cost of the other items as well.

    They're 6,000 in Japan.

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  • FryFry Registered User regular
    Maybe one day they'll add Arcana to the greens shop. That'd be nice.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Javen wrote: »
    Major eggs are good, though they'll probably be pretty expensive. I'm gonna say...5k each, unless they take this opportunity to adjust the cost of the other items as well.

    They're 6,000 in Japan.

    Aww, lame. Currently, each tier of buyable eggs boasts a roughly 50% greater xp/greens ratio than the previous tier, so I was hoping majors followed that pattern.

  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Fry wrote: »
    Maybe one day they'll add Arcana to the greens shop. That'd be nice.

    Since they're the EXP which takes for-fucking-ever.

    On the topic of magicite, Fire/Ice/Wind now "done" (ie, I've got everything I need to level 99 all the 3*s). Earth I'm about to do the last one. Got it down to 38s. I almost had it at 33 one run, but goddamn interrupts. Anyway, don't see TOO much opportunity to tighten that up other than honing more wind ninja attacks.

    Well, until Alphinaud Legend Dive is available, anyway. Dualcast on him would almost definitely get me over the hump.

    Or at least that's what I had typed until I realized I'd done my MAG vs +element calculation wrong, and also had OK kitted out for ATK instead of MAG accidentally.

    ...and then every hit did more damage, but I got interrupted more and it still took 36s. Oh well. I'm close, but no cigar. Wonder if I could have OK switch over to just entrust botting after the initial haste and getting it to work. Hm. Well, something to test out when I'm bored.

    Earth's "done" too.

  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    I'm done with every element except lightning. I'm currently sitting on five hydra, four humbaba, and zero enlil.

    Stupid RNG.

    Jragghen
  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Oh, also an announcement specifying exactly when the daily refresh happens. December 19th, Tuesday morning at midnight. Datamined date was the 18th.
    https://www.ffrktoolkit.com/ingame_announcements.html#?requestedId=3055&pageNumber=0

    So if you're hoarding stamina potions to maximize it...

    You want to hold onto one now.
    Buy all four on the 6th and hold onto them (5 total)
    On December 18th, you'll need to use at least four of them so you can buy all four in the store.
    December 19th, store restocks.

    Also, if you haven't cleared any of them for mythril, make sure you do that.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Narbus wrote: »
    I'm done with every element except lightning. I'm currently sitting on five hydra, four humbaba, and zero enlil.

    Stupid RNG.

    I got frustrated and I've been using a drop manager for this final stretch. Not installed on my phone, but via the emulator where FFRK is the only thing I have installed.

    e: And thank God for that, it took almost 8 tries to get Humbaba.

    Jragghen on
  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    I am down to the final stretch. 2 Enlil and 3 Enkidu, and I'm done. Finished off Ice today, though I am super out of space. I've started vendoring 2* Magicite for space.

    Jragghen
  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    Haven't attempted anything crazy on the other magicites yet, but my time on Liquid Flame is pretty much 26s on the dot, which is nice and consistent.

    Doublecasting Sapphire Shot for 9999x8 and then following it up with 5500x6 is never going to get old.

    I think I can get Bismarck down sub-30 - I've been trying it with Lightning USB/BSB2 and Orlandeau OSB, but it's meter-hungry and Orlandeau wastes a lot of time just Lifesiphoning for piddly amounts of damage. I might be better off going with Lightning/Reno and letting the two of them activate their USBs, then just spamming Thundering Quadstrike/Tempest Snipe.

    Jragghen
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Okay, and that makes Lightning done, too.

    Going to wait on Water until after the Dungeon Update draw to see if someone interesting comes along, and if not, I'll dive Ashe - I've got her Super, Burst, and Overstrike already (and her burst is quite solid and gives enLit for the OSB), and it's a dualcast lit dive, which will be great.

    I've been hemming and hawing over it for a while, but really, what else to prioritize spending legend dives on at this point other than "it gets me over the hump to sub-30s a magicite"?

  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    Got the 3CM on IV Torment, just like I thought I would. Easy-peasy with Rosa USB instead of Rosa SSB, Pecil USB in place of Celes, and Lightning having USB now also.

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Okay, and that makes Lightning done, too.

    Going to wait on Water until after the Dungeon Update draw to see if someone interesting comes along, and if not, I'll dive Ashe - I've got her Super, Burst, and Overstrike already (and her burst is quite solid and gives enLit for the OSB), and it's a dualcast lit dive, which will be great.

    I've been hemming and hawing over it for a while, but really, what else to prioritize spending legend dives on at this point other than "it gets me over the hump to sub-30s a magicite"?

    Making super waifu/husbandos, obvs.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Well, went for the shelke legend dive finally since I really wanted to see if I could get over the 30s hump on sea lion and the answer is yes. History's Truth also helped, instacast all day.

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Okay, and that makes Lightning done, too.

    Going to wait on Water until after the Dungeon Update draw to see if someone interesting comes along, and if not, I'll dive Ashe - I've got her Super, Burst, and Overstrike already (and her burst is quite solid and gives enLit for the OSB), and it's a dualcast lit dive, which will be great.

    I've been hemming and hawing over it for a while, but really, what else to prioritize spending legend dives on at this point other than "it gets me over the hump to sub-30s a magicite"?

    Making super waifu/husbandos, obvs.

    You have no idea how much it is killing me that I'm going to have dive Shelke instead of Faris.

    Maybe I'll get "lucky" and whiff on all of Yuffie's stuff so I have no reason to dive Hybrids and Knights this rotation.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    So did a read-up of the FFIX banner coming up and realized that I misread Vivi's LMR. I thought it was speeding up his cast speed, not slowing down. That makes the lackluster response make a lot more sense.

    Madican
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Hm, hydra is 33-34s for me. Yang bsb doesn't have the same power as Rydia and no quadstrike for bartz.

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  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    Couldn't pull off the 200CM last time around; adding Ceodore's BSB to supplement Rosa helped a lot, but the real MVP was actually Rallying Etude. Edward's hastemarch + the new song gave me a poor man's shout, which let me RW Wall. That gave me enough layers of defense to murder the shit out of Golbez and his dragon.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    vivis lmr is good and ONLY good if the following conditions are met:

    - you're not capping with meltdown
    - you're using allegro con moto support

    otherwise it's a damage decrease overall

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    And then you have to ask yourself "am I getting more damage out of Allegro Con Moto than I would get by having the character in that slot just do attacks?"

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