Got my second sub 30. Sealion down in...30 seconds on the dot! Bartz hit blazing quad just before 30 seconds, and his chase triggered right at 30. I've done several closer to 27 since that first one. Man that was a stressful/exciting finish.
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The whales have really broken this one open ever since the ability buff and Ramza's LMR came out.
So, I thought to myself "that person took down a Magicite in 8 seconds with that strategy. I don't have all his kit, but surely I could do, say, Fenrir in under 30 if I go with a similar strategy, right?"
Old Wolfy boy showed me the price of disrespect by slowing everyone on the team and individually biting them to death right as their turns came up. He sure taught me why Wall is valued, and why I usually don't come to this fight without Larsa or Unicorn. I'd run the fight with slow Resist accessories, but i am fairly certain that running the fight without wind Resist will just have me murdered outright by withering winds.
I'd been down about how this game was treating me after some disappointing pulls in Fest, and then the past two weeks happened.
Black Friday pull: 3/11, double disco! Penelo USB, Marach USB, Sword of Paine. I've already got Penelo's BSB, Marach's rod is a great stat stick, and Sword of Paine gives me a haste in X. Yay!
Two FFTA pulls, 2/11 and 3/11, and the first one was double disco again! (Double double disco! It's the 70's, but awesome!) Agrias USB and Marche USB, and I also got Marche's BSB and Rapha's LMR (have Rapha's BSB!). 100 gem gave me Marche's SSB, and Marche's LMR happened somewhere in there, so I've got a complete Marche. Instant LD!
(Guess I didn't keep track of my pulls well? Maybe Rapha's LMR happened a while ago?)
And today I rearranged my Sea Lion team, and got my first sub-30! I bet I can sub-30 Shadow Dragon (haven't tried Holy/Dark yet, been busy IRL) and maybe Hydra using Marche.
Sealion sub-30, 26.71 seconds. Team and tactics below.
RW Fabula Guardian.
Refia (4* dived, 477atk, 20% fire equip) LS / Fires Within / BSB / TGCid
OK (full 4* dived, 461 mag, 40% fire equip) Smoldering Fire / Entrust / MM
Ramza (full 4* dived, 324 mnd) Wrath / Entrust / Shout / DMT
Y'shtola (LD, 490 mnd) Curada / Shellga / BSB / Ace Striker
Bartz (LD, LMR/LM2, 561atk, 20% fire equip) LS / Blazing Quadstrike / USB / 40% spellblade
Refia: LS, BSB, Fires Within unless bars available, in which case BSB
OK: Entrust (Bartz), Smoldering Fire, Entrust Refia when bars available
Ramza: Shout, Wrath, Wrath, Entrust (Refia), Wrath until re-Shout, Enkidu if needed
Y'shtola: RW Wall, Shellga, Curada until bar, BSB, cmd1 forever
Bartz: Wait for bar from OK, USB, (B)BQ, re-cast USB when bar available, (B)BQ to end
Ramza had time to use Enkidu after entrusting Refia and before Shout. I got a quad-cast from Bartz and a couple of 8x chases, but it didn't seem like unusual luck. Should be repeatable. Interestingly, Shelke wouldn't help this build (though I'll probably LD her for Shadow Dragon).
I completely overlooked Ramza LMR on this banner and just realized how good it is. Now I'm considering whether my alt should give the banner a pull or not (also lacks Ramza USB which is incredibly good).
Black Friday pull: 3/11, double disco! Penelo USB, Marach USB, Sword of Paine. I've already got Penelo's BSB, Marach's rod is a great stat stick, and Sword of Paine gives me a haste in X. Yay!
Motherfucker. I got Paine's hastega SSB in last fest's 30-draw and completely forgot about it. I might not have had to skip the awful Seymour CM if I'd been using it. I had Braska throwing around the Haste spell like a dope.
I completely overlooked Ramza LMR on this banner and just realized how good it is. Now I'm considering whether my alt should give the banner a pull or not (also lacks Ramza USB which is incredibly good).
8 more weeks until TGCid event. Agrias stuff gets kicked off the banner for Alma (healer) stuff, but the banner is more or less the same for Ramza and Marche relics and LMRs with TGCid items replacing the other chaff.
There's also the FFIII event with Onion Knight's USBs coming up in 5 weeks to consider, as you can effectively pull Onion Knight's Ninja USB (party hastega, 50% ATK, 50% Critfix) and 2 instant cast LMR and have a more versatile Ramza. No, OK doesn't have a party instant cast buff, or a means to start with full ATB, but that USB+LMR is a hard combo to ignore.
Jecht looks like a total badass in the video, and I'm just like "Jecht? More like rejecht."
I need to see gameplay of Ace and Ramza.
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I remember being really bad at the second? Dissidia on PSP, but still really enjoying it. I think thats why I originally picked up FFRK, because it was similar, but my lack of coordination isn't as much of a issue.
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I completely overlooked Ramza LMR on this banner and just realized how good it is. Now I'm considering whether my alt should give the banner a pull or not (also lacks Ramza USB which is incredibly good).
8 more weeks until TGCid event. Agrias stuff gets kicked off the banner for Alma (healer) stuff, but the banner is more or less the same for Ramza and Marche relics and LMRs with TGCid items replacing the other chaff.
There's also the FFIII event with Onion Knight's USBs coming up in 5 weeks to consider, as you can effectively pull Onion Knight's Ninja USB (party hastega, 50% ATK, 50% Critfix) and 2 instant cast LMR and have a more versatile Ramza. No, OK doesn't have a party instant cast buff, or a means to start with full ATB, but that USB+LMR is a hard combo to ignore.
Ramza's Ultra is also bumped from the banner, he only has BSB2 and LMR on the TGCid one.
I completely overlooked Ramza LMR on this banner and just realized how good it is. Now I'm considering whether my alt should give the banner a pull or not (also lacks Ramza USB which is incredibly good).
8 more weeks until TGCid event. Agrias stuff gets kicked off the banner for Alma (healer) stuff, but the banner is more or less the same for Ramza and Marche relics and LMRs with TGCid items replacing the other chaff.
There's also the FFIII event with Onion Knight's USBs coming up in 5 weeks to consider, as you can effectively pull Onion Knight's Ninja USB (party hastega, 50% ATK, 50% Critfix) and 2 instant cast LMR and have a more versatile Ramza. No, OK doesn't have a party instant cast buff, or a means to start with full ATB, but that USB+LMR is a hard combo to ignore.
Ramza's Ultra is also bumped from the banner, he only has BSB2 and LMR on the TGCid one.
I completely overlooked Ramza LMR on this banner and just realized how good it is. Now I'm considering whether my alt should give the banner a pull or not (also lacks Ramza USB which is incredibly good).
8 more weeks until TGCid event. Agrias stuff gets kicked off the banner for Alma (healer) stuff, but the banner is more or less the same for Ramza and Marche relics and LMRs with TGCid items replacing the other chaff.
There's also the FFIII event with Onion Knight's USBs coming up in 5 weeks to consider, as you can effectively pull Onion Knight's Ninja USB (party hastega, 50% ATK, 50% Critfix) and 2 instant cast LMR and have a more versatile Ramza. No, OK doesn't have a party instant cast buff, or a means to start with full ATB, but that USB+LMR is a hard combo to ignore.
Here's the thing--my main has 0 TG Cid relics so I'm definitely waiting for that banner. But my alt has Cid BSB/SSB already so that's just more dupes on that later banner.
My alt has like 475 mythril so it's not really facing a shortage and can do a pull or two here or there.
Strategy was to open with History's Truth, Fabula Raider, Protectga, and Rinoa's Ice chain, then go to town with ice. Carried wind resist gear, and gave Ramza Mana's Paean and Affliction Break, to deal with Slow. Still had to use a second Fabula Raider to clear away some Slows. Bartz had Snowspell Strike and Steal Power, while Shantotto used Chain Blizzaga and Abyssal Shards, to power up the chain for Rinoa and Valigarmanda. Relm was there because I needed instacast medica to stay on my feet.
Turns out that Bartz does alright against Fenrir, 'cause dualcasts mean he doesn't have to waste turns doing basic attacks to break Blink; if he dualcasts, he's doing tons of damage anyway.
So, that makes six. Fire and Earth are probably beyond my reach for now, unless I pull something crazy out of the lucky draw tonight.
Holy crap is that a fun and wild way to run through Fenrir. I had a similar set-up, but subbed out Aphmau for Relm and Lulu for Shantoto. I forgot to bring Mana's Paean but still pulled of a 22 second run despite my general lack of dual casting.
I am also warming up to healer USBs in general. I like Lenna's well enough, but it is a buff SB and not a healing one for the most part. Aphmau's does some serious work on Magicite in addition to being a big ass heal. I can't tell you how nice it is to have Ramza's and Aphmau's USBs on one team. What's a cast time again?
Holy crap is that a fun and wild way to run through Fenrir. I had a similar set-up, but subbed out Aphmau for Relm and Lulu for Shantoto. I forgot to bring Mana's Paean but still pulled of a 22 second run despite my general lack of dual casting.
I am also warming up to healer USBs in general. I like Lenna's well enough, but it is a buff SB and not a healing one for the most part. Aphmau's does some serious work on Magicite in addition to being a big ass heal. I can't tell you how nice it is to have Ramza's and Aphmau's USBs on one team. What's a cast time again?
Can confirm, have both of these and it is a ton of fun. Especially on JS Torments, the VIII one is just laughable. The second half of the fight is just chaining instant SBs back to back
Lightning BSB1 Requiem of the Goddess (dupe)
Vayne SSB Mach Wave (new)
Hmm. Vayne's thing does 5 Dark magic or physical attacks to all targets, and then makes everyone's actions instant for one turn. I feel like I can use this in my Dark teams, or possibly just as a general-use thing, especially since I've also got his OSB.
It's not quite Gladiolus Link (that one is instant cast to begin with), but there's potential here.
4/11! No disco (that curse is back in full force, apparently)
Cid (VII) SSB2 (+wind armor, and now I've got both his SSBs and his BSB, and this one seems to pair well with his burst)
Cait Sith SSB (I've now got both his SSB, another form of crit boost. Not amazing, but whatever)
Reno SSB (Looks pretty poor. Silence and Sleep? Why? I've got his burst, but it's physical and this SSB is 10MAG for him, so....whoo? )
Vayne LMR, which is nice! (start enDark), but I don't have anything else for Vayne, unfortunately. Still a +Dark armor, though, so that's a plus. If I ever get another Vayne relic this will instantly be great.
Nothing I was shooting for, but I sure as hell can't complain.
So definitely doing all this DU to have more mythril for III/Christmas, but I presume the next DU is where we might want to hold off on doing things to get better rewards after the dungeon change?
Sephiroth BSB2, Lightning SSB (Etro's Embrace), Red XIIl BSB
I've got Seph's BSB1 and transcience, so that's a nice extra; Lightning gets a +10 and another lightning boost armor; and first relic for Red, and even something a bit dated is still an atk/mag boosters.
Nothing omgwtfbbq-worthy but no dupes either, yay!
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I really wish I had Shout/BSB for Ramza. I also wish I had pulled on the bugged 11/11 pull a while back.
Edit: But after 4 pulls on the current banner, I think I have over half the banner, so its not like I can reasonably pull on it again.
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To think it could be even faster if Bartz triplecast every single time. Also, if Bismarck wasn't a jerk and killed off Shantotto.
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43/144 dupes.
That's getting a tad high.
Oh well, still pulling. Just assuming I'll get dupe/11!
Wrong.
Old Wolfy boy showed me the price of disrespect by slowing everyone on the team and individually biting them to death right as their turns came up. He sure taught me why Wall is valued, and why I usually don't come to this fight without Larsa or Unicorn. I'd run the fight with slow Resist accessories, but i am fairly certain that running the fight without wind Resist will just have me murdered outright by withering winds.
What? No. No froo-froo symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.
Black Friday pull: 3/11, double disco! Penelo USB, Marach USB, Sword of Paine. I've already got Penelo's BSB, Marach's rod is a great stat stick, and Sword of Paine gives me a haste in X. Yay!
Two FFTA pulls, 2/11 and 3/11, and the first one was double disco again! (Double double disco! It's the 70's, but awesome!) Agrias USB and Marche USB, and I also got Marche's BSB and Rapha's LMR (have Rapha's BSB!). 100 gem gave me Marche's SSB, and Marche's LMR happened somewhere in there, so I've got a complete Marche. Instant LD!
(Guess I didn't keep track of my pulls well? Maybe Rapha's LMR happened a while ago?)
And today I rearranged my Sea Lion team, and got my first sub-30! I bet I can sub-30 Shadow Dragon (haven't tried Holy/Dark yet, been busy IRL) and maybe Hydra using Marche.
RW Fabula Guardian.
Refia (4* dived, 477atk, 20% fire equip) LS / Fires Within / BSB / TGCid
OK (full 4* dived, 461 mag, 40% fire equip) Smoldering Fire / Entrust / MM
Ramza (full 4* dived, 324 mnd) Wrath / Entrust / Shout / DMT
Y'shtola (LD, 490 mnd) Curada / Shellga / BSB / Ace Striker
Bartz (LD, LMR/LM2, 561atk, 20% fire equip) LS / Blazing Quadstrike / USB / 40% spellblade
Refia: LS, BSB, Fires Within unless bars available, in which case BSB
OK: Entrust (Bartz), Smoldering Fire, Entrust Refia when bars available
Ramza: Shout, Wrath, Wrath, Entrust (Refia), Wrath until re-Shout, Enkidu if needed
Y'shtola: RW Wall, Shellga, Curada until bar, BSB, cmd1 forever
Bartz: Wait for bar from OK, USB, (B)BQ, re-cast USB when bar available, (B)BQ to end
Ramza had time to use Enkidu after entrusting Refia and before Shout. I got a quad-cast from Bartz and a couple of 8x chases, but it didn't seem like unusual luck. Should be repeatable. Interestingly, Shelke wouldn't help this build (though I'll probably LD her for Shadow Dragon).
8 more weeks until TGCid event. Agrias stuff gets kicked off the banner for Alma (healer) stuff, but the banner is more or less the same for Ramza and Marche relics and LMRs with TGCid items replacing the other chaff.
There's also the FFIII event with Onion Knight's USBs coming up in 5 weeks to consider, as you can effectively pull Onion Knight's Ninja USB (party hastega, 50% ATK, 50% Critfix) and 2 instant cast LMR and have a more versatile Ramza. No, OK doesn't have a party instant cast buff, or a means to start with full ATB, but that USB+LMR is a hard combo to ignore.
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I need to see gameplay of Ace and Ramza.
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Ramza's Ultra is also bumped from the banner, he only has BSB2 and LMR on the TGCid one.
That actually works out for me.
Here's the thing--my main has 0 TG Cid relics so I'm definitely waiting for that banner. But my alt has Cid BSB/SSB already so that's just more dupes on that later banner.
My alt has like 475 mythril so it's not really facing a shortage and can do a pull or two here or there.
Strategy was to open with History's Truth, Fabula Raider, Protectga, and Rinoa's Ice chain, then go to town with ice. Carried wind resist gear, and gave Ramza Mana's Paean and Affliction Break, to deal with Slow. Still had to use a second Fabula Raider to clear away some Slows. Bartz had Snowspell Strike and Steal Power, while Shantotto used Chain Blizzaga and Abyssal Shards, to power up the chain for Rinoa and Valigarmanda. Relm was there because I needed instacast medica to stay on my feet.
Turns out that Bartz does alright against Fenrir, 'cause dualcasts mean he doesn't have to waste turns doing basic attacks to break Blink; if he dualcasts, he's doing tons of damage anyway.
So, that makes six. Fire and Earth are probably beyond my reach for now, unless I pull something crazy out of the lucky draw tonight.
I am also warming up to healer USBs in general. I like Lenna's well enough, but it is a buff SB and not a healing one for the most part. Aphmau's does some serious work on Magicite in addition to being a big ass heal. I can't tell you how nice it is to have Ramza's and Aphmau's USBs on one team. What's a cast time again?
Can confirm, have both of these and it is a ton of fun. Especially on JS Torments, the VIII one is just laughable. The second half of the fight is just chaining instant SBs back to back
1/11: Sazh SSB (dupe)
Sure, why not.
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Um. Okay.
Lightning BSB1 Requiem of the Goddess (dupe)
Vayne SSB Mach Wave (new)
Hmm. Vayne's thing does 5 Dark magic or physical attacks to all targets, and then makes everyone's actions instant for one turn. I feel like I can use this in my Dark teams, or possibly just as a general-use thing, especially since I've also got his OSB.
It's not quite Gladiolus Link (that one is instant cast to begin with), but there's potential here.
And it's Dark Boost light armor, so that's nice.
Tifa USB
Vincent BSB
not bad, I get to reflect all the damage
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Cid (VII) SSB2 (+wind armor, and now I've got both his SSBs and his BSB, and this one seems to pair well with his burst)
Cait Sith SSB (I've now got both his SSB, another form of crit boost. Not amazing, but whatever)
Reno SSB (Looks pretty poor. Silence and Sleep? Why? I've got his burst, but it's physical and this SSB is 10MAG for him, so....whoo?
Vayne LMR, which is nice! (start enDark), but I don't have anything else for Vayne, unfortunately. Still a +Dark armor, though, so that's a plus. If I ever get another Vayne relic this will instantly be great.
Nothing I was shooting for, but I sure as hell can't complain.
Still gonna pull on every Lucky Draw though.
4/11
Vincent SSB
Barret BSB
Basch BSB (dupe)
Vaan OSB
Sephiroth BSB2, Lightning SSB (Etro's Embrace), Red XIIl BSB
I've got Seph's BSB1 and transcience, so that's a nice extra; Lightning gets a +10 and another lightning boost armor; and first relic for Red, and even something a bit dated is still an atk/mag boosters.
Nothing omgwtfbbq-worthy but no dupes either, yay!
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