For folks who might not particularly be a fan of Machina, the next two BT characters are Noel and Locke, and I understand they have similar "haha go brrrr" buttons.
As a bonus, Noel will be on a banner with Cid VII and Locke will be with Tifa, who are also pretty good at dealing damage.
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I was going to go for Machina when I hit 75k, but I actually kind of like Noel, and iirc Locke is a cool fire thief dude?
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Today's free single have me... Paine's LD. I still kind of want to draw for Machina's EX and her other items too, maybe now even more so I can fill in Paine's gear.
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I spent like ten minutes trying to figure out the trigger conditions for Lufenia Ifrit before I gave up and just ran it down with Machina-Maria-Snow.
Also I created one Ultima Weapon, all they do is give you the ability to break the 99999 damage cap. Which is useful, obviously, but moreso for characters that don't have BTs, I'd think. I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.
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Ultima weapon both increases your HP damage limit, as well as just straight increasing the amount of HP damage you deal (to help you get up towards that new limit). For characters that deal a lot of damage, it lets you deal even more.
They can be good on BT or not BT characters, what matters is that they deal a lot of damage. Cid VII is pretty ridiculous at the moment, after every other turn of his, Bombs Away will hit for roughly one million damage. That could be 1.4 million with a maxed Ultima weapon! Some folks suggest starting with spear for him, which you can pass on to Freya and Kain as time passes.
I'm not that excited about any characters in the next month or two, so I might just end up getting a sword for Noctis/Tidus, or a dagger for Locke. We'll see.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Sword for Tidus is always a safe choice I feel like
That said you probably want to buy every weapon or close to it before you max out any
That said you probably want to buy every weapon or close to it before you max out any
I disagree, stacking +40% damage on the DPS you're using all the time is going to be a lot more valuable than having eight weapons that aren't in your party, +10% on the two supports in your party, and like +20% on the DPS you're using.
A few months in, JP version got the ability to reset one weapon per month; assuming we will also get that, you can keep moving around your big stick as newer units take over your lineup.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
edited January 2022
Outside of like... Cid Raines I dunno if there's a DPS I use so often that I'd feel comfortable doing that
That and a lot of times I'm running supports that contribute a healthy enough amount of damage/off turn damage that like, I'd rather have Sword+Unique for Tidus+Cor than say, a 20% Sword
I'd like to believe that I've figured out Lufenia, but it turns out that most of them can be burned through with either Noctis or Machina plus a BRV battery and possibly a third to keep the orb up. And in a lot of cases you don't even need to worry about the orb.
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I mean, it really depends on the particular Lufenia, but powercreep is a helluva drug for sure. And overall I'd say there are a lot more options for orb dealers than when a Lufenia was first released.
Having non-lethal orbs is also really nice.
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What would people suggest as a brave battery that can be built just off of power tokens?
And does Machina need to be greened?
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I killed two birds with one stone and did the Luf+ with Queen and Cater (and Noctis). Cater ridiculously handles both the orb and freezes Brv gain so there is practically no danger at all.
Global first this year is Garnet BT. In 4 hours. Huge support gains, lots of damage, gold framed buff.
Also getting a new type of event, Crevasse, which is like Abyss but you can pick the conditions and orb countdown type.
And lots of free pulls. One for the new banners, also a daily anniversary banner featuring EX and LDs (3 games per banner, banners up for 5 days each). And a buncha other stuff. Good luck on your free pulls!
I got the Garnet BT...and then accidentally used my book on Lightning instead. Oops. Garnet will still murder groups of enemies, though, which is good since that's what Crevasse is all about. Plus Lightning got reworked so she's not just single target, so it's not a terrible thing.
I currently have 177 points out of a possible 300 n Crevasse, but I'm having real issues with the 200 that has the masked guys who get super-high defense and also curse you to not be able to gain BRV. I originally passed it easily with Lightning/Garnet/Yuna (for the Esuna) but I needed Lightning and Garnet for the 250-level stuff and now I can't figure out a new combination that still does enough damage, gains BRV, and can cleanse the debuff.
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I need to work on getting a roster figured out. I can usually clear the 150, and some of the 180's, but can't hardly seem to scratch the Lufenia's. I guess it would probably also help to finish the story...
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Lufenia usually requires having a strong Def Down, some sort of BRV damage up, and maybe a BRV gains up. Some or all of that can be supplied by good calls. Ideally you're getting decent numbers right from the get go without your calls, because it's going to get tougher at 80% and again at 50%.
If you wanted to throw currency at the problem, this Garnet/Lissette banner would do the trick. Garnet covers everything but DEF down, and also does an awful lot of damage. She's probably the best support for the next three months, probably closer to six months? Lissette is not that exciting as a team member, but her call gives you access to several turns of a HP damage up debuff, which is usually a good thing to have in one or more of your call slots.
Overall, every Lufenia fight has a few things that are bullshit, which may or may not include the orb. Gotta figure out how to deal with it, while also fitting in all of the support and DPS you need
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I'm just not sure if I need another support, since I thought that was what Llyud does? But also it seems Llyud is more of a buffer, and Garnet is more of a debuffer? But then I'm not sure if people actually want/need tanks?
Was watching some videos, saw a couple people mention that Garnet offers some really good options, decided to pull. So now I've got most of her kit. Deciding if I should do two more pulls so I can token one of the other LD/EX options, or just call it and token the book.
Decided to pull for it, and in the last two pulls got three copies of Garnet's EX, and a second copy of her LD. I just wish I could buy Ashe's LD off this banner. Also now I'm wondering if I should pull 5 more times and buy the blue book...
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Wow, the rage gators in this Annularity fight are silly. The fight is clearly meant to showcase Eiko's revive, but they are killing me faster than I can put up more revives to deal with it :0
Surprisingly, I was able to no-turn them with Garnet, Lightning, and a friend Garnet. Garnet manages the orbs, and Lightning just takes a lot of turns, allowing Ark to pummel the gators.
The rhinoceros bug is also bullshit, it starts with a full gauge and uses it to do an AOE that kills your party. I brought in Noctis for that fight, because duck that.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Fell off this for a little bit because I was super sick and ended up finally missing my first couple events in awhile
Been doing free rolls and that's basically it, and getting nothing for awhile until I got Eiko LDoff the free pull, random Cater LD same day, and Locke BT+LD within six pulls
Think I'm gonna token Garnet BT, and BT+ her and Locke
I've heard Locke is also worth it but of course, because I actually saved mats and tickets and gems for when I drew it, I have not yet drawn his BT to test that theory.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
edited February 2022
Locke is basically just a damage monster with some minor support effects
Genji Glove x Master Scroll easily punches above a million damage, and his BT+ aura gives party ignore defense, +30% BRV damage, and +30% BRV damage limit
He's still good without BT, but it helps his damage a lot because his main nuke only has 2 BRV hits before every HP dump
I've been procrastinating a bit and still have half of Annular to do. But I figure I'd skip ahead and give Edgar a spin on his Luf+.
Edgar is very nice. Three types of imperil is great stuff. I roflstomped it with Edgar Eiko Garnet easy mode.
Also figured I'd do the Transcendence, which was surprisingly easy with the right stacked teams. (Left was Locke LD, Lluyd, Snow. Right and Middle were Firion, Maria, Beatrix. Extremely safe teams).
That took a lot of pressure off, now I just gotta go back and finish the last three Annular stages, and clear some Luf stages for some of the level 90s. Need to token Garnet BT, maybe Locke too probably.
Oh wow, Garnet call gives you ten turns of her buff, both times. That's really silly, pretty much the best call assuming you can afford the buff slot.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
So I hadn't done Perfectum at all, and saw there was time limited rewards for clearing stratum 6
So the past couple days I've been grinding away at it, and just cleared it with less than an hour to go
Mummy was giving me a little bit of trouble, mostly due to blowing past damage thresholds too fast, so rather than come up with a new strategy I just put Eiko in my party and said NO STRATEGY
Reminder to exchange your G tokens from the Anniversary freebie draw, if you haven't already. Not that it's a big deal if you forget. I think I forgot the previous time we had freebies, and it annoyed me.
Ignis is way better than he was, now that Papa Bird HP+ does actual damage, and you can use his EX more often. Garnet still dunks on him, though.
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As a bonus, Noel will be on a banner with Cid VII and Locke will be with Tifa, who are also pretty good at dealing damage.
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Steam: Korvalain
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
At least you can pick up her 35cp with power tokens, if/when you have enough.
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Fuck Joe Manchin
(This is not an endorsement to pull for him: you can clear cycle quests just as fast with Yuffie on Auto+ with no investment)
Anyone make an Ultima Weapon yet? I'm not sure what I want to make first.
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Also I created one Ultima Weapon, all they do is give you the ability to break the 99999 damage cap. Which is useful, obviously, but moreso for characters that don't have BTs, I'd think. I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.
They can be good on BT or not BT characters, what matters is that they deal a lot of damage. Cid VII is pretty ridiculous at the moment, after every other turn of his, Bombs Away will hit for roughly one million damage. That could be 1.4 million with a maxed Ultima weapon! Some folks suggest starting with spear for him, which you can pass on to Freya and Kain as time passes.
I'm not that excited about any characters in the next month or two, so I might just end up getting a sword for Noctis/Tidus, or a dagger for Locke. We'll see.
That said you probably want to buy every weapon or close to it before you max out any
I disagree, stacking +40% damage on the DPS you're using all the time is going to be a lot more valuable than having eight weapons that aren't in your party, +10% on the two supports in your party, and like +20% on the DPS you're using.
A few months in, JP version got the ability to reset one weapon per month; assuming we will also get that, you can keep moving around your big stick as newer units take over your lineup.
That and a lot of times I'm running supports that contribute a healthy enough amount of damage/off turn damage that like, I'd rather have Sword+Unique for Tidus+Cor than say, a 20% Sword
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Steam: Korvalain
Having non-lethal orbs is also really nice.
And does Machina need to be greened?
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EDIT: Selphie's been a pretty good battery for me. Maria's another decent option.
EDIT: It's 50 guaranteed 5-star weapons or above, and 1 guaranteed BT. Just ridiculous.
Also getting a new type of event, Crevasse, which is like Abyss but you can pick the conditions and orb countdown type.
And lots of free pulls. One for the new banners, also a daily anniversary banner featuring EX and LDs (3 games per banner, banners up for 5 days each). And a buncha other stuff. Good luck on your free pulls!
I currently have 177 points out of a possible 300 n Crevasse, but I'm having real issues with the 200 that has the masked guys who get super-high defense and also curse you to not be able to gain BRV. I originally passed it easily with Lightning/Garnet/Yuna (for the Esuna) but I needed Lightning and Garnet for the 250-level stuff and now I can't figure out a new combination that still does enough damage, gains BRV, and can cleanse the debuff.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
If you wanted to throw currency at the problem, this Garnet/Lissette banner would do the trick. Garnet covers everything but DEF down, and also does an awful lot of damage. She's probably the best support for the next three months, probably closer to six months? Lissette is not that exciting as a team member, but her call gives you access to several turns of a HP damage up debuff, which is usually a good thing to have in one or more of your call slots.
Overall, every Lufenia fight has a few things that are bullshit, which may or may not include the orb. Gotta figure out how to deal with it, while also fitting in all of the support and DPS you need
I'm just not sure if I need another support, since I thought that was what Llyud does? But also it seems Llyud is more of a buffer, and Garnet is more of a debuffer? But then I'm not sure if people actually want/need tanks?
Was watching some videos, saw a couple people mention that Garnet offers some really good options, decided to pull. So now I've got most of her kit. Deciding if I should do two more pulls so I can token one of the other LD/EX options, or just call it and token the book.
Decided to pull for it, and in the last two pulls got three copies of Garnet's EX, and a second copy of her LD. I just wish I could buy Ashe's LD off this banner. Also now I'm wondering if I should pull 5 more times and buy the blue book...
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Admittedly, it's probably smarter to spread them over the other fights, but it did work.
The rhinoceros bug is also bullshit, it starts with a full gauge and uses it to do an AOE that kills your party. I brought in Noctis for that fight, because duck that.
Been doing free rolls and that's basically it, and getting nothing for awhile until I got Eiko LDoff the free pull, random Cater LD same day, and Locke BT+LD within six pulls
Think I'm gonna token Garnet BT, and BT+ her and Locke
I've heard Locke is also worth it but of course, because I actually saved mats and tickets and gems for when I drew it, I have not yet drawn his BT to test that theory.
Genji Glove x Master Scroll easily punches above a million damage, and his BT+ aura gives party ignore defense, +30% BRV damage, and +30% BRV damage limit
He's still good without BT, but it helps his damage a lot because his main nuke only has 2 BRV hits before every HP dump
Edgar is very nice. Three types of imperil is great stuff. I roflstomped it with Edgar Eiko Garnet easy mode.
Also figured I'd do the Transcendence, which was surprisingly easy with the right stacked teams. (Left was Locke LD, Lluyd, Snow. Right and Middle were Firion, Maria, Beatrix. Extremely safe teams).
That took a lot of pressure off, now I just gotta go back and finish the last three Annular stages, and clear some Luf stages for some of the level 90s. Need to token Garnet BT, maybe Locke too probably.
So the past couple days I've been grinding away at it, and just cleared it with less than an hour to go
Mummy was giving me a little bit of trouble, mostly due to blowing past damage thresholds too fast, so rather than come up with a new strategy I just put Eiko in my party and said NO STRATEGY
First: Garland, Ardyn, Locke
Second: Lenna, Caius, Setzer
Third: Cid Raines, Aphmau, Keiss
Fourth: Eiko, Strago, Twins
Annular: Garnet, Zell, Quistis
In every case, I used a friend Garnet
Ignis is way better than he was, now that Papa Bird HP+ does actual damage, and you can use his EX more often. Garnet still dunks on him, though.