Next FFIX event has Quina's Shoutproshellga. The event after that has all the FFV Dawn Warrior stuff, though, including Xezat's Ice spellblade toys and Kelgar's Earth Ninja toys.
Geez. Sora gets completely shafted for the actual combat part of this event, doesn't he?
Literally every boss in the entire event resists Fire, Ice, and Lightning.
Yeah it’s super weird and I don’t really get it at all
After playing Dream Drop Distance though, this lends credence to my theory that Square actually fucking hates Sora, and is trying to make Riku the real protagonist
I dunno if I’m gonna pull on any of the fest banners.
I was surprised at the 260 difficulty Cloud on this event, before remembering that 6 months of powercreep goes in both directions, but still crushed it. I find myself runnng into more and more banners where I already own half or more, so it makes no sense to waste mythril. I think I’m going to wait a good 6 months before pulling on any regular event banners; give them a chance to refresh.
Geez. Sora gets completely shafted for the actual combat part of this event, doesn't he?
Literally every boss in the entire event resists Fire, Ice, and Lightning.
Yeah it’s super weird and I don’t really get it at all
After playing Dream Drop Distance though, this lends credence to my theory that Square actually fucking hates Sora, and is trying to make Riku the real protagonist
Yeah DDD is bizarrely hostile to Sora, it bugs me.
I think it's mitigated by Sora himself not really giving that much of a shit about the outcome of that particular journey for himself, when compared to how much he cares about Riku seeing as much in himself as he does in him.
I was stupid and drunk and drew one last time (I had 85 mythril), and I got riku’s aosb that I was missing, and sora’s usb that I was missing. I have both characters completely filled except for one of sora’s glints. I’m pretty psyched.
Any thoughts on team building to take out Cloud? All the breaks you can fit while keeping one or two big DPS? Gotta keep last stand in there? Maybe a radiant shield/last stand focus?
Any thoughts on team building to take out Cloud? All the breaks you can fit while keeping one or two big DPS? Gotta keep last stand in there? Maybe a radiant shield/last stand focus?
I brought Edge for his USB0 (ie, SSB2) and also RW'd Eiko USB for instant heal/last stand, then otherwise went for my usual DPS route - Edge/Shadow on their respective ninja elements, Onion Knight for boosting, Shelke for initial entrusting then breaking. It was iffy at a few spots, and in retrospect relying on ninja DPS which needs blinks against an exclusively-physical attacker who has multiple AoE attacks wasn't my brightest moment, but I got it to work.
Basically, I'd say last stand is the most important piece.
Any thoughts on team building to take out Cloud? All the breaks you can fit while keeping one or two big DPS? Gotta keep last stand in there? Maybe a radiant shield/last stand focus?
I beat him down with three stacking breaks, but there are videos of people using chains and Edge SSB to just annihilate him before he even takes a turn.
For reference, I used Multi Break, Enfeebling Jitterbug, and Vaan USB. I had Enkidu as an emergency medica in case he decided to spam Climhazzard. The majority of my damage actually came from OK, who decided that this was the fight to start doublecasting Dervish every time.
I tried Cloud USB/Bartz DPS, Minfillia SSB for last stand/boost, Rikku USB, Y'shtola BSB, and RW Eiko USB, and just couldn't keep the last stands up. That is probably a doable team with a little more luck. Or I can swap Y'shtola for Eiko with USB for even more instant heal/last stand.
Went in with a normal Cloud/Bartz wind team and got wrecked the first try.
I found Cloud's opening entry to be a bit like Bartz's Kick O'Clock from that one event. Cloud is only marginally a bit more random in that he can hit you with Omnislash, Cross-Slash, or Sonic Blade.
The ideal 4 second opening is to have your fastest character with an Instant action LM (Luneth, Lightning, OK, Ramza, TGC) pop a use of Wall and then your healer should activate Protect, or with DMT/MM RM equipped, use a support SB to get your defenses in line. This should prevent Cloud from OTKO'ing anyone unless he Omnislashes the same character for multiple hits in a row. You should also be ready with a magicite like Enkidu to pop an instant heal and save your healer a turn to build up more SB for that inevitable burst heal even later into the fight.
Any thoughts on team building to take out Cloud? All the breaks you can fit while keeping one or two big DPS? Gotta keep last stand in there? Maybe a radiant shield/last stand focus?
I bought Lion BSB since most of his stuff ignores defence, so I needed a debuffer, and a doublecast healer with a medica C2 BSB. Then I just picked an element that he wasn't resistant to (dark in this case, so I could give Riku a proper test drive) and played it pretty straight
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Ramza with his LMR would really appreciate his LM2 as well, so he doesn't have to refresh buffs around the ~25s mark, yes? I don't really have any other Support dives earmarked, so I figured I might as well.
Ramza with his LMR would really appreciate his LM2 as well, so he doesn't have to refresh buffs around the ~25s mark, yes? I don't really have any other Support dives earmarked, so I figured I might as well.
It doesn't extend hastega, however, which makes most of those buff extension LMs pretty anemic in effect.
Hah just took Cloud down after accidentally forgetting wall. So used to having RW wall, but I had Eiko USB instead, didn't even occur to me that I'd have to cast wall with Y'Shtola. Power Breakdown, Multi Break, and Enfeebling Jitterbug actually had the damage pretty manageable with just protega. Trying the fight at bed time last night had me thinking he was harder than he was.
Just don't forget that his LM2 has no bearing on Haste time, if you're using a Shout or Battle Cry.
The other thing is that if you use his USB, you'll want to keep spamming it for the party instant cast, so the extended buff time does nothing for that, either.
Glad this Cloud conversation came up, went in semi-prepared for a change and it went ok.
Took two p-blinkers (Penelo, Edge), Setzer to lay on 3-ish breaks (I should consider diving him, could have him do 4 on his own), Ramza for buff/entrust, and Shelke for entrust.
Edge was kinda a mistake since his shadows kept getting eaten by aoe, but he was doublecasting enough to do most of the work.
I'm still debating if I want to do another KH pull. I've got Sora USB, he should be fine with his dive to complement? But there's so many other Sora goodies that make it tempting.
I only got Riku BSB for main but it's probably a better dark burst than some of the other ones I have; a dive would be fine with just that. Again though, lot of better goodies on the banner that would make for a much better dark user.
Cid dropped wall immediately, Ysh dropped protect, OK USB'd, and Shelke entrusted to Marche, who then dropped his USB. After that Marche used Divine Cross to get all 5 hits out of Guard Bringer, and Shelke/OK were entrust bots for Cid's OSB while Ysh kept everyone alive.
Also, with Sora and Riku hitting 80 today, I finally got everyone, cores included, to at least level 80.
I'm running low on folks with relics good enough to push to 99, so maybe I'll get really bored and shove the cores to 99 while I level up my 4* magicite.
For once, a day with a needed more daily coincides with a day where I don't need major orbs. That gave me just enough 4* DEX motes to have both Sora and Riku LDed!
Thanks to that and a Google Play card that I immediately threw into another set of KH-1 pulls (Riku AOSB and Sora USB, yay), I'm now set for fire/ice/lightning/dark. Riku's fully complete, as well!
Now to hammer the dark daily so I can have two honed Dread Weapons and the dark ninja skills.
Hey FFRK thread. I quit FFRK over a year ago. I dropped serious dollars on this game but then realized the creep was not going in a direction I could tolerate(Elements+"Legend" materia>Realm and series synergy).
But I did log in every once in awhile. Just to pick up free mythril occasionally.
But then this event was announced and well FUUUCK not only is it Kingdom Hearts, it's a JP Kingdom Hearts banner meaning it's like a year forward in powercreep which is insane so I had to burn those free mythril
I got basically the same power set for Sora. It's pretty good for short fights. Start with enelement lm, dump a bunch of spellblades, poop out a bajillion damage with the arcane overstrike, ded boss
Hey FFRK thread. I quit FFRK over a year ago. I dropped serious dollars on this game but then realized the creep was not going in a direction I could tolerate(Elements+"Legend" materia>Realm and series synergy).
But I did log in every once in awhile. Just to pick up free mythril occasionally.
But then this event was announced and well FUUUCK not only is it Kingdom Hearts, it's a JP Kingdom Hearts banner meaning it's like a year forward in powercreep which is insane so I had to burn those free mythril
Sora's Fire Glint(wtf?)
Sora's Lightning Glint(seriously what are Glints!?)
Riku's Dark Glint(MOAR GLINTS)
How.....how do I do the thing?
You can dive Sora for the starting en-element, but otherwise you use GSBs to stack auras for harder hits, so spam spellblades until his BSB is ready, then go to town with fire/ice/lightning Squall.
Riku is also totally usable with what you pulled. GSB for the aura, spam Dread Weapon or Sanguine Cross until you have 3 bars, then smack the boss with the the AOSB. His LD gives him doublecast dark, which pushes Dread Weapon higher than Sanguine Cross, IMO, since that's a lot of recoil damage to deal with.
Glints are like mini SBs that mostly buff but cost half the gauge of a regular SB
More specifically, they are personal buffs cast upon the user that trigger immediately. So, for example, Sora can use half a bar to instantly grant himself a Fire aura, and a buff that allows Fire auras to stack for extra power.
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I'd just mention that power creep is going ever further in that direction so what you hate is not going to get better.
I'd just mention that power creep is going ever further in that direction so what you hate is not going to get better.
Well, until new torments. Then synergy is the name of the game again.
WITH elements.
Well, new Torments are weak against all elements, IF you have a full synergy party. Which you should, because the bosses take VASTLY reduced damage if you bring even one out of realm character.
Ixion is done and dusted. I ran a budget version of the Ignus BSB2 + Eiko USB cheese strat where I'm too cheap to dive Eiko. It was annoyingly inconsistent without Eiko full-healing every time, but I eventually got all my Garudas and Mimic Queens. (I'm really glad I decided to use FFRKreeper because I had to reset through a month's worth of Garudas to get those last two Mimic Queens.)
That's 3/6, with Isgebind surely being doable whenever I find the time now that I have a fire chain.
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Literally every boss in the entire event resists Fire, Ice, and Lightning.
Yeah it’s super weird and I don’t really get it at all
After playing Dream Drop Distance though, this lends credence to my theory that Square actually fucking hates Sora, and is trying to make Riku the real protagonist
I was surprised at the 260 difficulty Cloud on this event, before remembering that 6 months of powercreep goes in both directions, but still crushed it. I find myself runnng into more and more banners where I already own half or more, so it makes no sense to waste mythril. I think I’m going to wait a good 6 months before pulling on any regular event banners; give them a chance to refresh.
Friendship ended with Shadow: Now Riku is my best friend.
Yeah DDD is bizarrely hostile to Sora, it bugs me.
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I brought Edge for his USB0 (ie, SSB2) and also RW'd Eiko USB for instant heal/last stand, then otherwise went for my usual DPS route - Edge/Shadow on their respective ninja elements, Onion Knight for boosting, Shelke for initial entrusting then breaking. It was iffy at a few spots, and in retrospect relying on ninja DPS which needs blinks against an exclusively-physical attacker who has multiple AoE attacks wasn't my brightest moment, but I got it to work.
Basically, I'd say last stand is the most important piece.
I beat him down with three stacking breaks, but there are videos of people using chains and Edge SSB to just annihilate him before he even takes a turn.
For reference, I used Multi Break, Enfeebling Jitterbug, and Vaan USB. I had Enkidu as an emergency medica in case he decided to spam Climhazzard. The majority of my damage actually came from OK, who decided that this was the fight to start doublecasting Dervish every time.
Went in with a normal Cloud/Bartz wind team and got wrecked the first try.
The ideal 4 second opening is to have your fastest character with an Instant action LM (Luneth, Lightning, OK, Ramza, TGC) pop a use of Wall and then your healer should activate Protect, or with DMT/MM RM equipped, use a support SB to get your defenses in line. This should prevent Cloud from OTKO'ing anyone unless he Omnislashes the same character for multiple hits in a row. You should also be ready with a magicite like Enkidu to pop an instant heal and save your healer a turn to build up more SB for that inevitable burst heal even later into the fight.
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I bought Lion BSB since most of his stuff ignores defence, so I needed a debuffer, and a doublecast healer with a medica C2 BSB. Then I just picked an element that he wasn't resistant to (dark in this case, so I could give Riku a proper test drive) and played it pretty straight
It doesn't extend hastega, however, which makes most of those buff extension LMs pretty anemic in effect.
The other thing is that if you use his USB, you'll want to keep spamming it for the party instant cast, so the extended buff time does nothing for that, either.
Took two p-blinkers (Penelo, Edge), Setzer to lay on 3-ish breaks (I should consider diving him, could have him do 4 on his own), Ramza for buff/entrust, and Shelke for entrust.
Edge was kinda a mistake since his shadows kept getting eaten by aoe, but he was doublecasting enough to do most of the work.
I'm still debating if I want to do another KH pull. I've got Sora USB, he should be fine with his dive to complement? But there's so many other Sora goodies that make it tempting.
I only got Riku BSB for main but it's probably a better dark burst than some of the other ones I have; a dive would be fine with just that. Again though, lot of better goodies on the banner that would make for a much better dark user.
Marche - Divine Cross/Guardbringer - USB
TGCid - Assualt Saber/NA - OSB
Ysh'tola - Curada/Protectga - BSB
Shelke - Wrath/Entrust - NA
OKnight - Wrath/Entrust - pUSB
RW - Wall
Everyone fully LD'd, and OK's LMR
Cid dropped wall immediately, Ysh dropped protect, OK USB'd, and Shelke entrusted to Marche, who then dropped his USB. After that Marche used Divine Cross to get all 5 hits out of Guard Bringer, and Shelke/OK were entrust bots for Cid's OSB while Ysh kept everyone alive.
Also, with Sora and Riku hitting 80 today, I finally got everyone, cores included, to at least level 80.
I'm running low on folks with relics good enough to push to 99, so maybe I'll get really bored and shove the cores to 99 while I level up my 4* magicite.
Thanks to that and a Google Play card that I immediately threw into another set of KH-1 pulls (Riku AOSB and Sora USB, yay), I'm now set for fire/ice/lightning/dark. Riku's fully complete, as well!
Now to hammer the dark daily so I can have two honed Dread Weapons and the dark ninja skills.
But I did log in every once in awhile. Just to pick up free mythril occasionally.
But then this event was announced and well FUUUCK not only is it Kingdom Hearts, it's a JP Kingdom Hearts banner meaning it's like a year forward in powercreep which is insane so I had to burn those free mythril
And because I'm a horrible Kingdom Hearts mark.
Apparently in the two pulls I did I got:
Pull 1:
Riku's ArcaneOSB aka lolfuturecreeeeep!
Sora's BSB
Pull 2:
Sora's Fire Glint(wtf?)
Sora's Lightning Glint(seriously what are Glints!?)
Riku's Dark Glint(MOAR GLINTS)
How.....how do I do the thing?
You can dive Sora for the starting en-element, but otherwise you use GSBs to stack auras for harder hits, so spam spellblades until his BSB is ready, then go to town with fire/ice/lightning Squall.
Riku is also totally usable with what you pulled. GSB for the aura, spam Dread Weapon or Sanguine Cross until you have 3 bars, then smack the boss with the the AOSB. His LD gives him doublecast dark, which pushes Dread Weapon higher than Sanguine Cross, IMO, since that's a lot of recoil damage to deal with.
More specifically, they are personal buffs cast upon the user that trigger immediately. So, for example, Sora can use half a bar to instantly grant himself a Fire aura, and a buff that allows Fire auras to stack for extra power.
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Well, until new torments. Then synergy is the name of the game again.
WITH elements.
Well, new Torments are weak against all elements, IF you have a full synergy party. Which you should, because the bosses take VASTLY reduced damage if you bring even one out of realm character.
That's 3/6, with Isgebind surely being doable whenever I find the time now that I have a fire chain.
Result: failure at half her life bar and 38 seconds. Sora was completely out of hones. Not gonna work, and not worth diving Sora further.