Finished the Cosmos multiplayers just before they vanished. Turned out Water team did its usual work. Tidus CSB/USB/LD/LMR/MM, Edge SSB/LD, Penelo debuffs/USB, Y’shtola pga/wrath/SSII/BSB/LD/TGCid, Eiko Curada/sga/USB/DMT. RW OK pUSB. Tidus opened RW->Chain, and it was downhill from there.
I begin to agree that the designers have lost the thread on power creep direction since Cloud USB. Chains are crazily overtuned, a challenge has to be ridiculous to be worth a damn now.
Opens with ST Apocalypse Flare. 50K overflow damage. Not blinkable.
The first Apocalypse Doomsday is 50k overflow AoE. Blinkable, or have your Last Stand active.
Targets someone with Death. Autohit. Goes through Last Stand.
Thats the opening 3 hits. Then its just random normal flares and holies and flare stars and doomsdays. Occasionally an Apocalypse (re: overflow) Flare or Doomsday again, so always have Last Stand active.
It counter curajas very frequently, including off doublecasts, so make sure you're doing more than 9999 per attack.
Have an Astra ready because it can Curse (random status ailments, worst of which is confusion). It also Berserks targets, making them a priority for Ultra Cure because otherwise they'll just trigger Counter Curaja for 9999.
Lastly it can MP Drain, siphoning away 1-2 hones. This is its least dangerous ability though, and doesn't come up often.
Not going to do a full post but Ozma Multiplayer should be tomorrow. RIP us.
Bring Runic, Affliction Break, Wall, Proshell, lean towards magic breaking. Slow Resist and/or Confuse resist are your best bets but Esunagas+Astra are heavily recommended. Wind and Holy Weak, so do the smart thing and build around a Chain and/or Cloud USB->BSB2 spam.
Finished the Cosmos multiplayers just before they vanished. Turned out Water team did its usual work. Tidus CSB/USB/LD/LMR/MM, Edge SSB/LD, Penelo debuffs/USB, Y’shtola pga/wrath/SSII/BSB/LD/TGCid, Eiko Curada/sga/USB/DMT. RW OK pUSB. Tidus opened RW->Chain, and it was downhill from there.
I begin to agree that the designers have lost the thread on power creep direction since Cloud USB. Chains are crazily overtuned, a challenge has to be ridiculous to be worth a damn now.
That specific challenge seems to be a weird outlier, since even I was doing decent damage to them and I haven't played in like, literally two years.
But yeah chains are SUPER BUSTED. I did Kain's chain train and Lightning's AOSB after glinting and I about lost my damn mind.
Speaking on that note, when you haven't played for two years and get a sudden influx of relics, you end up having way, way, WAY too many characters to Legend Dive and not even close to enough motes
THIS IS MY NIGHTMARE LIST.
Partially 5* Dove:
Sora(Every SB except is Ice Glint)
Lightning(AOSB,USB,BSB2,LM,Glint, oh, and her old BSB and SSB)
Partially Dove:
Kain(CSB and BSB)
Riku(Everything except his LM)
Squall(AOSB, OSB, LM, missing his BSB2, but I'll grab that out of the choose your own BSB thing)
Rinoa(CSB, OSB, BSB2)
Cloud(Ultra, BSB2, BSB1, SSB, and his old unique's)
THE WAITING LIST:
Rosa(I somehow fell on her Ultra, her BSB, and her SSB, she's a must level now and she's only 50 WHOOPS)
Tifa(BSB and OSB)
Aerith(Ultra, BSB2, BSB1, SSB)
TG Cid(Still only have his OSB and BSB...and it's still worth it)
Sephiroth(BSB2 and BSB)
SEND HELP.....OR VITALITY MOTES....AND 5* MOTES......LOOK JUST SEND MOTES
Welp, I think I need to level and run more characters. Managed to beat two panels off of one record, and then ran into everyone's favorite ring-headed lizard on the last panel of Reraise- Tiamat, FFXII edition. Either running my usual party isn't going to get me anywhere close to where I need to be without dropping a load of mythril, but I've got no idea how to counter it- it's rather embarassing, because I'm able to tackle harder stuff in realm dungeons, but this guy is just wrecking me.
I'm just used to bull-rushing through regular content, I have no idea of what strategy would work.
Well, now is a pretty perfect time to level people up, since the extra-EXP version of Shores of Wisdom is gonna be open every day until the festival ends.
Well, now is a pretty perfect time to level people up, since the extra-EXP version of Shores of Wisdom is gonna be open every day until the festival ends.
I'm kinda going that route right now. Yes, I know, dark orbs, but I want to level my magicite.
So I feel like I should just be grabbing the Ayame package from the gift selection, huh? I may have a decently loaded Squall, but very very little for 11...
i'm playing around with this no healer tiamat strategy to see who i should legend dive and the first 6 times i wiped, everyone lived through the first twister easy. with literally nothing different, rajin has now died on 3 attempts in a row and i don't know what is happening.
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i'm playing around with this no healer tiamat strategy to see who i should legend dive and the first 6 times i wiped, everyone lived through the first twister easy. with literally nothing different, rajin has now died on 3 attempts in a row and i don't know what is happening.
I think damage varies between 100 and 103% of what is calculated?
Alternatively, do you have time for Raijin to cast Magic Break so it lands after Steal Magic and erases the boss's Magic buff?
i'm playing around with this no healer tiamat strategy to see who i should legend dive and the first 6 times i wiped, everyone lived through the first twister easy. with literally nothing different, rajin has now died on 3 attempts in a row and i don't know what is happening.
I think damage varies between 100 and 103% of what is calculated?
Alternatively, do you have time for Raijin to cast Magic Break so it lands after Steal Magic and erases the boss's Magic buff?
lol
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SpectrumArcher of InfernoChaldea Rec RoomRegistered Userregular
yea i can get tiamat down to about 25% with this strategy, and if i dove sora it'd probably be another bit lower and the doublecast luck was outstandingly bad, but i doubt any of it's gonna get me 25% with this team.
So I feel like I should just be grabbing the Ayame package from the gift selection, huh? I may have a decently loaded Squall, but very very little for 11...
That or the 14 package I guess.
Those are two of the strongest selections, IMHO.
Yeah, it's "I have ice, but only ONE ice" vs "I have crap for fire period".
I have about enough to put a hone on Meltdown and Valia (R2 each! Woo!) so that'll help, generically speaking. Ayame would also be "ninja w/ SBs" #3, so that's y'know, good.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
I want Lightning AOSB but since I pulled once and got Squall AOSB and have Sora AOSB already I'm pretty content
(Dupes are Squall AOSB BSB2 LMR Lightning USB BSB2 LMR Rinoa CSB BSB2 Kain BSB)
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
(and to be honest Lightning spamming OSBs under USB is still decent but less flashy if you'll excuse the wordplay)
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SpectrumArcher of InfernoChaldea Rec RoomRegistered Userregular
So I feel like I should just be grabbing the Ayame package from the gift selection, huh? I may have a decently loaded Squall, but very very little for 11...
That or the 14 package I guess.
Those are two of the strongest selections, IMHO.
Yeah, it's "I have ice, but only ONE ice" vs "I have crap for fire period".
I have about enough to put a hone on Meltdown and Valia (R2 each! Woo!) so that'll help, generically speaking. Ayame would also be "ninja w/ SBs" #3, so that's y'know, good.
So I feel like I should just be grabbing the Ayame package from the gift selection, huh? I may have a decently loaded Squall, but very very little for 11...
That or the 14 package I guess.
Those are two of the strongest selections, IMHO.
Yeah, it's "I have ice, but only ONE ice" vs "I have crap for fire period".
I have about enough to put a hone on Meltdown and Valia (R2 each! Woo!) so that'll help, generically speaking. Ayame would also be "ninja w/ SBs" #3, so that's y'know, good.
There are a number of selections where I have a dupe or two but the other piece I could use.....but I should probably go with a realm with fewest dupes and relics I'd likely use. That would be I, III, V, IX or XV.
I'm leaning towards III but I'm hesitating til the end it seems. I've got Luneth at 99 with a SSB, so the OSB/BSB would at least give him something to do. And I have a few pieces for Arc, but a 0CT heal with pblink is also a heck of a package for a third place prize.
Absorb Strength is a 100% chance to hit my melee attackers and I won’t hear a word otherwise.
Edit: fuuuck I had Tiamat to 5% with zero sora doublecasts during burst. This is possible but god it sucks, just want a clear to say I did it at this point but farming is not happening until my ice game is far stronger.
Yeah if you wanna ninja things it's pretty much "Edge" isn't it. Even if it's not water, you've got him and Shadow it seems like, and "1 SB" is more than "no SB"...
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
edited March 2018
shadow does more damage with his dive but edge is the utility king
and come next monday yuffie blows them both entirely out of the water
(her glint is instant 2 stacks of pblink and 5/10/15/20/30% boost to ninja abilities depending on the rank)
(her USB2 is 10 hits of water/non, enwater and self blink, and EX: midare sujin which chases water abilities with 4/6/8 ST water/non ranged physical hits based on pblink stacks)
basically once up and running she's capable of 22 enwater hits in a single turn
Beasteh on
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
Put magic break on squall. Or have enough wind dampen on magicite but I'm not there yet.
Man, it's a good thing I need Earth Orbs, because the Golem fight is being really stingy about giving me my third Shell Dragon. I would really like to be able to get him to 99 and inherit another Earth Boon effect.
Where is everyone finding the stuff about upcoming banners etc.? I have 92 mithril and i do not feel like i am making informed decisions on which banners to pull. I mean, i see the in game description of the festival banners, but stuff after that is a mystery.
I'm doing very close to that and the best I've done is 00:36.30.
Maybe a Garuda gets me over the top but I kinda doubt it. Or taking the S/Ling from using Eiko BSB only without USB as backup because she's not a strong enough healer to do it solo without it.
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I begin to agree that the designers have lost the thread on power creep direction since Cloud USB. Chains are crazily overtuned, a challenge has to be ridiculous to be worth a damn now.
Opens with ST Apocalypse Flare. 50K overflow damage. Not blinkable.
The first Apocalypse Doomsday is 50k overflow AoE. Blinkable, or have your Last Stand active.
Targets someone with Death. Autohit. Goes through Last Stand.
Thats the opening 3 hits. Then its just random normal flares and holies and flare stars and doomsdays. Occasionally an Apocalypse (re: overflow) Flare or Doomsday again, so always have Last Stand active.
It counter curajas very frequently, including off doublecasts, so make sure you're doing more than 9999 per attack.
Have an Astra ready because it can Curse (random status ailments, worst of which is confusion). It also Berserks targets, making them a priority for Ultra Cure because otherwise they'll just trigger Counter Curaja for 9999.
Lastly it can MP Drain, siphoning away 1-2 hones. This is its least dangerous ability though, and doesn't come up often.
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That specific challenge seems to be a weird outlier, since even I was doing decent damage to them and I haven't played in like, literally two years.
But yeah chains are SUPER BUSTED. I did Kain's chain train and Lightning's AOSB after glinting and I about lost my damn mind.
Speaking on that note, when you haven't played for two years and get a sudden influx of relics, you end up having way, way, WAY too many characters to Legend Dive and not even close to enough motes
THIS IS MY NIGHTMARE LIST.
Partially 5* Dove:
Sora(Every SB except is Ice Glint)
Lightning(AOSB,USB,BSB2,LM,Glint, oh, and her old BSB and SSB)
Partially Dove:
Kain(CSB and BSB)
Riku(Everything except his LM)
Squall(AOSB, OSB, LM, missing his BSB2, but I'll grab that out of the choose your own BSB thing)
Rinoa(CSB, OSB, BSB2)
Cloud(Ultra, BSB2, BSB1, SSB, and his old unique's)
THE WAITING LIST:
Rosa(I somehow fell on her Ultra, her BSB, and her SSB, she's a must level now and she's only 50 WHOOPS)
Tifa(BSB and OSB)
Aerith(Ultra, BSB2, BSB1, SSB)
TG Cid(Still only have his OSB and BSB...and it's still worth it)
Sephiroth(BSB2 and BSB)
SEND HELP.....OR VITALITY MOTES....AND 5* MOTES......LOOK JUST SEND MOTES
I'm just used to bull-rushing through regular content, I have no idea of what strategy would work.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I'm kinda going that route right now. Yes, I know, dark orbs, but I want to level my magicite.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Those are two of the strongest selections, IMHO.
I'm bad at narrowing things down, basically.
I think damage varies between 100 and 103% of what is calculated?
Alternatively, do you have time for Raijin to cast Magic Break so it lands after Steal Magic and erases the boss's Magic buff?
lol
Yeah, it's "I have ice, but only ONE ice" vs "I have crap for fire period".
I have about enough to put a hone on Meltdown and Valia (R2 each! Woo!) so that'll help, generically speaking. Ayame would also be "ninja w/ SBs" #3, so that's y'know, good.
(Dupes are Squall AOSB BSB2 LMR Lightning USB BSB2 LMR Rinoa CSB BSB2 Kain BSB)
Yeah, but it's not a sub30.
I wanted the Kain Chain+Lightning have the AOSB to really jack that chain up at the end to have a shot at it.
I may yet still get it with what I have but I kinda doubt it, since neither Kain nor Aranea doublecast.
Oh dammit.
I'm leaning towards III but I'm hesitating til the end it seems. I've got Luneth at 99 with a SSB, so the OSB/BSB would at least give him something to do. And I have a few pieces for Arc, but a 0CT heal with pblink is also a heck of a package for a third place prize.
Edit: fuuuck I had Tiamat to 5% with zero sora doublecasts during burst. This is possible but god it sucks, just want a clear to say I did it at this point but farming is not happening until my ice game is far stronger.
and come next monday yuffie blows them both entirely out of the water
(her glint is instant 2 stacks of pblink and 5/10/15/20/30% boost to ninja abilities depending on the rank)
(her USB2 is 10 hits of water/non, enwater and self blink, and EX: midare sujin which chases water abilities with 4/6/8 ST water/non ranged physical hits based on pblink stacks)
basically once up and running she's capable of 22 enwater hits in a single turn
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Someone already managed to solo him with Rem.
Sure it is:
Edit: Oh, it might be in the OP. nevemrind
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Maybe a Garuda gets me over the top but I kinda doubt it. Or taking the S/Ling from using Eiko BSB only without USB as backup because she's not a strong enough healer to do it solo without it.