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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Alright, Terra is leveled and everything except Ultima enhanced to max. Will need to start working on some MAG equipment and materia next.

    You can leave Ultima alone, oddly enhancing it makes it a bit worse. At least as is it can be used to finish and get the 'kill with magic' missions. Enhanced it becomes more of a chaining skill.

    Did you get the free Omni-rod from the last raid? You can get a lot of decent starter equipment with Star Quartz. You could dual wield that with the staff of blizzards (2 raids ago) or Rod of Judgment (bought with star quartz). Earrings are a good starter accessory that can be bought with star quartz. Siren's Robe is still top 5 and you should have gotten it from Beasts of the Dark. Cat-ear Hood is another SQ purchase that has good Mag for a hat.

    Yeah, I currently have her dual wielding (just this saturday I moogle'd a Zidane for my second Dual Wield) the free Omnirod and the Wizard Rod you get from one of the early bosses. Rest of the equipment is Siren's Robe, Chapeau, Magical Scrunchie, and a Monarch's Ring. I'll look into those quartz things - I'm still at the end of Zoldaad, so I might not have reached them yet, but I haven't really explored to look for the fat chocobo in most places. Materias are 2 x +20% mag, Dual Wield, and Rod Mastery. Basically all of my best MAG stuff (except Emil's head, which Terra can't equip). I manage to hit 802 Mag by putting all my mag stuff on her like this. Which should be decent, if not necessarily stellar?

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  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Drascin wrote: »
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Drascin wrote: »
    Alright, Terra is leveled and everything except Ultima enhanced to max. Will need to start working on some MAG equipment and materia next.

    You can leave Ultima alone, oddly enhancing it makes it a bit worse. At least as is it can be used to finish and get the 'kill with magic' missions. Enhanced it becomes more of a chaining skill.

    Did you get the free Omni-rod from the last raid? You can get a lot of decent starter equipment with Star Quartz. You could dual wield that with the staff of blizzards (2 raids ago) or Rod of Judgment (bought with star quartz). Earrings are a good starter accessory that can be bought with star quartz. Siren's Robe is still top 5 and you should have gotten it from Beasts of the Dark. Cat-ear Hood is another SQ purchase that has good Mag for a hat.

    Yeah, I currently have her dual wielding (just this saturday I moogle'd a Zidane for my second Dual Wield) the free Omnirod and the Wizard Rod you get from one of the early bosses. Rest of the equipment is Siren's Robe, Chapeau, Magical Scrunchie, and a Monarch's Ring. I'll look into those quartz things - I'm still at the end of Zoldaad, so I might not have reached them yet, but I haven't really explored to look for the fat chocobo in most places. Materias are 2 x +20% mag, Dual Wield, and Rod Mastery. Basically all of my best MAG stuff (except Emil's head, which Terra can't equip). I manage to hit 802 Mag by putting all my mag stuff on her like this. Which should be decent, if not necessarily stellar?

    Yeah the Cat ear hood is in Sorcerer's Hideaway so 2 story sections away if I remember. Earrings are basically the same thing as Magical Scrunchie, so 20% Mag. They are in Town of Kolts and cost 50 SQ.

    The next trial, The Lure of Echidna has a Mag+30% but it's part of the 'kill with esper' mission which sucks.

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  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    For those following JP, did CG Hyoh come out as a 7* or was he released 6* then got the 7* treatment? Looks like he can max TDH with 7* using his own TMR.
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    I just hate that a TMR, that is now part of the GL TDH BiS meta, is on a limited time unit. I hate it more than I can put into words. I figure if his 7* isn't too far off from release I'll just deal with it, since I can make up for it with his TMR. I've used the remaining 15K lapis I had (after WD banner pulls) and every ticket I've had chasing ExAileen and I'm not going down the slippery slope that is paying to pull a unit.

    I'm probably missing something when I look at his stats, but it seems like he has a built in 100% TDH (+25% accuracy) in equipping his own TMR, yes, but it's no different than Cloud having an inherent 100% TDH as part of his 6* kit. You'd still need a Buster Style + 2 Marshal Gloves/1 glove 1 E.Aileen to cap the 300%.

    When I read your first quote, I thought you meant that he could hit 300% TDH all by himself, no outside TMR help, but that doesn't look like the case unless I'm really not seeing something.

    Hyou was the 4th banner 7* after Squall/Rinoa, when 7* units were first released. It went:
    - Squall/Rinoa + bunch of pre-existing 6*s getting upgraded.
    - Dragon Quest Collab, with Estark and Marquis de Leon being 7* capable, and previous Dragonlord getting a 7* upgrade - we're probably never getting this.
    - FFXI with Angry Shantotto and Shadowlord being 7* capable
    - CG Hyou banner. Hyou should already be 7* capable from the get-go.

    Yeah, that's why I was asking about time from release to 7*, once a 7* he'll get 100% in built, so I don't need her TMR. Doesn't seem to bad, so I'm giving up on ExAileen.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Jesus, fuck this Leviathan fight. He's casting Sealing Foam and Bubbles of Rage every single turn. He's down to 16% but I've already used 100 lapis on this bullshit.

  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Awesome! Wiped at 1% so I have to waste yet another fucking 100 lapis. Fuck you with a rusty spike Gumi, you fuckers.

  • TipharesTiphares Registered User regular
    It is a no-joke esper fight. It took me 4 tries to get him down.

  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    Threw a ticket at the Batch 3 banner, blue to gold to D.Fina #3. One more for her STMR I guess.

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  • CiriraCirira IowaRegistered User regular
    I blew all of my tickets and did like 3 lapis pulls on the IWD Support banner. Came out with a single Lunera (it was like 50 regular tickets and 6 4* tickets).

    Kind of regret it, but pulling is the fun part of the game for me so oh well!

    I was hoping for a dupe of Ayaka or a Veritas of the Light, anything would've been fine except for another Queen.

    I guess now I save for 7*s or something? Sephiroth and FF7 were never really my game, and my understanding is that Yuna and Lulu aren't that great (and should be the next event barring an Easter event).

  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Yuna's sort of a weird jack of all trades kind of character, she has some support with water/fire/thunder/ice elemental coverage, she has some healer with curaga and re-raise; she has some summoner with a skill to fill the ES gauge and summon any esper, and some finisher, with a hybrid mag/spr skill for 2000/2250% and can be boosted by EVO magic. Her LB isn't bad with a maxed 124% Def/Spr boost, heal, regen, and raise. Unfortunately like all jack of all trades, she's not really good at any one thing, which means there are usually better options. She doesn't even get dual cast till 7*. For a 5* base, she's pretty bad.

    Lulu is better in that she's one of the first with Flood (water version of quake or tornado), though it lowers thunder resistance which is weird. She has 4 of the -ja spells, so if you need some elemental magic flexibility she's decent. That's all she does though.

    I wish they'd do a better job with the past game FF characters, as that banner will be a hard pass.

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    7* Lulu is kind of neat. Gains Tornado and Waterja+ (which seems to be Waterja that starts off a 120% instead of 200% but caps at 1200% instead of 600%). Waterga, Waterja, & Flood gain +300% to their base modifier while Waterja+ gains +400%. Her Cooldown skill is a weird 1500% single target 3 hit fire magic attack that ignores 25% SPR, fills her LB by 8 crystals, and imperils water by -100% (for the Waterja+ spam).

    And then at max level she gains +50% MAG from equipment both when TDHing and also when Dual-wielding.

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  • TipharesTiphares Registered User regular
    I burned the rest of my raid coins last night to get more cactuars to take advantage of the increased Great and Awesome success rates. No moogles, but got a 4* ticket, which was nice. I probably would have awakened more units but I'm about out of materials for the first time in a long time. Good thing I won't be pulling any new units for a while so I can restock.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Yeah I'm out of 6* awakening materials too. It sucks!

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    Yeah I'm out of 6* awakening materials too. It sucks!

    Always buy out the cheaper 6* mats whenever there is a king mog event. costs about 4800 currency to get 30 of a material, but its definately worth stockpiling even if you dont have anything to spend it on at the time. I did this for a few events and now i sit at about 100 of each 6* material in my inventory, only buying more when i dip below that number.

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  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    Same. Ill always buy out the cheap mats below 100. Rainbow blooms are starting to get scarce though. Seems like every unit always need 20 of those to awaken

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    Oof I have like 160+ of every 6* material...

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    I hover around 250-300 of the 6* mats now, though I haven't bought any from the MK in a while. Between raid rewards and expedition returns that seems to keep my stock filled.

    Well, that and not pulling units worthy of awakening for months now.

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  • TipharesTiphares Registered User regular
    Yeah, I normally keep my stock around 200 of each, but rainbow blooms are used by everyone!

  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Tiphares wrote: »
    I burned the rest of my raid coins last night to get more cactuars to take advantage of the increased Great and Awesome success rates. No moogles, but got a 4* ticket, which was nice. I probably would have awakened more units but I'm about out of materials for the first time in a long time. Good thing I won't be pulling any new units for a while so I can restock.

    Wait did the increased rates end before maintenance?

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  • TipharesTiphares Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Tiphares wrote: »
    I burned the rest of my raid coins last night to get more cactuars to take advantage of the increased Great and Awesome success rates. No moogles, but got a 4* ticket, which was nice. I probably would have awakened more units but I'm about out of materials for the first time in a long time. Good thing I won't be pulling any new units for a while so I can restock.

    Wait did the increased rates end before maintenance?
    They end after maintenance today, so basically they ended last night. No more increased success on unit enhancing or bonus units from FP summons. Half NRG cost story mode runs until the end of the month, though.

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  • CiriraCirira IowaRegistered User regular
    I burned 300,000 raid coins and all of my Free Points last night before maintenance. Took me to like 1200 units.

    It broke down to like 260 Gil Turtles which sold for like 4million gil, I got 4 or 5 100% moogles for most of the Tomb Raider banner, 7% in regular moogles (7 1% moogles), and 1 4* ticket.

    A ton of cactuar that I used to level some dupe 5* units for expeditions as well. Only 1 Skaha out of all of that.

    Tiphares
  • TipharesTiphares Registered User regular
    Could someone post when the game is available again? I have to leave my phone in my car so I can't tell when it's up. Thanks!

  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Tiphares wrote: »
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Tiphares wrote: »
    I burned the rest of my raid coins last night to get more cactuars to take advantage of the increased Great and Awesome success rates. No moogles, but got a 4* ticket, which was nice. I probably would have awakened more units but I'm about out of materials for the first time in a long time. Good thing I won't be pulling any new units for a while so I can restock.

    Wait did the increased rates end before maintenance?
    They end after maintenance today, so basically they ended last night. No more increased success on unit enhancing or bonus units from FP summons. Half NRG cost story mode runs until the end of the month, though.

    Ugh, I hate having to keep track of when something flips over or not. Enhancements are right after maintenance. But banners, arena, expeditions, and pretty much everything else is Friday morning. Just keep it to one fucking day GUMI, not all of us want have to drop appointments on a calendar to keep track of all this shit.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    azith28 wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Yeah I'm out of 6* awakening materials too. It sucks!

    Always buy out the cheaper 6* mats whenever there is a king mog event. costs about 4800 currency to get 30 of a material, but its definately worth stockpiling even if you dont have anything to spend it on at the time. I did this for a few events and now i sit at about 100 of each 6* material in my inventory, only buying more when i dip below that number.

    Yeah I started with around 100 or so of each, but between two raids in a row and my lucky streak of ~8 rainbows I'm tapped out now.

  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    Tiphares wrote: »
    Could someone post when the game is available again? I have to leave my phone in my car so I can't tell when it's up. Thanks!

    @Tiphares
    Looks like it's up; game is downloading for me.

    Tiphares
  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Tiphares wrote: »
    Could someone post when the game is available again? I have to leave my phone in my car so I can't tell when it's up. Thanks!

    Can you explain how you are going to play the game once its available if you dont have your phone with you? Cause I'm thinking your a witch.

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  • TipharesTiphares Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    Lorek wrote: »
    Tiphares wrote: »
    Could someone post when the game is available again? I have to leave my phone in my car so I can't tell when it's up. Thanks!

    @Tiphares
    Looks like it's up; game is downloading for me.
    Thanks! I usually try to watch the FB page, but they usually update 10-15 minutes after the servers are up.

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    I'm raising a stable of units that I will never consider using now, due to the raid and the bonus enhancement thingy. I've got king cactuars sitting in my mailbox. Kind of sad that the only real use for these things now is a juicy rainbow.

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  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    Lorek wrote: »
    Tiphares wrote: »
    Could someone post when the game is available again? I have to leave my phone in my car so I can't tell when it's up. Thanks!

    @Tiphares
    Looks like it's up; game is downloading for me.

    Not up for me yet. Didn’t they say a few patches ago that they were going to allow logins in phases to avoid the congestion after maintenance?

    *edit
    10 minutes later and I’m downloading

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    EggyToast wrote: »
    I'm raising a stable of units that I will never consider using now, due to the raid and the bonus enhancement thingy. I've got king cactuars sitting in my mailbox. Kind of sad that the only real use for these things now is a juicy rainbow.

    Yeah I started just leveling a bunch of units I'd never used before just to hopefully make my Expeditions easier.

    maraji
  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Hum. Looking at Kunshira's skills, I'm thinking she looks a lot like a freyvia. is that right? how is she in JP?

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  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    So the raffle, 5 NRG, 1 fight, a Golden Bomb that blows itself up as its preemptive attack and gives you 300 Lapis.

    Congrats everyone! Though admittedly I have zero clue what email it will you to contact people if they win? The one attached to the Facebook Account the game is attached to I assume?

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    So...the raffle is one entry per day or do you only get one?

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  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    Explain to me why I shouldn’t regret using some friend points last week

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    Used my first celebration ticket. Got Fang and Gilbert.

    Thanks, I guess?

    All kidding aside, the free 5% (at least!) moogle each day will be very nice.

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  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    azith28 wrote: »
    Hum. Looking at Kunshira's skills, I'm thinking she looks a lot like a freyvia. is that right? how is she in JP?

    Low modifier on the chain skills though. But she gets more than one element and some killers so maybe on par or better depending on the fight? I don’t know the frames or JP usage

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  • ZomroZomro Registered User regular
    azith28 wrote: »
    So...the raffle is one entry per day or do you only get one?

    Says you only get one entry, so just clear it once. Which is good, cause I'd rather not have a bunch of bots Lapis refreshing runs in order to ruin everyone's chances.

    One person is going to get 1 million Lapis. It won't be me, but I can still dream abouy it.

    Bucketman
  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    Kunshira also gets innate sword/rod DW, and gets ATK/MAG boosts from wielding each. She may be better to build as an actual Hybrid like VoTL, as opposed to straight MAG like Fryevia. This is just speculation, however, I haven't really seen much talk about her.

  • DK_AzraelDK_Azrael Registered User regular
    Got Prompto from my Celebration ticket, so... free tmr I guess, unless he's actually good for something.

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    DK_Azrael wrote: »
    Got Prompto from my Celebration ticket, so... free tmr I guess, unless he's actually good for something.

    Hes actually a pretty good chainer if you can ignore the fact that you basically have harvey Weinsteen taking glamour shots of your waifu's after every fight.

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    maraji wrote: »
    Explain to me why I shouldn’t regret using some friend points last week

    The friends point banner is still up today for some reason. you probably should regret it at least a bit since it gives cactaurs and gill snappers. at the very least you could have sold everything you pulled and came out ahead.
    edit: nm, i didnt know about the 3* moogles starting tomorrow. dunno if thats better really since 3* TM's tend to be below average and just use up space in my inventory.

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