does anyone know how Ashe USB interacts with her BSB commands? The USB gives a chase that procs based on the rank of the following black magic spells, but I don't know what "rank" her bsb command1 is considered
does anyone know how Ashe USB interacts with her BSB commands? The USB gives a chase that procs based on the rank of the following black magic spells, but I don't know what "rank" her bsb command1 is considered
I think BSB commands are considered to be rank 1 for stuff like this.
does anyone know how Ashe USB interacts with her BSB commands? The USB gives a chase that procs based on the rank of the following black magic spells, but I don't know what "rank" her bsb command1 is considered
I’m actually not sure, since I don’t think TG Cid’s BSB interacts with the ability double on his Ultra.
does anyone know how Ashe USB interacts with her BSB commands? The USB gives a chase that procs based on the rank of the following black magic spells, but I don't know what "rank" her bsb command1 is considered
I’m actually not sure, since I don’t think TG Cid’s BSB interacts with the ability double on his Ultra.
Which is horseshit, by the way.
Is really a shame. It'd be fun if Ability Double could be used to dualcast stuff like Maria's Break.
does anyone know how Ashe USB interacts with her BSB commands? The USB gives a chase that procs based on the rank of the following black magic spells, but I don't know what "rank" her bsb command1 is considered
I think BSB commands are considered to be rank 1 for stuff like this.
I did the 8-pull this morning and got Rydia's Guise, DK Cecil's SSB, Zell's SSB, Elena's SSB, two Gogo relics, and a couple of other things. Am I doing this right? :P
i'm planning out my first Bismarck clear and trying to decide between running Desch or Ashe as my main damage dealer - both have their USB and BSB handy. Ashe seems to have the superior USB (infusion + chase) but Desch looks like he has a better BSB (self-buffs on cmd2). I don't have the orbs to hone chain thundaga to rank3 yet, so I can either run Ashe and go USB > Chain Thundaga spam x4 > BSB or run Desch and likely skip USB to get straight to BSB spam. Ashe probably wins out here, right?
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does anyone know how Ashe USB interacts with her BSB commands? The USB gives a chase that procs based on the rank of the following black magic spells, but I don't know what "rank" her bsb command1 is considered
I’m actually not sure, since I don’t think TG Cid’s BSB interacts with the ability double on his Ultra.
Which is horseshit, by the way.
None of the Ability Doubles work on BSB commands, because they all require two available uses. Vivi is the same way.
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A neat little thing about bismarck seems to be that he does enough regular AoE damage to fuel my healer SB's almost without entrusting them at all, which is awesome
The last 15sec of the fight was Aphmau hitting USB six times in a row
As in, the physical/magical Elemental split. That they seem keen on enforcing with Gen 2 chain's.
Does anyone prefer one over the other? What happens when they inevitably go "Oh, sorry, you need a MAGICAL Lightning team for this fight not a physical!"?
I lean towards whatever works/I have myself, but I find myself leaning towards physical, mostly because only two protagonists are actually Magical, so there's a pretty decent physical skew as far as relics go.
On that note, my sub-30 4*:
Fire: magical
Ice: mixed, but only because of chain, and basically physical
Wind: physical
Earth: physical
Water: physical
Dark: physical
My lightning is trending magic and my holy is "I have no fucking idea"
I made about three drafts hemming and hawing about pulling on this banner before it expires
Did lots of research.
Found out the FFV banners this October are bangers, even if they get mutilated(Gilgamesh USB and Chain appearing on banner 2 might get gouged but I doubt it, and it appears on a banner with Bartz relics. They might have removed Bartz from Banner 2 to make that banner more tantalizing maybe? I don't know). Banner 1 is awesome Krile stuff for Fire mages along with Bartz stuff as well. So either way Bartz will probably be on at LEAST one of those. And if not Gilgamesh stays, so a win win.
Long story short decided to blow possibly 3 of my Banner 3 pulls now and just hope I get lucky.
1st Pull:
1/11, 1 Disco
Elarra USB.
Whelp that's a best case scenario I'm SUPER DONE GOODBYE BANNER ONE.(My last three pulls on that banner netted me 1/11 Elarra Materia, 1/11 Elarra BSB, 1/11 Elarra USB).
Team of Rem, Raines, Alphinaud, Porom, and Mog. it was a slowish affair, with me using Deploymenr Tactics to hit Diamond with recoil damage, and opening the core whenever I came around to it. This meant a lot of low damage turns and overhealing. Alphy pulled double duty as Summoner (Madeen) and White Mage (Ultra Cure).
Far easier than Emerald Weapon; if you have the tools, it's simple. Emerald was a nightmare even with the right tools.
On that note, my sub-30 4*:
Fire: magical
Ice: mixed, but only because of chain, and basically physical
Wind: physical
Earth: physical
Water: physical
Dark: physical
My lightning is trending magic and my holy is "I have no fucking idea"
my holy team is in exactly the same place (but probably a lot less buff than yours)
i have all these awesome holy tools - a full SB kit for firion and curilla, ceodore usb, raines bsb shenanigans, a freshly pulled orlandeau USB from Banner 1 last night (!!!!!), edward bsb for the boostga + holy imperil, tons of +holy elemental gear
and yet i can't seem to put together a cohesive team with all those fun toys! they always feel like too much utility and not enough damage
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What are you trying to do that you can’t solo with cid usb?
Tried 100-gems on this one, got a 3-star. This is a good reminded of why I stopped doing regular 100-gem pulls. Porom USB was an amazing get, but it's not typical luck.
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
Three pulls Locke usb lmr
Greg lmr
Terra BSB 2
Vivi BSB times two.
And I’m out of mythril until the next fest. Technically I got five chains sadly all Seifer. And his stupid sword doesn’t even have dark boost. Sigh.
As in, the physical/magical Elemental split. That they seem keen on enforcing with Gen 2 chain's.
Does anyone prefer one over the other? What happens when they inevitably go "Oh, sorry, you need a MAGICAL Lightning team for this fight not a physical!"?
I lean towards whatever works/I have myself, but I find myself leaning towards physical, mostly because only two protagonists are actually Magical, so there's a pretty decent physical skew as far as relics go.
We already know this is coming, it's called 5* magicite. There are two fights for each element: one of them hoses physical teams, the other hoses magical teams. So you'll probably want to work on getting both physical and magical hitters for every element. :X This is a big reason that real multi-elemental hitters, like Bartz, Sora, Orlandu, Vivi, and Palom are so good, if you hit their key items you can field them successfully in multiple teams. Whereas people like Tidus or Riku can only ever do one thing.
What are you trying to do that you can’t solo with cid usb?
I pulled it yesterday so I haven't really given much thought to an ideal pairing
Which hones are ideal for use alongside it? I would assume that 5-hit knight ability
You assume correctly
Pair with hisLM2(If you have it/do the gem pull) for ridiculous results.
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Fest banner-2 100 gems: 3* blah
Data for posterity:
6 misses in a row
36/284 lifetime
3/29 this batch
14/95 2nd batch (about on EV for this batch.)
9/65 1st batch (0.1 items below EV, which is pretty much exactly expected return, though quite a few duds even on my hits)
Note to self: No whining, Rikku USB, never forget. Also Cloud BSB2, Mustadio USB, Water Chain (dupe), Seymour Chain, Basch USB, Nine USB, Sephiroth USB, Pecil USB1.
Actually, either way, he miight be worth a Dive if you can set up a reliable Trance activation. A quick chain activation followed by Trance-fueled attacks with the LMR aura would do some nice damage.
Terra was worth a dive to me when all I had was Fire Beam. BSB2 + AOSB is a much more worthy setup.
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I think BSB commands are considered to be rank 1 for stuff like this.
I’m actually not sure, since I don’t think TG Cid’s BSB interacts with the ability double on his Ultra.
Which is horseshit, by the way.
Is really a shame. It'd be fun if Ability Double could be used to dualcast stuff like Maria's Break.
Looks to be the case.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/8avcsj/question_about_ashes_usbbsb/dx1ur3m/
this one right?
i'm planning out my first Bismarck clear and trying to decide between running Desch or Ashe as my main damage dealer - both have their USB and BSB handy. Ashe seems to have the superior USB (infusion + chase) but Desch looks like he has a better BSB (self-buffs on cmd2). I don't have the orbs to hone chain thundaga to rank3 yet, so I can either run Ashe and go USB > Chain Thundaga spam x4 > BSB or run Desch and likely skip USB to get straight to BSB spam. Ashe probably wins out here, right?
None of the Ability Doubles work on BSB commands, because they all require two available uses. Vivi is the same way.
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I didn't know this
I've been meaning to dive one or both of them for a while but I'm really good at procrastinating legend dives.
will try Desch tomorrow and we'll see what happens with that!
but i'm going to rate elarra's usb at patently ridiculous.
i don't know that she even needs her legend dive because jesus this is too much healing.
The last 15sec of the fight was Aphmau hitting USB six times in a row
No you do it because it means even MORE HEALING.
As in, the physical/magical Elemental split. That they seem keen on enforcing with Gen 2 chain's.
Does anyone prefer one over the other? What happens when they inevitably go "Oh, sorry, you need a MAGICAL Lightning team for this fight not a physical!"?
I lean towards whatever works/I have myself, but I find myself leaning towards physical, mostly because only two protagonists are actually Magical, so there's a pretty decent physical skew as far as relics go.
Fire: physical
Ice: magic
Wind: physical
Earth: physical
Lit: physical
Water: mixed
Holy: physical
Dark: magic, then sub-30ed with physical
So I guess physical.
Fire - physical
Ice - magical
Wind - physical
Earth - physical
Lightning - mixed
Water - physical
Holy - mixed
Dark - physical
I could probably do magical for lightning and holy, but that's just speculation.
Also there's only five schools of magic, really (black, white, summon, ninja, darkness), while there's TONS of physical schools.
Fire: magical
Ice: mixed, but only because of chain, and basically physical
Wind: physical
Earth: physical
Water: physical
Dark: physical
My lightning is trending magic and my holy is "I have no fucking idea"
Did lots of research.
Found out the FFV banners this October are bangers, even if they get mutilated(Gilgamesh USB and Chain appearing on banner 2 might get gouged but I doubt it, and it appears on a banner with Bartz relics. They might have removed Bartz from Banner 2 to make that banner more tantalizing maybe? I don't know). Banner 1 is awesome Krile stuff for Fire mages along with Bartz stuff as well. So either way Bartz will probably be on at LEAST one of those. And if not Gilgamesh stays, so a win win.
Long story short decided to blow possibly 3 of my Banner 3 pulls now and just hope I get lucky.
1st Pull:
1/11, 1 Disco
Elarra USB.
Whelp that's a best case scenario I'm SUPER DONE GOODBYE BANNER ONE.(My last three pulls on that banner netted me 1/11 Elarra Materia, 1/11 Elarra BSB, 1/11 Elarra USB).
Team of Rem, Raines, Alphinaud, Porom, and Mog. it was a slowish affair, with me using Deploymenr Tactics to hit Diamond with recoil damage, and opening the core whenever I came around to it. This meant a lot of low damage turns and overhealing. Alphy pulled double duty as Summoner (Madeen) and White Mage (Ultra Cure).
Far easier than Emerald Weapon; if you have the tools, it's simple. Emerald was a nightmare even with the right tools.
my holy team is in exactly the same place (but probably a lot less buff than yours)
i have all these awesome holy tools - a full SB kit for firion and curilla, ceodore usb, raines bsb shenanigans, a freshly pulled orlandeau USB from Banner 1 last night (!!!!!), edward bsb for the boostga + holy imperil, tons of +holy elemental gear
and yet i can't seem to put together a cohesive team with all those fun toys! they always feel like too much utility and not enough damage
38thDoE on steam
1/11: Locke BSB2 (dupe)
Well, poop.
Greg lmr
Terra BSB 2
Vivi BSB times two.
And I’m out of mythril until the next fest. Technically I got five chains sadly all Seifer. And his stupid sword doesn’t even have dark boost. Sigh.
38thDoE on steam
I pulled it yesterday so I haven't really given much thought to an ideal pairing
Which hones are ideal for use alongside it? I would assume that 5-hit knight ability
We already know this is coming, it's called 5* magicite. There are two fights for each element: one of them hoses physical teams, the other hoses magical teams. So you'll probably want to work on getting both physical and magical hitters for every element. :X This is a big reason that real multi-elemental hitters, like Bartz, Sora, Orlandu, Vivi, and Palom are so good, if you hit their key items you can field them successfully in multiple teams. Whereas people like Tidus or Riku can only ever do one thing.
Locke LMR is a good time, in my experience.
You assume correctly
Pair with hisLM2(If you have it/do the gem pull) for ridiculous results.
Data for posterity:
36/284 lifetime
3/29 this batch
14/95 2nd batch (about on EV for this batch.)
9/65 1st batch (0.1 items below EV, which is pretty much exactly expected return, though quite a few duds even on my hits)
Note to self: No whining, Rikku USB, never forget. Also Cloud BSB2, Mustadio USB, Water Chain (dupe), Seymour Chain, Basch USB, Nine USB, Sephiroth USB, Pecil USB1.
Terra LMR? Okay, sure!
38thDoE on steam
Actually, either way, he miight be worth a Dive if you can set up a reliable Trance activation. A quick chain activation followed by Trance-fueled attacks with the LMR aura would do some nice damage.
Terra was worth a dive to me when all I had was Fire Beam. BSB2 + AOSB is a much more worthy setup.
I'd say yes, though I'm a bit biased.