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[FFBE] Accumulate4Akstar 2019! Or maybe the next limited 7? Ah, let's do the trials!

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    That is a weird step up.

    I'm pretty spent though. Only 23K lapis left, and 33 tickets. With OK as a primary dude, I could really use Jensen's TMR, but on-banner rainbows are a myth, so...

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    I think of raids as a cheap way to get more fodder for the mixer.

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    I think of raids as a cheap way to get more fodder for the mixer.

    And the Mixer in JP does contain 7* upgrade prisms for limited units on a rotation. So, if you get a single Victor he could eventually be 7*

  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Aegis wrote: »
    30 tickets: CG Best Dad and Knight Delia #2. Decent, but no Jensen.

    *burns off 5 raid orbs, pulls again with free raid ticket*

    Lightning #4

    :D:D:D:D

    Omega Sword is awesome! Shame it was after this previous Item World though.

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  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    Cruor wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    I think of raids as a cheap way to get more fodder for the mixer.

    And the Mixer in JP does contain 7* upgrade prisms for limited units on a rotation. So, if you get a single Victor he could eventually be 7*

    No, you stop that right now

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    The Hanging Edge is a fucking grind. When did they add bonus mobs? Because this sucks.

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  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Edit: I'm a dumb and read mobs as units. Don't mind me.

    Yeah Gigantaurs show up once every like 12 runs it feels like

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    They are Gigantaurs.

  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    I finally managed to take down Omega (thanks for the friend unit @Cruor). The last bit that I needed was to switch out Mystea for Shylt so that I had break resists available, since my dps ended up dropping a lot once the Earthquake round happened. The only status that I needed to resist was confusion, and even then I only needed it on turn 1 since I had to use Zarglebargle to provoke the Recoil then, but he could use Arcadian Light on turns two and three. Lakshimi has a group confusion resist move, so I just assigned her to Shylt, and that covered what I needed. I also adjusted how I was using cover, since WoL and Mystea were getting in the way of each other in my previous attempts. I only ever had Shylt use group cover on the Wave Cannon turns, after which he would die and then get re-raised without the cover. I also took a slight gamble and made sure not to provoke the second Recoil, since having WoL die usually meant others would die since he would no longer cover after that. I was able to get everyone with Re-Raise on that turn, so Recoil ended up killing Fina, who re-raised, and then WoL tanked everything else. I probably could have used a Protagonist Halo to make sure someone other than WoL got hit, but I forgot to bring them. I was also fortunate that this run had my best luck for LB crystals and Esper orb generation, so I was able to get all missions done without issues.

    I'll leave up my Orlandeau for a while longer in case anyone else needs him, and since his current load-out is great for the raid boss.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Spent 15K lapis and didn't get anything. Wondering if I should blow the rest of my lapis to finish off this lap or continue to hoard for Randi... Decisions decisions..

  • DK_AzraelDK_Azrael Registered User regular
    I'm pretty sure I don't have the damage to get Omega done. I don't have 7* Orlandeau, and I feel like my best bet for a chainer is going to be Raegen, but the best I can do is 1133 atk with one machine killer. Even pulling the best 7* Orlandeau off my friends list, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to have the damage.

  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    hmmm tried Omega again this morning and had better luck. Must have been really tired last night. Still can't chain great but doing better.

    Big issue right now is figuring out Wilhelm. He has an innate 50% provoke and moogle plushie is only 30%. Think I'll just spend some NRG getting cactuars for Zarg and try him as the Judge Magister Cloak for the extra 20%.

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    Used my 40 tickets and got squat. Why do I have to like Deus Ex so much? Why does Jensen's TMR have to be one of those theoretical best in slot gotta catch 'em all materias?
    I have touched my Hyoh/Halloween lapis :(

    I've dropped below 11k now but it paid off because step #3 scored me a double rainbow.. Adam Jensen and Roy #3!
    So worth? I guess technically I'll bump up over 11k even if Gumi tries to fuck us and put Hyoh out next week or something... I'd just have to run the story event first.

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  • LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    20 tickets...

    I got Jake'd.....

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  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    hmmm tried Omega again this morning and had better luck. Must have been really tired last night. Still can't chain great but doing better.

    Big issue right now is figuring out Wilhelm. He has an innate 50% provoke and moogle plushie is only 30%. Think I'll just spend some NRG getting cactuars for Zarg and try him as the Judge Magister Cloak for the extra 20%.

    Doesnt the Yellow Ballon accessory have 20%?

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Reigner wrote: »
    Edit: I'm a dumb and read mobs as units. Don't mind me.

    Yeah Gigantaurs show up once every like 12 runs it feels like

    Been running it for three days with no gigantaurs. RNG hates me.

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  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    Reigner wrote: »
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    hmmm tried Omega again this morning and had better luck. Must have been really tired last night. Still can't chain great but doing better.

    Big issue right now is figuring out Wilhelm. He has an innate 50% provoke and moogle plushie is only 30%. Think I'll just spend some NRG getting cactuars for Zarg and try him as the Judge Magister Cloak for the extra 20%.

    Doesnt the Yellow Ballon accessory have 20%?

    Ah! it only has 15% unfortunately. I did end up beating it with all missions but the esper one. I ended up using @maraji Olive with my Olive. I guess if I can't chain anymore, might as well just brute force it. 2x Olive LB's are insane. I haven't even leveled mine up but 2x of them with a little DR dropped him from 80% to 30%.

    Probably could have dropped TGCid and used Garnet if I wanted the esper mission. Looking at the item though, not sure I care. If it was turn 1 50% Def/Spr break, it would be a no brainer. 99% of the time I use WD or Rikku's Pouch, it's for MK events or the arena and I'd need it turn 1. I guess for 10-man's it could be handy.

    Speaking of the arena. Might just skip it this week. No black magic and no ice...

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    Reigner wrote: »
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    hmmm tried Omega again this morning and had better luck. Must have been really tired last night. Still can't chain great but doing better.

    Big issue right now is figuring out Wilhelm. He has an innate 50% provoke and moogle plushie is only 30%. Think I'll just spend some NRG getting cactuars for Zarg and try him as the Judge Magister Cloak for the extra 20%.

    Doesnt the Yellow Ballon accessory have 20%?

    Yellow Balloon had a crazy time. When it was announced in whatever event loot it came in, it was shown as 15%. Then the data mine originally showed it as 20%. Then right at the end of maintenance they nerfed it back down to 15% again, where it remains.

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    I just want that dumb 70k Moogle. Then I can go do the new story stuff and decide if I want to spend some Lapis trying for Jensen's TMR. Earliest we'd get the next SoM raid is mid-September, but most likely Randi won't come until October/November, so I have time to build back up if need be.

    I'll probably mull that decision over until right before the banner ends after I throw the raid reward tickets at it.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Cruor wrote: »
    I just want that dumb 70k Moogle. Then I can go do the new story stuff and decide if I want to spend some Lapis trying for Jensen's TMR. Earliest we'd get the next SoM raid is mid-September, but most likely Randi won't come until October/November, so I have time to build back up if need be.

    I'll probably mull that decision over until right before the banner ends after I throw the raid reward tickets at it.

    Fuck me Randi is that close??

  • Trajan45Trajan45 Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Cruor wrote: »
    I just want that dumb 70k Moogle. Then I can go do the new story stuff and decide if I want to spend some Lapis trying for Jensen's TMR. Earliest we'd get the next SoM raid is mid-September, but most likely Randi won't come until October/November, so I have time to build back up if need be.

    I'll probably mull that decision over until right before the banner ends after I throw the raid reward tickets at it.

    Unless you really like Deus Ex, I'd hold off. TF29 Agent looks amazing at first glance but isn't really all that great in practice. First there are very few units that like dual wielding the weapon combo's on the TMR (Lightning and Onion Knight are the only ones that comes to mind). The 20% is pretty low and if we weren't capped at 300%, would only be around a 30% boost. So in 4-5 months when our cap moves to 400%, it'll be kind of useless.

    If OK or Lightning are your main units and will be for awhile, it might be worth it. Or if you want to have a BiS attack number on Orlandeau for a bit, it might be worth it. Otherwise, if there is a unit like Hyoh or Randi you are looking at, it's probably better to keep hoarding.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Cruor wrote: »
    I just want that dumb 70k Moogle. Then I can go do the new story stuff and decide if I want to spend some Lapis trying for Jensen's TMR. Earliest we'd get the next SoM raid is mid-September, but most likely Randi won't come until October/November, so I have time to build back up if need be.

    I'll probably mull that decision over until right before the banner ends after I throw the raid reward tickets at it.

    Unless you really like Deus Ex, I'd hold off. TF29 Agent looks amazing at first glance but isn't really all that great in practice. First there are very few units that like dual wielding the weapon combo's on the TMR (Lightning and Onion Knight are the only ones that comes to mind). The 20% is pretty low and if we weren't capped at 300%, would only be around a 30% boost. So in 4-5 months when our cap moves to 400%, it'll be kind of useless.

    If OK or Lightning are your main units and will be for awhile, it might be worth it. Or if you want to have a BiS attack number on Orlandeau for a bit, it might be worth it. Otherwise, if there is a unit like Hyoh or Randi you are looking at, it's probably better to keep hoarding.

    I wish I had read this before I spent 15K lapis this morning haha. I'm going to stop pulling because everything you've said makes sense.

  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    Hey so how much of the story do we have to complete to get the 50% moogle? Is it everything through Road to the Village of the Whyt?

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    Spent 15K lapis and didn't get anything. Wondering if I should blow the rest of my lapis to finish off this lap or continue to hoard for Randi... Decisions decisions..

    Reading your posts whenever you pull is painful. You seem to get an unending stream of shit dumped on you. I got it bad for a year or so, but I've been getting decent pulls for a while now (knock on wood). Do you get rainbows that you just don't mention? Because otherwise you're a statistic anomaly. Someone fucked up on the server side.

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  • CruorCruor Registered User regular
    Trajan45 wrote: »
    Cruor wrote: »
    I just want that dumb 70k Moogle. Then I can go do the new story stuff and decide if I want to spend some Lapis trying for Jensen's TMR. Earliest we'd get the next SoM raid is mid-September, but most likely Randi won't come until October/November, so I have time to build back up if need be.

    I'll probably mull that decision over until right before the banner ends after I throw the raid reward tickets at it.

    Unless you really like Deus Ex, I'd hold off. TF29 Agent looks amazing at first glance but isn't really all that great in practice. First there are very few units that like dual wielding the weapon combo's on the TMR (Lightning and Onion Knight are the only ones that comes to mind). The 20% is pretty low and if we weren't capped at 300%, would only be around a 30% boost. So in 4-5 months when our cap moves to 400%, it'll be kind of useless.

    If OK or Lightning are your main units and will be for awhile, it might be worth it. Or if you want to have a BiS attack number on Orlandeau for a bit, it might be worth it. Otherwise, if there is a unit like Hyoh or Randi you are looking at, it's probably better to keep hoarding.

    Yeah, gonna hoard more. I've never actually played a Deus Ex game. If I wanted to go hard it would be for Victor, since his sprite and kit interest me (I like large beefy tank characters, and being a tank and DEF scaling damage dealer interests me a lot) but I'd need to pull two of him on a split limited banner that doesn't guarantee Rainbows are on banner. Also, I can just save for Seighardt after dumping resources for Randi.

    Trajan45
  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    I decided to break my streak of not whaling. did 2 full step ups. ended up with in order of troll-ness:

    7th Vertatas of the Flame
    7th Lunera
    3x Viktors
    4th Olive.

    0 Jensens of course.

    Now to decide if i should go one more stepup to STMR Viktor. or actually get the jensen i wanted.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Spent 15K lapis and didn't get anything. Wondering if I should blow the rest of my lapis to finish off this lap or continue to hoard for Randi... Decisions decisions..

    Reading your posts whenever you pull is painful. You seem to get an unending stream of shit dumped on you. I got it bad for a year or so, but I've been getting decent pulls for a while now (knock on wood). Do you get rainbows that you just don't mention? Because otherwise you're a statistic anomaly. Someone fucked up on the server side.

    I can promise you that if I get a Rainbow I'll mention it here haha. I probably get a rainbow or two every quarter or so? It depends if I actually pull on those step ups with guaranteed rainbows.

  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    What the fuck? I have 39 people on my friend list. What happened?

    [edit] I removed two or three people just a few days ago. My friend list was full.

    [edit] Ah, no, it was a bug. Restarting the game repopulated my friend list.

    Weird. I guess using a friend unit made the game think it was permanently removed from my friend list?

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Spent 15K lapis and didn't get anything. Wondering if I should blow the rest of my lapis to finish off this lap or continue to hoard for Randi... Decisions decisions..

    Reading your posts whenever you pull is painful. You seem to get an unending stream of shit dumped on you. I got it bad for a year or so, but I've been getting decent pulls for a while now (knock on wood). Do you get rainbows that you just don't mention? Because otherwise you're a statistic anomaly. Someone fucked up on the server side.

    I can promise you that if I get a Rainbow I'll mention it here haha. I probably get a rainbow or two every quarter or so? It depends if I actually pull on those step ups with guaranteed rainbows.

    If you're using Nox, have you retried reinstalling it? Maybe the game uses like your Imei or whatever to generate the random numbers and for some reason you keep getting shitty rolls.

  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    My friend at work who plays has that kind of poor luck as well. If you take away the pulls with guaranteed 5*'s, I think he's at like 15-16 5k pulls in a row without a rainbow? It's really heartbreaking.
    He hasn't gotten a single rainbow from the 5% daily summon yet. He went for the Deus Ex banner and his tickets got him a rainbow... a Delita. It's so bad.

  • GriswoldGriswold that's rough, buddyRegistered User regular
    Welp

    Accidentally spent 100 lapis reviving when I wiped on the Phoenix 2* fight like a scrub, but on the bright side, I completed all the missions after wasting that lapis?

    I think I'm holding off on pulling on this banner. I'm trying to wait until I've got a shot at a 5* cover tank or healer base.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    TeaSpoon wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Spent 15K lapis and didn't get anything. Wondering if I should blow the rest of my lapis to finish off this lap or continue to hoard for Randi... Decisions decisions..

    Reading your posts whenever you pull is painful. You seem to get an unending stream of shit dumped on you. I got it bad for a year or so, but I've been getting decent pulls for a while now (knock on wood). Do you get rainbows that you just don't mention? Because otherwise you're a statistic anomaly. Someone fucked up on the server side.

    I can promise you that if I get a Rainbow I'll mention it here haha. I probably get a rainbow or two every quarter or so? It depends if I actually pull on those step ups with guaranteed rainbows.

    If you're using Nox, have you retried reinstalling it? Maybe the game uses like your Imei or whatever to generate the random numbers and for some reason you keep getting shitty rolls.

    Hmm I haven't reinstalled the game from my phone or Nox in a while. Hell it'd be worth a shot haha.

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    I think if there is a seed number its tied to your account, not your OS/installation. I've been playing FFBE, firstly on an android phone, then an iPhone, as well as Noxing for TM farming, and the units i keep getting dupe rainbows of tend to stay the same. (Currently have 7 of Lunera, VotF, and Rem. 6 Aces).

    My breakdown looks like this after playing since the game started: (Rainbows only):

    3 Rainbows I have 7 of each.
    1 Rainbow i have 6 of.
    3 Rainbows i have 5 of each.
    10 Rainbows i have 4 of each.
    12 Rainbows i have 3 of each.
    20 Rainbows i have 2 of each.
    14 Rainbows i have 1 of each.

    11 Rainbows i have zero of.
    11 Limited Rainbows i have zero of.

    Those 7 each outliers are just crazy statistically speaking. There has to be a seed buried in the game and I'm betting its tied by account.

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  • BlehBlehAmigaBlehBlehAmiga Registered User regular
    Not sure why, guess I was hoping I got lucky on the way but did one lap and got a Jensen out of it. Cool to have the TM around just in case I guess. Read a bit about Victor and figured I wasn't going to spend lapis anymore but would be neat to get him. 4* ticket -> Victor. Lucky, but of course now thought about his 7*. Decided to use a 70% blue ticket and got another, hah. Now I'm screwed if I try for Hyou I guess. I'll put him up for fun when I get his TM from the raid.

    Have Lila up for Antonella still. Friends list was screwy yesterday and never saw the ones I added who were set up for it, hope to give it a go tonight.

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    I think if there were some seed number that steered you toward specific units that would be pretty damning for the game and possibly against the law in Japan.

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Not really. all random number generators have a seed to go off of.

    In fact, and I'm pretty sure this is still true....no computer generated random number generator is ever 100% random. its impossible in programming without giving it something to work off of.

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  • ArtereisArtereis Registered User regular
    Whew. Did a full lap, only got Viktor as a rainbow. Started the second lap and got Jensen on the first pull. Now I need to decide if I want to bother to try and 7* either of them.

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  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    So, tried Omega again using @Tiphares Orlandeau, and I can’t chain either. Lost at the transition from round 9 to round 10 when he auto attacked my DPS down. He was at 3%

    I’ll try again when I get another good friend unit up. Otherwise it’s Olive Garden for me

  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    So who didnt learn their lesson? Who now has a second Jenson and first Victor after a second lap? Whos the asshole thats probably gonna end up spending money for that third lap?

    Me...the answer is me

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  • JakarrdJakarrd In the belly of OklahomaRegistered User regular
    I wish my olive was 7* but she's only 6. Still gonna take her and an olive friend in for unending breadsticks. We'll see how well it goes.

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