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Trajan45
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What is Final Fantasy Brave Exvius?
A mobile game for iOS and Android, produced in collaboration between Square Enix (Final Fantasy et al) and Gumi/Alim (responsible for Brave Frontier). The game’s story is based around a young knight named Rain and his friend and stepbrother Lasswell, who one day encounter a strange sight: a young girl trapped in a crystal. Following her words, they encounter the power of “Visions,” or the ability to summon warriors from other places and times to assist in battle.
Note to new or returning players
You can now make 7 star units with dupe 5 stars, and it means that you can spend even more resources failing to get OP units! Whooo!
I've played Brave Frontier and liked/hated it. How does this compare?
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is an expanded spin on Brave Frontier, with whom it shares some similarities. It's another gacha game, meaning you will earn in-game currency, coming in the form of Friend Points and Lapis, to summon new units on a seemingly unfair spreadsheet of hidden factors that emerge in the form of unique characters, and many familiar to the world of Final Fantasy. This game, though, adds the usual Final Fantasy elements of equipment and materia, giving a surprising depth to the gameplay as units can be mixed and matched with different abilities and stats boosted or modified.Each unit can equip up to 6 types of equipment and 4 materia, but each unit also has limitations and advantages to what they can equip and use.
You mentioned Final Fantasy characters? I love Final Fantasy!
FFBE has a wide variety of characters from Final Fantasy, with its own beefy roster of unique names original to FFBE. Characters from Final Fantasy 1 all the way to 15 and even outliers such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy Type-0 are represented. We have pretty much all major FFs represented at this point. Yay!
The roster of characters in game is a mishmash of various Final Fantasy games and units exclusive to FFBE, although most people care about the FF characters. As previously mentioned, characters are added to the gacha, usually alongside special events that tie into the game they're from (unless it's just more FFBE exclusives). Unlike other games of this type, the rarity isn't just in the higher rank of the unit, but also the characters themselves.
Further, different units are good at different things. Some are chainers, some straight damage or support, healers, and so forth. Good units often do a useful mix of those abilities.
Here's a link to a site that will update regularly as the global version gets more characters, and ranks the units by various categories to back up the reasoning for their position in the tier list. Unit Rankings
I'm new, and got a bunch of these characters out of my first 11-pull. Are any of these good? I love Shadow/Sabin/Penelo!
Unfortunately, your Shadow/Sabin/Penelo are some of the worst characters in the game. Yes, they are beloved Final Fantasy characters, but that doesn't exclude them from being King of the Trash Heap. Someone has to be, right? A lot of early characters are mainline Final Fantasy units, but by nature of power creep, they’ve been long overshadowed by new units. Different units are powerful or weak in different ways, and just because a unit is popular in their original Final Fantasy series doesn’t mean they will be useful in FFBE.
However, FFBE is unique in that many older units are perfectly viable. Good team composition and strategy can make mid-tier units very good, and sometimes spending a bit of time thinking through a tough fight can result in eeking out a well-deserved win. Many players are F2P (they spend no money) and have a good roster of units, or are otherwise able to tackle some of the hardest content in the game.
If you're just starting out and want to know who to look for, note that as we are 18 months into the game, the hardest content tends to require some fancy gear and "rainbow" base units. If you see a rainbow crystal, rejoice, for it will grant a 5* base unit, which range from useful to very powerful and can easily secure a spot on your team! Now, get 2 of them!
The state of the game:
Pull for 5 star units, as they have the best future, and most, when they get to 7 stars, will carry your team.
Helpful Links:
ExviusWiki: Best source for Global version information, with maps for exploration dungeons, quest guides, and unit details.
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Reddit: The reddit community for FFBE, containing info and updates for both the Japan and Global versions. Check here if you want to know what kind of stuff we'll get 5-6 months in advance since Japan gets it first. Also contains useful player-submitted guides, and has a Wiki which is up to date with the current state of Japan's game, so you can look ahead at unit enhancements and trust masteries, that sort of thing.
Friend ID List!:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HfEIPxz_tV42C8dhfSiuVsWJ_f2YQhXiNg5BwiuJCik/edit?usp=sharing
To find your friend ID in the game, tap Home in the upper right corner (on most screens), then the Menu icon in the upper right, then Player Info on the left. Your ID should look like this in your little character card: 123,456,789. This is also where you change your greeting, and rename your character if you like. Adding friends is the only way to use your "guest character" limit break in combat, and only your current party's Leader is shared to friends. Remember to set a Companion Party from the Options in the Main Menu! This way, you will always have a party set up with a specific character that will be shared to your friends, and you should never ever edit that party except to change the Leader if you want to change who you share.
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Event & New Units
An Eerie Invitation
Halloween KM Event (10/19 1:00 - 11/4 0:59 PDT)
New event units and old ones will be Bonus units!
Lilith 5★-7★ Job : Succubus Image
Magic tank
On demand AOE cover for phys/mag like Basch
Can chain with Lucius and Nyx (Kingsglaive)
Multi-hit counter
Lucius 5★-7★ Job : Incubus Image
Physical DW attacker
Dark/Fire element with self imbue
Octoslash and Aureole Ray chaining family
Also chains with Lilith and Nyx (Kingsglaive)
Multi-hit counter
Both these new Halloween units has multi-hit counters (counter chaining!?) and finally more chainers for Nyx/Yun!
There will be a Step-Up banner for the new Halloween units! 5-Step 20k limited to 3 per player.
Starting to get worried about the status of mah boi.
My brain wants the title to say something like "This is Halloween" or something similar because I love me some Halloween also love Nightmare Before Christmas. Not sure how to phrase it though.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HfEIPxz_tV42C8dhfSiuVsWJ_f2YQhXiNg5BwiuJCik/edit?usp=sharing
I moved anyone who listed 3,4, or 5* units to the "inactive" tab. So if you haven't updated in a while and don't see yourself in the list, you might have been moved there. I also moved people who listed 7* units up to the top. Hopefully that will help new people or people trying to fill out their lists to find the best characters.
If they follow JP, the VP will be our next Raid, then SOM is the Raid after that. So we would be looking at mid or late November for Randi.
Title petition: These Halloween units are an unique Ex-FEAR-ience.
If you're not otk'ing it, make sure all have a high atk break, single target the tentacles down, and yeah AoE phys and barwaterga or similar. Try to at least kill the last one from 50% +
Yeah, I'm gonna save for Xenogears. Valkyrie Profile was good and all, but not my favorite.
Though I'll also be saving for Chinese New year because I need me some 7* Ang and Good Boy.
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I have no doubt that SoM collab will be back at some point, I'm just curious what form it will take. SoM2 was never officially released outside of Japan, so I doubt they'd give us the SoM2 units. Randi is already well worth it, and Flammie should be there, too. I wonder if they'll come up with some GL exclusive SoM units to take the place of the SoM2 ones. A 5* Thanatos would be pretty cool.
They could make Dyluck and Thanatos the 5* bases. Or they could do Jema as a 5* base.
I was thinking how they could buff Randi's TMR ability to make it more enticing. Maybe make his LB unlock T-cast as well as giving him a 300% ATK boost would do it.
Yeah, my two big things are longer durations because two turn rotations don't cut it anymore, and an increase in his breaks, because 45% don't count it anymore.
Yeah I went in with a Tidus and Friend Tidus. I don't think I am going to OTK when all his attacks are immune haha. I'll have to play around with my team composition... Tornado Barbie is really good.
So I should bring Rikku? Hmm.
However, messed up on the second boss in the bonus and did not do fire lightning and missed the esper kill cuz i did a tornado from Rinoa and that pushed it down to zero when I wasn't expecting it but .. meh, I'm done with it.
The rest will depend on what they do for the units and what they have in a way of pulling. 3 5* units on a single banner with no decent step up is a hard pass. I have 1 D.Rain, but unless they give him Def as Attack moves and counters, he's just a flavor unit. Draco Lasswell seems like he'll be an Emperor Shera type in that he'll work well with Hyoh, but I don't have any so I'd need 2. Same for GL Sakura.
If the schedule falls in line with JP,
After VP, we'll probably get another story event (Elephim), then MK event (FF7 with Tifa/Vincent), then raid (SOM collab likely), then story event (Sieghard), then MK (FF TYPE-0) with Kurasame and his Fryevia drooling STMR. After that it's hard to say, Yuraisha came out with a Tomb Raider collab, so we could see a new collab or who knows. We'll be into December, and they may do the last 2 weeks for Christmas stuff. They could move the Xenogears collab up before Christmas, but I hope they don't so I can see if WKN is worth it first lol.
Hoard4Charlotte
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200% - 7* Lilith, Lucius, D. Rain, D. Lasswell, and GL Sakura
100% - 6* Lilith, Lucius, D. Rain, D. Lasswell, and GL Sakura
75% - I. Nichol and P. Jake
50% - Blackcat Lid
Which should give me 625% bonus (including 7* friend). I will be switching my friend unit to 7* GL Sakura ASAP - hopefully after maintenance on Thurs. I'm so glad that I ran her TMR through IW and got MAG and MP on it. Triple cast is going to be expensive!
edit: Random thought on VP. Why is Angrim's STMR a Lightning 2h GS when his sprite CLEARLY shows him wielding a 2h GS that is on FIRE?!?!
I know that would suck for those folks wanting Randi, but I don't think SoM has any events or items tied to it like last time so I'm not sure why they'd give us another shot at it except 7* Randi.