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[FFRK] One does not simply gacha into Mordor. (LOTR starts 3/8).

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Chocoshop Wednesday reminder.

    Also we got an apology mythril for the Bahamut scheduling snafu.

    And reminder that the XIV event is scheduled to start today, not tomorrow.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Heh. I don't think I'll even have a choice on the black friday lucky - not going to be back to 50 by Friday.

  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    The record dungeon update helped up my mythril count, and with the mythril from the XIV event I should be able to afford a pull here and maybe the Black Friday draw, depending on what exactly is going on with that.

    On the other hand, water chain next week so maybe I should save a pull and try there instead.

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  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I mean I already have Rikku's Chain, Yuna's Healer USB and Tidus USB+AOSB combo. But fuck I want Waifu BUSB just to have more Tidus in my life. And I need a new Blitzball for Wakka.

    lionheart_m on
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  • FryFry Registered User regular
    Someone mentioned earlier getting a group together to do the Omega multiplayer. Now that I have a non-garbage phone, I can actually contribute to multiplayer. LMK if someone picks a time to do MP, I have lots of availability over the holiday.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Oh they want 50 for no 6*s? That’s a hard sell for me.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Every time you think about spending Mythril, consider this:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/9z1qr4/torment_ultima_weapon_5_offrealm_sub30_wind_team/

    This is Cloud USB1 breaks the game all over.

    I'm glad though, because unlike original Torments, I don't see as much of the player base breaking in to these.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    And yet cloud 1 is actually pretty pedestrian and has been for a while outside of rw usage, even in its heyday with omega rush. The treadmill never ends.

    I just want an ice chain, lol.

    Knight_ on
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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Pinning my progress on possibly getting the new hotness in 6 months is great, but like Cloud USB1 there's always the possibility that I'll never actually get the it either.

    I'll just spend/save when I feel like it I guess.

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  • 38thDoe38thDoe lets never be stupid again wait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
    You'll get them eventually. They go into the new Realms on parade!
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Oh they want 50 for no 6*s? That’s a hard sell for me.

    The thread title says lucky. Is it full price?

  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    38thDoe wrote: »
    You'll get them eventually. They go into the new Realms on parade!
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Oh they want 50 for no 6*s? That’s a hard sell for me.

    The thread title says lucky. Is it full price?

    I am not sure.

  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Every time you think about spending Mythril, consider this:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/9z1qr4/torment_ultima_weapon_5_offrealm_sub30_wind_team/

    This is Cloud USB1 breaks the game all over.

    I'm glad though, because unlike original Torments, I don't see as much of the player base breaking in to these.

    The video in that thread is disgusting.

    Fry
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    38thDoe wrote: »
    You'll get them eventually. They go into the new Realms on parade!
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Oh they want 50 for no 6*s? That’s a hard sell for me.

    The thread title says lucky. Is it full price?

    I am not sure.

    Last two years it was full price.

  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    The MVP newsletter called this a Black Friday Special/Black Friday Relic Draw, just like last year.

    I still suspect it might be curated but I guess we'll find out on Friday.

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  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    Well, looks like Larsa just took over the top healer spot:

    Larsa USB2: 0CT party h85 heal & High Quick Cast 2, chases White or Support with party 1000 heal + Esuna

    Larsa Glint: Astra and Esuna to all allies, 0CT

    He'll never let go of Ace Striker and two Wraths.

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Ok here goes

    100 gem: Papalymo LMR

    Pull, 3/11 (2 discos): Minfilia Glint, Papalymo Arcane, Thancred Bubsy

    Well, that's all new, all of it. No wind chain but I can't complain!

    I've got Papalymo's SSB, maybe I should grab his burst to go along with? Minfilia's got SSB and BSB, and Thanceed has BSB1 already.

    I'd love to pull again but I'm 4 dupes now so I probably shouldn't.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    I’d probably still take elarra over that outside of fights with a ton of debuffs. Curada generates a ton of meter so the gain to wrath isn’t very large and regenga is a ton of healing that doesn’t require actions, freeing elarra to do anything or even die while still healing.

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  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    I fuckin love XIV so there was never a chance of me not pulling. Have 200 mythril on hand too, so I can chuck a few at it if needed.

    100-gem: nada
    1st pull, 3/11, 1 disco: Thancred BSB3(?), Papalymo glint (which fuck you Square that's goddamn Triplecast and you know it), and ALPHINAUD MUHFUCKIN CSB!

    So major prize secured! But those bubsies are still out there waiting..

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Waiting for Friday and testing the Torment, but I am tempted.

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    The one problem with getting new relics is now I want to see if I can make that character happen.

    So now I'm looking at Thancred wondering if the effort is worth trying to make him shine.

    .. .and debating a second pull. No, bad! Bad impulse thinking!

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  • rattletraprattletrap Registered User regular
    Had an extra 100 gems from buying the USB Dream Pull, so I spent 'em here and got Potato USB. With that (and his LMR+OSB) I believe he should kick Braska off team fire-magic. Useful!

    If the BFriday lucky is 25 mythril I can pull both once on this banner and the lucky. If not, I'll have to make a decision. I only have two dupes on the banner and this is some good stuff so I may have to skip the lucky.

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  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    Starting out with one dupe on XIV-1, so worth a shot or two:

    100-gem: Thancred LMR. Oh hey!
    1/11: Minfilia LMR. Wait...
    4/11, one disco: Thancred LMR (dupe), Papalymo LMR (dupe), Minfilia BSB2, Alphinaud USB2. Seems like a decent USB, but I don't know how useful he'll be without en-wind from his BSB.

    Debating one more shot, but I'm now at five dupes. My main target is Alphinaud CSB, of course, but some of the other stuff looks good, if not immediately magicite-worthy.

    Elderlycrawfish
  • 38thDoe38thDoe lets never be stupid again wait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I suppose they would be different if I loved and played this game but the event info for this event is hilarious

    Argle vos Bargle
    Argle vos Bargle is the templar of gallruasio and has two blar blades called Broken Toenails


    Botchagaloop klar catfat
    Botchagaloop klar catfat is the artifart of the fluriounar and has a potatoclops connected to his armor called Empty Anchovy.


    Potatoclop nar Botchagaloop

    Potatoclop nar Botchagaloop is Botchagaloop klar catfat's tennis instructor and has a twinracquet called Ultimafart. Beware the toilet wizard!

    38thDoe on
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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I’m sorry but what’s with these names for Papalymo’s new stuff? His Arcane is called Fate’s End, whereas it’s very clearly referencing the events in the quest line called “The Far Edge of Fate”.

    And Magic Trifecta is a neat name, but it’s clearly the Black Mage ability Triplecast.

    Sometimes it’s like the soul break names are translated from the Japanese version of FFRK without checking the original game.

    Enlong on
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  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    You're right but also I'm like legit happy to get Alphy's CSB not only because it's amazing to have chains, but it's the start of SMN's Heavensward relic chain! I mained SMN before the Bahamut-Egi days and rocked that same book for a while so it was so great seeing that weapon pop up.

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    Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
    Fuck Joe Manchin
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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    We don’t know if the FFVI event is next week, but we’re assuming so, yes? I’d like to do a pull here, but I’d really like to do a pull for Wind God Gau.

  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Enlong wrote: »
    We don’t know if the FFVI event is next week, but we’re assuming so, yes? I’d like to do a pull here, but I’d really like to do a pull for Wind God Gau.

    I was under the impression that it was going to be X then VI, but who knows these days

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  • DarklyreDarklyre Registered User regular
    Took one more shot:

    2/11, one disco - Minfilia LMR (dupe), ALPHINAUD CSB!

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Took the new XIV toys for a spin on the D280 Torment. Shaved off 10 seconds and got under sub 30.

    I think I might dive Papalymo. Possibly Thancred. Definitely tempted to hunt for more relics for them.

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  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    By the way, if I have Rosa's USB should I still try to pull for Elarra's USB? Ugh, my best friend just got Cloud's USB1 as his daily pull and now I'm obsessed with it. He's tearing through all D240 torments with his off realm team of Aerith USB2, Zack Chain+USB and Cloud's USB2+1.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Hah. Looks like they changed the name of Papalymo’s new Ultra overnight. It was “Black Seal Firaja”, and is now “Ley Lines Firaja”

  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    It's been a really long time since we got a new banner, apparently.

    FF14-1 100 gems: 3* blah

    Also did my Daily Draw and whoops a Disco! Cloud USB2 ... dupe. Oh well, it's still a 6* +Wind Bracer. I should probably keep these separate, huh?

    I know it doesn't work that way, but I can't help but feel if I'd done the daily draw, then the 100 gem draw, I'd have gotten the 3* on the daily draw, and a disco on the FF14 banner. Oh well, I'll never know.

    Data for posterity:
    29 misses in a row

    38/339 lifetime

    5/84 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, Sice USB.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    This ff14 torment is fucked, jesus. Does an impossible amount of damage.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I pulled on the mage lucky

    Got the only two items that weren’t dupes, Ashe AOSB and Glint.

    I wish I could get Shantotto’s USB, since I have everything but that, but Glint and AOSB might be enough.

    I mostly want the AOSBs so I can bypass the dumb stone punch in phase 3

    Javen on
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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Is Thancred's USB not that useful? Browsing the Reddit pulls thread, people seem down on it, or at least not enthused by it.

    I guess breaks aren't that good anymore, but a Brave attack with ninja cast time that runs off ninja cast time abilities seems solid? Especially with an instant entry.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Busbs are lackluster in general, and this one even moreso because it’s all break based and thancred kinda sucks generally.

    Knight_ on
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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Aww yeah, new lightning toys literally cut my Geo time in half; down to 22 seconds

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    I can’t see anything wrong with a move that hits instantly and globally boosts ninja damage. I mean, ideally it would be Earth/Dark/Water damage, of course.

  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    OMG. So I tried using Squall USB+AOSB, Laguna Chain and Rinoa AOSB (the only tech I have on her) with two off realm healers on the D280 Torment.
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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Couple quick things - I'll be about to get to 50 by tomorrow thanks to realm dungeons, the "Sin attacks" animation is very very good in the realm dungeons, and I think I'm pushing a month without a daily rainbow now.

    Also, in more pertinent news, Enlir is taking a break from the game, so we may be losing any further updates on his spreadsheet.

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