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.
It had to happen some time, but that's a serious blow to the community and our understanding of the fundamentals of the game.
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.
It's not OP or anything but I think it has some interesting points to it, and I'm going to try to see if I can make use of it when I can.
Even if breaks aren't super great at this point, the brave level 3 crush can still be a potent debuff. And it would do pretty good to run up an earth or fire chain.
How’d you do it? I wish I could put everyone in the back row to avoid Blind and Confuse.
I imagine an option would be to field both healers and swap out Refia, since Ingus is needed for Banishing Strike? I wish I could replace Tyro with Elarra, but he and Luneth are locked.
Edit: yep! That worked.
The eventual Silence puts a hard cap on how long you can survive. Thankfully, Luneth and Ingus have enough DPS. Tyro should break one of them out of Confuse with an attack, while one healer uses Esuna and the other Curaja. A smarter player than me would figure out the timing on Blind and Silence and have Luneth Jump to avoid them.
Damn, had a euro in Google rewards credit and did a 100 gem pull on xiv. Ended up actually getting the csb.
This is so good, means I'm just missing csb's for earth and ice now.
How’d you do it? I wish I could put everyone in the back row to avoid Blind and Confuse.
I imagine an option would be to field both healers and swap out Refia, since Ingus is needed for Banishing Strike? I wish I could replace Tyro with Elarra, but he and Luneth are locked.
Edit: yep! That worked.
The eventual Silence puts a hard cap on how long you can survive. Thankfully, Luneth and Ingus have enough DPS. Tyro should break one of them out of Confuse with an attack, while one healer uses Esuna and the other Curaja. A smarter player than me would figure out the timing on Blind and Silence and have Luneth Jump to avoid them.
.....TIL that you can sometimes swap out characters in record dungeons.
*Facepalm*
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How’d you do it? I wish I could put everyone in the back row to avoid Blind and Confuse.
I imagine an option would be to field both healers and swap out Refia, since Ingus is needed for Banishing Strike? I wish I could replace Tyro with Elarra, but he and Luneth are locked.
Edit: yep! That worked.
The eventual Silence puts a hard cap on how long you can survive. Thankfully, Luneth and Ingus have enough DPS. Tyro should break one of them out of Confuse with an attack, while one healer uses Esuna and the other Curaja. A smarter player than me would figure out the timing on Blind and Silence and have Luneth Jump to avoid them.
That was literally my strategy, except I was able to time the first jump to get a little extra edge.
4/11, one disco - Squall Glint (dupe), Tellah BSB, Gau BSB, Auron USB2! Not a bad haul. The dupe is still +ice armor, and that's a 6* +fire katana even if I don't use Auron much.
I was still up testing some mod stuff and figured what the hell.
5/11, 1 disco
Gogo VI burst (mimic team?)
Haurchefant BSB (eh)
Reks LMR (looks like a nice to have if you've got anything else for him, which I don't)
Aria LMR (dualcast, which nice, but I have nothing else for her)
Gabranth OSB
auron is one the best fire dpsers in the game with a doublecast dive. that usb2 is redic.
Is he now....honestly, I haven't messed with Samurais very much other than Ayame since XI is so limited and reta-meta when Nemesis Farming. I should give him a shot - most of my physical teams seem to involve some form of Spellblades, so this could be interesting.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
edited November 2018
Black Friday Draw: 5/11 (!), 2 discos (!!)
Dagger's Dagger of Daggering dupe, but my third, so reforged.
Montblack LMR1 (Chase BLK with Quickcast 1) These tend to be pretty underwhelming
Dorgann LMR (Initial EnEarth) These on the other hand are pretty good
Iris USB dupe (arglebargle blah) I don't think it's useful to combine this, so I'm just going to hang on to it to feed to Rainbow weapons in ~5 months
Noct USB1 This is super blah and I think his instant cast BSB might actually be the superior option to spend SB meter on
Oh well!
E: Oh, grabbing my Dream Selects at this point, I suppose. There aren't any lucky draws in the next 10 days, right?
Palom USB
Ignis BSB
Cloud LMR W-cast Wind.
I have Noctis USB2 now, but before that I always used his BSB over his USB1. Instant cast on the entry is really nice, and the stat buff is actually better, IIRC, since burst mode adds on to the ATK/DEF/RES boost and can't be removed. The EX mode on his USB1 is pretty meh unless you're just overflowing with bubble providers.
Man Cloud USB is that good huh? A friend of mine currently has Zack CSB+USB, Aerith ICUSB and Cloud USB+BSBs and man he can just tear thru 240 torments with that team. I don't have Zack's Chain tho...is Cloud's USB still that future proof?
Man Cloud USB is that good huh? A friend of mine currently has Zack CSB+USB, Aerith ICUSB and Cloud USB+BSBs and man he can just tear thru 240 torments with that team. I don't have Zack's Chain tho...is Cloud's USB still that future proof?
It's so future-proof it took AASBs to even the gap. Cloud USB2 and Sephiroth USB2 can't match it, as they were DeNA's attempts at making a a balanced version.
Damn, that's a good haul. Shantotto CSB is better than no chain, and Bartz Glint is crazy good (almost matches his USB1/USB2 output, and combined things just go crazy).
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jmcdonaldI voted, did you?DC(ish)Registered Userregular
Bf pull 4/11 one disco
Tidus CSB?
Thanks very much. I’m good now.
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
Ugh 19 magicites to go this month. Need to do another 5 star as mine are all maxxed.
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It had to happen some time, but that's a serious blow to the community and our understanding of the fundamentals of the game.
I did it with Ysayle USB and dove, potato ssb+osb, minfilia as support to prevent death, alph bsb but mostly just meltdowns, and elarra. Scary.
Well, Asylum, Enkidu, and Blink from Thancred’s bio burst.
It's not OP or anything but I think it has some interesting points to it, and I'm going to try to see if I can make use of it when I can.
Even if breaks aren't super great at this point, the brave level 3 crush can still be a potent debuff. And it would do pretty good to run up an earth or fire chain.
I imagine an option would be to field both healers and swap out Refia, since Ingus is needed for Banishing Strike? I wish I could replace Tyro with Elarra, but he and Luneth are locked.
Edit: yep! That worked.
The eventual Silence puts a hard cap on how long you can survive. Thankfully, Luneth and Ingus have enough DPS. Tyro should break one of them out of Confuse with an attack, while one healer uses Esuna and the other Curaja. A smarter player than me would figure out the timing on Blind and Silence and have Luneth Jump to avoid them.
This is so good, means I'm just missing csb's for earth and ice now.
.....TIL that you can sometimes swap out characters in record dungeons.
*Facepalm*
Alph CSB, BUSB, LMR
Papa USB, ASB, LMR
Thancred BUSB, BSB3
Minfilia glint, LMR
not a single dupe
i'm in shock
That was literally my strategy, except I was able to time the first jump to get a little extra edge.
It's in ~6.5 hours. When the daily dungeon (would) change over.
I'll end up with enough tomorrow from the daily yaddah, or if I power through some magicite today I could get the extra 3.
Still not convinced I want to though, probably gonna wait and see how peoples' draws go.
Edit: oh, what the heck I'll be the canary in the coalmine.
3/11 (2 discos): Cid IV BSB Dupe, Luneth OSB Dupe, TyronUSB1 Dupe
WELP.
I guess at least Luneth OSB is a wind spear and not the worst dupe.
4/11, one disco - Squall Glint (dupe), Tellah BSB, Gau BSB, Auron USB2! Not a bad haul. The dupe is still +ice armor, and that's a 6* +fire katana even if I don't use Auron much.
5/11, 1 disco
Gogo VI burst (mimic team?)
Haurchefant BSB (eh)
Reks LMR (looks like a nice to have if you've got anything else for him, which I don't)
Aria LMR (dualcast, which nice, but I have nothing else for her)
Gabranth OSB
So....no dupes, but still not a good draw.
edit: i did the pull, knowing it was a trap because thanksgiving was hard and i was hoping something good would happen.
it was a trap, don't pull. 3/11 2 bad lmrs and vincent bsb that i'll never use. last 3 pulls have been stupendously bad.
Noctis Glint
Bartz USB2 (dupe)
Laguna USB
Agrias USB
The Laguna USB is like my third best physical ice relic, so it's welcome.
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Please lock your relics from the relic draw results screen, you're gonna give someone a heart attack.
Porom BSB dupe, Minwu BSB dupe, Barbariccia BSB, Rydia OSB
Not a great draw. Magical imperil wind might be useful maybe.
Is he now....honestly, I haven't messed with Samurais very much other than Ayame since XI is so limited and reta-meta when Nemesis Farming. I should give him a shot - most of my physical teams seem to involve some form of Spellblades, so this could be interesting.
Dagger's Dagger of Daggering dupe, but my third, so reforged.
Montblack LMR1 (Chase BLK with Quickcast 1) These tend to be pretty underwhelming
Dorgann LMR (Initial EnEarth) These on the other hand are pretty good
Iris USB dupe (arglebargle blah) I don't think it's useful to combine this, so I'm just going to hang on to it to feed to Rainbow weapons in ~5 months
Noct USB1 This is super blah and I think his instant cast BSB might actually be the superior option to spend SB meter on
Oh well!
E: Oh, grabbing my Dream Selects at this point, I suppose. There aren't any lucky draws in the next 10 days, right?
Palom USB
Ignis BSB
Cloud LMR W-cast Wind.
It’s been a bad ffrk week, when it rains it pours I guess.
It's so future-proof it took AASBs to even the gap. Cloud USB2 and Sephiroth USB2 can't match it, as they were DeNA's attempts at making a a balanced version.
Cloud AASB is gonna be some crazy bullshit.
Got a Shantotto CSB, Kuja USB, Rydia BSB, Noel BSB and Bartz Glint! Jebus! Well gonna pull on Cloud's USB!
Tidus CSB?
Thanks very much. I’m good now.
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