Good gravy, this Elarra USB I bought sure is making Quetzalcoatl less painful. She can even afford plenty of time to contribute to the chain with Titan. I am living the high life.
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Is anyone else critically low on 4* Wisdom motes? I've been 4* diving characters for NuTorments and 260 CMs such that at least five characters are available per realm, and I'm going to have to start rationing soon.
Is anyone else critically low on 4* Wisdom motes? I've been 4* diving characters for NuTorments and 260 CMs such that at least five characters are available per realm, and I'm going to have to start rationing soon.
They seem to be my primary bottleneck, yeah. The golden festival helped, though
Almost at the point of not having anything to do in magicite.
5* lit: behemoth king (2x Lit); Quetzalcoatl (water, def)
5* water: Famfrit (fire, resistance)
4* holy: 4 Evrae (Blade ward, Health, fast act, need to get a spell ward); Siren (spell ward); Seraph (Dark)
4* wind: Tiamat (wind);Silver dragon (deadly); Sylph (Earth)
4* Ice: isgebind (deadly); Krysta (wind);
4* Dark: 2 Hades (Magic, Attack); Necrophobe (holy)
4* Earth: Catastrophe (precise); Earth Guardian (lightning); Midgardsormr (Magic)
4* Water: Octomammoth (magic); Kraken (water)
4* Fire: king bomb (magic); Fire mane (ice)
And the expected 3*
I guess I could get some supplemental 4* lightning or whatever. But until I can beat Geo, I don't have much of anything else to grind out, I don't think.
Is anyone else critically low on 4* Wisdom motes? I've been 4* diving characters for NuTorments and 260 CMs such that at least five characters are available per realm, and I'm going to have to start rationing soon.
Yes, to the extent that I occasionally run the Wisdom Mote Dungeon. Every other 4* mote type I have plenty of.
I have wiped on magic pixel on famfrit like 15 times now. My team just has so little rng that it tops out at the same place every time and it’s brutal.
I’m tempted to dive kain even knowing it’s bad just because I’m going insane and don’t see the path forward without the dive.
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I have wiped on magic pixel on famfrit like 15 times now. My team just has so little rng that it tops out at the same place every time and it’s brutal.
I’m tempted to dive kain even knowing it’s bad just because I’m going insane and don’t see the path forward without the dive.
Would upping Kain's DPS change the flow of your fight significantly? You might need to relearn transitions and such.
I actually came very close to quitting this game because the Magicites and Torments we’re starting to stack up. It’s really frustrating when you’re stalled on something and they just keep piling it on.
I did Kain's dive for Famfrit. He's holding my chain, no shame. We get enough motes from Torments that I can afford to do a few less than optimal dives. And who knows, maybe one day I'll get an SB that gives him instant cast jumps, and be able to do the hilarious solo DPS strats.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
I actually came very close to quitting this game because the Magicites and Torments we’re starting to stack up. It’s really frustrating when you’re stalled on something and they just keep piling it on.
I still haven't touched a DWhale Torment since the Tactics one came out. I just straight up put them out of my mind, and they don't exist. It's not realistic for me to collect enough relics in each realm to field a team capable of beating all of them, based on my rudimentary knowledge of probability and math. Magicite are slightly easier, but there's still only a tiny subset of relics that are useful for them. So I'm just creeping along, doing USB selects to enable Magicite clears, and if I manage to collect a full set of 5* magicites, and maybe some Awakening SBs, I might go back and cheese the Torments.
As I get new gear I periodically go back and poke at a couple Torments. I've gotten 3 to at least 50% now, and there's a couple others which I think I SHOULD be able to get that far, but haven't quite managed. VII in particular I feel like I should be able to beat, but I can't just make it out of the first phase and get rolling.
Pulled on the Black Friday after scrounging up ten mythril through content.
3/11, no disco. I literally swore out loud when I didn't see a disco.
Garnet LMR - "Lover of the Arts" : Small chance to restore a small amount of HP to all allies when using bard abilities. I don't know if Garnet makes a decent bard, but it'll give her minor lightning resist.
Emperor BSB - "Hell's Maw" : Deal eight magic earth and dark attacks to one target, temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Ruthless Ploy (Deal four magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and reduce delay of the user's actions for two turns.) and Onyx Crest (Deal two magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount.)
It's, well... it's dark damage? And earth damage? With enEarth?
Prompto BSB - "Shots Fired" : Instantly deal ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to eight random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defense a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Furious Volley (Deal four ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and reduce delay of user's machinist abilities for two turns.) and Rolling Volley (Deal two ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Defense a large amount.)
I highly doubt it, because his dps would do from basically zero to slightly above zero. His dive is bottom tier.
Iirc, Kain’s Dive is very similar to Aranea’s. I half dove her in order to get my Famfrit kill. And I fully dove Maria (another star buildup LM2) to kill King Behemoth. The way I see it, the tier position of a legend dive doesn’t mean all that much, if it’s what you need to win.
I took Thancred's Bubsy to the Isgebind fight just to see how it would go. I've got Locke chain, so it was actually pretty fun! Trying to equip him for ranged was odd since I only have terrible bows/mage bows, so I ended up giving him Edward's USB harp as it was the strongest ranged i had that he could use. Weird.
It's certainly not a top tier thing but it's workable in situations. Used thief fire stuff to start, then after the bubsy, used Stitch in Time to charge to level 3.
Pulled on the Black Friday after scrounging up ten mythril through content.
3/11, no disco. I literally swore out loud when I didn't see a disco.
Garnet LMR - "Lover of the Arts" : Small chance to restore a small amount of HP to all allies when using bard abilities. I don't know if Garnet makes a decent bard, but it'll give her minor lightning resist.
Emperor BSB - "Hell's Maw" : Deal eight magic earth and dark attacks to one target, temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Ruthless Ploy (Deal four magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and reduce delay of the user's actions for two turns.) and Onyx Crest (Deal two magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount.)
It's, well... it's dark damage? And earth damage? With enEarth?
Prompto BSB - "Shots Fired" : Instantly deal ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to eight random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defense a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Furious Volley (Deal four ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and reduce delay of user's machinist abilities for two turns.) and Rolling Volley (Deal two ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Defense a large amount.)
Not really seeing an upside to this one.
I think that emperor rod gives +Earth damage while equipped, so that'll be occasionally useful. Prompto BSB isn't great, but I put it to use getting sub-30 in the XV Torment.
Pulled on the Black Friday after scrounging up ten mythril through content.
3/11, no disco. I literally swore out loud when I didn't see a disco.
Garnet LMR - "Lover of the Arts" : Small chance to restore a small amount of HP to all allies when using bard abilities. I don't know if Garnet makes a decent bard, but it'll give her minor lightning resist.
Emperor BSB - "Hell's Maw" : Deal eight magic earth and dark attacks to one target, temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Ruthless Ploy (Deal four magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and reduce delay of the user's actions for two turns.) and Onyx Crest (Deal two magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount.)
It's, well... it's dark damage? And earth damage? With enEarth?
Prompto BSB - "Shots Fired" : Instantly deal ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to eight random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defense a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Furious Volley (Deal four ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and reduce delay of user's machinist abilities for two turns.) and Rolling Volley (Deal two ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Defense a large amount.)
Not really seeing an upside to this one.
I think that emperor rod gives +Earth damage while equipped, so that'll be occasionally useful. Prompto BSB isn't great, but I put it to use getting sub-30 in the XV Torment.
Yeah, +earth weapons are rare enough, especially for MAG, that even if you never use Emperor that weapon will come in handy.
With so many good items on the banner, I felt obligated to run one pull on the FFXIV banner 1.
4/11: 1 disco.
* Ironworks Magitek Sword: Minfilia Legend Materia, Linkshell Master (reduce cast time of first 3 actions in a battle)
* Caller's Loincloth: Alphinaud Glint, Shockwave (instant 6-hit Wind Magic, plus Empowered Enwind)
* Today's weird result: Off-banner Vivi's Hat: Vivi Legend Materia, Magic Suffusion (increase Black Magic damage and casting time. Is this thing worth using at all? If nothing else, it's a +Fire magic hat)
* Almandal: Alphinaud Wind Chain!
Woo!
This does present an issue: Alphinaud was my best Wind mage, bar none. Especially with the Glint and the BSB combined. But the Chain is his new priority. Maybe I should pick up Fujin's instant Enwind SSB, and field her with her OSB, plus Vivi? Or perhaps I could field an Entruster to let him Chain and Glint and maybe Burst?
Ugh, finally taking a serious crack at 5* magicites, and just died at magic pixel to BK because of Savage Hurl delaying Edge by 0.1 seconds. That's demoralizing.
Urgh, I'm still in choice paralysis for the Dream selections. My top 4 USB picks (Bartz, TGCid, Cloud, Tyro) all show up on the Commemoration banner next month. While that doesn't guarantee anything, the fact that they are all on one banner is a unique opportunity that you don't see often.
So I could roll the dice next month (and/or whale it a bit) and pick something else now, or go for a sure thing now but up the dupe count later. Hmm. Instant gratification, or strategic planning that probably won't end well anyway?
The only chains I’m missing is magic wind, and magic holy (and I don’t even know if global has gotten the latter yet)sonthat makes pulling on this banner REALLY tempting; and I might even if can scrounge the mythril. Or just save for Realms on Parade. Magic wind is easily my weakest element though
That boss was rough as hell. Pack dual-element resistance accessories because it hits like a truck. Y'shtola did NOT have time to Curada - the extra gauge from Wrath was absolutely necessary just to keep up with all the AOE damage.
Pretty much everything in my setup was used - Minfilia SSB was needed to buff Thancred and Estinien and also for Last Stand, which popped on at least 4-5 different characters. 70% break resistance is kinda rough, so I went with a no-break strategy instead and had Minfilia Entrust to Alphinaud so he could toss out his BUSB after his CSB. This worked out really well - Alphinaud got to level 3 right as the boss started charging up its instakill, so the fight ended with Alphinaud popping it in the face for 8000x12.
The lack of overflow is kinda weird and makes Alphinaud BUSB kinda not suited for popping magicite savage modes, but it builds the hell out of a chain!
Dark Valefor is a very tempting target for some of my Rubies. But with such a long time between now and the Earth magicites, I figure I should hold off for now. Better to spend Rubies on stuff I need for current things.
The only chains I’m missing is magic wind, and magic holy (and I don’t even know if global has gotten the latter yet)sonthat makes pulling on this banner REALLY tempting; and I might even if can scrounge the mythril. Or just save for Realms on Parade. Magic wind is easily my weakest element though
Magic Holy debuts in the winter fest, first banner I think, for Edward. Only problem/benefit is that it's not magic +50%, it's mag/mind 30%. Not as great a benefit to your mag-based Holy casters but good for the mind-based ones as a trade-off.
The only chains I’m missing is magic wind, and magic holy (and I don’t even know if global has gotten the latter yet)sonthat makes pulling on this banner REALLY tempting; and I might even if can scrounge the mythril. Or just save for Realms on Parade. Magic wind is easily my weakest element though
Magic Holy debuts in the winter fest, first banner I think, for Edward. Only problem/benefit is that it's not magic +50%, it's mag/mind 30%. Not as great a benefit to your mag-based Holy casters but good for the mind-based ones as a trade-off.
Seeing as the MAG holy users are pretty much just Hope and Raines (and I guess Alphinaud with SSB), compromising with a MND buff is probably a good idea.
The only chains I’m missing is magic wind, and magic holy (and I don’t even know if global has gotten the latter yet)sonthat makes pulling on this banner REALLY tempting; and I might even if can scrounge the mythril. Or just save for Realms on Parade. Magic wind is easily my weakest element though
Magic Holy debuts in the winter fest, first banner I think, for Edward. Only problem/benefit is that it's not magic +50%, it's mag/mind 30%. Not as great a benefit to your mag-based Holy casters but good for the mind-based ones as a trade-off.
Seeing as the MAG holy users are pretty much just Hope and Raines (and I guess Alphinaud with SSB), compromising with a MND buff is probably a good idea.
Yeah, I know Rem makes the team, and she's all about MND. Minwu and Arc too I think, who become decent holy users?
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They seem to be my primary bottleneck, yeah. The golden festival helped, though
5* lit: behemoth king (2x Lit); Quetzalcoatl (water, def)
5* water: Famfrit (fire, resistance)
4* holy: 4 Evrae (Blade ward, Health, fast act, need to get a spell ward); Siren (spell ward); Seraph (Dark)
4* wind: Tiamat (wind);Silver dragon (deadly); Sylph (Earth)
4* Ice: isgebind (deadly); Krysta (wind);
4* Dark: 2 Hades (Magic, Attack); Necrophobe (holy)
4* Earth: Catastrophe (precise); Earth Guardian (lightning); Midgardsormr (Magic)
4* Water: Octomammoth (magic); Kraken (water)
4* Fire: king bomb (magic); Fire mane (ice)
And the expected 3*
I guess I could get some supplemental 4* lightning or whatever. But until I can beat Geo, I don't have much of anything else to grind out, I don't think.
Yes, to the extent that I occasionally run the Wisdom Mote Dungeon. Every other 4* mote type I have plenty of.
I’m tempted to dive kain even knowing it’s bad just because I’m going insane and don’t see the path forward without the dive.
Would upping Kain's DPS change the flow of your fight significantly? You might need to relearn transitions and such.
I still haven't touched a DWhale Torment since the Tactics one came out. I just straight up put them out of my mind, and they don't exist. It's not realistic for me to collect enough relics in each realm to field a team capable of beating all of them, based on my rudimentary knowledge of probability and math. Magicite are slightly easier, but there's still only a tiny subset of relics that are useful for them. So I'm just creeping along, doing USB selects to enable Magicite clears, and if I manage to collect a full set of 5* magicites, and maybe some Awakening SBs, I might go back and cheese the Torments.
as someone who has just truly awful luck with healer ultras, that is a problem.
3/11, no disco. I literally swore out loud when I didn't see a disco.
Garnet LMR - "Lover of the Arts" : Small chance to restore a small amount of HP to all allies when using bard abilities. I don't know if Garnet makes a decent bard, but it'll give her minor lightning resist.
Emperor BSB - "Hell's Maw" : Deal eight magic earth and dark attacks to one target, temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Ruthless Ploy (Deal four magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and reduce delay of the user's actions for two turns.) and Onyx Crest (Deal two magic earth and dark attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount.)
It's, well... it's dark damage? And earth damage? With enEarth?
Prompto BSB - "Shots Fired" : Instantly deal ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to eight random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defense a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Burst Modes - Furious Volley (Deal four ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and reduce delay of user's machinist abilities for two turns.) and Rolling Volley (Deal two ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Defense a large amount.)
Not really seeing an upside to this one.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Iirc, Kain’s Dive is very similar to Aranea’s. I half dove her in order to get my Famfrit kill. And I fully dove Maria (another star buildup LM2) to kill King Behemoth. The way I see it, the tier position of a legend dive doesn’t mean all that much, if it’s what you need to win.
It's certainly not a top tier thing but it's workable in situations. Used thief fire stuff to start, then after the bubsy, used Stitch in Time to charge to level 3.
I think that emperor rod gives +Earth damage while equipped, so that'll be occasionally useful. Prompto BSB isn't great, but I put it to use getting sub-30 in the XV Torment.
Yeah, +earth weapons are rare enough, especially for MAG, that even if you never use Emperor that weapon will come in handy.
4/11: 1 disco.
* Ironworks Magitek Sword: Minfilia Legend Materia, Linkshell Master (reduce cast time of first 3 actions in a battle)
* Caller's Loincloth: Alphinaud Glint, Shockwave (instant 6-hit Wind Magic, plus Empowered Enwind)
* Today's weird result: Off-banner Vivi's Hat: Vivi Legend Materia, Magic Suffusion (increase Black Magic damage and casting time. Is this thing worth using at all? If nothing else, it's a +Fire magic hat)
* Almandal: Alphinaud Wind Chain!
Woo!
This does present an issue: Alphinaud was my best Wind mage, bar none. Especially with the Glint and the BSB combined. But the Chain is his new priority. Maybe I should pick up Fujin's instant Enwind SSB, and field her with her OSB, plus Vivi? Or perhaps I could field an Entruster to let him Chain and Glint and maybe Burst?
So I could roll the dice next month (and/or whale it a bit) and pick something else now, or go for a sure thing now but up the dupe count later. Hmm. Instant gratification, or strategic planning that probably won't end well anyway?
Just pulled Gilgamesh fire chain out of the daily draw! I already had Locke, so not a massive upgrade, but still has me very happy.
MWO: Adamski
I wound up with a Crystal of some sort, a Major Fire Orb, and a Mythril.
Were it not for the random chance of mythril, I'd say that this is something I'd like to see as a permanent feature.
Giving 1 of a mote still makes me laugh each year.
I went full mitigation with fire and spell resist. The spell ward makes him just a really good all-around magicite to keep around.
I think I'll go with that for now. Thanks.
Thancred - Flash Disaster/Ripping Blast, SSB (wind damage), +30% Sword DMG
Estinien - Cyclone Bolt/Aerial Dive, USB, +30% Wind DMG
Minfilia - Wrath/Entrust, SSB, MM, LMR
Y'shtola - Wrath/Curada, BSB, TGC Mode, LM1/LM2
RW: GodWall
Magicite: Tiamat
That boss was rough as hell. Pack dual-element resistance accessories because it hits like a truck. Y'shtola did NOT have time to Curada - the extra gauge from Wrath was absolutely necessary just to keep up with all the AOE damage.
Pretty much everything in my setup was used - Minfilia SSB was needed to buff Thancred and Estinien and also for Last Stand, which popped on at least 4-5 different characters. 70% break resistance is kinda rough, so I went with a no-break strategy instead and had Minfilia Entrust to Alphinaud so he could toss out his BUSB after his CSB. This worked out really well - Alphinaud got to level 3 right as the boss started charging up its instakill, so the fight ended with Alphinaud popping it in the face for 8000x12.
The lack of overflow is kinda weird and makes Alphinaud BUSB kinda not suited for popping magicite savage modes, but it builds the hell out of a chain!
Magic Holy debuts in the winter fest, first banner I think, for Edward. Only problem/benefit is that it's not magic +50%, it's mag/mind 30%. Not as great a benefit to your mag-based Holy casters but good for the mind-based ones as a trade-off.
Seeing as the MAG holy users are pretty much just Hope and Raines (and I guess Alphinaud with SSB), compromising with a MND buff is probably a good idea.
Yeah, I know Rem makes the team, and she's all about MND. Minwu and Arc too I think, who become decent holy users?