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[FFRK] Battle on the Big Bridge # 424 (the one where Enkidu is a dog)
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Beat up a couple of bird guys. Activate (hit) a pair of anti-whale guns to drag Bismarck in range, break his back. KIll a pair of flying snakes. Beat up some more bird guys. Hit the anti-whale guns again, break his core.
OK, I gotta start building and saving mythril. We rarely ever get XIV events, and I would very much like to get some Alisaie or Sorceress Y'shtola stuff if possible.
If we follow Japan's timing, it should be, but we're out of datamined events/dates, so it's not for certain.
I pretty badly need FFXIV stuff, but all the Y'shtola-as-witch stuff seems... weird and awkward to me.
It's based on how she is now in FFXIV. She's basically traded in her healing kit for a combo of Thaumaturge (Fire, Ice, Lightning) and Conjurer (Water, Wind, Earth) elements, all focused on doing damage instead. Alphinaud has become a healer as a variant on Scholar (except his pet does damage), and there's also Urinager (who we don't have), who is a pure healer with a variant on the Astrologian job.
What I'm saying is that we need Urianger as a focused healer.
If the event is coming after the festival, then more the better; that'll give me some time to get more blues.
I also think I should give Kuja my Dispel so that Eiko can use Angelsong to counteract Sap, because ugh.
E:
Hrm. Someone on the Reddits brought up that every Dreambreaker gives you 60 rubies for getting to 10%, and you can double dip them with the refund coming up.
Urgh. I may have to try to do that. What are rubies even good for after the shop change though?
And then Garnet can actually use her turns on lightning summons.
I'm pretty sure that was in the sense of "I forgot that I needed to bring Dispel", rather than "I couldn't bring Dispel".
Lord knows I've gone into routine Lakshmi reclears without dispel way too many times.
Medica healed for 1 HP at one point in the middle. Cool cool.
In other news, I have a sub-17 autobattle torment 450 team.
Garbage copy of garbage relic.
Still 3 AASBs so far, so well ahead of the game.
I think I'm cashing in all my good luck from prior lotd
Bad news: that means I have no excuse for any other realm
Papalymo is the only ffxiv character with a plain old OSB
E: and the available brave USBs aren't the cap break type
MVP: Rem and her Sync/AASB/Glint combo which is amazing. She was on four teams (everywhere I had a holy chain plus Type-0) and I could have easily put her on more.
Blast from the Past Award: Iris, who managed to heal through XV Greg with only her BSB. I expected to need to bring in Elarra as a ringer but we got through it (having an in-realm chain helped so I could bring RW heal). I used some other BSBs and SSBs in places but solo-healing with a BSB deserves recognition.
Hardest Realm: Probably XI since I had no awakenings and its got sub-par elemental synergy, but Aphmau's IC1 USB plus an entruster (see below) can paper over some big weaknesses. III was also difficult but I attempted it last and was probably getting lazy with my magicite decks.
Special Thanks: All the entrust batteries out there (you know who you are) for doing nothing but pumping meter into SB-heavy DPSers or letting USB healers pop off every second turn. Extra special thanks to those who I had literally never used before and had zero relics for (Wol and Naja I'm looking at you), just for being there and having access to 5* support.
Overall the most fun I've had in an event since Dark Omega. I really think this game is at it's best when it gives you a problem and asks you to put together a team with what resources you have available, rather than just getting the "best relics" and facerolling most content. While having Rem stomp other realms is not without its charm, I had more fun when I was putting a ragtag band of BSBs, USBs, and maybe one Awakening if I was lucky and trying to make it work.
I'll probably try XI next, which would just leave me with 1-3
Genuinely rougher than I expected, but if I had a couple more turns to set up Cloud/Sephiroth instead of having to beat out the status effect crap, I doubt that'd be the case. Still, my chaos of elements in FF7 did me no favors without a historia crystal, even with a fairly stacked Aerith.
FF6 shouldn't be an issue. Locke sync is good and all, but Sabin's AASB/USB/G+ is a massively onslaught. Edgar and Celes can both use fire with their USB1s too.
Already blitzed FF8 greg a while ago.
Do you mind posting your team? That's the only realm I have left.
Sync, AASB1, BUSB Earth, BUSB Ice, USB Ice, Glint, Glint+ and AOSB.
Sorry, didn't save it, but I think it was
Sice: chase overstrike USB
Rem: usb1 and 2, gsb, AOSB
Elarra with USB1, 2, AASB (2 wasn't really needed)
Cinque with USB1
Queen bsb (crit boost), USB, osb
Basically I took the people I had cap breaks on, in a combo where there was SOME sort of boost. Cinque with USB did the heavy lifting
Also, looks like my count was correct for spellblade, I'd miss-marked having finished spellblade
Kinda sad that I still haven’t used Irvine in any current Cardia content for VIII, even with him having a realm chain. The ice team just works so well together, is the thing.
At least my fourth.
It's new, at least
I really should construct my magic Earth team a bit more, to more properly use this thing.
Nah. He's super rough to use for Ramuh except as a chain holder. He only has two ways to enEarth, his G+ and his AASB.