Who do you think is a better Imperiler for Shiva, between Balthier and Locke?
Balthier: Dualcast Machinist LMR, Imperil Fire Chance Dive, OSB, Enfire USB, and lens option for Imperil Fire Burst. Access to Machinist for non-soul Break Imperil.
Locke: Trance Dive, Enfire LMR, Enfire Glint, Imperil BSB, Enfire USB, fast-casting OSB, and lens option for Imperil Fire USB. No access to Machinist
On the one hand, Balthier is a Machinist, and one with a dualcast and an Imperil Chance. If he’s lucky, he can rack up a bunch of Imperil pretty early. On the other hand, Locke will have Enfire right at the start of the fight, and can refresh it more easily. He also has an OSB with the unique feature of casting quickly, for the part of a fight where I’m spamming Overstrike to try and win.
If it was anything but Shiva, I’d say that Balthier (or even Mustadio) wins on the virtue of getting imperils out faster to support the characters with Awakenings. But the need for Enfire kind of narrows that gap, I think.
well. i was mostly hoping for the fire chain because i only have vincents and my physical teams are always extremely awkward trying to fit the magic chain in.
i got 2 6*s, ok. delay happened ok one of them is a sync, whoops they both turned gold, whoops it's locke's dagger and noctis shield.
No grand prize, but I DID luck into noctis's awakening earlier in the fest, so that G+ isn't a waste. First FF6 awakening, too, and balthier is a solid fire imperil option now, since I've got both his USBs.
Had to go 50 mythril over my budget (although still 50 under my total anti-Shiva budget), but got Locke's sync. Sorry Noctis. Looks like it just straight up isn't happening. Somehow almost completely avoided all of his and Sephiroth's stuff.
Balthier CSB is huge too, but still didn't have any physical DPS with an AASB who could actually refresh it (stupid Cor), so fire bird felt... bad to throw mythril at for that. May still toss 50-100 at FF8 just because it's a really strong banner, but other than that, it's all holy stuff, all the time... of which there's like... zero good banners until Orlandeau Sync.
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I think its okay to pull extra here. Banner 4 is pretty crap. What the heck is this beyond character they are splattering all over it? Is there a beyond torment coming at some point? Blech
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Fest banner 3 (Fire and such) draw(s):
1st) Seph Fire Ultra and Arcane. Blegh.
2nd) Noct Sync! Holy snikes!
3rd) Sabin G+ and Awaken, Seph AOSB dupe, LOCKE SYNC! HOLY MOLY!
4th) Balthier Awakening
Phew! No Sephiroth AASB which is the point of his other Fire stuff, no Balthier Chain, and no other Noct fire stuff, but that's a good haul, for once. Ejecting here, probably targeting Squall/Rinoa Sync banner after fest next.
Rinoa Tritoch Chain blizzaga bUSB
Ellara Allegro con carne, Passionet Salsa USB, AASB
Sazh affliction break entrust USB
Serah Voltech CSB, G+, USB
Lulu Chain Blizzaga AASB
Originally I had Sazh imperilling but that pushed phase one too fast, leaving me in phase 2 long enough for snort. Still requires threading a lot of needles, go to fast and phases push before healing is ready, breaking rage too fast and damage will kill people. Go too slow and people get snorted.
Probably can do Syldra by next week but the wind ones might be pushing things. Might spend some of the fest coins on Arcana. Hopefully earth magicites are another of those where you can get by without a chain.
I guess my elemental tickets should be going to light/dark now.
Well, thinking about it a bit more, getting Sabin AASBs is actually pretty nice! He has a lensable En Fire USB and a good dive. Tried him out instead of using Kefka's AASB in the torment and the fight went even faster. Yes, I got lucky with Procs, but that's exactly a great reason to field him. Well...kinda. I do think Shiva needs an Imperil man and well, I've got the Leading Man (tm) for that.
Used my new loot from the Awakening lucky to get my first magic 6* clear
Faris chain, imperil, brave
Alphinaud BSB (still real damn good!), USB (reflect), Awakening
Elarra glint+, USB, Awakening
Ultimecia Awakening, OSB, AOSB
Fujin chain, USB (chase)
RW: wall
Ultimecia only got aura one time, but that's all I needed. Walls were taken out by Ultimecia OSB, Titan call, and Cometeor (Alphinaud Awakening follow-up after 3 summons)
Nice job. I didn't have Alph's reflect USB, and I erred on the side of caution (lens'd Ultimecia's BSB so I could re-up the wind), but that's basically my team, just with glint for Alph and the AOSB is on Fujin instead of Ultimecia.
i cannot figure out how to kill typhon again for the weekly.
i can get out of phase 1 but i keep dying in phase 2, and when i was doing attempts at the time it was always the other way around, if i got to phase 2 it was an easy clear. i'm not even using better items and rushing anything, my team is exactly the same because i haven't gotten any magic ice tech of note. ffrk is hard sometimes.
i cannot figure out how to kill typhon again for the weekly.
i can get out of phase 1 but i keep dying in phase 2, and when i was doing attempts at the time it was always the other way around, if i got to phase 2 it was an easy clear. i'm not even using better items and rushing anything, my team is exactly the same because i haven't gotten any magic ice tech of note. ffrk is hard sometimes.
I swapped out Rinoa with her gen 1 CSB for Serah with her gen 2 CSB, and moved Shantotto from USB to AASB which... resulted in cutting off about 8 seconds from the clear time, yet both Serah and Elarra died.
Well as expected no syncs for me on banner 3, but I did get Sabin and Balthier awakenings so it wasn't the worst possible result. Also Noctis glint+ and LMR, to go with my . . . checks notes . . . absolutely nothing else for Noctis. Ah well, between Sabin, Balthier and Locke awakenings and supporting relics I have some solid physical fire, but unfortunately no fire chain anywhere in sight. At least I can convince myself that I don't really care about Noctis (would have loved the Locke sync though).
For my selection relics, I'm thinking of grabbing the Terra pack (because my fire magic is pretty weak and Terra is from a wonderful game) and the Strago awakening to pair up with my Gogo (V) magic water chain. I figure those two plus throwing in Rydia's water aura USB from lenses should be pretty solid to continue along the ring from Famfrit when the time comes.
Overall a pretty successful festival, struck out on the first banner but grabbed excellent stuff from the second and solid but unexciting stuff from the third. Now to not summon for like 3 months or so.
Oh, balls. I just realized that I took a fire katana artifact under the assumption that I'd hit either Noctis's sync or Sephiroth's stuff, and/or miss on Balthier's chain (so would be using Gil for his CSB). Instead, I hit the perfect storm to knock all katana users out of my primary fire team. Locke, Sabin, and Balthier, huh. Jerks.
Hmm, three chains I'm still hunting are magic ice, physical fire, and physical lightning. Now I'm debating if I should chance banners two and/or three again? Chains, plus a few other nice things that I didn't get, not the worst odds? I should probably sleep on it.....
The only chains I’m still chasing out of the primary 6 elements are magic lit after grabbing the shelke 2.0 chain in the rop (my one good free item), and phys Fire. Phys dark and holy magic also but that’s a far flung future problem.
Writing it out like that has me thinking of a truly ill advised 2nd pull on this banner. Does anyone know when the next time a physical fire chain rolls around?
The only chains I’m still chasing out of the primary 6 elements are magic lit after grabbing the shelke 2.0 chain in the rop (my one good free item), and phys Fire. Phys dark and holy magic also but that’s a far flung future problem.
Writing it out like that has me thinking of a truly ill advised 2nd pull on this banner. Does anyone know when the next time a physical fire chain rolls around?
Like... 3 days with fire bird.
Also when Elena's chain rolls around, and since she can imperil bot well, she's a decent chain holder.
In the end I think I'm cool on my mythril budget. I'm wondering tho. I know I'm gonna grab Tidus' Set because Magic Earth is much more realistic than Phys Earth at this point. I'm debating if I want to go for the 100 AASB banner tho. I could pick up Elarra's AASB that has been eluding me forever. Or another Ice Awakening. I have Squall's but I figure I'm gonna need another Ice AASB to tackle that one. I mean, sure I have Fran's but she doesn't have a way to EnIce herself unlike say Noel.
Well, there's another free pull right? I still can think about this for a few days.
The only chains I’m still chasing out of the primary 6 elements are magic lit after grabbing the shelke 2.0 chain in the rop (my one good free item), and phys Fire. Phys dark and holy magic also but that’s a far flung future problem.
Writing it out like that has me thinking of a truly ill advised 2nd pull on this banner. Does anyone know when the next time a physical fire chain rolls around?
Like... 3 days with fire bird.
Also when Elena's chain rolls around, and since she can imperil bot well, she's a decent chain holder.
Yea I have Vincent right now so it’s not the worst situation, since he’s a passible physical machinist. Sucks that the fire bird banner is so all over the place though, doesn’t really jump out at me tbh.
So I was looking at my earth magic setup, and I kind of would like Tellah to have something to do in situations where the awakening isn't quite enough. So I remembered, hey the lens shop is a thing, right? He probably has an OSB in there or an old USB or something.
Yeah no. He's got a couple uniques, a super, an LMR and a burst, none of which is even remotely good. Oh well, the awakening is still quite nice.
-edit- In fact I looked it up on the official wiki, and Tellah doesn't have an overstrike at all. He does have an arcane overstrike of the 3 hit variety, and an ultra that is halfway decent except it KOs him at the end, because of course it does. (I get that it is true to the original game, but come on)
Water phys
Fire phys
Ice phys
Dark magic
Holy phys
I recently landed Irvine's VIII chain off one of the miscellaneous fest draws, I'm cautiously optimistic that can do me for ice phys if I go hard enough on that VIII banner. Have Vincent for fire, and Edward is fine for holy.
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Balthier: Dualcast Machinist LMR, Imperil Fire Chance Dive, OSB, Enfire USB, and lens option for Imperil Fire Burst. Access to Machinist for non-soul Break Imperil.
Locke: Trance Dive, Enfire LMR, Enfire Glint, Imperil BSB, Enfire USB, fast-casting OSB, and lens option for Imperil Fire USB. No access to Machinist
On the one hand, Balthier is a Machinist, and one with a dualcast and an Imperil Chance. If he’s lucky, he can rack up a bunch of Imperil pretty early. On the other hand, Locke will have Enfire right at the start of the fight, and can refresh it more easily. He also has an OSB with the unique feature of casting quickly, for the part of a fight where I’m spamming Overstrike to try and win.
If it was anything but Shiva, I’d say that Balthier (or even Mustadio) wins on the virtue of getting imperils out faster to support the characters with Awakenings. But the need for Enfire kind of narrows that gap, I think.
i got 2 6*s, ok. delay happened ok one of them is a sync, whoops they both turned gold, whoops it's locke's dagger and noctis shield.
this is an odd feeling.
1st pull Sabin AASB
2nd pull...
Balthier G+
Noctis G+
Sabin awakening
Draw 2: 2/11 discoes
Dupe Balthier G+
Dupe Sabin Awakening
...
Draw 3: 1/11 disco
Balthier Awakening
No grand prize, but I DID luck into noctis's awakening earlier in the fest, so that G+ isn't a waste. First FF6 awakening, too, and balthier is a solid fire imperil option now, since I've got both his USBs.
Auron CSB (I guess I'm getting all the fire chains now?)
Vayne LMR (Dark infuse)
Banner 3
(1)Sabin AASB (Cool)
Sephiroth LMR (Dual cast Samuria)
(2)Sephiroth USB(fire)
(3) Sabin G+
Well as a bonus I also got buyers remorse from this banner.
Gem draw: Sabin AASB
Draw 2: sephiroth AOSB
Draw 3: Balthier Glint+
Draw 4: noct Glint+, Balthier AASB, Noctis Sync
More than I was planning to pull but the end result was nice.
2/11 - Balthier G+, Noct LMR
1/11 - Sabin G+
3/11 - Balthier AASB, Sabin G+, Noct LMR
2/11 - Balthier CSB, Seph LMR
2/11 - Locke Sync, Sabin AASB
Balthier CSB is huge too, but still didn't have any physical DPS with an AASB who could actually refresh it (stupid Cor), so fire bird felt... bad to throw mythril at for that. May still toss 50-100 at FF8 just because it's a really strong banner, but other than that, it's all holy stuff, all the time... of which there's like... zero good banners until Orlandeau Sync.
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1st) Seph Fire Ultra and Arcane. Blegh.
2nd) Noct Sync! Holy snikes!
3rd) Sabin G+ and Awaken, Seph AOSB dupe, LOCKE SYNC! HOLY MOLY!
4th) Balthier Awakening
Phew! No Sephiroth AASB which is the point of his other Fire stuff, no Balthier Chain, and no other Noct fire stuff, but that's a good haul, for once. Ejecting here, probably targeting Squall/Rinoa Sync banner after fest next.
Rinoa Tritoch Chain blizzaga bUSB
Ellara Allegro con carne, Passionet Salsa USB, AASB
Sazh affliction break entrust USB
Serah Voltech CSB, G+, USB
Lulu Chain Blizzaga AASB
Originally I had Sazh imperilling but that pushed phase one too fast, leaving me in phase 2 long enough for snort. Still requires threading a lot of needles, go to fast and phases push before healing is ready, breaking rage too fast and damage will kill people. Go too slow and people get snorted.
Probably can do Syldra by next week but the wind ones might be pushing things. Might spend some of the fest coins on Arcana. Hopefully earth magicites are another of those where you can get by without a chain.
I guess my elemental tickets should be going to light/dark now.
Sephiroth lmr
Sephiroth USB
Balthier csb
Sephiroth aasb
Awesome to grab the chain and fire Sephiroth is go. Still don't have a single sync.
it was a fight to the gd death for fire touched blade in my parties before, and now i don't think i'll be using any samurai. rip.
Seph AASB. Seems less powerful than the dark one?
Balthier AASB. Uh seems fine?
4/11
Seph AASB
Seph samurai LMR
Noctis G+
Seph AOSB
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no syncs for me this time!
Streaming 8PST on weeknights
That USB is stacking fire aura, so between it and the Awakening it's sort of kind of like a Sync
Getting three follow-up OSB hits from the Awakening seems pretty good, too
Faris chain, imperil, brave
Alphinaud BSB (still real damn good!), USB (reflect), Awakening
Elarra glint+, USB, Awakening
Ultimecia Awakening, OSB, AOSB
Fujin chain, USB (chase)
RW: wall
Ultimecia only got aura one time, but that's all I needed. Walls were taken out by Ultimecia OSB, Titan call, and Cometeor (Alphinaud Awakening follow-up after 3 summons)
i can get out of phase 1 but i keep dying in phase 2, and when i was doing attempts at the time it was always the other way around, if i got to phase 2 it was an easy clear. i'm not even using better items and rushing anything, my team is exactly the same because i haven't gotten any magic ice tech of note. ffrk is hard sometimes.
I swapped out Rinoa with her gen 1 CSB for Serah with her gen 2 CSB, and moved Shantotto from USB to AASB which... resulted in cutting off about 8 seconds from the clear time, yet both Serah and Elarra died.
So... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For my selection relics, I'm thinking of grabbing the Terra pack (because my fire magic is pretty weak and Terra is from a wonderful game) and the Strago awakening to pair up with my Gogo (V) magic water chain. I figure those two plus throwing in Rydia's water aura USB from lenses should be pretty solid to continue along the ring from Famfrit when the time comes.
Overall a pretty successful festival, struck out on the first banner but grabbed excellent stuff from the second and solid but unexciting stuff from the third. Now to not summon for like 3 months or so.
1/11: Sephiroth USB3
1/11: Sephiroth G+
1/11: Balthier CSB
1/11: Balthier AASB
1/11: Noctis LMR (en-fire)
1/11: Balthier CSB (dupe)
Bleh, stopping while I still have mythril. Wasn't meant to be.
Oh well still one non-samurai and that’s good.
Writing it out like that has me thinking of a truly ill advised 2nd pull on this banner. Does anyone know when the next time a physical fire chain rolls around?
Like... 3 days with fire bird.
Also when Elena's chain rolls around, and since she can imperil bot well, she's a decent chain holder.
E:
That's the last for quite a while though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/ekesli/now_versus_later_2020_januaryjune/
Well, there's another free pull right? I still can think about this for a few days.
Yea I have Vincent right now so it’s not the worst situation, since he’s a passible physical machinist. Sucks that the fire bird banner is so all over the place though, doesn’t really jump out at me tbh.
Got the rest gen2, though.
Yeah no. He's got a couple uniques, a super, an LMR and a burst, none of which is even remotely good. Oh well, the awakening is still quite nice.
-edit- In fact I looked it up on the official wiki, and Tellah doesn't have an overstrike at all. He does have an arcane overstrike of the 3 hit variety, and an ultra that is halfway decent except it KOs him at the end, because of course it does. (I get that it is true to the original game, but come on)
Water phys
Fire phys
Ice phys
Dark magic
Holy phys
I recently landed Irvine's VIII chain off one of the miscellaneous fest draws, I'm cautiously optimistic that can do me for ice phys if I go hard enough on that VIII banner. Have Vincent for fire, and Edward is fine for holy.