II: Leon BUSB, which is a 6* +dark armor that's also not a dupe. I'll consider that a victory - my standards for winning have been lowered significantly this ROP. :P
Leon’s Bubsy seems interesting. It’s Crush type, but it’s also an Overstrike. Most Crushes even to go for multiple hits instead of an Overstrike.
Problem is it doesn’t give him Endark, and it does that Dark Knight thing of hurting him when he uses the brave attack. But it does give him boosted action speed basically forever, so that’s neat.
According to the apology message, Tyro's Stormlance Grimoire was temporarily bugged to cost no soul break meter.
Not that that was terribly impactful (pretty sure he can do better with Thundering Quadstrike), and few enough people even have that thing, but it's kinda funny.
Damn, I almost could have had a moment of internet fame...I was considering equipping Stormlance Grimoire for my lightning team fight against Omega, but didn't bother. RIP
Wind-weak Omega down, using the DPS from Titan. Nearly lost that one due to running out of resources. The jerk throws up like 3 kinds of damage mitigation right at the end.
Ok only missing Holy. Man, are knights slow. Even using their AASBs as the chain started I just hit the half HP mark at 20ish secs. I'm gonna wait for the tickets before doing any more attempts. I figure giving Beatrix her USB chase is gonna help a lot. And maybe I'll get lucky and get an AASB on someone with a decent Holy USB....*looks at list*...maybe not. Let's see
Agrias: bleh. Divine Purge is just an Imperil.
WoL: bleh, Overstrike when Ex Mode ends so that means wasting a turn on casting an USB over and over.
Firion: Remove Delay which is nifty but I have to time this better.
Orlandeau: Too bad his USB doesn't play nice with his AASB. At least he gets TGM?
Ramza: I mean if I had another Chain Holder this would be fine I guess.
Celes: Her kit isn't exactly great for Holy Stuff.
Cecil: I'd need to pull on the current banner to get him up to speed and get a TON of hits.
Which Knight I'm missing? Well, Marche still doesn't have his Awakening but he'd be awesome.
Agrias: she stacks imperils like whoa. Double cast from Awakening is two shots at her LM2 imperil triggering, plus another shot if her double cast LMR goes off.
Ramza: I love having an Awakening on my chain holder, for real fights I can usually find the meter for a non-chain SB or two, and having another person doing Real Damage at a key part of the fight is so helpful
WoL: I like the overstrike USBs, you can potentially get like 200k damage out of one SB cast, it's a great way to spend extra meter
Tyro in slot 1. Used Tyro's AASB early (7ish sec?) because I knew the Death was coming. Reserved Elarra's AASB for after the death to bring him back. RW raider, which is also what I used to re-haste after the dispel.
Oh, right. I had Agrias and TGCid's OSBs, as well as Tyro's glint, half expecting to need to use them while blinded or to deal with that, but Omega died I think right before that happened.
And yeah, Ramza's SSB was chant. So much nicer than finding a way to fit in Elarra's USB2.
Oh right the AASB I don't have and people keep telling me it's not worth 100 Mythril. After the fest pulls I'm grabbing it. It just seems way too useful.
With the amount of karma I've built up from zero 6*s on the dailies for the last six months, and only one in the last twelve months, and this LotR being 100% crap so far, I'm either due, or going to be going 1/11 dupe Gabranth AASB.
Yuffie Earth, which is a non-dualcast, but still a second awakening for her
Nabaat, which might put me into magic range for Alex
Relm, which HELL YEAH
Ceodore, which... This looks real fucking good. Enholy, holy boost, holy awakening, 100% crit, IC3? Goddamn
FF0: Queen BSB dupe
FFT: TGCid AOSB
FF15: Luna LMR
FF14: Minfilia LMR dupe
FF13: Serah USB2
FF12: Gabranth AASB
FF11: Zeid AOSB
FF10: Lulu glint
FF9: Freya USB
FF8: Raijin AOSB
FF7: Cloud G+
FF6: Terra glint dupe, Umaro USB
FF5: Xezat LMR dupe
FF4: Porom G+
FF3: Onion CSB
FF2: Leon glint dupe
FF1: WoL G+
LMR/Glint:
2/11 2x LMR dupes
AASB:
1/11 dupe
'Appreciation'
1/10 USB dupe
Those results are pretty fucking dire. Like, if you gave me that entire list, and said "you can have everything here, or 10 mythril," I'd take the mythril.
Awakening draw was pretty sweet. General Leo’s (Earth/Holy with Enearth and Knight Awaken. Causes his attacks to reduce the party’s damage for 1 attack), and Rydia’s (Water/Earth/Holy with MAG/RES buff to the party and Summon Awaken. Causes a chase every 2 attacks).
Both of these are pretty good! Leo’s not going to go into any Ramuh reclears without his Glint, nor Alexander in any case, but he’s well set for everything else with this and his USB. And Rydia has long been known to have a good Awakening. I already use her for Water stuff, so this is even better now. It doesn’t give Aura, and the buff is redundant with her USBW1, but that just means I can freely use her USBW2. I’ll take this result, definitely.
First ticket was kinda a bust; dupes and King’s Enlightning LMR.
I'm tempted to try and come up with 25 mythril from record dungeons + all the new events for the AASB draw, but I guess the sync draws are a better option.
Ifrit is absolutely the wrong fight to bring a Summoner to, yes?
Or do Summons prevent the pillars from counterattacking if they survive an attack?
You can use a summoner on Ifrit, but you have to be very careful about how you do it, because if you kill all the pillars with one attack, that character is toast.
I'm tempted to try and come up with 25 mythril from record dungeons + all the new events for the AASB draw, but I guess the sync draws are a better option.
25 mythril on an AASB-only draw is pretty much the best value for mythril. I would try to find the mythril before it goes away (in 23 hours)
Ifrit is absolutely the wrong fight to bring a Summoner to, yes?
Or do Summons prevent the pillars from counterattacking if they survive an attack?
You can use a summoner on Ifrit, but you have to be very careful about how you do it, because if you kill all the pillars with one attack, that character is toast.
Which can still be the least awful path. Most of my clears involved yuffie killing all the pillars then being revived so she can do it again on the third batch. Saves you so much pain.
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Leon’s Bubsy seems interesting. It’s Crush type, but it’s also an Overstrike. Most Crushes even to go for multiple hits instead of an Overstrike.
Problem is it doesn’t give him Endark, and it does that Dark Knight thing of hurting him when he uses the brave attack. But it does give him boosted action speed basically forever, so that’s neat.
Not that that was terribly impactful (pretty sure he can do better with Thundering Quadstrike), and few enough people even have that thing, but it's kinda funny.
Agrias: bleh. Divine Purge is just an Imperil.
WoL: bleh, Overstrike when Ex Mode ends so that means wasting a turn on casting an USB over and over.
Firion: Remove Delay which is nifty but I have to time this better.
Orlandeau: Too bad his USB doesn't play nice with his AASB. At least he gets TGM?
Ramza: I mean if I had another Chain Holder this would be fine I guess.
Celes: Her kit isn't exactly great for Holy Stuff.
Cecil: I'd need to pull on the current banner to get him up to speed and get a TON of hits.
Which Knight I'm missing? Well, Marche still doesn't have his Awakening but he'd be awesome.
Ramza: I love having an Awakening on my chain holder, for real fights I can usually find the meter for a non-chain SB or two, and having another person doing Real Damage at a key part of the fight is so helpful
WoL: I like the overstrike USBs, you can potentially get like 200k damage out of one SB cast, it's a great way to spend extra meter
Agrias AASB
TGCid AASB
Ramza CSB/SSB
Elarra USB1/AASB
Tyro AASB
Tyro in slot 1. Used Tyro's AASB early (7ish sec?) because I knew the Death was coming. Reserved Elarra's AASB for after the death to bring him back. RW raider, which is also what I used to re-haste after the dispel.
Landed my final hit while countdown was 1, doing a normal ability instead of OSB because I didn't think I had time to cast.
And yeah, Ramza's SSB was chant. So much nicer than finding a way to fit in Elarra's USB2.
There's a few things I can still get but eeeh
It's what I did for Deathgaze. Blind sucks, but Saint Cross clears it.
Alternatively, OSB spam at the end of the fight. Depends on the team you're going with.
This is one of the few times where, forced to choose between Orlandeau's USB or his OSB, the OSB is the clear winner.
With the amount of karma I've built up from zero 6*s on the dailies for the last six months, and only one in the last twelve months, and this LotR being 100% crap so far, I'm either due, or going to be going 1/11 dupe Gabranth AASB.
Dupe Master BSB
Hit! Rem AASB! Technically my second Holy Magic AASB since I have Rydia's.
Dupe Tyro USB4?
Well it could've been worse.
AASB 'lucky' was 1/11 Balthier dupe. So... a fuck you to this fest all around so far.
E:
First 'apprecation' ticket an awesome 1/10 Ovelia USB dupe.
Jesus fuck, DeNA.
Hey don't diss that G+! I did use it in the FF1 Torment and it saved my team!
Yuffie Earth, which is a non-dualcast, but still a second awakening for her
Nabaat, which might put me into magic range for Alex
Relm, which HELL YEAH
Ceodore, which... This looks real fucking good. Enholy, holy boost, holy awakening, 100% crit, IC3? Goddamn
FFT: TGCid AOSB
FF15: Luna LMR
FF14: Minfilia LMR dupe
FF13: Serah USB2
FF12: Gabranth AASB
FF11: Zeid AOSB
FF10: Lulu glint
FF9: Freya USB
FF8: Raijin AOSB
FF7: Cloud G+
FF6: Terra glint dupe, Umaro USB
FF5: Xezat LMR dupe
FF4: Porom G+
FF3: Onion CSB
FF2: Leon glint dupe
FF1: WoL G+
LMR/Glint:
2/11 2x LMR dupes
AASB:
1/11 dupe
'Appreciation'
1/10 USB dupe
Those results are pretty fucking dire. Like, if you gave me that entire list, and said "you can have everything here, or 10 mythril," I'd take the mythril.
That WOL G+ has kind of become the standard for Knight types. WOL has it, Steiner has it, General Leo has it.
The use case, I’ve found, is to use it to quickly buff the party, and get an instant turn to drop a party buff USB or a Chain.
Dupe seph awakening
Morrow USB
Both of these are pretty good! Leo’s not going to go into any Ramuh reclears without his Glint, nor Alexander in any case, but he’s well set for everything else with this and his USB. And Rydia has long been known to have a good Awakening. I already use her for Water stuff, so this is even better now. It doesn’t give Aura, and the buff is redundant with her USBW1, but that just means I can freely use her USBW2. I’ll take this result, definitely.
First ticket was kinda a bust; dupes and King’s Enlightning LMR.
Or do Summons prevent the pillars from counterattacking if they survive an attack?
ticket: vayne AOSB, ingus USB
I'm tempted to try and come up with 25 mythril from record dungeons + all the new events for the AASB draw, but I guess the sync draws are a better option.
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You can use a summoner on Ifrit, but you have to be very careful about how you do it, because if you kill all the pillars with one attack, that character is toast.
25 mythril on an AASB-only draw is pretty much the best value for mythril. I would try to find the mythril before it goes away (in 23 hours)
The ticket was LMRs for Maria and Porom, and dupe Seph pants.
AASB, 3/11: Ace, Ultimecia, Sice. All new, alright alright alright
Which can still be the least awful path. Most of my clears involved yuffie killing all the pillars then being revived so she can do it again on the third batch. Saves you so much pain.
Fest ticket: Noel AOSB (dupe), Ayame G+. The G+ would be nice if it weren't for the issue of me not using Ayame on my XI team...
AASB Lucky: CoD AASB, Agrias AASB. Finally, something good!
Man, remember fights that don’t enforce elemental auras? They’re so nice, comparatively.