Honestly the clear was a bit of a mess, since I wanted to just kill 1-2 pillars at most, and just tank the extra damage with Aria USB1's 100% HP Fire Stoneskin, but I killed a few extra pillars via sequencing problems and things would've been tight without Gogo (V)'s USB Last Stand. I also bungled Edge's SB meter management, but it didn't end up mattering.
Roughly:
Edge Wall, HA pillar, HA until 2 bars, BSB, AASB, HA spam, find I don't have enough meter to EnWater in phase 2, get Berserked, wait for Ultra Cure, spam HA, AOSB when AASB drops off. Some amount of targeting pillars with HA.
Rydia Voltech the boss a bit, aim USB at pillar, Voltech spam until Pillars are gone, Leviathan until phase 2, aim USB at pillar, repeat Voltech/Leviathan wrt pillars, phase 3 aim USB at pillar, AASB at boss, Leviathan spam until end after pillars gone.
Gogo spam Waterja, CSB after Elarra USB1, USB after Edge's HA, usually targeting pillars. The blinks mattered for Gogo! Refresh CSB later in phase 2 so it's ready in phase 3.
Elarra G+, keep up Salsa, Jitterbug, USB1 when SC needed and to overwrite Regen with Regenga. Salsa for meter, Jitterbug after P2T1. Call Wall ~30s.
Aria AcM, USB1, then AcM spam with occasional UC after untimely Painflares and to clear Edge's Berserk. Would usually USB1 before forcing Perdition Hellfire.
Glad that's over. Now for Magic Shiva with either RW Chain, Elena Chain, or Krile Chain. Hrmm. Might take Edge along for this as well.
Well, with the banners refreshed, I'm back to the habit of speanding only on them until I run out of discounts.
And I've got another 15 today, so let's try Fire. That's my last hope for an XIV Awakening, and I could try for like, Vincent chain or something.
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Hm, a dupe, and Cor's Arcane. Physical fire is kinda packed with Noctis, Balthier, and Locke. But, Cor was really good for my first Shiva kills, so something that powers him up is nice to have. I may want to see what I can get for Ignis; a Fire team in XV is seeming real nice, even though I have Prompto's chain.
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Oh, Ignis has a row-speed USB on the shop. That's pretty sweet.
Also, I got some of the rewards for making magicites with inherited abilities, and I have no earthly idea why. I haven't used the Magicite Inheritance panel in about a month.
Oh, I guess I just needed to interact with Magicite menus to make the game realize I qualified? Whatever, that got me another ticket. Flushing it down the XIV well again.
2 dupes... and Papalymo's Awakening! Let's go! Now I can make this a full magic team and stop trying to awkwardly accommodate for Yda. Gonna need to give Ysayle a bunch of stuff to power her up for this, and probably make Dark Shiva, but I think this will be a lot more comfortable.
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Oh hm. This is also just a really nice tool for a magic fire team in general. The follow-up boosts everyone's fire damage every 2 spells.
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
So here's where I'm at for Shiva.
Terra (AASB2, Glint, AASB1, bUSB, AOSB) strongly considering her HA, if not Meltdown and L. Ifrit or Wrath.
Vivi (AASB2, Glint, AASB1, OSB) Chain Firaja and possibly Ultima. Will need to Lens his Glint.
Then need to pick:
RW Chain OR Elena (CSB, BSB) Burnt Offering, OR Krile (CSB, BSB2, Glint, bUSB) Meltdown
IF RW Chain, Edge (AASB) HA + Elarra (G+, USB1) AcM/Dispel + Tyro (G+, USB1) Mage Hymn/Passion Salsa OR Burnt Offering
IF Krile or Elena, choose:
Elarra (G+, USB1) Mage Hymn/Dispel, Edge (AASB) HA, RW Wall
Elarra (G+, USB1) AcM/Dispel, Edge (AASB) HA, Tyro (G+, USB1) Mage Hymn/Passion Salsa OR Burnt Offering, RW Mage
There's probably more iterations, but you get the idea. It's hard to fit Dispel, Imperil, Mage Hymn, and AcM all in the same team, while still having room for Edge shenanigans. This also doesn't consider Tyro doing Entrust in some way.
Basically, what should the priority be on Imperil, +MAG, and +Cast Speed.
My first instinct is to field Krile as your Chain holder, giving her Mako Might, and to have her build up two bars so she can do her chain and then her Bubsy. Elena can imperil with Burnt Offering, but Krile can provide considerably more personal damage, especially with the forgiving math on summons. And Krile can use her BSB for imperil if needed.
But, I don't know how strong Edge is against Shiva with his hero ability.
My first instinct is to field Krile as your Chain holder, giving her Mako Might, and to have her build up two bars so she can do her chain and then her Bubsy. Elena can imperil with Burnt Offering, but Krile can provide considerably more personal damage, especially with the forgiving math on summons. And Krile can use her BSB for imperil if needed.
But, I don't know how strong Edge is against Shiva with his hero ability.
Man. Ysayle is such a refreshing presence on the XIV team. Even without a dualcast option, I don't feel like I need to pull teeth to get her to do any significant amount of damage against Lahabrea. I really do think that jerk just has a disproportionately high DEF stat.
Like, I lost to Memory's End on the last few percentage points before 70% HP... after I lost Alphinaud at the start of the chain. That's how much better the team was going in general; they nearly made it to phase 2 with only 2 of the 3 DPS characters active.
Man. Ysayle is such a refreshing presence on the XIV team. Even without a dualcast option, I don't feel like I need to pull teeth to get her to do any significant amount of damage against Lahabrea. I really do think that jerk just has a disproportionately high DEF stat.
Like, I lost to Memory's End on the last few percentage points before 70% HP... after I lost Alphinaud at the start of the chain. That's how much better the team was going in general; they nearly made it to phase 2 with only 2 of the 3 DPS characters active.
I had her on Chain Blizz and the witch spell, rather than Lunar Shiva. She was casting plenty fast between her LM, Yshtola, and Allegro.
Yeah, right now she has Voltech and Chilling Blizzard, because I don't yet have Chain Blizzaja. Voltech is mostly for early meter build, but Chain Blizzaja will probably be worth it.
Right now it's phase 2 that's the issue. I think I need to coordinate a summon of the Historia Crystal and Flareja spam from Papalymo, so that I can bring his Rage down to an acceptable level for some damage. Trying to save Papalymo's Awakening for phase 3.
oh yeah! Magic Ifrit down. Thanks to the reddit discord I was able to assemble a team. Also holy shit talk about RNG. So the idea was basically, OK solo DPSs Ifrit which he carried out beautifully. Rikku Chain and Rydia gets the flames. Here's the tricky bit. Rydia had to get a dual cast SMN on each phase change to do it or it was back to the drawing board. I loaded her with both small chance and moderate chance to dual cast on summon and got lucky on my first try.
Here's the team if it helps someone:
OK | Sync + AASB | Wrath (didn't use Chain Waterja should've used Water Veil) | Much Water
Elarra | ACM | G+, USB1, AASB | MM
Rikku | Aquatic Weakness | CSB + AASB
Mog | Passion Salsa + Arise | AASB + USB1 | DMT
Rydia | Lunar Levia | nothing | small chance to dualcast Summon
So there you go. Not gonna try to do three more clears due to RNG and just gonna get my remaining Ifrits with my Physical Team. Well, my new physical team at least.
OK | Sync + AASB | Wrath + Max Rank Water Veil | Much Water. The only RNG I need is Rydia's first dual cast.
Elarra | ACM | G+, USB1, AASB | MM
Rikku | Aquatic Weakness | CSB + AASB
Mog | Passion Salsa + Arise | AASB + USB1 | DMT
Rydia | Lunar Levia | BSB Imperil Water | small chance to dualcast Summon
This made farming the final 2 Magicites much cleaner. Well time to steamroll Shiva.
Ok! Physical Shiva down. A bit disappointed that I couldn't get it sub 30 but I love steamrolling her. I have a lot of Fire AASBs to choose from but I got a good suggestion from the reddit discord to use Vincent as my Imperiler. I forget he's actually a hybrid and has access to machinist. So the team was like this:
Tyro AASB and Wall
Squall SASB2 and AASB2 using his HA
Elarra G+,USB1 and USB2 (didn't really use her AASB because I wanted my guys sped up)
Vincent G+ and AASB
Auron CSB, BSB and AASB
If anything I kinda want to get Auron's Glint just to make his life easier. Despite having a ton of bar, he really didn't contribute a lot to the damage. Since phase changes came so quickly, by the time I got EnFired from an SB cast, he was diffused again. Also a bit sad that running Noctis SASB instead of Tyro made Shiva quite tanky during the last phase.
Well, gonna farm this one and time to clear Physical Valefor.
The new Overdrive thing has made it a lot easier to farm Magia using the in-game auto feature, if you don't want to use an external macro.
Go to Dreams I (Zombie Dragon). Put someone with an AOSB in your party, give them Dr Mogs. Probably make sure you have at least two I characters in your party. Remove magicite/historic crystal, remove RW. Turn on Overdrive at the dungeon screen (it's free here!), turn on auto, go about your life.
For best results, use Orlandu/Wol/Quistis/Ramza AOSB, since they have instant cast LMs
Ooh, nice. A ticket on the FFV banner got a good result; Faris’s Dreambreaker-bait realm chain. The instant 99-max type with an ATK/MAG/DEF/RES buff to counter Full Break. Guess I should give Azulmagia a shot. I’m thinking that Faris, Dorgann (with Awakening), and Bartz (with no Awakening, but with USBWind for party speed buffs) is a decent DPS core to work with.
silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
Thing I found out. If you cast Ultima while you have Twin Element II buff on, even if you deal Fire damage, it still grants you EnIce when fighting Shiva >.<
Still, muddled my way through Magic Shiva with:
Terra (AASB2, Glint, AASB1, bUSB) Hero Ability
Elarra (G+, USB1, AASB) Mage Hymn, Dispel
Axel (Glint, AASB) Meltdown, Stitch in Time
Tyro (G+, USB1) AcM, Entrust
Vivi (Glint, AASB2, AASB1) Chain Firaja, Ultima
RW Chain, Ifrit
Shiva, Madeen x3
Been buying Hero Abilities pretty freely, but it's not like Terra won't see use down the line.
Now looking at Magic Valefor, and there really aren't a lot of Ice mages, huh?
Matoya - barely, she can only EnIce via AASB and G+
Rinoa - have USB1, AOSB, G+
Edea - have USB1, AOSB, G, G+
Vivi - have AASB, Glint
Lulu - have USB1, 2
Serah - have Chain
Y'sayle - have USB1
Seven - tough to EnIce, only have USB (which doesn't EnIce)
Missing solid BDL SBs, as well as AoE damage.
Do I throw tickets at this until it's solved, or do I skip ahead to Alexander and Diabolos, both of whom I have rosier starting teams to work with?
I don't think Vivi's version of twin element lets you get fire aura, it's ice/lit only. Because they hate him
It doesn't. I was surprised it gave me EnIce when Ultima clearly dealt Fire damage.
I sequenced it Glint, Glint, AASB2. The plan was Ultima spam until he had enough SB for AASB1, then cast that, putting me at three stacks of EnFire, which would last me the rest of the fight, plus put me up to BDL2.
Ultima stripped the two stacks of EnFire, so he was useless until he had a bar to Enfire, and had to Glint in phase 3 to keep going. It wasn't ideal, but I guess I had enough leeway to get there regardless.
Physical Diabolos down in 2 tries, waiting for powercreep is great.
I only need magic Shiva and magic Ramuh now and I've done all 16, still haven't got much of anything for either of those though. Pulling on relevant Realm/Elemental banners only got me more physical loot.
3DS: 1392 - 5070 - 7853
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
Neither Valefor nor Diabolos seem appealing right now, so fishing for power creep:
Ice draw 1: Ayame BSB dupe, Steiner USB1 (friendly fire), Squall AOSB dupe. Blargh
Ice draw 2: Rinoa Glint+ dupe. Literally nothing!
Holy draw 1: Ceodore BSB dupe, Wol bUSB dupe, Arc G+. Barely more than nothing.
Holy draw 2: Ovelia USB2 dupe, Pecil bUSB dupe, Enna Kros AASB. Come on! That's not even Holy!
Fuck gacha! Neither boss is still possible or appealing.
Man, after watching Dirge's stream this past weekend I think I'm gonna have to reassess my mythril/banner pulling strats. I'm starting to think that this coming fest might not be really that great? Sure the new shiny is there (TA!) but well, like it's better to look at the whole banner (LMRs included) and not just the shiny new tech.
Ooh. Eight’s USB. instant hit, Enice, Last Stand to the party, and a chase attack on Monk. I have an Ice Glint for him, so he might be a useful extra DPS for a 0 Cardia team. Granted, he’d have to find a way to be a better pick than Sice, Rem, or Queen, who all have Awakenings and relevant USBs.
Garnet AASB! I'm happy, but why is this AASB so bad. Garnet already doesn't have any DC materia, then the AASB doesn't give any either. All it does give is imperil and a cast speed buff, but she already has that from trance.
Crystal dungeons focused on one type of crystal will now drop 5 crystals on a clear, instead of 2.
The mixed Orbs, EXP, Gil, and Upgrade Materials dungeons drop more Gysahl Greens, and the latter 3 have more of their respective items per clear.
Beyond characters (not KH) will apply for Core chains (both the RW version and Dr Mog's soul break).
That last one is fairly significant, as it allows for a lot more variety in Core teams, which previously had to rely on Biggs and Wedge for most of the DPS. It opens the "realm" up to characters like Enna Kros, Lasswell, Reynn, and so on.
Combining Core and Beyond makes a ton of sense, and makes the blended realm pretty well-rounded. It's kinda funny that KH is staying on it's own tiny island though.
Crystal dungeon change is also very welcome given how greedy HAs are for crystals.
Does anyone know what, if any, banners are coming with this mini-fest? I can't seem to find it on the usual places.
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Team:
Rydia L. Levi/Voltech (USB2, AASB) +DMG (LM1, 2)
Gogo Chain Waterja (CSB, USB) Ace Striker (LM1, 2)
Elarra Passion Salsa/Enfeebling Jitterbug (G+, USB1) DMT (LM1) 6* dive
Aria AcM/Ultra Cure (USB1) MM (LM1, 2)
RW Wall/Leviathan
Ifrit/Madeen x3 (including +MND for Berserk)
Equip/Waters/Magia/Dives pretty normal.
Honestly the clear was a bit of a mess, since I wanted to just kill 1-2 pillars at most, and just tank the extra damage with Aria USB1's 100% HP Fire Stoneskin, but I killed a few extra pillars via sequencing problems and things would've been tight without Gogo (V)'s USB Last Stand. I also bungled Edge's SB meter management, but it didn't end up mattering.
Roughly:
Edge Wall, HA pillar, HA until 2 bars, BSB, AASB, HA spam, find I don't have enough meter to EnWater in phase 2, get Berserked, wait for Ultra Cure, spam HA, AOSB when AASB drops off. Some amount of targeting pillars with HA.
Rydia Voltech the boss a bit, aim USB at pillar, Voltech spam until Pillars are gone, Leviathan until phase 2, aim USB at pillar, repeat Voltech/Leviathan wrt pillars, phase 3 aim USB at pillar, AASB at boss, Leviathan spam until end after pillars gone.
Gogo spam Waterja, CSB after Elarra USB1, USB after Edge's HA, usually targeting pillars. The blinks mattered for Gogo! Refresh CSB later in phase 2 so it's ready in phase 3.
Elarra G+, keep up Salsa, Jitterbug, USB1 when SC needed and to overwrite Regen with Regenga. Salsa for meter, Jitterbug after P2T1. Call Wall ~30s.
Aria AcM, USB1, then AcM spam with occasional UC after untimely Painflares and to clear Edge's Berserk. Would usually USB1 before forcing Perdition Hellfire.
Glad that's over. Now for Magic Shiva with either RW Chain, Elena Chain, or Krile Chain. Hrmm. Might take Edge along for this as well.
And I've got another 15 today, so let's try Fire. That's my last hope for an XIV Awakening, and I could try for like, Vincent chain or something.
edit:
Hm, a dupe, and Cor's Arcane. Physical fire is kinda packed with Noctis, Balthier, and Locke. But, Cor was really good for my first Shiva kills, so something that powers him up is nice to have. I may want to see what I can get for Ignis; a Fire team in XV is seeming real nice, even though I have Prompto's chain.
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Oh, Ignis has a row-speed USB on the shop. That's pretty sweet.
All dupes.
2 dupes... and Papalymo's Awakening! Let's go! Now I can make this a full magic team and stop trying to awkwardly accommodate for Yda. Gonna need to give Ysayle a bunch of stuff to power her up for this, and probably make Dark Shiva, but I think this will be a lot more comfortable.
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Oh hm. This is also just a really nice tool for a magic fire team in general. The follow-up boosts everyone's fire damage every 2 spells.
Terra (AASB2, Glint, AASB1, bUSB, AOSB) strongly considering her HA, if not Meltdown and L. Ifrit or Wrath.
Vivi (AASB2, Glint, AASB1, OSB) Chain Firaja and possibly Ultima. Will need to Lens his Glint.
Then need to pick:
RW Chain OR Elena (CSB, BSB) Burnt Offering, OR Krile (CSB, BSB2, Glint, bUSB) Meltdown
IF RW Chain, Edge (AASB) HA + Elarra (G+, USB1) AcM/Dispel + Tyro (G+, USB1) Mage Hymn/Passion Salsa OR Burnt Offering
IF Krile or Elena, choose:
Elarra (G+, USB1) Mage Hymn/Dispel, Edge (AASB) HA, RW Wall
Elarra (G+, USB1) AcM/Dispel, Edge (AASB) HA, Tyro (G+, USB1) Mage Hymn/Passion Salsa OR Burnt Offering, RW Mage
There's probably more iterations, but you get the idea. It's hard to fit Dispel, Imperil, Mage Hymn, and AcM all in the same team, while still having room for Edge shenanigans. This also doesn't consider Tyro doing Entrust in some way.
Basically, what should the priority be on Imperil, +MAG, and +Cast Speed.
But, I don't know how strong Edge is against Shiva with his hero ability.
With his sync: goddamn amazing.
Without that to get him enFire? I'm not sure.
Like, I lost to Memory's End on the last few percentage points before 70% HP... after I lost Alphinaud at the start of the chain. That's how much better the team was going in general; they nearly made it to phase 2 with only 2 of the 3 DPS characters active.
I had her on Chain Blizz and the witch spell, rather than Lunar Shiva. She was casting plenty fast between her LM, Yshtola, and Allegro.
Right now it's phase 2 that's the issue. I think I need to coordinate a summon of the Historia Crystal and Flareja spam from Papalymo, so that I can bring his Rage down to an acceptable level for some damage. Trying to save Papalymo's Awakening for phase 3.
Here's the team if it helps someone:
OK | Sync + AASB | Wrath (didn't use Chain Waterja should've used Water Veil) | Much Water
Elarra | ACM | G+, USB1, AASB | MM
Rikku | Aquatic Weakness | CSB + AASB
Mog | Passion Salsa + Arise | AASB + USB1 | DMT
Rydia | Lunar Levia | nothing | small chance to dualcast Summon
So there you go. Not gonna try to do three more clears due to RNG and just gonna get my remaining Ifrits with my Physical Team. Well, my new physical team at least.
OK | Sync + AASB | Wrath + Max Rank Water Veil | Much Water. The only RNG I need is Rydia's first dual cast.
Elarra | ACM | G+, USB1, AASB | MM
Rikku | Aquatic Weakness | CSB + AASB
Mog | Passion Salsa + Arise | AASB + USB1 | DMT
Rydia | Lunar Levia | BSB Imperil Water | small chance to dualcast Summon
This made farming the final 2 Magicites much cleaner. Well time to steamroll Shiva.
38thDoE on steam
Tyro AASB and Wall
Squall SASB2 and AASB2 using his HA
Elarra G+,USB1 and USB2 (didn't really use her AASB because I wanted my guys sped up)
Vincent G+ and AASB
Auron CSB, BSB and AASB
If anything I kinda want to get Auron's Glint just to make his life easier. Despite having a ton of bar, he really didn't contribute a lot to the damage. Since phase changes came so quickly, by the time I got EnFired from an SB cast, he was diffused again. Also a bit sad that running Noctis SASB instead of Tyro made Shiva quite tanky during the last phase.
Well, gonna farm this one and time to clear Physical Valefor.
Go to Dreams I (Zombie Dragon). Put someone with an AOSB in your party, give them Dr Mogs. Probably make sure you have at least two I characters in your party. Remove magicite/historic crystal, remove RW. Turn on Overdrive at the dungeon screen (it's free here!), turn on auto, go about your life.
For best results, use Orlandu/Wol/Quistis/Ramza AOSB, since they have instant cast LMs
Still, muddled my way through Magic Shiva with:
Terra (AASB2, Glint, AASB1, bUSB) Hero Ability
Elarra (G+, USB1, AASB) Mage Hymn, Dispel
Axel (Glint, AASB) Meltdown, Stitch in Time
Tyro (G+, USB1) AcM, Entrust
Vivi (Glint, AASB2, AASB1) Chain Firaja, Ultima
RW Chain, Ifrit
Shiva, Madeen x3
Been buying Hero Abilities pretty freely, but it's not like Terra won't see use down the line.
Now looking at Magic Valefor, and there really aren't a lot of Ice mages, huh?
Matoya - barely, she can only EnIce via AASB and G+
Rinoa - have USB1, AOSB, G+
Edea - have USB1, AOSB, G, G+
Vivi - have AASB, Glint
Lulu - have USB1, 2
Serah - have Chain
Y'sayle - have USB1
Seven - tough to EnIce, only have USB (which doesn't EnIce)
Missing solid BDL SBs, as well as AoE damage.
Do I throw tickets at this until it's solved, or do I skip ahead to Alexander and Diabolos, both of whom I have rosier starting teams to work with?
Yeah, he's got a different awakening with fire, so....don't have that, SOL I guess.
It doesn't. I was surprised it gave me EnIce when Ultima clearly dealt Fire damage.
I sequenced it Glint, Glint, AASB2. The plan was Ultima spam until he had enough SB for AASB1, then cast that, putting me at three stacks of EnFire, which would last me the rest of the fight, plus put me up to BDL2.
Ultima stripped the two stacks of EnFire, so he was useless until he had a bar to Enfire, and had to Glint in phase 3 to keep going. It wasn't ideal, but I guess I had enough leeway to get there regardless.
Golbez USB2, Sync
CoD Chain, AASB
Elarra G+, USB1
Emperor AASB
Raines OSB, AASB
Golbez's USB2 grants him doublecast as long as he has a Bubble up, which double casts his Sync C1. Nice.
Built meter, cast Chain, OSB to stop Holy Power, everyone USB2/Sync or AASB, blow him up.
Valefor or Diabolos. Ugh.
I only need magic Shiva and magic Ramuh now and I've done all 16, still haven't got much of anything for either of those though. Pulling on relevant Realm/Elemental banners only got me more physical loot.
Ice draw 1: Ayame BSB dupe, Steiner USB1 (friendly fire), Squall AOSB dupe. Blargh
Ice draw 2: Rinoa Glint+ dupe. Literally nothing!
Holy draw 1: Ceodore BSB dupe, Wol bUSB dupe, Arc G+. Barely more than nothing.
Holy draw 2: Ovelia USB2 dupe, Pecil bUSB dupe, Enna Kros AASB. Come on! That's not even Holy!
Fuck gacha! Neither boss is still possible or appealing.
No Elarra G+, but did get mog awakening.
Always disappointing when you see a rainbow and don't even get the stat boost.
Galuf empowered glint
Snow radiant USB
Cloud wind awakening
...uh, that's a solid start. All new.
Ace empowered glint
King empowered g+
Still only one awakening in-realm, but both useful.
Also, there was no announcement, but there's new magicite missions with the fest, up to 50, and a number of tickets contained therein.
Crystal dungeons focused on one type of crystal will now drop 5 crystals on a clear, instead of 2.
The mixed Orbs, EXP, Gil, and Upgrade Materials dungeons drop more Gysahl Greens, and the latter 3 have more of their respective items per clear.
Beyond characters (not KH) will apply for Core chains (both the RW version and Dr Mog's soul break).
That last one is fairly significant, as it allows for a lot more variety in Core teams, which previously had to rely on Biggs and Wedge for most of the DPS. It opens the "realm" up to characters like Enna Kros, Lasswell, Reynn, and so on.
Crystal dungeon change is also very welcome given how greedy HAs are for crystals.
Does anyone know what, if any, banners are coming with this mini-fest? I can't seem to find it on the usual places.