If your Golem is already level 23-24, then 85 off color megas should get it to max level. Then you could do his 2nd fight, get him to 2* and learn Provoke for Maxwell right now.
Ok, got Golem to level 27 with what I had lying around, looks like it's gonna be some Phantom Forest Exploration grinding to get more magicite (unless a better place to farm them has been found). I may miss out on getting it done for the Maxwell fight, but it's something I need to do anyway.
Bah... Well if I try again with Aegis' Elza I might be able to do it. I was on turn 15 or so when I got hit with that Rune spell that removed my buffs and then he went buck wild on all of my units leaving only my friend's Elza.
Looks like there is an Ex-Gumi employee doing an AMA on Reddit and he confirmed the Zidane drop rate was wrong on his banner a few months ago. He also confirmed that the turnover rate at Gumi is really high since they never have their shit together so currently the programmers working on BF and FFBE are trying to learn all the (terrible) code behind the games.
Interesting tidbits:
- FF7 was supposed to be JP's anniversary this year but got changed at the last second. Still expected to see it by the end of the year but that requires SE approval, they might decide to time it for later.
- It's expected that JP will get a Chrono Trigger banner later, but it isn't confirmed whether Global will get SoM and CT. It isn't stated in the thread but it sounds like Global has to licence the characters for each game? Anyways, if we don't get SoM, then we probably won't get CT either.
- Expect a Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale
- Currently no plans for an auto-quest system like in BF
- We aren't going to be seeing drop % chances, but we have the original drop chances JP FFBE had before SQEX lowered them and surprisingly Gumi is fighting to keep them up.
- There is plans in the works for BF style guilds
- They generally follow the original Alim schedule but make changes based on marketing and SE approval (SQEX always has the final word)
- Gumi doesn't get much creative liscence with the game, Alim gets 50/50. But an interesting thing is that we might see global SQEX characters (Lara Croft, Adam Jensen) see it's way into Global FFBE
- Nobody knows what Brave Exvius means, not even the producers Kei Hirono and Hiroki Fujimoto
- Eventually we might see the summon change on global but it again required SQEX approval.
Man, if JP gets a Chrono Trigger collab and Global doesn't I will be so very disappointed. Same if we don't get Secret of Mana, but I could potentially live with that if we were to get CT
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Bah... Well if I try again with Aegis' Elza I might be able to do it. I was on turn 15 or so when I got hit with that Rune spell that removed my buffs and then he went buck wild on all of my units leaving only my friend's Elza.
I wish my Elza's Scythe or Gungir were closer to finishing so I could help you more
I honestly can't see why we wouldn't get the SoM banner. We got fucking Crystal Defenders - a banner for a game that came out on mobile devices in 2008! If you want to talk about niche games, I mean... right there. That's it. Secret of Mana is beloved, and I think the AMA guy stating that SQEX just takes their time with hammering down the decisions is what would probably delay the banner into next year, for sure.
I pretty much just fed my golem all my magicite oh all colors a few events ago so that I could finish it, doing the same to diabolos now for the maneater. I feel like it worked out decently enough, though I do need to level the others to 2* after that.(and ramuh is at level 1)
Re: Maxwell fight @urahonky are you defending with everyone except your whale dps when you get maxwell to like 25-30%ish? Definitely make sure to dispel his buffs and keep focus up.
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I think Siren is just going to forever stay at 1*. I just have no justification for leveling her up given that her stats are piss poor compared to every other Esper.
I've already maxed out every esper and am sitting on a pile of white and assorted magicite for when Carbuncle is released.
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Ifrit, Golem, and Siren are maxed. Diabolos is at 32 working on 40 since I like having more ATK. Ramuh was at 34 going to 40, but I realized that if I replace Exdeath with Bartz in my party, I'd realistically not want Ramuh anymore and would instead want Carbuncle on Agrias for Bar-spellcasting.
Ramuh has more way MP/MAG than Siren does, and is actually really good for being able to provide your unit with Dispel and Osmose. Siren's got more HP, ATK and DEF, but the 1% transfer on Esper stats literally means the difference of about 20HP, 2ATK and 7DEF.
If you're using Exdeath, he already comes with both, but he would still benefit from the increased MAG and MP (especially with the looming Dual Black Cast on his 6*). Kefka, on the other hand, doesn't have either spell natively. Dispel can be crafted and is on a large number of units already, so it's not as important to have, but Osmose is a blessing for any caster unit that scales incredibly well with MAG. It's also one of the best skills to carry into the Arena and use against Cecils and Refias to stop those annoying Curajas.
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I wouldn't have a Mage on the team anymore. Shiva's on Refia because of better support stats, and Carbuncle would be on Agrias as she's the support on the team.
I wouldn't have a Mage on the team anymore. Shiva's on Refia because of better support stats, and Carbuncle would be on Agrias as she's the support on the team.
Yeah, I edited the post after. You were too quick. I meant that Ramuh would be better than Siren, in pretty much any situation, unless you just want Sirens debuff/status ailment skills.
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Oh yea, eww Siren.
Edit: Oh, why did I type Siren in my post. I mean Shiva
Brought a 426 Lightning friens to help with Maxwell. Figured the barrage cpuld chip enough health from him... I was wrong. I got him down to 10% health again, though.
Thanks to the moogles I'm .4 away from Minerva Bustier. Who to give it to though? Refia? Agrias? CoD? I feel like I can't go wrong with the choice as long as someone is wearing it.
Oh my god I finally beat him. Thank you so much @Aegis and everyone who gave me the strategies. I was literally down to my last turn. The two turns before the end he had 20% health and then did the Rune and Resurrect on himself and killed Agrias (who had just used a Full Break on him). I then used Provoke with Cecil and then healed/buffed as much as I could. His next turn he used his limit break or whatever killing everyone but Refia and Cecil. I sat there in defeat for a few seconds because there was possibly no way for me to get through this... He was down to ~8-10% health at this point. I used a Full Revive on Elza, and had Cecil block even though he only had like 2K health. Next turn Maxwell hit Cecil like 5 times and Refia once... Killing Cecil. So I had a full health Elza, 500HP Refia left with the boss still at 8-10%. I used Embolden from Refia to give Elza as much attack as I could... And had her use Ravaging Strike (whichever one hits 3 times... I forget the name) and it took the rest of his life away.
It was awesome. I wish I could have actually acquired the unit but getting the Moogle is good enough for me!
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Thanks to the moogles I'm .4 away from Minerva Bustier. Who to give it to though? Refia? Agrias? CoD? I feel like I can't go wrong with the choice as long as someone is wearing it.
refia, so she never actually dies
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Green isn't used by anything, not even in JP so those are safe to use wherever.
also this is VERY GOOD TO KNOW
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Holy shit that new plant boss. I have to assume it was buffed versus it's original form because it wiped the floor with me. Whale 600atk Lightning was tickling it.
Arena is now a joke with Dual Cast Meteor 6* Exdeath. BFFs forever. I have a second Exdeath I awoke, but don't know if I'll bother leveling him up just yet. It's such a big effort.
I've got 0 Gigantuars so it's back to the old fashioned way of leveling Exdeath up for me. I've been dual-casting meteors in arena this whole time with Kefka, but soon I'll be quad-casting.
Those Black Friday 'deals' are hilariously terrible. The only one that seems even slightly worth it is the 350 lapis for a summoning ticket and other shit.
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Holy shit that new plant boss. I have to assume it was buffed versus it's original form because it wiped the floor with me. Whale 600atk Lightning was tickling it.
Antonella's parts have a lot of overlapping resistances, primarily resistant to the main elements. Which means any attacker with an elemental weapon is going to be doing at least 50% reduced damage.
The only thing it's neutral to across the board is Light/Dark and Earth (where some parts have -50% vulnerability).
Holy shit that new plant boss. I have to assume it was buffed versus it's original form because it wiped the floor with me. Whale 600atk Lightning was tickling it.
Antonella's parts have a lot of overlapping resistances, primarily resistant to the main elements. Which means any attacker with an elemental weapon is going to be doing at least 50% reduced damage.
The only thing it's neutral to across the board is Light/Dark and Earth (where some parts have -50% vulnerability).
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Haven't run it yet. I want Cecil to finish 2nd Excalibur first and then Bartz to hit 100, before I fiddle around with trying to find a non-elemental spear for Elza.
Only the main mission was done, none of the extras since people died left and right and even though I used an Esper in the killing round, it doesn't count like the missions that say "Defeat X with a Limit Burst." I think the killing blow literally has to be dealt by the Esper, and nothing else, which is so silly that I'm not even going to bother with it, or the other trials that all have the same requirements. There's no way I'm going to do the Antenora trial with 4 or less party members either because that's also ridiculous.
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Oh shit, I have so many greens. Golem might be getting buffed to 2* sooner than I thought.
I just tried the fight again (prior to getting Golem and Diabolos to 2*) and got Maxwell down to 10% health. By the end everyone ran out of juice.
Man, if JP gets a Chrono Trigger collab and Global doesn't I will be so very disappointed. Same if we don't get Secret of Mana, but I could potentially live with that if we were to get CT
I wish my Elza's Scythe or Gungir were closer to finishing so I could help you more
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Re: Maxwell fight @urahonky are you defending with everyone except your whale dps when you get maxwell to like 25-30%ish? Definitely make sure to dispel his buffs and keep focus up.
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If you're using Exdeath, he already comes with both, but he would still benefit from the increased MAG and MP (especially with the looming Dual Black Cast on his 6*). Kefka, on the other hand, doesn't have either spell natively. Dispel can be crafted and is on a large number of units already, so it's not as important to have, but Osmose is a blessing for any caster unit that scales incredibly well with MAG. It's also one of the best skills to carry into the Arena and use against Cecils and Refias to stop those annoying Curajas.
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Yeah, I edited the post after. You were too quick. I meant that Ramuh would be better than Siren, in pretty much any situation, unless you just want Sirens debuff/status ailment skills.
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Edit: Oh, why did I type Siren in my post. I mean Shiva
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Now Gumi please make some bosses that use status effects, thanks!
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It was awesome. I wish I could have actually acquired the unit but getting the Moogle is good enough for me!
refia, so she never actually dies
also this is VERY GOOD TO KNOW
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Antonella's parts have a lot of overlapping resistances, primarily resistant to the main elements. Which means any attacker with an elemental weapon is going to be doing at least 50% reduced damage.
The only thing it's neutral to across the board is Light/Dark and Earth (where some parts have -50% vulnerability).
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Were you able to kill it?
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Only the main mission was done, none of the extras since people died left and right and even though I used an Esper in the killing round, it doesn't count like the missions that say "Defeat X with a Limit Burst." I think the killing blow literally has to be dealt by the Esper, and nothing else, which is so silly that I'm not even going to bother with it, or the other trials that all have the same requirements. There's no way I'm going to do the Antenora trial with 4 or less party members either because that's also ridiculous.
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