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[Dissidia Mobile] Aranea you folks gonna skip the new Global First character?
Rius
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTT3HLdvyIThis is the thread for talking about Square Enix's mobile gacha game, Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia. Released in tandem with Dissidia NT on consoles, it is set in the same universe and uses a similar Brave/HP battle system. It is fully turn based and most closely resembles FFX's turn-based battle system, where the upcoming order of player and enemy turns is visible.
Battles revolve around using Brave attacks to steal your opponent's Brave, adding it to your own. If you reduce your opponent's Brave to below 0 they become Broken, giving your team a bonus amount of Brave. You can use HP Attacks to deal HP damage equal to your Brave to your opponents, but doing so reduces your own Brave to zero. You have to strike a balance between being aggressive and cautious; enemy bosses can accumulate very large amounts of Brave, potentially enough to kill your characters in one hit.
You can recruit various Final Fantasy characters, and each character has two different abilities. Some characters have similar roles in a party but each is unique; Warrior of Light, Galuf, Celes and Snow are all tanks, but each has very different mechanisms to accomplish their role.
This mobile game differs from most in that it does not normally use a stamina system. You can play as much or as little as you like; there is almost no pressure or requirement to play every X hours. The one exception is the World of Illusions area, which has various content farmable for leveling Summons or making Artifacts. You can also only initiate 5 multiplayer fights per day, though you can join as many as you like.
All F2P "Gacha" games have an ingame currency, and DFFOO's is Gems. Using them allows you to pull weapons from various banners, and 5* weapons enhance the properties of (or add more effects to) specific character abilities. Duplicates can be used to break the level cap of weapons, and once a fully broken weapon is leveled to max, the ability enhancements are learned by the applicable character as a passive skill that can be equipped. In this way you can get the benefits of several fully leveled weapons even though you can only have one physically equipped at a time. Think of FF9's mastery system and you'll see the resemblances.
In addition to tons of Gems, we get tons of single draw Tickets that can help prolong your stockpile. We get a very high amount of gems and tickets each month, which is great because the 5* rate is 10% and you typically want multiple copies of weapons to level break and master them. To help master things, you can sell duplicates of weapons you don't want (or fully leveled weapons after you've mastered them) for Power Stones, four of which can be used in lieu of a duplicate to level break.
You can spend real money on Gems, but it's hardly necessary. We really do get a shitload of gems and tickets through clearing content. The game does run sales on gem packages every so often and there are some reasonable deals, relatively speaking.
A word on Developer interaction; the GL version of this game has an active community rep and the dev team seems genuinely interested in listening to and responding to player feedback. Also, we are not slavishly following the JP schedule; we receive character events in better order, we've gotten more difficult content and character balance buffs earlier, and there have been a couple character polls on Twitter where the community gets to vote on the next character event. Ability names and translations have been improved by popular demand. It feels like a very healthy relationship between player base and developer base.
There's more good info and discussion available on the DFFOO Subreddit. There is also a well maintained Dissidia Database site, and a Global Tier List site. The latter has useful info on team compositions and suggestions for which characters play well with which.
@Tiger Burning has made a spreadsheet for sharing PA friend codes; it is available here.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
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Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
There's stamina for the World of Illusion! Every 90 minutes you need to clear it! /sarcasm
E: Also 5 link bells, 5 daily quests, and 10 daily dungeons/day.
Summon battles (40 Behemoth and 45 Marlboro) are insanely lucrative sources of crystal income which are important for making your characters gooder (think motes in FFRK)
you can generally start doing them from around the mid 20s, earlier with a stacked carry (a 40+ Cloud can solo)
Use your bells, form groups with friends, have fun smashing things
It's easy enough to spam requests to your friends list, a few people should notice their friends tab flashing and join up
* There was this one person who brought Yuna to the Malboro fight, and only used Esunaga while there were no debuffs in play. :X
Unless I know you, I'm not going to want to try to carry you...
If next week is the Squall event, his banner came with Zidane and Yang.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Ramza was a couple months in in Japan, so I'm gonna hoard for a while.
Worth noting that Squall and Terra get buffed to SSS tier eventually so they're investments
Got Y’sh to crystal level 20 as well, but haven’t tested Medica 2 to see if it’s great or not.
My buddy and I have been running my Y'shtola and his Penelo in multiplayer so the hordes of Cloud players can beat up behemoth uninterrupted, it ends up playing out like solitaire most rounds
Onion Knight is a little weird though, can't figure out if I actually like him or not
Got my 4th Organics
So it's now fully uncapped, and I just need to level it up
Also I got Bartz's 5*, finally
Yea, I've been enjoying it as a way to keep people "safe" from breaks while still pushing damage.
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Yeah, it's...
A lot
1/11: Twin Lance! (also 6/11 4*!)
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Got 2/11 double Tifa on mine. I got Squall's 4* weapon too kek
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Just focusing on Squall Vaan and Terra when it comes to their 15/35 CP relics and limit breaks
Is this an okay banner to pull on?
Pulling this from Reddit so you have an idea of who to focus on crystal levelling EVEN WITHOUT THEIR 5* (not hugely important this early in the game, it's easy enough, just future proofing)
I've bolded the important ones for ease of reference
BLACK
Squall SS - best short range phsyical attacker - we got 35 CP armor for him pretty early also.
Cecil SS - AOE brave attack
King - A Rank (best ranged physical attacker)
Vivi - A rank fire mage
Shadow - A rank
Future : Kefka S Rank (best debuffer)
WHITE
Yuna - SS Rank BRV and HP recovery support, status recovery
WoL - SS Rank Second best tank (snow is better)
Hope - A Rank
Future: Serah - SS rank
BLUE
Zidane - SS Rank (Top Brave Attacker) -, debuffs, phys attacker
Cloud - S rank - paralysis user, has access to a 35 cp weapon now long before others, for those with the NT code
Laguna - S rank
Edge - S rank evading tank
Future : Tidus SS Rank, Krile SS rank buffer
GREEN
Terra - SS rank - Second best magic attacker after vaan
Rem - S rank - hp recovery and buffs
Yda - B rank
Steiner - B rank
Future : Snow - SS Rank, Best tank, Ace SS rank, Sephiroth S rank
RED
Vaan - SS - Best HP attacker
Firion - SS Rank atttacker that can recover own HP
Onion knight - S Rank
Sazh - C rank
Yuffie - C Rank
YELLOW
Bartz - SS rank - Half of enemy brave with missile and extra attack
Y'shtola - S rank BRV battery and delayer
Yang - S rank
Tifa - A Rank
Future : Lilisette SS Rank Best support, Lightning - SS rank
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Too busy to really take advantage of not having stamina, but seems like it won't be all that hard to keep up with the content at least. Though no idea how to get enough foddder to max out a weapon even if you have the dupes to max limit it, other than a whoooooole lot of grinding. Or whaling for 4* fodder I guess.
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
We renamed ourselves in the group to different lyrics in the song.
I'm usually humming the damn piano version of the song in my head at any given time.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
eta: so if we go by that tier list, the current event banner's characters are SS, SS, and A, so I guess it's pretty good? But are the characters rated that high based on these items, or are the ratings based on some other gacha item that we won't even have a chance to draw for for another six months?