penelo has been silenced first time last 7 attempts.
it's a 30% chance and she's the only one i care about being silenced. please game, let me just do the fight without doing the first 5 seconds 15 times.
One of those heals might be her Regen, which is ALSO 9999, but yeah - considering BSB for enDark instead of the USB for Chase, actually.
Amendment: no, you're right, that's totally 3 counter cures. Ugh.
Anyway, Siren mastered with 39.36 with a "slow and steady, have gas in the tank for the end" strategy. Pieces used:
Shadow: BSB, USB, LD, one +dark equipment, Weakness RM (BSB early, didn't use USB until around the 40% mark which is when I went nuts. I had plenty of hones left this route, so I can speed it up with Shadow Embodied earlier)
TGCid: BSB, LD, LMR, one +dark equipment, dark RM (wall, death throes, reaping scythe until BSB full, cast BSB, reaping scythe until BSB full, cast BSB, etc)
OK: pUSB, entrust bot. LD, but it's irrelevent. MM (USB at start, wrath->entrust shadow, wrath->pUSB, wrath->entrust shadow. Can probably skip that last wrath)
Y'sh: BSB, LD, Dr. Mog (dispel, protect, BSB. Keep up healing. Dispel any haste/regen as necessary)
Penelo: curaja, shellga, TGCidmode, USB (shell, heal, cast shadow dragon when able).
Obvious places to tighten up: don't let wall fall down so someone dies from a 9999 holy. Better usage of shadow embodied. Maybe try skipping second pUSB and entrust shadow earlier to get the USB speed going earlier. Have better magicite inheritance.
yea i don't know how to do siren. my entire team is built around hitting a lot and chases, so i steamroll her down to 20% in 20 seconds and then the health bar never moves again as shadow's LMR wears off and the effective but not staggering damage of riku and gaffgarion starts being 80% wiped out by healing. wishing i got the riku arcane
i have two powerful dark OSBs but they're both magic in raines and kuja, so they're mostly out of the picture because lol aoe silence spam.
Fucking Black Cauldron. With 15 seconds left on the clock, I get hit. And then my primary healer's paralyzed, my primary DPS is confused, and everyone is Slowed, so it doesn't even matter what countermeasures I have, because Hades's next 5 turns kill me before my ATB fills.
Rosa and OK actually got silenced towards the end, which was a little terrifying, but I got the kill with some time to spare. If I had Tyro's ultra I might try bringing Dispel since it would free up slots, but no use crying over that one.
EDIT - switching Entrusts around and changing Riku to LM1 and 2 got me to 23 seconds.
Pecil, with Shout buff, under a holy chain, with Enholy and Siren magicite's +Holy effect, wielding a +Holy sword and using the Azure Blade RM, dealt about 60,000 damage to Hades with his OSB.
What the actual hell? Why is it so weak? This fight is infuriating.
No, I just can't get this fight. I need two healers (Larsa and someone to heal the team between Larsa's uses of his BSB entry) to survive, but I also need 3 DPS (WOL, Agrias, and Raines) to win before Doom happens. Which leaves me with no source of Hastega or buffs, meaning that the 3 DPS can't do anything anyway.
No, I just can't get this fight. I need two healers (Larsa and someone to heal the team between Larsa's uses of his BSB entry) to survive, but I also need 3 DPS (WOL, Agrias, and Raines) to win before Doom happens. Which leaves me with no source of Hastega or buffs, meaning that the 3 DPS can't do anything anyway.
Do you have anything for OK? He can heal in a pinch.
Always complain about fights on the forums, because it works.
Hades is dead. I now have Fabula Priestess. That Onion suggestion was on the nose, though I went with Tyro instead; gave him Curada and Rallying Etude (unused). The Combo of Agrias, Raines, and WOL worked wonders; Agrias was using Guardbringer for 6600 per hit, and Raines was dropping nearly maxed hits. The weak link was WOL. He just couldn't crack 3000 per hit with Assault Sabre. I think I need to half-Dive him. Wait, no. His LM1 and LM2 are both defensive tools. Are the Holy% nodes worth it?
I may Dive Beatrix. She'd be just like Agrias, but with Dualcast instead of minor Imperil. But for now, I can just rest.
Pecil, with Shout buff, under a holy chain, with Enholy and Siren magicite's +Holy effect, wielding a +Holy sword and using the Azure Blade RM, dealt about 60,000 damage to Hades with his OSB.
What the actual hell? Why is it so weak? This fight is infuriating.
AI for Siren and Hades just went up on reddit: Hades has slightly more DEF than earth snake. Which is to say it's about 25% higher than most of the other 4* magicites. Have fun!
Pecil, with Shout buff, under a holy chain, with Enholy and Siren magicite's +Holy effect, wielding a +Holy sword and using the Azure Blade RM, dealt about 60,000 damage to Hades with his OSB.
What the actual hell? Why is it so weak? This fight is infuriating.
AI for Siren and Hades just went up on reddit: Hades has slightly more DEF than earth snake. Which is to say it's about 25% higher than most of the other 4* magicites. Have fun!
So holy magic would be preferred even sans enHoly? Raines rides again?
Yuna USB2 is at least theoretically hilarious, even if I'm loathe to hone summons enough to make her viable. Theoretically a contributor to a wind or holy chain. Kinda needs her Summon LMR to really make it pop, though.
Rikku BSB2 makes her previously useless LMR at least have some value. Unfortunately won't shift out Paine or Bartz from the A-Team of Water but is at least potentially great for Torment options. Also actually lets her do something on Jump Starts instead of just USB1 if the fight actually lasts long enough.
Theoretically I could field up to 4 ice mages on a team if I was particularly crazy so the Lulu BSB isn't strictly useless.
And I -literally- just paid money for Tidus LMR not less than a week ago, so that one I'm annoyed about. Did still need another physical water booster but grumblegrumblegrumble.
Ninjas will love those Paine water-boosting katanas, at least?
I can count on one hand the number of times I have included a ninja in my party for a battle I actually had to prepare for and pay attention to.
EDIT: Honestly, the fact that my first three pulls were all single-relic pulls and then my final one was like an "okay, fine, here's TWO, I guess (but effectively still one)," is almost as insulting at what the relics actually were.
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FFX-1 100 gems: 3* blah
Data for posterity:
1 misses in a row
28/231 lifetime
9/71 this batch
9/65 last batch (0.1 items below EV, which is pretty much exactly expected return, though quite a few duds even on my hits)
Note to self: No whining, Rikku USB, never forget. Also Cloud BSB2, Mustadio USB, Water Chain (dupe).
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Hrm. Yuna's chase and the innate power on Summons is actually coming out surprisingly competitive to auras with some back of the envelope calcs. She'd actually be really good with that LMR. Dammit.
Cleaned out the new FFX event. The majority of stages are single boss battles, so it’s a great way to clean up on easy mythril while stocking more growth eggs...
Rikku's BSB2 Shield doesn't even have any offensive stats on it. What is this, 2016?
Nowadays, if a 5* item doesn't have moderate resist or +element, it's pretty much immediate Rosetta fodder. Too many items have good passive to keep everything else.
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I went two entrusters, two healers, and Jecht for damage. Not so great a team but it got the job done.
it's a 30% chance and she's the only one i care about being silenced. please game, let me just do the fight without doing the first 5 seconds 15 times.
Amendment: no, you're right, that's totally 3 counter cures. Ugh.
Anyway, Siren mastered with 39.36 with a "slow and steady, have gas in the tank for the end" strategy. Pieces used:
Shadow: BSB, USB, LD, one +dark equipment, Weakness RM (BSB early, didn't use USB until around the 40% mark which is when I went nuts. I had plenty of hones left this route, so I can speed it up with Shadow Embodied earlier)
TGCid: BSB, LD, LMR, one +dark equipment, dark RM (wall, death throes, reaping scythe until BSB full, cast BSB, reaping scythe until BSB full, cast BSB, etc)
OK: pUSB, entrust bot. LD, but it's irrelevent. MM (USB at start, wrath->entrust shadow, wrath->pUSB, wrath->entrust shadow. Can probably skip that last wrath)
Y'sh: BSB, LD, Dr. Mog (dispel, protect, BSB. Keep up healing. Dispel any haste/regen as necessary)
Penelo: curaja, shellga, TGCidmode, USB (shell, heal, cast shadow dragon when able).
Obvious places to tighten up: don't let wall fall down so someone dies from a 9999 holy. Better usage of shadow embodied. Maybe try skipping second pUSB and entrust shadow earlier to get the USB speed going earlier. Have better magicite inheritance.
i have two powerful dark OSBs but they're both magic in raines and kuja, so they're mostly out of the picture because lol aoe silence spam.
Rosa: Curada/Protectga, Ace Striker, USB
OK: Ultra Cure/Shellga, LMR, Dr. Mog, pUSB
Shelke: Entrustbot
Shadow: Ninja Skills, LMR, Doublecast LM, USB
Riku: Lifesiphon/Dread Weapon, LMR, Doublecast LM, USB+AOSB
RW: Wall
Magicite: Shadow Dragon (imperil)
Rosa and OK actually got silenced towards the end, which was a little terrifying, but I got the kill with some time to spare. If I had Tyro's ultra I might try bringing Dispel since it would free up slots, but no use crying over that one.
EDIT - switching Entrusts around and changing Riku to LM1 and 2 got me to 23 seconds.
Pecil, with Shout buff, under a holy chain, with Enholy and Siren magicite's +Holy effect, wielding a +Holy sword and using the Azure Blade RM, dealt about 60,000 damage to Hades with his OSB.
What the actual hell? Why is it so weak? This fight is infuriating.
Do you have anything for OK? He can heal in a pinch.
Always complain about fights on the forums, because it works.
Hades is dead. I now have Fabula Priestess. That Onion suggestion was on the nose, though I went with Tyro instead; gave him Curada and Rallying Etude (unused). The Combo of Agrias, Raines, and WOL worked wonders; Agrias was using Guardbringer for 6600 per hit, and Raines was dropping nearly maxed hits. The weak link was WOL. He just couldn't crack 3000 per hit with Assault Sabre. I think I need to half-Dive him. Wait, no. His LM1 and LM2 are both defensive tools. Are the Holy% nodes worth it?
I may Dive Beatrix. She'd be just like Agrias, but with Dualcast instead of minor Imperil. But for now, I can just rest.
AI for Siren and Hades just went up on reddit: Hades has slightly more DEF than earth snake. Which is to say it's about 25% higher than most of the other 4* magicites. Have fun!
So holy magic would be preferred even sans enHoly? Raines rides again?
Well, that and the fact that he had 3 30% MAG buffs, and she had 1 30% ATK buff.
Instant Medica that restores 100% of each target's maximum HP.
Basically a speedrun medica that makes 5 DPS+last stand a smidge more viable.
e: Hmm. I'll have to look at the boost lucky draw again. If I tried, I think I can get to 25 before it goes away with the portal rewards.
Dancing around the scripted 51% dispel is key, you NEED proshellga back online ASAP or the run is over
PS positioning actually matters here, put ass saber havers on the outside so they don't get targeted by strike
Sub-30 on day 1 is a good feeling. We'll see about Hades now...
This must mean that Tidus is actually a Mimikyu in a clever disguise!
1/11 = Tidus BSB2 (okay, that's...fine, I guess)
1/11 = Rikku LMR dupe
1/11 = Yuna BSB2 dupe
2/11 = 2x Paine BSB2
I'm not sure why I bother anymore. I would have been happy with any 6*, or even Rikku's new BSB.
4 Loves: Tidus ASB, Yuna USB2, Rikku USB2, Yuna USB1
5 Likes: Paine BSB2, Rikku BSB2, Tidus BSB2, Yuna LMR1, Yuna LMR2
1 Meh: Tidus GSB
4 Dupes: Yuna BSB2, Lulu BSB, Tidus LMR, Rikku LMR
Pull 1:
I've had worse.
4/11: Yuna USB2, Rikku BSB2, Lulu BSB (2nd dupe), Tidus LMR (dupe)
Yuna USB2 is at least theoretically hilarious, even if I'm loathe to hone summons enough to make her viable. Theoretically a contributor to a wind or holy chain. Kinda needs her Summon LMR to really make it pop, though.
Rikku BSB2 makes her previously useless LMR at least have some value. Unfortunately won't shift out Paine or Bartz from the A-Team of Water but is at least potentially great for Torment options. Also actually lets her do something on Jump Starts instead of just USB1 if the fight actually lasts long enough.
Theoretically I could field up to 4 ice mages on a team if I was particularly crazy so the Lulu BSB isn't strictly useless.
And I -literally- just paid money for Tidus LMR not less than a week ago, so that one I'm annoyed about. Did still need another physical water booster but grumblegrumblegrumble.
Meh. More to save up for the Celes/Edgar event, I suppose.
I can count on one hand the number of times I have included a ninja in my party for a battle I actually had to prepare for and pay attention to.
EDIT: Honestly, the fact that my first three pulls were all single-relic pulls and then my final one was like an "okay, fine, here's TWO, I guess (but effectively still one)," is almost as insulting at what the relics actually were.
Data for posterity:
28/231 lifetime
9/71 this batch
9/65 last batch (0.1 items below EV, which is pretty much exactly expected return, though quite a few duds even on my hits)
Note to self: No whining, Rikku USB, never forget. Also Cloud BSB2, Mustadio USB, Water Chain (dupe).
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Nowadays, if a 5* item doesn't have moderate resist or +element, it's pretty much immediate Rosetta fodder. Too many items have good passive to keep everything else.