Haters of Aranea's helmet, rejoice: she now has her helmet-less winter costume from Episode Prompto, available for purchase.
Her entire event is also live again, for anyone who missed it. If you already did it, nothing to see there as it'll be Completed already.
Free pulls on two banners today: Sherlotta, Rydia (new EX), Seymour (just 15&35) for Sherlotta's Lost Chapter. And Aranea, Beatrix, Ignis for the Summer Incursion event 3.
I got some power stones out of the pulls, better luck to the rest of you!
Final boss for Sherlotta LC is pretty obnoxious, so I finally took Cloud of Darkness out for a spin.
They are kinda silly. On the one hand, it feels bad that their S1 hits the 99,999 cap so easily and can't possibly go over. On the other hand, easy 99,999s are pretty good. On the gripping hand, their HP+ is often good for around 100k including the splash damage so it's weird that the S1 is scarcely better. #firstworldproblems
As the last of the EX+ era, Trey really closes things out with authority. What a monster, the only downside is managing his C1 chase to maximize damage and avoid getting broken when his BRV pool keeps getting dumped.
The 70 co-op where he's boosted isn't really the best metric to use, but watching a well equipped Trey knock both targets HP by more than half on Turn 1 is delightful.
Oh, is it more than just Cinque? I had heard that her gameplay of "slow hammer person" was an excuse for upskirts, I did not realize it extended to the other women
July 30: LDs and BTs are here!
- Squall's are first
- there will be lots of in-game stuff to explain them
July 29 (after maintenance )
- no more off-banner 5*s on new banners going forward
- EX+ weapons can be sold to get nuggets back
- additional Summon Board points based on your player rank
July 29: Moogle Pass!
- double character points limit per event (10k instead of 5k)
- 2.5x more summon board points
- comes with 610 gems
- lasts 30 days. Only $4.99 USD
Moogle Pass Premium:
- same as above, plus
- 5 EX Power Tokens
- 2 Moogle Tokens
- 4640 gems
- first one is free!
Moogle Token exchange:
- can be traded for Burst power tokens, red books, blue books
Burst power token exchange:
- get a BT of your choice for 50 burst tokens
EX Power Token exchange:
- all EX weapons available, cost 10 tokens each
July 30: Raid Event (Squall LD/BT)
- first multi free (two banners)
Challenge Quests
- most events will have one
- clear Chaos difficulty to unlock it
- no support unit allowed
- use 3 boosted characters to earn one burst token
August 3 - Garland LC
August 7 - Amidatelion event
costume re-runs for Layle, Garland, WoL
August 12 - DE Entropy tier 14
- tough vs ranged, mixed elemental resistances
- recommend melee/magic, Poison/Sap, Paralyze
August 12: Heretic Quests
- new BT/LD character
- Alisaie rework
August 17: Ultimecia LC
August 21: Mystery character event (Desch)
Onion Knight costume rerun
Stream chat was incredibly toxic this time, usually it's just a bunch of people getting hyped about this or that.
Suddenly glad I held onto the 10 EX tokens I got from clearing the first Pandemonium.
Also, with that selling of an EX+ for nuggets, does that work with EX+ 0/3 weapons, or only ones that are at least at 1/3? For the former, I can see that being sometimes useful if you get a dupe EX and have power stones burning a hole in your pocket. If it's the latter, then I have to imagine the BT and LD weapons will have better stats when fully leveled than an EX+ 3/3 weapon. Otherwise, the only people who'd sell off an EX+ are the whales who made extra EX+ 3/3 weapons just for more spheres.
I really wish I could exchange Moogle Tokens for Ingots or Nuggets, though. Getting books are super easy, and I've already got, like, 8 of each I can't use.
The EX tokens are going to be a separate shop, I think, but don't hold me to that
EX+ weapons give you 5/10/15/20 nuggets for 0/1/2/3 LBs. Mostly you will only want to sell EX+ for characters where you get their BT. Or if you get a second copy of a weapon to EX+3 for a second sphere, but most folks should not be doing that
BT has the best stats, then EX+, then LD, then EX. Generally you will upgrade LD weapons to max (with power stones) and then sell them off
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Stream chat was incredibly toxic this time, usually it's just a bunch of people getting hyped about this or that.
they have reason to be, this game is hard veering into p2w territory with a ridiculous 0.1% chase 'win the current wave of content' burst and the addition of moogle pass
i whaled long and hard in ffrk before i quit and i can see the writing on the wall
Stream chat was incredibly toxic this time, usually it's just a bunch of people getting hyped about this or that.
they have reason to be, this game is hard veering into p2w territory with a ridiculous 0.1% chase 'win the current wave of content' burst and the addition of moogle pass
i whaled long and hard in ffrk before i quit and i can see the writing on the wall
Toxicity was about Amidatelion's gender, mostly, and something else I couldn't figure out (I was a few minutes late). People seemed fine about moogle pass and draw rates. Lots of happiness about off banners going away.
EX draw rate is getting increased, LD is the same draw rate as the previous EX draw rate. BTs can be pitied if you really want, and supposedly are not going to be "required" for at least another ten months. I don't feel like the game is getting significantly more P2W.
Game updated in preparations on of the LD/BT era tonight. Mog Pass is live, the first is a premium and free. I think you can save it for later, if you want to use its benefits during the next summon event or something.
But you can get the expanded Character board points cap now, which means you can get 5K more points out of the Trey event, and another 5K from Sherlotta LC. If that's worth it to you, do it soon, Sherlotta ends in a few days.
New EX token shop is confirmed to be separate from the DE EX Token shop.
It bugs me that I need to have an EX+ 3/3 weapon for a character in order to max out their character board. I understand that even partially filling the character board is still pretty useful, but I just hate not completing it, ya know?
Squall's LD is a huge buff for him, it lasts 15 turns and can be used 3 times, so it's deffo a huge win to get.
(That said, both BT and LD is ridiculous to see big damage. Not necessary, but kinda fun to just push out those numbers.)
And for any Galuf fans out there, he trivializes this event. The cannon has one aoe hp attack to worry about, but otherwise Galuf shuts down everything else for this stage.
Dunno how I'm going to handle the Challenge Chaos though.
I got Squall's LD and BT and I guess he's finally good. My anti FF8 bias is pretty strong, but after I tried his Burst for the first time I was like "Yeah ok, that's pretty acceptable"
Oof, challenge quest is pretty tough. I almost got there with Squall (EX+3, no LD/BT), Auron (EX+3), Cait Sith (EX+0), Leviathan summon, but the missiles just wore me down too much. Squall died at around 5% enemy HP left, Cat Shit died around 1% left, and Auron finished it off. Missed the requirements for HP damage and score (on account of two people being dead).
I can probably get there after I finish up summon boards for that team, especially if I am a bit more careful to make sure the turrets are debuffed with INT and Max BRV down at all times.
Well...luck was not on my side this time. I did get Squall's BT from ticket #200 or something....after getting enough tokens to pity it on Cait Sith's Banner. So I had to pity his LD instead. The cool thing, I have a complete Cait Sith, Tifa, Auron, Steiner and Gilgamesh now. Which is pretty awesome since I don't have a lot of EX's after returning to the game.
The bad thing is that I don't have enough resources to get them all MLB lol. And I have to level them to 70, summon boards, etc. Need Armor Tokens!!!!
I haven't even looked at the challenge stage. I'm sure it'll be terrible since I hyper focus on a few games so I rarely have good synergy coverage.
Also 0 ingots after all those FFXI ex came out back to back.
Plus side I actually think Squall is one of my favorite later era FF protags. He's just such an awkward dork I can empathize with. So since the freebie gave me his BT I just decided to go all in and grab his other weapons since all I had was his two 15cp weapons or whatever that old WoI weapon was.
Now I have a full gear Squall in a school outfit with half his summon boards done and working on artifacts. Only took 5 multi and 100 tickets so I ain't even fussed. Used up the rest of my books to get ingots off ex I plan to level some day just to finish him up. Glad LD/BT just use power stones.
Challenge down, I had to put some resources into Auron but his debuffs make a big difference.
Squall (all), Auron (all), Cait Sith 0/3. 86 turns, 700k points, and I took about 18k damage. Used Alexander for summon, I think the added healing helped from it.
Yeah, I was sailing along on Chaos with Cait (all), Squall (all), Lightning (all), but then I fucked up some rotation with my Leo friend and the Alex summon and everyone died. Finished the fight just to get the rewards but it seems I need either Auron (doable) or Galuf (neglected badly) to do the fight better.
Also got the LD but not the BT. Fortunately I can pull pretty freely on the Auron-Steiner banner without worry.
1) Silence 2) Books must be returned by the last date shown 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality
Reminder that Squall's BT is on the next two banners, so if you'd prefer the banner mates (Garland LD, WoL, Sephiroth or Amidatelion LD, Deuce, Layle), you don't have to blow it all here.
Oof, challenge quest is pretty tough. I almost got there with Squall (EX+3, no LD/BT), Auron (EX+3), Cait Sith (EX+0), Leviathan summon, but the missiles just wore me down too much. Squall died at around 5% enemy HP left, Cat Shit died around 1% left, and Auron finished it off. Missed the requirements for HP damage and score (on account of two people being dead).
I can probably get there after I finish up summon boards for that team, especially if I am a bit more careful to make sure the turrets are debuffed with INT and Max BRV down at all times.
Ok, beat it with this team. Key change: switching to Shiva summon. Attack up helps Cait be less awful, speed boost can be relevant (turrets are fast). Alexander boon tends to only help at the beginning, rather than down the line where it's clutch. Leviathan BRV regen can theoretically be nice, but it's often wasted. Crucially, both of them can push off the Sap inflicted by the main gun's recast ability, and you really want that to be active because it lets you delay the main gun a ton. With the Int BRV debuff from Auron, the gun will unbreak every turn.
Seems like, early in the fight, if you kill just one turret, it will immediately respawn, so don't do that. Later in the fight though, they won't necessarily come back right away, so that can potentially buy some breathing room.
Question, how do I kill Ifrit Chaos if I don't have a Delay monster outside of Aranea? I only tried once with this team and I was sloppy thinking I could just LD and BT my way to victory:
Squall BT,LD, MLBed Armor.
Aranea MLB Armor and Weapon
Ignis 0/3+ both armor and weapon.
Ifrit Summon (maybe this was an issue?)
I also have around (all 0/3 but I've got enough mats to 3/3 anyone of them)
Ugh most of these LD banners are so painful..I have everything on this but Garland LD, but his doesn't come back for however long and if I want it I basically have to wade through pointless dupes for miles.
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I did it with Vayne (at EX+0) instead of Lightning, Ifrit summon, 63 turns
Holy shit is Vayne broken with Sazh to give him even more free turns, like whoa
Her entire event is also live again, for anyone who missed it. If you already did it, nothing to see there as it'll be Completed already.
Free pulls on two banners today: Sherlotta, Rydia (new EX), Seymour (just 15&35) for Sherlotta's Lost Chapter. And Aranea, Beatrix, Ignis for the Summer Incursion event 3.
I got some power stones out of the pulls, better luck to the rest of you!
They are kinda silly. On the one hand, it feels bad that their S1 hits the 99,999 cap so easily and can't possibly go over. On the other hand, easy 99,999s are pretty good. On the gripping hand, their HP+ is often good for around 100k including the splash damage so it's weird that the S1 is scarcely better. #firstworldproblems
I think I love how enchant/imperil works here. I need to play around with it more.
Trey and Quistis tonight. Quistis gets party battery on every move and a few other tweaks. Should be a solid third party member.
edit: this is me finding reasons to pull on the Rydia banner that aren't waifu lol.
You just missed Garnet.
Lulu does enchant/imperil, she's on one of Shantotto's banners on August.
The 70 co-op where he's boosted isn't really the best metric to use, but watching a well equipped Trey knock both targets HP by more than half on Turn 1 is delightful.
I get the impression that the devs really like Type 0, given how much story time is devoted to the cast and how generally good they are.
is that every single female character's panties are lovingly rendered and described on their bio
it's gonna be a hard yikes from me
- Squall's are first
- there will be lots of in-game stuff to explain them
July 29 (after maintenance )
- no more off-banner 5*s on new banners going forward
- EX+ weapons can be sold to get nuggets back
- additional Summon Board points based on your player rank
July 29: Moogle Pass!
- double character points limit per event (10k instead of 5k)
- 2.5x more summon board points
- comes with 610 gems
- lasts 30 days. Only $4.99 USD
Moogle Pass Premium:
- same as above, plus
- 5 EX Power Tokens
- 2 Moogle Tokens
- 4640 gems
- first one is free!
Moogle Token exchange:
- can be traded for Burst power tokens, red books, blue books
Burst power token exchange:
- get a BT of your choice for 50 burst tokens
EX Power Token exchange:
- all EX weapons available, cost 10 tokens each
July 30: Raid Event (Squall LD/BT)
- first multi free (two banners)
Challenge Quests
- most events will have one
- clear Chaos difficulty to unlock it
- no support unit allowed
- use 3 boosted characters to earn one burst token
August 3 - Garland LC
August 7 - Amidatelion event
costume re-runs for Layle, Garland, WoL
August 12 - DE Entropy tier 14
- tough vs ranged, mixed elemental resistances
- recommend melee/magic, Poison/Sap, Paralyze
August 12: Heretic Quests
- new BT/LD character
- Alisaie rework
August 17: Ultimecia LC
August 21: Mystery character event (Desch)
Onion Knight costume rerun
Stream chat was incredibly toxic this time, usually it's just a bunch of people getting hyped about this or that.
Also, with that selling of an EX+ for nuggets, does that work with EX+ 0/3 weapons, or only ones that are at least at 1/3? For the former, I can see that being sometimes useful if you get a dupe EX and have power stones burning a hole in your pocket. If it's the latter, then I have to imagine the BT and LD weapons will have better stats when fully leveled than an EX+ 3/3 weapon. Otherwise, the only people who'd sell off an EX+ are the whales who made extra EX+ 3/3 weapons just for more spheres.
I really wish I could exchange Moogle Tokens for Ingots or Nuggets, though. Getting books are super easy, and I've already got, like, 8 of each I can't use.
EX+ weapons give you 5/10/15/20 nuggets for 0/1/2/3 LBs. Mostly you will only want to sell EX+ for characters where you get their BT. Or if you get a second copy of a weapon to EX+3 for a second sphere, but most folks should not be doing that
BT has the best stats, then EX+, then LD, then EX. Generally you will upgrade LD weapons to max (with power stones) and then sell them off
they have reason to be, this game is hard veering into p2w territory with a ridiculous 0.1% chase 'win the current wave of content' burst and the addition of moogle pass
i whaled long and hard in ffrk before i quit and i can see the writing on the wall
Toxicity was about Amidatelion's gender, mostly, and something else I couldn't figure out (I was a few minutes late). People seemed fine about moogle pass and draw rates. Lots of happiness about off banners going away.
EX draw rate is getting increased, LD is the same draw rate as the previous EX draw rate. BTs can be pitied if you really want, and supposedly are not going to be "required" for at least another ten months. I don't feel like the game is getting significantly more P2W.
But you can get the expanded Character board points cap now, which means you can get 5K more points out of the Trey event, and another 5K from Sherlotta LC. If that's worth it to you, do it soon, Sherlotta ends in a few days.
New EX token shop is confirmed to be separate from the DE EX Token shop.
I, uhh, am often surprised by the luck I can have in this game, and even feel bad mentioning it here. But, well, sorry folks:
Draw 2 free pull: Squall LD
Draw 1 free pull: Steiner 35, Squall BT
Holy. Crap.
Unless I just really like the character then it's a cool trophy to have.
(That said, both BT and LD is ridiculous to see big damage. Not necessary, but kinda fun to just push out those numbers.)
And for any Galuf fans out there, he trivializes this event. The cannon has one aoe hp attack to worry about, but otherwise Galuf shuts down everything else for this stage.
Dunno how I'm going to handle the Challenge Chaos though.
I can probably get there after I finish up summon boards for that team, especially if I am a bit more careful to make sure the turrets are debuffed with INT and Max BRV down at all times.
The bad thing is that I don't have enough resources to get them all MLB lol. And I have to level them to 70, summon boards, etc. Need Armor Tokens!!!!
Also 0 ingots after all those FFXI ex came out back to back.
Plus side I actually think Squall is one of my favorite later era FF protags. He's just such an awkward dork I can empathize with. So since the freebie gave me his BT I just decided to go all in and grab his other weapons since all I had was his two 15cp weapons or whatever that old WoI weapon was.
Now I have a full gear Squall in a school outfit with half his summon boards done and working on artifacts. Only took 5 multi and 100 tickets so I ain't even fussed. Used up the rest of my books to get ingots off ex I plan to level some day just to finish him up. Glad LD/BT just use power stones.
Squall (all), Auron (all), Cait Sith 0/3. 86 turns, 700k points, and I took about 18k damage. Used Alexander for summon, I think the added healing helped from it.
Also got the LD but not the BT. Fortunately I can pull pretty freely on the Auron-Steiner banner without worry.
Tough to choose between one weapon ingot + 20 tickets, versus 1/5 of an EX selection. What do.
Ok, beat it with this team. Key change: switching to Shiva summon. Attack up helps Cait be less awful, speed boost can be relevant (turrets are fast). Alexander boon tends to only help at the beginning, rather than down the line where it's clutch. Leviathan BRV regen can theoretically be nice, but it's often wasted. Crucially, both of them can push off the Sap inflicted by the main gun's recast ability, and you really want that to be active because it lets you delay the main gun a ton. With the Int BRV debuff from Auron, the gun will unbreak every turn.
Seems like, early in the fight, if you kill just one turret, it will immediately respawn, so don't do that. Later in the fight though, they won't necessarily come back right away, so that can potentially buy some breathing room.
Squall BT,LD, MLBed Armor.
Aranea MLB Armor and Weapon
Ignis 0/3+ both armor and weapon.
Ifrit Summon (maybe this was an issue?)
I also have around (all 0/3 but I've got enough mats to 3/3 anyone of them)
Sephiroth
Raijin
Sazh
Eiko
Cait Sith
Auron
Gilgamesh
Tifa
You may want a tank to help prevent Ifrit from breaking people, so he doesn't get his Veil that prevents HP damage.
Otherwise... Yeah, that content is moderately old, I'd have thought that team would be more than plenty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txJQ_sKzvjQ
And I thought the BT powercreep was ridiculous, now we're getting spaceships?! :P
I'll leave it up for the hilarity though. :bigfrown: