Short Stream today. Free pulls coming up on both Raid banners (Vayne/CoD), as well as Zack LD (which releases at a "mystery date" after the next event).
Otherwise everything is mostly to be expected. Cait Sith LD, Shelke, Lann & Reynn BT+/LD, Garnet LD, Auron LD. I think JP had a spring fest event with Vanille LD right before Garnet but looks like that got pushed back.
The next stream is suspiciously a week early, on Sunday 11/21.
Ha ha, Wight Priest that warps its turn at HP thresholds. Yeah, I can see why one would want to have Agrias around for that.
Remember back in the day when that guy was fun, because he was actually fairly launchable for any random team?
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Took a couple tries to get it all lined up correctly, but cleared Shelke Luf+ with Butts BT+, Vayne, and Agrias with friend CoD
Agrias was basically the key to my 0 boss turn strategy, due to her Confuse preventing the boss from gaining evasion upon summoning adds, also her LD satisfies the orb condition along with Vayne EX
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Fuckin hell, that Queen of Charm Lufenia+ took me a bunch of tries
Kept doing it the "right" way, getting to the very end, running out of steam and letting one of the manikins take a turn and then it's all over
Said fuck it, 100% launch damage reduction? Fuck it, Cid you got this
I went with a Bartz, Cor, Agrias team, though it took me a few attempts to time everything right. Glad i finally got it down, would not do again.
I'm behind a couple still so I've got to work on the Garnet Luf+ next. Had a couple of close runs that crashed and burned at the finish line because I kept forgetting about the returned orb near the end, blah. Trying either Beatrix/Y'shtola/Exdeath or Lann&Reynn teams right now.
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edited November 2021
I've gotta finish tuning up my Beatrix sometime today to give that one a shot
Not sure who else I'm gonna bring just yet, but she seems extremely good for both that and the boss rush afterward
For the Garnet Lufenia+, I blew it apart with Twins and Twins friend. Yshtola (not using burst) and Faris rounded out the team. Faris dispelled, and then I filled up all the slots with framed debuffs.
I think I like that, for the boss rush, there isn't actually a harder difficulty, just a (very) strict timer. Not slamming into a situation where you're dealing 1s for damage is nice.
I think I was overthinking Garnet Luf+; L&R (regular BT), Y'sh (BT+), and Beatrix did it pretty handily, even though I kept screwing up my timing on safeguards and healing.
Special thanks to @Fry for your awesome Lann&Reynn friend unit, they chewed through those antlions really fast!
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I have been hoarding BT+ materials for basically a situation where I find myself in need of a specific BT+, but I keep coming around back to "Maybe I should just green Ace"
L&R I pulled their BT really early so I felt like I was forced to get their LD, and I can see where they would come in handy but ultimately I'm not really impressed with them outside of Megaflare
Divine Shiva is up, good luck farming y'all. I've been burning tickets as I'm making them, and managed to snag Jecht LD and finally Auron LD. Garnet still is a big miss. I might end up burning all the Shiva tickets and still not get her, alas.
We've got two free multi draws coming up for Black Friday, as well as some extra goodies and several days of 0.99¢ for 500 gem days. Kadaj banner and an unspecified second banner, which is likely the Vanille LD banner.
Winter fest also will have 6 first multi draws free, 5 of 6 banners have been announced. 6th is likely the Lenna LD banner.
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Got Jecht LD and EX in 10 tickets, so now I'm looking at how much pulling I plan to do on the remainder of his banners, and when I will token his BT if I need to
Jecht's BT is on the next three banners with free first multidraws, hopefully you can luck out there before deciding to token it.
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Garnet Lufenia+ was one where I'm not sure it was DIFFICULT, exactly, but I kept fucking up and triggering something right before they took a turn which resulted in them having too much BRV
Took a solid few tries to get it all lined up, but ultimately Y'shtola BT+, Beatrix, and L&R got the job done
Luf+, I cut it close on the score and turn count (61), but Auron/Cor/Porom was a relatively easy way to beat this fight. Auron with Porom's buff just eats the big hp hits at the thresholds and brushes it off.
Cor and Porom invalidate the orb.
Maria eludes, gonna try to resist burning resources here.
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Boo hiss
Clearing VH+ Boss Rush doesn't auto-clear VH
I mean, I cleared VH+, so VH should be basically a cakewalk with the same strategy, but come the fuck on
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Still have yet to go back and do Shiva Luf+, but man oh man, Shadow's CPU Raid Lufenia+ is I think the easiest one to date?
The only difficulty was that I was almost killing the two bits too quickly
Granted, I had Shadow, but Galuf or Prompto could have handled the orb just as easily
Shiva wasn't too bad with WoL, Cor, and Ace. Top tip if you have WoL on your team: try to summon at 51% and push below 29% during the summon, this will cause up to four diamond dusts to go off at once. Friend Twins helps a lot in making that jump (Megaflare hits for 6% to each target).
The official in-game tips suggests using HP attack disable to block diamond dust, but I didn't notice many suggested teams going that route. A thing to watch out for is that the orb countdown is not at all lethal (for once!) but it does take two turns off every debuff, which can be rough on HP disable. (Can also be problematic for Ace's trap, so be aware of that)
Fry on
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So that made me curious, and I found this extremely clean Shiva clear using Arciela
Ydaroth is quite a combo, albeit a bit boring. But setting Yda up to have infinite turns is hilariously broken (provided you can meet orb requirements and such).
I did the Luf+ run with Ydaroth and friend Exdeath, but finished when maintenance started. Luckily it still counted the win so I didn't have to redo it.
So I've been whiffing hard on Fran and Snow.....but I did get Machina's BT out of it! Score! I decided to max him out and give it a whirl.
Good. Grief. Machina just destroys. 1 million+ damage turns is just gross. He melts faces.
Machina is.
It won't last or at least everyone will eventually catch up, but he just plain busts everything up right now. I caught up on the two most recent Luf+ super easy. Just set up the debuffs and buffs and let Machina go Brrrrrr and then claim your rewards.
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Basically, hope you have Sephiroth
Otherwise everything is mostly to be expected. Cait Sith LD, Shelke, Lann & Reynn BT+/LD, Garnet LD, Auron LD. I think JP had a spring fest event with Vanille LD right before Garnet but looks like that got pushed back.
The next stream is suspiciously a week early, on Sunday 11/21.
Force weapons will need 12 high powerstones to max out. Which is the equivalent of 240 regular powerstones.
There's a bunch of stuff about what they do but I had a chance to read through the translations yet.
There's no event attached to it, just the draw banner. I tested Zack out for funsies and he is a monster. Fantastic stuff.
Would like to grab Cait Sith for his very unique battery mechanic, but after that I think I'm skipping everything until Auron
Thankfully, I've got units to clear every upcoming Lufenia+ already. Agrias time to shine coming up if you pulled for her.
Cait Sith Lufenia+ is horrible bullshit without confuse or paralyze
(She is also good for Shelke Luf+)
My biggest issue was actually dealing damage too quickly for Agrias to re-apply Confuse or Paralyze, which led to me restarting a few times
Even my successful run I had to burn some turns having Vaan use BRV attack and Y'shtola use Medica
Remember back in the day when that guy was fun, because he was actually fairly launchable for any random team?
Agrias was basically the key to my 0 boss turn strategy, due to her Confuse preventing the boss from gaining evasion upon summoning adds, also her LD satisfies the orb condition along with Vayne EX
Kept doing it the "right" way, getting to the very end, running out of steam and letting one of the manikins take a turn and then it's all over
Said fuck it, 100% launch damage reduction? Fuck it, Cid you got this
So I cleared it with Cidmau and Butts
I'm behind a couple still so I've got to work on the Garnet Luf+ next. Had a couple of close runs that crashed and burned at the finish line because I kept forgetting about the returned orb near the end, blah. Trying either Beatrix/Y'shtola/Exdeath or Lann&Reynn teams right now.
Not sure who else I'm gonna bring just yet, but she seems extremely good for both that and the boss rush afterward
I think I like that, for the boss rush, there isn't actually a harder difficulty, just a (very) strict timer. Not slamming into a situation where you're dealing 1s for damage is nice.
Special thanks to @Fry for your awesome Lann&Reynn friend unit, they chewed through those antlions really fast!
L&R I pulled their BT really early so I felt like I was forced to get their LD, and I can see where they would come in handy but ultimately I'm not really impressed with them outside of Megaflare
We've got two free multi draws coming up for Black Friday, as well as some extra goodies and several days of 0.99¢ for 500 gem days. Kadaj banner and an unspecified second banner, which is likely the Vanille LD banner.
Winter fest also will have 6 first multi draws free, 5 of 6 banners have been announced. 6th is likely the Lenna LD banner.
Took a solid few tries to get it all lined up, but ultimately Y'shtola BT+, Beatrix, and L&R got the job done
Now I've got enough mats for two Green BT+
Fast forward to this attempt; WoL, Cor, Auron. I'm down to the last Shiva, at 1% and on turn 70....
Cor is up. So is Reaper's Gale. Massive damage, free turn. Hoooooly cow that's a victory at exactly 70 turns! Cor pulls out the Hail Mary for the win!
I was definitely goofing at freeze management so that didn't help. I'm just glad I squeaked by.
Edit: second banner is Setzer/Balthier/Ashe, guess we aren't getting Vanille today.
Got Jecht BT, and nothing else, so that's cool
I also hit a lucky streak and now I have Jecht and the twins' BTs. Still trying to decide which BT to use my only book on.
Slowly figuring out Lufenia, which is nice.
Cor and Porom invalidate the orb.
Maria eludes, gonna try to resist burning resources here.
Clearing VH+ Boss Rush doesn't auto-clear VH
I mean, I cleared VH+, so VH should be basically a cakewalk with the same strategy, but come the fuck on
The only difficulty was that I was almost killing the two bits too quickly
Granted, I had Shadow, but Galuf or Prompto could have handled the orb just as easily
The official in-game tips suggests using HP attack disable to block diamond dust, but I didn't notice many suggested teams going that route. A thing to watch out for is that the orb countdown is not at all lethal (for once!) but it does take two turns off every debuff, which can be rough on HP disable. (Can also be problematic for Ace's trap, so be aware of that)
https://youtu.be/sIs2G754m4U
I did the Luf+ run with Ydaroth and friend Exdeath, but finished when maintenance started. Luckily it still counted the win so I didn't have to redo it.
Free first multi draws on every banner from now to Ursula banner.
New Years special draw banner (every LD and EX up to Dec.28), free draw daily from 12/31-1/11
Daily 1/1-1/3 login bonus, 2000 gems (6k total)
Additional daily mission (12/31-1/11) for 5 tickets(55 total)
Happy holidays everyone, good luck on your free draws!
Just decided to not think too hard about it, and brought Cidmau with Butts
I saw 1500 points for the BT shards and thought "not so bad" and then I realized they're selling like 20 of them!
So I've been whiffing hard on Fran and Snow.....but I did get Machina's BT out of it! Score! I decided to max him out and give it a whirl.
Good. Grief. Machina just destroys. 1 million+ damage turns is just gross. He melts faces.
Machina is.
It won't last or at least everyone will eventually catch up, but he just plain busts everything up right now. I caught up on the two most recent Luf+ super easy. Just set up the debuffs and buffs and let Machina go Brrrrrr and then claim your rewards.