Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Magic Fanatic]

I just had a thought.  Looking through Edward's options, I now has his Harp, and he has Bard 5 and Support 5.

Thinking I could hand him my eventual Full Break, maybe give him Spellbend Etude, he has his Harp for Protect/Heavy Regen...  Does this sound worthwhile for a build at all?  Maybe him getting an eventual MC?

[DjinnAndTonic]

Oh yeah, Edward's totally a solid Support with his Harp. When his MC finally drops he will be the best Bard in the game. So it depends on if your team needs Bard Support, but it's not a bad niche at all!

[Grefter]

HAHAHA take that game!  I gave you money and now you love me!  That will show you.

[Cotigo]

Eh without an MC that's still really good but uuuuuuuuuh level 50 cap is really not workable for +++ fights, which are the ones that matter. May as well get him to 50 for when he gets it eventually, though! Even with MC2s that's very viable on a L65 character

EDIT: lol. Every S/SB available for the Ramza/Agrias event is stupid.

Ramza gets

Platina Sword SSB: All party members Attack Up + Haste
Grand Armor SB: Heal all party members a % of max HP, Protectga
So Kai Bangle SB: 6x Range ST attack with high chance of turn cancel

Agrias gets

Defender SSB: 4x Long Range attack that inflicts Paralysis and Silence
Caesal Plate SB: ST 3x attack, Enemy ATK and MAG down

Even the SBs are ridiculous. #How2PowerCreep

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

The Fabled Harp and its SB are great. Problem is we have -no- idea when will Edward get his MC on Global, since the only place where it's been released was the collab event we skipped. Even Firion, who was in a similar situation until last week, got a crystal rerelease on a proper event. And yeah, at this point, running L50 characters just isn't viable. He makes a really useful RW, at least.

-If- DeNa makes his crystal available as one of the choices on the Rift of Recollection event slated for December, at least, you'll be able to spend a token to pick it up. But no real guarantees there.

EDIT: hahahahahaha holy shit they made THROW STONE into a relic SB this is glorious. Also, the enemy sprites look -amazing-.

[Shale]

Final cheap 11-pull gives me Ice Whip, so now I have two character-appropriate 5 star weapons. Okay, I'll take it.

EDIT: hahahahahaha holy shit they made THROW STONE into a relic SB this is glorious.

This happens in English when, exactly?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Six months from now unless they pull a FFXIV (which was released on Global less than three months after showing up in JP) with it. It -could- happen, given how it's a short collab, but I wouldn't hold my breath. GRANTED, if there's demand... we know DeNa people visit Reddit, at least, and there's been a huge hype meltdown over FFT already. At least, we're LIKELY to get the event, since there's no licensing hoopjumping to include it on Global.

EDIT: Holy -crap-, Agrias gets Spellblade/White Magic 4 in addition to Knight and Combat 5. Beatrix and Steiner weep curled up in fetal position. Ramza is Support 5 in addition to Combat, Ninja and Thief 4 and Bard 3. Pretty much Vaan and Thancred with access to Full Break.

EDIT: Ice Whip good, at least now that Rydia's actually great instead of obsolete junk. Only Rydia, Quistis and SELPHIE (later Krile as well) can use it, but it has great Mag and boosts ice damage. Not a bad time to start crafting/honing Blizzaga/Blizzaja.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Anyhow, phase 3 final results: currently sitting on 37 Greater Summon Orbs (20 or so gathered from the farming), 47 Greater Ice Orbs (30 of those from the event), 11 Greater Fire Orbs (27 gotten from the event, IIRC: I honed Firaja to R4 here, remember), along with getting 3 Major Ice, 1 Major Fire and 2 Major Summon Orbs. Typical enough result. Another highlight was getting Ramuh to R5 and Shiva/Ifrit to R4. I should max Shiva by late November, at least.

For phase 4 farming, I got two Greater Powers and a Greater Non-Elemental so far. Getting 3* Power Orbs right now is actually more important, though, since I need to max Aerora Strike and there are still a few Busters to hone to R5. R4 Mana's Paean and Rallying Etude sound nice too.

[DjinnAndTonic]

FFRK Global: I have almost all my PCs near their level caps now, even Cloud is level 75, so I hope I can still use all this EXP the event keeps throwing at me. Orbwise, the game showered me in Greater Ice Orbs on summon orb day, so I dunno what the hell I'm gonna do with those...
After that last Lucky Draw, I now have exactly 2 Mythril... That Hope event with all the mage equips is getting skipped, but now that I have 3x 5-star mage sticks and Aerith's ribbon, I am not hurting for mage equips for the first time ever. Time to try out some exciting strategies! Or failing that, some themed-teams, like UOM team (Strago, Galuf, Tellah, Fusoya, Josef) or Animal team (Red dog, Blue Lion, Catbat, Bunnygirl, Catgirl). Certainly would be challenging!

Or just time to Mage Meta.

FFRK JP: Ramza and Agrias GET! That fight for Agrias was nail-biting at level 30 with practically nothing for hones. And getting their Memory Crystals might be out of reach at this point. Flipside, I snagged Ramza's Grand Armor, so now Ramza can YELL! (in English), unlike his other SB, which is Yell (in Japanese). I'm confused.

[Scar]

Sitting at 16 mithril. I'm wondering if I can get 9 more before this event ends...

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Scream and Yell are two different skills in original FFT anyway.

I have Mythril planning to do, anyhow. -IF- I forfeit one of the two pulls I was planning for FF9's second Zidane banner, I'll have enough to do two pulls on the Super Soul Break celebration. On the other hand, the Super Soul Break banners look kinda unimpressive outside a few shining beacons (Lulu's Hairpin, Lullaby Rod, Wyrmfang and Sentinel's Grimoire), so I might skip that anyway. I'm gonna pull on Hope regardless because I still need a sage weapon and a MT healing relic. I'm fully expecting to get another Keepsake Knife, though.

[Cotigo]

EDIT: Holy -crap-, Agrias gets Spellblade/White Magic 4 in addition to Knight and Combat 5. Beatrix and Steiner weep curled up in fetal position. Ramza is Support 5 in addition to Combat, Ninja and Thief 4 and Bard 3. Pretty much Vaan and Thancred with access to Full Break.

… no, zenny. You WILL NOT spend money on this game trying to get SBs for these characters. You. WILL. NOT.

EDIT pre emptive shut the fuck up grefter you're not helping

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

If it's any consolation, neither PC even remotely needs a relic SB to be a good addition to your party. Hell, Ramza can be a Steal Power + Full Break monkey for you -and- he'll get a MC2 in the event. In any case, I'd just amass 15 mythril to do a 3-pull to quench temptation if it comes to that.

EDIT: DURR Ramza is actually Knight 4, not Thief 4. Knight + Ninja is an even weirder combination than Zidane's Thief + Knight, though.

[Cotigo]

Yeah, honestly both of them fill niches I don't have L80 characters for anyway, so I can probably fight the temptation. I'll definitely have another 50 mythril before the banner ends next Monday, esp if I skip Terra Cotta day to run some story dungeons.

But like, it is getting to that point where I like the game enough anyway that eeeh dropping 10 bucks on it for the amount I play it ain't bad, and the payout would be pretty good if I'm lucky. Just, no I should not do that because integrity.

[Grefter]

If you wanted my real opinion you would spend money on it.

[Cotigo]

I should also not do that so I don't get Grefter's real opinion.

Come to think of it, that's 10 bucks that could go to Downwell or Human Resource Machine instead.

OK, urge passed. Phew, good.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu peeks at the next two events on Global.

* Jo'ou Ranbu looks at Major Orb rewards.

I'LL HAVE R2 METEOR BY THE END OF CELES' REISSUE YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS

[Meeplelard]

Might as well post my Lucky Draw results from the 4 banners, so...

Tifa's Grand Glove
Auron's Shimmering Blade
Tidus' Brotherhood
Lightning's Blazefire Sabre
Garnet's Storm Staff

Seeing as I got at least 1 5* per draw, I can hardly complain; I could do a lot worse.  Especially since I got an actual 5* Katana, which are an extremely rare breed.

This list does help tell me which Memory Crystals I need to pick up when the recollection even starts; namely, Tidus, Lightning and Garnet's.  Auron's I already have and Tifa I just don't see myself using in any serious capacity, since she's a Record Keeper Monk and they're universally pretty blech, and I'm not exactly starving for FF7 Physical PCs (I have both Cloud AND Zack raised after all).  Garnet's a legitimate White Mage, while Lightning and Tidus both solid and raising them for Realm Synergy points definitely wouldn't hurt.

Still trying to figure out #4 on that list though.  Note that the first Event Memory Crystal I got was Rinoa's just based on timing relative to my team's strength, to give you an idea of what I have.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Based on the next batch of events up to the RoR event, you can scratch from the list straight off for alternates: Squall, Wakka, Eiko, Snow, Lenna. You -may- want to pick up Paladin Cecil's MC1 on RoR, though, since there's already a quest available to recruit him and he's gonna be on the event's MC2 batch - far earlier than we'll get another FF4 event. He's a very good PC now anyway. Garnet you'll need to pick up on the Rift even as a character, IIRC: all the others are - or shortly will be, like Lightning this week - available through bonus quests.

[Cotigo]

Picking away at the early FFT event levels to spend stamina before bed. Holy crap those battle sprites. I am not a very visually inclined person but that's a very nice 16 bit rendition of the FFT portrait art.

The nostalgia notes are being hit and yessssss.

[Meeplelard]

Based on the next batch of events up to the RoR event, you can scratch from the list straight off for alternates: Squall, Wakka, Eiko, Snow, Lenna. You -may- want to pick up Paladin Cecil's MC1 on RoR, though, since there's already a quest available to recruit him and he's gonna be on the event's MC2 batch - far earlier than we'll get another FF4 event. He's a very good PC now anyway. Garnet you'll need to pick up on the Rift even as a character, IIRC: all the others are - or shortly will be, like Lightning this week - available through bonus quests.

It's not getting the characters that's the problem, it's the memory crystal.  I started the game much earlier than people realize because stealth playing; I've been playing as far back as Garnet's event, to be clear, barely managed to pick her up.  So I have everyone since then, just as far as Memory Crystals go, the earliest event related one I have is Rinoa's.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Ooooh, I get it. Cecil's MC1 as your fourth slot suggestion still applies, regardless, if you plan to use him at any length. Knight 5 + White Magic 4 is a neat niche, which will only improve as time goes.

[Meeplelard]

Was thinking Cecil, yeah, mostly wanted a second opinion, sounds good.

So P. Cecil, Lightning, Garnet and Tidus seem to be my Memory Crystals of choice in the recollection event then.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Farming. If I just get Locke and Edward to L50 before the orbfest ends, I'll be happy.

EDIT: Goals for November: R4 Thundaja, R3 Blizzaja, R5 Shiva, R2 Meteor. If I land R3 Valefor by then, I'm happy as well. R4 Diaga is a nice thought, but might not pan out.

[Captain K]

Fuck you, Algus!

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