Author Topic: Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper (Read 149236 times)

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1425 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:44:16 AM »

Okay, so ~~Fang's~~ Lightning's event EX dungeons are out, but more importantly Lifesiphon/INDOORSPELL! Crafted one and roflstomped the boss rush for a second one. The boss rush -could- have been difficult to get mastery on, but literally all of the special clear requirements are simply "Keep Lightning Alive", so even when Brunhildr busted out MT 2HKO damage before I could move, I -still- mastered that fight. Idly, yes, Brunhildr is the only part of that fight worth worrying about.

The Warmech is pretty simple too. That thunder weakness means that even Thundaga is ramming the damage cap. Could probably stomp it just using a SG RW and bringing four of mages with Thundaga or spellblade with Thundara strike and a healer for shell/protectga and Renewing Cure.

Lightning's MC2 GET! Her RM is called... Thunderstroke? Sounds... suggestive. I like it! What the hell does it do? "Attack no longer has delay after use?"

hinode · « **Reply #1426 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:51:34 AM »

SG is kinda useless for the ++ fight, since the only dangerous attack is gravity. Hymn/Favor would be best there, for AoE heal+high regen.

Lightning's RM2 makes the basic attack command's charge time zero, similar to using defend.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1427 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:53:48 AM »

...that's awesome for autobattling through dailies. Gimme :3

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1428 on:** January 17, 2016, 04:03:15 AM »

Done with ~~Fang's event~~ Lightning's second show. Dear god, Ultimate Barthandelus was annoying as hell even with native Wall Advantaliate because using jumps for hitting weakness is just so damn awkward and his dispel counters fucking suck. I just wanted to run ten million mages to drop Pauldron and Ailette in three full turns instead of watching them drop MT -gas on my party. On the other hand, once Barthandelus was up, Advantaliate tore him apart. Go figure.

hinode · « **Reply #1429 on:** January 17, 2016, 04:10:26 AM »

Holy shit I just got the miracle RNG run on my very first Brynhildr attempt. 4/5 PCs had near maxed ATB at the start, Brynhildr still gets the jump on me and Slashes for unmitigated AoE damage... then Lightning's Dismissal procs stun immediately. By the time she gets another turn SS2 RW, Steal Power, and Princess's Favor have all gone off, and the fight's basically won.

Also I am never mentioning this on reddit to avoid a shitton of salt.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1430 on:** January 17, 2016, 04:18:10 AM »

I don't really get the salt over Brynhildr, she got the drop on me and didn't even manage to kill Loserface. But then, Pyroshot just isn't very good.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1431 on:** January 17, 2016, 05:09:50 AM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on January 17, 2016, 04:18:10 AM

I don't really why everyone is so terrible at this game.

lrn2getgud

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1432 on:** January 17, 2016, 08:34:29 AM »

Let me rage a bit about how Barthandalus can Dispel Sentinel's Grimoire.... ARGH!

Well, I'm not sure if he can Dispel it normally, I think he only uses it as a counter?

Alright then, that means once I put up SG, I will never again attack him directly. Advantaliate it is!

So I went in with Tyro with Lifesiphon, and had him use my last charge of it to provoke Bart's Counter Dispel on his first turn after the Pauldrons were down... AND THEN I cast SG. Once SG + Shellga was up, Bart's offense was laughable and everyone else just double-smacked my Retaliator endlessly to avoid any more unpleasant Dispels.

Only one S/L. In which I performed these actions in the opposite order. Tyro put up SG and then smacked him Lifesiphon, instantly provoking the Counter Dispel, leaving me vulnerable, and then the asshole quadra-cast Ruin on a single character, overkilling them four times over. Rude, sir. Disrespectful.

I now have enough Greater Orbs for R4 Valefor, I'm wondering if I should bother?
I also have enough MPOs to make any 5* physical ability there is. Part of me wants Quick Hit because I love Celerity characters. Part of me wants Mug Time to clear it off my Quest list. Part of me knows I should save it for R2 Full Break or R2 Barrage since I actually -use- those. Entrust is also a decent option now that Lifesiphon is here. Endless SSB spam with two Lifesiphons feeding the same super-buffed PC.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1433 on:** January 17, 2016, 12:41:00 PM »

Entrust is dumb, Barrage is dumb, everything you said except get R2 Full Break is dumb. Get R2 full break.

hinode · « **Reply #1434 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:18:02 PM »

Barthandelus down. Team looked like this:

Cloud - Blizzara Strike, Retaliate, +Knife damage RM (he had Keepsake Knife equipped)
Lightning - Tempo Flurry, Thundara Strike, Self Sacrifice
Fang - Tempo Flurry, Thunder Jump, Attunement II
Y'shtola - Haste, Protectga, Mako Might (SS2)
Lenna - Curaga, Shellga, Dr Mog's Teachings (Princess's Favor)

RW Advance

Notable RS gear was a Keepsake Knife on the Retaliate, the freebie gun on Lightning, and various bangles on the three fighters. Fang carried my max augmented Brave Blade++ since I didn't have a good RS weapon for her, the healers had Regal Gowns and Giant's Rings for durability.

It took me six tries to get the timing of when to use SS2 right. Do it too soon, and it'll fall off right when the Pauldrons are getting nasty; do it too late, and risk getting offed by focused fire. Barthandelus himself was much less threatening with SS2 + Protectga + Shellga + AoE heal on my side; the first time I got to him, I won.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1435 on:** January 18, 2016, 12:02:10 AM »

Haven't done the bonus fights yet because it's Sunday, EXP Day, and last night I was at parents place and didn't feel like stressing out over bonus content there, so did more dungeons.

I did a 100 Gem pull on the banner though! ...and got a 3* Piece of crap. Glad to know that $1 went to a good cause!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1436 on:** January 18, 2016, 11:49:30 AM »

Mondaily, AKA the day when all I do is farming Ultima Weapon. At least I get to level Lightning.

Shale · « **Reply #1437 on:** January 18, 2016, 01:03:30 PM »

Got Cloud to level 65 after two runs through the EXP dungeons, and then on my last one before turning in for the night...

Success! Time to wreck stuff.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1438 on:** January 18, 2016, 01:17:04 PM »

Paving your way towards the big leagues.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1439 on:** January 18, 2016, 03:17:05 PM »

I have wasted somewhere upwards of 500 stamina in the past week, usually through trying to use a team of characters whose RMs I'm farming to deal with elite dungeons. A good portion of them are because the boss had gimmicks Mog didn't tell me about and I myself had forgotten about from when I did the classic dungeons. This has almost certainly cost me an extra 11 pull on the FF14 banners coming up. Not terribly pleased, but at the same time this is helping me care less about wasting Timebux so that's probably a good thing.

On another note, FF13 Snow is a really interesting character (despite coming from the realm I care least about). Monk and Knight synergize really well, particularly when you don't have a MT ATK boost Soul Break. Though, that said, that's really more Knight than Monk. Knights are just so good, no matter what secondary skillset they have. I've been pretty happy with using Steiner, Beatrix, and Snow while farming their RMs. It's not quite White 4/Support 5/Black 5 Godtier but it's certainly up there with Combat 4, Celerity 4, Samurai 4, Spellblade 5, and Thief 5. Saint's Cross is a legit 5* ability, and both Armor Strike and Banish Raid are Super Neat (tm) (the former mostly with my 7* Diamond Armor, anyway).

EDIT: Congrats, Shale. Get your Mog and a decent Physical party up to par and welcome to the Endgame.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1440 on:** January 18, 2016, 03:51:09 PM »

Speaking of which, I took Rikku with HyperNulAl for a stroll on the ++ and +++ fights in the FFXIII event and yeah, she's definitely legit. HyperNulAl is super neat with its sizable Attack buff and Shellga-stackable Res buff. Made Lightning's Blaze Rush really sting, for starters, and she can actually cover some weirdly hilarious utility roles (for instance, I used the Bard Etudes to cover for extra mitigation on both Cid Raines and Manasvin Warmech! For all the good it does against Warmech, it was very much legit against Raines). Too bad she doesn't have Combat, but Dismissal/Tempo Flurry spam are acceptable.

Magic Fanatic · « **Reply #1441 on:** January 18, 2016, 06:26:23 PM »

Can't... Beat... Bart.

Decided to egg up Tyro from 70 to 80 and replace Gilgamesh with him. Evil Pumpkin is better that the Power Fist++ by 1 ATK, but I'm still losing out on 24 ATK this way.

Would Full Break make up the difference in damage for that lost ATK value? Or should I attempt Tyro just going for a Steal Power Advantaliator?

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1442 on:** January 18, 2016, 06:45:25 PM »

Advantaliate is likely the most -elegant- solution to Ultimate Barthandelus, which is kinda gross, but the forced party composition makes delta-attack mage shenanigans very awkward. One thing worth noting (which only really dawned on me as I finally mastered the fight) is that running a Support for breakdowns actually isn't a very good idea, since any non-NAT damage attack can trigger the Dispel counters and their rate is -dangerously- high for such a long-lasting fight. If you want to break him, Heroic Harmony may actually be a better idea if you can run such a RW. Steal Power isn't all that useful against Bart outside the Atk boost, since his only physical attack is Thanatosian Smile and it's actually not particularly nasty even with less comprehensive mitigation.

Scar · « **Reply #1443 on:** January 18, 2016, 06:48:36 PM »

Hmmm.

No ff13 sword...

Dunno if I can use advantilate method for success.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1444 on:** January 18, 2016, 06:57:28 PM »

With Advantaliate, you don't really need a synergy sword due to the boost easily pumping you over the soft cap as long as you can muster over 211 Attack. That's utterly trivial to achieve.

Magic Fanatic · « **Reply #1445 on:** January 18, 2016, 07:41:50 PM »

Oh thank god.

I mastered Bart with my Tyro/Y'shtola/Eiko/Lightning/Fang team.

Thwapped Bart twice with Full Break to help on damage mitigation, had SS2 shortly in line just in case he threw out his Dispel, and... He didn't. Still had to S/L a bunch to get win, but at least I never have to bother with it again.

Stupid crazy insane fight making me spend 180 Stamina on team revisions...

Captain K · « **Reply #1446 on:** January 19, 2016, 01:26:33 AM »

Yuffie has a new Soul Break coming out called Clear Tranquil. Now I am extra sad that CT stopped playing. (first sad is that she missed Vanille MC)

DeNA needs to slow the fuck down with these events. I don't want to play the game this often.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1447 on:** January 19, 2016, 01:46:21 AM »

I think they're only slowing down with events when they get to Cloud's BSSB - I'm certain they're trying to line up the BSSB with the anniversary celebration, and if they keep the current pace of an event every six days, they'll start March with Cloudy Wolf. THIS SAID, dungeon updates are slated to slow down to a crawl after DU18 (the next), going back to the once a month schedule they used to have in the early game.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1448 on:** January 19, 2016, 08:42:05 AM »

JP's getting a new Chamber of the Abyss tomorrow, and it's Support-themed this time. Another shot at Platina Sword and Sentinel's Grimoire for Zenny, I suppose (and a bunch of other high-end utility, I guess. Support centralizes a lot of high-tier buffs, like Boon, Lunatic High and those stacked debuffs).

Cotigo · « **Reply #1449 on:** January 19, 2016, 01:08:25 PM »

I am now way more pissed about that wasted stamina last weekend.

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