Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Man, those were my highest-level pipe dreams for this Support Lucky Draw. Can't say I'm not happy with the results, though, Dream Harp was just behind Fran and Faris relics for my wishlist.

[Shale]

I got a Diamond Pin! Not the most up-to-date hastega relic, but still a useful one.

[Magic Fanatic]

This Lucky Draw gave me...  Barret's Gatling Gun and Wakka's All-Rounder.  So bad and eh.

[Cmdr_King]

Wakka's Over the Top here.  Not super useful but hey, +10 strength.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SURPRISE DOUBLE GYSAHL WEEK WITH MORE MYTHRIL, 4* MOTES AND FFX FREE 5* WEAPONRY. Good thing I'm already done with the Support Nightmare dungeons.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Lucky Draw netted me Setzer's Gambler Darts~ Yay?
Oh, and Wakka's SSB Blitzball.

I now have enough Blitzballs to field a full team of Tidus/Wakka/Jecht/Rikku. Life goals complete.

[Meeplelard]

Lucky Draw netted me Setzer's Gambler Darts~ Yay?
Oh, and Wakka's SSB Blitzball.

I now have enough Blitzballs to field a full team of Tidus/Wakka/Jecht/Rikku. Life goals complete.

But Blitz Ball teams consist of 5 players (not including the Goalie), not 4!  What I'm saying is you need a 5th for Tyro!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

That banner 1 on the next FFXIV event is likely one of the most busted things to ever show up in FFRK. Two BSBs with very potent and -new- effects (AoE Curaga+FF14 Stoneskin, nullifying 30% of damage taken for Y'shtola and the very first mage Enwind SB for Alphinaud, along with CT0 Curaja and AoE Cure commands on Y'sh and Powerchain+Ether mage abilities on Alph), an Enholy damage+elemental Breakdown commands BSB  and an ATK +50%+Guts AoE buff for Minfilia, a fast-cast+Hastega+Mag +30% SSB for Papalymo, an AoE ATK/MAG +30% + damage reflector buff SSB for Alph again... jesus christ. When THYRUS ranks in as a consolation prize, you know your banner is completely bonkers.

[Meeplelard]

Well, they need SOMETHING to compete with the Summoner Abyss Lucky Draw, which is similarly insane, what with having *4* OSBs on it, and other insanely good soul breaks like Ashe's BSB, a few Medicas, Krile and Braska's really good Faithgas, etc.    Otherwise no one is going to bother with it.

[Nitori]

i built a wall

[Grefter]

me irl

[Cotigo]

Got Y'Shantila's burst.

I have so many healing options I kinda want to see how a White Mage meta would go.

[Magic Fanatic]

I'm entirely convinced at this stage that Fragment Ifrit's Cid Mission is impossible without one of Rinoa's BSB, Quistis's Mighty Guard VIII, or Edea's Inaugural Parade.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I'm having trouble even with my A Team and Mage Meta teams, including Inaugural Parade, not even including Cid Mission requirements...

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

HOLYSHIT MOTE IFRIT COMMAND MISSION I JUST DID IT

Setup: https://imgur.com/mUJgZWh

Death screen: https://imgur.com/WvWP8cl

Victory Screen: https://imgur.com/qt5h4cl

EDIT: Okay, for the setup. The RW is obviously Sorceress' Awakening, Rinoa's BSB. I just wouldn't have the offense to handle Mote Ifrit without it. THIS SAID, the BSB as a RW alone gives you enough firepower to eat through at least 90% of his HP. I'm not even remotely kidding. Each cast of the SB itself went for 25k and each Truespell Iceraze under Memento Mori ate about 30k HP. This is absolutely ridiculous. The long and short of it, though, is that I lucked out. Ifrit didn't start casting Hellfire until 30% HP and I never saw a single casting of Meteor (and, as we all know, Meteor x2 = gg) this run. IN FACT, this run went a LOT more smoothly than my A-team victory, which tells you people everything you need to know. Running two AoE shared heals and two healers also made all the difference from the other failed runs, in which I was trying to eke out enough of a firepower/durability balance with SG to make it work. In the end, zergrushing saved the day. Holy crap, I can't believe this.

(Also, I never used Inaugural Parade for obvious reasons.)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Done with FF5 event's bonus battles. Setups:

Ultimate Melusine

L80 Bartz (Firaga Sword R4, Lifesiphon R4, Heroic Stance)
L80 Gilgamesh (Saint Cross R3, Lifesiphon R4, Pride of the Red Wings)
L65 Faris (Magic Breakdown R4, Full Break R3, Mako Might)
L68 Exdeath (Firaja R4, Blizzaja R4, Vow of Vengeance)
L80 Lenna (Curaja R5, Shellga R2, Cetra's Destiny)

RW: Shout

So, I happened to draw Yoichi's Bow on the 100-gem pull, which made this much simpler because stacked breakdowns are really good. One flee => reshuffle because I didn't realize Melusine immuned Darkness, making MM/DZ useless for the fight. Oh well. Melusine's defense actually isn't super high when she immunes elements in spite of what Dr. Mog says, so Shout meta is go. No real surprises once the necessary mitigation is up, but Melusine hit Lenna once with a 8.2k damage Blizzaja, which is frankly sorta horrifying. Mitigation stacking in this game is so silly.

Ultimate+ Leviathan

L80 Bartz (Thundaga Sword R4, Lifesiphon R4, Heroic Stance)
L80 Gilgamesh (Lightning Jump R5, Lifesiphon R4, Pride of the Red Wings)
L65 Faris (Magic Breakdown R4, Full Break R3, Mako Might)
L68 Exdeath (Memento Mori R3, Dark Zone R3, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Lenna (Curaja R5, Shellga R2, Cetra's Destiny)

RW: Shout

Hey, kids, did you like U+ Cagnazzo's water barrier gimmick? Because you get to relive it here AND keeping him from using his fuck you ITD Tidal Wave is also a medal condition for mastery! Fortunately, Leviathan's not nearly as brutal as Cagnazzo otherwise: he double-acts, but no triplecast Watera, no pain in the ass statuses and no turtling stance to deal with - oh, and he's bizarrely slow for an Ultimate-level boss. Lightning Jump was oddly good enough to keep Leviathan from casting Tidal Wave alongside Thundaga Sword, which let me freely bring Exdeath for his Kuja cosplay shenanigans (so yeah, I did a 50-myth pull on banner 1 and got Ghido's Whiskers alongside another Excalibur and an Aegis Shield). Pretty simple fight in practice, mostly about keeping on top of my healing and watching whenever Leviathan puts up his water barrier. FF5 PCs are really good.

[Magic Fanatic]

...So, guys, remember when I said I thought that the Fragment Ifrit Cid Mission was impossible without native Rinoa's Sorceress's Awakening, Quistis's Mighty Guard (VIII), or Edea Inaugural Parade?

http://imgur.com/a/inigz

I've proved myself wrong.

Spent a lot of resources to make this work, but I'll specify my strategy here:

Irvine switched between using Full Break and Entrust.  I don't have a good Irvine Limit Break, so I siphoned everything he got on Selphie, of who I have Dreamstage for.
Rinoa cast Haste on herself, then Selphie, then Curaga forever.  Never used a SB.  Cast Haste on Quistis and Edea once the RW BSB ran out.
Selphie is obvious.
Quistis was there for the extra Magic Breakdown, and being competent with Black Magic while using Selphie's Rod.  Attunement II actually produced more damage than Vow of Vengeance, so I went with that. - It wasn't a huge increase, but still.
Edea was the main source of damage.  529 base MAG * 1.2 for Devotion * 1.3 for Momento Mori (or is it just +50% for the combination of the two?) leads to some very impressive numbers.  While Quistis was only throwing out 12K on the Truespell Icerazes, Edea was throwing out those for 32K.  Once the BSB ran out, Dark Zone was still dealing 15K damage a pop.



Ultimate Melusine

A very simple fight.  Just have different characters pack different elements, and you're good to go, really.  When I won, boss was even nice enough to drop a Major Power Orb.  Even Faris was so impressed, she dropped her RM3.

Granted, I'm also impressed at how so far Bartz's BSB is proving to be entirely worthless, especially compared to just his SSB.

Exdeath L65 - Blizzaja R4/Thundaja R4 - Grand Cross - Mako Might
Lenna L73 - Curaja R5/Shellga R2 - Flames of War - Dr. Mog's Teachings
Krile L60 - Blizzaja R4/Valefor R4 - Calm - Devotion
Bartz L79 - Fira Blade R5/Lifesiphon R4 - Trueblade of Legend - Ace Striker
Faris L67 - Full Break R3/Magic Breakdown R3 - Sea Lord's Broadside - Battleforged

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Oh yeah, we also had a Support Nightmare, didn't we. Here goes the setup.

Nightmare CPU

L80 Ramza (Lifesiphon R4, Power Breakdown R4, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Tyro (Curaja R5, Multibreak R2, Mako Might)
L80 Red XIII (Launch R5, Magic Breakdown R4, Ace Striker)
L80 Fran (Dismissal R4, Mental Breakdown R4, Winds of Rabanastre)
L72 Irvine (Armor Breakdown R4, Full Break R3, Master Sniper)

RW: Leon (HotE)

Yeah, not much to it, I even used a relicless Fran solely because she could use Dismissal for the battle. I used Ace Striker to eventually get Protectga up in case I couldn't spare the SB charge for both Tailwind and Shout, but ultimately never used it because all of CPU's relevant offense is ITD. Phase 1 was simple, just spread your attacks evenly post-Shout and you'll have the CPU Bits killed in able time. Phase 2 is kinda dicey until you get the Bits to go haywire, but once you do, you can effectively stunlock the fuckers, and keeping the CPU's stats broken happens by proxy given the nature of the fight. Actually getting the puzzle pieces to work in tandem can be kinda tricky (fairly timing-dependent and things can get out of control if CPU raises both physical and magical protocols, since it's dropping balls on your head all day until you get the stunlock going. You also do -not- want to damage the Bits any more than you need to, since getting them killed is gg), but it's completely smooth sailing as soon as you get into the flow. Probably the easiest of all Nightmares when you figure out the mechanics.

[Cotigo]

Skipped the FFV Cids mission because Bartz opening with two Missiles necessitated more healing than I could pump out on my FFV crew. I guess I could have played with my two shared Medica relics but meh.

DID get the CM for the FF14 event though. Setup was

ThankMrSkeltal (R4 Chain Starter, R4 Dismisal), Fran's Bow, Dragoon's Determination
Ida (R2 5* Monk fire ability, R4 PowerBD). Attunement 3
Y'shantola (Protectga, Curaga), Ace Striker
Al‥ the new female PC (Esuna, Lifesiphon), her Holy Shield SSB, Dr. Mog's
Papalimo (Meltdown, R5 Firaja), Mag+20%
OK BSSB RW

Opponents flying away continues to be the lamest mechanic. Alwhatever's SSB helped a lot with its Shout level Boostga and Guts, but the real star was Y'shantola's Burst. Holy hell that nocharge heal is ridiculous, nevermind the Stoneskin barrier. The power creep is real.

Probably gonna spend my next 50 pull on Lightning's OSB banner cuz I need 13 synergy. Def think I am good on 14 synergy, though I may pull on the Summoner lucky draw because I really want Krile's whip. We'll see.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Missile should be fixed by equipping ID resist accessories. If you have a few major resist equips, it largely trivializes that. Remember Logres event's Sandworm?

Also, FF14's new female PC/Support/Paladin (what the hell, skillset creep) is Minfilia. >_> Alphinaud is the mage.

By the way, are you trying the new Nightmare dungeon?

[Scar]

So...I had scrounged up 50 mithril while the ff4 event was up and my friend tries with me.

He gets 4 5 stars, 1 being kains lance.

I try.

Get 1 5 star. Edwards harp. Yay?

So...fast forward to the lucky draw.

I get....3 5 stars. Oh. Man, this has to be my luck finally swinging in the positive side of gacha rates.

2 Edward harps, 1 yoichi bow.

Come on!

I mean, the bow is great and Edward is rocking a 7 star harp now, but...

Ah well. Time to hoard mithril.

[Meeplelard]

Also, FF14's new female PC/Support/Paladin (what the hell, skillset creep) is Minfilia. >_> Alphinaud is the mage.

To be fair, I wouldn't blame Zenny for a second in thinking Alphinaud is female.  He has an identical twin sister after all...which I'm pretty sure is something that is NOT suppose to happen but I won't pretend to claim I know science.  Still, it's always fun to play "spot the female" with those two in their opening scene of FF14 when their sitting on the carriage/boat right next to one another.

Also, Minfillia of all characters having a skillset creep and being built the way she is...look, RK, there's taking liberties with a character (god knows they've done this with Yuffie, Rikku, Cid Raines or basically the entirety of FF5), and then there's making shit up that has absolutely no basis and makes no god damn sense in anyway whatsoever.  Minfillia...is exactly that.  For those who don't know FF14, here's a quick parallel.  You know how Banon in FF6 runs the Returners but he himself is a complete wimp when it comes to combat?  Yeah, take that, only replace "complete wimp" with "completely incapable" because as wimpy as Banon is, he at least understands that "fighting" requires more than saying "I surrender." 

This is the character they decided to make FF14's Knight with a massive skillset creep.  That is all...


ON A DIFFERENT NOTE: Cid Mission'd Leviabeetus.  I failed once, tried with a mithril boost, still failed, decided to take a different approach, going in with Shout instead of Divine Guardian since really, it's an RNG Fest based on "does he use Aqua Breath a lot or not", honed Saint's Cross up to R3, and gave Ex-death Memento Mori since my failed attempt was a result of not having enough DPS.  That ended up working...eventually.  It's not as bad as Cagnazzo, at least, since not spamming status moves (beyond Seizure which "whatever"), he actually gives you time such that you're not keeping 3 characters on stand by, NOT shifting elemental vulnerabilities such that bad timing = lol nope...in a fight that requires you to hit two elemental weaknesses under different circumstances.  Still kind of a dumb fight with heavy RNG elements though.

[Cotigo]

Oh, yeah, I forgot that ID resist gear helps with gravity. Oh well, no big.

So by new nightmare dungeon, do you mean what Global calls Nightmare (Abyss in JP), or what JP just confusingly released as their Nightmare dungeons?  Regardless, the plan is to go through those while waiting at the airport tomorrow

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

The ones JP confusingly released as Nightmares, yeah. I've seen some videos and they look fairly brutal.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Wednesday's Gysahl Shop update: Major Wind, Non-Elemental and Power. Welp, there go 31k greens.

On less onerous news, Faris mastered Sea Lord's Broadside and now I can equip her for offensive synergy. Wondering if Record Diving her 3* nodes would be a decent idea.