Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

100-gem pull on banner 2: Montblanc's BSB. Welp, I guess I can spare a MC3 lode for him.

[Shale]

My 100 gems also produced a Montblanc relic! I can't wait to use his....uh, LMR.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Lucky Draw: 1/11 Shotgun. Rage.

On the other hand, one of the Elite Dungeons gave me 20 4* Vitality Motes, which was all I needed to do a full Legend Dive on Tidus. Time to take him for a spin on Liquid Flame.

[Shale]

2/11: Penelo burst and Gabranth ultra. Gabranth's ultra is a standard but perfectly solid elemental EX mode (which can quickcast new casts of the USB, unlike Paine's) so he's got a free pass to my dark team, and Penelo's burst is a solid upgrade on Porom's -- same entry but with token white magic damage added in, and an extra self MND buff to further beef up her AOE heal. No ST heal, but I rarely use those in healing bursts unless it's instant or provides a blink.

[Magic Fanatic]

3/11.

Cid7’s Shout Clone Super - Well, he’s good for FF7 CMs now.
Hope’s BSB2 Bracer dupe
Cloud’s BSB2 - I have his OSB and LMR.  I’m set for Cloud being one of my best again.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

2/11: Penelo burst and Gabranth ultra. Gabranth's ultra is a standard but perfectly solid elemental EX mode (which can quickcast new casts of the USB, unlike Paine's) so he's got a free pass to my dark team, and Penelo's burst is a solid upgrade on Porom's -- same entry but with token white magic damage added in, and an extra self MND buff to further beef up her AOE heal. No ST heal, but I rarely use those in healing bursts unless it's instant or provides a blink.

The Mag+Mnd on Penelo's only 15%. It's actually not that great because it tries to do too many things at once. It's a decentish option for white mage offense, though. She did get a second BSB for a reason. Gabranth USB's pretty solid, though.

Anyhow, Shelkestrats got me my first sub-30 clear on Hydra - and a venue for consistent as fuck subsequent sub-30s on it and I'm so close to getting a sub-30 on Golem with it as well. I have sub-30 Shadow Dragon as well thanks to her. I'm almost done with pointless Magicite achievements, which should get me in decent shape for sub-60s on 4* Magicites. I will say this: Shelke LD and Mog's USB are REALLY good for high-grade SB spamming. My Hydra sub-30 involved dropping ten billion SB gauges on Rydia for BSB => OSB spam.

[Grefter]

Speed run when Snow??

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Speed run when Snow??

Actually, I just managed a sub-30 run on Hydra last night! 26 seconds, too, which means I can pull it off consistently enough (if not for Golem's stun procs on Savage Earth Shaker, it'd be pretty much 20/20 territory). All it took was less sloppy execution and giving OK a couple Wind boosting equips. This concludes my trek to sub-30 all of the current Magicites, now I can just farm Mist and Shadow Dragon so I can have fully cap-broken 3* Magicite sets. Only Unicorn and Phantom left.

[DjinnAndTonic]

So... those new exploration dungeons in JP look really cool.

I loved the beautifully-rendered FF6-sprite-style cutcenes in the trailer. 16-bit Balthier throwing 16-bit Vaan over his shoulder and then jumping off a building onto the speeder was both awesome and hilarious. Why wasn't that part of FFRK from the beginning?

Oh, and don't think I didn't notice those sprites of Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie you snuck in there, DeNA. I think we know the next FF7 PCs~

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

It has been a long time, FF9 banners. Our current situation is as follows (four pulls total slotted for this):

1st pull: Holy Rod, Excalibur 2
2nd pull: Royal Gown (dupe), Lamia Tiara
3rd pull: Tin Armor (dupe, Rosetta Stone), Holy Rod (...), Excalibur 2 (......)
4th pull: Royal Gown (welp, now I have a 5**+), Heavy Armor, Gravity Rod (!), Judicer's Staff (!!!)

So uh yeah. My main targets all acquired. I'd like Eiko and Vivi LMRs, but not really a priority, eh? I'm just happy I'll be able to use Vivi again. Also, husbando +70 ATK Steiner is a thing, but mang is his USB awkward. Garnet will make a hella good buffer for my mages once the 5* stacking buff songs arrive, too... though she might have to compete with Deuce for that slot. ON THE OTHER HAND, I can slot her in for Allegro con Motto/MAG song a lot more easily than I can with Deuce, since she has healing duties to perform. I might take that for a spin on Kraken come February.

[Shale]

"There's some good stuff on this banner, but I'm down to 65 mythril after my FFTA binge and I should save for the fest and FF3."

"Hm. Still, though. I do have some store credit. Might as well do a 100 gem pull."

*Judicer's Staff*

O_o

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Grefter]

Also, husbando +70 ATK Steiner is a thing

wow your taste in men has really deteriorated

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Also, husbando +70 ATK Steiner is a thing

wow your taste in men has really deteriorated

Don't blame me, blame RNGesus.

EDIT: 100-gem pull on the second banner gives me Zidane's BSB2. Um, okay. Also, yesterday, the 100-gem on the Crystal Tower FF4 banner handed me Ceodore's LMR. So uh yeah two relics I'll probably hardly ever use, but I don't -really- mind.

This said, Crystal Tower and the Jump Start gave me enough 5* motes to fully Legend Dive Vivi. Only problem is I still need about 50 4* Wisdom motes to finish his Record Dive. Oh well. Before the end of the month we'll be able to farm that shit.

[Shale]

Two observations from the FF9 event:

1) Vivi with his ultra is bonafide crazy. I hadn't seen a need to make Meltdown at all before, now I've got it R3'd because those three turns of death under Vivi's EX mode (followed by a USB recast) are enough to nuke down anything that doesn't omni-resist. And that's before I've worked out a reliable way to trigger his trance LM!

2) Holy shit, D220 Nova Dragon. Yet another omni-resist boss, and one that spams AOE like FFRK is doing a Dynasty Warriors collab. I ended up relying on Squall BSB2's NE component as my main DPS, and even with Onion Knight and Y'shtola constantly keeping him topped off I ended up eating back-to-back Sap and HP->1 that meant he was guaranteed to die in a matter of seconds, reducing my offense to Irvine's BSB with ~25% of the boss's life still to go. I resigned myself to an S/L after the Lowen Roar I was charging went off.....

…...and it triplecast. Dead dragon. GODDAMN.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I actually found Nova Dragon pretty manageable on MO. But I ran Rikku/Y'shtola for support, buffs, breaks and healing while two Clouds with USB and Omega Drive did the nasty work. Also, yes, USB Vivi is -utterly nuts-. I so wish I had the Wisdom 4* motes to dive him all the way, but alas. Also, Chain Firaga also doesn't stay very far behind if you're not having Fire resist.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Wait wait wait. So FFRK recently moved towards 'concentrating on elemental damage is the best way to increase DPS' and then simultaneously introduced a bunch of bosses that resist all elements?

:V

[Meeplelard]

To be fair, a lot of the resistance is only like 20% resistance, not 50%, and even against the 50% resistances, there's a large number of characters who can do damage in-spite of the elemental resistance.

I've seen plenty of cases like, say, Terra's Omen (Fire/Non) get resisted...before she even has En-Fire.  As in, yes, even resisted, her Fire damage outpaced her Non-elemental damage.

[Shale]

At this point even non-whales have had time to put together elemental teams across the spectrum that can handle D220 content, so omni-resist becomes the natural (if uncreative) way to step up difficulty.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

New dailies = more first time reward major orbs to pick up. Currently farming Black Crystals for R4 Meltdown. Also crafted and honed Flare to R4 because why not have a reasonably powerful non-elemental option for Vivi multicast spam.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, the issue with FF13's new Jump Start: go to the JS menu, click on Event Rules, click on Enter Event, restart the app. Now you should be able to access the fight for those sweet Vitality and Wisdom motes. Just got Vivi Legend Dived.

EDIT: so uh about Trance Vivi, he just triplecasted CHAIN FIRAGA for 120k damage on Magicite Sealion. That Vivi LD+USB combo might be slightly broken.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So, this Christmas' Lucky Draws are over. My results:

Healer LD: Eiko USB. This would be amazing, but it's a dupe. Oh well.
BSB LD: Donkey Kong Country Cecil and Luneth BSBs. The former probably won't see any real use, but it's not a dupe at least. The latter finally gives Luneth a source of Enwind, which would pair nicely with his OSB.
USB/OSB/CSB LD: Rosa USB and Warrior of Light CSB. JACKPOT

Yeah, I can pretty safely skip the upcoming fest. Got a new Chain, got the best healing USB in the game. Life is good.

[Shale]

Skipped the first two, but got one of my big fest prizes in the 6* draw, namely Lightning USB. Along with Pencil's OSB and Ultras for Gordon and Edea.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Nice haul. Are you considering a Legend Dive for Edea? Fixed dualcasting is really powerful, though honing the Witch abilities is kinda tough.

[Cmdr_King]

Agrias osb, Sephy usb, and... Shadow USB.  Welp, rest of fest can be a whiff and I did fine.