Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

[Cotigo]

If you go hone the Stop.. Dance? I forget if it's Dancer or Bard, but the stop skill has a higher base hit rate than the stop spell, and if you have someone with high MND like Penelo, I was able to get through using high-honed Ixion/Thundaja/Thundaga Strike/Thundara Strikes wailing on him without taking any damage.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Halting Rumba has the same hit rate as Stop (70%), but yeah, it ignoring Reflect is enough reason to consider it against Omega as it stands. I had Vanille and Penelo with 500+ MND spamming the status and it was pretty glorious.

[Cotigo]

Ohhh, that's what it was. All I remembered from the event was that Halting Roomba was for some reason better than the BLM skill.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

It's also AoE, so it's a strictly better skill. Makes sense, considering it's a 4*.

[Shale]

I had Lenna with Halting Rumba and Krile with Stop. Krile's MND is kinda pathetic compared to Lenna's, but she still made an okay backup and I needed her on the team for Sheepsong so I made do.

[Cotigo]

Ooph. Well if it worked it worked but in the future, note that if you have a low-MND character cast Stop and that enemy has been stopped already by a high MND character, and it procs, the timer gets overrwritten.

Generally, this is actually a pretty good strategy for curing Stop on your characters in battle, and basically the only reason why BLM3 isn't completely useless.

[Shale]

Oh, yeah. Like I said, strictly a backup -- if HR hit, she held her turn until it cleared (or cast Chain Thundaga). If it missed, she used Stop to hopefully give me a breather until Lenna's next turn.

[Cotigo]

Ah, gotcha, definitely the smart way to do it.

In other news, I just noticed the FFXI Cid's Mission only requires that you have Shantoto in your party, so that's cool. Also, a couple small updates I just noticed. Multiplayer bosses now have a 滅＋＋ level in addition to a 滅 That's the one above Ultimate++, 200 difficulty), meaning we can now get an extra 50 4* motes an event, meaning I may bother beefing up characters who are not Tyro, Onion Knight, and Beatrix.

That said most 滅 bosses already kinda kick my ass if I'm paired up with idiots, which happens pretty often. That said the first 滅＋+ boss is Ultros so Angry Terra should have no problem taking him down.

In gloating news, the latest Nightmare dungeon is Velius.

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EDIT: Easiest U++ CM ever. Then again only requiring one character doesn't reaaaaally make it a CM. Regardless, I do think that's the first time I've curbstomped a U++ level boss without healing. Stacking walls (Agrias' BSB commands and SG) and stacking Breakdowns (Power, Mag, Full, and Musty's Full+Mind) meant he really couldn't do any damage, and Selphie/Agrias were just destroying his HP. Fun fight.

[Meeplelard]

Beat but didn't master the Affliction Break Nightmare.  It's mostly just a case of getting past phase 3 before 2 people die at this point.  If I can get my magic Blinks up right at the start of Phase 3, I SHOULD be fine.

[Cotigo]

Hahahahahaha.

So

Fast Thunder is a thing now. I cannot fathom why they wouldn't just make it BLM instead of making a whole new class. Whatever. The point is both Terra, Krile, and Rinoa can access it so I don't really care. Sorry, Vivi, you are now objectively a worse choice instead of an equivalent one. 

Anyway, I beat the top level of Ultros I described in my last post. Here's the thing about Ultros: His weaknesses are Thunder and Fire. Someone brought along Allegro Con Moto. I don't think I've cranked out that many 99999 OSBs before.  Haste/Fast Thunder/ACM gave her basically Orlandu-level speed. In fact, there was an OSB wielding Orlandu on the team and I was outpacing and out damaging him. Suck it, guy who has a relic I want.

Plus at this stage of the game 4* abilities are cheap, I got both Fast Thunder and Fast Blizzard to R4 just with what I had in my reserves. Definitely going to be more useful on Rinoa/Terra soul breaks more than the 5* abilities, though I may as well hone the Thunder one since I don't have an amazing Thunder elemental BSB.

[DjinnAndTonic]

What's this "Ratio Blizzard" thing I just got from the FF11 event?

[Cotigo]

Lacey-o is the 5* Sorceress Skill. Basically Ice elemental Full Charge, supposed to be paired with the 4* skills. Not worth using if you have the appropriate element in a BSB or OSB, since using the 4* skills' quick cast will net you better damage on that.

[Shale]

100 gem pull on FF4: Yang's Hell Claws. Imperil earth! That's a thing I can probably build around, sooner or later.

[Scar]

3 pulls.

Every relic on the banner...

EXCEPT ABELS LANCE!!!

My luck has carried over to this game too!

[DjinnAndTonic]

What have you done.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Getting six out of seven relics in a banner within three 11-pulls is crazy good luck.

[Grefter]

look at the dirty filthy things i am doing to your account bro

[Cotigo]

So I'm not one to even acknowledge, much less piss and moan about characters not being true to their games, but after getting Rafa and Malak, I did have to point out that it is quite clever to have given Rafa and Malak Ninja 4. Offhand Rafa is the much more versatile option (BLK5, WHT4, Dancer 4, Ninja 4, Sorceress 5. Sorc 5 is noteworthy because she also comes with what may be the first legitimately always useful starting SB: Next two turns have reduced cast times. Malak's is also pretty appealing: next turn has no charge, but this can't be chained like Rafa's, and his skillset variety is pathetic. him having Black 5/Ninja 5 would have made him fit into a very interesting niche  as a Ninja with high base MAG, but he only gets Ninja 4 in exchange for Dark 5.

Either way the rest of the week is going to be me resisting spending my 50 mythril on the FFT banners because good lord I don't need more FFT relics. The fact that I not only CM'd Nightmare++ Velius despite it having no reward for CMing that level of the fight, but thought it was trivial to the point that I didn't post about it here is a testament to that fact. Investments in FFT futures paid off, and also I have Gafgarion's burst from the anniversary banners.

And grefter before you

So I failed to stop letting nostalgia rule my life and have Malak's BSB now because I am a goddamn slut

tough titty i did it first

[Grefter]

You know you have a gambling addiction problem when you are excited for Rafa and Malak.

[Shale]

"Man, my FF13 team is struggling. I'll do an 11 pull on the physical banner and at worst come out with SOMETHING to supplement that Peacemaker I pulled a year ago."

*Serah's Gloves*

"Fuck."

[Meeplelard]

And finally mastered Necrophobe.  My team:


Faris: R5 Magic Breakdown, Thief's Revenge R2, Ace Striker.
-Faris has both her MT Dual-breaks, which works wonders in this fight as they toggle 2 probes at once.  Her inverse-wall is good for nerfing the damage of probes, and her Syldra one is nice because I found it hard to fit Mental Breakdown in the list (I have no mages), so if it opened with Green Nightmare Doom, she can use that as an emergency to undo it.  Ace Striker is there because Faris' DPS isn't a big deal, so I aimed for faster Soul Break charges.

Beatrix: R3 Saint Cross, R5 Lifesiphon, Dragoon's Determination
-I have Seiken Shock, and Magic Blink is incredibly useful in this fight.  I figure an extra DPSer who can Magic Blink is more valuable than a 3rd toggler, as I can get by with just two.

Fran: R4 Power Breakdown, R3 Armor Breakdown, +20% Spear Damage RM
-I have her SSB, so she can DPS at points, otherwise straight forward.  I realized I should fire off her SSB earlier rather than later to help blast past Phase 2, since that's the trouble phase, Phase 3 being a combination of things getting off in time, and the longer I spend in Phase 2, the worse it is.  I realized this in an ALMOST successful run, which failed msotly beacuse I didn't notice Beatrix's timer was near low, and well, you get the idea.

Ramza: R3 Full Break, R4 Lifesiphon, Dr. Mog's Teachings
-This is the first fight I used all 3 of his Soul Breaks.  Shout is obvious, Tailwind may have well be called "Second Wind" here because between Protectga for Vacuum Wave and providing a healing, it was useful at the start of Phase 2 (in short, my 2nd soul berak of his was always on that.)  In the succsesful run, I YOLO'd phase 2 near the end and used Hail of Stones...which triggered at the start of Phase 3, thereby nulling out one of his Flares.  Full Break mostly there to lower amount of damage I take in phase 1.

Tyro: R4 Wrath, R3 Carbuncle, Mako's Might
-Sentinel Grimoire, and his BSB was another emans of Magic Blink for the last phase (couldn't afford to drop SG at anytime).  I gave him Wrath since his DPS wasn't a big deal and Beatrix needs Lifesiphon to function in her role, and Carbuncle is there to shut down a lot of the ST Bullshit in Phase 2.

RW: Mighty Guard 8.  Shellga is necessary, extending Hastega doesn't hurt, and Heavy Regen helped lower the necessity of healing.



Glad that fight is over with, just so much that can go wrong.  Nowhere near as bad as the Curada one though.

[Magic Fanatic]

New banner 100-Gem.  I get a 5*!

It's Rosa's Artemis Bow.  That's a duplicate.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Did a 11x pull on FF4 banner 2 because everything but Yang's Fairy Claw felt fairly appealing to have (though I had my eyes set particularly on Palom's Asura Rod). As luck would have it, I got Palom's Asura Rod. Worth it.

On that note, I finished FF4's Ultimates. Very AoE/magic-centric set of battles. Setups went as follow:

Dark Dragon U

L80 Palom (Chain Firaga R3/Chain Thundaga R3, Ace Striker)
L80 Porom (Curaja R5/Shellga R4, Healer's Prayer 2)
L80 Golbez (Dark Zone R3/Memento Mori R4, Devotion)
L80 Edward (Magic Breakdown R4/Full Break R3, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Rydia (Alexander R5/Maduin R5, Eidolon's Bond)

RW: Maria's Song

Stacking mag buffs brutalizes things: the mission. Palom's SSB under Enholy, Asura Rod's Holy Boost and the mag buffs was dealing over 8k per hit. It's a 14x~ mult attack spread over eight hits. Uh yeah. I probably could capitalize on Palom's SSB on a mixed team with Beatrix's and Celes' BSBs, along with the added utility of the mag/res debuff. Pretty hot stuff.

Flan Master U+

L80 Palom (Chain Thundaga R3/Meteor R3, Ace Striker)
L80 Porom (Curaja R5/Shellga R4, Healer's Prayer 2)
L80 Tellah (Protectga R2/Ruinga R4, Familial Bond)
L80 Edward (Magic Breakdown R4/Full Break R3, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Rydia (Ixion R5/Maduin R5, Eidolon's Bond)

RW: Maria's Song

I didn't realize Flan Master had Reflect until too late, but it was irrelevant. The slight HP split between Flan Master and the Flans may lead you to think AoE needs some fine-tuning, but it's actually -too- slight to matter. You can AoE to your heart's content and eke out the win this way - in fact, I recommend it: the offense ramps up REAL fast and it's oddly spiky to boot. Porom died late in the fight, but no biggie: Palom closed the deal with his SSB anyway.

Calca & Brina U++

L80 Palom (Meteor R3/Chain Thundaga R3, Ace Striker)
L80 Krile (Ixion R5/Maduin R5, Mako Might)
L88 Celes (Protectga R2/Saint Cross R3, Dr. Mog's Teachings)
L80 Cait Sith (Heathen Frolic Sarabande R4/Multibreak R3, Battleforged)
L80 Selphie (Curaja R5/Shellga R2, Healer's Prayer 2)

RW: Sentinel's Grimoire

Well, here you -definitely- need to pay attention to the HP difference between Calcas and Brinas lest you want to face Calcabrinazord. The best idea is running AoE until the dolls are all low on HP and start chipping them out until only three or two are left (remember to keep a Calca AND a Brina alive!). By the end, once again Palom SSB to the rescue. Not terribly bad by any means, dances and SG make the dolls' offense very manageable.

[Scar]

Ff4 event done.

My soul is crushed.

Everyone got better except Kain.

[Cotigo]

heheheh