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Post by M&M&M on Jan 1, 2017 7:39:25 GMT
Heh, I don't know about that. All the mythril in the world is useless if I don't have the luck to back me up. For example, I pulled badly on the XIV Banner tonight. It turned out well at first; I did a 100 gem pull and managed to get Minfilia's Shield. I thought 'Wow! Looks like my lucky day! Let's see if my 11x pull will get me something good too!', and made the pull. Got 1/11 and the relic was another Minfilia Shield..
Oiy. I can feel the god of trickery laughing behind my back. Don't get me wrong, the shields are great. Holy resistance (rare but useful), excellent physical defense, and a great support ability for the owner. The real problem is none of my current team members can use it! T_T
I just hope my pull on phase 5 OSB fest goes better.
And agree'd, the real prize is Freya's BSB and Trident (And Steiner's BSB too). And did you say both would give +30 attack? I thought each of them only gives +10. If you are right, then I'm TOTALLY going for them both with more passion.
Rhetorical question, let's just say you managed to get one of Freya's items on the first 1 or 2 polls, would you gamble it all to get the other? Maybe depending on which one you'd get first? For me, since both grants additional damage, I'm ready to throw everything I have into it! Specially since the next FFIX event doesn't have ANY items for poor Freya.
I somehow managed to get all the rewards from the roulette (With the help of many stamina refreshes tho). Yea those gold knights are rare, completely at the control of RNG. I suggest you keep it up with the orb fest until you do tho. The rewards are worth it, and the orbs you get from this phase will net you valuable lightning orbs, which is needed for Lightning Dive.
As for your luck, I think you're more likely to get it than I am seeing as you had fantastic luck with OSB's and BSB's. and 350 mythril by the 15th is definitely doable. But yea, it is what it is, I wish thee luck as well.
Also there will be a Login Bonus for New Years:
1st Day: Chocobo Wing (X) (84 Atk Sword) 2nd Day: 10 Giant Adamantite 3rd Day: 10 Giant Scarletite 4th Day: 5 Mythril 5th Day: 200,000 Gil 6th Day: 1 Dark Matter (5★) 7th Day: 1 Rosetta Stone 8th Day: Fat Chocobo (a 4★ summon ability) 9th Day: 10 Major Growth Eggs 10th Day: Chocobo Suit (V)
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Post by greysky on Jan 1, 2017 10:58:02 GMT
No. I meant that if you got and mastered her coat, trident, and heavy lance. You'd get +10 attack each. For a total of 30. I have the coat, just need the other two. I've had great luck overall, but atrocious luck when it comes to best girl. The first chance to get her partisan and the first chance to get her coat, I completely struck out. Wasting all my mythril. And the second chance to get her coat was the same: used all my mythril, only to get the coat with a hail mary dollar draw.
I don't do stamina refreshes. Instead opting to use my resources on draws and occasional storage upgrades. But I'm close to getting everything.
I'll have to see. But since there are two Freya items, I expect to use most/all of it. Otherwise maybe I'll save for a realm that I have poor synergy on.
For the shield you got. Surely you can level up it's user with the billion eggs we got recently. The rewards are nice. Just got the new years 25. Need to focus on earning mythril after the orb thing.
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 2, 2017 12:53:18 GMT
Ah, muh bad. Still tho, that dollar draw really was like a whole miracle of it's own, still amazing. like 16% chance to get a rainbow relic in a dollar drop, 1-2% to get what you actually want. I mean, back then you were almost just as likely to get an off-banner item instead and that makes it seem less likely, but dayum! Yea I don't normally do stamina refreshes either, but this was my first orbfest and I was in desperate need of monies and orbs. I just wish there was a way to get Crystals other than +++ dungeons or shattering 6 Star abilities (Which I haven't done yet, yet still have class motes to do so). For the shield user, yes. I could level her up. But I only have around 24 Major eggs and 30 greater eggs. I've also been using orbfest to level up a dozen or so characters so far. Used eggs sparingly of course so they get to lvl 50 first, then 65/80 if they are too close to lvl up so as not to waste exp gained. I leveled up my FF9 characters first so I'd be able to do my first Cid Mission once the FFIX comes through. All of my whalings on past FF9 banners granted me enough to do so. Also the FFRK Information PDF has been updated for recent character/abilities/and so on. Save it from here or read: www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/5lfjtz/pdf_compilation_v167_game_info_nicely_organized/Finally, we have a VERY interesting update coming from Japan: TRANCE! See Zidane in his full Purple Super Saiyan Glory! i.redd.it/1x1uwmsmk97y.jpgWe can definitely expect this for other characters as well, especially for best girl! It's a Legendary Materia you can record dive (with special motes I think). For Zidane's Trance to activate, he'd have to be dropped down to 10%-15% Health, which will bring him back to full health. I don't know what other special properties this will bring but it should be good!
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Post by greysky on Jan 3, 2017 0:26:57 GMT
I've done a few cid missions myself. Getting a couple five-star orbs is nice. But it's nothing crazy special. I can only do them for vii and ix: the only realms that I've whaled hard on enough to make an entire team. Trance will be neat, but it's so far away, and Freya could be much, much later.
I've gotten every roulette prize, have beaten rubicante, and got the ten mythril from the ff14 event. need to go hard on getting as much mythril as I can for best girl. hoping that gyashle green thing comes with a handful as well.
Looking forward to seeing what the next ff9 event is after beatrix. We're seeing Dorgann, Angeal, Fujin, Raijin, and freaking Gogo! Record keeper is getting pretty deep into the literally-who forest. Fratley's waiting in that forest somewhere. Damn it!
Edit: Tried the torment dungeon. Jesus Christ, how horrifying! Came in swinging with Lenna, Zidane, Garnet, Lightning, and Hope. All at lvl 90+. Didn't even come close.
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 3, 2017 12:56:34 GMT
Congrats on Rubicante, I hate that bastard myself. Him and his STUPID cape!
Yea looking forward to the next FF9 event myself. But dare I risk asking? Would I be speaking heresy if I say I hope there was no new items for Freya in the banners for it? An OSB for her would be awesome as tits, but I'd like to have a more relaxed grip on my mythril if you know what I mean. For a while at least. Knowing how it'd work, I'd fancy a guess that Garnet would be the main character for the next FF9 Banner and receive an OSB. Hell, maybe even Amarant, that guy is one of the most overlooked character in FFRK! He's definitely due for some action.
Speaking of action, tonight's the last night for Orbfest! That means I can finally get all the crap I missed! And BOY do I have a backlog full of it. With the FFXIII event right around the corner too! (DONT forget to cash in your chips before it ends, btw. 1 chip = 1 gil maybe crap, but it adds up I guess. At least that's how I try not to be so salty about it).
As for the Torment Dungeon, yea, I've been hearing alot about it alot too. Most people with success stories tho say that having a Knight with Drawtaliate (Draw Fire/Retaliate) eases the trash mobs a whole lot so you can focus on building up SB gauges and prepare. Gonna give that a try when I start.
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Post by greysky on Jan 4, 2017 1:33:40 GMT
Well, the Beatrix event already skips Freya. So the ff9 event after that wont hit until around summer time. That's probably the thing that includes trance, if I had to guess. And that one, I hope to see a new Freya thing of some sort and a new character. Now that you mention it, the only ff9 characters that I don't have a soul break for are Amarant and Kuja. I'm having a bit of trouble with Ultima Weapon. But I'm confident that I'll beat it with a little tweaking and some luck. The roullete thing already gave us so much. So it's fair that the gil is kinda meh. Heck, the gold knights give some gil when they die as well. Don't they? Onward to Freya! Edit: Oh look. I leveled up my Burmecian-ness!
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 4, 2017 7:01:06 GMT
Well, had a bit of a rush when I was pulling on the final OSB. After using my psychic powers to steal your luck, I've decided to pull on it twice without a dollar pull (Mostly since I had no monies in paypal :[ )
First pull I got 4/11, woo! Bad news is three of those damn relics were Tellah's Bomb Staffs. Good news is the last one was Hope's OSB, woo x2!
Second pull I got 3/11, also woo! Relic #1 was the Gungnir Spear (FF2), Relic #2 was Soul Render Sword (FF1) and of course, Relic #3 is Tellah's Bombs Staff again (Sod off you spoony mage!).
Sadly, I didn't get any Burst items, especially the Onion Gauntlets. But all in all, I'm content. I got my first OSB, my first 8 Star Item, and I got a Dark Enhancing sword for Jecht. I should steal your luck more often...
I managed to beat all FF5 events once orbfest ended (Exdeath Prime took me hours to beat but not master, geez..) and I beat Valigarmanda's stage. Now I'm waiting for my stamina to regenerate. As for Ultima weapon, I've only heard that the best way to go about him is maximum magic mitigation and tons of debuffs since he uses lots of piercing magic attacks.
I'm thinking about creating Sky Grinder and honing it, but I'm stuck whether to get it or not. Do you have it? Is it worth it?
Also yea, the gold knights drop tons of Gil on death, but the chips they drop won't automatically be turned into Gil. The roulette table is still open to use in the event selection in case you got any chips leftover.
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Post by greysky on Jan 4, 2017 17:37:08 GMT
I never bother with the ultimate++ dungeons, myself. Did manage to beat Ultima weapon by focusing on resistance and holy resist. It only had that one holy move, but it used it enough that I think it helped. Having three holy bsbs did the trick. But I still championed it by the skin of my teeth.
Sky grinder is probably worth it. I upgraded lightning dive, but I might do sky grinder as well.
Those were pretty good pulls. I did five dollar draws and got jack and shit. Besides that one 11 pull on the second phase that got me wakkas thing. Hoping my luck holds out for freya. Doing a bunch of realm missions to earn mythril and staminass.
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 5, 2017 10:45:43 GMT
Just beat the FFXIV Ultimate++ dungeons, you should totally go for it. The rewards sucks (Cept maybe the crystals), but it'll be a great boost to your morale for later dungeons. Garuda is MUCH easier to defeat than the FF5 Ultimate++ and you have Eiko's BSB to keep everyone alive. Just remember to kill any leaves she spawns quickly. Also all her attacks are physical, even better now that you can leave shellga out for another useful ability. Zidane will be of huge help with mug bloodlust and his bsb (Since it cuts her physical abilities a good notch). Just go in with those in mind and you'll come out smelling better than the queen's roses!
With all the other events and Ward Dungeon out of the way, I'm just waiting for my stamina to fill up before I try out the Torment Dungeon and inevitably get slaughtered XD.
Also...huh...Isn't the FF13 Event supposed to come later tonight? Usually they make an announcement before the day it arrives but we haven't gotten anything. You don't think...?
EDIT: My expectations were correct: I got slaughtered! It's a good thing stamina isn't used until you win, otherwise I'd be upset.
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 6, 2017 5:37:52 GMT
Just got the news on the next FFIX Event: It will focus on Steiner and Vivi, here's the copy:
"On 20th Jan (Japan), FFIX event 'A small spark, a great determination' will be held, that follows the memories of Steiner and Vivi. Steiner and Vivi Legend Spheres and Legend Materia will be added as well.
In this event, there will be a rare monster with great rewards may appear in the dungeons...."
No news on what items and relics will be in the banners yet. I'm surprised they would go with Steiner again, but those two are a very good pair in the game, so I guess I can understand.
Also, after like about a million S/L's and hours, I somehow managed to beat the first Torment dungeon. Zidane was the MVP in the battle with his super awesome BSB. Holy crap tho, I won within a single turn of having my party dying. So there's no way I'll be trying the 2nd dungeon for a long time!
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Post by greysky on Jan 6, 2017 17:18:21 GMT
Huh. That's neat. It's a bit disappointing, but kinda cool too, that instead of new characters, ix seems to be getting trance instead.
Congrats on beating the torment dungeon. I'm full on earning mythril right now!
I did the fight with the ff14 dragon with a very strange team. Took me a few tries, and my composition was probably too much of a cute play. Since the dragon was weak to fire, I made Vivi the mvp with his bsb. and hope had a decent Firaja. Garnet and Lenna were healing, and I replaced Zidane with Wakka. As he is a ranged character and debuffs attack and magic. Managed to champion it though.
Any word of when the next group of mc3 characters unlocks? I have six crystals and have my eye on Edgar, Sephiroth, and Selphie.
Edit: Oh. What do you know? It was tonight. Now I can start leveling those three up.
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Post by greysky on Jan 10, 2017 17:33:59 GMT
Man. Every new purple+ boss is a new challange. I thought I'd be fight fighting lightning with lightning, hope, lenna, sahz, and zidane. But she hits like a truck! After several tries, loadout changes, and swearing, I finally just gave lightning a gun, tossed in hope, lenna, eiko, and I switched zidane with wakka. Wakka could use that jack o lantern weapon from halloween. So I had an entire party in the back row and threw every single thing I could think of to mitigate damage. That did the trick and I beat her with the party near full health. Unfortunately, my lightning didnt pull off an interrupt and I only got expert.
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 11, 2017 10:49:07 GMT
You got that right! I had to S/L way more than usual, even the first purple boss. I actually find that stupid dinosuar more challenging than Lightning herself because of that annoying Aoe-dispelling Bay attack of his. I beat both of them only by a hair's length. Normally I'd be able to beat a Ultimate+++ boss as well, but for the first time, I will be forced to skip this one. it's just too hard for me. I hope this isn't the beginning of a new difficulty ramp...
And FF9 event is coming close, ARE YOU AS EXCITED AND NERVOUS AS I AM???
I'll be playing the hell out of the Gyshal Green's event as well. ba news tho is there won't be any items that will be available for sale during that time like the last Double Gyshal Green week (At least no news popped up for it yet).
Also, we'll be getting our portal App rewards on the 12th!
10 mythril, 6 major growth eggs and 1 Rosetta Stone.
That should put me up to 400, enough fer 8 pulls (and a dollar draw). Despite that, I still feel nervous as hell since BSB's are noted to be very hard to get. BUT WE MUST NOT GIVE UP HOPE! HURRAH!
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 15, 2017 3:21:57 GMT
Some interesting news: On the 17th, there will be a Dungeon Update which will not only give us more mythril to grab, but also features a Lucky Banner which features many FF9 relics; including Freya's Great Coat, Trident, and possibly her BSB Heavy lance.
The Heavy Lance is questionable since there's no confirmation yet (Tho other BSBs and OSB's are featured from other banners however) and the chance the get FF9 relics is 34%, the highest of all the other realms featured in it.
So, just a thought on what to do with any leftover mythril you may have after whaling on the 2nd banner. =P
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Post by greysky on Jan 15, 2017 12:40:08 GMT
That would be the kind that costs 25, but you can only do it once, right? Might be worth doing as a final shot. But I'll still focus on the second banner. I got all the mythril from the dungeon, atomos, and the greens thing. Plus the one from them screwing up a description or something. Then I went back to the core tealms. I'm at like 297 now. Plus I'm increasing my stamina.
The freya/steiner banner's tonight, right?
I'll do the lucky banner if I have some mythril left over.
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Post by greysky on Jan 16, 2017 1:06:26 GMT
Ok! Did a 50 pull. Got quina's hairpin, steiner's armor, and steiner's bsb sword. Got a little nervouse, did another 50. Got freya's trident, garnet's white dress, and Freya's heavy lance! Just two draws and I got both freya things in one pull! I may or may not shoot for duplicates. I'll update this message as I play. Good luck with your pulls! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUS_xTSQQd0Edit: Did the red ff9 missions. Tore Kuja a new flare star. Then I decided to do the first ff13 banner. got lightnings osb, two noel ssb swords, fang's ssb braces, and serah's crappy gloves. While the osb's awesome, I really wanted snow's coat to see what last stand was all about. Maybe I'll do another pull later. Or possibly the first ff9 banner. Wouldn't mind having meo twister or divine gaurdian. Zidane could defend Freya and the other grill characters' honor with that!
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 16, 2017 3:22:55 GMT
Congratulations on your success with so few pulls! I myself have some good news as well! I managed to pull Freya's Heavy Lance and Trident too, tho not in the same pull and after spending 200 mythrils myself.
Also got 2 Steiner's Armor (Already have 1 more from the last Banner I pulled), 4 Garnet Wedding Dresses (They will look good on best rat girl, oh yes..), 2 Quina's Hairpins, and 1 Beatrix's Thunder Gloves. We were both lucky enough to not get Eiko's BSB or Kuja's glove.
More congrat's on getting Stainer's BSB! That's ones a keeper. I'm too afraid to pull on the first banner myself since I already have many items featured. I did decide to pull on the FF13 banner you did as well since that banner actually looked good for synergy items. Got 1 Lightning Armor (I love the look of it), 1 Noel's sword, and 2 Fang's arm guards. I was actually aiming for the Gun since I don't have ANY firearms to use. No BSB or OSB but a 4/11 pull is still fantastic and I'm still happy from getting Freya's items.
Hope your using your upgrade materials well for your new items. I found that using 10 Giant Scarletite/Adamantite, 1 Large, Scarletite/Adamantite, and 1 small Scarletite/Adamantite will grant you the best way to lvl a weapon since you'll only be wasting 4 puny points!
Today has been most excellent for us!
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Post by greysky on Jan 17, 2017 3:49:53 GMT
Congrats to you as well. After getting all those ff9 and 13 relics. I decided to do the greens missions to master their soul breaks. Almost done with the lot of them. Then I'll work on the purple missions and maybe the raid. Disappointed that ix didn't get a torment dungeon. If only there were ff9 characters that went through traumatic events or something. Maybe experience some sorrow or despair? 9 and 7 never got a mote dungeon either. That always bugged me when those were my only two good realms for the longest time. I do have pretty good 10 synergy though. Despite all my Freya relics. She's her strongest when equipped with my 8star tin armor and 8star bistro fork with some Rosetta stones. I'll let Zidane and Squall wear their girls' pretty, white dresses. I think there's another osb fest in a couple of months. I'll try to save some mythril for that. Otherwise. I really need to get something for 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, and tactics. my relics for those are all ass, if anything at all. I always just clicked "optimize" when I upgrade my relics. Never really thought about it. Also. Robshi made a thread about the ff tcg that released globally recently. I'm mentioning it here since this reply bumped it from the front page. :y
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Post by M&M&M on Jan 17, 2017 12:38:33 GMT
I was very surprised that the next torment Dungeon wasn't FFIX as well, and I was also surprised that the last torment dungeon disappeared too. I had presumed from reading their descriptions that it intends to works like the last mote Dungeons and all dungeons would be kept for redoing later. Hope this is rectified soon.
However, this Torment Dungeon actually in your favor this time since you have Tidus's OSB and a few the new water abilities the last FFX dungeon gave us all. You should have a much better chance in this dungeon, ESPECIALLY since he doesn't have any irritating revive tactic to be careful of. Tho he does have a stone punch attack that has a chance of petrifying whoever it hits (9% chance actually, low but still a threat). I hope you give this a shot and win.
Lucky you, I only manage to get 2 Bistro forks, and yet it is sadly more stronger than the Heavy lance by 4 ATK. And I don't see this item ever reoccurring. It's obvious Unique and Special items will fall out of favor since BSB's, OSB's, and even the upcoming USB's will overshadow them all. I hope FFRK offers a chance to select any of them just like the Tyro Beginner Banners so none of us miss out on them. It'd be a shame to lose them.
Also I had the EXACT same thought of saving my mythril for the next 2nd Anniversary Fest myself! 4th Banner for Cid's Sword and Zidane's vest, and the 5th Banner for Zidane's OSB and Eiko's OSB/USB. I don't know what her relic does but I assume it's be something awesome! I'm pretty much smitten with the little girl for her awesome special abilities at this point.
Eh, I just realized how creepy I am; pulling on the same banners as ya. muh apologies. I was actually thinking about pulling on the next FFT event banners for that sweet Cid OSB Sword (Might pull once anyways for synergy), but I looked at kungpao for a bit saw the other banners coming in the future. Actually the next osb fest might be nice too, could throw in a pull or two somewhere...
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Post by greysky on Jan 18, 2017 1:40:43 GMT
Another great draw. The record keeper gods smile warmly at me. I got four 5 stars: Yda's bsb, which has a super multibreak effect and one of the the moves gives greased lightning. Alphinaud's robes that gives deployment tactics, the attack/magic buff that gives a damage deflect effect to the team Quistis' mighty guard whip. It was one of the best roaming warrior buffs for the longest time. Still great. And, oh, another Freya coat! Now my dapper rat waifu is even more dashing! I really needed those good ff14 relics. I did the first ff9 purple mission. Had an easy time until the very end. the shell dragon's counter can wreck you if you let it. Still won and championed it. Gonna fight Steiner and Beatrix soon. Think I'll forgo the cid mission and take Leon into battle. He's level 99 and his bsb is a ton of dark damage. Perfect to body the two knights. Plus I like the idea of Leon vs Beatrix. Battle of the face-turns. Edit: I keep posting the colon capital D emote. Forgetting that it turns into Fratley going wtf.
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