Brave Frontier

i wonder if RNGsus would be kind enough to give me a zelnite after letting me have elza? i should probably wait for the most wanted units rate up. he should make the cut so i'll start farming and saving up gems for that time.

cheenky_sl said:

they're rare drops in 1st and 2nd mimic vortex dungeon.

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Ahhh was running 3rd

i think the drop rate in the 1st dungeon is barely less than the 2nd, so the difference in energy makes running the 1st much more efficient.

edit: the thing that sucks the most is they're not a guaranteed cap even if they spawn

moontayle_sl said:

Just as a piece of advice I would seriously think about replacing Ulkina with a pure damage dealing unit. My best runs (1.4m+) were Uda Lead/Elza/Davanshel/Melchio/Michele and Elza-Zelnite friend. You don't have to clear Terminus, in fact you probably won't without a Grah LS because Stage 6 will WTFPWN you without that inherent damage reduction plus extra health, but you should walk into that stage with ~1.1m.

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i had replaced mariudeth with ulkina and that gave me the jump from 900k to 1.2m. i think this made me able to clear terminus and that gave me the extra boost because before i was never able to get past the 5th stage. but now, i have a better grasp on bb gauge manipulation with zelnite, i may try out putting mariudeth back in, but he's just so damn squishy even though he's guardian. also worried about status ailments. should the pure elixirs be enough? marauder set should be good?

cheenky_sl said:

i had replaced mariudeth with ulkina and that gave me the jump from 900k to 1.2m. i think this made me able to clear terminus and that gave me the extra boost because before i was never able to get past the 5th stage. but now, i have a better grasp on bb gauge manipulation with zelnite, i may try out putting mariudeth back in, but he's just so damn squishy even though he's guardian. also worried about status ailments. should the pure elixirs be enough? marauder set should be good?

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Mariudeth is bad for frontier hunter because the scoring is all about quantity, not quality - i.e. number of hits on dead guy, number of sparks, number of weakness hits etc. There's also not very many fire guys, and a lot of earth guys, so ulkina is probably a better choice.

bah, only managed 800k due to a couple mis-swipes and not being able to tell if SBB gauge was full or not. i should start checking them before i start swiping anything. i think if i can max out my elza i could replace mariudeth with her but otherwise i don't have any other decent sparking 6* units. otherwise i'm gonna try ulkina again. before i had to use darvanshel as lead for the status null, but with her and a zelnite friend, her bb is ready pretty much every turn. still have one more day to get that legwand so not stressing over it too much at this point.

velk_sl said:

Mariudeth is bad for frontier hunter because the scoring is all about quantity, not quality - i.e. number of hits on dead guy, number of sparks, number of weakness hits etc. There's also not very many fire guys, and a lot of earth guys, so ulkina is probably a better choice.

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I don't know. I got my highest score with Mariudeth, and my scores dropped off significantly when I removed him. The crit buff plus water element helps a lot (I can never seem to OTK the Vishra round without him). I suck at figuring out FH though.

I go with Maxwell (lead, Amano, Sol Creator), Elza (Legwand, Ihsir's), Zelnite (Lexida, Sol Creator), Luther (Steeple Rose), Mariudeth (Dandelga), and whatever Maxwell friend has the best combo (I like Amano pairings).
Attack pot every round, fujin on Zelnite, Luther and Maxwells round 1. Swipe order Luther --> Maxwell --> Maxwell --> Zelnite --> Elza/Mariudeth
Rounds 2-6 swipe order Mariudeth --> Luther --> Maxwell --> Elza --> Maxwell --> Zelnite. I've played around with this a lot and it seems to do the best. Maxwells at the end sucks for some reason.

I'd ask for advice, but at this point I don't care anymore. Ideally I would have leveled my Michele SBB, but I don't have time. I tried running Kuda (Amano, Sol Creator) in place of Mariudeth and it ended up with a lot of 2 round kills.

The jump in fh to get from +2 ranks to +3 sucks. I'll just auto farm the end and hang around the 40k mark.

Apparently on JP for every 5 RS's you do in this event, you get a free one. I've done 2 already, not sure if I can manage another 13 gems which is what I'd need. No clue how long this event lasts for.

Outside of the language barrier, my only complaint about playing there is no auto-battle for the first clear. That really sucks, because they're all first time clears for me. I hate having to manually do quests.

the only water unit i think is phee, so you're only getting weakness bonus on one unit with the thunder buff. michelle would help more since there's 5 earth units. if you can somehow manage to use a grah, that could round it out with all the other units being light or dark, but i think you'd lose out a lot on bc generation and spark bonus points vs better sparking units.

In a rush but I've been 1 s hotting Terminus with Maxwell lead Elza, Zelnite, Aisha, and Grybe. Grybe is SBB1/10 Rest are maxxed. Clearing 1.7-1.9mil each run. Sometimes 1.5 when Grybe is a faggot and doesnt crit Phee.

Zero gemmed Vargas. Power creep is real.

Going to start maxwell attempts. Lineup is:
Grah- 35% hp sphere
Zelnite- lexida, sol creator
Ulkina- drevas, evil shard
Oulu- dandelga, ishtars guise
Kuda- legwand, sol creator
Lily friend.

Questioning the kuda slot.

Intrinsic_sl said:

I could swing that with the Maxwell friend for lead. What is your friend lead and swipe order / 1st round strat?

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Wasn't clear when I looked again but that was 2x Maxwell leads. I Fuujin both Max, Zelnite, and Elza(Dont need to use on her I'm just lazy) swipe Zel - Max - max - Elza - other two. 2nd stage depends on how fills went use fuujin if you kept it here but SBB max > Zelnite who will fill a SBB > BB Max - Aisha, Elza, Grybe. Then for the rest of the stages it's Max, Max, Zel, Aisha, Elza, Grybe. Amen and Steeple on Max, hitcount and sol on Elza/Zel, hitcount/amen on Aisha/Grybe or sometimes no spheres because I'm lazy and retarded.

If you don't have Maxwell yourself the same premise works with a couple caveats. You want Darv/Oulu over Grybe because you are going to 2-3 shot instead of 1 shot. Magress and Sefia/Kikuri are going to fuck you up due to wiping buffs. Magress "probably" won't kill anyone but on 6/6 you need someone immune to paralyze and guard as well as mitigate(if able) for first turn rape fest/debuff. Because those two fights clear your buffs immunity buff won't do shit you have to be immune via leaderskill or a sphere. As far as non-maxwell leader it's up to you. I would probably run a high DC damage leader over a BB spam leader since with the units I listed I fill all 5 SBB even with just two targets but if you don't have hitcount/sol spheres then an Ares/Zelnite leader 100%.

The hardest thing is balancing your damage v BB fill. If I put Lexida(which im lazy and don't have on anyone) on Maxwell I would fill all my SBB every single time instead of 99.5% of the time v only two targets. But I lose out on damage potential to do so and I just alter my swipe order if I'm unlucky and I'm missing 2-5BC. Every team is different due to drop checks, stats, etc. I have a fully maxxed SGX I'm not using who has a better crit buff and way better drop checks compared to Aisha but my team doesn't need the extra DC and Aisha ups my score on stage 3 as well as having higher base ATK and overall damage potential on the other stages sans Phee who is the sole reason I have Grybe on my team. I chose Grybe because he has the best DCs out of my thunder units who are leveled and I was actually clearing Terminus with him while he was still BB2 Without dual Maxwell leads SGX would be a better choice because of the elemental effect for Sephia on 6/6 and allowing you to possibly 1 shot her rather than be forced to guard/mitigate for the first turn. But with both Maxwells that's not a concern so I take grybe and hope he isnt a faggot and crits Phee to 1 shot that stage.