Brave Frontier

I can consistently make it to stage 30 and keep getting fucking wrecked. I don't understand how people are tanky enough to survive to 30 but still have enough damage to race 30 down.

I got to 25 and cashed out also...haven't tried past that yet.


Xie'Jing is giving me freakin' migraines. How do you manage Fei in that fight? Seems I'm always killing him too early or some other nonsense. And bloody ALWAYS in that fight, if I activate a UBB, that character will die before their next turn, zero exceptions. That shit is infuriating.

With Fei, he taunts and does his damage reflect thing - Only way to hit them both is with AE's, and my characters die due to having so few HP's after damage reflect entirely too often.....I could Guard more, but then I leave no BC generation for my mitigator.

Also, I don't understand the timing when you are supposed to nuke her past a threshold and she has that shield up. I can't nuke through the shield and the very same turn it comes down, she's already doing some ultimate or other, wiping my characters off the board.

I must be missing something important.

LiquidDeath_sl said:

I can consistently make it to stage 30 and keep getting fucking wrecked. I don't understand how people are tanky enough to survive to 30 but still have enough damage to race 30 down.

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what team are you using? the sefia/ kikuri stage, I either bring a squad that blows them up turn 1 or I lose.

Ishad_sl said:

what team are you using? the sefia/ kikuri stage, I either bring a squad that blows them up turn 1 or I lose.

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I didn't use a high damage party to beat them. Deimos lead, Elimo (sucks for raids, pretty good here), Dion, Claire, Balgran and Bestie friend.

Pretty sure they've fucked with the BB fill values here, because Bestie or not, I had bb issues throughout.

Was like a 4th turn kill on S&K.

Bring a status inflictor. I bring Tora and she allows me to paralyze Kik and Curse Sefia. If you paralyze Kik you never lose your leader skills.

LiquidDeath_sl said:

Bring a status inflictor. I bring Tora and she allows me to paralyze Kik and Curse Sefia. If you paralyze Kik you never lose your leader skills.

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Unfortunately my status inflictors are fadahl, semira, xie jing, and edea. None of which have paralyze. Ran out of steam on 28 last run with edea, elimo, deimos, rize and feeva. Feeva was dead weight.

I thought Edea was a status inflictor. Also, I'm 100% sure Semira paralyzes. I used her on my arena team way back when specifically for that reason.

Semira does have paralzye, but her damage and bc checks make me think she'd be a waste in the last 5 stages. Oh apparently dmg on iOS is bugged right now so both your units and enemy units do lots more damage then intended. Well that explains a lot.

Struggling to see myself having the patience for this. Maybe if they let you restart from the last increment-of-5 checkpoint a few times and locked you into the same squad it'd be more palatable. Results would probably be no different, but you wouldn't have to spent half an hour getting to that point again and could learn the damn fights.

Anybody beaten this yet? Despite my gripes I've made several more attempts today. Got the last dude to 1/3 health before he killed too many key squad members.

DoctorSpooge_sl said:

Anybody beaten this yet? Despite my gripes I've made several more attempts today. Got the last dude to 1/3 health before he killed too many key squad members.

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I've got it on the back burner for now.

It is Xie'Jing that I'm currently focused on. I have my "best" group set as squad 2 in that trial, but for whatever reason, Squad 1 is the one that gets most of the work done. It *should* be the inferior squad, but it is the only one getting any shit done. (and honestly, I can't even figure out why.) Eventually that squad will wipe though (usually after they have dealt with 2 of the 3 Fei cycles), but once my best squad gets in, they don't manage to do a damn thing.

I might go with Vesti instead of Grahdens for squad 2.....as much as the damage mitigation/boosts vs dark would help, even with Zenia lead and Kikuri as a sub in the group, managing my BB bars in the second group is a bloody nightmare. I should probably sub Zenia too, her leadership is great, but her UBB is what is of greatest value in that trial.

The 3rd and final Fei is hard to manage too, at least the way I've been trying it. The damage reflect on Fei sucks at every form, but for whatever reason, by his 3rd form, folks are still so low after the round that they just get axed by whatever normal attacks are done. If I can't even survive being able to hit Fei, I have no idea how I'd finish the trial.

I think I have most of the mechanics/timings down through.

It would simplify my group-building if I had a 6-star Grahdens of my own, but I haven't even started on his Grand Quest yet.

I'm still getting Xie'Jing down to the 25% range give or take....but I'm failing at her often enough that I really deserve some sort of frequent flyer discount or a season pass or something.....say either 35 energy per run after the first dozen runs or my next 500 Energy to run it all I want for a month

To vent frustrations I beat Maxwell today just to see how trivial it's gotten. Had to use a few revives, but autoed it aside from that.

BAH!

Double Experience Dungeons and "Double" Honor Points. Xei'Jing is behind this....she knew this was the only way to keep me from coming after her ass.

Spoiler'd so you guys don't have to actually read any of it. I recommend that you don't.

/rant on


/rant off

I didn't even know they could be captured. I've always just blown a metal key, held onto 10 3 and 4 star metals and waited until super honor summon to get the five starss and evolved them.

DoctorSpooge_sl said:

I didn't even know they could be captured. I've always just blown a metal key, held onto 10 3 and 4 star metals and waited until super honor summon to get the five starss and evolved them.

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I am torn between sympathy that you didn't know they were potentially more easily farmed earlier in the summer, and envy that you are already doing what I should have been doing for the last month. Either way, it has convinced me that sometimes this game is much better played with an illegal Blood:Alcohol ratio.....going to get started on that last bit I think.

Knowing they can be captured changes nothing for me. It takes a metal key and 60-100 energy any time between honor summons to ensure I have enough metal mimics

Decided I've give the Mecha Gods trial a run, since I have 3, I think, 6*'s waiting to hit 7*. Yeah... that ain't going to be happening any time soon haha Oh well, now I know.

Also, what's up with this Overdrive thing I see sometimes when I use other people's units? Not even sure what it does. My own never do this. Sup with that?

OneofOne_sl said:

Decided I've give the Mecha Gods trial a run, since I have 3, I think, 6*'s waiting to hit 7*. Yeah... that ain't going to be happening any time soon haha Oh well, now I know.

Also, what's up with this Overdrive thing I see sometimes when I use other people's units? Not even sure what it does. My own never do this. Sup with that?

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If you have your own mitigator, with the right friend-lead, the Mecha Gods should be quite managable. A mitigator sub and at least one +Bulk lead (say, a 7-star Tridon friend for instance) makes things a lot easier....also recommended is a "when attacked" BB fill if you have any around. If you don't have mitigation up (and have +BB fill when attacked) you can Guard all your units to avoid any deaths until your mitigator is ready. A fujin potion on the first turn isn't the worst idea in the world.

Some will joke about my advice, but a lot of folks don't remember just how hard the Mecha Gods were when they were first getting there with nothing stronger than 6-stars. Later on when you are running a full blown bells-and-whistles 7-star group they'll seem easy and you'll be able to auto them with your eyes closed....but when you first get there, best to take them seriously.


Overdrive is how you charge a 7-star's Ultimate Brave Burst - you have to fill the shared bar with the group to use once on any 7-star in the group that has their UBB unlocked. Sometimes those UBB's can be obscenely powerful (sometimes they are just a glorified SBB, and many are not really worth using in comparison to the really good ones.)

Since you are seeing it from Friend 7-stars atm, you should just experiment with it anytime you see it....once the bar fills, on one turn you can activate it on the 7-star with a left-swipe, then they need to fill up their personal UBB bar to execute it.....so it is usually a 2-turn maneuver.