Brave Frontier

Ao-_sl said:

hrm, are the special spheres worth anything? Basically Malice + Something (but geldnite looks shitty).

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I sucked it up and dropped the 25,000 points for a Prized Light.

Reason? The "Nullifies Element Based Damage" will literally let you bring in weak-element units that would otherwise get shredded in Trials/GGC's etc.

Say for example the Boss is a Light Unit that wrecks dark units like there is no tomorrow. If I want to bring my Zenia in, she's got to be immune to that extra elemental damage she'd normally suffer as a penalty for being a Dark unit in a Light fight. She'd still hit the boss like a truck with elemental bonus damage of her own, but she'd not be at constant risk of being KO'd just because she was weak elementally herself.

That can mean the difference between a win and a loss.

That, and apparently in BFJP, the "Prized" spheres only appeared the one time and have never returned....no where else to get them.

Prized Might is pretty handy too....HP recovery is fantastic. I'd rather have that than a Buffer Jewel or even an Occult Treasure in fights where survivability is any issue. I don't have the points to drop on a Prized Might right now, but I'd still love to have one.

Rc6 has a craftable sphere which is occult + hp recovery. So prized might gets out classed eventually. Going to slap impiety on zenia for ark tomorrow, may break down and buy prized light.

Glendite used to be good but sucks now, you'll eventually get a demon core from fh.

The next time 1/2 Energy Vortex comes up, I'm probably going to do some Imp Runs (never mind that I can't afford any more Imp Keys atm....)

...But I think I'd almost certainly like to Imp out Libera and Aurelia....

There is one oddball I'm half considering though......what do you guys think about Nemethgear? He doesn't need imps' to be a 1-man fodder farming machine (good lords, him by himself + any random friend makes fodder farming fast - but you don't need Imps to fodder farm.), but how about Imp Farming? other niche situations?


The last time I was doing Imp runs, I would use Rize + as many Fujin's as I could choke down. Metals were still in the Imp runs then though, and the Defense Ignore on Rize's SBB made Metals a non-issue. ...that isn't needed anymore. Mifune was getting all the hype for Imp runs for a while, but it seems like he might finally be getting eclipsed a bit by some newer units. I have both Breaker and Anima Mifunes, but at this point I'm concerned that we might be too close to his expiration date to dump a bunch of Imps on him.

Nemethgear is interesting, but I still can't decide if he's got real potential for serious practical use, or if he is just a novelty of sorts. I understand his UBB can get a little nuts. Right now he is my 1-man Honor/Fodder farmer, and he does it better than anyone on my roster by a mile.....but fodders are units you could knock over with not more than an unkind glance anyway. I don't know if he is particularly useful in situations that would justify an investment of Imps. ...or maybe he's better just as an un-imp'd niche unit...

Thoughts?

Imped nemeth with sky harbinger is a popular imp farmer. I wouldnt imp him before libera, aurelia but would still I'm him. I'm imping pretty much every 7* though.

Server is up early. 1 squaded ark with oguru/tridion friends, zenia, aurelia, xie jing, krantz sub. Put impiety orb on zenia and four bonds on xie jing to null elemental weakness.

Reward sphere for 100% clearing grand quest 10.

Ao-_sl said:

They redid the weekly dungeons now? Thursday is money day...

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Yup, totems and mecha on the weekend now. Thankfully permanent light and dark totems on the weekends as well.
Shs can't get here fast enough,for the first time in what feels like forever I have a bunch of units to level.

Ishad_sl said:

Shs can't get here fast enough,for the first time in what feels like forever I have a bunch of units to level.

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Truer words have never been spoken. This wait has felt like an eternity this time. I just hope they don't put off SHS too long this time, or the wait will border on cruel and unusual.

I didn't get to farm honor as much the last few days as I had hoped too. Had some family obligations that took all my time. I should still be in good shape before double honor is over, but I am disappointed with all the missed honor.

No unit space to hold onto crystals.

Ao-_sl said:

How are you guys even waiting for SHS...

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I'll only do Mega-Metal parades nowadays, and @ 60 energy a run, I won't do one outside of a half-energy event. Since the last event I got several new units that I am extremely anxious to put to use.

That and with "double" honor going, it would be a waste to spend my energy on anything else. I am up to around 500 available summons with a few days of double honor still to go. Once the next SHS comes along, I'll be able to cash in for some very nice returns.

I just haven't had new units I have wanted to use *this* badly in quite a while. I suspect Ishad is in a similar situation if his Krantz is still waiting. This wait is about to break me in half.

I used about 1600 medals to max krantz and quaid. Still have ark, Michele, ahvel, melchio, Ruby and kira left to go.

Using gems from the level up campaign rewards, a couple from daily login rewards and some from the Vortex character dungeons that just ran, I was able to muster 3 summons for today's Krantz rate up.....but I came up empty. 3 summons, 3 useless units with max 6-star potential.

I am out of summons (again) for today, but I am not done trying for Krantz.

Medal Rush is back up as well as a 6 gem 7* only medal rush summon gate.

Ishad_sl said:

Medal Rush is back up as well as a 6 gem 7* only medal rush summon gate.

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I have summoned my last summon for quite a while. I haven't made peace with not getting a Krantz, but I am done trying. I used all my gems yesterday, but when I saw the pool-of-17 rate up, I did some summons today....you guys can infer what that means. (I am ashamed and disgusted by myself for it.)

....but I came up empty. Again.

I am done summoning, period....for Krantz or anyone else, for quite a while.

I enjoy this game a lot....it would fair to call it an addiction, and I am not ready to go cold-turkey to break it.

...so now my only recourse is to make the best possible use of what I have and focus on building up my existing characters and my spheres collection etc in any ways that do not include a rare summons gate. In my mind, I am going to convince myself that gate does not even exist. I am just going to hoard any gems I get for the foreseeable future until some future batch some months down the road breaks me down again.

...but I have no plans or intention to drop even one single gem specifically for Krantz anymore. Not too long ago, I really wanted a Vesti I never got, but I managed to make peace with not getting her (more or less, still want one) - but this one hurts....this one is going to sting for a long while.


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Michele and Ark have fucked up my friends list. Before Michele and Ark, I had a Dozen Griffs on my friends list and a few Kiras. Now 1/4th of my Friends list (at *least*) is Michele and Ark and I have only 3 Griffs left on my friends list and ZERO Kiras. (seriously? Morning of the Medal Rush and the last Kira on my friends list vanishes? how the hell is the even possible? You'd think this would be the day people would bring Kiras *out*)

I can understand people using Michele as their go-to leader for the Arena, but for the "Helper" squad ? Why?? And Ark? He can go fuck himself. Yea, he is solid....and free - so I get why people would be using him.....but goddamn man, putting away Griff leads for him? I have so many Arks on my friends list right now I don't even want to count them all. My friends list has deteriorated over the past week.

The group I've been using to grind Frontier Gate points depends on having a Kira friend, so I am particularly peeved about losing the last Kira off my friends list this morning. I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board to put together a whole new group that doesn't depend on Kira for Frontier Gate grinding.


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This should have been one of the fun, uplifting mornings, but I'm just extremely frustrated and depressed.

I am too addicted to this game to just quit, but I can't reconcile my desire to play this game with just how bad it is for me.

I'll max out my kira and designate him as my friend lead soon. Just need the shs. Going to run a Kira based squad for fg as well.