Brave Frontier

Tried out that squad, except still had to use bestie. It preformed really well. Skip queen sipia, and go estoriet to akluem then back to the queen.

Kafka's paralyze locks down estoriet's wings as well as providing a dark buff. Your team should do better because you'll have a wood buff on akluem to kill the thunder part. Might stick with this squad.

Still *some* dying (and one wipe on the 2nd run, but once the mitigator goes down, the rest will follow) but the new group is definitely more stable. With my other group I got two 2-stars and one 1-star....with the new group I've gotten two 2-stars and one 3-star, which is a nice (and convincing!) step up. (especially since I've gotten the only 3 star I've seen from anyone in any of my runs today, which speaks volumes)

Somehow it still *feels* like I kill a lot slower, but the star-ratings are speaking louder than my eyes. I blame it on the Hadaron effect, not seeing the one body-party I have targeted getting blasted by UBB levels of damage every turn, but rather spreading the damage out a lot better and surviving better = nicer overall damage, even if my eyes say it isn't.

Kafka was dying a bit and feeling squishy, but I only had a Malice Jewel and a Sol Creator on her at first.....I replaced those with the Prized Light and Cosmic Dust, and she feels pretty solid now.

Aaron is my weakest link (and also my mitigator which isn't a great combination) but I'm not too sure what I'd change with his spheres, I still want the Sacred Crystal on him for +10 BC a turn. Besides that one I have the Gizmo-whatsit from FG1 (+30% all stats, +BC when hit.....not the pinnicle of survival spheres, but has mitigator written all over it, particularly when the mitigator gets hit with a BB Drain.) I'll keep tweaking spheres here and there, but otherwise things are noticeably improved over my usual raid group already.


Anyway, much improved, thanks man....group is working out quite nicely!

New jp units announced. Griff's batch just got absolutely wrecked. Don't summon for anything until this shit drops.

Glad I dropped this shit after blowing all my gems on Griff batch and getting nothing, then.

Are you killing the right parts?
https://m.reddit.com/r/bravefrontier...rop_from_raid/

Also drops are better in groups. Pulled down 3 calamity cores today.

Ishad_sl said:

New jp units announced. Griff's batch just got absolutely wrecked. Don't summon for anything until this shit drops.

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And there it is. Let the hoarding, along with the 3-month countdown begin....4 months for a decent rate-up. That will put it around Christmas/New Years give or take a little.......Gumi's Brave Frontier 2nd Anniversary will be over by then, and you can bet they are going to try to find some irresistible way to milk our gems from us during that whole thing.

We are going to have some interesting decisions in front of us fellas.

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I couldn't help but run another Imp parade.....had shitty HP drops which is what I needed the most, but got enough to finish max'ing Kafka....finished Nemethgear with the Rec imps, but have tons of Rec/Defense/ATK to go still....going to fleece my units looking for any units that have oddball Imp Caps and seeing who needs some Rec/Def/Atk to bring their needed ratios back into balance. Beyond that I'm just going to have to find someone to dump them on - someone who won't mind never getting HP imp'd....finishing Edea's HP's is a priority for now.

One more Imp Parade will finish Edea off, but I'm gonna have the other imps coming out of my ears at that point.

I've had pretty good luck on Calamity Cores so far...starting to wonder how many I should stockpile. Might farm them the rest of today and tomorrow then reassess my goals for the last 3 days.

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edit: I'm getting tired of using Griel as my lead, but I have no idea what/who else to use. Krantz has been my hero as I can almost sub out Elimo and leave him doing heal/mitigator/DPS.

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Get that no dps shit out of your raid group. Run raaga, will, melchio, krantz, tridon with a griff friend. Need more survivabilty? Switch tridon and raaga positions. Surviving fine? Drop tridon and slot in hadron to focus parts.

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Which lead? Also who does status cleanse then (I mainly autobattle).

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Tridon/griff or ragaa/griff. Melchio has status purge, is immune to status with white armor and has status null for 3 turns.

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Krantz for healz. It's only 7k but that should be fine. I use the status-immune+20% hp sphere on tridon too.

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Outside of Trials and such where HC drop resistance is a thing, you'd be amazed at how little you actually even need heals. I was at least. In raids you can have units on the verge of death and HC crystals alone can heal them to full. Krantz having a heal of his own on top of everything else is just icing on the cake. Of all my characters, I use the healers the least.

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I am seriously reconsidering how many Calamity Cores I want to farm. The Raid Drops Bonus events don't really seem to be on any sort of pattern (yet), but they DO seem to be coming around once every now and then, so I really only need enough to hold me over until the next event......say 2 months to be safe, but surely we'd see one even before then. Also, with more units using their Unique spheres around, less pressure from crafted stat spheres there too.

I am thinking it is in my best interests to start to turn my attention to other Buffer and Occult drops with the time I have left - I've still only have 2 Buffer Jewels after all...can't craft Occults without those If I farm out 1 or 2 more Calamity Cores, that would give me enough cores to let me craft 7 Occult Treasures. So I'd need stuff to craft 5 more Buffers to match it. I have a feeling I'll have my hands full for weeks and weeks farming out all that "other" stuff needed besides their super rare components to craft a half-dozen of each of those spheres and all their sub-spheres anyway.


Yesterday was such a glorious day. There was nothing more satisfying than watching people march Shiny-New-DPS-God Zedus lead after Zedus lead into RC5 M10 and out-scoring every single one of them all day long.

Rc5m10 also drops mats for origin slates/revelation books. I would say you want a minimum of 3 occults (you'll usually use 1 or 2 units with unit specific spheres), and 4 books (fifth one is "free" from 400k points at fg)

Thanks, I wish I had been more familiar with Revelation/Occult crafting before this event started.

Looks like I am going to have to start farming RC5 M4, M5 and M7 (Blaze Pearls, Cataract Ore, Evil Eye and Sakura Leafs) I'm probably overlooking something, but this will keep me busy for a couple days at least.

Doing RC5 M7 as I was posting this, looks like I should be switching to my other raid group to let Hadaron focus on parts. It seems like I can get away without using a Tridon lead for this....worth a shot in the interests of science at least lol

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So 4 books and 3 occult... damn it. Means i need to craft a couple malice, a couple more buffer, and.... fuck.

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The Revelation Books are classified as Status Spheres, so you are unlikely to want to use those outside of OTK squads. Up to you how much of a priority that is.

I can't friggin' buy an Evil Eye from RC5 M7....almost like the Raid Drop increases forgot to buff the rates for that one :/

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I can't friggin' buy an Evil Eye from RC5 M7....almost like the Raid Drop increases forgot to buff the rates for that one :/

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Are you killing the claw? I've literally gotten 8 eyes in 8 raids today. Scrap tridon for this one and run with a griff friend.

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Are you killing the claw? I've literally gotten 8 eyes in 8 raids today. Scrap tridon for this one and run with a griff friend.

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I'm targeting "Jirayen - Claws" I switched back to my Tridon group (no Hadaron) but with Kafka type-changing the Claws still die first.

On my 5th run here, no Evil Eye on the first 4 strait.

Edit: Will be a few more minutes to finish this run...will update.

No Evil Eye again. No idea why. Feels like I'm wasting todays event behind this nonsense.

Edit: My account has _never_ gotten an Evil Eye, never mind just today, but ever.