Brave Frontier

That seems weird, check to be sure. Evil eye uses the same icon as calamity cores, not like dark eyes and such.

Ishad_sl said:

That seems weird, check to be sure. Evil eye uses the same icon as calamity cores, not like dark eyes and such.

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It *is* weird. I ran some RC5 M10's first thing this morning before I switched to the other RC5 hotspots, I got no drops from M10 either, and no rares from the two times I tried M5. M4 was the only run I have done all day long that coughed up any rares at all. Every other run since I woke up early this morning has been M7. Usually during the raid-events they cough up a rare at least once every run or two.....today for me every single run outside of M4 where I was just testing the waters has been a complete bust. (aside from Sakura Leafs, but those are the common, you practically gettem just for showing up even without an event.)


It will be hard for me to miss though, I only lack 2 Evil Eyes from crafting my very first Occult Treasure. Every time I run out of raid orbs, I go and check.... That red 0 of 2 on Evil Eyes for the Occult Treasure craft keeps staring me right in the face.


Believe me, you'll know when I get get my first two, as I won't be able to get here fast enough to celebrate my first Occult Treasure. Right now I can't even get my first one though.


It really has felt like a wasted day, I've never encountered drop rates this bad during the drop-rate event before.

It is the mission "Fate Changing Battle" right?

Twice more, one of them 3-stars, and still nothing. I don't understand this.

Finally got my first one. Took 13 attempts to get one. That thing is supposed to be 10% drop rate even outside of the special event rates.

I'll need 11 more to match up with the cores I farmed out. Hopefully tomorrow I'll see a return to event rates instead of whatever twilight zone alternate reality I fell into today.

......aaaaaand 0 for 6 since the servers came back up. I am getting dangerously close to the popularized definition of insanity at this point.

Ao-_sl said:

I've been really liking Rhoa as a helper in raids... almost enough to level my own to 7*. Also the raid squad is now melting shit constantly.
Raaga lead, Melchio, Will, Krantz, Hadron, Rhoa/Griff friend.

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lol, "almost enough" Rhoa is pretty boss Ao-, if you have one, by all means Level the $*#& out of him If you have your own Rhoa in the group, then use the Griff friend, and your Krantz sub, you'll not only have your spark/crit bases covered, but those 3 together will retype everyone to all 6 elements, and elemental damage is still one of the best ways to boost overall damage in the game. ....and the best Part about having Hadaron around is that you can still annihilate crit-resistant body parts without having to give up a crit lead to do it. Rhoa/Griff Leads with a Krantz sub may not be the highest possible damage combination in the game, but it would be close enough not to matter very often. That group will wreck all kinds of face even if Raaga got demoted.

Ao-_sl said:

I did 20 runs on an imp key today... zero blue imps. ZERO. What the fuck. Seriously good timing but how the fuck did I not get a single blue imp? Have a few guys now who are all but Def maxed.

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Wow, never seen that before. Hopefully you at least got surplus of HP imps or something out of the deal

When I went though my units a couple days ago, I found more units with asymmetrical imp caps than I would have thought. Some units require 10-14 more imps of one stat than the others, so you can give them that many before their needed-imp ratios are back to even again... (if the ratios are even like that, you can still use Imp Artons on them - but once you max a stat (or get within 2 of maxing a stat), you can't use Artons anymore, and are forced to finish the unit entirely by single-stat imps no matter what.) Anyway, it turned out to be a good approach, because I was able to use my surplus imps on units that appreciated them without really wasting any, and without putting myself in an even worse situation of having all-but-one stat maxed on even more characters.

Running an Imp parade and not getting even a single imp of the stat you need most though.....ugh, you have my sympathies on that one. That sucks.

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Ok, here is a weird one for you guys....I didn't want to post again yesterday, because it was starting to be me talking to myself and it was getting weird

So after going 0 for 6 to start out my 2nd day of farming for Evil Eyes after going 1 for 13 on the previous day (and this during the "drop rates" event), I decided to get drastic. I completely removed Brave Frontier from my device....force-shut down the device and cold-booted it. Then I reinstalled Brave Frontier clean.

After getting signed back in, I went 7 for 9 getting Evil eyes. 7 for 9! After gonig for a combined 1 for 19....keep in mind, even under normal rates, the drop rate is supposed to be 10% when the claws are killed....so 1 for 19 is bloody horrible even without a drop rates event. ok, so maybe the whole thing was just RNGesus fucking with my head, but it felt like someone flipped a switch. I went from literally worse-than-normal rates to full on event bonus rates, just by reinstalling the game. The game client *shouldn't* have anything to do with the drops a player receives (would be a horrible design and make it vulnerable to more malicious types)....but the evidence says something weird really was going on that was solved by a reinstall of the client on my end. I wasn't having drop-rate problems in other missions that I had tried either....just that one.

I'll never be able to explain it - but if any of you fellas run into a problem like that in the future, it might be worth taking the time to do a clean install of the app before wasting as much time and effort as I did.

So anyways, I went 7 for 9 on Evil Eyes to start after the reinstall, then it got a little spotty after that, but even then I was eventually able to get the Evil Eyes I needed to match the Calamity Cores I had farmed out. So yesterday I was able to craft my very first Occult Treasure (woo!) ...I still need some oddball stuff from other raids to craft another, but I'm on my way finally lol....and today I am free to turn back to farming stuff for Buffer Jewel crafting with a vengence.

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So....Yesterday I got expelled from 3 groups.

At first it bothered me, but I just assumed it was someone who didn't like me running a crit lead and either didn't know or didn't care that the Hadaron I had in the group at the time made that whole concern irrelevant nowadays.

But the last time? The fucker was running a REIS lead, so clearly he didn't have a problem with crit leads. ...and he didn't expel me until AFTER we had run a mission....so he saw that not only did the important body parts all die first, but that in fact ALL body parts died on both bosses before the boss itself died. The only thing I can imagine is that the fucker didn't realize he let a Beast in the hen-house and he didn't want the competition for scoring, so he kicked me out to make room for slackers he could out-score.

If there was any other reason, I can't imagine what it could have been.

Expelling people from raid groups like that is just rude. I only will ever consider expelling someone if they've gone AFK and not come back, and then only to make room for someone who wants to join the group.

If someone ever out-scores me in a group, it doesn't even cross my mind to boot them for it. What I *WILL* do is examine their group to see what it is they are running so that maybe I can learn something from it. But expel them? For what? Doing a good job? Maybe it was just a kid being childish, because I find it hard to believe an adult would be so petty.

Edit: Whoa, double post on a single click.....don't think I've seen that happen here before.

FYI, the last three quests under the special section of records are worded like they are for selling a malice, buffer or occult. They are actually for crafting it. So accept each before crafting the jewels for a free 2k a achievement points.

Semira, ciara 7*s in October. Rina , golem, raydn 7*s announced in jp.

Finished my 7th occult treasure. Now farming divine jewels and then waiting for rc6.

Ishad_sl said:

Semira, ciara 7*s in October. Rina , golem, raydn 7*s announced in jp.

Finished my 7th occult treasure. Now farming divine jewels and then waiting for rc6.

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Nice!

I *might* be able to craft my 2nd Occult Treasure today....I crafted another buffer yesterday, so my 3rd Occult Treasure wouldn't be *too* far off, but after that it is gonna be slooooooow for a while.

Does the Doom Ring drop anywhere but RC4 M6 "Underworld Messenger"? I'm lookin at some sources that say that is the only spot (with a 6% chance to drop from "Lower Body") but I'm looking at other info that says it can also drop from RC4 X1 M2 "Draegar the Demi-God". Underworld Messenger is a really fast, really easy mission to solo, so even at 6% rates, I was half-planning to just turn that into my new quick/easy farm spot once the raid-drops event is over.

That approach would put Doom Rings as an extreme bottle-neck on my crafting, but if I have a stock of most everything else done, it also leaves me with nothing but a very easy/casual farm to do during non-events.

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I'm looking forward to 7-star Semira and Ciara....no clue what their 7-stars will look like, but as I have no expectations of them, for once they'll only be a bonus and not a disappointment waiting to happen. Even if they end up being kinda useless to me, I'd rather have their 7-star versions on my roster than their current 6-star versions.

It also gives me hope for the Christmas units. Time for Jack to turn all Boss-as-fuck just for the lulz, and Nick to (insert Rude Gesture here) Zenite's upcoming 7-star. I *will* have high hopes for Nick as I never did get a Zelnite of my own. Eva could be kinda awesome too, she was always a bit underrated imo.....Jack was just so bad, he has nowhere to go but up.

...on a side note, I kinda hope Gumi doesn't make them use Legend Stones. The SBS units didn't, but you never know with Gumi.

Ao-_sl said:

Big news updates!

Guardian and Oracle types are getting changed...
Raid changes
Achievos
Game Optimization
New Content

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10-hour patch. Hold on to your butts.

It seems like every time they try a particularly big patch, they screw something up. The last time they tried to do this much all at once the servers were down for 3 days Hopefully the servers won't be down longer than they are planning, but with Gumi it is definitely a "hope for the best, plan for the worst" situation. At least this time we are not right in the middle of a Frontier Hunter or something. I wouldn't go planning on having the servers up for the rest of the Raid Drops event though heh. I plan on getting my most important farming out of the way today. Also, (to anyone who might be lurking) learn from my mistakes and for the love of god, do not try to do a clean install of the game while the servers are down for the patch. /shudders

All that said, looks like a damn fine list of updates to me. The type-changes and Raid updates seem long overdue in fact. No word yet on Andaria and Zedus's unique spheres, but if they are not put in during the patch, it will be the longest we've had to wait yet for spheres for global exclusive units

A few weeks ago, I'd have loved the "Default Raid Group" like they had for Arena/Helper squads, but more recently I've been regularly switching between 3 different raid squad setups depending on what mission I'm doing - kinda worried this might make switching squads more of a PITA for raids than it already was.

Doom ring is definitely a bottle neck, underworld messenger is the only place to farm it. Definitely agree on the holiday units, if they end up great, yay. If not who cares. At the very worst, it gives me a distraction so I don't waste my gems while we wait for avant's batch.

Ishad_sl said:

At the very worst, it gives me a distraction so I don't waste my gems while we wait for avant's batch.

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hah, yea that is so true.

I still have a feeling Gumi is gonna do something during their anniversary event that will test my willpower to hold on to my gems between now and Avant's batch....but you are spot on, having a handful of other global 7-stars between now and New Years will definitely scratch that itch and make it a lot easier to hold on to those gems. For the first time ever, I've even started holding on to Summon Ticket's instead of yolo'ing them away

Whoever gave Deathmax permission to have RL obligations on patch day is fired.

I got in....lots of changes to digest, barely scratching the surface. One minor thing, it looks like "+stats when unique sphere is equiped" now shows up on the stat sheets out of battle. ...but now the Sky Harbinger doesn't show modified stats....

Can't always tell what is a bug and what is intended atm

Edit1: Moving around in raids is so fast and easy it feels like cheating

Edit2: It looks like status effects applied to the boss by other people can (might?) carry over into your fight too. At least the message exists.

Edit3: Two new sphere "types" (or at least functional buttons)....one is "Other" the other is just Blank. Revelation Books / Origin Slates are now classified as other, so you can use 'em with basically everything else now. I don't have any spheres under the Blank type.

Edit4: You no longer have to click between each stage of Frontier Gate if you are on Auto. Niiiiice.

I haven't tried it yet, but I just noticed the "No Helper" button on the screen you'd normally select a Friend Lead.

The QoL improvements in this patch are off the charts