Brave Frontier

I know now how Leto felt during the last uoc when he was forced to choose an indispensble yet patently old, unfun and unglamorous unit.

Fuck Rize

Pshh, Luka is best waifu

Fuck the fire frontier gate right in it's burning ass. I've tried to get a 1.5m score so many times and still can't do it. Has to be the most bullshit of the elemental gates. Fire has one fucking mitigator unit, which I don't have. When I bring a friend Adel for mitigation, I either can't beat it at all because team dps is too low since Adel's LS is shit, or my score is too low for the same reason. When I bring dual Avant to try to just OTK every room, I can't sustain BC gauges at all and end up wiping because if you don't 1 shot room 5 and 6 you are instantly killed. I even tried randolph/adel leads with owen on the squad for +def buff, then UBB'ed adel on the final boss. It didn't one shot her, so of course she then instantly wipes my entire team through UBB mitigation and elemental immunity spheres on most of my squad. What in the fuck, I don't even understand...

/rant off

Here's my 7* fire units if anyone has an idea of a squad that should work: Randolph, Vargas, Avant, Owen, Griff, Gildorf, Phoenix, Seria. I also have the following units not yet evolved, but if one of them will help me beat this shit I'll prioritize them: Vermillion, Ramna, Regrard, Ruby.

Do you have a darvenshel?

Blew up the 6* fg. Light Deemo/maxwell leads. Aniel, fei fang,afla dilith subs. Load up on damage and one shot every stage after the first.

On my third orb today I finally beat fire gate. Team that ended up working:
(L) Randolph -- meirith pearl, vorpal chainblades
(F) Avant -- dandelga, war demons blade
Vargas -- medblare, dandelga
Seria -- oracle bangles, infidelity orb
Griff -- demon igniter, war demons blade
Gildorf -- guardian shard, bond of rihalnese

I basically had to YOLO round 1, and wasted 2 orbs today when they paralyzed half my team since I had no status clear or null. Third orb the planets were in alignment and no one got paralyzed first turn, so I went off with BB's 2nd turn and cleared it. Every round afterwards was a one turn kill (2 turns round 4), with UBB used round 5 and 6.

Key to BB management was randolph's leader skill combined with seria's BB on spark buff and spheres like oracle bangle, demon igniter, guardian shard, etc etc. Glad it's finally beaten.

So for the 6* gate, do I need to max SBB and imp the 6* guys, or is it easy enough to just go in with vanilla 6* units and still win?

To answer my own question, the 6* gate is pretty easy, just one shot it. Team was:
(L) Rouche -- meirith pearl, magical device
(F) Sareas -- medulla gem, steeple rose
Kuda -- oracle bangles, war demon blade
Afla Dilith -- demon igniter, vorpal chainblades
Xie'Jing -- skyharbinger, enhancing device
Nick -- guardian shard, medblare

I only went to rank 1 SBB, which ended up being good enough. I didn't have mitigation, and every round took at least 2 turns to kill, but enemies were cursed a lot, so they didn't hit hard. Only water, dark, and earth gates left. Water and dark I don't see a problem once I actually try them, but I have like no dps buffing units for earth except Avani for spark. Not sure what I'm gonna do for that one.

As for unit of choice, I claimed Rouche today. As much as I wanted Nyami, the announcement about Krantz getting an omni sealed the deal. Krantz already does dark/light/heals/cures/mitigates, and I'd bet money that one of his omni skills will be to add status negation to his toolkit. That means he has a lot of buff clash with Allanon. Rouche would fit in that team perfectly. Between Rouche and omni Krantz, that covers all elements/crit/critdam/statuses/mitigation. Then you factor in Sirius's omni coming soon, and that covers bb atk, stats, and a solid team leader. Add in omni Eze and you have virtually every buff covered with a slot still left over for whatever you want (pure nuking, more BB support with atro, whatever) and the friend slot is also completely flex.

Sucked it up and claimed breaker Rize

The new sphere (Mirage Device) is like Atro's SP option to switch when you generate bc to the start of the turn. I'm curious if someone can use that sphere to get turn 1 BB without a fujin. I didn't bother raising a duplicate Atro just for imp farming using the bc at start of turn, but with this sphere, maybe something can be made. Maybe an Atro lead set to auto-guard then Krantz with mirage + sacred? I'll have to play around with some setups in the training room to see if I can make it work.

In other news, water gate beaten. It was super easy compared to the earlier gates, I one shot it with a bunch of points over the needed amount. (L) Farzen, (F) Haile, Lucina, Reeze, Karl, Selena. I gave a run at the dark gate, but my Shida isn't ready, and Zenia's UBB left all the mobs in round 5 at ~3% health, so they wiped me on their turn. Going to try again in an hour when my orb regenerates, this time going to bring Ishad's Nyami and going to use her UBB instead. Should be fine, since if I hadn't wiped on stage 5 I would have had 1.7 mill points without even counting room 6, so I could auto wipe there and still get the sphere.

Pick rouche, ark oe is released with all element buff. Figures.
Tilith ex trial is the next piece of content on the way.

Ishad_sl said:

Pick rouche, ark oe is released with all element buff. Figures.

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I think Ark will be more useful if you pick immune to crits + immune to elemental damage SP options. Both of those buffs are extremely rare outside of leaderskills, while elemental retyping is all over the place on units.

Dark gate beaten with (L) Zenia, (F) Nyami, Reis, Grahdens, Semira, Magress. Easy when I fixed the UBB priority. Earth gate was one shot despite me having like no dps buffs with (L) Avani, (F) Zeruiah, Dolk, Andaria, Libera, Lance. That concludes my 100% clear journey through the 9 frontier gates, and means I am now content complete up through current releases. WTB more!!

Ao-_sl said:

when does the UoC end? I have to inventory my units to pick :|

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I dunno, but look at this ancient, winsome bitch.

Whoops, phone attach fail.

Ao-_sl said:

Rize is hot. Having two for FG grinding is fucking fantastic.

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What is the typical double Avant double Rize set up?

Zynth_sl said:

What is the typical double Avant double Rize set up?

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Charla and one of allanon/deer/shida

Sweet, took Breaker Rize as my UoC so I should have everything now.