Brave Frontier

Wtb Loch and Edea. All i have is Ultor.

Ishad_sl said:

Is it the 22nd yet?

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That is obscene Ishad, put that thing away before you get arrested.

I have 2 coming out on the 22nd, Oracle Edea and Lord Tridon.

I'm kinda hoping we don't have to jump through too many hoops to get some weird evo mat/unit or other for the SBS units.

Damn Ishad. Wasn't gonna bother with the pic until Leto's comment as it didn't load on mobile site. Switched to desktop and ... wow. Shouldn't be surprised. His attack is absurd even at 6 star and even as a guardian. Please take the same pic at 120!

Dunno why but I've never liked Tridon. Don't have one and unless his 7 star is insane I don't really want one. And yes, I know how good he was/is.

DoctorSpooge_sl said:

Dunno why but I've never liked Tridon. Don't have one and unless his 7 star is insane I don't really want one. And yes, I know how good he was/is.

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Supposedly his shield is a little buggy, I don't understand the exact minutia, but apparently under the right conditions attacks will use the shields defense rating on the characters HP's even after the shield has fallen. Which is a pretty raw deal considering the shields defense blows in comparison.

Then again, +10% Mitigation as a leader skill x2 leaders + mitigator = 70% Mitigation which is a little nuts.

I've never actually used my own Tridon in combat. By the time I'd gotten him, I'd already kinda grown past him. Still anxious to see what his 7-star looks like though....tons of great potential there.

I'd still love an Ultor though...guy is going to be gross.

Ishad you have 120m coin... W.T.F. I'm sitting on a bunch of guys I can't afford to evolve due to the insane leveling drops from the honor summon gate haha Also picked up a Breaker Selena. Sounds like I should tuck her away.

Lack of immediate need. Have a legend stone for both ultor/edea next week, sitting on 6 imp keys with almost all the units I use regularly are max imped.

I got my Selena!

Damn near gave myself a heart attack afterwards too lol. First thing I did was start pouring fuses into her to level her up ASAP....at one point I unknowingly selected a Lord Selena I had, crystal'd her up, evolved her, then looked on in horror that my Anima had re-typed into a Lord (re-typings on evolution are ultra-rare, but supposedly it can happen).

I shut off my device and left the room...I literally had to walk away. It wasn't until a few minutes later I realized my mistake and that my Anima was still fine - and I had just some wasted crystals/evolution materials on the wrong unit because I am a bonehead.

Picked up a Guardian Kikuri yesterday too, I wasted 20 gems strait after that because I was feeling optimistic and wanted a Dion/Claire, but oh well....I can't be too upset about adding a sweet Kikuri sub to my roster.

Between Selena, Kikuri and the Sefia I'd been raising up, I spent 3 Legend Stones in the last 2 days which included the one from the gift-box. While I have the points to buy more, I don't actually have any Legend Stones waiting in stock now for the units on the 22nd.

All that said, I have no regrets. I finally have a Selena that I am willing to sphere/imp up, and I'm genuinely excited to be adding Kikuri and Sefia to my groups (Sefia for Arena only, but she is going to be awesome there.) The Dropcheck on those two areungodly...the DC on the SBB's are even more impressive than the normal attacks imo....good lord it's almost unfair how high the DC is with those two, it's damn near broken. I just finished unlocking the UBB/Extra Skill on Kikuri (and Sefia last night), so I am about ready to add them both to my Arena group (and Kikuri almost everywhere), and I'll be shocked if I don't start getting 5 full SBB's on the first round in the Arena.

My Arena group is too the point now where Feeva is getting pushed out because her Dropcheck is *too low* lol....there was a time I'd have walked over broken glass to get Feeva in my Arena group

Guardian Kikuri master race! /fistbump
And yeah, she's amazing and a lot of people are too obsessed with leader skills to notice.

My Kikuri was anima before I evolved her to 6 star in preparation for 7 star a week later. Evo to 7 star and morph into oracle though...ouch.

Ao-_sl said:

I've posted this before... but I'm going to weep for you and laugh at you when your anima retypes to Oracle for the 7* evo.

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lol, IKR. After my screw-up, I was so shaken about the prospect of outright losing the Anima after I'd finally gotten it that I practically had to close my eyes every time I evolved her up a level. At one point I was going to drop a sphere frog on her before she hit 7-stars, but I noticed the sphere frogs I had out for Selena, Kikuri and Sefia were ALL Oracle types, so out of an abundance of caution (read: paranoia) I wasn't letting any of those damn frogs near my units until after they were already 7-star'd lol.

I raised my Anima Selena from 2-stars to 7-stars within like 45 minutes of getting her. I've never done anything like that before yesterday. She made it to 7-stars with Anima in-tact though, thank the gods lol

Before all those half-cost vortex evo dungeons expired on the 15th I had farmed out 2 full sets (with some spares for specific units I knew were coming up) of Mecha Gods, so I'd have those things in stock. Hopefully it will be enough to last me between the half-cost events so that I never have to spend 70 Energy farming out any of those damn things again. I still have 2-3 of each type of Mecha God in stock with the exception of Dark which I only have 1 of (thanks Kikuri.)

No matter how many Metal Mimics I farmed out though, I'm constantly running out of those things. Right now I only have 4 or so in stock, which is the same thing as saying almost none heh. Barely 2 evolutions worth for some units.

DoctorSpooge_sl said:

Guardian Kikuri master race! /fistbump
And yeah, she's amazing and a lot of people are too obsessed with leader skills to notice.

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Yup.

Before I got her, I was just looking at her in terms of being a great sub for Raids/Trials and any other content with prolonged fights. It wasn't until later that I paid much mind to how ridiculous her 48 DC on normal attack is - we are talking 7* Will level - to along with second best AI typing for the Arena...or how utterly ridiculous 44 Dropcheck **per target** on an AoE SBB is...basically everywhere. Her Dropcheck alone makes her a one woman BC generator, and that is even ignoring her world-class +BC Fill when attacked and such heh. She is a monster. Her role seems more of a support unit than an offensive-enhancer unit to be sure, but she is astounding at what she does.

That said, even her Leader Skill comes in handy for the "Kikuri-Mifune Method" of Imp farming....I'm anxious to take that combo for a spin on a half-energy event to see if it lives up to the hype. Anything with the potential to net me a couple dozen more Imps per-hour on those hard-to-get imp keys has great value.

Normally when I run out of item space, I synthesize up what I can then sell the extras for a profit, and sell whatever overflow crap I didn't use - I keep two stacks of Fujin's on hand, but there is no telling how many hundreds of Fujin potions I've sold as extras. I'm starting to keep my Fujins now just to have a several extra stacks to blow on Imp parades to hurry things along and make the most of that hour. (If I get a large enough surplus of Fujins though, if all else fails, I can just Fujin Rize every single turn and let the innate Ignore Defense on her SBB do the work for me.)

Yeah it wasn't clear to me just how much bc she generated until I did a Grand Quest with her on some other squad. My main was in for a world of hurt - you pretty quickly accept any increase in fill rate as a new norm. That's why I wanted a Feeva for so long. I'd pretty much withdraw when no Feeva friends were up.

Anyway, same team minus Kikuri plus some shithead who wasn't Kikuri - shit just didn't work with what I roll with unless there are enough targets for Raaga lolz.

Plus, that part of the animation where she thrusts downward hits HARD and crits all the time in her SBB. Don't even want a Feeva anymore.

Edit: christ, grammar/flow/clarity of my posts is pretty bad when vomiting words from phone. Sorry!

So, its the weekend, not a whole lot going on in the game besides the Zel dungeon, so I figured I'd give "Blades and Blossoms" a go. ....and fell flat on my face. Once I got Kikuri and Sefia both below 25%, they killed 4 of my 6 squad members, and I'd already used 2 revives at that point, so it was pretty much game over.

I used:

Griel Lead
Oguro
Kikuri
Quaid
Aaron
Grahdens 6* friend

When leadership skills were up Grahdens was the lowest HP character @14.0k HP, Oguro was the high water mark at 16.3k HP

I think my damage was too low maybe. Quaid is one of my strongest characters, but he probably didn't do a lot for me other than strait damage in this particular encounter. Maybe switch his slot to Rize for a well-timed UBB-MegaNuke?

The closest thing I have to a 7* spark buffer is an un-imped Oracle Tazer, but his group spark buff is only on his BB...which damn near defeats the purpose of an infinite SBB unit heh.

These are the 7*'s I have to work with: Selena, Quaid, Oguro, Griel, Diana, Sefia, Kikuri, Aaron, Elimo, Tazer, Rize, Fadahl, Feeva, Ivris, Grandt.

Below that I could prep a 6* Fei&Fang for a spark sub if I needed, but I can't say that prospect is very appealing really....F&F are already ranked and leveled up, but they'd need a sphere frog and a bunch of Imps to hold their own in there.

One alternate group might be:

Grandt (Lead)(+150% crit damage, but NO +crit %....still a much more offensive oriented lead)
Ivris (Would need status cure/null without Griel leading - damage only on BB)
Aaron (Still want damage from my mitigator which nixes Elimo)
Kikuri (Diana has been sending Kikuri "Wish you were here!" postcards from the Retirement home, and Kikuri is not amused.)
Sefia (Her HP's are lousy, but she's probably my strongest offensive +BC sub.....alternates are my max'd Griel or Feeva)
Grahden's 6* Friend (Still the best combination of +Light/Dark elements +Bulk and +Light/Dark resist)

...Still, my first group but with Rize in the place of Quaid might be the superior squad.


........Oooooor I could just wait a week, see what 7* Tridon would do for me....or wait until I get my own 6* Grahdens which would free up the other leader spot for a Colt friend for proper Crit buffing.

Ironic part is my group didn't get completely hosed until the leadership skills were invalidated, so trying to get the leadership skills just right won't help me in that weakest moment heh. (Of course, it might be in exactly those moments when Tridon's Elemental Shield has the greatest value.)

I'm not in a huge rush, but I do need to figure out what I can do to improve my odds.

The lack of good +Crit% / Crit Damage and +Spark Damage is definitely the most glaring weakness on my roster.

I tried the Oguro defensive tactic and it never worked for me. The issue I ran into was that I was doing very little damage and that bb fill was inconsistent and I couldn't spam enough to cover heals. I think you could make it work with Ivris.

I eventually just burned them the fuck down with Raaga lead and Grah friend. Raaga sucked until both Kikuri and Sefia entered fight. Went smoothly from there.

When Sefia entered I wanted for Kikuri to heal (or maybe it's the other way around?). Grah sbb almost equalizes any imbalance dealt to light and dark and his LS is obviously insane here.

Used Raaga lead, Grah friend, Shera, Kanon, Kikuri and either Selena or Claire. I forget.

Grah is meta as fuck.

I'll add that what eventually resolved me to drop Oguro is the damn LS disable they used. I always got killed when I ran out of resources there. Raaga sped the fight up, but I built the squad more around sustained defense and offense via SBB. Whenever Oguro's LS was disabled, I got screwed.

DoctorSpooge_sl said:

I tried the Oguro defensive tactic and it never worked for me. The issue I ran into was that I was doing very little damage and that bb fill was inconsistent and I couldn't spam enough to cover heals. I think you could make it work with Ivris.

I eventually just burned them the fuck down with Raaga lead and Grah friend. Raaga sucked until both Kikuri and Sefia entered fight. Went smoothly from there.

When Sefia entered I wanted for Kikuri to heal (or maybe it's the other way around?). Grah sbb almost equalizes any imbalance dealt to light and dark and his LS is obviously insane here.

Used Raaga lead, Grah friend, Shera, Kanon, Kikuri and either Selena or Claire. I forget.

Grah is meta as fuck.

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Yea, I kinda want to use your Raaga as a Friend Lead so my team can actually throw out an ass-whoopin', but if I do that today, I'm going to be doing without Grah altogether (until I get 6* of my own.)

Honestly, I should probably be more embarrassed for myself that I haven't defeated a lot of this content yet, but up until very recently I have been focusing like a laser on getting to that level 214 threshold for 200 cost (NO REGRETS!)...but now that I'm past that, I'm turning my attention to a lot of the other things I've been neglecting.

I'm still tempted to make another attempt this afternoon with whatever oddball mess I can throw together....I'm probably going to take Oguro out even as a sub, I'm not sure his Single-Target prowess is really helping in there.

I'm reconsidering Rize - with her unique damage mechanic, I see only two ways to make her really viable: Healer or Tridon. Like I mentioned yesterday though, I've never really used my own Tridon so I never bothered to raise his SBB up. He is only at BB level 6 atm and it seems a waste to drop any frogs on him to unlock his SBB with less than a week before he gets another evolution.

That aside, yea, I think my best bet might be just getting my own Grah 6* and using Raaga friend. Kinda blows a little not having either one atm lol.

You know far more about squad building than me - as I've said a few times before, my first serious squad was pretty easy because my 4 best units cover a lot of bases - but I think you might have a couple things worth trying.

You've got a Kikuri now so if you can get to the point where Both Sefia and Kikiri are in the fight and still have supplies (fujins, revives), you can get away without a spam lead. I almost did myself because 2 targets isn't very Raaga friendly and his ls was often disabled anyway.


Grah friend seems the obvious choice. I had zero to one Animas (depends on whether I used Selena or not) and had enough hp qith Grah lead to easily survive until ls disabled. So you could see what Grandt does for you even though using him is the precise opposite of what I suggested earlier - great LS, dubious elsewhere.

You could also try Griel with a Colt or Raaga friend and just try to endure until ls debuff expires. That'd let you spam better than I could.

One of my best attempts used the same squad but with Kanon lead and Feeva friend. I could put Kanon up if ypu wanna try that. The def buff has to be applied during debuff but I almost won doing that. Elimo could be super helpful in that squad too.