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Leto Eu`Acumen

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Well....the preliminary info on Ultor/Tridon was definitely wrong. Ultor's new Extra-Skill is definitely interesting...+40% ATK/DEF and Selena style Angel Idol effect. The "Recover 100% HP when revived" could be "wow" if it applies to both the Angel Idol effect and to regular ol' revives.

Tridon's ES is boring as all fuck. (I knew I'd be disappointed) 50% Rec on his LS, another 30% Rec on his ES? Without a REC to "Insert Anything Else more useful than Rec here" conversion in the group, what the hell am I supposed to do with that much Rec? Maybe I should have gotten an Oracle Tridon to follow that theme. And 3 BC per turn? Hold still while I break out the fireworks. At least it has solid HP's I guess.

*WITH* a REC conversion, that starts to get interesting I suppose, but how many of those even exist?

Demios' Sphere just makes him more monstrous...Even if you consider just the HP's, +40% HP's on the LS, +40% HP's on the ES and another +20% HP's on the sphere? Let me do the math on that....(let's see that's ...and carry the two....and... HOLY HELL THAT IS A LOT OF HIT POINTS!) Seriously, Demios taken as a whole....he is an 8-star Character masquerading as a 7-star. He should be 50 cost or something to balance all that shit out. God damn I want a Deimos so bad I can't stand it.

I'm going to try not to fuss about Zenia. Her HP's are already on the low side and her sphere helps her out precisely Zero in that department. On the other hand +80% ATK on her sphere and +20% more from her ES? Wow...I'll let the guru's figure out where she lands on the ATK hierarchy, but that is a lot of bloody ATK. If she wasn't already lethal before, she gods damned sure will be now. 30% Chance to block 30% Damage is....not nothing....but it is also 70% Chance to Not-Do-Shit. I never liked those 30% Chance To-Be-Helpful type effects....one turn it will save her ass, the next turn it will let her die...flip a coin that lands 70% of the time on "sorry, please try again."

Getting her a strong secondary sphere is now extremely high on my priority list to balance that shit out a bit. I've already got a Malice Jewel on her, so she'll be looking at an extremely nice ATK boost, but her HP's are only going to go down....that second part...ugh.

Cures were nerfed...bad enough that we can unload them it seems.

Lots of other new stuff to digest. There was a time I wished Dragon Rings actually worked, but I'm not sure I'd use them now. Still, not so bad. ....A Crapload of new spheres in the game.

Going to take me a while to wrap my head around this patch...biggest one we've had in a good while.



Edit: Tridon going from +20% BC/HC to +30% BC/HC is actually really nice....with his Rec skills +20% HC was probably already more than plenty, but the BC made me twitch...now he's a legit +BC% buffer. I still would have liked status cure on his ES, but that would have been asking a lot lol
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Leto Eu`Acumen

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Servers up yet?
shouldn't be, but I haven't tried. It should either be 30 minutes or 90 minutes more, I'm not sure which.

Just removed Brave Frontier from my device to do a clean install for the new version.

My "News" page has been all jacked up for a couple of months, and I'm really hoping this new build fixes that. No other patches in the last couple of months have fixed that though. Seems like it would be a very simple thing.
 

Ishad

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So now ultor's usefullness is linked to if/how they fix the timing issues on all his brave bursts, and if his extra skill requires a unique sphere. Whatever, bring on edea!
 

Leto Eu`Acumen

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So now ultor's usefullness is linked to if/how they fix the timing issues on all his brave bursts, and if his extra skill requires a unique sphere. Whatever, bring on edea!
Sweet +Crit% buff they put on him since yesterday though. If (WHEN) they fix the timings on global exclusives, Ultor is gonna be a legitimate beast.

I hate the idea of burning an 8,000 merit point Legend Stone on an Oracle, but I'm going to have to for Edea....she's too useful. Without my Griel as Lead, I have no great options for status cure/null ails, and Edea fits that bill with her unique sphere/ES.

Edea will single-handedly make my Tridon viable....and Tridon's absurd +HP's will sooth her Oracle typing woes.


WTB an extra Leadership slot. Zenia-Waifu will cut a bitch if they try to take her leadership slot.
 

Leto Eu`Acumen

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You know what's crazy? Besti's batch just dropped....and nobody anywhere is talking about it. (yet at least)

The most anticipated batch until Glyph's and Gumi managed to rain on Alim's parade so hard Besti's batch is almost an afterthought right now.
 

DoctorSpooge_sl

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Just made my first attempt on Trial 5, expecting to roflstomp it and...got my shit kicked in twice in a row on third fight. Deimos sucks ass here - his LS is disabled and his taunt gets him oneshot without mitigation. Better to not use it and guard on the lowest hp unit.

Need much, much better bb fill next time. By third fight, Elimo with Evil Shard pretty much never got a heal off because of all the bb drain. Could never fill Kikiri's SBB for bb on hit. Friend unit was a deadweight Magress for round 2.

I think Ivris would be better than Elimo here, but I'll have to find room for a mitigator somewhere.
 

DoctorSpooge_sl

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Servers down another 3 hours....ugh.
This is what I hope to find in my inbox later today:

2000 honor for summer giveaway.
3 gems for summer giveaway.
1 gem daily login
3 gems compensation for patch delay
47 gems, 36 almighty imps, 122 imp keys, 21 legend stones compensation for several days of sustained misdirection re: new and updated units.
1 "we're assholes" complimentary prosperity gems pack
 

Leto Eu`Acumen

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47 gems, 36 almighty imps, 122 imp keys, 21 legend stones compensation for several days of sustained misdirection re: new and updated units.
1 "we're assholes" complimentary prosperity gems pack
LOLOL


Edit: Welp, I'm out for a couple hours....going to (gods damnit) actually do something productive.
 

Leto Eu`Acumen

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Apparently Ultor needs "Blades of Ultor" unique sphere equipped for his Extra Skill.....which means Tridon probably needs his own also.

No idea where/how to acquire them or if they are even in the game.

Still unable to log in, but apparently some folks are getting in.


Edit: Also it seems Deimos/Zenia's spheres are not X2 rewards or something, but you have to *craft* them with X2 drops. Could there be a less fun thing to do? Who the hell thought having to craft unique spheres was a good idea? Holy fuck I am starting to get salty again after today....and I was just starting to get in a good mood after the last 3.
 

Ishad

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None of the record rewards are showing up in the achievement store meaning I can't claim my metal mimics and evolve anything.

Ultor requiring a specific sphere sucks.
 

Leto Eu`Acumen

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None of the record rewards are showing up in the achievement store meaning I can't claim my metal mimics and evolve anything.

Ultor requiring a specific sphere sucks.
Agreed........unless his and Tridon's spheres are stone-cold f'n awesome, then yay, but still pissed about the crafting bit. No telling how long a gods damned farming process that is going to be to make spheres for all the global exclusive units.

Unique spheres opens up the possibility that their Extra Skills are not nearly as good as we think they are just because it isn't "Malice Jewel + Extra skill" It ends up being "+10% to someshit or other on a sphere to unlock your extra skill." Alls I'm saying is that if we have to go through all that effort to craft them, they better be nice even independent of the extra skills.

I'm still getting nothing but a string of connection errors, can't get in at all...and too be honest, I'm just as worried that if I do get in, the in-game problems folks are seeing will become my problems too.

What are the odds they started to rush things at about 10 hours into the patching process and started fucking things up and went live with it...

There will be Mountains of Salt from the community at large if things are not running smoothly by later this evening.
 

Ishad

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In the trend of doing stupid shit with ultor, at this point I'm betting his sphere won't have an hp mod. Likely sky harbinger will still end up being a better sphere for ultor than his special sphere.
 

Leto Eu`Acumen

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In the trend of doing stupid shit with ultor, at this point I'm betting his sphere won't have an hp mod. Likely sky harbinger will still end up being a better sphere for ultor than his special sphere.
heh, it will probably be the sister-sphere to Zenia's.... +80% ATK, 30% chance to absorb some HP's or something, and no +HP's at all.
 

DoctorSpooge_sl

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I'm honestly not in any rush to get back on. Think I'm just gonna make sure dailies and achievemenrs get done for a few days and that's it. Too much bullshit right now for a game I play on my damn phone. Will still active on this thread, though.