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So any high levels got any suggestions; I hadn't played since Q3 of 2014 so alot to catch up on. I had 110 gems so i pulled alot of those and got a few solid def mitigration folks. Right now I am lvl 105 and unfortunately can't expand the lvl of my team due to low level. I have done the first 3 GCC's and got some solid zen and a few good sphreres; i got my RC3 rank today as well. I have 1 of each type of the high end *7 fusion mobs farmed up and arena I was a guardian and like 500-40 or something before i quit but seems like people in that area now have alot better teams. Still winning more then I am losing but i think i need to build a team from scratch with the new meta in mind whatever that may be.

I'm on the 4th world of the normal questing. I think at the moment my biggest challenge is being to low level to continue to evolve my team so whats the best form of exp, should I just power push through the normal quest content over the next few days?

My current perma members are
Laberd - *7 with double sphere; use him for leader on the hardest shit if i need more surviability, other then that he does good damage and almost has perma 50% damage reduction going for the team from SS
Michale - *7 with double sphere; use her for leader if i have a full 5 man team (which i don't since i did my most recent evolves). Also use for attack and crit buffs
Libra- 6* Waiting for my lvl to raise to be able to fuse her, have all the mats. She has good general buffs for HC/BC and fits the rainbow team

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So unfortunately for the hard content i run those 3 + Emilo 6* with SBB which allows me to stay alive easy enough but fuck I have no damage it feels like. So my two questions are
1) Who are some of the best end game healers at the moment, Emilo seems so 1 dimensional, 70% of the time I just defend since she does no damage and I don't need the heal but i don't want to waste the SBB for the migration incase i need an emegency one next round. Anyone who brings more to the table? Also man i wish i had tridon (sp?); used him as my friend character and he would be perfect for alot of things and fit my rainbow slot open. I assume he was a summon pull?

2) I need some raw ass damage to round the above 3 out, any suggestions? Needs to be water/lightening/light for the most part unless i break Michele from leader. Any top tier characters available from trials or ingame with out summons?

3) Who is a good status cleanser? I had limited points and thought mechacio or whatever light guy would work as a cleanser but his BB didn't seem to cleanse curse or really anything of use.
You're going slow because you don't have any dps. Get some friends from here and abuse them. Rhoa/Chrome/Haile will make questing super easy. Push through the map. If you don't mind grinding, there are some specific levels that give good XP.

Take a screenshot of your box showing your 4* and above units along with the sale/enhance/evolution guys filtered out, and we can get you some other teams. You'll need to grind a bit for the free gems from stages/dungeons/worlds as well as doing the shitty-shit like Maxwell and stage clears so you can do some summons.

1) Krantz, Charla, Aurelia, Elimo are all good, with the first two being better (and Charla being one of the best) for direct heals. Will and Selena are good for HOTs.
--If you have Elimo, you're fine for healing until much later in the game. Don't worry about it until cost isn't your biggest detriment for the team building you need to do. 7* Elimo's heal + 50% dmg reduction is pretty damn amazing.

2) Avant, and of the Global Exclusives except Elaine and Grandt (though Tridon and Aurelia are more Defense), Rhoa, Chrome, Griff, Rize, Will. Worry more about team role than straight DPS at the moment.
--Rainbow leads are great right now for you, but they hit their limit pretty quick. You want to use the best units and sometimes that means two of the same color. Michelle is a great arena lead, so keep her there for that. Look for a +Hp/+ATK lead with other bonuses.

3) Krantz, Melchio, Edea, Aurelia, Dolk
--Quite a few people have status removal on their BB but not on their SBB. It's part of the role they serve. You don't really need to worry about status when you one shot each round, and that should be your goal from now on. Later on Status mitigation is just as big a deal as damage mitigation. But you'll be swimming in units by then.


Free units that are good for your level: Karl (sort of), Grahdens (yep, and better in the future), Maxwell (Great for your level, gets outclassed later on). Those are the ones I'd focus on, though you may want to try and just cheese them. Abuse the 5+1 summons when you need a role they fulfill.

edit: forgot to add! Laario, Mifune, Selena are all really damn good free units. You should have received Anima Laario and Breaker Mifune from leveling (or should be able to get them from the rewards).
 

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So any high levels got any suggestions; I hadn't played since Q3 of 2014 so alot to catch up on. I had 110 gems so i pulled alot of those and got a few solid def mitigration folks. Right now I am lvl 105 and unfortunately can't expand the lvl of my team due to low level. I have done the first 3 GCC's and got some solid zen and a few good sphreres; i got my RC3 rank today as well. I have 1 of each type of the high end *7 fusion mobs farmed up and arena I was a guardian and like 500-40 or something before i quit but seems like people in that area now have alot better teams. Still winning more then I am losing but i think i need to build a team from scratch with the new meta in mind whatever that may be.

I'm on the 4th world of the normal questing. I think at the moment my biggest challenge is being to low level to continue to evolve my team so whats the best form of exp, should I just power push through the normal quest content over the next few days?

My current perma members are
Laberd - *7 with double sphere; use him for leader on the hardest shit if i need more surviability, other then that he does good damage and almost has perma 50% damage reduction going for the team from SS
Michale - *7 with double sphere; use her for leader if i have a full 5 man team (which i don't since i did my most recent evolves). Also use for attack and crit buffs
Libra- 6* Waiting for my lvl to raise to be able to fuse her, have all the mats. She has good general buffs for HC/BC and fits the rainbow team

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So unfortunately for the hard content i run those 3 + Emilo 6* with SBB which allows me to stay alive easy enough but fuck I have no damage it feels like. So my two questions are
1) Who are some of the best end game healers at the moment, Emilo seems so 1 dimensional, 70% of the time I just defend since she does no damage and I don't need the heal but i don't want to waste the SBB for the migration incase i need an emegency one next round. Anyone who brings more to the table? Also man i wish i had tridon (sp?); used him as my friend character and he would be perfect for alot of things and fit my rainbow slot open. I assume he was a summon pull?

2) I need some raw ass damage to round the above 3 out, any suggestions? Needs to be water/lightening/light for the most part unless i break Michele from leader. Any top tier characters available from trials or ingame with out summons?

3) Who is a good status cleanser? I had limited points and thought mechacio or whatever light guy would work as a cleanser but his BB didn't seem to cleanse curse or really anything of use.
General questing is mostly just spamming sbb every turn. add people from the forum as top end friends will make questing a lot easier.

Melchio 7* has null status, so he's really good for you. Check your old box to see what legacy units you have that are getting 7*s. Particullary will and zephyr.

Right now just grind levels and save gems until you can field a full team of 7*s.
 

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Thanks for the info! I took out Grahden's last night cake and took me 2 tries on Maxx since i wasn't paying attention and had my core team get 1 shot
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Have work all week but I'll auto battle my way though questing easily enough. I want to look at maybe building an arena team around my Hardon who is low level but sounds like he has some great potential.

So the eligfs or whatever, are those only avaiable via the guardian lore area? I tried the hardest and unfortunately they just put out so much damage even with alot of mitigration at this point. I did the lower ones but didnt get anything the few tries i did so not sure if its worth trying to get one? An extra ability sounds awesome but haven't seen a list to see how useful.

Also would running Krantz & Larden be conter productive since i assume their BB's mitigration doesn't stack? Sounds like Krantz has status and heals on top of his mitigtation but I have everything dumped into larden so i rather not replace at this point (including alot of imps). Plus using him as leader on the hard content keeps my ass alive alot with the extra hp/def.
 

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Elgifs sometimes are available during rare summon promos and rewards for different stuff like frontier hunter rank 50. The ones available from the dungeon can be pretty good but the dungeon has a low drop rate, and good elgifs are rare. The dungeon is really just an energy sink for players with nothing else to do.

Not a lot of point running Laberd and krantz together. There are some hard dungeons where you need ubb mitigation and sbb mitigation at the same time. So leveling krantz will definitely be worthwhile, but Laberd is a better focus for now.
 

turbo

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Tried Cardes(? 4th trial) and almost beat on the first shot but fucking i didn't have mats for the good revive so only had 1 revive on Zebra, lost 2 people so went into Cardes short and then i accidently forgot to bring holy water for the curse and like 30% in got bombed due to bad timing on curse and no mitigation up
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Sad panda!

Tried Korzan raid on RC3; i think i HAVE to fight him solo right? If so fuck my life that shows how bad my damage is at the moment, i got him to maybe 40% in 30 minutes then lost due to timer. I didn't have any raid buff items etc. I did manage to clear another GCC which was awesome. Think i just need to finally hunker down and get questing and leveled up because this lack of a strong dps to the team is killing me! I don't mind dropping cash on gems ( have 69 atm burning a few on a metal parade as i'm out of fuse material) but i want to invest in a real strong damage type.

That being said, is Libera a good leader if i'm not worried about surviability? Her leader says increase to BB attack, does that mean the entire team's BB/SBB's do more damage ? Also her ultimate has an increase in BB attack, do those stack? Just looking for a good leader when i don't need survivability so i can break away from depending on rainbow michele lead. Might take a stab at getting Griff in the current roles, sounds like he has some beat down.

(edit - i have Libera at 7 star just haven't had time to get her worked in and still finishing leveling her to 120 but if LS helps alot on damage and gives me a color free leader then she might be my girl! I just need to figure out a good status person to level and put in the mix as I am still lacking in that area, thought maybe Krant but i'm not getting rid of Larden)
 

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Leader skills and buffs stack, buff and other buffs do not. UBB and SBB/BB buffs do stack as well.
 

turbo

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Leader skills and buffs stack, buff and other buffs do not. UBB and SBB/BB buffs do stack as well.
Ah ok so if stack Larden's SSB + USB the mitigation basically leaves me unkillable for a turn in 99% of scenarios thus them hitting me for 1! Got Griff, going to slowly get him to 7* and see how he does compared to Libera or Michele until i can afford more. Put in a 4 star Estala or whatever who has heal+status cleanse on her BB so that will have to do to free up space to get the damage until i can afford to put Emilo back in and still have damage or get lucky and find a more versitle healer. I'm liking the idea of Griff+Michele for some pretty strong damage once I can get both in my group with Larden.
 

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Yeah, you shouldn't need the stacking mitigations for most content at your level. Later on, maybe (though most of the stuff where you'd want it removes mitigation first anyways).
 

turbo

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Griff is a better lead than Michele, rush him to 7* and abandon Michele.
Is here attack buff still complemanty to have in the team or is there too much redundancy? Griff > Libera right in general ? (Just finished the Gavion/Lugia trial and Trial X1; haven't tried the next ones even though i get basically a full level for finishing one at this point which is nice decent sphere. Doing a metal parade at the moment to rush Griff to 7.
 

Zynth

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Griff was my first 7* but to be honest I never found his LS to be that great. He's pretty good if you have nothing else but crits just dont seem to happen enough to keep BB up. That aside I was only really able to replace him once I picked up Zeruiah as a sub due to him adding Fire and Water elements.
 

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Is here attack buff still complemanty to have in the team or is there too much redundancy? Griff > Libera right in general ? (Just finished the Gavion/Lugia trial and Trial X1; haven't tried the next ones even though i get basically a full level for finishing one at this point which is nice decent sphere. Doing a metal parade at the moment to rush Griff to 7.
Griff and Libera are both solid subs, and I used them together for a good while. Honestly, until you get to a level that'll allow you to have a full party of 7* units, your priority is gonna be a spam-friendly leaderskill (status null is nice, too) and quest completion. When I came back I went from 60 to 200 in a few months, and it should be a lot faster now, what with how common the 2x xp events have become.
 

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Also friend me (Balzmir, ID 7126197996). I'm running a leader unit that isn't a great lead for cutting-edge content, but it's the best in the game for general questing.
 

turbo

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Sorry for the array of questions just trying to make get back into the thick of things and sometimes the wiki is to minimal in details and reddit is hard to pull shit out or is dated at times.

As far as increasing cost cap for your team, 100% dictated by level correct? No other quests/bonus to raise? Also if i recall when i was leveling back in 2014 at certain break point levels you got a +5 or something to cost, does that still occur? I'm 111 now and haven't seen any (started at 100 saturday night). If not fuck me its going to be awhile, at like 143 cost cap at the moment which makes even 3 of my 7 stars hard to fit in. Hardly have any SSB's on any of my 6 star's so they are extremely inferior and I used up all my frogs getting the 5 7 stars to ultimate SSB. Did i mention i am an extremist and really hate marathons
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Trials seem like the best place outside of quest grinding which i can just auto since i can stack the entire first team with my 7 star's and pray i don't need a 2-3rd team hah. So far i've beaten everyone in 1-2 trys but i'm guessing they are going to start raping, just finished off Este/Zenan.
 

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Sorry for the array of questions just trying to make get back into the thick of things and sometimes the wiki is to minimal in details and reddit is hard to pull shit out or is dated at times.

As far as increasing cost cap for your team, 100% dictated by level correct? No other quests/bonus to raise? Also if i recall when i was leveling back in 2014 at certain break point levels you got a +5 or something to cost, does that still occur? I'm 111 now and haven't seen any (started at 100 saturday night). If not fuck me its going to be awhile, at like 143 cost cap at the moment which makes even 3 of my 7 stars hard to fit in. Hardly have any SSB's on any of my 6 star's so they are extremely inferior and I used up all my frogs getting the 5 7 stars to ultimate SSB. Did i mention i am an extremist and really hate marathons
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Trials seem like the best place outside of quest grinding which i can just auto since i can stack the entire first team with my 7 star's and pray i don't need a 2-3rd team hah. So far i've beaten everyone in 1-2 trys but i'm guessing they are going to start raping, just finished off Este/Zenan.
Yep. Spam the highest level of the monday daily dungeon (so you can get some bonus karma), otherwise it depends on your world/map progress (4 Pillars is pretty good, otherwise there are a few levels that give good returns for stam/xp ratio). Trials get significantly harder because the ones you're doing now were geared around 6* units and soon it'll be done around 7* units.

edit: did you post your units? I block most content so I might have missed it.
 

Zynth

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This is probably a dumb question, but to set who others see as a friend you just change who is set as leader on your home tab, correct? Raids and Trials and the like have no effect? Only asking because when I just checked my player info it showed Dolk who I cant remember when I used as a lead, other than for the Earth Frontier.
 

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By default it uses the leader of your main questing team. You can set one of the extra squad slots as your "helper" squad, and then that squads leader is who your friends get when they bring you to a quest. It's good to get in the habit of doing it that way so you can swap who your friends can bring on request without interrupting your normal team.
 

turbo

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Is there some werid randomness to the friends you have availabe? Like on certain GCC it seems like i have no friends to pick from and same on questing and other things i have a slew of friends to pick from.

Also on Griff's extra skill he says he adds crit rate/hit to his SSB/BB but when you look at those skill descriptions it doesn't say anything and when i look at my characters in a match i don't see a buff or anything applied any where. Is it limited to just Griff? Or hidden?
 

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Is there some werid randomness to the friends you have availabe? Like on certain GCC it seems like i have no friends to pick from and same on questing and other things i have a slew of friends to pick from.

Also on Griff's extra skill he says he adds crit rate/hit to his SSB/BB but when you look at those skill descriptions it doesn't say anything and when i look at my characters in a match i don't see a buff or anything applied any where. Is it limited to just Griff? Or hidden?
Press and hold on a unit to see in combat. It will give a detailed buff/debuff listing. On the other hand: You should be killing everything in a single round of 6 BBs/SBBs, so adding the extra crit isn't great.


As for friends, it's like they repop every 3 hours I think.
 

turbo

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Press and hold on a unit to see in combat. It will give a detailed buff/debuff listing. On the other hand: You should be killing everything in a single round of 6 BBs/SBBs, so adding the extra crit isn't great.


As for friends, it's like they repop every 3 hours I think.
I'm not worried about questing etc, if i'm supposed to be killing Trial X3 & the end bosses of GGC vol 3's in 1 round of SBB's....i'm a pretty long ways off. I have to assume some of these fights are meant to be abit of a duration battle. I understand how to look at buffs in combat, my question was on griff's ES it says it buffs his BB/SBB to give crit rate/hit chance but when i attack with his BB/SBB i don't see any buffs on anyone suggesting that it does. Just need to know if i should be looking to add a crit rate buff to my team (or good reason to keep michele in the line up).