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Gavinmad

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There are people on JP who run 8 charm bangles and multiple Hayate. Among other things, the Bahamut explore is a real asspounder. Obscenely high encounter rate combined with ambush mobs casting -ga level spells means reduce encounter stacking is a must.

Also, objecting to spending resources? What are you a fucking hobo?

King cactuars will make levelling much less of a hassle once they finally hit GL, 100k a piece compared to the 30k from gigantuars.
 

Vorph

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If Hayate's 6* is shitty how do they actually kill the boss of an asspounder exploration running multiples of him?

As mentioned, status resist gear is the way to go.
Especially since you only need like 450 MAG to 999 anyone with Meteor or Ultima, and even Thundaga almost never hits for less.

Vorph Vorph I have a 703 ATK Gilg (Excal, Sakura, Genji) right now which I'll set as my friend unit if you want access.
Weird, I thought I already had you added. I'll send a req. Don't need Gilgamesh set for anything at the moment if you normally put up a different unit, but my Noctis is 810ATK now so he should be useful.
 

Gavinmad

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As shitty as he is, you can build a respectable chain with his LB because at 6* it's 8 hits and fire element, so you run a chain up and then cap it with someone. FotW is Rydia atm.

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turbo

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488,881,056 if anyone else has room feel free to add me. Need more powerful units !!!!

Few quickies

Arena - dafuq is going on. I tried my first match and couldn't dent the first opponent and got raped. Does it not at least start you against semi noobs? Lvl 43 6 star lightening and I couldn't touch anyone on there team. So just doing collisiuem for now I guess.

Magical keys - should I not use the few I grabbed or does higher end chests have different keys? If not seems stupid using keys on low chests if I can use later on.

I am saving my summon tickets but used 3 and got a 4 star refia which sounds like she is solid. At least short term which one should I try and get to 6 star and leveled first?

For mats for tier 4 to tier 5 awaking should I do the desire vortex? I'd like to get my max 4 star Cecil up to 5 but have no mats.
 

Gavinmad

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99% of it is your relative level. A lvl 43 6* lightning is substantially weaker than a lvl 80 5* lightning.

For awakening mats just push the story, they'll accumulate on their own.
 

Sinzar

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Silver boxes have a few good things, like the killer recipes, bar-XXX-ara recipes, attack 10%, mag 10%, and muscle belt. Full list here: Keys
Events give a few keys per event, so you'll have more than you need soon if you don't waste them on worthless boxes like Shell, etc.

Refia's the best healer in game now and for the next 4-5 months, but you kind of need Dualcast (TM from Ludmille) to really bring out her full potential. Without dualcast, she's about on the same level as Luka.

Arena should be easy at the lower ranks, but as you climb, you face whales that will crush you if you don't have a maxed team. Bullshit like 100% evasion and things like 1 unit who stops your entire team and solos everyone aren't uncommon. Even with the foolishness, once you have a finished team, you should win most of the time due to bad enemy AI. Exdeath will be your arena MVP when he's lvl 100 (innate dualcast, meteor, and magical human killer).
 

Ether

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One thing to remember about arena, especially as a beginner, is that you really only need your rank to stay above 30k. Even with a whaled out team, it is pretty time consuming to stay in the top 3k, where the weekly and monthly rewards are better (ie, you can waste very few, if any arena orbs).

I have a decent team, so I win most matches, but I lose a fair few and waste arena orbs nightly, but have little trouble staying around 5-10k just using orbs during the day.
 

Angelwatch

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Im not wearing any status resist gear and I haven't lost a match yet. I'll take 52 weeks of this before I'd take even 1 week of no dualcast or black magic.
Completely agree. The AI is dumb and won't use things like Dual Cast ever. So unless I get BTFO by a Noctis flask (I call this getting Noctised), I will win every time. I lose once every other week at most when Black Mages aren't neutered but that rate goes way up if black magic is forbidden.
 

Ao-

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Random tip for the distant future, don't fuse all your Hayates. While his 6* is pretty shitty, it does gain reduce encounters which is very handy when you start stacking it with other Hayates/charm bangles/diabolos
Is the encounter reduction multiplicative or additive?
I thought Diablos was -25%, charm bangle is -25%, I'm assuming Hayate is -25% also.

edit: just read the rest of the thread, never mind.
 

Gavinmad

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I have 4 5* base on JP...wtf are the odds that I would pull an offbanner dupe this morning ><

*edit*

Just lost my streak to Ling's stupid fucking TM. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
 
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Vinen

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Wonder who the 5* on the FFT banner will be...

Who did you dupe? As an aside Luneth doesn't seem that great. What am I missing about him outside of Innate DW?
 

Murked

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Innate DW is enough to make him top tier. He also is immune to all status effects that will matter to him and has a good ST and AoE ability.
 

Vinen

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Innate DW is enough to make him top tier. He also is immune to all status effects that will matter to him and has a good ST and AoE ability.

Shrug. Sitting on 2 DW materia now waiting for for units to use on. Guess they will sit banked for my casters or future units till I can get through my melee TM backlog.

Working on 1 Hayate, 2 Jack (both 90℅+ now), Marie and Chizuru. Jack's are so I can start farming LB on Cecil. Wish I had the patience to make 4 but meh. It's auto farm on Ifrit anyhow.
 

Gavinmad

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Dupe Ayaka. Which is the worst possible dupe I could have gotten, DKC would have been a better TM, Eileen or Noctis dupes I would have used. Her TM is still crazy useful though.

Luneth slightly outclasses Lightning in terms of ST damage, his enhancements nudge him up into the top tier of chain cappers (bottom of the top tier but still top tier), and he has some innate status immunity which makes him better in arena. Lightning's elemental coverage gradually becomes less and less important as more elemental TM weapons get released, which means Luneth's lack of versatility becomes less of a hindrance.
 

Vinen

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Dupe Ayaka. Which is the worst possible dupe I could have gotten, DKC would have been a better TM, Eileen or Noctis dupes I would have used. Her TM is still crazy useful though.

Ouch... not like you need double healers. What is her TM anyhow?
//Rather have double of 5* with useful TM then 2 benched Lightning.

I'm just glad Marie's TM appears to be jesus-tier and that she is future-proof... holy-shit future proof.
 

Vorph

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Lightning's biggest problem is that lightning weapons don't exist until Grom, who is probably still 6-9 months away and too-little/too-late by then.
 

Gavinmad

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Her TM is one that was formerly only on a DQ collab limited unit, Dragonlord. ~2k hp regen, 10% mana regen, and 2 lb crystals per turn.
 

Sinzar

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Firion's on the new banner like we expected. I'm surprised they didn't announce anything except the FF2 explore event (one and done style). I was expecting Gilgamesh trial or the rest of the story mode with Odin.

Maybe they're just late about announcing it. Lots more time for TM farming if not I guess.
 

Ether

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Looking at the JP release schedule, Odin + Story Mode were released 1 day before the Orlandu (now without eau!) banner, and the Gilg trial was several weeks later. Based on that, I would guess we'll get Odin+Story Mode+Orlandeau banner within a couple of days of each other next week. Here's hoping anyway.

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