Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius

I'd do a second dualcast before Arc's rod as well. I want one for Cecil and one for Refia, plus the flexibility to swap them to Kefka/Tellah/Terra as needed. Although with 2 Arcs and 2 6* Exdeaths there won't be much need for that soon. I wondered about maybe setting up a pair of Rydias though. Dualcasted Meteors at the end of a 400% Chainsaw chain from 2 Edgars could be a pretty crazy amount of damage. Kefka is pretty good with Hyperdrive that can't be dualcast or anything, so Meteor ought to be ridiculous.

Back on the dual wield topic, it doesn't make Full Break try to debuff twice, right?

Got Refia so pretty happy with the account. Now just finishing out the story.

Don't forget to claim your sealed chests from the tower dungeon once you've beaten all the difficulties (go back to bgn rank and enter the big room on floor 1).

Patch tomorrow, adds Brave Frontier banner + Elza. Tilith only has her 5*, which means she's pretty bad for the next ~5 months and not worth chasing this banner (the next one is stronger that features her). Elza may be worth chasing though, won't know for sure until after patch.

Arena comes with the patch too (PvP). Get ready to face up against whaled out teams!

Final bit of bad news, it seems Reddit was wrong. Next weekend is the shitty gil snapper event, not the enchanted maze. Guess it's back to exploration grinding for me to finish off Refia tomorrow so she's arena ready. I may use 4 trust moogles to finish off a copy of dual cast too.

Easy pass on the BF banner. Everything is a base 4 star and the only great unit is Tillith. Maybe Elza but she's a base 5 star and there is no way I'm chasing that. I know Tillith gets a 6 star Awakening eventually but she's not great until then. And my understanding is that while she is the best 6 star healer the difference between her and Refia isn't too big. So I'll just pass on the banner, stay in savings mode and be happy with my Refia.

By the way, maintenance is tomorrow but the new stuff doesn't drop until Friday. It's another King Mog collection grind. So figure another week to week and a half of grinding "karma" for Mog. Hopefully there will be more 6 star materials to buy. I'm betting there will be which is good since Refia screwed up my Material stash. And another 100 Cactaurs would be awesome.

The difference between 6* Tilith and 6* Refia is pretty huge actually. The catch is that you need two of her (friend works, but remains to be seen how common it is for GL people to put her up as friend unit), but on the plus side she doesn't need Dualcast and Refia absolutely does.

That's probably why they put off her 6* until the next BF banner, it would piss off everyone who pulled hard for Refia if she became instantly obsolete a week later.

I may do a few daily pulls, but that's it. The new mechanic where you get bonus event currency if running the banner units worries me. I'm hoping we can reasonably finish farming all the good stuff by events end without having bonuses from banner units.

Also, I'm not surprised at all that on the first day of pvp arena, gumi is already pushing out angel idol units (aka, auto-revive/re-raise). That mechanic is the biggest cancer of the pvp in brave frontier. Guess we get to enjoy 10v5 battles against whales running 5x elza, sigh.

I wouldn't mind the banner unit bonus thing if this banner had any 3* units. Doesn't help that all three units look like shit until Tilith gets her incredibly broken 6* awaken half a year from now, and the garbage Halloween units give me no hope that Elza will be any good. Think I'm gonna save my lapis.

Anyone know a place to get reliable information on the JP versions of Exvius events? Trying to make some educated guesses on when we're likely to get what. I'm thinking FF13 will be second week of December because it's a currency farm, but I don't know anything about the FFV, FF Zero, or Secret of Mana events.

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Think I've gone over 150 FP units since my last Skaha. Pretty annoying to have her just sitting there at 70% trust.

Reddit has threads on the events from jpn, and sometimes you can find them from google searches, even though they're from months ago.

Something else being added with the patch is the mission system. It's awesome because it means we're going to be getting thousands of free lapis. It also sucks because it means you have to re-play every dungeon in the game to get that lapis, which is a huge amount of energy. Between that and the farming events coming up, it's going to be over a month before we can get back to farming TM.

Bah, I need my Rising Sun and Excalibur a lot more than I need lapis. Kind of want a couple Dualcasts and Sakurafubuki (plus Blade Mastery that's currently at 65%) too. Missions can wait. I hope the karma farming is over as quickly as candy corn was as well, otherwise that's going to be annoying.

The downside of missions being added is that every macro currently being used will be broken the moment that stuff goes live.

Sold that alt account for 220 bucks, might have been able to get a little more but that was a pretty good offer for an account that I spent zero dollars on.

So do I take that money and chase Luneth some more, or let him go? rofl

There's better options down the road. It just depends if you need him now or not. If you can reliably clear the hardest bosses we've been getting, I'd wait, or if you're barely beating the highest event bosses, maybe some pulls are worth it.

full dragon run on elite is trivial if I keep refreshing my friend list til I get my gnarliest whales, havent really felt the urge to try it out with a more average lightning/CoD friend, but I'm pretty sure I could manage it ok. Really wish I had something better than a goddamn 30 atk mace for CoD, Antenolla can't come soon enough. Locke at 0.1 trust though!!!

I know the smart thing to do is let him go. If I did pull him he'd be replacing Lid which would mean the time I've invested into Mustadio's TM would be semi-wasted since I think the next really good gun user isn't until Firion's 6* (unless I missed one among the unreleased units between now and then). I also don't have any TM weapons to put on Luneth which means my weapons would get spread pretty damn thin until Excalibur completes. I didn't completely mind missing Luneth with my first round of chasing him because I got so many other units I needed, either for TMs or future awakens, and because the TMs on the banner are very solid. I'll do tomorrow's welfare pull and then just hunker down until Orlandu I think.

As you pointed out though, the rest of the units on that banner are dogshit, which means you have to pull until you get him no matter what it takes because if you don't pull him, it was all wasted.

I consider my team "good enough" for content for a while, but I still keep wanting to pull more so I can have better TM options. I've been playing since the start, so I've completed a bunch of TM's over time, but not many of them would I consider top tier. I just can't seem to get the good TM units so I can actually farm that shit.

So far I've completed Ultima, Doublehand, Gungir, Rising Sun, Kaiser Knuckles, Magi Staff, and Barrage.

Ultima is very situational, and rarely worth using due to the extreme mana cost. It's revamp can't come to global soon enough.
Kaiser Knuckles are basically worthless, because no one except Bartz on my team can even equip them, and Bartz will do better with Enhancer after his 6* due to sword mastery.
Gungir and Magi staff are both "good", but neither is very high impact over the free weapons we've been given.
Doublehand is very good, but I still get salty that I have to settle for doublehand instead of dual wield because I can't land a Zidane.
Rising Sun is great for CoD, no regrets grinding that one out.
Barrage is decent, but not great. It gives my Cecil an attack when he doesn't have to help heal.

Currently I'm working on Excalibur x2, Dualcast x2 (one's almost done, considering moogling it the rest of the way), and..... another doublehand, lol.

What I wouldn't give for something like Chizuru or Zidane so I could work towards a TM that's permanently useful.

My current TM group is Mustadio x2, Zidane, Cecil, Ludmille. I put an almost complete Shantotto on the back burner to rush Mustadio. Once Mustadio is done I'm probably gonna pull everyone except Zidane for 4x Luna to just get that finished (my front Luna is at 58.3%), finish that Shantotto, and then settle down with Zidane, Cecil, Ludmille, Locke, and Gaffgarion. Have 4 moogles ready to drop on Zidane and there will probably be another one from the BF event.

Patch is out. Arena seems fun so far, but I've only done a few beginner battles. AoE nukes seem to be the way to go (at least at first glance). I wouldn't be surprised if a team of 4x arc + cecil was super effective.

Missions are neat. Some of them want you to kill a boss with a limit break when the dungeon is only 2 battles long. Use units with Entrust to fill someones LB in 1-2 rounds (Bartz, Fina, Galuf, etc). Some of the missions want really obscure skills, so be aware of that. Massive amounts of lapis, which is $$$

Memu was giving me issues right after patch, but now Nox is working fine, go figure. I prefer memu overall, so I'll fiddle with it later to see if I can make it work.

I like the mission system, gives me something to do and a reason to use different units/skills. I didn't have any issues with Memu, working fine for me.

CoD is an absolute beast in Arena. I have mine with 2 Rising Suns and she is 999'ing everyone to death lol. I generally start with using her Atk + Silence Debuff along with Trine (Blind + Silence) on Kefka and I've been destroying everything.

FFBE crashes instantly when I try to start it in Memu. Haven't reinstalled Nox yet to see if it works, and I really hope I don't have to because Memu was much better.

Same problem for me Vorph. Runs perfect on Nox, and on my phone (galaxy s5), but Memu crashes instantly when I try to load it. I've tried re-installing the app on memu, but same issue. There's a few people on reddit with the same problem, but most of the replies are "it works for me!" so no idea why only a few people are having issues with memu. Maybe a setting we changed is causing it? Idk, but I'm going to just give it a few days and play with Nox for now, and hopefully someone else will troubleshoot the problem.

Arena is more fun than I expected it would be. I was worried about facing whale teams, but the AI is so retarded that I even flawlessly beat teams with full 5* base. I'm currently running:

Cecil on Golem -- barrage every round
CoD on Ifrit -- barrage every round
Refia on Shiva -- cheer then heal
Amarant on Diabolos -- Revive on enemy CoD, or use darkside (aoe 999 damage)
Tellah on Ramuh -- Raise on enemy CoD #2, or use ultima (aoe 999 damage)

I find it kind of amusing that I'm getting such good use out of Amarant, an otherwise shit tier character, but he's surprisingly good in arena. I do have Kaiser Knuckles, so his attack is decent, but with his draw fire + high counter rate, using a TM weapon + diabolos (man-eater), he tends to counter-attack for 600-999 damage. He also has revive, which 1 shots enemy CoD (they're everywhere), and darkside + man-eater means he does an aoe 999 nuke every round.

So this morning I used 3x trust moogle to finish off dualcast because I wanted it ready for arena, and dualcast is banned this week in arena. Go figure.

Sinzar said:

Missions are neat. Some of them want you to kill a boss with a limit break when the dungeon is only 2 battles long. Use units with Entrust to fill someones LB in 1-2 rounds

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Or you just focus fire one mob down at a time

memu works fine most of the time for me. it only closes to desktop if it's been farming TMs all night and i try to summon a new character. my 'fix' is to summon on my phone, or summon a basic, friend point character 1st.