Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius

New event kind of sucks. You need about 250,000 karma to buy all of the good stuff from mog, and the highest level gives ~200 karma for 13 energy. Rare spawn metal units give 1000-3000 extra karma per run, and BF banner units give 75-100% bonus karma per unit.

The only way to realistically buy all of the good stuff this event is to run some of your own BF units, try to bring a friend BF unit, and hope you see a bunch of metal ghosts. I ran the dungeon about 8 times, only saw ghosts once.

Boss does mostly fire damage (lots of it). Bar-Fira highly recommended. A good setup is to run CoD on Diabolos, Cecil on Golem with Flame Shield, and another phys dps on Ifrit. With Bar-Fira, those 3 units will all be 100% immune to fire (including your friend unit if they're on Ifrit, or a CoD on anything but shiva). Don't use Shiva at all (swap her for Siren) since you don't want the fire weakness on anyone. I actually gave my Refia 2x Blaze Rings (for +20% more fire resist, 70% with barfira).

Similiar to last event, CoD really destroys the enemies (all humans), or a whaled out Luneth/Lightning on Diabolos will do the same.

Yeah I dunno what I'm doing wrong here because I used Barfira and he one shot a friends 560 atk Diaobolos equipped lightning. I need a damn tank. :/

It really is all about the fire resist. For example, here's a vid of me doing a run bringing along a completely useless low level 3* Karl friend just for bonus drops:

Vargas dealt almost 0 damage to my team because they're all immune, or close to immune to fire (using the setup I posted above).

I've read you can lock down Vargas with status effects too (Paralyze from Black Cat Lid for example), but he does have 50% resistance to statuses, so I'm not sure how much value I'd place on relying entirely on a status landing.

LOL, one rounded Vargas using Agrias, CoD, 2 Lightnings, and Lenna. Guess I can bring another dps in place of Charlotte and carry any BF units that happen to show up on my friend list.

Also, this event is fucking terrible. I'm seriously debating just farming the gigantuars and cheapest tickets and saying fuck it to the rest.

Yeah this event sucks compared to Halloween. You still need to farm the hell out of it but it's really annoying and the drop rates suck. I've only gotten a single Metal Slime so far. With that said, I did the welfare pull today and got Seria. She's the worst of the 4 BF units but I'll slot her in just for the Karma bonus.

CoD is a beast for this event though. Mine is Barraging for 20K times 4.

I decided to do 1 10+1 pull because I wanted at least 1 BF unit to do some farming. I wound up getting Elza, Tillith, and Seria....pretty damn good. Elza's break absolutely destroys Vargas with a CoD and Lightning. I would highly recommend bringing a full break hero if you have one.

That's an amazing pull. Tillith might not be great now but when she gets her 6 star form she's the best healer in the game.

I'm happy with my Refia though. Refia might not be as good as Tillith but she's "good enough" and I'll have Dual Cast for her at some point (about 10% of the TM so far and this will probably be where I dump my first Moogles since it's such a good ability).

Reddit is being Reddit right now over the drop rates of Karma. But they do have a point. We were very spoiled with the Halloween event so this event looks terrible by comparison. And the bonus for BF characters is pretty lame in my opinion. I'm happy I have one of these characters but it's still, significantly, less efficient than Halloween was. So far all I've bought were Metal Cactaurs to get CoD to level 100 and Refia up high enough for Embolden. Now I'll focus on what is actually worthwhile and what I'm willing to pass on.

Yeah, with the combination of Full Break and Cheer my CoD was hitting with Barrage for 30-35k and I don't even have a Rising Sun yet, just pestle and a trash mythril mace.

Reddit is 100% correct about this event being absurdly stingy with the karma drops. You can't even buy the 15% MAG materia without getting lucky on metal gods, having lots of friends who pulled on a shit banner, or doing a lot of refreshing with lapis. And that's just one item...

I see no point in farming the hell out of the event. Metal Gods are extremely rare, and so far I'm not seeing any BF units pop up on my list to use. You basically get about 5k karma before bonuses per day. Realistically I don't see myself grinding for more than 4 quartz, 5 tickets, 100 gigantuars, and the sword (maybe). TMs are a vastly better use of my NRG.

My original plan of farming 250,000 karma for all of the items went right out the window when I realized how much farming it would require. Instead I'm just going to get the usual stuff like cactuar, tickets, quartz, elixirs, screamroot, and discounted 6* materials.

I also want the elemental weapons, because they're always handy to have available to hit a boss's weakness. The multi-stat materia would be nice, but I probably won't continue farming them if that's all I have left at the end. Stuff like the 15% mag materia or the trust moogle, yeah... no way am I farming for those.

I'm going to do 5 days of daily pulls on this banner. If I get Seria or Karl, well, it means it just cuts down on my farming required (which means less energy required this event, which translates into more TM farming). So I kind of look at it like pulling Seria or Karl is like pulling a trust moogle, and I'd pay 250 lapis for a moogle. Tilith would be nice for later on.

Elza is actually really good. Her personal dps may not be able to reach the levels of extreme of someone like Luneth decked out in full TM gear, but her def/spr break is INSANE. My CoD generally does ~55k x4 to Vargas with fullbreak up. On a run I brought a friend Elza, and she used her special break, my CoD was hitting for ~85k x4. She dramatically increases your entire teams dps, and she doesn't do half bad damage on her own either.

I've had some decent luck with the Metal Gods. I had a friend Elza + Mine and had a 3 God spawn, then a 2 God spawn right after that with the same setup. Almost 15k Kharma in 2 runs, but those are rare.

Well, hex landed that time so that wasnt hard. Got Karl but my party is so weak not sure I can reliably clear this event anyways. Feels bad man.

Not sure if I should be leveling Refia, CoD, or someone like Ignus for his break right now. I have Refia at 5*60, she really isn't useful for this event unless I can get her to 6*85. Decisions decisions.

Level Refia and CoD. Especially if you can Awaken them all the way to 6 star. 6 star characters are a HUGE improvement over 5 star ones.

I can get Refia to 6 with the gigantaurs, the problem is farming them right now haha.

I maxed CoD first, I'm going to finish Refia to 6*-100 with most of the gigantuars from this event, and Cecil will get the rest which will leave him partway through 5*. Got 4 Arcs I'd love to level at least 2-3 of too, but leveling the normal way is too damn annoying.

Not sure how good CoD will be for you though, since I assume your best weapon is the 32 ATK boomerang. You might want to level Refia first, especially if you don't have 2* Diabolos.

I definitely don't have a 2* Diabolos. Lightning is my only maxxed character at this point. BCL is useful for Hex now at least.

Arc is easily the best right now, but Exdeath stomps him in a month or two, and Kefka is really only useful for cheesing shit with Edgar (Hyperdrive is way better than any -aga spell for following up after a couple Chainsaws). His lack of Firaga makes him annoying for normal usage. Still want to find out if Rydia is viable for Edgar cheese, since Meteor is even better than Hyperdrive, but I suspect the slow-ass animation will make it hard to chain. With Kefka you can hit Auto and still be fairly sure that you're going to get the full multiplier.

Ao- said:

Should I get BCLid to 5* 80 instead?

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The FF13 event (which should be next, maybe) has a lot of robot enemies. BCLid will shine there if you don't have a full 6* team yet due to machine killer, but she has to be fully maxed out to unlock ultimate blow for full power. The mighty hammer we just got (72 atk, lightning elemental) should be excellent on her, since typically machines are also weak to thunder.

That's assuming it's not just better to run 6x mages and thunder chain, which may be the case.