Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius

Added Kefka to my roster earlier today. Still kind of have mixed feelings about the reviews Im reading about him? They compare him a lot to Exdeath but what is the boards opinion?

Daidraco_sl said:

Added Kefka to my roster earlier today. Still kind of have mixed feelings about the reviews Im reading about him? They compare him a lot to Exdeath but what is the boards opinion?

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Kefka's actually a better mage right now, because he can wear mage equipment and gets a stronger nuke at level 80. The only real perk Exdeath has today is he can equip almost any magic through materia, while Kefka is only black magic.

The real difference is that eventually, Exdeath upgrades to 6* while Kefka is stuck at 5*. Once Exdeath upgrades, he's superior in almost every way.

Has anyone else beaten the Int S-5 Colosseum Frost Dragon? Best I've done is around 50% running Exdeath, Lasswell, Rain, Fina, and Fran. I'm thinking of going more melee heavy since I rolled Leo and Cyan so I can use paralyze, maybe Cecil too, but all of them need more levels. Right now I survive until he decides to attacks one of my healers twice in one round.

I've beaten frost dragon. First of all, for the really hard battles, don't build or change your team for status effects. You only get to reliably land a status effect once per battle. The second application the bosses have like 90% resistance, and I don't even think it's possible to apply a status a third time. Frost dragon will be a 15-20 round fight, so bringing a shitty unit like Cyan just to land 3 turns of paralyze is a huge handicap. Another thing in my experience is don't rely on magic nukers for dps on the super long fights. Exdeath will get off about 8 rounds of Firaga at 20 mp per cast, then he's out of mana and dead weight. Instead, craft a copy of Cura and put it on Exdeath, make him another healer, let your melee do the killing. Another issue is that Fran caps at 4* which means if she gets focused, she's probably going to die. If you can field a full team of 5* units, use them.

When I killed him, it was with 3 healers spending most rounds casting Cura, Rain doing terrible damage mostly keeping up power break, and Lasswell taking out ~85% of the bosses health using Raging Fist (from Ifrit) over the course of the battle. Make sure to give the black choker (confuse immunity) to your highest dps physical hitter. Technically you could keep up BarBlizzara, but he only really does AoE cold nukes once every few rounds, and it's more mana efficient to just use another cura to top everyone off after the nuke instead of wasting mana recasting the buff constantly. When your units get confused, you can attack them to break it, or just ignore it and let the dragon break it for you eventually, which is what I did.

I recorded my kill, which you can seehere. In short, Frost Dragon is a big endurance test. If you can outheal his damage every round, there's not much going on mechanically. Preserve mana, top up with multiple units casting Cura, and whittle him down.

Cool, That pretty much confirms my thoughts on the fight. After getting a relative comparison of HP vs damage via Firaga I assumed ExDeath would run oom 3/4s of the way through the fight and Osmose is pretty useless. Fran I was only taking because she was my most durable max level unit with Cura, Exdeath I always have with Cura as a back up. My Cecil is just now out leveling Fran and I was mostly considering using Leo to replace Rain for breaks since Leo can use a better weapon (Giant's Axe vs Buster Sword) but I only just pulled Leo since spending all my tickets Friday. I was fortunate enough to pull Leo at 4* and spent yesterday getting him to 5*.

I just installed this and did my ticket pulls.

Only good drops from the list were Kefka 5*, Chizuru 4*, and Kain 4*

Is it easy to rank up Chizuru to 5* or am I better of scrapping this for a reroll?

I'd keep that, Chizuru is one of if not the best character in the game.

I had the same gripe when I started too but you'll burn through the content in a month. All I have to do presently is burning tickets and leveling the good ones.

Yea. That was my thoughts about energy regen and content as well. Since the game launched not too long ago, they would keep stamina at 1 per 5. Then, after some time increase energy regen to 1 per 3. Brave Frontier was 1 per 5 for the longest time for example. I have to constantly keep my friends list tidy, not out of the fact that people arent playing, but because they dont level up their characters like they should. It would be one thing if the unit was a fresh 5 star or 6 star, but when your friend is under level 40 and its a 4 star.. gtfo.

Touching on that same subject, I noticed my Bartz levels up a LOT slower than my other units. Just using Laswell for example - I awakened Bartz about 20 levels before I awakened Laswell and now Laswell is getting ready to hit 60 when Bartz is back at level 53. Did some research and found the game has exp growth patterns. Similar to like an Ogre Shadowknight in EQ. Bartz is an EXP Growth Pattern of 4 where Laswell is 2. Just an FYI in case anyone had a similar curiosity.

I said screw it and picked up a premium summon pack....after all was said and done 1 5star golbez, 1 4 star kefka, a number of lesser star kefkas and 1 golbez 3 star and assorted junk. These games hate me.

Daidraco_sl said:

Touching on that same subject, I noticed my Bartz levels up a LOT slower than my other units. Just using Laswell for example - I awakened Bartz about 20 levels before I awakened Laswell and now Laswell is getting ready to hit 60 when Bartz is back at level 53. Did some research and found the game has exp growth patterns. Similar to like an Ogre Shadowknight in EQ. Bartz is an EXP Growth Pattern of 4 where Laswell is 2. Just an FYI in case anyone had a similar curiosity.

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Similar to BF, units have different experience bases. The default story characters are at the lowest and the super awesome, rare characters are on a higher base. I think FFBEwiki has a chart.

Used 19 tickets trying to get Chizuru, but RNGesus decided to remind me why I always reroll in these games as I will never get anything noteworthy from a gatcha pull.

4 - Kefka 3*
2 - Golbez 3*
2 - Vivi 3*
2 - Shadow 3*
1 - Firion 5* (the rage that ensued after getting Firion from a rainbow crystal was almost enough to make me delete the app)
1 - Firion 4*
1 - Luna 4*
1 - Galuf 4*
1 - Penelo 4*
1 - Russell 4*
1 - Zidane 3*
1 - Fran 3*
1 - Edgar 3*

Six 4/5* pulls out of 19 and no Chizuru is a massive fucking disappointment.

So basically I got a bunch of Kefkas; decent now but nothing special in the long run. Maybe in the really long run, if he gets a nice 6*. Not sure if I should TM spam to get them all to 25% and feed, or if I should keep all 4 and wait for moogles so that I can have 4 Ribbons. Leaning toward keeping all 4, but I'm not sure if it's worth awakening more than 1, maybe 2, in the meantime since I don't have Exdeath.

The rest is a bunch of TM fodder at best. I'll definitely be wanting to get both Golbezes, Luna, Galuf, and Zidane to 100% once we get moogles. Probably the Vivis as well, since Kefka(s) could use Firaga.

Still have 9600 lapis left, but I don't think I can justify pulling anymore when the chances of getting even more Kefka and Golbez is so high.

I finally finished the story that's available and am working on leveling and getting the Summons I'm missing. I gave the White Dragon a try but died with him at 50%. I think with some more levels I can get him.

My team isn't great but I'm holding off on spending Lapis right now until there's a decent banner. Currently running:

4* Rain
4* Lasswell
4* Maria as my White Mage
4* Kain
5* Exdeath

Right now they seem really stingy on freemium currency. Am I missing something or are we limited to 50 Lapis a day from doing the Daily grind? Having a daily allowance was nice but that seems to have ended. Unlike FFRK I refuse to spend money here (and I'm done spending money in FFRK too).

I got a bunch of junk in an attempt to get chizuru.

Kefka x 2
Golbez x 2
Rydia x 2
A second garland
Russell x 2

You get the idea
Last pull was a firion though.

I still have exdeath going for me, but otherwise not a lot else.

I messed around with rerolling.

Had one that pulled a 5* chizuru, and then a 4* chizuru. Then I pulled four shadows. I forgot to save that one to a dummy account though.

I don't even think Chizu is all that special. Absolutely a hard hitting dps, but I prefer units with some utility. Of the global pool of units, the only one I'm willing to spend tickets for at this point is Cecil. In my experience with these kinds of games, there's two kinds of content. The farm or easy content, where you blow it all up with any old team of whatevers, and the bleeding edge hard content. For the hardest stuff, a unit that brings nothing at all to the team except some dps has it's place, but is almost ways second string to someone who performs multiple roles in a fight.

I'm saving for either a Cecil rateup event, or one of the truly brokenly overpowered units down the road like Orlandu, etc.

Barrage is so good compared to almost every other dps that I'd call that a type of utility. If I had CoD I probably wouldn't care so much about getting Chizuru, but I don't even have Bartz now. At best I have Dual Wield and Barrage from TMs to slap on Firion months down the road.

AFAIK all the truly broken OP units like Lightning, Gilgamesh, Majin Fina, Orlandu, Luneth, etc. are 5* base units that most people will never get. Counting all the rerolls I did at the beginning, I've seen exactly one rainbow crystal out of about 150 pulls.

Ouch. I reroll for shits and giggles at this point, but I see a 5* every 30 pulls I would say. Maybe it's the chizuru rate up, I have no idea.

Most of the 4*+ pulls I get however are garbage. I honestly think anzlem has a permanent rate up. I see him every 8 pulls.

Pancreas_sl said:

Ouch. I reroll for shits and giggles at this point, but I see a 5* every 30 pulls I would say. Maybe it's the chizuru rate up, I have no idea.

Most of the 4*+ pulls I get however are garbage. I honestly think anzlem has a permanent rate up. I see him every 8 pulls.

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I feel like your ID number or something has to do with it. Ive pulled so many "Bedile's" that Im just about done with his TM.

This game is actually pretty fun! Just starting out and didn't have a ton of patience for rerolling but have (three star versions) of Kefka, Vaan, Cecil and Krile. Running Magi Terra for the moment but no idea what I'll eventually use in that slot. Kinda need a dedicated healer I feel like but I gather I'll get one eventually. Also have a Luna and Rydia but still figuring out what will be eventually useful.