Final Fantasy: Record Keeper - Mobile Gaming Cash Grab

Ok so I went back and put in some more work on the FFX cid mission, and finally beat it. The key to victory? Stacking the hell out of heals. I went with 2.5 healers on the team, and a heavy regen roaming warrior... as well as kept loading until I had a bunch of luck and the boss rarely countered with haste. I also had to kick Tidus off the team, even though I have a SSB for him, and bring in a Lulu just because she can dps from the back row, lowering the overall physical damage the team takes. It's surprising I had so much trouble with this boss, because my FF10 synergy is actually extremely high (though I couldn't really use any of the unique soulbreaks for the realm except one because... none of the units could fit on the team).

So anyway, Guardian Beast died to the following team:

Paine -- Banishing Strike, Saint's Cross -- no SB
Lulu -- Waterja, Fireja -- shared medica SB
Yuna -- Diaga, Curaga -- +resist SB
Wakka -- Magic Breakdown, Full Break -- no SB
Braska -- Curaja, Protectga -- shared medica SB
RW: Mighty Guard (shell, haste, heavy regen)


After researching online, I found out his aoe slow is only attached to his tail swipe on a phase transition, so I had to hold off on using mighty guard until after 71%, which meant it was a total crapshoot on whether his mana breath in phase 1 killed someone with no magic mitigation up yet (this took multiple reloads to get right). Once I made it to P2 with no deaths, and got up mighty guard to cancel out his slow, it smoothed out some. Yuna had to switch from dps'ing with diaga to full on second healer from P2 until the end due to the damage rampup. Lulu also helped out with the occasional shared medica.

Once I made it to P3, it almost felt like I stalled out, with my entire team too busy re-applying buffs/debuffs, and spamming all the healing possible to stay alive. I spent multiple rounds with him at like 15% life, but I was too busy scrambling to live to actually fight back. Eventually, Paine and Lulu found time to land a few more attacks, which finished the fight.

Like I said, I don't even know why I felt like this was such a mountain to climb, especially when like 8/10 slots were synergy items. Maybe I was doing something seriously wrong, but hey, the cid mission is complete, so whatever!

CPU fight is sorta like Cagnazzo in that once you get the rhythm of the fight it's actually not too bad, especially during the Multibreak phase. It's one of the fights that you need to practice a few rounds to get it down. But then again Quadra Foul is a shit skill so no rush.

The Monk event on the other hand was super easy and used way little stamina. Too bad Lifebane gives really useless orbs so not much point putting the motes in to shatter it.

I'm just super glad I didn't combine the Royal Sceptre's we got for free a while back into a 6*. Those two sceptres are my only source of shared medica, and this is the 2nd or 3rd CM in a row I've had to double shared medica to complete, as well as some nightmare dungeons.

I finished up the white mage nightmare dungeon today (another fight those shared medica rods both found use). Nightmare Evrae overall was pretty easy, though it took a few reloads when he decided to sneak in a nightmare breath right as my esuna user went on cooldown. For the kill, I ended up having to just make Tyro sit on standby the entire p3 so he could instantly react and remove poison when the boss buffed himself. I had to craft and hone 2 copies of Diara to r4, and hone my Diaga to r5 and Gust to r3, all things I didn't want to waste orbs on (especially the duplicate diara's) but it had to be done. The few early attempts I made were fails due to running out of skills before even finishing p2. Maybe the next white mage nightmare dungeon will need them and I'll feel less bad.

I'm starting to run low on a few orb types with all the massive skill hones I've done the past few weeks, so I don't know if I have enough to make a bunch of summons for the summoner nightmare. Same problem for support nightmare, since I need to hone multibreak further, and craft and hone mental and armor breakdown. I may have to put off some of these until after the next orbfest.

Think I might pull on burst 2,3, and 4. I don't have many relics but I do have a few very good ones (shout, sentinels grimoire, sheep song, ark blast). Hoping to just get a few good dps bursts because my hones suck as a returning player, and finally a medica. I still have a bunch of story dungeons to keep the mythril rolling, but is there anything in the near future I should hold out for instead?

So after multiple tries, I barely beat the Celerity nightmare.... only to miss mastery because apparently I didn't realize I never procced a stun on the tonberries in phase 1.... ultra sadface right now.

Edit: Redid it and mastered the Celerity Nightmare. The kill was messy as hell, but it's a victory. Double victory because I didn't have to hone halting rumba past rank 1, and skated by with only 1 copy of Dismissal.

I've got enough for 4 11x pulls right now. I think I'm going to do a pull on banner 4 and another on banner 5. After that I'm saving for the Tidus OSB banner. So much good X synergy there. I'd love Yuna's new SSB (group Curaga + extra hit points), the OSB or Paine's sword for haste. I'd be happy with anything else too.

My Ramza is complete. Shout, Tailwind, and now Unsung Hero. He can buff, he can debuff, he can heal, he can clean house while buffing. +20 attack from SSB and BSB and I'm already getting deep into his 4* record dive. God Mode Activate!

Haven't spent any mythril yet and sitting on 173. I think I have to try and live the holy dream and go hard for Beatrix and P Cecil. Lineup would then be:

P Cecil BSB (AoE holy damage + self enholy)
Beatrix BSB (AoE holy damage + imperil holy)
Ramza BSB, SSB, Medica, Full Break (God Mode, BSB is AoE holy with a great single target holy command)
Agrias Saint's Cross/Support (shield isn't holy but is still 585% with huge stackable atk/mag debuffs)
Y'shtola (wall + heals)

I don't think I've ever been this excited to be let down by pulls. The guaranteed 5* makes me feel like I might actually get it.

I have all of Ramza's stuff myself, and his BSB is awesome (when you can make it work... since 9/10 times it's better to bring his shout). I had forgotten to buy his record mote stuff, so glad you reminded me of that.

So far the only record mote things I've unlocked have been Vaan's first tier, and now Ramza's first tier. I have a ton of motes (all event motes, and I buy out the chocobo shop of motes each month), but I'm just not entirely sure who I should be spending them on. I do plan to go all in on onion knight when his banner comes (I really love the idea of flexible characters like that... he can be pro physical dps, or pro mage based on what you need at the time).

Onion knight needs a ton of motes, which is why I've been hesitant to spend many until I finish his so I know how much I have for the rest of the teams. I've considered using some on Relm (my main healer currently) except I know she's not top tier healer anymore very soon when healer BSB's become a thing. I have PCecil's BSB, and he's another one I considered using motes for, but he's the guy who always gets sat out on a fight when I have to bring in something specific for a medal requirement. Agrias is my other A team member, but she feels like more of a support unit with mediocre dps since all I do with her is prot/shell and lifesiphon so she can maintain her cleansing strike debuff. Doesn't seem like going deep on her with motes is worth it.

Guess I'll keep saving for now!

Did a pull on banner 2 as I liked just about everything in it, didn't have a magic blink, and there were several in it. Was hoping for Ramza's bsb, but no luck. But I did get Keeper's Tome, Terra's tiara, and 2x Bartz' Excalibur.

Gah didn't realized they only gave 40 motes after monk, which is effectively 2 copies of a spell... which means I won't be able to R2 Northen Cross due to lack of Power Crystals. On a separate note the Mote Dungeons are back... Ifrit, I'll get you this time!

The upcoming mote dungeons worry me a bit from a CM perspective. I have no doubt that I can beat them with my A Team but my OCD side wants to do them CM style. My X synergy is much better after last week's banner and I have an idea in mind for tonight's (sleep plus lots of AOE Magic) but the upcoming ones are from realms with terrible synergy (II and III). I'll likely need to circle back to those ones.

The III banner is very strong, and worth a few pulls if you have the mithril. With G5, that should hopefully fix up your problem for that realm.

I'm going hard on the III banner, which means I won't have much left for II, so I'm probably in the same situation for that one.

I'm gonna try an aoe sleep + magic strategy for tonights CM. I kind of wish I had enough orbs to make dark zone, because if so, I could go with a 100% mage team (using Jecht as a ghetto darkness mage using a magic sword) and have Rikku just do nothing but spam aoe sleep + multibreak for the medals. With a bunch of reloads until her aoe sleep landed on all 3 mobs on the first cast, I think it could work. I'm not sure how viable that strat is with only 3 dps though, since I have 0 dark zone, and only r2 memento mori. Maybe I'll give it a few tries anyway to see what happens. 1 stamina per attempt is nice to try funky strats.

Yeah I hope to pull a couple of times on the III banner. It comes a couple of events after a VERY good X banner though so I have no idea what my Mythril supply will look like. As for the X banner I really want the OSB for Tidus and Yuna's SSB. Id be happy with Paine's sword, Auron's Katana or Wakka's BSB. Indifferent about Rikku's fist since I have her BSB. That just leaves the Tidus outfit which isn't bad but is the only thing I wouldn't want on a 1/11 pull.

Got the CM. I did it Mage Meta style. Rikku loaded Multi Break and Lullaby. Kimarhi had Sleep Buster. Yuna, Braska and Lulu all had AOEs with Sheepsong from a RW and Focus from Lulu. I just spammed Lullaby until it took and burst them down. Kimarhi was simply there as an emergency sleep attempt on Cindy if it broke early and that paid off.

It took me two tries. The first attempt Lullaby would not land. Second time everything went off exactly as I needed and it wasn't bad at all.