i woke up this morning, saw that tomorrow is the last day of the Rinoa event, and decided i really wanted to beat that Seifer / Fujin / Raijin fight after all. i had read of a few different strategies that worked for other people (mostly on REddit), and the strat that seemed like it would work best for me with my chars / equipment / abilities was to just load up on as much mitigation as possible. the fight ended up taking an absurd amount of time, but looking back i'm really not sure what mitigation abilities i could have swapped for more damage...
i used:
level 61 Squall with that generic 5* FFVIII sword (forget the name), 8charge Power Break and 6charge Mind Break (might have been able to switch these two for some bigger damage abilities, but these actually do decent damage anyway...)
level 65 Tyro in the back row with Hawkeye (5* generic thrown weapon with a shared SB that has a chance to blind) all of my highest DEF/RES gear (including that 5* Gauntlet), a 6 charge Slowga, and a 4 charge Draw Fire (Draw Fire was the main trick that i picked up from the Reddit strat i mentioned.... actually worked really well since most of the powerful attacks from these bosses are single target melee attacks)... and a auto-haste RM
level 65 Yuna with her Magistral Rod (unique holy AOE soulbreak), 4charge Protectga, and 4charge Shellga.... and Slots as a RM because i wanted her to at least do a little bit of DPS. she ended up doing the least damage in the fight by far, but i couldn't really figure out another way to bring both Protectga and Shellga...
Level 65 Selphie with her Morning Star (unique AOE heal soulbreak), 12charge Curaga, and Rank2 Diaga. might have been more damage overall to use my Rank4 Diara (four more hits) but i'm not sure...
and level 50 Rinoa with 6charge Biora and 4charge Quake. i brought her for the victory condition medals, but looking back i should have just brought my level 65 Vivi because there's no way that i could have lost any less than 4 Action/Damage medals with this setup.
and a Sentinel's Grimoire RW
took a few S/L's to get an opening turn where i didn't have a character die before i got some mitigation abilities up. i took out Seifer first because his AOE magic spells were fucking me up more than anything. i took out Fujin second but i think i could have killed the other two in either order.
i ended up running completely out of ability uses just before finishing the second enemy. i ended up just autoattacking with everyone and killing Raijin with mostly soul breaks lol. was a ridiculously long fight, including the three or four S/Ls at the beginning it took like an hour. was super satisfying pulling it off, though.
there are probably better characters to put Draw Fire / Protectga / Shellga on. Yuna and Tyro really ended up being very low damage during this fight. i think if i had a level 65 Paladin Cecil and a 4* WM that actually functions decently as a melee (is there such a thing? IDK. maybe there's a WM that can use throwing weapons...) and had Rinoa leveled up to 65 i could have actually gotten the mastery with this strat.
and i just had the thought -- maybe i should have used Retaliate on Tyro instead of Slowga. it would have been the first time i ever actually used Retaliate meta, but in this instance it would have made sense and not felt as cheesy as it probably normally does.... the fight was so long that Slowga ended up basically being a waste.
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in other news, my luck seems to have nearly run out when it comes to Relic draws. none of my 100gem pulls has netted me anything more than a 3*. my 11-pull on the Yuna banner netted me nothing. i did two 3-pulls on the current banner (SBFest banner 3).... first one the best item i got was a 4* FFIV robe, but then the second 3-pull was semi-decent... got Balthier's SB weapon (not sure how good he is, but i'm going to try him out soon here... i did already egg him to 50 for his RM), and a FFIV spear with a shared soul break that does single target wind damage and has a chance to slow. so at least i got some good relics for this Golbez/Tellah event that's going to start tonight. Kain with that spear in his hands actually ends up decently powerful with FFIV realm synergy.
still holding back the rest of my mythril stash for an 11-pull on the banner with Sazh's SB relic. i'm a bit below 50 mythril right now, but i should have enough by the time his banner hits.
p.s. i still love this damn game. best phone game out there. if this battle system had a real story attached, i think it would even be able to function as a full-fledged RPG.