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I have a dumb question for yall. When using burst mode characters, do you actually use the new burst abilities, or just use the skills you equipped?

Rengak said:

I have a dumb question for yall. When using burst mode characters, do you actually use the new burst abilities, or just use the skills you equipped?

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Cecil's BSB has good commands. They're both holy attacks, and the 2nd one is a 2 hit ability. With some +holy equip like his Excalibur and a Platinum Shield, and the +50% enholy from the BSB itself (maybe +holy RM too, like from WoL), the 2nd burst command should hit 9999x2 AoE on all but the top ultimates, which is like having a free unlimited aoe saint's cross. His first burst command should always hit 9999 + a minor ~2k'ish self heal, which is nice on ultimates.

Vaan's BSB has excellent commands. They're both 2.1 damage breakdown's, with ninja casting speed (I think 0.8 cast speed?). Vaan in burst mode (self haste, +10% more speed from burst) chain casting his burst commands can almost completely re-fill his limit gauge by the time his burst mode wears off, not to mention getting so many attacks in such a short period of time means he outdamages my entire team. Definitely the MVP of my roster. Oh yeah, and his bursts are both full strength breakdown debuffs, which frees up the rest of your team from those duties.

Ramza and Cloud's burst commands I rarely use. For Cloud, the burst attack itself is a huge modifier, I think 9.5x damage or something? So it's better to chain cast lifesiphon even in burst mode, so you can cast the actual BSB more often. For Ramza, when I actually use his bsb (rarely), he's usually busy with maintaining fullbreak + a breakdown, which doesn't leave him time for the luxury of just randomly dps'ing with his commands.

That's the only four BSB's I have!

Rengak said:

I have a dumb question for yall. When using burst mode characters, do you actually use the new burst abilities, or just use the skills you equipped?

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It depends. Generally, Burst commands are equivalent to 4.5* abilities with infinite hones and varying levels of useful. Like Sinzar said, for a character like Cloud the commands are garbage once you can hone up skills for him to use. I have a few bursts - on Cecil I use the commands for AOE or if I need a Drain, but otherwise I want to use Lifesiphon or Saint's Cross for DPS (it's all about burstmode stats+en-holy); Vaan I might use commands two or three times depending on the fight, but I use him more as a damage dealer (insta-cast BSB with Mug Bloodlust and Lifesiphon is killer DPS); Cloud I will use the AOE if there are a lot of targets but otherwise I'm probably running Full Charge for maximum DPS.

Burst commands tend to offer utility or power at 4.5* potency, which you want to leverage as you build your team. If you're using Cloud's commands you're doing it wrong, but most characters you can kit around bursts adding to versatility as the commands add a lot more skillset coverage to your team.

OSB stuff begins in a week, and those are just straight up power (~12x single target attack, or a 50% increase over the ~8.0x offered by SSB and BSB we currently have access to)--no hone extension and no utility--and it's B/SB's that will offer up the buffs and debuffs and whatnot that really keep your team going.

There are a few really useful BSSB commands, those which give Breakdown Effect (Vaan's being the best), Firion's upcoming one which has a command that gives Power Chain effect (remove cast time of next ability) and Alphanaud's one that recovers 1 ability or insta cast. I personally wouldn't use the commands if all they did were damage until we get the En-suit of capabilities.

I'm at 47 mythril after clearing all current content and getting the login today... I think i'll be 1 short of pulling on the Knight's Banner, such a shame. On the bright side I may be able to do a pull on FF2 in addition to the planned FF12 pulls.

Two pulls on the Knight banner. I pulled Beatrix's Lightbringer, Ashe's Stoneblade and Lenna's Mace of Zeus.

I'm very happy with those results. Beatrix is one of my all time favorite Final Fantasy characters and her Lightbringer BSB gives me a lot of options with her. I already have her Ragnarok so she is now very effective against all types of enemies. Against magic based enemies Ragnarok's blink will eat a bunch of attacks. Against physical based enemies the Lighbringer is the better option because of the Sentinel effect. And +20 attack from the two relics never hurts either.

Really happy with Lenna's Mace as well. Cura level group heals are slowly becoming outdated. Don't get me wrong, they're a Godsend for Cid's Missions but a Curaga level group heal is just so much better these days for general content. I just wish that they'd give us Lenna's Freelancer Dress Sphere. Japan got that one and Galuf's in a V collaboration but we missed out. Lenna just looks so much better as a Freelancer than as a White Mage.

Ashe's Stoneblade is the weak link in my draw but I'm still happy with it. My XII synergy isn't terrible but it's not great either. So I'm not sorry to see it.

Still no VIII synergy physical weapons but I'm not going to complain about 2 really strong relics and 1 decent.

I am really liking Locke's BSB. I have started bringing a Bartz roaming warrior for whoever I want to straight up dps like Gilg or Cloud and after Locke does the Sb fire debuff, the Bartz user hits for like 20k a pop.

My last pull on knight banner gave me Ovelia staff which seems pretty great if I level her up, and Basch super which seems ok, just not sure I have a spot for him on my team yet. Really wanted Beatrix or Cecil, but guess I will hold onto my last 50 for now.

Did two pulls and got Beatrix's BSB and 2x Lenna staffs, came out pretty well from it. My FFV synergy is just about capped with Bartz BSB / Lenna SSB / Krylie SSB / Gilga SSB / Faris BSB, guess I'll start working on FFXII/XIII as I have nothing from those two.

So Cloud's "Overstrike" break (OSB) banner comes out later this week. It represents the next level of powercreep in the game. It does a single hit that breaks the damage cap with wind / non-elemental damage. If the enemy is weak or neutral to wind than it does wind based damage. If it resists or absorbs wind than its non-elemental. It might be more accurate to say that it raises the damage cap instead of breaking it though. You can't hit for more than 99,999 with it. You still get the, standard, +10 stats for mastering it but there are no burst commands. Finally it starts as a 6 star weapon and can be combined to 8 stars.

Now with all of that said I do not recommend pulling for it. Being the first OSB it returns on a lot of future banners. Take a look at the rest of the banner first before pulling because there are some nice items there (Aerith's BSB for one) but I would not pull, specifically, for the OSB. It's strong but it's not a huge step up from a lot of current BSBs.

Personally I'm skipping the banner but I'll go hard to see if I can get the OSB for Tidus in about a month.

Cloud's OSB is good. Getting +wind gear is doable, and the banner includes his en-wind SB. Cloud's future en-wind BSB takes it up a notch, but it's still above the middling OSB category. And the banner is super well-balanced with goodies everywhere. If you're lacking in VII synergy or love the characters, it's as good a FFVII banner as you can ask for.

Cloud isn't the greatest, and impril wind isn't the most useful even if you can pull it, but this is very much an above-average-to-good OSB.

That was basically my point: If you pull, pull because of the relative strength of the Banner. But don't pull, strictly, for the OSB.

I'm trying to get Squall's gunblade record materia that requires FF8 dungeons because it's required to get his much better lionheart materia. I've spent over 200 energy now on the first dungeon of this FF8 event trying to get it, but it still hasn't dropped. Terrible luck, or do realm specific materia not drop in event dungeons, even if it's the proper realm?

They do drop in event dungeons but the realm specific ones tend to be really annoying. If you keep running it the RM should drop.

Another like 150 energy in the first ff8 event dungeon, and squall's gunblade RM finally drops. Glad that's done, since his next one isn't realm specific, so I can just stick him in the daily farm team and let it drop whenever it drops. Lionheart's going to be a great materia for heavy aoe bosses, especially on the healer with a medica.

Is lion heart much better than Knights charge for healers? I use Knights charge, should I get lion heart?