I keep reading about how important mage bsb's are in future content where physical attacks are kind of phased out due to extreme defense levels on difficulty 200+ encounters, so I decided to do a pull on the Tyro2 banner in hopes of Terra's BSB. Well, as luck would have it, I went 3/11, but two were dupes. I got a dupe sentinel grimoire (not worth upgrading to 6*), a dupe physician's staff (nice for white mage nukers, which I use sometimes), and Terra's BSB rod. Definitely super glad I pulled the specific item I was hoping for in one round. I took the red armlet as the free pick for it's +20% fire damage bonus on a very flexible armor piece (adds atk, mag, and mnd).
I decided I'm going to once again skip the cid mission of the current event (SIGH!) but I'm still in hoarder mode for future, more powerful banners, and I'm still playing catchup trying to level units. Cloud and Sephiroth are my only two leveled FF7 guys, and I only have one relic in realm. Maybe I could still beat it, but I'd definitely have to blow a ton of growth eggs to level a FF7 team, and with lvl 99 just now becoming a thing, my limited growth egg supply has better uses. Vaan got my first MC3, since he's still MVP of my entire roster, and now with mug bloodlust, he's a debuffing machine.
So the new ultimate++ boss was a satisfying fight. As usual, when a boss has holy weakness, they really get trucked with the proper setup. I double healered it (probably not needed, but I wanted to be safe). I thought maybe I was going to have to use a pure mage team because of the core closing thing, but turns out a mostly physical setup works fine.
Setup I used to beat
Diamond Weapon U++:
Cecil -- Lifesiphon, Saint's Cross -- Paladin Force BSB
Vaan -- Lifesiphon, Mug Bloodlust -- Ark Blast BSB
Y'shtola -- Diaga, Curaga -- Wall SB
Ramza -- Power Breakdown, Full Break -- Unsung Hero BSB
Relm -- Curaja, Protectga -- Curaga/Regen SSB
RW: Shout
Next event I'm going to be doing at least one pull on banner1 (Eiko's BSB would be nice in the short term, and Beatrix BSB with the imperil holy is $$$), so hopefully I'll be able to get back to doing cid missions. Ultimately though, I'm still saving most of my mithril supply for Onion Knight and Y'shtola BSB's down the road.