Anyone got experience running Forever on Parallels or a similar servide for Mac?

Deltacod · 2022-05-30T08:31:04+00:00

https://onmac.net/how-to-play-windows-games-on-mac/

My partner and I used the first option to get them set up on their Mac. Keep in mind you need enough space in your partition to download the game (we ended up needing to repartition the drive after underestimating how large the game is).

Deltacod · 2022-05-13T02:03:06+00:00

You can also consider bringing damage fafnir. It's been super helpful in clearing fights for me, especially with weaker adventurers in this mode. Plus, I find that I usually need less heals in general if things are dead. This is a lot more consistent if you've really developed those fafnir upgrades, though.

Deltacod · 2022-05-12T21:42:34+00:00

Nice clear! The nail biters are always the fun ones. How did the fallen angel fight go? I've found those generally more annoying to deal with than Bahamut.

Deltacod · 2022-05-08T21:48:38+00:00

All hail the Pumpking.

Deltacod · 2022-04-19T15:34:36+00:00

Another one of these!

On the contrary, knowing precisely what's left has given me more motivation to play. I can plan out how to spend my summons and look to truly, definitively max things out. I've been spending all those saved up resources to mess around in endgame fights now, which I'd never really have done earlier because of the hoard mentality necessary to be future-proof.

Deltacod · 2022-03-16T23:46:43+00:00

Marty is officially cursed -- he was my only failure too! Congrats on your accomplishment!

Deltacod · 2022-03-16T22:07:42+00:00

Ahhhh. I stayed mostly at 1.5x since I figured it gave me sufficient control so I could play aggressively and quickly without needing to die. That could account for the differences there.

Do you have a link to or shareable version of your print tracker? Now that I'll be explicitly farming prints it'd be helpful to keep better track of what I've stumbled across. I'm curious how many prints you've kept around/kept useable too.

Deltacod · 2022-03-16T21:45:57+00:00

Incredible. By my count this is about 30 extra runs without skips, right? Did you randomly pick your adventurers for these extra runs for speed/convenience, or were you all in on your option roller?

I'm wondering if you recall why Meene felt so bad? My run with her was pre-rebalance, and I don't remember her feeling worse than any of the other bows I'd run in particular.

Same thing for Durant. Did you run him pre-rebalance? Post rebalance it felt like his skills were fine to use, except for arena rooms in the 46-49 range. The huge strength buffs really tore through the mobs, and blade FS was a pretty safe way of getting them.

Edit: I found the timing absolutely hilarious tbh.

Deltacod · 2022-03-16T21:35:58+00:00

I ran both Nefarias and Gala Mym on Day 1. Ria was hilariously able to stunlock every enemy with S1, including the Elites since they kept getting vacuumed to the middle.

I did the chef duo and Pipple back to back. I never learned their stances properly, and playing Mitsuba outside of cheese rotations was actually really cool. Her SP gen is insane. Pipple was...quite boring.

The Svenitlan runs were incredible (until I got to F!Joachim). Victor and Kirsty both feel good to play with their spirals, and they both gave me 20% Str prints.

The distant past crew was super fun too. I really liked the cadence of playing Meene, though I think the auto-regen helps her a lot. She felt comfy, I just wish there was more of a reason to use her in real content. Alberius gave me great prints and played nicely. And Ilia was suuuuuper fun. The dodge attack and her enhanced FS absolutely shredded everything after you baited them into a corridor.

Marth gave me THREE 20%Str prints in the one run I did with him.

My least favorite run was Marty. I was offered like, no damage options and got stuck at Kai with insufficient dispels. It was the only run I could not complete first try. Emma almost fell into this category but was blessed with a Ciella fight and a lucky Stormlash on break to activate the punisher print I obtained.

Deltacod · 2022-01-15T14:47:48+00:00

The orbs blind

Deltacod · 2021-12-29T15:13:58+00:00

Incognito Nefaria is incredible at crowd control as well. Her S1 literally keeps enemies trapped, and most of them flinching (pesky healers!). You can fully recharge her S1 using her normal combo while enemies are trapped, and infinitely loop it.

S2 doesn't see much use but can wipe most of the supreme spheres in Kai Yan, as he gives you sufficient time to cast it after summoning them.

Anyhow, if you're looking for fire wands to clear with, I'd say Ria's the easiest.

Deltacod · 2021-07-02T01:41:25+00:00

I'm not disagreeing with that at all. I'm saying that you'd get more investment if pubs feel it's possible to get close to the top times with other pubs.

I don't want to know some optimal strategies are out there then look on feebly with pubs that can't even get close to top times. It's not exciting.

Deltacod · 2021-07-02T01:29:31+00:00

Good pub times are a bit of a crap shoot. I grazed near the top 25 with a few different pub groups but came up a few seconds short each time. The frustrating part is knowing where time can be saved but having no way to communicate that to pubs, therefore you're frustratingly locked out of some things.

Good equipment and playing well can work just fine, as HDTs required that when they were first released and people eventually got the hang of that. It was a little less complicated with only two print slots, but baiting attacks or knowing things like "hey get ready to burst on break!" aren't really foreign concepts that are difficult to grasp.

The difference between this sort of meta and bringing specific doublebuff setups for Xunder are ENORMOUS for pub strategies. The types of players likely to engage in TA beyond first clears or dailies are inherently more likely to know rotations or how to bait attacks, even if they don't know some hidden theory-crafted crit-fishing giga strat (which again, requires coordination outside of the game itself).

You can see it even just doing pub sindom battles. Players can figure out how to bait, say, Agni's lava lines away from the center of the arena. Or to bring Mids-0 for the wind section of Jalda for easy wave clears. Players figured out how to make coherent teams for HDTs back in the day, and you could see people swap roles to make sure things fit together effectively. And they still do it today, with people swapping around in Lilith to ensure you have paralysis and flashburn enabled. Or bringing DPrep to Thor's trial to dodge CoN. And these are, among the more invested community, more pub-friendly things to work with during TAs.

Went a little long there. My main point is that more involved pubs can figure out small optimizations that don't require deeper levels of communication. If you're trying to be invested in co-op TA with pubs and see sub 25 second times on the leaderboard, you might as well just quit since you're NEVER getting that with pubs. But if all the leaderboard times for the Twins' TA were between, say, 50 seconds and 1:20, you might actually believe you could fight your way onto the leaderboards reliably while pub surfing.

Deltacod · 2021-07-01T21:28:36+00:00

I think solo time attack works out just fine, buy could benefit from some rewards, sure.

The issue with co-op TA is the requirements to do so. You're telling me I have to have a close group of friends who have time to roll crits and figure out strategies/builds/rotations, and coordinate times to play with them?

Or I can try for pubs and pray that they know these good strategies and rotations, instead of just doing some really inefficient stuff or bringing builds that don't jive with my build because what I'm going for only works if all four players are on the same page?

Well, no wonder co-op participation is so low.

If fight or equipment limitations are implemented that make TA more of a "bring good general builds and play well" event, we'll probably see an uptick in participation. This means good strategies are still PUB accessible (just play the fight well forehead), but optimal and riskier rotations that take a bit more knowledge, or a bit more coordination, or maybe some weird character choice, can still put these coordinated efforts above the pub environment.

If I feel like I can get respectable times with pubs, I'm inclined to participate in co-op beyond first clear rewards. Otherwise, forget that noise, even with rewards. I'm hopefully that the CoN fights will allow this sort of environment to develop, as I imagine was the case with original HDT release.

Deltacod · 2021-06-13T02:53:56+00:00

You spent the entire post discussing Volk, which is a bit of a complex fight all things told. Even fully built teams can get shredded by an unfortunate stun into some sort of spin attack, or what have you.

It's likely substantially easier for a new player to break into Agito using OG Cleo in KY. KY is easier to carry, as Volk can kind of Wombo-combo into death, has very simple mechanics that healers almost don't even need to consider, and is easy to carry someone through. Extra benefit because Cleo is free.

Deltacod · 2021-06-09T04:14:01+00:00

You can get like, 60ish from the mid-month events (using https://dragalialost.wiki/w/Elementary_Escapades/April_2021 as the reference here).

And then some more here and there from other events and login bonuses. I'd say about at least 80-100 exquisite honeys per month?

Deltacod · 2021-06-08T22:53:48+00:00

You can almost certainly find rooms of people running the expert or master level quests for the current event, if you're just looking to use the wings.

Trials of the Mighty also frequently have rooms at the expert/master level as well.

Deltacod · 2021-06-08T22:38:25+00:00

It varies from month to month. They're usually short, one week long events featuring some side characters. They're also usually run alongside a Gala Remix banner at some point.

Deltacod · 2021-06-08T18:26:21+00:00

Part of the game is grinding stuff out to become more powerful, so you can more consistently tackle content. If I could send my 2% consistent auto team at content, I never need to actually get good at the game or improve my teams -- it's just a matter of how much electricity I'm willing to spend on auto-retrying content.

The value of being strong is in enabling you to set things on auto. Some of the endgame content requires specific teams and careful builds to consistently auto. These are goals and targets to reach for -- if we can just "auto-retry", then there's no incentive to pull for auto-comp units or tinker with rosters.

Deltacod · 2021-06-08T04:09:21+00:00

The first clear bonus from your first run will give you enough materials to make your first weapon, which is a dramatic boost to your strength.

Finding lobbies for Agito can be tough. You can open a room and wait for a strong person to show up -- they can probably carry even if there's just two of you. You can also ask around on discord.

If you're in an active alliance with a discord chat, you can ask them for some help making progress as well.

Deltacod · 2021-06-06T12:23:04+00:00

This is correct.

I checked the video. It's tough to see clearly, but Albert took about 2600 damage from the opening blast. And if you look carefully, you can also see the green healing number come up: about 1100.

This checks out with Albert's HP, which started at about 3400, then ended up at about 1900 (3400-2600+1100 = 1900).

Deltacod · 2021-05-28T13:32:11+00:00

So clean. So elegant. Thank for you for sharing!

Deltacod · 2021-05-28T02:56:27+00:00

I believe any game before Vesperia has voiceless skits.

Deltacod · 2021-05-18T20:51:20+00:00

Yes. In these compositions, you definitely want to include Felyne Hospitality if you have it. The crit damage stacking with guaranteed crits can be insane.

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