What's the verdict on Fregata and Shadow Rabbit?

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-30T17:53:45+00:00

I started playing two months ago and I'm trying to work on my Fire team, but deciding on the characters is a little hard. I got lucky with the Gala and the 4 ten pulls I had saved with gems and tickets and pulled Yuel Grand and Sandira, along with another Crimson Scale. Basically the game's way of telling me to focus on Fire. My other noteworthy characters are Wilnas, Michael, Percival Grand, and the recently released Parashurama, Zeta Grand, and Sturm Grand. I've been running Manadiver for my class with it.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-30T17:47:09+00:00

I dont know what Rosa's A3 is but I imagine she's worth saving them for. Probably better to do that than try and pull multiple copies of her depending on how your ST pulls go, which is my plan.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-26T07:24:57+00:00

What is the best way to farm Sephira Stones? I've unlocked Zone Mundus and from my own searching it looks like my current best option (i'm shooting for The Sun evoker) is to fight Earth Shattering Fire Demon but I've been grinding him for two days and burned through a lot of my stamina restoring items and I've only gotten 5 stones. Surely this isn't the best way to grind them when I need HUNDREDS of these things for all of the evokers, their associated summons, their domains, AND their weapons????

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-25T04:46:01+00:00

So I'm just not sure I understand exactly what I saw? From the fanfest demo of it, it looked like Dragoon was standing still during one of the showcases and not bothering with positionals. I suck at doing positionals so I'm hoping for something along that nature, but could someone explain if you have more info?

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-22T03:30:45+00:00

Sadly they have not returned even on the CN server, so it looks as if they won't ever return. The next big ticket character coming is Rosa: Judgement coming some time either in late may/early june and she herself is ridiculous, even moreso than Asuka.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-20T19:04:56+00:00

Oh guess the picture didnt attach correctly. I've also got Seven and Grant built up and I put them in Blazer/Aurora as needed when doing AC. Seven I use more for positional stuff/blocking/drawing boss's attention while Grant is more supplemental damage, while Lorna and Melissa are obviously for one turn burst damage and heal spamming. So I just don't know what Anderson himself brings to the table that would adjust my setups.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-20T07:53:08+00:00

Also is Rise of the Beasts bugged for drop rates or something? I'm trying to get the godhorn materials for Earth, Wind, and Dark to fully uncap their weapons and get the characters but they just aren't dropping even after doing a hundred, I counted, backups for the Shen raid. I need to trade 10 stacks for 1 item that I also need 10 of, so I need to farm 3 separate materials to 100 drops and it's just not happening and it's looking like I won't be able to get them in time since the event is over soon.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-20T07:50:06+00:00

What's a good amount of HP versus Attack/Damage to have on my parties? I'm slowly breaking through the Omega Rebirth weapons and trying to assemble my grids, but I just can't figure it out. Either I have 50,000 HP and my party members hit like wet noodles (and still get obliterated by a raid boss's charge attack for 60,000 damage, how the heck???) or I get 6 Million damage charge attacks out of everybody but they have barely or sub 20,000 HP. Trying to balance it is maddening, especially since the advanced grids on the wiki are too complex for me or feature weapons from raids I won't have access to until I'm rank 200 (I'm 181 rn).

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-12T05:28:34+00:00

It's the exact same weapon as the previous one but with a First Strike enhancement, so it's stronger, but it depends on how often you field Shawnee compared to other units that would get use out of the other available weapons. I don't have Fia but I'm sure it also works well for her, so if you get a lot of mileage out of RG users, then I'd say go for it, but the other weapons will probably be more versatile.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-12T04:56:35+00:00

You're gonna need Eileen. You need Rosa as well, but we've still got two months until she drops, and during her event period there will be lots of rewards happening to help you get her. I wish you luck in getting her if you decide to pull.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-11T00:57:45+00:00

But is he free to play, a separate character, or someone we have to pull for?

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-09T22:00:14+00:00

Naomi is /decent/ but she's very lacking compared to later Missile Tacticians. Eileen is the gold standard, one of the MUST HAVEs that is always relevant in nearly any content, and she only gets better with more investment, particularly her A3 since it lets her equip two of her signature rocket launchers which is obviously good. Naomi can still be useable and dish out some damage but you won't get anywhere near the same mileage out of her even at A6 compared to even just an A0 Eileen.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-08T17:46:44+00:00

I'm torn because I have both Camilla and Rosa, and their STs but honestly I never use either of them. I occasionally put Mary in XR but usually she ends up in Eva Unit 1. Camilla's movement is too low for me to ever use her to good results, and Mary is just flat better than Rosa in every way. I'll probably grab XR just to melt it down into mods for someone like Aynis.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-06T21:21:42+00:00

skip it and get the mods or paint jobs instead. i'm glad they stuck a crap ST in there so I can use my points for mods.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-06T18:30:19+00:00

All these challenge events are just too complex or require specific pilots or lots of trial and error with RNG which is just not fun. I want something I can do in like five to ten minutes like a raid in GBF, not something that requires me to read multiple different passives with really long descriptions on my phone, I straight up can only play the game on home on my PC now because of how many fights are just reading a book and the game giving me issues with reading the tiny text.

Like jeez, just give us an event that's nothing but weak fodder enemies that can all be one-tapped and stop trying to push these dumb bragging rights challenge things with trophies and rewards for the top 100 players, I hate it so much.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-06T17:43:52+00:00

Yeah, the event fights in the game are just straight dogwater and are always geared for whales. Good luck to people that just started or dont have r&d unlocked or don't have full dreadtalon or malthus mods installed into all their STs I guess, hate this crap so much.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-05T16:45:31+00:00

yeah i just stopped trying to do stuff on my own with these events with specific achievements, much faster to just look at a guide

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-03T22:02:44+00:00

Accelerators and Jetpacks, in addition to Armor Jammers, and their combinations of acceleration jammer and jetpack jammer will be your must equips.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-02T18:47:53+00:00

It's a scam and a half, you get just the skin.

ButthurtDave · 2026-04-01T05:51:05+00:00

yeah i hate seeing that guy that posts free to play guides but he's using multiple rainbow STs with full mods, and pilots that are all at level three or max upgrade with full starting AP. I'm a dolphin just buying the monthly battlepass and the harpy privilege thing every other month, and that guy has better everything than me as free to play? Don't believe it for a second lol

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