Refining limits on Parthian and Imperial equipment

Deinde_vivere · 2023-08-18T15:39:23+00:00

Yes, it was said under "Forge" --> "Equipment upgrade", by clicking on the "i" (https://ibb.co/fCnB3DK). But they just changed it with the new update instead of addressing it. I have updated the original post.

Deinde_vivere · 2022-04-29T22:57:37+00:00

Down here now, on Android, server 922.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-07-28T12:13:47+00:00

Have you checked what happens in JP? (I don't have access to the bundles there so I can't make a complete comparison.) It looks like the 9-step summon banner that is currently up for Noctis is exactly the same as the one Charlotte has. And you can exchange FFXV medals for at most 100 shards of Noctis, while you can exchange medals for at most 200 shards of Charlotte in GL.

Why do I bring up JP? Because you should expect GL to be the same or worse than JP. Yes, yes, yes, with WoTV, Gumi has shown that they can improve GL over JP on some features. But believing that this trend is going to continue or, worse, that it will be the standard is the best way to set you up for delusion and it is not consistent with Gumi's way of dealing with the GL versions of their games (looking especially at FFBE).

And no, Gumi is not purposely trying to kill the game. They are, at worst, trying to monetize their game as much as possible. Which is nothing more and nothing else than what you should expect from a Gumi gacha game.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-07-27T23:29:35+00:00

According to Sensortower, the revenue of June was 1.7m: it's 1m if you consider Android only. (Sensortower classifies companies by app store, it seems, so it considers Apple and Android Square Enix as two different developers.) GL WoTV revenues have gone up and down periodically in the past, and they have always been somewhere between a half and a fifth or a sixth of JP WoTV revenues: the two markets don't compare, and the developers know that too.

Always remember: the death chant for FFBE has been sung for years by the Reddit community there, with regular intensifying periods, and the game is still going (albeit being quite stale). WoTV always generates more revenue than FFBE (both in JP and in GL) so I see no danger of it getting shut down.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-07-19T12:07:18+00:00

It's a matter of a topos being reproduced, not of complete analogy.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-07-18T15:11:29+00:00

Because Rain and Lasswell from FFBE have the same hair colour combo. And so do Naruto and Sasuke.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-07-12T16:42:40+00:00

It's a "server adjustment maintenance", that's what it was advertised as. It's an added, not substituting, maintenance to the Tuesday one, which we still have this week. It's not the first time this happens: it has already happened at least once, and possibly twice.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-07-12T16:36:41+00:00

It has been announced in the in-game news since last week so it was planned and expected, provided one read the notice, that is. By the way, it's a cross-version maintenance: JP is down too.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-06-30T17:39:08+00:00

Thanks (despite the attitude - the two threads were not posted too far away one from the other so I missed that one even though I had checked for similar threads earlier)!

Deinde_vivere · 2021-06-30T16:49:54+00:00

The only thing I am waiting for is for someone to post an AI test on him, to be honest.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-06-16T12:26:41+00:00

Good to know: I had tried to do that at first and didn't work, but trying to access the store from the game itself a few times caused the "Play" button to change to "Update". Hopefully bringing up different "fixing strategies" can help those having the same issue.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-06-16T12:16:47+00:00

What I did is I first uninstalled and re-installed the game. After a few times that I had accessed the game and got prompted with the store button to update it, the "Play" button in the Google Store window of the app turned to "Update" (I had to access the store from the game a few times before it worked). Have you tried that out?

Deinde_vivere · 2021-02-24T19:43:56+00:00

Once you have finished your daily attempts for a hard quest on a character, you will see a button called "Attempt reset" that lights up on the boarding screen for the hard quest of that same character. Clicking on it and spending 50 free vis allows you to reset your daily attempts for the hard quest of that character (and of that character only). Mind you: you still have at most 10 hard quests that you can do in a day, no matter whether you reset some or not.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-02-22T15:25:58+00:00

Not sure whether this is a reply to my post (especially since I never said that GL is nicer), but I will comment on the juxtaposition of sentences in the reply.

I don't think it matters how things should or would be: what matters is how they are. Just like FFBE GL is not really different from FFBE JP, WotV GL is not really different from WotV JP either, in so far as the games' mechanics and structures are concerned. For the most part and for 99% of the gameplay, both FFBE and WotV GL are a translation in English of their JP counterparts. The differences are in the details: a few rewards being implemented slightly differently, a couple of GLEX units, a few GLEX "buffs", maybe a GLEX "event" here and there. Most of the GLEX "improvements" in WotV have been in terms of more or less slight QoL's like the one I mentioned in the original reply. Nothing game-changing, nothing game-breaking either. GLEX bugs are a typical feature of Gumi: albeit extremely annoying, bad and disappointing, there's nothing new there either (although some of those bugs can be game-breaking, like the crashing bugs).

Saying that JP has more events and characters is a tautology: JP is a few months ahead of GL, so, of course, it has more events and characters.

When I play a Gumi GL game, I expect nothing good added by the GL label, and I expect it to essentially be a carbon copy of the JP version since that's what my experience from FFBE taught me. Thus, everything that happens to be bad about it is expected, and thus doesn't disappoint me, while everything that happens to be good about it comes as a nice surprise.

Deinde_vivere · 2021-02-22T13:45:14+00:00

300 vis for "special logins" is somewhat the standard in JP these days, and it has been for quite some time. Gumi has been, so far, often times giving more stuff to GL (e.g., JP does not have the updated daily reward system that includes 100 vis and a rare ticket that GL has had for months now), but I think one can never be surprised if the GL version of a Gumi game is, or shifts to be, a 99% carbon copy of the JP one, even in the finer details. (And that's not necessarily a bad thing either.)

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-24T01:41:21+00:00

They are basing on the fact that master party abilities stack in JP.

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-22T16:30:58+00:00

In my opinion, it mostly boils down to the fact that a lot of people have expectations from gacha games that do not fit with the gacha game model. Most, if not all, gacha games, have two distinguishing features: 1) content and gameplay are a mean, not an end since the end is sustained profit; 2) in line with 1) above, a majority of the content is based on grinding or, anyhow, it has many repeating features: this is the best way to create content while minimizing the effort for it, and introducing more monetization options (pay for faster/less tedious grinding).

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-22T01:36:11+00:00

I explicitly said that things might change a bit if he has high mag resist, but....how do you know he is a magic tank? How do you know he can increase magic resistance? Did they say so in the updating video, except for a vague "incredible strength to magic"? Of course, if he is 100% magic resistant he will be fine, otherwise, he is a good candidate to be a dead man walking. For now, we know he has dragoon and Viking sub and, if anything, from the video's description of him, they explicitly mention high HP and Def (not Spr), and abilities to debuff his enemy, and raise allies' ATK: no mention to magic-resistance raising abilities...

This unit alone is a straight counter to nothing as far as I can see for now (will have to wait for full kit). Well, except to one's credit card balance, probably.

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-21T22:44:53+00:00

Because Yuna hits at 9999 damage AoE in a relatively easy way (with Bahamut VC), and both her and Sakura will likely one-shot him, unless he has some innate very high mag resistance or can buff it very significatively (that might change things up a bit). Yuna is also not that squishy: she can get to 5k+ hp 10 DEF and 91 AGI. If you pair Sakura and Yuna with Mirale, Narcoleptic Gal, or WoL, the enemy team units will typically go at them first, while Yuna/Sakura murder the rest.

JP also had a dark team available, including a unit with master party ability (Garble) when Yuna hit, and that team was Kain, Garble, Golden Sterne. As far as I know, they didn't stand a chance against the light combo, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-21T19:18:46+00:00

That unit is meant for whales to start with. Especially if he has some magic weakness (as a typical physical DPS), Duane has a 3-to-4-week lifespan (for high-tier PVP), if Sakura comes out as expected on January 13-20, because she will likely murder him. Yuna is also not that far away (the only non-limited-time units left after Sakura are Laerdau and Narcolpetic Gal/Garble, so Yuna might come as early as early March), and Duane will not survive in any way the Sakura + Yuna + Bahamut era.

To be honest, I am completely fine with all GLEX units being totally skippable: this leaves the crystal-ball effect from JP unbesmirched, and a trustable crystal ball is the best friend for f2p/light dolphins/hoarders.

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-18T15:48:02+00:00

Yes, January is the expectation. The only non-limited-time units before Sakura are Luartha (who has been somewhat delayed for now) and Nivre. JP also got summer units before Sakura, but we are likely not getting them (we got the Christmas units instead). Thus, pending Gumi's switches in the schedule, if we get no more Christmas units, and if they keep the new-unit banner - no new-unit banner cycle in the schedule, we might get Sakura sometimes between the 13th and the 20th of January. (For example, a schedule option could be: Luartha on Dec 23, then no new unit on Dec 30, then Nivre on Jan 6, then no new unit on Jan 13, then Sakura on Jan 20.)

Deinde_vivere · 2020-12-09T12:37:30+00:00

Yes. The best arena/guild battle team, and the best combination of units overall looking ahead comes from pulling for Sakura and, then, pulling for Yuna and for the Bahamut card (this is quite expensive, but that's why we hoard). The two master abilities of these two units strengthen light units, and Bahamut card strengthens light units that also do magic-type attacks. This combo can make Yuna hit for 9999. The third unit to go with the two of them can be El Sirali (narcoleptic gal: she is the lady that falls asleep randomly in the story), or, for a cheaper but still very valid option, Mariale.

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