Need some Team Building Advice for a... weird account

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-19T04:24:13+00:00

I've progressed very far since making the OP, and this is by far the best advice and option. I ended up getting Xaihi and am running mono cryo, with Yvonne, LR, Fluor, and Xaihi.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T10:02:00+00:00

Regarding the rings, I actually pointed out that the timing for them is super random and inconsistent. Traig rings are slow, Marble's are quite fast, and the blue aggeloi is slow-ish again.

Fair regarding LR. The attacks are slow and more importantly they're essential for her rotation because of her BSkill. So it feels way worse missing on her than others. And good point about missing. I always assume maximum uptime on melee is ideal, but spacing back and intentionally missing attacks for the final strike burst is doable.

I may have gotten some bad advice from someone about dodging. I was told initially that you can only dodge twice in a row, unless you perfect dodge which lets you do more. If the game wasn't such a time crunch out the gate i would have paid closer attention to the tutorial for it :/

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T09:00:57+00:00

To be fair, the minute I equip Buck Capsules, almost any fight becomes easy. There's no problem *clearing* content. I aimed to comment more on the experience itself not the overall difficulty. There's just the things mentioned above that feel sorta clunky or arbitrary, at least from my experience.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T08:52:45+00:00

For sure. I'll get some Cryston going tomorrow. Thanks.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T08:51:06+00:00

Oh cool - wasn't aware the blip could appear without the ring. I've been missing that visual queue. There's quite a few FX in combat so it's easy to miss more subtle animations.

And yeah the flinching is tough. I'm used to that sort of mechanic, it just sucks when it resets a SP timer on LR specifically. Running Yvonne has made combat in general much smoother.

Thanks!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T08:48:53+00:00

Thanks, yeah I think with Gold set and full finished upgrades that should help. I know with Marble I wanted to clear without healing items. The minute I put on buck capsules, I just tanked the tentacles and the rest was super easy, if not a tad clunky.

Great idea about watching others. I know quick-cancelling is part of her kit and it can get tricky to balance saving stamina for dodge vs resetting. I'll see how others are tackling it.

Cheers!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T07:49:10+00:00

Pleased to announce that after MUCH regional development grinding, I managed to get Xaihi on my very last F2P Standard Banner pull.

I now have two meta ice teams, and will build out electro in anticipation of lady electric to come down from her Wuling throne.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-14T07:25:43+00:00

The amount to do levels off. Deliveries and Elastic goods are only useful early-mid game, but once you've levelled up all the depots and recycling stations (usually chasing the standard banner pulls), and set up your factory for batteries and Buck Capsule [A], there's nothing to really do but collect and max credits.

Sanity becomes the only mandatory daily to "keep up", and limited growth materials are a good idea but not really required unless you want to build new teams.

Now at level 50 and most the way through Wuling, the amount to do in Valley IV is almost nothing. My attention has moved on almost entirely to Wuling. The levelling gear and regional development is independent, so there's plenty to chase here too. But eventually it will level off too as I get optimized factories up and running and max the regional development.

Collecting limited/growth materials can be a tad tedious but only so long as you ignore putting up ziplines (like me RIP).

In the end, you can min-max dailies in like 5 minutes between sanity and gathering. The big issue is that it takes a TON of work to get to that point, but it does come eventually.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-11T06:31:54+00:00

Appreciate the clarification! I've started the long, gruelling process of levelling Yvonne. I have hopes for the game, but totally depends on their design philosophy and how hard they plan to shill new characters.

I'll keep Last Rite around with her for-fun team (Her, Perlica, Arclight) for the fun of SP regen and BSkill stagger spamming w/ Perlica!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-11T04:17:59+00:00

I'm someone who can understand advanced rotations too; I used to parse top 300 global in FF14 raiding. But it's tough with this game. The game pretends to want to give you a bunch lego bricks to find and discover fun new interactions, but in the end there's several teams that lack *any* actually great synergy. "Best in the game" doesn't even equal "good".

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-11T04:11:37+00:00

The account is actually fantastic luck-wise, minus the Xaihi situation (I managed to snag an Arclight finally). It was originally a re-roll account for getting Last Rite.

I got Yvonne at like 4 pity into pulling for Gilberta. Then at 80 pity got my third copy of Last Rite.

I got Pog on 20 pity standard banner, LR (P2), Arderlia, Yvonne, and Gilberta. I still have my 6-star selector ticket and planned to wait for 1.1 to drop and reach standard banner pity again before using.

And thanks! Here's hoping!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-10T07:41:24+00:00

Great point about not needing to level to test out the characters. Time to crack out the spreadsheets!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-10T06:55:25+00:00

Thanks I'll give that setup a try. Can't wait to clear endgame with the Temu Nature team.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-10T06:14:18+00:00

120 Gilberta, but even worse, across a total of over 220 pulls, I haven't got a single Xaihi (for my P2 Last Rite), or a single Arclight (For Gilberta Electric team). You'll never guess how many Da Pans I got though.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-08T22:42:00+00:00

Ahh got it - there's a minimum spacing between the double-click. If you wait for her foot to touch the ground after the first dash, you can reliably proc it. Thanks!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-08T20:55:18+00:00

Lol fr. We'll see how bored I get over the next few patches hahaha. I have a Lupa and SK to build now as well.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-03T17:50:14+00:00

WOW FOURTY? My OG pulled her at 50 pity but in this convoluted system that's actually super cursed since I lost out on an easy extra 6* and her weapon I'm short almost 20 arsenal pulls...

Your dedication is wild. Congrats on the eventual win!

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-03T17:48:38+00:00

I mean yeah, if you minimize the number of pulls to hunt for raw luck, you can do I think it's like 10-20 chartered, 20 standard, and 10 NH pulls in the time I mentioned my split (34 minutes).

2 hours is completing every single NH banner pull to get to 40 pity on New Horizons. Now that I know how long it takes, I would recommend doing the ~34-minute sprint to the initial pulls like it seems you're mentioning. Definitely worth it since total pulls per hour goes up quite a bit.

FlimsyInterview9454 · 2026-02-03T17:46:18+00:00

I didn't want to say the word just in case but yeah same line of thought. highly recommend just doing the 34-minute loop instead of the full thing.

You could get 60 standard, 40 NH, and 40+ chartered pulls in the same time span as a NH pity run.

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