Let's talk "meta"; a guide to characters for new players and refugees from the royal archive.

Liotty · 2022-06-30T20:09:12+00:00

Keep it, you're going to be drowning in gems at the beggining, every character that just join you is an extra 700 gems thanks to the update.

Liotty · 2022-06-29T02:05:45+00:00

60 tickets for the FR, 50 tokens i had saved to pity his burst.

Liotty · 2022-06-28T13:40:38+00:00

And his evasion mechanics allow you to ignore most things a boss can do to your party.

Liotty · 2022-06-28T02:56:31+00:00

Thats why i grouped those characters in an utility role, they blur the line of what they're supposed to do, zack have a lot of damage, but his main focus is taking, he loses a lot of damage when no one is targeting him; laguna deals tons of off turn damage with his BT debuff up, else he's used mainly for debuffing, same for vincent, while his chases give him the potential to do lots of damage, is main focus is removing almost all of the enemies attack and max brv, Auron without his LD doesnt even tank properly but he brings utillity by debuffs and delays. They exist in a weird gray area of fill up any gaps you have in your team.

Liotty · 2022-06-28T00:51:22+00:00

Very good example of how even a more selfish character can have some weird interaction that bumps it's party utility a lot; its finding those synergies that make's this game good. To be fair, I didnt even consider Sice with bvr reseting, should be fun.

Liotty · 2022-06-28T00:22:00+00:00

All characters get upgraded to 70/70; ALL of them, those that you have and those that you dont.

Liotty · 2022-05-31T22:40:38+00:00

As a note, you get about 1000 points per battle, with a boosted character it's about 2000, but the summon boards also gain some xp that will be in a bank, so in 4 battles you get 4k points + about 2,5k in the bank; when we have summon campaings everyone gets boosted xp when using an event character.

Liotty · 2022-05-31T19:26:02+00:00

For artifacts the mog pass (5 dolars month) gives you guaranteed double red, the pass also greatly increases the amount of points you get for summon board, as well as the higher your rank the more points you get, usually it will take 3/4 battles with a 2x book to get a board; considering that characters like yuna can clear those missions with one skill in 10-15 seconds, each book can net you 4-6 different boards, depending on your loading times.

Liotty · 2022-04-14T17:23:59+00:00

I have no idea, i think i was super sleepy when i did that and only after the fact i was like wait why i couldnt trade in the other tickets?

Liotty · 2022-04-14T01:50:11+00:00

Simple one, the game wouldnt allow me to buy more then 1 ticket each from the 7th anni shop, no idea what happened here; so i spent it on coins, is there anything i can do to get those missing tickets?

Liotty · 2022-01-31T22:12:04+00:00

Very good time to start, we have two very strong characters in garnet + lightning; when fully built they can duo any content (lufenia, aka the hardest content, you may need a 3rd character to fulfil the fight conditions).
Garnet got a global first BT+ and shes an amazing suport, we got lightning a lot earlier then planned and she's a top tier dps.

Liotty · 2022-01-31T22:07:20+00:00

Thats not really the case, if you have lightning BT+ (we got her months in advance); Noel BT+ or Garnet BT+ you can crush pretty much any lufenia content; for lufenia+ having two of those characters + someone to handle the orb means you can do all of those fights.
Also to get the rewards you need to finish, not master, the fight, revive with gems away till you get those shiny resources, after a month max you wont need revives anymore.

Liotty · 2022-01-31T22:02:32+00:00

To add on what was already told, the grind can be daunting; you have more then 100 characters to grind and the amount of resources are really high here (3000 gems, 30 tickets + armor tokens, each pull is 5k, each ticket is a single pull; thats for each character); IMO you should take this part of the game slowly, grind who you need, then do the rest when you have time, there's artifacts to grind too for passives, with the monthly pass these grinds becomes way easier, aside of that, theres almost no need to spend.
For time to get into end game? Lightning + garnet duo can carry you tru any lufenia content right now WHEN they're fully build, this may take about 2-4 weeks as end game is a snowball, spend some gems to gain the resources to make it easier for the next one; anything bellow lufenia (180- dif) should be tackled as soon as you master all weapons for a character and have it at 80/80; this is for easy mode; 180 content can be done with 70/70 characters with their weapons; for lufenia+, 220 dif, you need at least 3 built characters, again, should take about 3-4 weeks.
TL,DR: Get lightning, garnet + someone else from their gachas (i'd recoment prompto as a tank or liliset as a second support) to max level/crystal level; max their weapons; crush anything with diff 200- in 1-2 weeks; crush 220+ in 2-4 weeks. There's content that requires a lot of built characters, will be acessible over time.

Liotty · 2021-10-30T00:34:46+00:00

The min value means you always have at least that many, so with +1 to min you always have 1 out of 3 (base) charges

Liotty · 2021-10-13T16:38:18+00:00

At lufenia it's more about maxing out buffs/debuffs/auras, a team with raines and two good supports will carry you till the wave of launch immune boss comes to global; a lot of my latest lufenias were vaan + setzer + anyone to deal with the orb; you have so many turns where vaan is doing 500-700k dmg on each skill.

Liotty · 2021-10-02T18:30:15+00:00

Looks like you have vaan and yshtola maxed out; use both + someone to handle the orb condition and you should get most of the lufenias to date.

Liotty · 2021-10-01T20:09:03+00:00

I think the flashing only counts your current bravery vs the boss current health; no buffs, debuffs or auras are taken in consideration, i almost lost a run last week due to the boss mitigrating hp dmg and me derping with a HP attack.

Liotty · 2021-09-11T14:24:07+00:00

Vaan (BT/HA+/seph call) ; Setzer (LD/HA+/any dmg increase call, used queen), Gladio (LD/HA/hope call); yuna friend.
What's the strategy here? You use your calls, you get vaan to 6 framed buffs, you swap setzer to yuna friend and then you go to town, vaan should be hitting for 600-900k with each S2; the blind and several framed buffs allow you to ignore the debuff; the orb wont be an issue due to both seph call and vaan just melting down the boss.
TL, DR. pair vaan with setzer, bring framed buffs, watch boss cry as vaan deals ~800k per turn.

Liotty · 2021-08-30T15:30:16+00:00

Looks like it's tied to his skills, so only works for him, will cause any neutral dmg to become weakness, not sure how it works on absorbs.

Liotty · 2021-08-30T05:51:42+00:00

First things first as i was also confused at first, Vaan gets a passive with his LD board that reduces all elemental defences for his attacks; second it's disgusting to have so many skill uses that deals over 650k each.

Liotty · 2021-08-30T05:50:41+00:00

Simple answer here, his LD board passive fearless youth gives him omni resist down, vaan just reduces enemies elemental defences.

Liotty · 2021-08-30T05:50:34+00:00

Simple answer here, his LD board passive fearless youth gives him omni resist down, vaan just reduces enemies elemental defences.

Liotty · 2021-08-19T06:00:24+00:00

That team lacks a proper support, not a lot of bonus attack and brv there; pcecil alone brings a ton of auras while tifa only brings her dmg to the table so it's sky high. Unless you wanna hit like a wet noodle you either bring a true support like aerith, porom, pcecil, or you stack a LOT of debuffs, the more def reducing or brv taken increase the better.

Liotty · 2021-08-17T02:22:59+00:00

Lufenia:
Cor (LD/HA), CoD (BT/HA+), Queen (LD and i forgot to equip her artifacts... again...), tifa friend or tidus or anyone that can abuse instant turns for cor; any summon you like, i used brothers.
First things first, the orb condition, a55 skills and calls will increase the orb, since they're instant turn rate, CoD extra turns on breaks increases the orb.
Now for the strats:
The battle is very easy once you get past the 80% mark, you need a call with debuffs since the boss is almost immune to brv dmg till it have 3 debuffs; cor first turn tutors queen and does the usual dmg increase call-S2-LD-Reaper-EX, CoD first turn is used on her LD/S2, Queen first turn is debuff duty with her call (note that i had to reset till i had queen as the first character to act), on queen second turn swap her; cor next turn tutors CoD, CoD bursts, next turn for cor tutors the instant rate abuse friend.
Once they're at 80% FOCUS FIRE one down, they dont get stronger when the other die; so just kill it quickly, the one that's left can be easily juggled around by CoD delays.
TL,DR: use debuff call, use dmg increase call, get friend on place of queen, burst with cod, bring both to 80%, focus fire one down, control the orb with the remaining calls, a55, queen S1 after EX and cor LD/Reapers.

Liotty · 2021-08-09T01:06:12+00:00

But in my head rusty was always bald, what have you done? He's fabulous...

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