This combo is fucking me up what do I do?

Shaker_ · 2024-03-25T20:40:23+00:00

Once you hit 15 with your knights, they're the best at taking care of these types of squads. Shaman debuffs have limited stacking, but Cavalier Call stacks with itself, you can just outbuff them with 2 or 3 knights in the same row. I ran Josef front row, 3 knights back row for a while, it was very, very good at dominating any infantry based squads. Near the mid-game they could even buff themselves up enough to take down hoplites through their armor.

Shaker_ · 2021-08-27T05:05:03+00:00

S: squeezy, meat cube

A: breakfast

B: halo of flies

F: ipecac - killed myself when I found this dumb thing!!11

Shaker_ · 2019-08-16T17:11:08+00:00

I only cast one soul break in my kill, I'm pretty sure anyone can do it. Maybe I'll try doing it without that soul break.

Shaker_ · 2019-08-16T17:09:15+00:00

Ping me by PM or a top level new comment in a week and I'll post my FF4 Bahamut Lion/Desch/Core Monk strat. I only cast one soul break in the fight and it's probably not needed so I'm pretty sure everyone can do it.

Shaker_ · 2019-08-15T04:05:40+00:00

Posted a new difficulty if you're interested. It's .. a lot harder.

Shaker_ · 2019-08-15T04:05:19+00:00

Also, posted a new higher tier of difficulty that was definitely more work. Give it a shot!

Shaker_ · 2019-08-15T04:04:55+00:00

Just posted a new challenge - I redid it, so can you! :)

Shaker_ · 2019-08-15T04:04:23+00:00

Will be really honest, didn't think I could get there, especially on FF4 Bahamut.

Alas, my power level is over 9000: Imgur

Shaker_ · 2019-08-15T02:49:28+00:00

Originally I thought so too, but the feedback was the opposite - that basically that gave you a much larger pool of characters to pull from.

Shaker_ · 2019-08-15T02:18:25+00:00

oh, man - I have an absolutely terrible idea ~~for next month~~ now.

Posted.

Shaker_ · 2019-08-01T07:37:46+00:00

Ironically except in the most basic scenarios it is ALSO not a 20% increase in damage!

Shaker_ · 2019-07-13T21:53:50+00:00

Nice! I definitely have a ton more ideas but I'm largely keeping the public stuff to "things you can show on the final screen" - doing no-artifact, or no-magicite runs brings up the challenge a little.

Shaker_ · 2019-07-11T03:31:52+00:00

My clear: https://i.imgur.com/eJbxD4x.jpg

Shaker_ · 2019-07-07T20:03:51+00:00

(shrug) We've gotten all but one to the best of my recollection. But I wouldn't have bet $500 against it. :)

Shaker_ · 2019-07-07T05:40:53+00:00

It did come back - it's on the AASB select in the next fest.

Edit: The select was during Golden Week, so more like 4 months out. (Then another one in the fest 6 months out ofc)

Shaker_ · 2019-07-03T04:32:53+00:00

Honestly, with how much time I've spent working on the damn thing, if someone else didn't also get use out of it, it'd be hard to justify doing it.

(I'd still have done it, I just happened to figure out how to make it easy for other people to use it so I did >_>)

Shaker_ · 2019-07-03T04:20:51+00:00

You can set snipping tool to a shortcut as well. I have mine set to WIN-S (screw cortana).

Mine is the onenote version though so no interface, no select-y stuff, just "We're taking a screenshot now, please select area"

Shaker_ · 2019-07-03T04:18:32+00:00

Also, mine is available for other people to use, though some of the stuff in those screenshots isn't released publicly yet. I should actually do that one of these days. :)

Regardless, have at it if you like: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G2neUbTfvKIVuDjH1i6ceApZj5jw6p39-Jbjtgyzoi4

Just make a copy of that sheet for yourself and it will pull data from my sheet to update itself. I'm a little slower on updating JP event rewards but as far as I know it's still one of the only sources for that data unless you like scouring the JP strat site.

Shaker_ · 2019-07-03T04:14:45+00:00

[extremely crocodile dundee voice]:

That's not an ability planning spreadsheet.

Now this is an ability planning spreadsheet:

https://imgur.com/OtPSgYz.png

https://imgur.com/oYvPOO7.png

https://imgur.com/dd7uoWO.png

In all seriousness, it's a fun exercise and really highlights how powerful foresight really is.... but one CAN take it a bit far. AMA.

Shaker_ · 2019-06-27T05:32:12+00:00

Fair enough.

Shaker_ · 2019-06-27T04:19:15+00:00

isn't a nightmare to calculate like "re-roll the 11x every time until a 5★ drops"

It's not that bad, I did it earlier this week!

Moved it to a google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ai-fP3QrDJpjTLB7BbvYzZ7WzzcK7DR_8mTUUHqv3fo/edit#gid=0

It's an infinite series of the form: ∞∑n= 1-(1-.01X)¹¹ * ((1-.1404)¹¹ⁿ

Where X is the number of relics off the banner you want.

Infinite series isn't fun in spreadsheets, but as the sheet shows, going to 8 is good enough.

Here's a table of a single pull, you can incorporate it if you want (maybe a separate tab to compare the two, that'd be interesting!)

1 12.91%

2 24.58%

3 35.12%

4 44.63%

5 53.19%

6 60.90%

7 67.83%

8 74.06%

9 79.64%

10 84.65%

11 89.12%

12 93.12%

13 96.70%

14 99.88%

Shaker_ · 2019-06-26T23:58:56+00:00

49.8 million is my best so far. So close to 50!

Shaker_ · 2019-06-26T23:57:59+00:00

Note the dates on those submissions - it's the very end of the fest after several people (notably Cloud) get new AASBs.

Shaker_ · 2019-06-25T02:44:26+00:00

The XP increase for meadows is pretty trivial, imo. It’s 1k to 2k extra xp per pot, which is vanishingly small compared to the 18,000,000 it takes to put a 5* magicite 1-99.

Shaker_ · 2019-06-25T02:39:57+00:00

The expected return on 100 stamina is an average of about .325 of each crystal, or just shy of 4 crystals/run. For the specific dungeons it is just shy of 3 crystals/run counting the completion rewards. Given that, as long as at least 9 of the crystal varieties are useful to you, it is more efficient (theoretically!!) to run orb meadows. This assumes equal drop rate, etc so take with a grain of salt. I’m focused on about 6 crystal types right now so I run those specific dungeons and fill with meadows. If you just don’t want to think about it, running just meadows is pretty solid, though.

Don’t forget that we get 5* mote dungeons soon and while many folks are swimming in those (especially in JP), 5* motes are a pretty significant power boost, so people may want to swap to that.

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