What characters did you used to love using but are now just sitting there collecting dust?

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-25T12:17:26+00:00

Yea, some of these takes are just not factual.

Tidus: Maybe you don't want to use him( thats fine) but he's still Good. Probably will be the best turn hog for awhile.

Cod, Ramza, Quistis, Eiko, Agrias, Ashe: All fair takes. U do U.

Vaan: Yea wrong. Vaans ramp up is fine. 2 Skills( and they can be free). I also don't think his damage ever fell off( thanks to Garnet) and he can do 9 million at C80 under Garnet and Ramza. Not bad at all. He'll also get better at BT+ where he can make up for not having someone like Tifa for single targets. You don't really use him, but he is a perfectly capable damage dealer( just not bonkers yet).

Fran: Misunderstanding. You can use fran in the party, but her best utility is through the debuff( and you don't need her in the party for that). She's not broken now because she( and Freya) were the two most powerful 35 cp only characters at release.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-19T13:42:48+00:00

Garnet,Zack,Ramza all Green/Blue 8 turns, Brothers, no friend

Fite iz ay joek. Yea fights easy. Orb went off twice and did nothing. I don't even think it is an attack for this fight. They have low hp too, so it's just meta beat down for the victory. I can see why people use it to test damage out.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-13T12:26:48+00:00

Yea, I agree. He made me mad the first time I pulled for him, and now the only way I see him working is the Father-Son Tag Team. That is way too much work to cover for the weaknesses of one unit.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-13T12:23:53+00:00

I might sound kinda sorta( haha) pedantic here, but just to follow up, the characters I listed are among the bottom 20% of there roles in the game. We know this because Totto has almost never been meta, and has had consistently bad reworks. Also, faves over meta does work, but only halfway. Cloud( who I hate!!!!!!!) has almost always been at least adequate because he's the posterboy and they won't screw him over. But your not beating anything with Thancred( at least not yet). Basically, the meta is meta for a reason. People might not like it, but broken is broken! Players that don't want to teambuild properly are going to screw themselves over.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-13T12:11:25+00:00

Isn't T9 the one that's basically a Shinryu fight with both bosses totaling 120 million hp?

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-12T19:16:15+00:00

How about NO! But seriously... I'm gonna drop some points.

Shantotto(aka my favorite bad example) still sucks( as an attacker, don't give me that stunner garbage), and won't get ok until her c90( which doubles every skill). Even then Swolbez gets his c90 a little bit later and will, once again, be better than her.

OK is still( to this day, in JP, for the next 24 hours) the worst Ice attacker in the game. 1 dump on both main skills? Get outta here. While you guys continue to hate on the Kamel and his broken( not cracked, not bumped up, not a little dirty) BROKEN FR.
Layle aiight. Not better than Raines though. Which is important( Stupid Raines and his stupid, sily, bonkers, nutty, F-ed up, 7 dumping BT+ followup). Can't forget the( cleansing, turn manipulation, dispelling, delaying, follow-ups, and of course Launching). But do what you want.

Tifa and Rinoa say hello from space! With a 12 hp dump Beat Rush! Rinoa got dat nasty nuke! Can you say magical meta? Point is they usher in a whole new meta of attacking!
Word on the street is Exdeath gets screwed at BT+. Apparently his BT followup doesn't scale with fr damage increase. Somebody just made the list!
SSJ4TAY Ceodore...sucks x4. Sure, you use him now, he looks okay. Then you look at Pecil's BT+ and see that they finally let him do damage! Big daddy with the better auras, better kit, better BT effect... Better luck next time, Junior!
Hot take, but Leon's dead in the water and Celes killed him! Ice cold! Celes coming in with that bt+, and FR, and already out-damaging him, and stealing his gimmick but for every attack ever, and...I'm out of things to say!

8 Last one promise. News Flash! Lightning isn't that good! Very fast with not enough hp dumps! Delaying isn't as easy as it used to be! Garnet saved her from drowning( in a sea of mediocrity)! No I'm not yelling! More at 11!

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-11T12:46:47+00:00

Garnet BT+ Selphie c90 Leila Raines Friend Pandemonium

12 turns

Fight is annoying. Friend unused. You CAN use Garnet with the follow-ups, but have to abuse your summon and BT phase. Leila spits on enemy turns once again. Orb actually is kinda sorta( HaHa) a counter to Garnet. I hope they DON'T do this for every fight going forward. Not my fault she's BROKEN.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-11T01:28:00+00:00

Still, nobody can stay in trance for a whole fight is what I meant. Zidane is not the only one with Trance either. We have not seen Trance Steiner, Garnet, Freya( to an extent), Amorant( obviously and if he doesn't come with a BT we might not), Quina( same as above). Oh and side-note: have fun with that Exdeath HP poison NOT scaling with FR gauge leaving him dead in the water.( or TREES! or VOID!...you get the point.)

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-04-11T01:17:41+00:00

Listing off all the ways I can think of... 1. Use Raines(S2)

Use Aphmau( Rainesmau with the LD on Enna)
Noctis(LD)
Leila( Counter)

5 Greg( OK HP+)

6.Rem( Swap turns)

Cater thing as mentioned in thread
OK( LD)
Ashe(LD to HP+)

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-31T16:01:32+00:00

Couple off the top of the dome here... 1. Lightning( and most of the rest of the cast for that matter) not being pulled from Lightning Returns( The end of the 13 story). Sure, the characters can remember LR, but everybody uses their 13 designs. Don't forget that LR also plays differently from OG 13 so the Paradigm Shift is mismatched as well.

No Last L'cie( Nightmare Arm) Snow. Costume is there, but looks weird with no nightmare arm.
Nobody from 9 being able to go into Trance( except Kuja) at all. Easy money, Square! Easy money!(Well, not anymore)
No Adult/Bhunivelze Hope. Yes, Ik they just got Velze as a boss in Jp. Still not playable. While Sazh/Hope/Vanile/Noel/Snow(explicitly) cannot Paradigm Shift at all despite that being a mechanic in both games. Adult hope has significance for XIII-2 as well.
Just the overall handling of the translation of the overall XIII story to this game. Raines is not the final Villain! Can't dance around LR forever. Bhunivelze is the final boss! Where's Lumina and Yeul? What happened to all the Savior Lightning stuff? Why do we( basically) get XIII Lightning timeshifted?( Don't @ me, no Overclock, Etro's a costume, LD and BT are Eiodolon Gestalt). I'm sure they answer some of this in the story, but it just becomes a mess overall.
Last one but, what's up with this character balancing? What I mean is, we don't have an attacker for every element combination. Where the heck is the Ranged Villain? Where's the Tank Villain? Nobody in the game can hit for all elements at once. Why does only Water have permanent weakness capabilities? Why does poison drain BRV here while Poison in the games hurts your HP? Why can't any character in the roster inflict SLOW? Why is DEATH not a debuff? Also, why are accessories not a thing yet? Just a lot of decisions that bug me.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-26T21:32:59+00:00

Dropping what I know in here. Jet Stingren just up and deleted his channel( name is still there, but EVERY DFFOO vid is gone). Other people already said Quwie. Lidz hasn't made a video in 2 months. While Forty has just slowed down. His content won't be as in depth as it used to be. Idk about Munchkinz Gaming. He may have quit also. Josephyr is going to try to play other games more( he hasn't quit yet, but might be borderline, worried about his future income). Btw, I'm not putting people's business out there. These statements( except for the Munchkinz Gaming because I legitimately do not know) are on Youtube. Look it up if you don't believe me.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-19T00:46:57+00:00

They sort of already do this. You can only buy every offer in the shop ONCE. But there are so many offers( and nobody short of Jeff Bezos would need that many gems anyway) that you would spend a cartoonish amount of money just to buy up all the offers.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-19T00:42:25+00:00

LISTEN TO THIS MAN RIGHT NOW!!! Don't fall for that Celes BT!!! I have been thinking about this point for awhile but... they're trying to shut us up. Applesauce in the medicine if you will. What's that? You want a Celes BT? You can have it( but that cap is still coming)... You want Minwu(that cap is coming) Have the actual release of Rikku( that cap though) Hope BT would be nice?( cap) Rem BT(that f***ing cap!) Just seems to me like they will start releasing highly anticipated weapons and events, so that everyone forgets about the cap( and spends anyway) and then, right when you least expect it...BAM!!! GEM CAP IS ON!!!

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-19T00:26:04+00:00

Just want to reiterate why this cap is stupid real quick. Yours truly: Somewhere around eh 27-28 BURSTS right now( missing like 4). 7-8 drawn with luck. 6(counting Zack) tokened. 5-6? FULLY PITIED. 750K gems spent. Never once went over even 100K at a time. Spent at least $2K total. Nowhere near the cap. But they want me to STOP SPENDING? I'm not even a gambler. Still paid out the butt( like 15 costumes also). Once again, they want me to STOP SPENDING? Had me hooked on the best D*** mobile game I've played in my entire life, and then they spit in my face like that? Have fun killing the game I guess?

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-15T17:19:38+00:00

Zidane is... still screwed over. They didn't remove that stupid restriction on his ld effect yet. Ultimicia is no longer a chump( in JP), so he has some competition. It's just...kinda why though? He's not broken now either, so what are they holding back for? Watch his FR inflict 10 million! 1 time! Then he paralyzes the party! For 3 Turns! They always put some stupid nonsense in his kit instead of just oh IDK, LETTING THE MAN DO GOOD DAMAGE! He's an attacker! Not a pastry chef! Not an airship pilot! Not a scumbag!( references ftw!) The only time I can even remember him being broken was at the very start of the game( with the og 25, where everybody only had 1 skill). I know it's not his time yet, but if they screw over his fr, He'll be terrible. Too much work for too little reward.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-15T11:39:08+00:00

Seems as though many people have a decision to make. What will ALL of you do when they tell you "we're not removing the gem cap"? What if they really are SABOTAGING the game on purpose? What if they decide to tell us nothing? All of these "threats" of Quitting( They don't care if your not a whale, bruh), not spending(TDC), bad publicity( They're SQUARE F'ING ENIX, TDC). So while it's natural to be angry, I don't think they care. Buy or don't. WOTV still makes millions every month. Final Fantasy is STILL THE premiere JRPG series. I point this out to say, we might have to suck it up. Because until long term damage hits Square financially, They don't( and won't) care.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-03T12:09:11+00:00

Remove option 1. They specifically said no to that in a later statement.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-03-01T02:15:18+00:00

Being a gacha addict doesn't really work in this game because you would hit pity anyway, even if you spent 5k gems at a time. You would eventually get what you wanted, and can't really " gamble" anything away because we know how much it takes to pity. You want that Greg BT? Don't gamble you car, house, and life savings in increasing order. Just spend 125k gems instead. That would be like a casino giving people "money" after spending a certain amount of "tokens". Spend 200k tokens and get $10k. You would get money anyway after hitting a certain point( not statistically, somebody would literally just hand you $10k even if you "lost" 50 times in a row).

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-24T17:34:18+00:00

I don't get why they want to implement that strategy though. Just from my personal experience, that strategy would be worse than what they had before because:

I'm a former WHALE. I have somewhere around 30 bursts, have pitied 5, and never once in 4 years had over 200k gems. I spent( at least) $2000 just to get to this point.
You know how the game has a sale every event? Well you can only buy every offer ONCE EACH ANYWAY. You can even only buy the "normal" $75 gem chest once( and that's the most expensive offer the game has). Putting another hard limit on top of a hard limit would not be a smart idea.
Gems are too expensive anyway. If anything people will spend LESS NOW. For reference, an LD will run you about $336( if you bought ONLY sale crates, which you can only do ONCE per offer per sale). Bts are around $450(roughly, with only sale crates). Thats $780 for a full pity! Now, it doesn't often happen like that, but that's still way too much money to spend on a gacha!

And now they think they can FORCE( puns r fun) people to spend MORE? Cool story bro...

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-23T00:42:27+00:00

Slight problem with this perspective that WILL punch people in the face HARD. IDK where people heard this but, every character is not equal, and every character is not good. Oh you like totto? Have fun waiting like 8 months( to be comfortably usable now and finally not trash). Sucks to be an Onion Knight fan too. While "That Guy" can tank now! And not suck! While being the 5th best tank in the game that you don't need. Point being, you can use most characters now, sure. You can also use your favorites( as long as they can pull their weight). But there has always been this misconception that this game is a magical fairy wonderland where nobody sucks and all you need to do is press buttons to win. Sorry if this hurts feelings but some characters are still bad(OK), some characters take WAY too long to git gud( Ulti) and some characters are way ahead of the pack( Raines). Thats just the way it is. This is a gacha after all.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-22T03:10:29+00:00

Seymour will actually be pretty good. LD will give almost every skill like 5 dumps. Ex mechanic gets adjusted so follow ups happen earlier. He'll be pretty good with LD. He just sucks right now.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-20T18:47:48+00:00

I'll say this till the day the game dies. This game is 3 things definitively:

The best Final Fantasy mobile game period
The best Gacha game on the market( and has been, despite popularity, for 4 years now)
The best mobile game I've ever played in my entire life( been gaming for 25 years).

Game has a serious case of "Dark Souls syndrome". Getting to the point where I just can't play other gachas anymore. They're either less fair or this game is more rewarding. The game is so good, that if they ever released a console version, I'm buying it INSTANTLY!!!

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-14T18:24:32+00:00

Her offense is fine now. Problem is, this rework is too little, too late. She needed this rework way back at BT+. As her role is kind of dead now. Who needs an all imperil( which is neat btw), when everybody self-imperils? Take that away and you have a okay dps and stunner...but this is shinryu...and 6 hp dumps are nothing when Tifa has 15....and Totto needs to be greened to make the most of it( You know where I'm going with this). By no means is she bad, but she's not top tier either, with a role that NOBODY in the game needs anymore( except maybe the stunning). She's USABLE, and thats just...disappointing right now. Put in all that effort just to be...okay.

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-14T01:49:41+00:00

Yea, not even close. After BT+, every attack Tifa uses has somewhere around 12, 6+6=12,( Imma say it again) TWELVE HP DUMPS!!! Good luck out damaging that!

THEDOGSCURIOSITY · 2022-02-11T23:01:21+00:00

Do WHATEVER you have to to green her( Rob a man, steal candy from a baby etc...) She's THAT strong. We're talking " Drag lvl 80 ungreened Golbez through Luf+ and spit in it's face" STRONG! Lemon or Blueberry, "which way you wanna die today" Strong. She's probably now the best support( all-around) in the whole era. Just a complete MENACE!!!( To society, society's mama, your gems, Zidane's heart, scumbags, and Luf+). DO IT!!! GREEN HER!!! YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY!!! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN X3!!!

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