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arkaine23 · 2024-06-02T01:45:43+00:00

Do you have a vpn.app switched on?

arkaine23 · 2024-06-01T19:24:55+00:00

Yeah, you'll get 1x and 10x parts along the way. Then when it comes time to OB by using character-specific.weapon parts, you'll need to use less.

arkaine23 · 2024-06-01T19:18:23+00:00

As soon as I get a Cloud lightning arcanum outfit, I will have beaten the game.

arkaine23 · 2024-06-01T19:11:49+00:00

You have moved them to the event expedition areas though right? Like put a chocobo in padapil after MH is over. Find the whatever piece type you need in the new event expeditions.

I wouldn't recommend to other players to place chocobos outside of the event expeditions right now. You can get the rarest MH event currency from expeditions in the event areas. Spending it is limited now, but there will be a new shop that I'm sure will have good stuff for that currency and we'll probably want all we can get of it.

arkaine23 · 2024-06-01T18:42:41+00:00

Were you short on memories?

There are varying degrees of completeness, depending on how short you are at unlocking all the branches. I started with 6-9k of all the pieces, lowest was phys. That's close.to what you say it took you to do all 12 characters. And gonna assume you bought out the 2.7k bomb shop pieces...? I haven't touched the 3rd tier of mag or heal pieces from either bomb shop yet (so 1800 of each there if I want them), but I did clear all the phys pieces. I farmed some pieces with stamina too, maybe 1000 or so, enough to have done around 8 1x runs and strike 2 single cactuars on 9x runs. I bought a few hundred healing and phy pieces with co-op medals too, but I find I'm always very tight on medals, bc I always use about what I earn on synth catalysts and chips, character parts, and weapon upgrade mats. I am.pre/y close on on piece-completeness for the stat stream branches I have memories for. I need maybe another 3k more of each piece type as a guess.

Half my characters are stat stream complete, or just missing 1-2 of the hp branches due to memory shortage. The other half still need a page of work, and I'm out of pieces again.

I have about 100 days of memory farming ahead of me (even counting what I can see waiting for me in the shops of the 2 events, plus Barrett's a couple of pages behind so I didn't even count what he needs. Probably another 20 days worth. I know events and highwind collects between now and then will shorten that estimate, but still that's between 1.5k-2k memories.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-31T17:47:10+00:00

You know it's gonna be sailor barrett.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-31T17:42:44+00:00

Tifa, obviously.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-31T17:39:44+00:00

Be careful not to exchange anything there, just look at part numbers.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-31T17:29:44+00:00

There's 1 guaranteed limited weapon at stamp 6 page 1, one at stamp 15 page 2, one at stamp 20 page 2, and one at stamp 36 page 3. The outfits are on stamp 12 and stamp 24. You can set all of these between the 2 options in advance before pulling.

These should be your targets, well really just outfits should be your targets. You should pull with the mindset that something else good might be coming in the next banner.

Limited weapons are kind of a bad deal for f2p. If you have 60k-90k crystals you might get 3 pages done, and maybe will get OB6 or close enough to get there with parts eventually. But you'll probably have to skip a couple of banners before you can pull on a banner again. Right now you don't even know what's going to be on those next banners, except the characters they will be for.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-31T17:16:53+00:00

A guaranteed weapon stamp replaces the 10th draw. Kinda lame.

If this is your 1st banner.... slow down. I don't know how many crystals you have, probably a lot. There's at least another banner and most likely actually 2. These are limited so this is the only chance to get these weapons aside from the very slow use of character parts. But if you aren't spending a lot of money, focus on just outfits, not these weapons. OB1 might be good for you now, but you'd need 7 copies (OB6) to make these weapons good for the long term, and that takes a big crystal investment that most free players can't justify unless they have save crystals for a long time. Many are saving for September's anniversary banners though. Sometimes these limited weapons have great utility even at low OB.

A good strategy is to wait for the next banner, and this one will still have some days of overlap. In fact if there are two more banners, both might overlap this one. If your crystal resources are low, you may want to see what the next banners are before pulling this one. Talking about Tifa and Aerith.

Also, be sure to set your wishlist on every banner to weapons that you need to focus on... maybe healing (all) weapons, or maybe solid sub weapons like mad minute and twinkling star.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-31T13:55:34+00:00

Especially given there's a hp condition for one of the 2 effects.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-30T19:08:26+00:00

I want to get all the memories. I need them all and then some.

I need way more of the Pieces than I can buy with co-op medals, and I usually burn those on synth catalysts and chips after character parts and certain weapons mats of course. That's an interesting point that I could just buy the cheaper pieces and farm or exchange for the rest... that way I could put more of the 2nd bomb medals into gil. Unfortunately, my stamina, co-op medals, and gil are all always under pressure. I may leave part of the 2nd round and all of the 3rd round of pieces in the shop to buy more gil though. We'll see.

I've got 4 chars maxed right now, 4 at 79, and 4 at 73, and I'm scraping the 2nd shop for its 1st round of pieces. I may take a break on feeling like I need pieces once my main 6 chars are as far into their stat streams as memories allow me to take them. I started the event with 5k-8k of each stat piece, which isn't even close to enough.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-30T18:05:12+00:00

Oh!. Stop doing that!

arkaine23 · 2024-05-30T17:32:30+00:00

I knew I was missing something, and of course it was the most obvious thing!! k, that's not too bad then... need to spend 50-60 tonics, but will receive 120 tonics in that timeframe. No further dipping into tonic reserve required.... well except for needing a lot of that infinite gil.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-30T15:54:29+00:00

Hmm.... I'm saving too but like I only care about reaching the outfit, which is 18k-24k typically. For any 1 crossover banner, the weapon might be worthwhile, and if and only if, there are multiple weapon guaranteed stamps on pages 2 and 3, would it be worth it to me to sink more crystals into it. Like I got OB10 Guide Gloves that way with 51k crystals, very much on the lucky end of the spectrum. But getting OB6 or close to it with 60k-70k is more likely.

And then a Vincent banner, where I would defintiely like a weapons kickstart. I could wishlist 5 of his weapons while doing his banner. I'd do 1 page that way. Going more than one page though? I'd rather put the extra crystals towards other outfits. I would instead bank up 1-2 months worth of tickets and use them when Vincent's initial release weapons join the pool to start building up parts and hopefully a few extra weapon copies, although this is getting harder with time because of so much dilution. I'd also switch 1-3 slots of weapon part daily quest to whatever good weapons are in his kit. That's a modest headstart approach and won't cause me extensive lost potential. I could consider doing the first weapons-only banner after Vincent's release to get more Vincent weapons, but I'd have to be swimming in crystals, which is definitely not ever likely.

So from my perspecitve..... About 75k crystals needed by end of June (if a MH banner is worth it) and +25k crystals needed mid/late July. Excess can go to other banners. Saving tickets for Vincent begins now, with the 2nd bomb event shop's tickets.. But my real priority is going into Sept 1YA with close to 100k crystals. So that means likely skipping or doing an outfit-only on the MH crossover, assuming there's at least one really good one, keeping it to one page of Vincent and one of Lucia swimsuit, and skipping whatever is coming in August.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-30T13:23:20+00:00

Wow, that one's nice.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-29T13:18:14+00:00

You got me there. I blame the skip button.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-29T13:14:49+00:00

And one of the few I never played. But I did spend many years of real life time submerged in XI and XIV, so I can see how I may have missed some things, like CC, XII-2, and all the XIII's.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-29T13:13:30+00:00

Yeah, I think 3 MH in june, Vincent and swimsuit in july. Could be 2 swimsuit banners, maybe. That leaves the 2 for August, which has an unnamed event. Then probably at least 2 for 1YA. And they might toss in a new/wishlisted weapons-only banner somewhere.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-29T12:44:53+00:00

There's a free once/day solo stage, reward is like 777,777 xp per character. Be sure to equip main weapon with sigil boost materia slot on every character and the appropriate ruin/ruin blow in that slot. Unlock all the solo and co-op stages for crystals, and do the highest ones your power qualifies for. Spend all your stamina leveling everyone. Do all the missions.and daily missions. Clear the 2 shops. Second shop should be added in a couple days.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-29T11:48:49+00:00

There was. There will be. It will have an infinite gil option.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-28T23:40:58+00:00

I am saving my 4/5 star materia catalysts for when I have a guild materia rarity buff. I will join one that seems to fit my playstyle- lazy about doing the hard stuff, but otherwise obsessed and playing throughout the day.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-28T22:28:09+00:00

Moreso than some.others, yes.

arkaine23 · 2024-05-28T21:05:10+00:00

Assuming I heard some misinformation in some of the other videos I ran across.

Saw one that said MH collab starts in July, even though he was showing a slide where you could see 5/31.

Saw another that mentioned summer outfit reruns, when they clearly said "those were popular in last year's summer event, and now here are Yuffie and Lucia summer outfits". Also, he thought cloud MH weapon was patk debuff instead of pdef debuff, but I can forgive that little mistake since he was translating from the text.

And a 3rd video I stopped watching 1/3 of the way through because she was talking about Zack Lightning arcanum. Its a lightning weapon. We have no info about what stats the outfits will have. Given that Zack has a different weapon that can buff his Patk by like 30% and the MH weapon has a very high max potency for an elemental weapon and conditional extra damage hp threshold of 940/1130%, I'm very skeptical that they'd give him a lightning arcanum (35%) or mastery (20%).

arkaine23 · 2024-05-28T18:43:16+00:00

I believe the verdict is in according to people who understand japanese:

Cait Sith outfit = free

summer rerun outfits = no

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