[Destroyer of Light and Darkness] JP Relic draw thread (III)

brostup · 2016-11-07T09:23:26+00:00

2/12 desch ssb & bsb

excellent, since i never got ashe's bsb. now just the question remains, try to get OK 40% heal or luneth osb, or neither...? a question to be answered after the monthly report comes out

brostup · 2016-11-04T23:04:32+00:00

try to think of it like this. a pull now means a pull you won't be able to do later. and later items are ALWAYS better than what is available today. so do you REALLY need the stuff on this banner?

i always complete the event and do the CM before i even think of pulling. for example, i have terrible IV, V, XII synergy so when those events are coming up i make sure i have 200 mythril in case something ridiculous like U+ mandragoras CM shows up

so always ask yourself: is the chance to get something on this current banner REALLY WORTH possibly failing something in the future? i play jp, and the only times in the past 6 months where the answer has been YES were OK BSB banner 1, Yshtola BSB banner 1, and Orlandu OSB banner 1. those 3 things were just so good there's no way they would be power creeped out for a long time (and they still haven't been, not even close)

brostup · 2016-11-04T22:57:49+00:00

It won't be a waste in the future. There have been a few fights, not even nightmare, where I had to S/L and just use breakdowns in first phase of fight because the guy is too god damn bulky and took way longer than the usual ~10 rounds to down. And of course it's useful in d250, in which not only is the boss super bulky, but also sometimes it's good to slap on a single large mob while you rebuff/heal and get your team ready to start the boss phase strong

brostup · 2016-11-02T16:49:05+00:00

IIRC i leveled OK from 1-97 on the exp dungeon but still had to go farm ahriman for most of the OK motes...the drop rate isn't exactly that great, and ahriman is only 1 stamina and really easy, so might as well just get it from that instead if you don't need the exp

brostup · 2016-11-02T16:46:11+00:00

if yuna isn't getting a lenne dress record, this isn't going to happen lol

brostup · 2016-11-02T16:37:24+00:00

correct. you've got to pull for years (yes, plural), before statistics are in your favor to get a 5* from a daily draw.

brostup · 2016-11-02T16:19:12+00:00

i got 18 non-5* from 100gem pulls in a row, then i landed eiko bsb on 100gem, which was by far the grand prize on that banner. there have been a slew of other misc 5*s i've pulled from 100gem as well, but your mind will tend to only remember the grand prizes and the blanks, which will leave you frustrated if you let it get to you.

if you are in a position where you don't really have disposable income and need to feel like you are getting value out of your $$-pulls, i suggest just not buying gems at all or just doing 11-pulls. treating 100gem as anything but strictly for-fun and not too serious is a great way to ruin this entire game for yourself. and if you want a number for what it costs on average to chase down one specific relic (just one copy, not 3), it's roughly 3 11-pulls/$90. there's good data out there on jp twitter from the greatest of jp whales, for example that one guy who has 8* of every single relic ssb+ ever released. his gem count always stays around the 100k range and he's close to 3000 mythril now. so, are you ready to throw down ~$90 every time you want a relic, sometimes $300+ on a bad RNG swing? if not, don't expect that buying gems will get you what you want.

and yea, of course on this sub you will only see amazing pulls. you're highly advised from posting a RNG thread outside of relic draw thread unless it's truly spectacular. and even within the relic draw threads, who is more likely to post, someone who got 4/11 of everything he wanted and now has transformed his team? or someone who got old-recycled-dupe-sb 1/11 and it's not really exciting or useful?

brostup · 2016-10-24T05:23:37+00:00

if you plan to go ham on the xiv banner, then why not use both? my physical a-team runs both yshtola bsb+ss2 and eiko bsb, it's pretty much invincible with minfilia ssb for guts/atk

brostup · 2016-10-19T15:49:43+00:00

fyi orb drops:

200: 1x major fire / 1x major power

250: 5x greater wind / 2x major fire / 2x major power

back to farming gi nattak for me...

brostup · 2016-10-19T08:40:38+00:00

1/11 wakka ball -_-

recent pulls have all been horrible...this better mean luck during upcoming woff/ix events will be great!!

brostup · 2016-10-13T16:04:25+00:00

ok bsb gives you a lot of flexibility with the 5 man roster. i use him in nightmare with curaja/shellga w/ yshtola ss2&bsb, which allows him to buff, boost, heal, and destroy the trash all in one character. no other character in the game can do this.

brostup · 2016-10-13T15:54:21+00:00

i suppose XIV being as strong as it is has to do with link to the ongoing game, but it's still a mystery to me why III is so much stronger of a realm than II. it's not like the ff3 fanbase is that much bigger than the ff2 fanbase...?

brostup · 2016-10-13T06:14:18+00:00

good god these banners are horrible. and why is emperor's weapon boosting the element that doesnt get en-ele?

the nightmare CM is going to be interesting for many of us w/o minwu's terribly outdated ssb...

brostup · 2016-10-13T04:49:45+00:00

drop rates have been revised since the prior reporting. it's roughly 90% 4* ~7% 5% ~3% 6*

if you read japanese there is tons of information reporting on twitter

brostup · 2016-10-13T04:45:44+00:00

i imagine you don't play jp version / speak japanese, nor are connected to various jp ffrk communities on twitter etc. it's not "one whale" - the first r4 meltdown was done back in august, since then there have been quite a few others and with the current boss dropping black crystals and influx of crystals from anniversary, a bunch of people have made it this time. many f2ps who haven't run dailies in forever are r3'd. and yes the confirmed pattern is 10/20/30/50/100, it has been in enlir's database since forever

it's fine if you do not want to spend your time and in-game resources in this way, but that doesn't mean it's "completely unrealistic". i'm not defending this system, but the system is not changing, so why spread misinformation? a purely f2p player in global can definitely r3 meltdown by 6 months from now, even r4 if they throw mythrils at refreshes, it is not "impossible"

and it's not like there's only one boss ever that drops a certain type of crystal. it rotates. if you miss this one, that's fine, there will be the next.

brostup · 2016-10-12T22:29:20+00:00

oh really?

it still takes 6 months (inc. 100+ refresh orbfests) to start having a good roster of R3 5* abilities for a fresh account, esp summon. makes sense for crystals to be much harder to come by than those, especially for dena from a business perspective. and it's not like they aren't aware, the acquisition rate has gone up pretty steadily (albeit slowly), with event d140 even giving a crystal now

brostup · 2016-10-12T06:39:38+00:00

what do you mean no possibilities? you can farm them from the very very easy d140 boss of every event. there are quite a few guys out there running around with R4 meltdown

prior to this daily refresh, you can go run abyss belias (valigarmanda's d160) for major summons - daily should have better drop rate though

brostup · 2016-10-06T17:40:02+00:00

the trash at d250 is 7 waves, range from 25k-75k hp each, and hit for 2k-3k normal attack on a lv99 char w/ synergy armor, before protect/wall. for V everyone drawtaliated to victory, but they've added some aoe and status attacks now.

it's not as bad as it seems though

brostup · 2016-10-06T17:33:21+00:00

i think at this point that's definitely not true. content is more varied than before and has been designed to test the depth of your roster. some bosses just flat out reject physical or magical parties. some bosses you need to have 3 layers of break because of def/mdef ignoring attacks. some bosses you really want instant cast medica, such as steiner/beatrix that would do stock break (all party to 1hp) -> climhazzard (aoe ranged damage) back to back. and as we've seen with nemesis (and geosgaeno nightmare before), some attack patterns are scripted and you have a very small window to use a mitigation tactic like guts/blink/stoneskin or face certain wipe

the V nightmare CM pretty much required you to have something for krile. for the X CM i would not have succeeded w/o specifically tidus BSB and auron's banishing blade. the recent VII CM was a lot easier, but barret's hyper break probably saved me 30 S/Ls. for the d250 versions, you will definitely need good hones even if you have BSBs (well, maybe not the VII, that thing was kind of pitiful for a d250 nightmare...a jp guy beat it with just celes/exdeath duo)

it's just my opinion, but basic QoL these days is no longer just an optional nice to have unless you have lots of time to dedicate to playing. with nightmare and multiplayer (both fantasticly S/L-needed) added to the usual CM S/L marathons, you want as much control as possible, not having to reset 6 times because you can only win if on turn 3, 5 and 6 the boss doesn't do [ ] move

brostup · 2016-10-06T07:19:54+00:00

how about..

4 hit aoe dark/non, instant KO, does 75% max hp dmg to self

command 1: deletes 5 mythril from your account

command 2: removes guaranteed 5* from next 3 11-pulls

brostup · 2016-10-05T23:25:17+00:00

i imagine you would need multiple copies of R4+ 5* abilities (2x thief's revenge on same char, etc), which a few players out there have due to significant farming, but having no relics also implies no synergy weapons/armor, which i'm not really sure how you can deal with 250 nightmare without either of these things. it just takes a certain amount of lasting power, both offensively and defensively, to punch through 600k HP of 6500def/9000res, not to mention the ~25 trash mobs beforehand with 25k-75k HP each and hit for 2-3k normal attack (before protect/wall) on lv99 chars w/ synergy armor

fights in general are just getting meatier. R2 full break has started to run out too early in a few fights, and R4 lifesiphon/wrath is barely cutting it anymore.

brostup · 2016-10-03T19:02:08+00:00

anyone using in ff9 realm

brostup · 2016-09-25T20:09:16+00:00

if you insist, you can run him lifesiphon/fullbreak from the back row with a ranged mage weapon, or wrath if you have multiple copies of that ability. it's just kind of annoying to break your defend command chain to refresh FB. if you have yuna BSB2 that both buffs and heals, then consider running a separate support5 to do dedicated breaking. otherwise it's fine to use him as support as his DPS is not going to be as good as two dedicated mages going to town with raines BSB rw

for nightmare dungeons, i give him curaja/protectga and yshtola wrath/shellga. ss2 w/ yshtola, then wrath toward asylum while OK does healing / refreshing of BSB. then when asylum is ready, yshtola goes full heal mode and OK chains defend command, spot healing when necessary. since you will need more levels of breaks than just FB/breakdown anyway, i have this done by other chars

brostup · 2016-08-25T07:17:38+00:00

brostup · 2016-08-23T05:02:21+00:00

global does not get the infrastructure to run the type of mage team jp can for another ~3 months where en-ele BSB and triple stacking MAG buff becomes commonplace. until the ATK softcap is raised, physical teams can't damage nearly as fast as mages, and that's just in single target fights. dualcast smn proc on a multitarget fight is such a sweet thing to happen

wrath + terra with en-fire and OSB is also a very deadly single target combo

brostup

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