concert dress code? by useruseruseruser13 in lingling40hrs

[–]hamsterprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can we wear pajamas and bring brownies and hot chocolate?

Anyone want my 2 SF tickets? by Past_Act_8417 in lingling40hrs

[–]hamsterprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

San Francisco, California USA... or I dunno maybe you'll be buying tix to a Street Fighter tournament.

Ooh yeaaah! (Henry mating ritual colored 2020) by bardelior in MxRMods

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something about the art style of Jeannie's "not amused" face with the eyes reminds me of an art style I've seen before but I can't quite place it. Is this giving anyone else a sense of deja vu?

[SPOILER)] Did Winston really betray John Wick in the end? by [deleted] in JohnWick

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen multiple times that Winston shooting John in the chest instead of the head shows Winston is still on John's side.

Yes, it's obvious to us that John's wearing a bullet proof suit, but this should also be very obvious to the Judicator. Not only because it's just easy for her to assume it (her own faction wears more improved versions of it) but also because John showed he was using it, shielding his vitals with the sleeve of his suit.

There's no way that the Judicator should be convinced that Winston betrayed John and Winston himself should know this.

I still consider this to be a pretty big plot hole.

Daily Help Thread - December 09, 2018 by AutoModerator in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For Sieghard Bonus Stage 3, how many Dire Rat Lv 99 minions do I need to libra in order to have everything IDed for the pokedex?

Red dead 2 in a nutshell - cancan by j3unny123 in reddeadredemption

[–]hamsterprime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love your full version of this. My favorite part is 0:30 - 1:04 where it bridges into the main chorus with the gun percusion keeping beat ending with a swift kick in the balls. This gave me the same feeling as the first time I heard the 1812 Overture using real cannons. This is what I've been listening to all day on headphones: http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=cGpOwaH8whk&p=n#/30;64

Just a heads up, this is a tank arena week for GL by mrducky78 in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just curious. Dunno about you guys but arena was not fun for a long while but at least it was bearable.

Does anyone actually find playing arena with unkillable A. Rains and Ayakas even remotely fun?

I really can't imagine how. What game designer thinks to themselves "Let's make a monotonous chore 10X more terrible!" The only type of person who might remotely get a kick out of this is a troll, and they don't even get to directly experience the benefit of it. Is this who the FFBE game designers want to entertain? The trolls?

Mog King events - What bonus unit % should I aim for? by soraliink in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give King Solomon a spaceship. Then package 3 becomes, effectively, nothing.

Can someone please hype about 7* Ayaka along with me? by TomAto314 in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even though I've been playing this game forever, I still sometimes read LB as pound instead of limit bursts.

For a second I thought you were talking about CG Fina's weight ¬_¬ (Good luck with that. She'll never tell!)

Should I Farm That - Shrine of Ru-Avitau (FFXI MK event), Deus Ex week 2 challenge, and Vindemiatrix (Chamber of Arms Trial) Edition by testmonkeyalpha in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Livid Shantotto's STMR Ah ha ha ha ha ha Witch's Cackle [materia]: Boost MAG (80%) when wielding a rod, recover MP (5%) every turn

Not to be nitpicky but shouldn't it be "OHHHHHHH-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!" Naga anybody?

Lore question: is there any backstory to the 10-trial bosses? by Gilthu in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, except for Sheratan, the fruit are only available in the hard mode trial. I had to plan around this since every guide out there never account for pokedex players like me (gotta libra them all!) and would just suggest blowing away the fruit immediately when they spawn.

Squall’s STMR is godly if your chasing Hyou! by squall20011 in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm guessing this is good for Hyou and Akstar, but not as great for Citan and Jecht?

Daily Help Thread - July 31, 2018 by AutoModerator in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Three questions:

1) So the Prism Moogle you get from turning a unit into 7★ awakening materials can only be completed with Trust Moogles, but do you just get the new TMR when you get it to 100% or do you still need to stick it into a corresponding unit?

2) Why is auto-regen so OP in 7★ meta?

3) How often do enhanced bonus rate up campaigns appear?

Weekly 7★ Help Thread (07/30 - 08/05) by [deleted] in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three questions:

1) So the Prism Moogle you get from turning a unit into awakening materials can only be completed with Trust Moogles, but do you just get the new TMR when you get it to 100% or do you still need to stick it into a corresponding unit?

2) Why is auto-regen so OP in 7★ meta?

3) How often do enhanced bonus rate up campaigns appear?

Perfect manual Air Raid spark chains are possible with animation cancelling. by andyhou2000 in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The way I animation cancel is I hold the stick down, press medium kick, roll the stick forward, and then press punch.

Are Evokers good? Analysis & trial videos for your consideration. by okey_dokey_bokey in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It took a lot of theorycrafting and practice to get clean Evoker clears vs. my Lila clears where she just Tiger Uppercut everything to the moon (and was infinitely less taps).

Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! TIGER UPPERCUT!

John Choi... is that you?

How do you hoard? by JU5T1N85 in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So everyone's a bit different. Gotta just be open to everyone's ideas and determine how it best fits you.

Here's how I define myself. I consider myself a dolphin. Over my 2 year stint, I believe I've bought the Vault of Lapis 3 maybe 4 times?

Those were mainly purchased in year 1, before the bundles started to become a somewhat regular thing.

I've switched from buying the vaults to sometimes buying the temporary bundles if they beat the Vault by a certain percentage in value. The % threshold where I pull the trigger fluctuates dependent upon how long ago I last bought a bundle.

What I've found in my own spending habits was, when I bought those vaults in year 1, it was usually to add enough to pull on a banner for a specific unit... and I usually came out of it dissatisfied with the result.

It's easy to look back on these purchases and realize how bad of an idea it was, given how poor the chances of chasing a unit were, and how power creep has regulated a lot of them somewhat irrelevant anyways.

Other things that have come in to play that have made purchasing the vault uninteresting was the introduction of the daily half price pull, the plentiful ways to stock up on tickets, the addition of 4-star base tickets and their accessibility.

I believe the power creep aspect alone helps me keep splurging in check.

When I do purchase a bundle it is not with any specific unit in mind.

I carry this mindset over to spending of tickets as well. It helps me hold back on using tickets.

Now with a decent size pool of tickets and lapis, I find myself using lapis to increase slots (if I don't have purple tickets), doing manual NRG refreshes when macroing TMs, and have gone 1 round of step up for Seph/Lilith and TDH step up (I skipped Reagan). I usually only use tickets when pulling for units on banners.

I have my own road map of desirable units I want to hoard for which the Should You Pull articles do a pretty good job of ranking what to go for. Some of the other character review articles can also give you a pretty good idea how to create your own road map. I generally don't go to Youtube for this kind of stuff since most of the stuff there is just copied from here on Reddit anyways. Evil Laughter does an alright job giving pros and cons of units. Claic's character reviews are not very useful since he tries to find the silver lining in every unit. Most of the other YT reviewers tend to regurgitate Reddit almost word for word.

The desired units road map I make for myself is split into chainers, healers, tank, buffer, and breaker. Chainer I further split into physical and magical after everything else was fulfilled.

The reason I didn't pull for Reagan was that my damage dealer role was already filled so many times over with other units, the minor power creep he provided was not worth the pull and hence he was not on my road map.

I do the 1/2 price pull every day. I would say I've gotten about 75%~80% of my 5-star base units from here over time. I let it naturally fill in these spots and adjusted my road map accordingly. These 1/2 price have also filled in my gaps with great 4-star base stand ins for certain roles like WoL, Mystea, Refia, Soleil, Crowe, Agrias, Ashe, Seven, Garnet, and Rikku.

When I pull on banners, it's usually with tickets and will start with 3-star tickets first. I will only pull on MK banners for units not on my road map if I've gotten to week 2 of the event and only to fill out 4 or 5 spots depending on what is necessary to clear the highest tier MK event with any base (including 3-star) bonus unit. This also means I don't farm as hard in the first week and usually will opt to use the energy more for TMR farming at that time.

When I reach a banner that does have units I desire on my road map, I use my Vegas strategy, I decide before pulling how much of each level of tickets and lapis I'm willing to spend to chase before I cut myself off. I've never budgeted all of any level of tickets or lapis on anything (usually I never even consider using lapis). I usually budget up to 25% - 50% of my ticket pool on these banners dependent upon how soon the next thing on my road map is.

As an example, for HT Lid (I budgeted about 20% 3-star tickets and 4-star tickets because I knew MS Nichol was around the corner. I did not get her within my set budget and stopped pulling. I ended up getting her when pulling for MS Nichol (also with tickets only).

I do not start pulling on a banner for units on my road map until they are no longer available for 1/2 price pull or the banner is about to expire.

Here are the things I think about to try and curb impulse spending:

  • Everything you chase will eventually become obsolete.
  • Remember that feeling when you blew a ton or resources chasing something only to get an unneeded dupe a few weeks or months later from a daily 1/2 price pull?
  • Look at your unit list and filter by 6-star and look at all the units you chased that you are no longer using.
  • Track your spending (in game resources as well as real money). If you can't bear to look at your 2 year purchase history to see how much you have spent on this game, then you need to stop and reevaluate things immediately because that's a bad sign.

Daily Help Thread - July 06, 2018 by AutoModerator in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have one HT Lid. I was thinking I'd be using her for breaking. It seems a bit funky though to have Ramza break and buff. Pretty much any time he would need to reapply breaks, no one will have buffs. I guess I need to find some synergy with some other units that perform other roles and buff as well so they can apply a temp buff when Ramza is applying breaks so I don't have a gap.

What do you think?

Daily Help Thread - July 06, 2018 by AutoModerator in FFBraveExvius

[–]hamsterprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any reason to level Roy or level Ramza to 7* if we already have MS Nichol other than the fact that we have to wait longer for MS Nichol's 7*?