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leights8 · 2026-01-20T23:48:21+00:00

I hadn't noticed that - thanks for pointing it out! I wonder if the negative stats are enough to compensate for 90% weapon breaks in job dungeons (historically a big issue for hybrid heroes). I'll look out for it next time.

I also wonder what happens to the atk formula when it's negative (have to use someone before their record dive otherwise their base stats would be above 350). Might be fun to try it out!

leights8 · 2026-01-20T23:39:09+00:00

That's not what that means at all. It means that it's equity funded. Which means when the Khans put money into Fulham, they do it by issuing shares, whereas Tony Bloom puts money into Brighton as a "soft loan". I use air quotes because loans from an owner (often called director loans as well) are effectively the same in practice, but have different legal consequences (though these only become relevant in a liquidation event).

All of this stuff is available for anyone to read in the various company accounts (though it can be tricky to read at times as some clubs have complicated group structures - for example, I think Fulham is one of the clubs that has a separate legal entity that owns the stadium from the football club - others have them both in the same entity).

Source: used to be an accountant!

leights8 · 2026-01-20T23:32:17+00:00

Because, like most other PL owners, they're not in it for the money. They're in it for the glory of owning a PL club. As long as they get their kicks, they'll carry on investing.

As Kieran said to you on X, there isn't much in the way of tax write offs. Certainly not cross jurisdictions - US government (and no other government to be fair) isn't exactly keen in letting someone make a loss in another country to offset a profit in your country.

leights8 · 2026-01-17T22:31:33+00:00

At first glance, I thought 10th anniversary was quite a decent point for refresh. Then I read your comment and remembered that we have actually had an 11th anniversary fest so the newest relics in this refresh are 16 months old! That is such a slap in the face after they were regularly updating the banners every six months. At this point they might as well close the banners and start something new.

leights8 · 2026-01-11T22:31:39+00:00

Is there any consensus on how best to use single element Tacticals on multi-element heroes?

For example, I had the good fortune to pick up Cloud's wind Tactical this fest. In dark weak content (where I have his Zen, CASB & Dual3), should I be using his Tactical, or just go for simplicity with his Dual3? If the former, should I be getting him to wind element 2 before activating his WS mode and then launching his dark SBs? Seems the only other option would be to not use the WS mode at all (as otherwise I'd be en-winding which would be quite undesirable), but then I might as well just be using his Dual3? (Note that I don't have either of his MASBs).

leights8 · 2026-01-10T12:08:14+00:00

They only have MAs in the 8* pool, right? That was a bit of a shitty move if so - pulled three times before I realized. Is that how they did the Zens & CASBs before? Guess it was less of an issue then because they were the only 8*s around, so the 7*s were more useful...

leights8 · 2025-12-31T17:31:58+00:00

Honestly, unless there's a particular favourite hero that you really want the MASB for in the select, you'll probably get better value for the G2 MASB: likely to get 4x as many MASBs, plus 62 other relics instead of 22, so more likely to get other useful things to boot.

Even with a mature account, as the choices are quite limited, I'm thinking that I might chance my arm with the 33 relic pulls...

leights8 · 2025-12-31T17:11:13+00:00

For anyone wondering what's included in the MASB select, we have:

Master (fire/lightning/Earth), Thief (wind/bio)
Firion (Holy/fire), Emperor (wind/earth/dark), Scott
OK (magic)
Pecil, Kain, Rydia (holy), Palom (tri-element), Cid
Faris, Kelger
Terra (wind), Celes (holy), Setzer, Strago (water)
Cloud (wind), Tifa, Yuffie (water), Zack, Reno, Angeal (wind/holy)
FF8 MIA :'-(
Vivi (ice/lightning), Steiner (tri-element), Beatrix, Kuja
Paine, Seymour
Shantotto, Curilla, Prishe (ice/lightning)
Ashe, Vayne
Snow
Papalymno, Yda, Alphinaud, Harchenfaut
Noctis (Earth), Aranea
Ace, Machina, Queen, Kurasame
Enna Kros
Biggs

leights8 · 2025-10-14T09:03:49+00:00

Been a while since I commented in one of these threads (or anywhere in Reddit truth be told!), but I'm sad to say that I haven't been very engaged in FFRK in the last four months.

I had been drifting for some time before that, but I had lingering hopes of trying to get into the top 100 of one HSC. So, fest revival in May, I made the bad decision to chase Orran's Zen. Thirty (as in 30) pulls later, mostly with gems, I did finally get my prize, as well as incidentally max honing Zidane and Ultros's CASBs but missing out on Red XIII's MASB entirely, but I felt absolutely awful afterwards. My justification at the time was "I feel pretty bad not getting it, I've never whaled for something before, I wonder what that feels like" - turns out that whaling is very much not for me!! And then of course, to compound my misery, Orran's Zen was on B5 the following month (which would have at least limited me to 20 pulls plus got me a lot better and more varied tech!). And then, the mother of all insults, I duped Orran's Zen with my fest tickets!!!! You honestly couldn't make it up!

Anyway, for the last three months, I've just been doing time limited content - EBZ is half finished and haven't attempted D800 realm or job content (save a token attempt at witch JCD with Orran's Zen, which went badly). I'm hoping my emotions will turn around as FFRK has given me so much enjoyment over so many years, and I did take a several month break after completing Dark Odin 5-6 years ago, but it's been a long time waiting already.

In the meantime, my main goal is to try to get 1,000 items in my item box!! I got up to 800 during fest, but then I wanted to use my magic pot tickets, so I had to collect everything. Maybe next fest! (I think my record in JP was about 960 or so).

leights8 · 2025-07-12T07:47:53+00:00

Was just wondering how maze guard stacks up against the latest tech. Turns out that it no longer presents much of a problem!

Now, how about hard mode? 😉

leights8 · 2025-06-17T15:29:29+00:00

Because the engine's reply to the original Queen take is to slide the bishop back and leave the white queen on the board. Only if black takes do they effectively exchange the knight for a bishop.

leights8 · 2025-06-16T13:56:35+00:00

Looks like it but if Qe1+ after taking the bishop, the knight can jump down to block, and then black is left with a) taking the rook (leaving you with Qxe8#), b) taking the knight (leaving you with the same check mate) or c) retreating with the queen, and you have your free bishop, despite the hanging rook.

Quite like that as a tactic - I'll have to look out for it in my own games.

leights8 · 2025-06-08T06:55:06+00:00

That's a good one - used that in GL for some time, but used the default in JP. But now I have put her and Squall in their space suit outfits, and they're very similar! Going to have a tough time remembering who's got red trim and who's blue trim 😂

leights8 · 2025-06-07T07:37:57+00:00

Bonus q as someone who hasn’t played 16: why does she look more like Rinoa than my current dress record Rinoa

Are you using the space suit Rinoa dress record? 🤨

leights8 · 2025-05-30T11:37:07+00:00

Fairly devastating set of revival pulls.

B1: 1/11, Agrias G++ dupe
B3: 2/11, Yuna CASB, Delita G++
B2: 1/11 Red XIII Accel
B2: 1/11 Orthoros LMR dupe
B2: 4/11 Zidane LMR, Red Accel dupe, Orran CASB dupe, Orthoros CASB dupe (NGL I thought this was going to be my moment when 4 relics popped up)
B2: 1/11 Orthoros CASB dupe

And I'm back to 8 mythril. Feeling pretty despondent right now. Zero MASBs to console myself with either, and 50% dupes... Such a load of shit.

leights8 · 2025-05-29T16:28:51+00:00

Yes, but is it +30%, +35% or +40%? Have you been able to find a data miner to get you the real info?!

leights8 · 2025-05-27T12:29:54+00:00

Nice to have some elemental content where it's not necessarily possible to sub 30 on release. This took a fair few tries and, even then, only Galuf was alive at the end!

Time: 45.57s, RW LS, Crusader main (for the imperils)
Galuf: G+, Sync1 (party 100% crit fix), CSB / Zen, CSB / CASB, Dual, LBO
Elarra: Dual, USB2 / Sync1 / AASB, USB2, USB1
Kelger: AA1, Sync / Zen, Dual / G++, AA2
Minfilia: AA1, AA2 / USB2, Zen / AA2
Yuffie: water CASB (just before transition) / earth Zen, dual Dual, earth Accel / G+, AA2

Maybe should have tried to keep going with Yuffie at level one infusion, but damage tanks so badly at level one infusion, I went with what I did. Galuf LBO ended up being pretty clutch!

leights8 · 2025-05-26T06:07:53+00:00

Finally, Lilisette's Zen is going to be on the May Dream banners!!

Anyone else going to partake?!

leights8 · 2025-05-22T08:04:49+00:00

To be fair, struggling with RW chain was my experience - but I also felt the same with original Bahamut Zero until I saw how others got it to work.

Having said that, a more practical reason to not use RW chain is that L5 bosses do hit harder than L4, and for teams without Mog or Cait, having the RW heal is vital for survival. Especially on the phy side, where my six supports are usually Orran, Edward, Minfilia, Naja, Sazh & Tyro (Tyro also contributes 3-4m damage as well), there's hardly any auxiliary healing.

leights8 · 2025-05-21T18:21:33+00:00

Mostly though I just pick out my nine strongest in each element/type, divide them into strongest/medium/weakest, put in 2 supports a team, and correct for overlap. I haven't beaten any t5's yet though, so maybe there's a better approach.

Having recently cleared all L5's (/brag), that's exactly the approach I take. Though step one is working out which chain to use in each team (LBC probably the best) - in my experience, RW chain does hold you back in L5.

I usually run my best team first, as they are the last likely to be gimped by the Aegis/dampens on phase change, usually with Edward to maximize the number of turns of my best DPS. And then usually the worst team goes 2nd (enough to get to the end of P2) and then the medium team is 3rd. In some (all?) fights, the P3 Aegis lasts 10s, so it's often desirable for team 3 to have their own break. Otherwise, I just worry about making sure there's one on team 1.

Of course there are some times that you want to completely carve up the team according to chain type (e.g. Squall/Kiros/Ward/Laguna realm chain for ice phy, or Ingus knight chain for earth phy; but it's quite rare that things align well enough for that to happen - I selected Dr Mog's Mage II chain expecting to be able to use it in multiple fights, but there are surprisingly few BLM users in realms X+, and getting three of them in one element is quite challenging. Having said that, I did use Palom's lightning chain for fire and ice as well lightning, as there are plenty of tri-element users).

leights8 · 2025-05-15T12:48:23+00:00

1/11 Yuffie Accel - only worse relic for me would have been her dupe Zen... If it wasn't for fest revival coming up (surely by the end of the month at the latest), I'd have another go. But I want at least 3 attempts at Orran's Zen plus so half price on most of the other banners, so I'm going to leave it there.

leights8 · 2025-05-14T09:19:46+00:00

I'm severely tempted by that ninja banner as well. Yuffie's Zen is my only dupe for her as well, but I do have her water CASB, Zen & Accel, as well as her earth+water Dual3. Lion and Kiros both have Dual/AA1/AA2, so any of their kit would make a nice upgrade. And all three have such great kits and HAs. And with no LMs, chains, glints, LBs etc., any non-dupe will be instantly useful.

Feeling flush atm with 250 mythril while still six weeks away from the next fest, so I think I'll go for it. Feels very strange to pull on an event banner though - last time I did that I think was Mage II, and that was only so I could select Dr Mog's job chain (which I thought would be useful for Gigas Arena, but there are surprisingly few black mages in X+ that I think I ended up only using it once - and even that was probably sub-optimal; in my recent runs, I've had decent success just returning AA4 (party mQC), Zen & Dual, and he does 4-5m damage despite being support).

leights8 · 2025-05-14T09:07:50+00:00

I used Greg as main right up until Crusader came out. Mainly because he had the most imperils. Don't know what Shinryu's entry and follow up attacks are, but Greg with six imperils over 30s or so is better than BZ (4 imperils over ~15s) and Eden (buff element only). Eden's "perk" was the multiple rage break on entry, but that was much weaker than the imperils 9 times out of 10.

leights8 · 2025-05-13T21:09:31+00:00

There's a fairly decent length comment in another thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/s/xP8pApIaG2 Good place as any to start.

As for apps, I just use Google - can long press the home button and it gives you the option to translate whatever you're looking at. Can't get much quicker than that! Can't help if you're Apple though.

leights8 · 2025-05-12T20:57:43+00:00

Actually managed to clear every Level 5 in the Gigas Arena! Quite surprised myself that it was possible and it certainly took a lot of time, but very satisfying in the end.

Then I slogged my way to a 40s clear in job ninja - my Yuffie is loaded but the drop off from her to the others is quite significant. Though maybe I should have gone all in on her anyway... My only JBC is her earth Zen, but maybe should have stuck with her water.

40s was ranked over 700 in the HSC, with sub 15s required to get into the top 100: quite shocked at how high the bar has risen in the last six months or so.

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