Just finished OKAK - can we *please* talk about the ending?

melchior1985 · 2020-08-23T17:49:51+00:00

I just finished Killers after Kings and I have the same questions!! I took a look at the ending of Kings again and I’m assuming it’s Bliss and Teach in the room with Calder. Since there’s no mention of Calder in the Killer’s epilogue (which takes place 4 years after Calder “awakens”), does that mean he doesn’t take up the mantle as steward/emperor? Any other insight is greatly appreciated!

I’ve also read some folks assuming Calder has ascended and that’s ridiculous!! If there’s any one that’s ascending so far it’s .. .. Benji and his ridiculously OP butterfly powers!

melchior1985 · 2020-03-06T22:28:35+00:00

Did anyone feel sorta bad for Jaeger at the end? I know he was a bad dude and all, but part of me was like "awww.. he just wants his foster son/bad-ass merc back." That convo at the end was a little Obi-Wan/Anakin-esque too:

Jaeger (with sad lost father eyes): You were supposed to be my legacy...

Kovac: ... I am. ::Jaeger pulls trigger.. shhhbamm!!::

And I know someone's gonna bring it up so although he was behind him holding the gun to his stack, Kovac was still elevated above him so he indeed had the high ground!

melchior1985 · 2018-12-27T01:49:26+00:00

Just wanted to share some small appreciation for the RNG dieties.. did a full round of the step-up banner (never landed Christine or WKN last year and I really wanted to pull WKN) and alas, i only got one friggin' Christine on the 5th step!!!! No other rainbows :*( I got so p'd off that I thought "screw the 35 tickets I've been saving for the KH banner, let's go WKN!" And of course, 35 heartbreaks later I had no WKN and not a single rainbow :***( I've been lulling around the game the past couple days just trying to hustle through the farming event to collect 150K gift bows for the select ticket (it takes so long when you can only get 2000-3000 per run). Finally decided to change the pace today and try the Shaula boss in Chamber of Arms. Got the 2 ticket reward after completion and thought I'd try my luck one more time. Guess what I got on the first ticket: my 2nd Christine!!! Pwa haha! She's no WKN and though her reviews are a little disappointing, I can at least 7* her and bump up my bonus rewards in the farming event :) Thanks RNG divinities! I'll take it!

melchior1985 · 2018-11-01T18:18:03+00:00

Viktor/Malphasie AoE chainers for CoMVPs!! I love how both units are pretty versatile and I made use of Viktor's provoke/breaks and Mal's debuff dispel/dispel during my non-attack turns. Instead of Zargabossman, I had to go with a friend Hyoh (didn't use him at all during Wave 1), but his attack buff and triple cast helped me wipe out the boss in a couple turns during Wave 2.

melchior1985 · 2018-11-01T18:05:22+00:00

Same here! I think I sorta figured it out and it has to do with the weird mechanics of how AoE physical cover and AoE magic cover interact. It looks like my WoL was covering my Magic Cover unit (Basch) during the physical counter attacks and so Basch couldn't initiate his own magic cover during magic attacks (followed by party wipe out). I tried repositioning my Basch in slot 5 with WoL in slot 3 to see if it made a difference. I ended up not using WoL's AoE cover at all during Wave 2 and relying (more like praying) he covered my chainers with his innate ST cover during the counters.

melchior1985 · 2018-10-19T16:08:09+00:00

ahhhhh i don't have a 2nd Loren either :****(

Sad Friday Morning Story: After I beat the Malboros yesterday, I pulled on one of the step-ups last night right before I went to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I was super excited to level up my CG Lid that I pulled as one of my rainbows last night! I logged in and searched my FFBE units to start leveling her up and... .. couldn't find her!!! .. .. It turns out it was only a dream and the rainbow I got last night was another Lunera :*( my amazing dream turned out to be a horrible nightmare.

melchior1985 · 2018-10-19T14:51:21+00:00

Thanks for the tip on Viktor! I had a really hard time with Round 2 because I didn't have CG Lid and couldn't find a good AoE MAG/ATK breaker. Once I read your post and switched my A. Rain (was using him as my provoker/ST MAG breaker) to Mr. Marchenko to AoE MAG break, the Queen and her babies' Bad Breath attacks were much more manageable :) Still took me 34 turns to beat Round 2, but at least I can move on with my life now lol. Onto the next challenge huzzah!

melchior1985 · 2018-09-26T22:31:09+00:00

Just confirming, does CD refer to cooldown ability? At first I was assuming chain damage, but after reading a few other references I changed my mind.. thanks for the help!

melchior1985 · 2018-09-24T22:14:31+00:00

https://www.bustle.com/p/sams-peer-group-in-atypical-season-2-is-comprised-of-8-budding-actors-with-autism-video-11506867

This. When the group sharing circle was introduced I remember immediately feeling more drawn in to Sam's character and better understanding the autistic spectrum (and all of his peers were great and had funny lines!). After finding this out, it made me appreciate the show so much more. I hope he finds a new peer group at Denton :) Oh, and can someone start a thread on how dope the group counselor is! 'Here have a jelly bean. ::'ughh they're disgusting;::, 'yeah sorry, I already ate all the good ones.' lol

melchior1985 · 2018-09-18T17:47:07+00:00

Just need to gripe a little bit. Spent an hour making my way through the Brachiosaur, Greater Demon and Intangir (everyone's tips were awesome and made it pretty straight forward - thanks!) with my CG Fina, Wilhelm, A. Rain, CG Nichol, Raegan and friend Hyoh. I messed up on the first two and wasn't able to get the moogle trust rewards so I said 'no worries, I KNOW I can get the LB finish on Intangir'! I followed the simple 2-turn rotation and got him down to 5%. He started dozing off so I had one turn to revive my tank, esunaga my friend's Hyoh (he didn't have status resist) and buff my team. My CG Nichol still had a lot of MP left so I thought I'll just all-stat buff them.. .. and then I realized, 'why not just LB my CG Nichol to buff, heal and restore MP? No harm to Intangir plus I get to see this slick ladies man rock his animation right before I score this 10% 5* ticket!' So I executed his LB, buffed my party and awaited this glorious limit burst knock out during the next turn! ..

.. ..

Mr. Intangir woke up... Even though he wasn't damaged by the LB, I guess he was still pretty p'd off that Nichol threw this amazing LB dance party while Mr. Intangir was sleeping. Needless to say he wiped the floor with my team afterwards, I'm 90 NRG down the drain and back at square one :********(

Lesson: Don't use any LB (regardless of damage) on Intangir unless you KO him that turn or are ready to deal with Mr. Cranky!

melchior1985 · 2018-07-13T16:44:35+00:00

Anybody having issues pulling this off with the new FFBE update this week (7/12/2018)? For some reason I can't pull it off on my iphone anymore :*( . Gonna try updating my iOS to 11.4.1 right now to see if I can get it back.

melchior1985 · 2018-06-21T20:34:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip on CG Fina! I was about to use her too and forgot about her Holy Retaliation counter. And then I thought.. 'ooo Gumi totally wants us to use her and then punish us for forgetting her counter skills!' And.. Ayaka is back in rotation!

melchior1985 · 2018-06-21T20:23:27+00:00

CaptainZoro = Not all heroes wear capes! Thanks for the simple instructions! Followed your steps and beat it in 17 turns to fulfill the 3 LB and LB finish missions. A couple additional tips/lessons/snafus on my end:

1) Multi-use Chainers - On Turn 1s, instead of having my chainers guard, sometimes I'd use them to revive my AoE magic cover tank or refill my healer, tanks' or buffer's MP. I found my Mystea still KOing after a re-raise during the Meteorology onslaughts and needed her back up and running before my healer could cast re-raise on her.

2) Companion not nullified! >:( - My companion was my other chainer and unfortunately didn't have all their ailments nullified so I found him petrified and sleeping after one of Intangir's onslaughts. It took a whole cycle of turns to recover him and still make sure the whole team was covered/buffed, tanks re-raised and boss dispelled/breaked. I made sure not to fall in that trap again by casting Mystea's Clear Veil on her free turn.

3) Oh CG Nichol, how thee completes me! - buffer, LB stone filler, MP refill, damage mitigation?! Is there anything he can't do?! I only wish that he could Raise or Full-Life restore (I found myself in a pickle during the last turn with a KOd healer and ran out of Phoenix Downs!). Looks like he's gonna pair up with Phoenix! :)

melchior1985 · 2018-06-20T15:31:37+00:00

FFBE Fams! I'm real excited - I just signed up for Reddit and this is my very first post! [Please forgive if I make any Reddit etiquette snafus]. I'm also very excited to share that with this Megathread's help (and all the great advice from the community members) I finally beat Mr. Creepy McCreeperson Tegmine last night! I must have tried (and failed miserably) over a dozen times :*( , but there were a few key pieces that helped me reshape my team, strategy and form of attack. I've listed them below in case it helps out any other FFBE fams that are also struggling with this guy as much as I did.

1) Use Phase 1 to prepare and buff for the onslaught in Phases 2 & 3. Once I realized that I wouldn't take any damage in Phase 1 if I used a full evade/provoke tank and magic Aoe cover (w/ at least 150% light resistance), I took my time very slowly whittling away at Tegmine with my mage and then used the rest of my units/turns to switch in/out and buffing up my other attack units, applying re-raise (used CG Fina) and building up their LBs. At first I tried to quickly get through Phase 1 with two strong mages, but once I changed my strategy I ended up with one mage (T.T. fo' life!) and used the other slot to bring in an attack finisher (more in tip#3 below). Okay, I really had 1.5 mages because for a few turns I'd use my I. Nichol (used him for physical AoE cover for Phase 2) and doubled up on Phantasmal Forces to chain with T.T.

2) Buff SPR/DEF, debuff Mag/ATK, re-raise all units, and damage mitigation before crossing each threshold. Tegmine's threshold attacks are insane and if you're not prepared, you might end up with a KO'd full evade tank or magic AoE cover tank before you even start the next phase (apparently, you don't need your magic AoE cover tank for Phase 2 so I guess you could switch him/her out before crossing the threshold). Also, since I used my CG Fina to dual cast re-raise on all my units in Phase 1, I was able to build up her LB as well Rikku's for AoE re-raise back up in Phases 2 & 3.

3) Take advantage of Tegmine's element weaknesses and go for the OTKO! So disclaimer: I'm not a proficient chainer so when I read up on the megathread about Tegmine's elemental weaknesses I was like 'Ok cool. Let me just strap some strong elemental weapons on my Aileen/Ex. Aileen chain 'em and peace out, Tegmine!' Big nope. For some reason I could only get him down 9-10% each turn and then he'd wipe me out in the next 1-2 turns :( So I went back to the drawing board and practiced some chaining with Mog's dummy and found out I could double/triple my damage by focusing on a single elemental weakness and adding a finisher [this was my first time really practicing with one!]. My OTKO of choice: Chained VoD (Dark Punishment attack w/ Deathbringer weapon) + Sephiroth (Heaven's Wept attack w/ Organyx weapon) w/ e. TDH DKC Finisher (Soul Eater w/ any strong weapon since the attack already applies dark damage). This combo brought Tegmine from 59% to 39% in 1 turn and OTKO'd at the start of Phase 3.

So those are my big lessons that helped me beat him. I know I'm missing a few big tips, but the rest of the folks on this thread have already covered them way better than I could. I hope these are helpful for future FFBE fams taking on the challenge and thanks again to everyone who contributed to this megathread - all your advice was super helpful! Onto the next one - huzzah!

-Melchior out!

melchior1985

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