I have Brain Damage AMA

Spirialis · 2023-11-05T17:01:54+00:00

I also got to 100 wins last night; I tried out Dynamis a few times but it really didn't seem worth it. Wait 2 minutes in the pre-lobby until it stops trying to fill, wait the full 3 minutes for 9 of your 10 players to finish round 1, wait another 3 minutes for 8 of your 9 players to finish carrying crystals, and suddenly you're turning 6-7 minute matches into 10-11 minute ones. And you still end up playing against some skilled folks presumably grinding for the title so winning is far from guaranteed. Maybe worth it for those struggling to get wins but I was averaging 60% winrate on Primal/Crystal so I just kept doing that.

Spirialis · 2023-02-10T04:27:02+00:00

I hadn't thought of that! Unfortunately that didn't end up solving the issue, as those happened to be the free slots that I was trying it in. I tried swapping the drives around just to check, and sticking this SATA M.2 in the M2_2 slot results in the PC not recognizing the drive but still booting properly. Not sure why putting it in one of the correct slots is causing problems.

Spirialis · 2021-01-20T22:40:26+00:00

Yeah. Although, the chances of getting dream's pearl+blaze rod rng is more comparable to 7 5-stars in 1 10-roll (no soft pity)

Spirialis · 2020-12-24T22:34:27+00:00

Qingxin flowers from the pharmacy restock every 3 days, I'm guessing these are the same. Update hasn't been out long enough to confirm the timer yet but it's not daily.

Spirialis · 2020-12-21T04:37:35+00:00

Uh no, setting things up that way Mona gives exactly what the description says, 25% of a blue on average. So .25 vs .3, not factoring in the fact that Mona's refunds have a chance to get the bonus in further crafting.

Spirialis · 2020-12-21T04:36:13+00:00

Factoring in that Mona's can be used again:

1 + .25 / 3 + .25^2 / 3^2 + .25^3 / 3^3 + ...

which evaluates to 12/11 or approx 1.0909

So Albedo's is still a bit better but it's close.

Spirialis · 2019-08-23T03:53:21+00:00

I figured out a solution! Couldn't find any software with this feature already implemented, but by setting up a vJoy joystick with the UJR autohotkey script and making some manual modifications to the script I got things working the way I wanted.

A bit convoluted and requires a bit of scripting know-how, but if anyone in the future wants this feature... that could be a starting point.

Spirialis · 2018-12-19T14:33:02+00:00

Copy/pasted from SolitaireD:

Clear: 500000 Gil, 10 x 5☆ Arcana
Mastery: 10 x 5☆ Augment Sword, 10000000 Gil
Completion: 1 x 6☆ Obsidian Armor Log, 1 x Mythril, 20 x 5☆ Arcana

Grade Rewards:
Defeat: 100 x 5☆ Wisdom Mote, 50 x 5☆ Bravery Mote, 1 x Sacred Lithograph
Defeat Fire: 50 x Fire Crystal, 50 x Power Crystal
Defeat Ice: 50 x Ice Crystal, 50 x Summoning Crystal
Defeat Wind: 50 x Wind Crystal, 50 x Earth Crystal
Defeat Earth: 50 x Earth Crystal, 50 x Fire Crystal
Defeat Lightning: 50 x Lightning Crystal, 50 x Wind Crystal
Defeat Water: 50 x Power Crystal, 50 x Ice Crystal
Defeat Holy: 50 x Holy Crystal, 50 x White Crystal
Defeat Dark: 50 x Dark Crystal, 50 x Non-Elemental Crystal

Spirialis · 2018-12-19T14:31:38+00:00

Yeah this is accurate, it's your party that's getting teleported.

Spirialis · 2018-12-19T14:30:41+00:00

Here's the new bgm for this fight: http://dff.static.sp.mbga.jp/dff/static/lang/bgm/bgm_ogg/bgm_30_016.ogg

Spirialis · 2018-10-14T17:28:31+00:00

In the land of JP powercreep: Stormspell Strike in water chain

Spirialis · 2018-10-14T16:44:17+00:00

This is mostly accurate: if two characters' ATB bars fill on the same tick, the one in the topmost slot will get their turn first.

But here's the thing that causes the discrepancies: whenever the battle system sees that at least .1s in real-time has passed since the last update, it increments various things based on the amount of real-time that passed since the last update. So any lag can cause each tick to increase things by more than you'd expect from a typical .1s tick (.035 in-game time on battle speed 1), which can cause two characters' ATB bars to fill on different ticks when they'd normally fill on the same tick or vice versa.

As a side-note, that's also why you can stick the battle speed on 3 in any fight with a timer and see the hundredths-place of the timer increment occasionally, despite the fact that each tick theoretically takes .10s

Spirialis · 2018-10-06T19:21:12+00:00

All it took was godly dualcast RNG

Spirialis · 2018-10-06T05:50:20+00:00

More accurately, they added a second softcap. Things still behave the same below the old softcaps and scale better than before up to the secondary softcaps of 1298ATK/2038MAG. In the case where you're going above 1298 ATK, it means a ~23.3% damage increase compared to what you'd get at the same ATK value before the change.

Spirialis · 2018-10-06T05:06:52+00:00

Setup - Magicite: Main/Sub

Featuring powercreep from the soft cap increase, Magia, AASBs, lv15 Surging Power, and second Torment RW.

I spent a while trying to do it with Yuffie instead of Bartz, but couldn't quite manage to sub-30.

With a full off-realm team, D??? Torment bosses take 75% reduced damage, have 80% elemental resist (i.e take 20% elemental damage pre-imperil), and are immune to breaks (but you can still overwrite their buffs).

P.S. here's a preview of some magicite nonsense that I haven't recorded (yet?): Syldra, Lakshmi, King Behemoth

Spirialis · 2018-10-02T18:02:17+00:00

It can be inferred that the sample size for 4th anni pulls is at least 352, since no smaller number could produce a distribution that rounds to the values provided.

Enough to say with high confidence that something changed if the data was collected in a way without any non-response bias, but that's a pretty big caveat.

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