Lurker > Steiner

are you using stamina boost? a mission takes about one full tonic when boosted so they burn down real quick, I was done with mine in like 20 minutes today

SaveEstelle posted...

Ooh, I'll check the recommended power level for that in a bit - wait, what am I saying, my iPad's right next to me. Let's see.

40,800, eh? Not quite there yet, but not terribly far off - I think the highest I can get is like 35k right now. Cool, something to work toward in the next couple of days!

co-op missions are hard gated to a degree, as in you need a minimum power to enter, and I believe you cover it - and you'll be absolutely fine in it because the rest of your party are likely to be closer to/over the power level. gamble it and see what happens, as long as you have a water blow and the right sigil you should be fine

being efficient, until you clear out the exchange, the yellow watermelon event highest level co-op battle is imo the best use of energy right now. but not if you don't have a character who can clear it, and also not if the character you can clear it with is already at 50. if you can be leveling a character there though it's great payoff until the exchange is empty

if you don't know how to spend it just throw up Character Exp on the highest setting you can clear until they're gone, never hurts

you know 7 million downloads is coming, and then probably 7,777,777 too. they'll give us 77 of the things for that one too

i would do anything for another drop of stamina (not pay money)

yeah that's about where I'm at, just trying to fill in the spell requirements first before i worry about good substats. also noticed that quake blow/aero blow don't seem to exist yet which kinda sucks

RaidenGarai posted...

I've been ignoring power a lot too lately. It seems like the big thing is being able to interrupt, if you have the materia to break through the weaknesses, you're going to be fine, at least around the level I'm at (90k).

Speaking of Materia, is there any place to get the materia enhancement stuff aside from chocobo expeditions? I've been using my trash materia to level stuff, but it's so slow!

nah you just have to pump out a ton of crappy materia, have all 5 slots of your synthesis always in action, ruin finishes in half an hour (or instantly in 1 bookmark) so you can get a ton of them out and they're worth the same exp as cure

power is bullshit. my team of uncared for Glenn, Aerith and Red was showing 86k power but still wiped constantly on character exp 6. went and gave Aerith a few nodes in her stream, power barely changed, now never in danger

if i play for like, 3 hours, i'm gonna beat it
90% of games i download i do not

catesdb posted...

is the payoff at the end of games worth it?

it's not the end it's knowing everything that happens in that world!

transcience posted...

We just got a ton of stamina

damn you were not kidding when will it end

one consideration is a powerful summon can be equipped by a weak character and push them through some content they may not be contributing much on otherwise. and now that my characters are at max level and gated by memories on their own statstreams, I think that once the current Event is up that powering a summon would probably be my best route to more power? Plus I've barely invested in any summon at all and they already do more damage than my characters with limit breaks at level 4-5. And that's before even unlocking the summons' stronger limits, but with requirements to beat the "Very Hard" versions of the fights that seems a ways off

transcience posted...

so much of this game is just pure power gates. that power number is shown for a reason, because its kind of everything. better get up closer to 120k and youll be ready to go!

obviously true, but i feel like i'm starting to plateau in terms of that number - my guys are at 50 and even with 90 weapons I don't see how we're ever going to get close to this...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/7/AANp2HAAE23l.jpg
So I think sometimes a bit of strategy will get you through a gate faster than brute force

Anyway I went and beat the Iron Giant with this setup:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/8/AANp2HAAE23m.jpg
But by far the most important bit is the Iron Blade to debuff his PATK. If you have that, invest in it

Sadly that is the last guide mission so now I have to decide for myself where to focus my energy, ugh

Leonhart4 posted...

If I hate a game, I will not feel the need to "give it another shot." I've got plenty of other stuff to play rather than seeing if I'll change my mind the second time around.

good job i gave ffviii another shot!

Leonhart4 posted...

No regrets getting rid of that one at the very least! I can almost forgive it now!

See I hated Xenoblade 2 a lot and I even regret selling that because, idk maybe I could have come around on it by now

The

yeah, that's when i realised i needed all the PDEF and buffs I could get for this one!

optimized i can hit 110k, i went down to 102k for that best run when switching in weaker weapons. my last guide mission was to get 3 guys to 50, so you're definitely not looking at this fight until then

i've regretted every game i've ever sold!

Shattered posted...

Physical unless there's no other choice or there is a very substantial price difference.

Digital charging the same price as physical has and will always be ridiculous. Even if the cost to create and distribute the physical version is pittance, you're giving up the ability to resell the product down the line. I personally never sell any of my games but that reason alone should be enough to cause a large price difference between the two products

i would pay more for digital so i don't have to have a bunch of physical stuff in my house and change discs etc. it's so superior to me that i find topics like this a bit of a mindfuck, lol

owned

ghido - to junk

red 13

junk_funk posted...

Auto trade for Red anyone?

aerith thanks

MartinFF7 posted...

I hope Steiner caught that the trade he accepted was already taken...

i did

if a game is only physical i'm not gonna be playing it

Leafeon13N posted...

Trading auto

for aerith

aerith

god damn i hate this gamehttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/7/AANp2HAAE2sL.jpg

yeah you are gonna want to manually control some of these hard bosses. my AI never uses Barrier properly but doing so got me much further on the iron giant boss on battle tower floor 30.

still can't win though so considering investing in my Iron Blade and if that doesn't work then maybe in Red and his Lunatic High....

lol i cleared the 'get 3 characters to level 50' mission, then filled out the statstreams that unlocked, as well as having 2 weapons at level 90, and am still 14k power below the next mission (battle tower level 30). really slowing down here

red xiii n

it's in the first post

same

Leafeon13N posted...

Trading auto

for aerith

aerith

entered the topic and saw somebody had nominated Dead Silence, exciting!

oh

anyway I'm really surprised you didn't have more to say about Man Alive! To me that's the standout track on the album, with a notably faster pace and more energy than everything surrounding it. I enjoy Surprise Surprise a lot too but it's fair to say it's their weakest album just by being so... safe and middle of the road.

laguna

pjbasis posted...

Would the MGS3 remake be better if they changed the story?

although, god, yes

TheArkOfTurus posted...

Trading for Laguna, auto (no Barret or Cecil)

for aerith

aerith

yeah I disagree with that take, I would have been very happy with an entirely faithful remake - but I'm happy with what they did, too. both are valid!

SaveEstelle posted...

I've been speaking with a few colleagues etc who are falling off hard, because the gacha is just too in-your-face, or whatever, and I'm remembering all those times I tried getting into Record Keeper/Moebius/so forth when they were hot here on B8, and it never happened, and I'm wondering what's changed. Me, maybe? Or maybe I'm happy to be playing on decent hardware (an iPad Air 5) - the big screen helps.

to me it's really important that there aren't 3 million gachas to gacha from like there are in RK. i'm pretty confident that most of the things i'm investing in are a good choice, even with what's limited by the gacha

as for the auto battles - i've reached a couple battles where you might want to intervene on targeting (there's some boss fights in the battle tower that come with adds which blow up for enormous damage on the boss, or alternately there's times where there's adds up but a boss is charging an attack and your guys are still fighting the adds), but otherwise yeah I've never turned auto battle off

NeatoAnAccount posted...

Calvin

"you have just posted the same message" excuse me?

did you like black out for 15 minutes

blitz

ok i thought about it more and it's like, I just found it to be the most formulaic turn based JRPG imaginable, but on the other hand it is a turn based JRPG so i'll still play it

Waluigi1 posted...

Why did you 100% a game you found boring...?

LeonhartFour posted...

completionism is a disease

but like, i also don't think its bad? it's hard to explain lol

Locke

Grimmer posted...

Ghido

Locke auto

for aerith

aerith