Lurker > Kaxon

Dante - 55%
Ganondorf - 64%
Vivi - 63%
Donkey Kong - 52.5%

Zero - 54%
Master Hand - 51%
Yoshi - 73%
Pikachu - 61.5%

Pokemon Trainer Red - 52%
Big Boss - 63%
Alucard - 55%
Kefka - 60%

Ness - 53%
Bowser- 57.5%
Phoenix Wright 53.3%
Kirby - 72%
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Can't... resist... urge... to... pull...

X: 2/11 - Rikku LMR, Tidus OSB (dupe)

Damn. If that were Tidus's AOSB that would be awesome. And Rikku's LMR would be great if I had anything decent for her (USB or CSB). Oh well.
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Sephiroth - 74%
Captain Falcon - 62%
Amaterasu - 70%
Lara Croft - 60%
Ryu - 67%
Commander Shepard - 55%
KOS-MOS - 56.5%
Aqua - 54%
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Seeing X Blue Bombering chumps like it's 2002 (almost) is really warming my heart.
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I was able to sub-30 the d280 with an all-XV team but it was pretty close... I lost 2 characters near the end thanks to no last stand, and I have no buffga so I'm using suboptimal stuff like Death Throes and Hailstorm. Ignis's BSB would be nice but then I'd need an entruster since I'm also kind of relying on his USB for the team fastcast. Think I'm going to leave the d??? until I have a better team.
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It warms my heart to see fodder getting Blue Bombered even in 2018. It's not the 90/10 beatdowns Mega Man delivered back in 2002, but 79% for X is pretty respectable.
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Mewtwo - 65%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Did XV in preparation for the Torment tonight.

2/11 - Ignis USB, Iris USB

Now that seems like a quality pull. I'm going to try to stop doing realm draws for now so I can save up for one pull on the XIV banner. But I still have some exciting ones (III, V, and X) left to do along with not so exciting I, II, XIV, and T-0.
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Lopen posted...

Looks like the 15 mythril draws are going to reset with updated pools in about 6 months. 15 first draw resets too so no worries there, but some realms are definitely heavily worth considering a skip on with that in mind. I know I'll be skipping 11 and 14 at minimum.

Uh, strong disagree. The realm draws are still a better value than anything else we'll see before 4th Anniversary. The fact that they'll be refreshed in 6 months changes literally nothing since you wanted to do all of them long before that anyway... it just means we have more pulls to look forward to.
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Vincent - 60%

Tifa Lockheart - 70%
Mewtwo - 72%
King Dedede - 51.5%
Mega Man X - 73.5%
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Pulled on Tactics: dupe Agrias burst and ANOTHER ******* Orlandu USB (that's #4).
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Geralt- 59%
Ryu Hayabusa - 62.1%
Pac-Man - 52%
Riku - 56.5%

Luigi - 65%
Frog - 57.5%
Master Chief - 72%
Tails - 61.12%
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VII: Vincent USB and Tifa LMR. The LMR is nice, should make Quetzalcoatl a little easier if I decide to farm him more.
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Grapple M1 posted...

Do you have Quetz magicite? I have everything you mentioned but no way to break savage.

Yes, it's my only way of breaking savage mode and it needs a high chain count to do it. I think the fight would be a lot smoother if I had Ashe's OSB.
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With my new Shantotto AOSB I was able to beat Geosgaeno, although I did not master it. 55.08 clear, using Larsa as an entruster in the first half of the fight, and then throwing down his BSB in phase 3 to absorb the Petrify and act as a second healer. Shantotto was using the entrusts to cycle CSB with her SSB (which boosts the team's MAG/RES along with 8 lightning hits), then using the AOSB near the end as an almost-finisher. Ashe was doing her thing, and Rapha's USB gives team haste, enlightning,and magic boostga... she's not great, but I think it's the best option I have. But I don't know, maybe I should try to fit Vivi in somehow (but if I do that I lose both haste and shellga so I'm pressured for ability slots.)
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Ultimaphazon posted...

Assuming you have Lightning+ weapon and armor, the elemental multiplier goes from 1.9 without Glint to 2.6 with Glint. That's around 40% more ability damage. Might be overkill, but I think that's worth 1 bar every 25 seconds.

How are you calculating that? Because her USB also gives en-lightning so using the glint instead of USB doesn't get you any additional damage and using it on top of the USB gets you the smaller stacking bonus - but at the cost of SB bar you could use for the imperil BSB that boosts damage for the entire team.
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Latest pull was IV:

3/11 Kain USB1, Yang BSB, Yang LMR

Good pull, I'll have to see how I can work the USB into my Famfrit runs since right now how basically only has enough bar for the chain.
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I can't guarantee it's optimal but usually the way I use her is with Ace Striker, I lifesiphon on her first two turns and then as long as the boss has an AOE attack you can USB with her third instant action, and then she's basically fastcasting for the whole fight. That also gives you 3 offensive actions so you skip the weakest part of Ripper Bolt. I don't think the glint is really worth it if you have her USB. (Maybe a different story if you're using Flash Disaster)

I don't think it makes sense to use her OSB unless you really need to because her USB and BSB do more for you. If you're using Orlandu against Famfrit he's perfect for breaking Savage mode because there's only one SB he wants to use in that fight.
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Lightning USB is definitely worth using, and lets you build enough bar to alternate USB/BSB while rarely falling out of quickcast.

As usual, I'm torn in the selection. Type 0 seems like the best choice as the only one where I have no dupes. But I should do the realm draw to see if I get dupes before picking it and I really don't want to do that one before IV, V, VII, X...
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Did three more and these were much more disappointing unfortunately:

VIII - 1/11 Selphie LM
IX - 2/11 - Dupe Zidane OSB, Marcus BSB
XIII - 3/11 - Dupe Noel USB, dupe Cid BSB, Snow BSB

I'm out of mythril for now, so I have to wait before doing more.
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Did three realm pulls so far:

VI - 1/11 Sabin BSB
XII - 1/11 Basch BSB
XI - 3/11 Shantotto AOSB, Aphmau USB, Curilla LMR

First two were duds, but that last one!!! If you compare the three together against your average 50 mythril pull, this looks like an amazing value.
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Changes

Squall - 74.4%
Metal Sonic - 50.1%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

100 gem Hilda LMR. Pretty useless without one of her soul breaks, but oh well.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Phoenix Wright - 58%
Ike - 61%
Isaac - 62.5%
Kirby 69%
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Oh and Locke chain or Relm USB would also be super useful to me (and Terra BUSB would be nice) so lots of reasons to pull on that one. I probably should do V too since fire is the only element I don't have any chain for.
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VI is my top priority since there's a lot of stuff that would help me there: magic water chain for next month's Magicite, arcane for Terra/Locke/Celes would help a lot with Wrexsoul, USB/LMR for Shadow would be great for my darkness team.

After that probably XII for torment help (or lucking into Ashe's AOSB finally would help a lot with Geosgaeno). XI (Shantotto), VII, VIII, Tactics, X... eventually I plan to do them all but I'll prioritize ones that have torments and then the ones where I like the games/characters.
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50 free mythril in login bonuses (5 a day over the next 10 days)! That'll cover 3 realms of the 15 mythril pulls that start on Friday.
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2B - 69.5%
Shadow the Hedgehog - 50.5%
Charizard - 62%
Bowser - 59.75%
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lol, this banner. I had everything except Onion LMR and Noctis SSB.

3/11 - Dupe Zack chain, dupe Terra LMR, dupe Tidus BSB2.
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Apparently the AOSB is shared and it's 3 physical overstrike hits with 15.48 total multiplier (24 is normal), non elemental. Not great but I might be able to use it against Wrexsoul.
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Woah, Player's Choice relic draw (based on 3rd Anniversary poll) is tonight (40 minutes) and the first 11 pull is free!!

Also apparently the Halloween event is giving away an AOSB (although I'm assuming it'll be a weak AOSB like the Cloud cherry blossom OSB). They don't say what character it's for, just that it's VI.

https://old.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/9qn81d/ffrk_gl_mvp_newsletter_oct_2018/
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Princess Peach - 52.5%

2B - 62.5%
Shadow the Hedgehog - 51%
Charizard - 61%
Bowser - 59%
Phoenix Wright 53%
Ike 60%
Isaac - 64%
Kirby 56%

Squall Leonhart - 70%
Garrus Vakarian 54%
Metal Sonic - 55%
Zelda - 64.05%
Aloy - 62%
Jill Valentine - 51%
Captain Toad - 55%
Aerith Gainsborough - 60%

Geralt vs. Rosalina - 56%
Ryu Hayabusa - 55%
Sans - 66%
Riku - 58%
Auron - 63.25%
Vincent Valentine - 65%
Sub-Zero - 53%
Claire Redfield - 59%
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Missed the deadline to update my predictions yesterday so I'm stuck with my pre-contest picks. They could be worse, I guess, but...
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Princess Peach - 54.5%
Yuna - 66.67%
L-Block - 54%
Bomberman - 57%
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Lopen posted...

Daily Draw got me Bartz USB2 (dupe)

FUCK. OFF. GAME.

I'll trade you. Because I got The Ultimate Daily Draw today!!!!!!!!

https://imgur.com/a/vBiqGIJ
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mccheyne posted...

Also, won't TGC final RM take away from her damage. Or does the fast casts make up for it?

Fast casts make it roughly as good as equipping a damage materia and Ace Striker at the same time. The downside is it wears off after 25 seconds, and if you have a different source of fastcast it's less helpful.
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I'm not totally shocked by Noctis losing to Master Hand, but man did I not think Knuckles was going to be strong. Sonic seems like a completely irrelevant franchise at this point... am I wrong or is Zidane just that weak?
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Yoshi - 77.5%
Velvet Crowe - 52%
Pikachu - 64%
Kratos - 65%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

I got my 4 Famfrit kills done, but Geosgaeno seems a lot tougher, mostly because 3x petrify isn't something you can shrug off the way 5x silence is. Also TGC OSB was really good for managing Savage mode, especially since that's the only SB that he wants to use anyway. In this fight I have no OSBs so I'm totally reliant on Quetzalcoatl to break savage mode, and if my chain count is too low sometimes it doesn't even do enough damage for that. Maybe I should have paid for Ashe's OSB but $30 for a non-TGC OSB is just too much. Meh. Has anyone here done it yet, and if so what was your team?
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Wario - 59%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Hey 9th place on day 1, not too bad!

It hurts that I had DK and switched to Tidus though. Man. Glad Vivi came through during the day, I was pretty unhappy when he was sitting around 70% early on but now he's almost up to 75.
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Zero - 73%
Zidane Tribal - 55%
Noctis Lucis Caelum - 52%
Wario - 51%
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Last change

Vivi with 76.2%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Tidus with 50.5%
Leon Kennedy with 59%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Vivi - 72%
Aya Brea - 52.5%
Donkey Kong - 51%
Leon Kennedy - 57%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

@STElNER I think you need the percent symbol for the script to read your picks. Otherwise TRE or someone would have to enter them manually, up to him whether he actually does it since he's the one running the contest.
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Also, why does Sephiroth get to be the one member of the noble nine in the main bracket? He already got his own contest to dominate. I mean yeah that was 13 years ago, but still...
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Changes

Dante - 75%
Lightning - 65%
Chun-Li - 55%
Ganondorf - 79%
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Got Terra's original unique SB in the daily draw. I remember I really wanted that, 3.5 years ago!
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KingMorgoth posted...

First, Kaxon, teammates again? Team Used To Be Good? is probably as relevant of a name as it's ever been!

Aw yeah, the once and future kings return (lololololol)
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