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I keep thinking about whether I should try to draw on the Earth Chocobo banner. Mostly because I could really use Red XIII's G+, without it he's can only contribute damage until Ramuh uses one earth diffusion and then he's almost useless aside from refreshing the chain. None of his other SBs are useful at all except his USB2 which isn't in the lens shop. The problem is the banner has a lot of duds since I don't want Machina and I don't need either chain. Tifa's stuff would be fine though. What should I do?

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XII RoP: Vayne OSB. Blah.

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

Definitely save until you can use it. Rinoa can also use Brothers if you're planning to draw on that banner, though. Although I just noticed Rinoa's earth awakening is really weird.

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Holy crap, my new and improved earth team just completely shredded Odin on the first attempt. 26.95 which is 6-7 seconds faster than my time on any of the other six elements I beat. Terra's meltdowns were doing plenty of damage to break rage even though she doesn't have en-earth. Having three awakenings (and allegro con moto / Elarra USB) makes all the difference because you don't need to refresh your chain and then you have a high chain count in phase 3 instead of a low one.

Did the XIII RoP draw, got dupe Raines USB.

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Brothers summon is FINALLY coming tonight, I've been waiting for that since I got Rydia's Awakening so like two fests ago? It should have been three weeks ago but they skipped an event for the Black Friday stuff and moved XI back by two weeks in the order. Now it'll be time to finally do Earth weak Odin.

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

1/3: Gladiolus Ultra

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

T0 Torment sub30! Got a super clutch Rem doublecast to finish it off in 29.68. 11/17 down.

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

Did the Tactics draw pretty much just for the chance at Ramza's chain but not surprisingly didn't get it, got a dupe Ovelia USB2. Yesterday I got Ace's OSB.

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Eh, I got through most 5* magicite and Odin without last stand, using Elarra. I didn't have her BSB until a couple days ago. Elarra's USB gives you enough healing you usually don't need last stand but you have to learn the fights better and know when you need to heal and when you can afford to wait. Last stand gives you a safety net to make things easier, but none of the last stand SBs I had were as powerful as Elarra's USB.

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Didn't get it from the ROP so I took my Rem awakening on the dream select. I need to farm a Mind Boon so I used her and Rydia to crush Ark which was fun. Tomorrow I'll try out the t0 torment.

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

I'm surprised you waited this long and then took Rem when the T0 RoP is in less than 2 hours. I'm waiting until my ROP draw, then if I don't get Rem's awakening I'll take it. If I do it then I'll take Zidane.

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I think I'm at least one awakening/sync short of being able to deal with Leviathan or I would try that. Right now my only relevant awakenings are Kain and Shantotto. For chains I have Garnet, Kain, Shantotto, and Reno. So I think my best plan is drawing on the Ashe banner and hopefully doing Garnet/Shantotto/Ashe for my team.

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

Nice!

And yeah, 5* magicite with Awakenings (and free chains if you need em) is a completely different story from 5* magicite with just USBs. Although they can still get you if you don't have the right tools or don't bring the right team. You still want 2 healers against Syldra, and Deathgaze can be really hard to deal damage to.

The hype on Ramuh definitely has me intimidated.

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It's worth using even a level 50 Titan for the fight because of the bonuses he gets against himself. You do have to relearn the fight a little bit but getting an instant guaranteed rage breaker is very nice.

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Ahh... Zidane has sword damage bonuses on his legend dive so unless you have Cloud's sword damage LMR you're better off giving Zidane the sword and Cloud the katana. But yeah, the crit boost would make a pretty big difference especially with Zack's crit damage boost. On my team Bartz wasn't good at breaking high rage mode either because I wasn't using Tyro USB4. But he still contributed good damage the rest of the time.

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

Congrats! I'm surprised Zidane was doing crummy damage, but go with what works. Barret's party IC1+debuff USB did look pretty strong in this fight.

Still not even trying Ramuh until I get to pull on the Rinoa fest banner. Got almost 500 mythril right now, although I plan to spread it between the Ashe, Lightning, and Rinoa banners, with some ROP pulls and the AASB lucky too.

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What does the rest of your team look like? DVG is definitely useful and I think if you don't use it in the first phase of TItan then you need to have last stand. Quina is good but her USB gets less useful since the +50% attack gets canceled by the buff on any physical wind chain. Do you have ZIdane's AASB already? You will definitely want a way to renew enWind, although if you have his glint you might not need his USB2. Especially if you have his OSB you might be better off just spamming that after the AASB/trance mode expire.

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Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR
Day 4: 2/10 - Y'shtola USB1, dupe Kain USB1
Day 5: 1/10 - Dupe Bartz BSB (wind)
Day 6: 2/10 - Marach USB, dupe WOL AOSB
Day 7: 3/10 - Ashe AOSB, Agrias USB, Ricard LMR
Day 8: 2/10 - Dupe Maria USB, Dupe Aerith USB2
Day 9: 4/10 - Auron USB, Steiner OSB, Gladiolus OSB, dupe Xezat USB
Day 10: 1/10 - Prompto USB

So, no grand prizes. Got a bunch of anima lenses, and the best thing I got was probably Ashe AOSB. Minwu's USB also let me sub-30 that torment so that was good.

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

Red XIII is a pretty crappy chain holder too. He has a magic chain but his dive gives him bonuses to attack and support damage. His native LMs are support damage and buff duration. Until today none of his soul breaks gave him enEarth - now he has his awakening (which I got) and his G+. He STILL doesn't have an enEarth LMR or 5* glint or any other reusable way to enEarth (even in JP). So at best he can only re-up twice in a fight where the boss will probably remove it 3+ times.

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

These elemental banners aren't as good as I thought they would be, too many old relics. Not doing any of them for now... so 484 mythril saved for fest. I used my draw ticket on core, got Elarra's BSB.

Luck of the Realms / Realms on Parade should be starting in just a few days I think. 12/9 seems like the most likely date.

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Black Friday day 9: 4/10 - Auron USB, Steiner OSB, Gladiolus OSB, dupe Xezat USB.

4 discos looked exciting but it was mostly pretty bad. But my next pull more than made up for it...

100 gem: Red XIII Awakening!

I have his chain so this was my most wanted item on the banner. Now I have 2/3 of my earth magic "R team" in place with Red XIII and Rydia, just need to get Rinoa's stuff in the fest.
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mccheyne posted...

I know there's a site, or something similar, that distinguishes between the different types of the same USB (Tyro USB1 vs USB2 for example), which basically lets you know which one is which. Anyone have that link, or know what it is?

I always refer to the community spreadsheet (formerly Enlir's spreadsheet). It doesn't actually number them but it shows them in order. And it has sooo much other useful info. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f8OJIQhpycljDQ8QNDk_va1GJ1u7RVoMaNjFcHH0LKk/edit
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Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR
Day 4: 2/10 - Y'shtola USB1, dupe Kain USB1
Day 5: 1/10 - Dupe Bartz BSB (wind)
Day 6: 2/10 - Marach USB, dupe WOL AOSB
Day 7: 3/10 - Ashe AOSB, Agrias USB, Ricard LMR
Day 8: 2/10 - Dupe Maria USB, Dupe Aerith USB2
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Congrats! That's a nice pull. Mine:

Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR
Day 4: 2/10 - Y'shtola USB1, dupe Kain USB1
Day 5: 1/10 - Dupe Bartz BSB (wind)
Day 6: 2/10 - Marach USB, dupe WOL AOSB
Day 7: 3/10 - Ashe AOSB, Agrias USB, Ricard LMR

Pretty good. I'm planning to draw on the Ashe Sync/Awakening fest banner so the AOSB could be useful for Leviathan.
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Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR
Day 4: 2/10 - Y'shtola USB1, dupe Kain USB1
Day 5: 1/10 - Dupe Bartz BSB (wind)
Day 6: 2/10 - Marach USB, dupe WOL AOSB

SSJSephirothGokuX123 posted...

I was also tempted to do the Legend Materia dream select but I checked and CoD's instant cast LMR isn't there.

I'd definitely wait til next time (in about a month) when you get 2 LMR selections for $30 instead of one.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR
Day 4: 2/10 - Y'shtola USB1, dupe Kain USB1
Day 5: 1/10 - Dupe Bartz BSB (wind)

My expectations for the free draw were low, but meh. I'm getting impatient for the real fest since I'm sitting on 434 mythril and none of the banners before that excite me. Probably saving my realm ticket until after the BF draws too.

I did sub-30 the FF2 torment so that's 10 down, 7 to go. Once the BF draws are done I plan to grab Zidane's USB2 with Anima lenses, and also see how I can do on T0 with Rem's awakening.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Just finished the FF2 torment in 30.03. fml

Awakening draw: 2/11
Zell USB
Seymour LMR (eww)

Don't really think the others are worse the money but I'm tempted to do AOSB select for Terra. Going to take Rem for Awakening but I'll wait until the end of black friday pulls just in case I get it.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR
Day 4: 2/10 - Y'shtola USB1, dupe Kain USB1

Also got Seifer's AOSB on the daily draw which is better than everything I've gotten so far for black friday!
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB
Day 3: 3/10 - Dupe Aranea USB, dupe Regis USB, dupe Maria LMR

So far 6 dupes and 2 non dupes.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Day 1: 2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
Day 2: 3/10 - Orlandu Glint, dupe Vivi USB, dupe Reks USB

I tried the FF2 torment again with my Minwu USB last night... got my time down from ~43 to ~38 but still a ways to go there.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

2/10 - Minwu doublecast USB, dupe Lenna USB2
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Starting the black friday dupe draws a little early - got a dupe Alphinaud BSB on the daily draw this morning.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Yeah, I wanted Vaan USB1+USB2 combo a lot back in the day, but I'm reluctant to spend 2000 lenses on him now since I never use him for anything else. I don't have the healer awakening either, so maybe if I get it I will spend on Vaan.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Impressive! As I remember XII was the most annoying one at the d280 level. I'm not planning to try it until I have some awakenings. Hope I get Ashe in the fest.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

So, no banner today because for some reason the Titan-bait banner came out weeks ago and already closed. Not a big deal for me though since I already managed to beat Titan. I wonder when we're going to get the golden week stuff and dream select banners that were datamined.
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https://imgur.com/a/FoAHJSO

Finally did it! I hope the next three runs are easier. The funny thing is what I was trying to do in this run didn't even work. Bartz was supposed to break rage mode and then Cloud's AOSB was supposed to go off - but Bartz doublecast triggered and pushed the rage back up to 1. Cloud did 40k x20 +99k when he should have done at least 200k more if rage was 0. But I kept going and it barely worked.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

The more I do this fight the more I hate the stupid wall gimmicks and the level 3 rage. I've lost so many fights because his rage goes up right before I land a hit, or I get a doublecast trigger at the wrong time that pushes him into wall stage.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Used my ticket on XV. Saw three rainbox and three discos and got excited.

- 2x dupe Iris USB
- Noctis OSB
- dupe Ignis LMR
- Iris LMR
- Noctis LMR (sword damage)

That was pretty disappointing after seeing 6/11. Guess I'll be pulling here again in 15 days since I still don't have any of the top end items.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

I've tried Titan a bunch more times today and every one of them has been worse than my runs yesterday. It's pretty frustrating, breaking savage mode without pushing him into phase 2 is really tough, I've only managed to skip phase 2 completely once and that was in my second try ever yesterday.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

https://i.imgur.com/r4hg6r8.png

Ugggghhh. Cloud's "finisher" USB went off about .2 seconds after the chain expired. It still dealt 150k so I'm pretty sure this would have been a victory. Oh well. I'll definitely get there, this was only attempt #2, but I think it'll probably be tomorrow.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Oh, forgot to mention that he seems way easier to stay alive against than Odin. I made it all the way to the final ejection move on my first try, only losing one character in the last phase. He's just way tankier, with the walls and the 3 million HP.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

First Titan attempt... this seems doable. I think I did around 85% and that was with Cloud's AOSB going off right after chain expired. I need to figure out when to use that appropriately - if I can skip a couple walls that would make a huge difference. I think I should also remember I can break walls with Bartz's OSB... it's basically a wasted turn if he does anything else when a wall is up.

I am actually wondering if Cloud's USB2 would be better than his awakening for this fight just because you can use it more than once. The chase is not that much weaker than a second Raging Quadstrike. On the other hand using just his glint and his USB1 was pretty good.

Bartz got in some good hits in awakened mode and he was good for building chain but overall he's not that great here... at least not with what I have. Having to cast his BSB multiple times really sucks. His USB3 probably would help a lot. Surprisingly, his OSB turned out to be more useful than I expected, I was spamming it at the end of the fight to break rage mode, and then because he had nothing else to do after the mega skill slash at the end.

Tyro's awakening would be nice mostly for the unlimited hones. He did fine for most of the fight but he had nothing to do for the last few rounds.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

That video is completely ridiculous. Doing basically nothing for the first 44 seconds? Barret USB1? I hope a more conventional approach can work, I don't think I could keep everything straight in my head for a 1:30 fight.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

If you're using Alphinaud you must be using Titan, right? Brothers is coming with the XI event on November 28, so you might want to wait for that and see if you can save $30.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Who's ready for Titan? It's dropping tomorrow at event time. I honestly have no idea if I'm ready, my wind team that I beat Odin with was Cloud (USB1, AASB, glint, AOSB), Bartz (BSB, USB1, AASB), Zack (CSB, BSB), Tyro (DVG, USB4), and Elarra (USB1,USB2). I'll give it a try with that team and see how it goes. My understanding is you want to just build up your SB bar while in phase 1 and then unload everything as fast as possible since the later phases are more damaging. I haven't really read up on it all that much though.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

December 5 if they keep the same event order as Japan. But I wouldn't be surprised if they push it back a week or two.
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WhiteLens posted...

5/40 on the free pull

Fang LM
Wakka USB dupe
Faris CSB dupe
Seifer Awakening
Ashe Awakening

2 Awakening, not bad at all.

Ugggh, those are two of my more wanted Awakenings too. Jealous...
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Free 40 draw:
Dupe Celes Chain
Dupe Gordon USB
Delita Glint
Bartz Glint
Golbez en-Dark LMR
Agrias doublecast LMR

Free shared draw:
Bow and 2 staffs

The two LMRs are decent, everything else kinda sucks.
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His USB2 is definitely better by itself but it seems like his USB1 might combo better with his AASB - which will be one of the (few) options on the AASB select and also shows up on the IX banner on Nov. 21. So I'm going to wait and see what I get on the 40 pull, and then see whether I can beat Titan with what I have (which would mean I probably don't to take Zidane's AASB on the dream select).
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Yeah, the free 40 pull is great news. Especially since when it was datamined it seemed like it might replace the 10x10 free pulls from Golden Week... but now there's at least a chance we'll get that too.

Sub 30d the XIV torment, 28.28. Only took about 4-5 tries the first few to figure out what I needed to do to survive the first 5 seconds and then one run to clear it. Magia and finishing up some dives was all it took (plus the Minfilia LMR I got in the last Luck of the Realms). Y'shtola USB2 is good with a mage team. Guess I should see what I can do on some of the others. FF2 and FF9 were the ones I'm close-ish on (both times in the low 40s). I might invest in one of Zidane's USBs to help on that one. 1, 10, 12, 13, 15, and T0 are the ones where I'm not even close.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience