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Yeah if you skip the walls the heal (+barice iirc?) is unavoidable. Presumably having balthier for imperils helps with that; my chainer was Vivi who was otherwise dead weight

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I skipped the walls pretty easily with my fire magic team (though it took me quite a few tries to deal with her tankiness in P3). I think Papa pretty much handled P2 himself for me with his sync, so I would think youd have a pretty easily time doing the same with that team as long as you have your BDLs up.

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Yiazmat down

That was an interesting fight!

(Also Zeromus, which was dumb and seems like it would have been very annoying pre-power creep)

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Thanks for the suggestion; I got the kill!

Barely missed the sub-30; Lightning ran out of her sync and I had to rechain mid-P3, but Delita was somehow still capping at low chain anyway!

Used the ticket on earth... Galuf chain!!
(though my Galuf is my main earth phys dps with a sync and both AAs, so finding the gauge for him to chain might be difficult...)

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Ahh yeah I forgot he was technically a dragoon!

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Hrm I guess ideally I could raise him with Elarras AASB, but Im not sure I can survive that long without using it beforehand (especially since I would also want to hold off on using Mogs since then Delita would be missing buffs).

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Tried a few more times and got him to 6%, but I cant seem to get to phase 2 fast enough to save Delita

Im pretty sure I must be missing something. Is there a way to get an air bubble in P1? Because when the doom counter drops to 5 Im typically just getting Lightnings sync and Delitas awakening online; getting through 25% of his hp, targeting the bubble, and acting in like 5 seconds seems like it would have been impossible pre-power creep.

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Tried phys-weak Leviathan once and got him a bit below 30%.

I had a few major screw ups (Delita suffocating at the beginning of P2, Cater getting her only infusion quickly removed, Lightning dying at the beginning of P3) so hopefully I can turn it into a win

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Guess its the price you have to pay to be afk!

Anyway, I farmed about 50M; I had some bad runs end up taking like 33s due to characters dying or Papas sync running out before Shadowsmith dies, but the only thing Ive seen so far that actually tanks a run is Papa dying to his opening attacks (I guess his HP is just low enough to possibly die from incoming damage fluctuations).

I also just noticed I have about 800 +lenses; not sure which HAs to get next! Right now I have them for Alphinaud, Mog, Red, Lightning, and Rem.


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Ah got it. Yeah I think this auto team isn't quite fast enough for one chain so ideally he'd do C-->X-->C which doesn't look doable. It's now worked three times in a row though so I guess it's probably good enough as is

(I might play around with giving him a non-gauge RM like TGM or something to delay subsequent chains, though that might not be worth it since then I think he'd be the one to use Ifrit and the first chain will be delayed anyway).

Oh wait I'm dumb, TGM is reduced delay not ATB; I'll see if that helps

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Ah okay, so I guess there's probably not a great way to avoid it then

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Okay, got the auto-kill in 27.5 seconds (though Im not yet sure if its stable against bad wcast rng)

One thing I did notice: Vivi kept recasting his chain of whenever he got the bars for it, which was actually several times in P3 (its his only SB other than an ultra-trash unique or something). Is there any way to avoid that? Like if I had a second SB on him, would it use SB1>2>1>2 etc, or just repeatedly use 1? Ive only used auto for completely trivial content in the past so Im not sure exactly how the AI works.

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Took down transcendent Shadowsmith. It was a sloppy 32 secondish kill though (with my fire magic team since it's one of the only ones on which I have an actual chain user), so I'm not too optimistic about being able to set up an auto team to farm gil!

Hmm actually maybe I can after all; I tried again switching out Terra for Cater (since relying on Ifrit for imperils made building gauge too slow) and killed him in 22; Vivi's still not doing much besides putting up chain, though

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Pulled on the other FFT banner since it was half price and has Orrans AASB

1/11, Agrias AOSB :/

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100 cardia ticket was a bust (Tifa G+, Dr. Mog LMR)

Think thats the last easy ticket I had left to get!

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Congrats!

I haven't done Ifrit myself, but my understanding is that he's one of the harder ones

Kaxon posted...

I think Shadowsmith is supposed to be the toughest dreambreaker. When I tried him he had crazy damage, he's one of two I haven't beaten yet (the other is FF1).

For some reason I was under the impression that he was supposed to be on the easier side, but yeah it seemed like he demanded an aoe heal basically every single turn

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Also just got Core DB a bit below 60 to at least pick up the 3x 30% DB rat tails. Shadowsmiths incoming damage seemed pretty insane; I could only keep up because I used both Elarra and Mogs awakenings in P1 (which obviously would not have been ideal had I been aiming for the win).

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Got a ticket from 95 cardia clears and used it on earth... 1/11, Rinoa LBO

Guess that helps my ice magic and VIII a bit, but it wont do anything for my earth teams...!

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Took down the D450... pretty sure I wouldnt have been able to get the sub-30 without that dyad

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Did the one FFT pull

2/11, TGC dyad, Meliadoul G+

TGC dyad is definitely not nothing, but I was hoping for one of the syncs. Down to 67 mythril though so thats gonna have to be it.

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Thanks! Im really glad T-0 didnt worked on my first real try this go round; not sure I had it in me to spend several hours figuring it out like for my original XIV clear...!

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Speaking of... kinda sad that the overdrive only took a little more than one second off of my time, but Ill take it!



Alphys dyad did about 13% at the end there before an HC chase finished him off.

And haha nope my FFT is terrible; Im just hoping to be able to get the D450 tails for that one (yeah I might pull once, but all I have is Delitas AASB+some Ovelia stuff). My next best realms are probably core and XIII (but my Vanille sucks for XIII and I dont have a good third dps for core).

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Nope, but given that I've already cleared XIV before normally I imagine I should be able to reclear easily enough with the free overdrive (don't think I want to gamble that mythril on core, and nothing else seems remotely doable for me).

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Managed to beat the T-0 DB even with Mog dying around 50% and my chain running out around 10%! Thankfully I had already used Mogs awakening for the first DB counter and had Caters ready for the second.



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Do you normally use one chain in P1 and then another after the wall? Or wait until P2 for the first chain?

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Got T-0s DK down to 56%

That 5 second wall mechanic is so obnoxious

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Congrats!

Is that all of them for you?

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Hrm, it probably doesn't matter a ton, but I wonder if it would be better to go fire or ice for Cater and Trey for the DB. The only difference is that Trey's AASB has an element-dependent chase; fire gives a 40% damage reduction barrier, while ice gives +ice every other usage.

Leaning towards fire, though I guess ice might be preferable if it made the difference in rage-breaking?

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Waluigi1 posted...

So Pfizer is now FDA approved. Think that'll change anyone's mind?

I doubt it.

The biggest upside is that it should help encourage more employer mandates

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Pfizer has received full FDA approval

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Used my 15 day ticket on II again (and had a connection error during the pull)

It went through though... 1/11, Emperor AASB! Finally.

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Failed in my first attempt to redo XIV DB... got him down to about 7% before timing out

Hopefully it doesnt take me too long to remember how I did it the first time!

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Ill either use it on T-0 if I have a hard time with that one or XIV if I dont so I can get the sub-30 (I barely missed it last time so I could almost certainly do so without it, but theres no third DB in reach for me at the moment)

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I actually have Arcs AASB2 (and nothing else besides a BSB). No hope of doing that DB anytime soon, though!

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Used the ticket on II... Guy USB, Emperor LMR

Still cant get a cap break for this realm!

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Yeah I tried the DB once a few weeks ago and got him to about 50% before getting killed by his %max attack; Im pretty confident I can beat him as long as I look up when I need to be fully healed. I also have two FB counters between Mog and Cater.

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I think I probably have a good shot of at least beating the DB for T-0, so Ill try to get that done. I have five BDLs on my team including Rems sync+AA combo so I assume the bahamuts doable too, but I dont know if Ill actually be able to pull it off.

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Hrm, tempted to pull on the second T0 banner since I'd really like to get Deuce's awakening/sync (Seven stuff would also be useful since my ice magic team could use some help); on the other hand, I already have the Cater and Machina AASBs and my mythril is quite low.

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Good explainer on how the data supposedly showing a huge decrease in vaccine efficacy in Israel is actually to a large extent caused by a statistical anomaly known as Simpsons Paradox:

https://twitter.com/birdyword/status/1428001457341665283?s=21

Basically, since those most at risk for covid are also those who are most likely to be vaccinated, it can look like the vaccine is much less effective than it is in reality because being vaccinated means youre more likely to be old, and being old means youre more likely to get severe covid.

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Ouch, that sucks

Congrats on the kill though!

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Type-0 500 Gilgamesh ended up being very easy as well; also realized I had only slightly RBed Cater and Trey. Whoops!

I think I should be able to do at least one more 500 with XIII and pick up those + lenses (assuming Vanille can heal with just her BSB + Mog assist); not positive I'll be able to do three 550s or five 500s.

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You dont need to know which attacks are tankbusters for a long time; theyre not gonna kill you until party finder level content (also theyre usually the really long casts so you can guess)

Honestly I rarely even use my long defensive cds against dungeon bosses (except maybe some of the ShB leveling ones) since they overall are much less dangerous than trash mobs assuming youre pulling multiple packs at once.

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I actually have five dyads (Alphinaud, Ayame, Rikku, Rydia, and Tifa)

Don't have much else for the last three, but it's definitely helpful on Alphy!

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Got 550 XIV Gilgamesh down pretty easily; hopefully I can get at least a few of the other realms 500s down this time (and maybe 550 for T-0)

Too bad theres no core version...

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I have no impression that PLD isnt well liked... I think the jobs that Ive seen the least satisfaction with in ShB were MNK (though mostly pre-rework), SCH, and BRD

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Guess Ill farm out Trey and Xezat gear... probably wont try too hard for 5/5/8 though since theyre both marginal members of their respective teams

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Yesmar_ posted...

Is there a reason why there's no Democratic Bustamante figure running in the CA recall like last time in case Newsom loses? If Newsom loses the recall, some wackjob with 20% could actually win, but an anti-recall Democrat running as a backup could beat that pretty easily. Are California Dems just being that cocky?

Yeah, the reason is that Dems want to portray this as "Newsom vs a Republican" instead of "Newsom vs [insert your favorite candidate]." A legitimate Dem running would draw more "yes" votes for the recall question as well from voters who don't realize that a Republican will almost certainly get a plurality and be the replacement.

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Seanchan posted...

LOL, ONLY 42% EFFECTIVE!!!1! MIGHT AS WELL BE ZERO, FUCKK FAUCHI! (I'd say I don't have to point out that I'm joking...but you never know with this topic...)

https://www.foxnews.com/health/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-42-infection-delta-preprint

I guess possibly disappointing news but some protection is still better than no protection. Also need to consider the source as more likely to post the most anti-vax findings they can.

That's considerably lower than other studies (and I believe they didn't control for stuff like a significant portion of the unvaccinated population having immunity from a past covid infection)

But yeah even if it was only 42%, that would still be considerably better than 0

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I got a 6* yesterday but it was just a Ceodore USB

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Yeah I guess my prior is that Rand Paul doesnt need a financial incentive to be a piece of shit at all times

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