Lurker > Kaxon

Geez, the big tornadoes hit hard and back to back. I was only able to kill 3 in time and got hit with the second stongest attack (just below the auto eject one) after the tornadoes had already destroyed most of my last stands.

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

I forget, did you get Squall's sync? I tried once, wasn't prepared for how much damage those tornadoes eat up. I have no syncs for this, just awakenings. I'll give it another try in a bit.

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

If I were you I'd try magic, since you can use summons to do AOE damage on the tornadoes. And obviously Serah's chain is better for magic.

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

I also got Squall's ability too, my first one. I hope it's good. I think I should be pretty ready, but I'm not sure how hard to expect this one to be.

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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 not sure if this dream select is even worth doing for me. I guess I should probably do the awakening one but there's no clear picks since the list is so restricted and I already have a bunch of them. I guess the main options are:

• Seifer - I have his dark chain and Alexander will be the next magicite after Valefor. But I really dislike him as a character, and he also needs to juggle chain, awakening, and ultra because he doesn't have an en-dark glint. Part of me wants to just pull for Shadow's chain on the Fat Chocobo event. But if I miss it then I might regret passing on Seifer here.
• Zidane - Would be for the first Phantasm, but mostly because I like Zidane really. I do already have three awakenings for iX (Beatrix, Freya, and Vivi) but getting Zidane would let me make an all-physical team which might work better, especially since I have Quina's USB (+50% attack, proshellga, hastega).
• Rinoa - Eventually would get used for magic Valefor. But I'm not planning to do that soon, and I already have her Sync so it may be unnecessary
• Raines? - Guess I could go for a magic dark clear first instead of physical - I do have Golbez's chain. But I have Seph's Awakening and USB2 so physical seems easier.

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

Got my first Shiva clear. That wasn't that bad... nowhere near as annoying as Ifrit. The biggest challenge is still the way your damage is totally nerfed in phase 3 (Vivi was doing 7500 per hit with Chain Firaja in Awakened mode against rage level 3... that's with an artifact weapon, a damage RM, a 25% damage boost LM, two magic boons on my magicite and I think 2 stacks of enfire). Luckily Terra with Lunar Ifrit is still capable of breaking savage mode.

After I get my four clears I need to start preparing for Valefor. Looks like the team is going to be Celes, Squall, Laguna, Elarra, and (probably) Tyro. I might sub out Tyro for Aerith if I need more healing. I will probably take my first HA for either Celes or Squall. My heart says Celes but my head says Squall since I think Squall is more useable for fire than Celes is for holy.

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

Hmm, so I realized that I completely misunderstood the Shiva fight and you're NOT supposed to blow up the walls... or at least I think you're not? You're just supposed to spend phase 1 setting up and then melt Shiva as fast as you can in phases 2 and 3. That's a bit of a bummer because it means Terra doesn't really want to use summons, which leaves me with only two 6* spells to divide between three casters. None of them can use the new witch ability. Vincent's damage is already pathetic in phase 3 with Meltdown so I don't really want to give him chain firaga, but his damage is still important in phase 1 & 2 so I don't want to just give him burnt offering. Meh, guess I'll have to experiment.

Anyone know how useful his radiant shield BSB is in this fight?

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

I used mine on IX, got a dupe Eiko bUSB and Beatrix's Awakening!! That should help with Magicite and Phantasm.

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

Alright, finally got my 4 Ifrits so I don't have to worry about that fight again for a long time. Nice to know it should be a little easier when I get around to doing my magic clear.

Gave Shiva an attempt, those ice walls are BEEFY. I thought Terra would be able to blow them away with her sync command 2 linked to a summon but that didn't happen. After the fight I invested in unlocking a big chunk of her record board so hopefully she'll do better damage next time. I actually could really use the buffed omni-elemental version of Ultima so Vivi could do AOE damage too... oh well, probably don't need it.

And yeah, if I were you I would just put off wind odin until you get more stuff naturally.

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

I still haven't gotten my 4 Ifrits yet, and I've had so many deaths to absolute BS mechanics - mostly having last stand pop, instantly queuing up Aerith USB2, and then having sap kill me before the USB goes off. But also a few deaths to the good old trying to use my healing USB, having it preempted by an animation, and then having the boss kill me before I can reenter the USB. For me this is definitely the worst fight in the 5 year history of the game.

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

Which boss and what team were you trying so far?

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

I used my tickets on FF7.

First pull - 5/11 (3 discos) - ALL dupes
Second pull - 3/11 - Shelke chain, Red XIII LMR, dupe Rufus LMR.

Physical lightning chain might be kinda useful. I'm not planning to spend mythril on these since the pools are just too big.

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