Board 8 > Tales of Crestoria Topic 2 - No Earthly Good

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I use them in the substone grid for matching weapon/type, especially since I've been using SSR and SR for characters/awakening. Probably not the best use, but it works okay for now.

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Oh right I forgot the substone grid existed. How much of a difference does leveling those up make?

Also my team is finally strong enough to solo a Normal difficulty raid and it feels cool. Progression!!!

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Man, people talking about the stupid Arena AI and I'm just over here auto'ing every Arena fight. I think I have like a 90-92% win rate.

With the substone grid, keep in mind it's better to field 9 of the same weapon type even if it means fielding Rares rather than fielding a mish-mash of SR and SSRs. I still use R's because of this (I can actually only field 4-4-1 in weapon types) but I imagine if you summon a few times this becomes a non issue.

I want to say leveling up your subgrid doesn't make a huge difference since you're only getting 10-15% of their stats however the difference from leveling character up just a little bit is huge and they don't seem to get that much stats on level up. So yeah it's probably worthwhile to level them up.

3 SR summon. Got a Jade and a Magilou for a good new Wind and a fun new Water. I really like using my Wind team, even if it's been fairly impractical. If I can Awakening even one of my three Wind spears, there's some great synergies. I just wish I had another SSR in there.

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Yeah, it's definitely Character > Primary Sub-stones >>> Secondary Sub-stones for levelling.

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It's kinda nice just being able to jump into Normal modes and know I'm going to get runner-up or MVP. Hard mode too to an extent. Difference between level ~70 and ~80 seems huge even if the stats aren't. I half wonder if there's something in the formula that accounts for level difference too.

Man I told myself I would keep my team balanced instead of dumping all my resources into Velvet but I gave her Kyle's memoria stone (super good statline and ability for her) early on and I've drawn five more since then. She's pulling ahead of the pack no matter what I do.

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Someone give me a crash corse on shards. I think I completely missed the memo about getting these things and under what circumstances. I have one silver an that's it.

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You can convert memoria into shards. Rare to silver, SR to gold, SSR ro Rainbow. One shard per memoria regardless of rarity.

Oh, so leveling or ascending them provides no additional benefit?

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Not sure, haven't tried to convert anything that is leveled or ascended but I doubt it.

Anxious because all the new stuff drop in less than 6 hours, don't know what to do while I wait!

Also there's several hours of maintenance tomorrow night, imagine it's going to be a big bug fix session and they'll probably be gifting out the compensation they mentioned through the various notices.

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What new stuff is dropping outside of seasonals? I'm not super interested in those.

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crestoria stamina all used up before maintenance ouyaa

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Grimlyn posted...

crestoria stamina all used up before maintenance ouyaa

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What time is maintenance up?

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iiicon posted...

What time is maintenance up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEx01zi1MUk

(EST)

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Random tip: turn off your mystic art animations during raids. Can drastically shorten the time it takes to complete a turn, which means more turns overall.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Random tip: turn off your mystic art animations during raids. Can drastically shorten the time it takes to complete a turn, which means more turns overall.

Wheres the option for that?

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Hit the Aid button during raid and it's somewhere in that menu.

Did 2 summons on the banner. First was a 1 SR / 9 R pull (that shit should be banned). Second was a 1 SSR / 3 SR pull with Summer Veigue. Down to 18.5k stones now so will probably see what the verdict is on Summer Kanonno before pulling more but theoretically she's a good hybrid healer for when healing becomes requires and her Memoria looks good.

Also I dislike how the first limited banner is basically a child in a bikini. That is creepy as hell especially as the 3D model has her with more clothes on and looking slightly older. Like why couldn't they have gone with the less creepy option and gone with the 3D model in the 2D art too.

I mean...teenage girls wear bikinis. I'm on vacation right now and my younger cousins are wearing bikinis everyday...

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Having one of your big SSRs rendered useless by element weakness is a bummer! I guess that's how it goes. Guess it's time to level up my buddy Lloyd a bit.

...I realize I will appreciate it in the future, but right now pulling SSR dupes sucks. Another Estelle.

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Summer Kanonno seems pretty good to me in theory too. Especially with that OL boosting memoria. The focus rates are not good though. 1.4% chance to get either banner unit

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Emergency maintenance?

Now its a real gacha

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Probably because Summer Veigue wasn't critting

There will be another swimsuit banner. Chapter 5 before the end of July.

If I'm reading this right....there will be and update soon where you can auto complete quests you've done before without having to actually fight?? I assume that MUST only apply to story quests.

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crying every time I see Estelle on an opposing arena team

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So I did my 10-ticket pull and got SSR Milla and Estelle. I guess I'm good on Light!

Also, I don't think this summer banner is limited. I can't seem to find anywhere that says they're only available for a limited time, and the fact that it says Premium Summons seems to imply that they're gonna get added to the regular pool.

I did 2 multis on that banner and got SSR......Sorey.

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I did a pull and got junk!

Ready to see how bad the event grinds are in this game. I'm capable of auto-ing the hardest difficulty at least and the drop rate seems not awful, but I haven't seen any calculations on how much stuff you need to buy everything from the shop.

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Raids give a decent amount too.

The Mana Sword posted...

I did a pull and got junk!

Ready to see how bad the event grinds are in this game. I'm capable of auto-ing the hardest difficulty at least and the drop rate seems not awful, but I haven't seen any calculations on how much stuff you need to buy everything from the shop.

Based on the rate at which I am getting both event points and event currency, it will be little issue getting each of the event Memoria stones to +5. The only thing I haven't looked into is the attachment grind, but I imagine that limited pool will continue in the future since there's gonna be another summer swimwear banner.

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And yeah, raids are key. Don't bother at all with the regular battles on e you get all the stone out of them.

I'm honestly a little surprised that you can get to +5 on the Memoria through just the points (2 of each) and event currency (3 of each) , and don't actually need any of the raid drops. Theoretically they're just free gold and rainbow shards if you get them.

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Just added up quick, and it looks like you need 18,550 of currency to get everything in the exchange shop. Lv. 6 looks like it nets around 75 or so per run? Only ~250 runs to get everything, which is around 4k stamina. You accumulate 480 stamina per day without refreshes, so that's a little under 10 days of playing nonstop. Which is theoretically possible because the event lasts 11, plus raids you do.

So, not great.

Edit: I haven't done the raids yet so I'm not sure how much you get from them. Is it significant?

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I think I got over 300 on the Very Hard raid last time. Dunno how much you would get if you got in on someone else's raid early, around 100 of that I got for being the one who started it.

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Also jeeeeeeesus I already take back my earlier annoyance about the Estelle dupe, hard to even describe how important she is for the higher difficulty raids.

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Wait really? I'm not talking about event points, I'm talking about the Sylvangems. I just aided in a V. Hard raid, got 2nd in contribution and only got like 40.

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got Jude with a multi

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Looks like I overestimated, because I just did one. It's more like 70 from starting and about 100-120 more if you get up there in the ranks.

I've never not gotten first when starting a raid, so I assume a lot of people are autoing.

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How are you getting that much

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Everyone's doing raids so there's not enough people to support. I sent out for aid and literally no one joined lol

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Also jeeeeeeesus I already take back my earlier annoyance about the Estelle dupe, hard to even describe how important she is for the higher difficulty raids.

That's why I decided to use my free pick on her. And I like her, of course. Healers tend to have a lot of utility

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Yeah getting like 25 gems for spending 5 minutes aiding in a Hard raid where I got 2/4 participation.

"Wow"

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dont worry ermine ill be there to help when i unlock the raids!!

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I don't know what we're doing different. Already got my first Farah and halfway to the second.

You know you can, just, like....sit in a raid if you need to until support comes, there's no time limit on a turn to turn basis.

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Yeah, okay, so from my experience, you need to either start the raid or get MVP to get anything significant. If you come in second on a very hard raid that you're aiding you're still only getting like 30.

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Yeah, there's almost no point in aiding, unless you don't really care about mats in the other main raids and also have hours to waste.

If you host you get decent gems at least, but that means everyone will host and no one will join which is exactly what I got earlier.

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I think your problem is that no one wants to bother aiding in Hard raids. Everyone is doing Very Hard.

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Really because I hosted a Very Hard raid and no one joined for 5 minutes XDDD

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