Board 8 > Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius Topic 36 - Malboro Man

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Well mainly the reason I was asking is because I don't have a Xon, and I wanted to know if Locke would be at all useful. I know some think Locke boosts the common item drop rate, Xon the rare drop rate, and Pod I don't know. But that's it.
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Pod is basically what the manufactured Nethicite is to a certain opera-singing blonde.

Locke we still don't know for sure if he helps or not.
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Holy crap...

I went to Menu > Trophies > Records and there are some things in there that surprised me.


-I've had 400 days total logged in. I have had 400 consecutive login days.

-I have earned 28,769,422 gil, but spent 25,698,455 gil. However, I only have 170,368 gil, so where is the missing 3,000,000 gil?

-Most damage in a single turn... 51,125,448. I have no idea when this happened.
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Wow they weren't kidding

Calixte just dealt 3k damage to Xon through my Mitigation

Xon got his vengeance and landed the killing Limit Burst blow though

Now to finally start TMR farming again
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Ah. Most attacks are magical...
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Yup, and it's all threshold-based too. Cross multiple thresholds (which are pretty close together), you get blasted to smithereens. I'm looking forward to seeing whether I can two-shot it, as I'm quite certain I won't be able to one-shot it.

I'm pulling pretty often on this banner. Not a 5k pull or anything (though it's kind of tempting, as I really like the way Light Veritas is built), but tickets as I get them and every daily. So far nothing great unfortunately, and the only golds came out as Garnets. Freaking Garnet. I think I found the troll gold unit that's going to follow me to the end of days. At least she gets a 6* eventually.... But yeah, gunning for that Wind Veritas because if I don't my Aileen will be permanently (unless I pull him later) behind everyone else.
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Yeah, I'm still recovering from the Nier Banner. I am back over 3k Lapis, so I'm assuming somewhere around the end of September I should feel comfortable doing the daily 1/2 pull again. Tickets are slowly being restocked thanks to a lot of the handouts we've gotten too, but still no where near the 50 minimum I like to hold on to for heavy pulling on events.

Still, I have an amazing account all things considered with me being free to play.
Ramza, Dracu Lasell, Elza, 3x Noctis, Orlandeau, Fryevia, Marie, Ace, 2x 2B, & A2 all as Rainbow pulls, and then the standard 5* freebies like Dangerous Ariana, Maxwell, and Y'shtola.


Just need to bide my time and before I know it I'll be back to pre-Nier Banner shape and ready to go all in on some other banner.
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I'm taking solace in the fact that I can easily skip the Onion Knight banner. Unless one of the 4* units is really, really good, I see no reason to chase OK myself. AFAIK the next big target after that is Ayaka, and I've no desire to chase her either. So while I'm not really able to build up resources yet, I think I'll be okay to skip some of the banners people will be going crazy for.

'Course that's what I said I'd do with the Nier Banner, and instead I pulled like crazy. :P
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...

Well.

Desch got his 45atk accessory.

Aria is your sub for some of our current healers. (Mega Phoenix, all ailment AoE cure, Full aoe recovery for 10 stone. MP battery.)
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yow, Calixte smashed my face in while I was trying to get the LB kill. Guess I need to go through that again for the moogle.
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I thought I was going to get wiped since I underestimated Spears since the idea was to get it to 70% or less before twin 2B exoskeleton kill. (I noticed too many 2Bs don't work on her LB levels... =_=' )
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Is her LB good?

After cleaning up my inventory and force feeding my Cactuars to everybody I can lay my hands on...

I'm left with:

Current 6*
4* Adam
4* Eve
4* Helena
4* Rassler (but out of Quality Parts. Damn you expeditions)

Future 6*
3* Heltich
4* Rosa
4* Ulrica

All of them maxed out and ready to be awakened.

I still have just enough Sacred Crystals and King Metal Minituars to max out 3 of the current batch. But eh, I'm saving them for now.
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10 hits, 1090% AoE.
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Done with story, back to TMR grinding Magical Crest/Champion's Belt
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Got both Calixte missions on the first go around. Took the slower path, only doing enough damage to hit a threshold once a turn so I could heal up. Never even used a reraise from Mighty Guard G, though I kept it up the whole time just in case. Definitely not using this stage to farm for crysts, though. That'll be the 85 NRG one, unless I want to just dive back into TMR farming.
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Figures that the Europa expy would be a painful boss.

Particle beam and extrandom atk usually killed 2 at once, but nothing tillith and a few raises/pheonix downs couldn't fix. Got both first try.

Now to clean up the few cleared ones (85,55) ...
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I had to do a few restarts to FTK the bastard with chaining towards dual 2B LBs. >_> (Almost maxed it out now to boot.)
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3rd off banner daily

Sigh
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I've had 1 on banner blue, 1 off banner blue, and two off banner golds so far.
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I think those saving for ayaka should be in the clear.

I'm already up to 28 tickets, so I can see those people hitting the 100 mark by now.
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as if 100 tickets is enough
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If you have 100 now, you'll have 170 by the time the event rolls around!
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Providing they don't drop her in a few weeks. (These coming few months will be wonky due to collabs.)
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voltch posted...

I think those saving for ayaka should be in the clear.

I'm already up to 28 tickets, so I can see those people hitting the 100 mark by now.

Was there some announcement about her being delayed for being too good? I tweeted to Shaly about that a while back. I only have 59 tickets right now, and I'm not spending a single one until Ayaka. Really hope she gets bumped back a few months!

My second Pod should be done around lunchtime. Then it's time to take down that damn plant. Wondering how DV with 10k HP will fare as a podbuilder. Should be fun!
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oh Ayaka is that close?

Hmm, on one hand, I'll have a reasonable number of tickets to go for her, on the other, I could skip it to up my Beatrix odds. Also kinda tempted to skip all and hoard with New Year's in mind, just because I feel like they could do a decent banner for Christmas/New Year's period.
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She should still be around a month away, but JP had some collabs between now and then that we won't get, like Monster Hunter, so she could be sooner than expected.
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That's why I am dartboarding her release since it can be on schedule or pushed back depending on if they deem her too good for us as is atm. (This can also backfire if too close to CG Fina.)
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Guessing we could get the MH collab pop up when Monster Hunter World gets released?

Would love to see the numbers on which banners generated the highest Lapis purchases/total pulls. Nier has to be up there, Orlandeau too.
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No doubt Nier was the most lucrative for them in GL so far.
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Well, Lightning was huge back then too.
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Is Ayaka a story event, or a mogcake type event? I've heard both and don't know which one is right.

Since Gumi has been pushing back overpowered stuff (WoL 6*, WoL enhancements, Ramza enhancements, etc), there's been some speculation that Ayaka will get delayed until December on the FFBE board. That gives me hope that I might have a shot.
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Ayaka is a "non-standard event", whatever that means. It's not story or mog king.
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December will see a waifu banner with Aileen, freyvia and reberta drop on us.


I wish
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There's been a lot of cooling (pun intended) on Fry lately because A2 outdamages her and the only unit some people want is the absolute best available at the time. I've heard that LV is also better, but it's just been from one person who is really vocal about it, so I have no idea how true that is. I'd think if she was that good there would have been more hype around her, but I only started hearing about LV as something to take down Marlboro. If she did hit on another banner or players choice I'm guessing it would still be pretty big though.
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Stuff from JP streaming.

http://imgur.com/a/WnFIO
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As usual I don't care about the very best units

Just gimme units good enough to clear the content I want to clear and who can double up as waifus.
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sephiroth :o
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... Timothy's waifu?
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And a magic tank!
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In all honesty, not doing daily pulls and saving tickets has been rather nice. I am already struggling monetarily to stay above 200k gil just to make sure I can do all my daily Explorations, so I don't need to pull something and feel the pressure to level and enhance it right now. I have plenty to work with anyways.

I'm gonna continue with my plan of recouping 7500+ Lapis before restarting 1/2 dailies again (up to 4k), and I wasn't planning on doing any extra pulls until I had over 50 tickets, but I might wait until I have almost 100 saved up again.
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Funding expeditions (that sometimes blow up in my face and I get nothing in return) hasn't been a problem for me.

It's going willy nilly with Ability Awakenings that did it.

Now I only have 10 mil Gil left for my future plans.
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Pram_the_Oracle posted...

Now I only have 10 mil Gil left for my future plans.

>stares at my 700k gil

Share some plz


Yea, my dailies have been shite. I don't realllly need anything on this banner, but i'd like to have another veritas.
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I only have 23 mil Gil left

I've only bothered enhancing two units
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8m

I don't do many s missions
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Only sitting on 6m gil.

Luckily snapper soup is on the menu soon..

crazygamer999 posted...

Pram_the_Oracle posted...

Now I only have 10 mil Gil left for my future plans.

>stares at my 700k gil

Share some plz


Yea, my dailies have been s***e. I don't realllly need anything on this banner, but i'd like to have another veritas.

To be honest you are better off waiting for their enhancements where WaV gets much better..
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Ace is underrated.
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crazygamer999 posted...

Pram_the_Oracle posted...

Now I only have 10 mil Gil left for my future plans.

>stares at my 700k gil

Share some plz

Sure

Set your friend gift to Gil and I'll send 20 Gil daily

At least it think it's 20 Gil. 10?
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RaidenZeroX posted...

Ace is underrated.

Where? Enhancements is what elevated him from the troll pile.
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Yeah, Ace is generally accepted as the best mage right now in Global.
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The Mana Sword posted...

Yeah, Ace is generally accepted as the best mage right now in Global.

And he's still underrated! He's that good.
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