Board 8 > Tales of Crestoria topic 8 - Best girl Velvet 2.0 woo

(+) Yeah! (+)

5 more pulls and you get an SSR ticket <_<

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i'm at 0 gleams so not sure how realistic that is :(

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I have seven at level 50 affinity. After seven, the next reward comes at ten.

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Just been casually doing that strategy today. Gone from Rank 69 to 72 with seven characters at affinity level 50 (Kongwai has gone from single digits to level 32). Didn't note where I started gleamstone wise but I believe it was around 10,000 and I'm at 15,000ish now.

Probably spent like 300 gleamstones maybe? Again haven't been been keeping track but definitely making more than I'm spending.

Could definitely rack up the levels/gleamstones if I really went at it.

Does skip not take into account the actual stats of your party at all?

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I'm pretty sure that your party is irrelevant

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I realize that the specific gleamstones login bonus today is probably in reference to something new year's specific in Japan....but boy is it annoying having an uneven amount of gleamstones <_<;

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Kinda. The amount from the login bonuses added up to 2021. So not Japan specific but yeah new years specific. I'm going to do my best to ignore the 1 at the end as well lol

summer kannono from free summon :3

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UGH damn you.

I am absolutely buying Summer Kannono for her stone once the free pick unlocks. I have 2 SSR Ascension Stones to get it started afterwards as well.

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Nice, I got Sophie from the free summon a couple of days ago.

I have three ascension stones saved up for S. Kannono as well. I haven't pulled the trigger on that one yet

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My only SSR so far from free pulls was Aegis, but that did put him at +5. Maxed his ascension board and his defense is so absurd, regardless of his passive skill. Comes in REAL handy now that I also know that all Mania Raids focus their heavy single target attacks on the character in 3rd slot of your party. Helps tremendously in the dark raid as well, putting the Rubia stone on slot 3.

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1 SR from the free summons for me. Certainly not going as well as the previous free summon experience!

my current gleamstone count is as good as it's gonna get with the 1 at the end lol

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I got up to 20k in the half anniversary event. It seems like it's unlikely that we'll meet any of the 'Everyone' goals at this point though, we're still far off from the first one

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Not sure why they though an unorganized push for a game wide score count on a 50AP event with multiple other simultaneous events would get that high, but they'll adjust in the future.

I'm doing some affinity grinding with gels to try and get enough gleamstones for the free SSR ticket (up to 70/100 currently so I think I might make it?) But does anyone know an easy way to check character affinity? The only way Ive found is going to their spot in the character room manually

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I ran into that problem as well. I think that's the only way, unfortunately. Rather cumbersome tbh.

I'm up to 8/10 pulls on this banner. I've still only pulled one SSR this entire time too, a single copy of Vicious. At least my good luck on the free summons has made up for it since I've gotten an Edna and a Kanata from there, but it's still pretty silly at this point. I really wanted Cherish too, she was the best character in Graces

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Bit of a content gap here since New Years is a longer banner than usual.

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We should be due for the next EX unit soon.

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There's a bunch of new stuff posted on twitter. Looks like 3 free new story characters are coming out, but you only get to pick one?

https://mobile.twitter.com/to_crestoria_EN/status/1349702223249358848

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Depending on the MA cost, likely going for Assid.

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I'm definitely a forte guy. He looks like he will help me clear floor 40

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Assid would likely help my team the most. I'll probably get Edna with the selector so that should make for a good Earth core without Forte

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It's looking like we'll be getting a other selector ticket as well if I'm reading this right, so theoretically could get them all if they're in the general list.

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If you have not already stocked up on SSR adornment stones, makes sure to do so within the next few hours!

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What do you mean?

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The half anniversary event ends tonight.

I have 30-60 of each the 5x Adornment stones in my inventory now (attack ones get used faster). Was easily able to get 9 Judas' to max adornment just in case.

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Yeah it seems like it typically it only takes like at most 5 of any one stone to max adorn a particular memoria stone. Been stocking up a bit myself but uh...I've been running into limit issues lol

Some of the specialty stones take a ton. I had already done it, but it would have taken more than a full 10 set of SSR attack stones for SSR Spada, and even Karol would take like 9.

I'm more than happy to use up tons of my actual Memoria leveling stones to make room, since getting SSR Memoria EXP is effortless now with Mania.

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I've yet to get a Spada and I am sad. I have a fully adorned Karol though. I think I used the regular adornment stones for him but I can't remember.

I'm still waiting on that first Spada. I have a maxed out Karol and another level 70 one.

I did four pulls on the new banner and got Forte, Assid, and Maid Rita. Perfect

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I got assid in two pulls. I wanted forte but I'll take it

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4 pulls and completed the main party with Yuna and got a duplicate Vicious and S. Rutee. Funnily enough, despite taking forever to pull a Fire SSR I quickly got a duplicate Fire SSR while this S. Rutee is my first duplicate Water SSR lol

Have enough for 6 more pulls. Considering the guaranteed SSR on the 4th pull and the hope fragments you get it's probably worth it to just got all in on this banner. Assid and Forte look nice too. Too bad Christmas Milla isn't included in this banner but I wasn't expecting her to be included.

Eizen and SSR Gaius incoming.

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i remember when people were looking forward to eizen half a year ago

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Couldnt care less about Gaius but Eizen is cool

Also I picked Kongwai for my free unit. I still somehow have only naturally gotten Kanata and Estelle as my only two light units, and they're both max awakened. I've even pulled an extra Kanata since max awakening him. But not a peep from any other light units

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Kongwai is great both as an arena finisher after a combo build up, and as a filler unit for non-dark raids (he gets a 2 turn MA in Dark Raids, so ironically least useful there)

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I'm not at all ready for Eizen after going in on this banner.

Light is my most popular element. The only one I am missing is Dhaos.

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Gone through the banner twice and got none of the new units lol. Pretty impressive considering the rates for those units on the 4th pull. On step 3 of a third run through but think that'll be it for me and it'll be time to start saving again.

Eizen is cool but yeah definitely not ready for him. Gaius is whatever. I won't have the gleamstones to pull for either of them even if they're good units though haha. Contemplating just saving for the 1 year anniversary if the half year anniversary was anything to go by lol

I dumped all my gleams into it and need three more times to get the selector. I figure I will finish that and save for a while. 2 Forte, 1 Makina, 1 Assid, and a handful of off banner stuff including my first copies of C. Mikleo and Kohaku. I'm not sure which of the three I will take with the selector yet.

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Oh yeah I'm 4 pulls away so maybe I'll do a 4th run through since I'll be halfway through a 4th anyway. We'll see how long it takes me to save up for it.

Hit my 4th banner pull after no SSRs on the first 3.



YEET

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Nice! Getting both is pretty sweet! Yeah despite not getting any of the 3 units I have gotten a number of non-banner SSRs so it hasn't been all bad!

Alright so he needs some extra defense (grid would help here but I'm in desperate need of another ascension raid), but Assid is def working for me better in the Fire raid than Rita with the Magilou Memoria. In a 4 turn fire raid Rita is a godlike finisher, but with the 3 turn regular raid she's hampered so much by needing Magilou.

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WHOOOO Forte was indeed able to help me just barely beat Floor 40.

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Awesome. What setup did you use?

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Yeah thats why I really want Forte :( hope i can get him. Wish I didnt waste all my gleams on the last banner

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Yankees posted...

Awesome. What setup did you use?

Forte, Maid Rita, Cress, Estelle. Rokuro and Anise awakened on the back line. Attack buff food, dual sword grid.

It was rough, so I'm not saying this is reliable, but I saved my strongest and AoE abilities, and my MAs, until the first turn that both of them are charging simultaneously. Estelle is just to heal, so her timing doesn't matter. Used Forte"s AOE, followed by Blade roll, then all focus goes to the guy on the RIGHT. He is the one who dies faster and needs to go first. Used Forte's MA, followed by Rita's MA (Kratos Memoria for the MA attack power buff), then Cress' Phoenix attack followed by his MA. Guy on the right was almost dead at this point, even though he buffs defense next turn still focus fire on him. Best case is he's debilitated.

You may lose units after that, but once it's just the guy on the left by himself he's kind of a pushover as long as Estelle and Cress are still alive. The guy on the right can one turn wipe your party himself pretty easily if you save him for last.

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