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    FFRK - Sworn By Steel (Tactics) Event & Strategies



    "An abomination -- a Lucavi killed your brother!" - Ramza
    "I am Meliadoul Tengille. You killed my brother Isilud at Riovannes. (Prepare to die!)" - Meliadoul

    Meliadoul's brother Isilud is killed at Riovanes Castle when their father, the leader of the Knights Templar Folmarv Tengille, transforms into the Lucavi demon Hashmal and goes on a rampage. Not knowing of the Lucavi or that Hashmal had possessed her father, Meliadoul comes to believe Ramza Beoulve, who had been labelled a heretic by the church, had killed her brother. She sets out for revenge, waiting for Ramza on the road to Zeltennia Castle.

    When Meliadoul confronts Ramza, he tries to explain the truth, but she won't listen. She attacks, but Ramza and his friends overpower her. Meliadoul vows she would strike at Ramza again and teleports away.

    Meliadoul prepares to strike at Ramza again as he approaches Limberry Castle to deal with Marquis Elmdore. Following Ramza into the castle basement, she witnesses Elmdore's transformation into Zalera, one of the Lucavi demons, after the Gemini auracite kept on his person glows. Meliadoul has Zalera admit Folmarv is also possessed by a Lucavi, and, realizing the truth, she helps Ramza defeat him.


    Event Start Date: September 14
    Event Bonus Battle: September 17
    Event End Date: September 24

    All information is taken from a mixture of Reddit/Spreadsheets/Kongpakbao Site and my own obviously expert analysis.

    Most info for the event comes from this site: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKee...ec&sh=1c063b7a

    Though the information provided is used as a guideline and not always taken directly from the thread. When necessary, additional thoughts on Cid Missions and battle strategies are added.

    Notable Rewards:
    Winged Boots - Accessory. Def +15 and moderate earth resistance.

    New Characters Acquired:
    Meliadoul - Combat 4, Support 5, Knight 5

    Dress Spheres Acquired:
    Armor won't help the heart stay sharp!

    Old Characters Acquired:
    Ovelia
    Delita
    Rapha
    Malak

    New Memory Crystals:
    Meliadoul MC1/MC2

    Old Memory Crystals
    Ovelia MC1/MC2
    Delita MC1/MC2
    Rapha MC1/MC2
    Malak MC1/MC2

    New Record Materia:
    Meliadoul RM1: Small chance for Attack to become Armor Break.
    Meliadoul RM2: Moderate boost to defense when equipping light armor.
    Meliadoul RM3: Deal significantly more damage when using Support abilities.

    New Legend Materia
    Rapha LM1: Skyseer's Secrets - Small thunder damage up.
    Rapha LM2: Mystery of the Sky - Moderate chance to doublecast thunder abilities.
    Malak LM1: Netherseer's Secrets - Small thunder damage up.
    Malak LM2: Nether Mystery - Moderate chance to doublecast thunder abilities.
    Delita LM1: Firm Resolve - Small Spellblade damage up.
    Delita LM2: Hero of the War of the Lions - Moderate chance to doublecast Spellblade abilities.
    Ovelia LM1: Gentle Princess - Small White Magic healing up.
    Ovelia LM2: Prayer for Ivalice - Small omni-elemental resist.

    New Record Sphere
    Meliadoul - Sword Damage +3%, Support damage +3%

    Characters Needed for Battles
    Complete 'Suicide's Follower EX' with a party of FFT heroes that includes Ramza.

    Cid Missions
    Complete Ultimate++ fight with a party of FFT heroes.

    Relics
    Everyone's favorite tsundere Knight Templar joins the fray. Otherwise known as "Cid isn't here. He went home."

    Honestly, if you're pulling here it is for Rapha/Malak and Meliadoul. The best of their items return and Meliadoul has everyones favorite set of Templar Knight abilities represented in her BSB and SSB respectively.

    There is a better "banner" set with the next FFT event that bring Marche and Montblanc from Tactics Advance, but it is a little ways away. The scheduling over the last month hasn't made it easy to budget either, so this could be a banner that you were looking forward to (like me) that are now passing on (like me).

    Banner 1:

    Focus here is on Rapha, Malak, and good ole Mel.

    Meliadoul brings a unique earth/holy typing with her BSB, pairing it with an entry of 7x random hits and Atk/Def -50%. Her commands are stackable versions of support breaks, offering 2 hits of Cmd1 Atk-40% or Cmd2 Atk/Mag-20%. Like her BSB, her SSB is 6 hits of AoE earth/holy damage with a rare earth imperil.

    Rapha has a party hastega USB that brings Faithga, quickcast 3, and en-thunder to the party. This pairs well with her *stackable* mag/res boost BSB, which also happens to deal thunder damage!

    Malak, personally, gets the better USB over his sister with Khamja Collusion. 8 hits of random thunder/non damage bring full breakdown and a party magic blink. Best of all, it's instant cast. His BSB and SSB also come back.

    Ovelia has her magic blink medica SSB return, and Cid's lone representation here is his SSB.

    Do note, that Meliadoul's SSB armor and Rapha/Malak's LM armors grant elemental resistance.

    Banner 2:

    Delita has a decent USB, though it could have used an EX mode. It has 10 hits of holy/fire/thunder/ice damage and packs a boost fit for a king in Atk, Res, and a 50% Crit Fix. Weakness hits will do an additional 10% damage. Which, like many offensive USB's, pairs well with his BSB that improves crit damage - also on this banner. His AoE Atk Breakdown SSB returns in addition to the above goodies.

    Ovelia is your main healer option until we get Alma in a little bit. But thats not a bad thing as her USB holds muster. Instant party curaga joins a 100% res boost and adds in last stand. Her damage oriented BSB only packs a cura medica, but the commands are Yshtola grade instant curaja and a medica.

    Mustadio, in a break from game canon, doesn't turn to stone when holding his reverse wall gun. He also has his pentabreak SSB come back.

    Leftovers here are Rapha's misplaced Hastega SSB and Ramza's Loudside.

    Legend Materias:
    Banner 1 - Rapha: 35% chance to gain shortcharge when using thunder element abilities.
    Banner 1 - Malak: Begin the battle with en-thunder.

    Banner 2 - Delita: Atk buildup based on spellblade abilities used. 2%-> 34%
    Banner 2 - Ovelia: 25% chance to doublecast White Magic abilities.

    Relic Discussion
    https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKee...o6&sh=130bb077

    http://ffrk.kongbakpao.com/event-133/

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    Bonus Battles
    Justice's Way
    Wiegraf
    HP: 90,459
    Target Score:
    • Reduce Wiegraf's attack.
    • Reduce Wiegraf's defense..

    Weak: None
    Absorb: None
    Resist: None
    Null: None
    Status Vulnerabilities: Slow

    Belias (w/Archaeodaemon)
    HP: Belias: 71,193 - Archaeodaemon: 33,223
    Target Score:
    • Reduce Belias' magic..
    • Reduce an Archaeodaemon's magic.

    Weak: None
    Absorb: None
    Resist: None
    Null: Archaeodaemon: Holy
    Status Vulnerabilities: Poison, Slow, Blind

    Notes:Wiegraf is 100% physical, and can shift between front and back rows.

    Belias is a mixed fight that can throw some status effects your way.

    Easy Mode: Bring a Cid OSB RW. Use one on Wiegraf, and another on Belias.

    suicide's Follower ++
    Meliadoul (w/Archer, Summoner)
    HP: Meliadoul: 101,961 - Archer/Summoner: 54,739
    Target Score:
    • Reduce Meliadoul's attack.
    • Reduce an Archer's attack.
    • Reduce a Summoner's magic.

    Weak: None
    Absorbs: None
    Resists: None
    Null: None
    Vulnerabilities: Slow

    Notes: Meliadoul and Archer are physical, Summoner is magic.

    Not a lot of HP to chew through and nothing fancy in the way of status or damaging hits. Just do it.

    Temple Knight's Wish +++
    Isilud (w/Knight, Archer, Summoner)
    HP: Isilud: 157,217 - K/A/S: 60,506
    Target Score:
    • Reduce Isilud's attack.
    • Reduce a Knight's attack.
    • Reduce a Summoner's magic.

    Weak: None
    Absorbs: None
    Resist: None
    Null: None
    Vulnerabilities: Slow

    Notes: Nothing different from the fight before it aside from backups arriving if you kill the mooks. Knock Isilud around since you only need to best him to win.

    Ultimate + Apocalypse Battles
    Trial Order (U)
    凶Various Job Classes
    HP: Range: 30-90,000
    Target Score:
    • Reduce a 凶Monk's attack.
    • Reduce a 凶Knight's attack.
    • Reduce a 凶Black Mage's magic.

    Weak: None
    Absorbs: None
    Resist: None
    Null: None
    Vulnerabilities: None

    Notes and Strategies: Haha. Fight is possibly easier than FFIV's Calcabrina CM.

    You'll face 3 waves of enemies: Monk/Archer/Thief, then Knight/Time Mage/White Mage and finally Black Mage/Summoner/Summoner. Not a lot of HP to bite, and AoE is the order of the day.

    Do note that each medal condition corresponds to each "round" of targets, so don't kill everything too fast.

    Sworn by Steel (U++)
    凶Meliadoul (w/Archer + Summoner)
    HP: Meliadoul: 93,000 - Archer: Irrelevant - Summoner: Irrelevant
    Target Score:
    • Reduce 凶Meliadoul's attack.
    • Reduce an 凶Archer's attack.
    • Reduce a 凶Summoner's magic.

    Weak: None
    Absorbs: None
    Resist: None
    Null: None
    Vulnerabilities: Slow

    Notes and Strategies: Someone forgot to program an actual U++ fight.

    Yes, that HP total is not a typo.

    Hit that tsundere a little harder than when Delita "played" the reed flute and you win.

    Cid Mission: I could not find an appropriate FFT related reaction image for this fight. The internet failed me.

    Deterrence of Proof (Apoc +)
    滅Zalmour (w/Monk, Knight)
    HP: Zalmour: 252,000
    Target Score:
    • Reduce 滅Zalmour's defense.
    • Reduce a 滅Monk's attack.
    • Reduce a 滅Knight's attack.

    Weak: None
    Absorbs: None
    Resist: None
    Null: None
    Vulnerabilities: Stun

    The summer JP interns had some fun with this event, for sure.

    This shouldn't be an issue for anyone. 100% physical fight, and Zalmour will raise the Monk or Knight when defeated.

    Just focus on him and be done.

    Jump Start Notes: This event starts the trend of JS fights having different (generally higher) stats than their A+ relatives.

    Unfortunately for Zalmour and his 252k HP, getting bumped to 303k doesn't do much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirin View Post
    Bear with me - dealing with computer issues at work.
    Completely unacceptable.

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    Finally a knight character for FFT!

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    Quote Originally Posted by -Zer0- View Post
    Completely unacceptable.
    I just didn't want Rata to come in and catch my banner descriptions of banner 1 FFT and banner 2 FFIV.

    Crafty Habs, they are.

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    I could have bought an 11 pull and have 1000 gems left over, but all I got was this silly title.

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    It's MAG/RES on Rapha's BSB, not MAG/MND. Still makes it stackable with everything. Plays friendly with the MAG/MND buffers like Yuna BSB2 though.

    Not planning on pulling but Ralpha's USB would give me more options for my mage team considering it's superior to its predecessors, the best of Ley Lines & Sheepsong. And I wouldn't mind some Delita relics.

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    Nevermind, I read what you said incorrectly.

    Fixed.

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    Pens win! Pens Win!!! PENS WIN!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirin View Post
    I just didn't want Rata to come in and catch my banner descriptions of banner 1 FFT and banner 2 FFIV.

    Crafty Habs, they are.
    You scared of me ?

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    Debating on a pull on this second banner since Ovelia stuff comes back. I'll probably stop at a regular 100 pull and visit the Marche banner, just because I'm hoping Ysh'tola USB returns during the next XIV event's draw.

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    I won't since these battles will be the easiest ever

    A+ has ultimate level HP

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    CM: Pretty sure they forgot an HP digit...
    Apoc and jumpstart: 250k hp? Is this 2015?

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    Well, I got my first full party CM on the 180 because of cheese with RW TGC. Took 99 Agrias/Ramza, 50 TGC, and 2 Lv. 20 peeps.

    This is not an accomplishment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hyoton View Post
    CM: Pretty sure they forgot an HP digit...
    Apoc and jumpstart: 250k hp? Is this 2015?
    Came to post the exact same thing... Argias one-shot Meliadoul with Holy Blade.

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    Just barely managed to clutch solo the D220 Isilud MP fight, that shit was worse then magicites in terms of raw DMG........

    Ended up having to turtle up with Snow 99 (BSB), Faris 99 (Breakdances, USB1, old ATK/MAG SB), Ramza 99 (Shout), Lightning 99 (Enthunder SSB2 + BSB2), and Y'shtola 99 (BSB). Even with max mitigation and buffs I was still eating 3-4k health every time the SMN acted, so had to blitz down the SMN to replace it with RNG before I could tackle Isilud.

    Then it became a race to blitz down Isilud before I ran out of steam, almost did several times when Wall wore off, thankfully last stand allowed me to have most of my DDs still stay alive just to barely take down Isilud.

    Fight sucked so much, was worth it for DEX motes though!

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