Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius (Smartphones)

[Malithar]

I've been burning lapis on the half price daily pulls; am I retarded?

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I've long since finished the story content and feel sorta aimless in the game. I've been leveling up pretty much everyone(with a solid core of Kefka and Exdeath maxed along with loads of other mediocre people).

Is there any point to doing the Expedition Into the Abyss event more than once after you pop all the chests?

250 summon shouldn't be going anywhere, should remain a permanent feature. That said, it's still a 250 Lapis shot at Zidane in all his 1~2% glory. I've been pulling and I'm not unhappy with the results, Lani, Panelo, Russel, Xiao, and Vivi so far. For 1250 Lapis, I don't mind those pulls one bit. But it could've just as easily been 5x Lani/Vivi. Or there coulda been any other unit in as well, WoL, Chizuru, Zidane, etc. I'm sure you know that, it's just 50% off a pull can really pay off in the long run. Biggest problem is it's not really viable long term, you'll eventually need to purchase Lapis to keep up the daily pull unless you've been diligent with trophies and hoarding Lapis.

We're getting the next island this Friday so that'll help. It'll also be a good bit bigger than the third island with three cities and six exploration areas. As others said, grind grind grind though. Colosseum, Hero Ring mats, Awakening mats (3x Int Awakening Vortex per day at least for daily), rank grinding, leveling up other units for options, Esper levels, TM grinding, etc.

Grinding Expedition into the Abyss is a waste IMO. It's not so much that the 15% HP is bad, it's that the opportunity cost is too high. You're blowing 15 energy for 180 rank exp (compared to 500 rank exp from 2* esper fights for 15 energy) so that after 10-20ish runs, you can get an extra 5% HP compared to an easily grinded FP TM, nevermind the massive cost in Megacysts and such. The other two abilities are largely trash as well. I'd rather grind TMs, rank, or Hero Ring mats.

[Prothescar]

these banners and cash shop bundles really are jokes. it's blatant predatory marketing and people are falling for it. tragic.

[Zoii]

summon tickets: just do a regular one-off rare summon, but don't actually pull (unless you want to I guess). it will show you how many tickets you have.


how many pulls do you guys have? I just checked; 11 tickets and 10000 lapis (exactly). so that's 33 pulls saved up for FFT; I should easily have over 50 by the time it arrives. actually more than 33 if I were to use half-price pulls on the FFT banner, but that feels like it defeats the purpose of saving up and having a massive go all at once. IDK, I might calculate how many pulls I need to save in order to do one a day over that banner, and I might not. we'll see

Soft launch account (rank 53): 28 tickets, 21170 lapis (74 pulls)
Alt account (rank 33): 14 tickets, 11950 lapis (39 pulls)

Could be higher but I missed some days of the 300 Lapis bundle, login rewards and energy being out of cell service for a few days every week this month. Kinda been slacking on my soft launch account with energy usage because all I do is boring rank farm. I also don't macro or wake up to use energy while I sleep. Planning to go all in on both accounts for Lightning. Here's hoping its not a banner with 37 units featured.

[Auspice]

My summons are all mid teens 1*; is there one that's better to level up first? I've been hoarding the generic magicite lol

[Coren]

I did Ifrit first for my main attacker, then Ramuh for my main mage. Both are ~30 2*. Now I'm working on Golem, then I'll finish off Shiva. IIRC Diabolos and Siren both suck and will be quickly replaced once other espers come out.

[Starby]

summon tickets: just do a regular one-off rare summon, but don't actually pull (unless you want to I guess). it will show you how many tickets you have.


how many pulls do you guys have? I just checked; 11 tickets and 10000 lapis (exactly). so that's 33 pulls saved up for FFT; I should easily have over 50 by the time it arrives. actually more than 33 if I were to use half-price pulls on the FFT banner, but that feels like it defeats the purpose of saving up and having a massive go all at once. IDK, I might calculate how many pulls I need to save in order to do one a day over that banner, and I might not. we'll see

16000 lapis, and 12 tickets stored on my soft launch account. Started a few weeks late but haven't missed a day. Rank 52, with a lot of the trophies done.

[Yuri-G]

nice. you guys are ahead of me by a lot lol

[Auspice]

Got my first native 5* from my half off pull today. . . Zidane! I nearly shit my pants. :O

[Starby]

Nice, Auspice! If you weren't TM grinding before, you will be now!

[Deathbringer]

Did the 1/2 price pull and it was a 3*..... turns out to be Miyuki.

Time to grind her out for her TM prize(and I can kick Golbez out I guess) :/

[Ayn]

Holy shit, grats Auspice.

[Auspice]

I haven't been focused on TM grinding; just started working on "end game" shit like farming mats for Hero Rings and working through the colosseum. Is TM grinding still just spamming the fuck out of the first dungeon for an eternity? :/

[Malithar]

Yep. I'd highly recommend getting Nox for it if you're serious about TM grinding. Otherwise, you can use TM Moogles once they start getting released. It'll be a good few months before we get enough of them to 100% a TM though.

[Coren]

As I mentioned, I just got Garland from one of my half-priced pulls. Apparently the new sword is going to be amazing for him. I guess he'll definitely kick out CoD for now, and he'll be extra-awesome when I finish farming Barrage from my contingent of Lunas. I'm also working on Locke's TM, but it'll be awhile till that one is ready (I only have 2 of him; 47.5% is a lonnggg way off).

[Malithar]

he'll be extra-awesome when I finish farming Barrage from my contingent of Lunas.

I take it you haven't tried to equip any abilities on him yet. It's his largest downside at the moment. Outside of spamming Darkness (and the heals to fuel it) or giving him Ifrit and using Raging Fist you've got no strong options, and even both of those struggle to be considered strong for much longer. As much as I like Garland (have one just shy of 350 attack) he slacks without any good abilities. His 6* gives him the much needed ability slots and he gets 5 elemental coverage plus a -50% dark resist debuff. Not being able to stack Doublehand will hurt him though.

[Coren]

Yeah, as he's not capped yet, I hadn't even tried. Fuckkkkkk. Wonder how long till he's 6*. Blah. I guess I can put awesome sword on vaan!

[Coren]

Intangir is laughable with a good party. Took my usual cod, chiz,vaan, Kefka, and Lenna. 2 barrage, 2 hyperdtive,cheer and full break took him to 20% in first round. He buffed once, then died. Cool sword though!

I put up my Kefka for people to abuse as friend unit for this fight.

[Malithar]

Well that quickly turned into a shit content update. Like JP they split the island into two updates. Unlike JP, they didn't bother telling us. It made a lot of people just assume we were getting the whole island. We're left with two explorations and a single city with like 5 quests in this update. No access to Diabolos either.

I guess it's not really surprising, they would have announced a new Esper and a new storyline unit if they were going to be part of this update.

Also had a similar expereince with Intangir. Our power creep is far beyond what JP had at this point. They didn't have access to quite as many 5* units.

[Classikmage]

How do we fight the new trial boss? I went to the area where we fought the 1st two and the moogle says there is nothing to fight yet.

[Malithar]

Vortex > Vortex of Trials > Chamber of Fallen. Going forward, it's where all trials will be except for Brachiosaur, he'll be in the Moogle house like the others.