Final Fantasy: Record Keeper 2016 Advancilate Twins

[Robertfb]

Nightmare Dungeons are coming (Not the Abyss Nightmare, but dungeons that are truly "Nightmare Dungeons"). Will be extremely difficult unless you have a full party of 99s, maxed RD, maxed Honed abilities and each game series will get one (so my bets are on the final boss fights for each series), they will have their own special imperial enfeebs and mechanisms, they will return every month so don't worry if you can't clear, please look forward to it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKee...yes_literally/

Edit: Gonna just copy/paste some of the reddit translations for this, very interesting.

Mechanics
Nightmare dungeons are a new tier of difficulty beyond what we've seen before.
Clearing them at your current level will be very difficult.
All series will get a Nightmare in order. (The kanji means numbered order but I am kinda doubtful that they'll really go FF1->FF14 and then FFT.)
If you can't clear the Nightmare now, it will come back at fixed times when the next Nightmare is added.
Something about each Nightmare dungeon boss has its own Enfeeble mechanics (what we call Imperil) but I don't know if that means "bring your Enfeeble and elemental team" or "the boss will Enfeeble you and follow up with your new weakness"
You can expect to clear this if you've got characters' MC3 caps broken, you've spent your RD fragments wisely, and you've honed your abilities effectively.
Last blurb: The Nightmare dungeon is a long-term extremely high difficulty dungeon series. Please look forward to it.

Stamina
Minimum max 60 sta before you can challenge Edit: Correction, Reddit posters translated it to mean: "Only people with a max stamina of 60 minimum will be able to do these fights", So the minimum stamina for these fights will exceed 60 stamina it seems.

Story
Battles were won and heroes had saved the world.
Nevertheless, these battle were without repercussions as this fierce battle has carved "nightmares" into the heroes.
Hatred, sorrow, and regret plague the hearts of these heroes and have wiped their memories.
Strong "nightmares" which are the shadows of these heroes of light yearn for them to imprison them in their dark "nightmare" world

Rewards
Not translated, but "Advanced Fragments" are mentioned

[Robertfb]

Also JP is getting double greens to celebrate the next NicoNico stream, Multi-Element ATK will be buffed, and Maint is incoming for JP for new shit.

[Kirbyprime]

Eh, my love for this game is waning ever since they started shaving off JP features for Official... even without comparing the 2 "different" games, them slowing down events make it kind of boring.

[Purrrfect]

Farming RM is a pain in the dick.

[kuronosan]

From U+ I got Rosa's. Cecil is almost 80 and I still don't have his first.

[synistar]

I forgot to get Kain's RM2 a long long time ago and tried farming for his RM3 recently.

[Ratatapa]

Think i'll just get MHO this week due to DU

[Ratatapa]

RMs to farm, Maria, Minwu, Kain, Rosa, Edward, Yang, Edge, Quina (FFIX event), Khimari, RikkuThancrred, Ranger, Thief

Add Seifer and Irvine when VIII release

[Kirin]

So who is really needed for the FF8 and 9 Cid Missions (and support dungeon as well I guess)?

Spent the better part of my day reorganizing daily dungeon parties to get more realm specific characters in for specific days and overall characters (mostly support 5) needed for future CM's.

Who i'm working on now:
Faris
Irvine
Quistis
Seifer
Laguna
Zidane
Quina
Steiner
Fran

Anyone else for the next two months or so needed for CM's?

[Robertfb]

So who is really needed for the FF8 and 9 Cid Missions (and support dungeon as well I guess)?

Spent the better part of my day reorganizing daily dungeon parties to get more realm specific characters in for specific days and overall characters (mostly support 5) needed for future CM's.

Who i'm working on now:
Faris
Irvine
Quistis
Seifer
Laguna
Zidane
Quina
Steiner
Fran

Anyone else for the next two months or so needed for CM's?

Not really anyone is "needed" since all future CMs are just "Clear Ultimate/Ultimate+ with a party of that realm's characters", so my advice for who to level is level a balanced party with unique relics in mind that you think will help a ton for the fights. For example, for FF8 CM, i'm going to focus on getting Laguna, Irvine and Selphie to max since I have Laguna's SSB and I need a healer and a support character that can use breakdowns. I already have Squall/Rinoa/Edea/Zell to 80 and Seifer at 65, so i'll be using Seifer (Has Bloodlust SB, so he'll give +50% res to party), Edea (Has SSB), Laguna (SSB), Irvine, and Selphie.

[Kirin]

I kind of meant it in the vein of is 'X' fight a lot easier with a knight for the realm or a thief to carry a certain skillset type of thing? I get what you mean though.

Like Ive read Seifer and Laguna are pretty good for the upcoming 8 fights, knight and machinist abilities.

[Robertfb]

I kind of meant it in the vein of is 'X' fight a lot easier with a knight for the realm or a thief to carry a certain skillset type of thing? I get what you mean though.

Like Ive read Seifer and Laguna are pretty good for the upcoming 8 fights, knight and machinist abilities.

In that case if you're going for specifics, then just research in advance any Ult/Ult+ fights for the realm you are looking to make a good CM team for then, since any character could potentially make a fight "easier" for specific Ult/Ult+ fights.

Edit: Looking ahead (only up to Celes BSB, so 2 months)

Faris BSB: Ult: You want to bring people with fire/ice/lightning to exploit Melusine to death depending on her weakness. Ult+: Levi you want nothing but lightning users and people that can stack magical defense.

Garnet/Zidane BSB: Ult: Tank for draw fire to soak dmg, Fire/Ice/Wind dmg and someone with carbuncle and tons of aoes. Ult+: Draw Fire makes it ALOT easier, bring a ready to use medica for scripted 50% aoe major DMG, bring lots of wind attacks.

Vaan BSB: Ult: Tauntaliate is best, but if Basch can't do it, bring him for Draw Fire, bring mixed mitigation and a dispel/banishing strike. Ult+: Dispel and TONS of PHY protection, he hits like a truck below 50%.

Hope BSB: Draw Fire and bring earth mitigation and laugh at boss. Ult+: Kind of a pain, status effects and doom timer, time buffs to be reapplied at 40% to avoid scripted dispel, bring draw fire to help mitigate dmg, bring dispel/banishing strike cause he likes to buff.

Greg BSB: Ult: Bring Greg with Tauntaliate to make it very lol, also stop helps with Omniscient, also bring dispel/banishing strike and Carbuncle. Ult+: Bartz is a DICK, prepare to have major issues with this CM, first turn is major aoe DMG, so bring a medica, debuff his ATK as much as possible and pray he doesn't kill you.

Celes BSB: Ult: Bring Draw Fire and tank and spank the boss to death. Ult+: Another Dick boss, Orthrus during the Opera fight, so every time you bring him to 0, he will reappear with no debuffs on him, so have to keep debuffing him, stack protectga + shellga and use elemental attacks to quickly take him down P1-3 and bring lots of debuffs.

[Alkar]

Banner 1

Greg OSB -Single Target overflow attack, higher multiplier with more surviving allies
Galuf BSB -6 Single Target Fire/Earth Hit + Imperil Fire + Burst
Krile BSB -6 Fire/None Aoe Magic + Attach Fire + Burst
Dorgann SSB -6 random wind attack + Self Def Down??(Medium) + Party attack/magic up medium
Krile SSB -Mag up Medium + Haste + regen(high)
Bartz SSB -5 hits single target + party def up Medium
Galuf SSB -4 Single target + Invincible
Bartz SB -5 AoE Wind hits + Attach Wind
Exdeath SB -4 Aoe Non-elemental + Black/White Magic Taunt + Absorb

Banner 2

Greg OSB -Single Target overflow attack, higher multiplier with more surviving allies
Lenna BSB -Party Medium Cure(Cura) + Reraise + Self Mind/Res Up + Burst
Greg BSB -8 Single Target Hit + Sentinel + Burst
Exdeath SSB -6 Dark/None-Ele Single Target + Party Magic/Res Up
Greg SSB -3 aoe hits + Regen(high)
Exdeath SSB -4 aoe Dark elemental + Party Magic Blink
Faris SSB -4 Wind/Lightning Aoe + Imperil Wind
Bartz SB -5 AoE Wind hits + Attach Wind
Exdeath SB -4 Aoe Non-elemental + Black/White Magic Taunt + Absorb

[Ratatapa]

yay RM farm day!

[Robertfb]

Banner 1

Greg OSB -Single Target overflow attack, higher multiplier with more surviving allies
Galuf BSB -6 Single Target Fire/Earth Hit + Imperil Fire + Burst
Krile BSB -6 Fire/None Aoe Magic + Attach Fire + Burst
Dorgann SSB -6 random wind attack + Self Def Down??(Medium) + Party attack/magic up medium
Krile SSB -Mag up Medium + Haste + regen(high)
Bartz SSB -5 hits single target + party def up Medium
Galuf SSB -4 Single target + Invincible
Bartz SB -5 AoE Wind hits + Attach Wind
Exdeath SB -4 Aoe Non-elemental + Black/White Magic Taunt + Absorb

Banner 2

Greg OSB -Single Target overflow attack, higher multiplier with more surviving allies
Lenna BSB -Party Medium Cure(Cura) + Reraise + Self Mind/Res Up + Burst
Greg BSB -8 Single Target Hit + Sentinel + Burst
Exdeath SSB -6 Dark/None-Ele Single Target + Party Magic/Res Up
Greg SSB -3 aoe hits + Regen(high)
Exdeath SSB -4 aoe Dark elemental + Party Magic Blink
Faris SSB -4 Wind/Lightning Aoe + Imperil Wind
Bartz SB -5 AoE Wind hits + Attach Wind
Exdeath SB -4 Aoe Non-elemental + Black/White Magic Taunt + Absorb

Gonna give this event a big fat pass since i'm saving for FF13 Waifu banner, also Greg OSB hopefully has a good multiplier this time compared to Vaan's, otherwise it'll be a shit OSB cause of no elemental, also thank god Faris got shafted so I don't have to agonize over passing up the potential of getting her more ATK through relics.

[Robertfb]

No new Fragment dungeon for JP this month Fragment Dungeons will open on the 22nd, but instead of a new one, Dena will be beta testing the new "Nightmare Dungeons". Copied from Reddit.



From Solitaired in gamefaqs

Beta version of Nightmare Dungeon will be arriving on 28 July.

Clearing Nightmare Dungeon earns us Advance Fragments.
The first Nightmare boss is Triton, Nereid and Phobos.
Instead of being weak to Ice, Fire, Earth respectively. They will only be slightly weak to them.
To reach the boss, you have to clear mob stages before them. These will be very strong as well. Key to clearing them easily is to use status ailments.

Official release of Nightmare Dungeon is in the latter half of August.

[kuronosan]

Hm.

[Ratatapa]

yay got 3 RM already!

[Kaslo]

DU day for me!

[Robertfb]

New Login bonus to make up probably for lost orbfest, 20 mythril over 5 days of logins FeelsGoodMan.