Can't wait for Chainstarter+ Full Charge! Gonna need all the help I can get for that Cid mission D:
orb stock isn't particularly great so i'm just gonna stick with chainstarter for the time being, i can at least R2 that right away. should be nice for locke with valiant strike.
My synergy for this isn't totally terrible for once. I have one of Rikku's weapons + Brotherhood/Lightning Blade (or whatever that one is for Tidus) and the celebration dagger thing, so at least my damage shouldn't be total ass tier.
What's funny is I don't even have Tidus.. I"m just using them on like..Gilgamesh/Cloud/Agrias depending on what's going on. I've been leveling Celes too.
Wow, that Sanubia Desert was a bitch with Jecht at 65. That cactuar loves to spam the hell out of 1000 Needles, took a few SL's until RNG decided to lighten up on the 1000 needles a little but managed to master it with 2 medals lost for damage taken, that was with Celebration Dagger, Bright Armguard ++, Loner, Chakra and Renzokuken Flame....
Current plan for U+ Cid mission
Changes will be egging Braska and giving him blood of the smn, 2nd slot will probably be the free 1 cast Alexander
Edit: might give Yuna Mako Might for instant Protectga
This is about as good as I can get for trio'd Bahamut unless I want to wait until after Sunday. Hopefully it's enough. Kind of worried about his AoE physical counter though.
Edit : wrong thread
That counter was a damn pain but thank God Auron carried the fight.
Draw Fire and Retaliate for 3-man. Easy unless you wanna get uppity about the tactic.
Jecht solo proving challenging. Trio was easy tho
Jecht solo wasn't too too bad. I went in with Squall's Lion Roar RW and then Kick at R4 + ..I can't even remember what i used in the 2nd slot. Loner of course. Had to S/L twice cause i started with an empty ATB. My Jecht was only level 50 too cause I didn't have a shit ton of eggs to validate getting him to 65.
Trio against Bahamut just took for fucking ever since I didn't have shout (I opted for Protect on Braska and Quists's Mighty Guard for RW) but Jecht with Loner carried damage wise while I did Draw Fire/Retal on Auron.
I did it with Kick, Chakra, Loner and Cloud BSB as RW. Kick the creeps down, then use cloud BSB twice during battle. Chakra for self-heal and small atk boost. Mastered it first time.
Trio I did Wall RW, chakra + armor breakdown on Jecht, Curaja + Shellga on Braska, Taunt + Lifesiphon on Auron, although something else would have been better.
It took forever, but got it down with mastery.
Trio is easy as pie. Simply defend right before megaflare, even if you "lose" a turn waiting on the timer at 1. I took 500 dmg with just shell, no Wall or Magic Break.
Shout, Draw Fire, and Retaliate rip it apart. Threw Kick on Jecht to clear trash and Armor Break just to make the counters do that much more damage.
Jecht solo is stupid easy with Lion's Roar RW.
I went in with dismissal + chakra, and just auto-battled my way to the cactuar, healing on the turn before it.
For Trio I went with Armor Break + Dimissal on Jecht (65), R2 Flashing Blade(:/) + Lifesiphon on Auron (80), and Maduin + Shellga on Braska (65). Divine Guardian RW.
Used RW on round before fight, and never needed to refresh it. Opened with Auron's Dragon Fang SB (atk down), shellga, and armor break. From there it was just flashing blade spam (used all 4), Maduin from Braska (blood of summoner RM, but never proc'd), and dismissal from Jecht (never proc'd), refreshing armor break once. Counters were hitting for about 350-500, which greater regen covered no sweat; died before Megaflare went off, but I have very good synergy.
Yuna was a bigger pain then i expected
Doubt i'll be able to CM it,
Lost 1 medal on my A team, and ultimate jecht shot almost killed me
not even entertaining the thought of doing the cid mission, don't have any X characters 70+ besides auron/yuna. 1/1 on both, no S/L for the second week in a row. lost one medal on U+ for damage taken.
U setup:
U+:
could mastered U+ without losing a damage medal if i hadn't sandbagged it and brought yuna along. just thought i'd try something marginally different, but the res on these fights is insane, was barely cracking 10k per cast on alexander. i could switch her out for basch, with apoc shield and saint's cross i'd finish a round or two earlier in comparison.
also, chainstarter is incredible. i have a bad habit of forgetting to reapply wall, being able to do it instantly before i eat an unmitigated AoE is a wonderful thing. and instant-cast SSBs aren't half bad either!
Like how you can only silence Yunalesca in phase 1, but phase 3 is where she goes batshit with holy and silence wears off by then. Bosses acting 2-3x a turn is just bullshit.