FFRK - A Summoner Grown (FF4) Event & Strategies

[Ratatapa]

OMFG CM U+ DONE with almost 0 synergy and 0 unique SB

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Didn't bring Slow since I had already mastered


Rosa had Mako Might for Shared Protectga

Fight went something like this

Turn 1
Rosa Protectga
Porom Diaga
Edward Shout RW
Kain + Cecil (either defend or Dragoon jump + Saint cross depending how far shout cast was)

Turn 2
Rosa Shellga
Porom Diaga
Edward Full Break Asura
Kain Dragoon Jump and Cecil Saint Cross

Turn 3
Rosa Curaja
Porom Diaga
Edward Magic Breakdown Levi
Kain and Cecil same shit

Porom was mostly on diaga duty for all of Asura (with some double white magic proc) and help kill Asura faster
I had about 1 charge of dragoon jump and saitn cross when Asura died
Porom switched to healer when Leviatha was going down for deluges or if Rosa needed help
I recasted Shout after my last Dragoon Jump and Saint Cross were used (used shout again on edward) not long after Asura died

[Sumy]

question; Why would I hone Dragoon Jump over Sky Grinder? They both appear to do the same thing, only Sky Grinder is AOE and has high crit rate.

[Kirin]

Barbarica wasn't too bad. Getting Pecil at near full ATB for a very quick Banishing Strike is important. After that it's just setting up Blood of Wyvern on Kain before she goes tornado and then having him on standby for jumps. Only hastemarch was used as special SB's for Golbez's damage output. Shout RW.

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Levi and Asura gave me a little more of a headache. Original attempt had 2 healers (Rosa and FuSoYa) with FuSoYa handling Slowga and Renewing Cure with Rosa on Diaga and Curaja. Didn't work out as well because 1. Diaga isn't boosted by Faithga and 2. Rosa had to focus on healing too much to use Diaga. Switched in Golbez for MM/DZ and put Slowga/Curaja on Rosa. Worked a lot better for Asura stage as Rydia and Palom had Levi on lockdown with Thundaja/ga. 4 casts of Meteor and Valefor, along with 1 MM and 4 DZ's was enough to deal with Asura. Levi fell 2 turns after as Rydia had Blood of Espers proc twice on Thundaja. Never used Deluge, thank god. First run RW was Keepers Tome Tyro, second was Stoneskin II and I didnt run pro/shell.

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Dear lord, orbfest please. I can't keep egging people like this. Kain and Rosa 70-80, Edward 50-65. Down to 35 majors, under 100 greaters.

question; Why would I hone Dragoon Jump over Sky Grinder? They both appear to do the same thing, only Sky Grinder is AOE and has high crit rate.

Orbs used, mostly. Non-elemental, Fire and Lightning are a lot easier to use right now than Ice (Chain Blizzaga soon), and Wind (Tornado Blade, Chainstarter, Full Charge, etc). I'm not sure about the specific power for each ability but single target attacks also tend to be more powerful than AoE ones.

[Corwen]

question; Why would I hone Dragoon Jump over Sky Grinder? They both appear to do the same thing, only Sky Grinder is AOE and has high crit rate.

Dragoon jump has a 4.7 multiplier, sky grinder is around 2.8 i believe after the bonus crit is taken into consideration, so dragoon jump hits about 60% harder in single target scenarios. Sky grinder also takes wind orbs which conflicts with several more desirable skills such as saint cross, full charge, thief's revenge, and powerchain while dragoon jump uses orbs which do not clash significantly with other skills.

Edit: sky grinder is 2.87 average ( 2.3 base + 50% crit bonus adding 25% more dps)

[Ratatapa]

question; Why would I hone Dragoon Jump over Sky Grinder? They both appear to do the same thing, only Sky Grinder is AOE and has high crit rate.

1) I sold Sky Grinder along time ago so

2) Dragoon Jump uses Major Non Ele, Major Fire and Major Lightning while Sky Grinder uses : Ice Lightning Wind (wind are uses for SO MANY abilities atm) So imo Dragoon is easier to hone

3) Usually AOE attack have less potency then single target, so you'd probably need more casts to kill Asura then with DRagoon

[Sumy]

well ok, I spent all day yesterday Grinding out Edge, Kain, Rosa, Pecil, and Edward to 70~73 and the AOEs (SkyGrinder, Doppleblade, and Bladeblitz) were nice for clearing EXP things, but I kept running out of Sky Grinder hones since it was rank one - and I don't use DRG often enough to justify the hones. However, once I got everyone to 70ish and attempted Barabarica it was just sad-hot-mess.

Before this event my IV synergy was ONLY Edwards harp, but I managed to pull 2x Edge Katanas, and a Kain polearm so I thought I had a chance - but healing became an issue.

I egged Kain and Edge to 80, and once I get more EXP on Ed, Pecil, and Rosa, I'll toss some homes into Dragoon Jump and try again.

A-Team destroyed both ultimates, but I really want those orbs.

[Mertron]

golbez draw fire strat wasn't working for me. copied ratas strat instead. had to blow some orbs on hones (saints cross to r3 which I use all the time anyway, and honed up the new drg abilities to r3 which I wasn't planning on but i had plenty of orbs to spare. the new 5* drg ability is fire lightning and non-ele which I had plenty of, and I guess I have some decent spears for some realms)

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fuck them

[Alkar]

Barbariccia was pretty easy, no issues at all. Tried U+ but I ran out of hones with Leviathan at 50%.... I'll try to take Full Charge and Dragoon Jump to R3, swap in SC instead of Draw Fire and go nuts.
Asura and her Dispels can go to fuck off though...

[hyoton]

Barb ult: I way overestimated her damage potential. Two DDs were fine with ed support. Way easy.

Asura and levi ult plus: I way underestimated everything. OK, so my FF4 synergy is radiant whip, assassin dagger and the usual 3++ and 4++. Basically no unique soul breaks since rydia's is worse than a 4 star summon. RW was shout because I couldn't output enough damage otherwise (tried mages but it was even worse). I ran the usual kain/cecil/rosa/edward with dark knight cecil instead, DPS'd asura as fast as humanly possible and threw lightning/leech jumps at levi till he croaked. Forgot to use slow so *expert only but had had a soul break charge on edward which I was supposed to use for it with celebration knife.

Levi by himself isn't so bad if hit with fb/mbdown and you're buffed, but is pretty nuts when he's hitting unshelled. A bad Slow cast killed a lot of my runs.

[Alkar]

Yes! Finally done with this! Championed too, FU Asura.
Went full physical with Edward, Pecil, Decil, Kain and Rosa. Shout RW of course and no character relics obviously.
Pecil with Saint Cross, Kain with the new Dragoon combo (sooo good) and Decil with Dark Bargain/Full Charge. Took both Dragoon Jump and Full Charge to R3 but it was totally worth it. Had to S/L a lot because Asura would just counter everything and kill Decil lol.
Edit: You can now toss me some relics that won't get much use for the next three months game, thanks.

[kuronosan]

I felt so good I thought I'd do a three pull.

Another Edge katana.

[hyoton]

I did a 3 pull for this event and got a hammerhead (XII)!

[Kainos]

Finally got around to this

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[Moridam]

i went back and managed to take down the ult CM pretty easily, but don't quite have the hones to get there for U+. had one miracle run where i could've closed it out but my phone froze up and stopped accepting inputs for about 20 seconds, never came close again after that, haha.

[Draylo]

Damn completely forgot to do the Ultimates after I kept losing to Barb with all FF4 characters. First time I've missed mastering an event.