FFRK - Rains of Ruin (FF8) Event & Strategies

[Ratatapa]

You all are making me think I should hone MM/DZ for Edea for U+ (I should right?)

Well was doing 9999 for every Memento and Dark zone cast sooooooooooo

[Alkar]

You all are making me think I should hone MM/DZ for Edea for U+ (I should right?)

Yes you should. If you have good mage gear this combo works well even in a Shout party because it sustains itself. No need for extra buffs other than Haste.

[Corwen]

FF4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 all currently have a darkness mage, and 13 eventually gets one. From my experience, synergy weapon gets me anywhere from 15-20k damage on DZ on U+, and no synergy around 10-12k with no buffs outside of memento mori and full break, so its a potent combo for CM purposes, and usable in roughly half of the events.

[arus2001]

My DZs are only doing about 7k, but my physical synergy isn't really any better even with Shout. Big issue I'm having is anytime I think I have a run going well, he decides to Tornado 4-5x in a row. Had him under 5% multiple times now.

[Sumy]

Well, I managed to get Laguna to 78, and Seifer, Selphie, and Irvine to 73, combined with Squall at 80 - they had no issues at all with Ultimate.

However, Bahamut... Selphie just cant keep up with alternating Tornados, and Ultimate Megaflares, it's redic.

...and it figures, after I post this, he decides to cast non-stop, completely resisted 'Stops' and only one Ultimate Megaflare. Mastered.

[Kirin]

Spoiler: show

2 medals lost for damage, 1 for actions. Took b2b2b Megaflare's in the last 10%, but luckily I was capped off and had the presence of mind to anticipate at least 1 and had a Trabia's Light queued up. Got lucky during in the 40-20% range because Bahamut used stop a lot and it kept missing. RW was Shout.

Now to focus on Faris, Quina, Kuja, and Zidane.

[Moridam]

not going to attempt cid for this event, i don't have a single FF8 character double-broken.

for a-team efforts, i forgot to bring in ice to ult and definitely didn't ace the rest, 60 stamina wasted. probably wait 'til thursday to go back for mastery. U+ on the other hand was pretty trivial, as i can just chain magic blinks via rosa/tyro BSSB RW. with shout/FB/ABD/book of despair, kain with a revolver was coming close to capping damage on SSB and capping on dragonfire dive.

[arus2001]

Finally. Would almost swear the last 10% of Bahamut's HP bar is a lying piece of shit. Couple more hones probably would've secured a win sooner, but my VIII synergy is still blah.

[hyoton]

Bahamut when using lots of AOEs: v hard
Bahamut when using lots of stops: not hard even when they land
That was the story of my runs.

[Corwen]

Bahamut's MND is only 50, so his stops arent very potent, especially on healers where I just saw the debuff icon flash for a second before it wears. At worst, it shuts down a damage dealer for roughly the equivalent of 1 turn when it hits. It's certainly the preferred move in his skill set, unlike other fights where the stop was infuriating.

[Akiyama]

I had a run of this where he did 6 Twisters or w/e in a row to me

then I had a run where he did one twister, one megaflare and thundaga single target on my magic lured agrias lol

[Kirbyprime]

Took me 240 stamina but finally finished CM Ultimate >__> No Wall makes me cry.

[Kaslo]

I'm gonna worry about MM/DZ leveling once I get Exdeath's MC2 (Since I have his Runic Relic)

[Ratatapa]

I'm gonna worry about MM/DZ leveling once I get Exdeath's MC2 (Since I have his Runic Relic)

So this week? cuz we get his MC2 Friday lol

[Kaslo]

So this week? cuz we get his MC2 Friday lol

Yep

I may actually just Egg him to 80 (but I might just egg whatever is left after Sundaily)

[kuronosan]

Meh... I don't have Edea's relic but should I be leveling her since I have Rinoa's?

[Ratatapa]

Meh... I don't have Edea's relic but should I be leveling her since I have Rinoa's?

Edea is like vivi, aka pretty weak defensive wise, but her having Darkness helps alot, so yeah but at the same time, we won't have anything VIII for a bit unless you plan to use her for Salt Ifrit

[kuronosan]

Nope, that team is set. I wouldn't mind using her for CM though.

[Kirin]

Salt Ifrit

[Deathbringer]

Lost 1 medal in damage- I'm freeeee from U+