
Originally Posted by
Silenka
Fran isn't going to make it to Global for about a year. So you can safely spend as much as you want until we have even a sniff of her event on the horizon. Also, by the time Fran drops, if you keep playing and collecting rewards all the way to then, you will be able to outright buy her weapons with weapon tokens (provided you don't spend them all on other stuff). She doesn't come with an EX so pulling for her is extremely simple. It did take me personally many pulls to get her 35, however, I could have just bought it with tokens if I had wanted. I wouldn't worry about Fran for a loooooooong time.
Current banners good for beginners: I think you missed the ideal ones from first awakening that just ended, but second awakening is pretty good too. You want to make sure you build up at least one healer, one physical dps, one ranged dps, and one magical dps. Many of the quests mobs we get from now on will be resistant to one or even two types of damage, so it's important to have a good variety of damage dealers.
For healers, Yuna and Rem are available now. If you decide to go this route, build whichever one you manage to pull weapons for, they're both good. Rem's strength lies in passing extra turns to and batterying your strong dps units. Yuna's 15 passive adds a partywide esuna which is sometimes super clutch. Be aware though that Rem comes with a heal in her base kit, while Yuna needs crystal level 60 to be able to add heals to her kit and you might not be able to collect enough white high shards to get her there just yet.
For physical dps, the best you can get now is Tidus. He applies sick debuffs and has a decent number of skill uses, he's solid and doesn't need his 15 passive to be good, but he does need his 35.
For ranged dps, Noctis is the obvious answer, but he's useless without ALL of his weapons (15,35,EX) and that may be too much of a resource sink for a new player who is just building a roster. There will be other banners.
And finally for magical dps, unfortunately you missed Terra who is the best right now, but Vaan is very close behind her. He is weapon dependent though - you need both 15 & 35. [edit] You might be better served waiting for the Alisaie banner which should have both her and Papalymo - Papalymo is a solid dps.
Another option is pulling on the chapter 11 banner. Lilisette is more of a complement character to other strong units, but it certainly wouldn't be bad to have her on your roster for the future. Jecht is actually a strong physical dps if you understand how his kit works. Yuri is...um...not recommended to use without a healer.