FF:BE - Let Them Eat Mogcake

[Starby]

idk man, Nov rewards look pretty okay to me. I hope xmas and new years really put out. As for the cheaters: It's so weird to me that people would get banned in a single player game. Fix the vulnerabilities in your system and make it so future people can't take advantage of it instead of banhammering people who probably won't spend money on the game's shit rates anyways. If you fix the system, anyone who cheated will be power creeped(crept?) out eventually anyway. Or they'll just drop the game once they realize their hax no longer function. People cheating has no effect on my own enjoyment of the game.

[Aelfinn]

good grief, bahamut is no joke... i went in assuming i'd be able to just reraise thru the megaflare... nope lol. Guess i need to spr/hp up and actually gear correctly. Tried chaining with 2 GL Sakura and capping with a Zyrus LB but that only dropped him to like 25%HP and whammy down my team goes. I'll have to try this again tomorrow with maybe a couple fry's to chain?

[Yuri-G]

I wonder how good 2x TT with Zyrus rod would be? That's what I'm gonna try. Although I need 8 more tech giancryst and 1m more gil before she's ready to go.


I also just realized that with Ayaka and 2B now I'm almost certainly capable of taking down Aigaion. at least I would hope so...

[Malithar]

People cheating has no effect on my own enjoyment of the game.

I feel similarly but it does affect the enjoyment to a degree. Ever consistently see the same people high up in the arena with perfect teams? How about raid ranking events where it's impossible to get into the top 10k because you've got multiple thousand that are pushing harder than you, then another multiple thousand injecting infinite runs, sometimes even on fresh accounts? What's worse, from the outside looking in, it's difficult to tell if someone's just a CC warrior or they're injecting unless they're blatant about it like 2x Rings of Dominion and 4x of Maxwell's TMR. It certainly hampers my willingness to support the game with purchases, at the very least.

good grief, bahamut is no joke... i went in assuming i'd be able to just reraise thru the megaflare... nope lol. Guess i need to spr/hp up and actually gear correctly. Tried chaining with 2 GL Sakura and capping with a Zyrus LB but that only dropped him to like 25%HP and whammy down my team goes. I'll have to try this again tomorrow with maybe a couple fry's to chain?

I've read that outside of beastly finishers, your best bet is to whittle him down through his HP thresholds. If you're not setup well enough to one shot, you should be able to get him to 70% I think before hitting a threshold attack. I haven't actually fought him yet, waiting for a 1/2 energy event to finish up the story. Imagine we'll get one in December.

[Zealot]

I can't imagine how much DEF/SPR + mitigation it takes to survive Megaflare. Or how slow damaging him must be if you're bringing along what it takes.

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[arus2001]

Reminds me of the people that "don't care" about the botters and exploiters in Diablo 3, ultimately trying to rationalize that the game really isn't meant to be competitive and can be played without ever interacting with others. Accuse me of high horsing or whatever, but I care in-so-much that that no matter how much I try to learn about the game or grind as much as my finite budget allows, there's more or less a "skip all the bullshit" factor that comes about from potentially infinite lapis/pulling. Even looking further ahead to the 7* stuff, such players would come out ahead because they're the more likely ones to have dupes of the 5* stuff. Such behavior also risks skewing how reasonable released content is when quick clear checks find x% of the population cleared whatever when they were anticipating x-y%. In turn, that can translate to future stuff being even harder than it should be. Perhaps that was exactly the case with this halloween boss.

In the end, I at least try to value integrity, which is more or less a subset of customer service here. The more people get away with the cheating, the more others will be tempted to do so, and then the more difficult it may become to rationalize action when things do get out of control. "SE won't ban Windowers!" a lot of us tried to justified with XI, and in the end, they didn't, but we'd be remiss to not acknowledge that Windower and its spin-offs did allow for some questionable utilities over time that no amount of skill could help to replicate on consoles or even non-use PCers. In BE's case, no amount of me playing/gearing Refia will make her just as good as Ayaka or whatever other character/TM combo you could potentially devise. And it just gets that much more irksome when you finally do roll a 5* and it's a dupe or some char you'd never want to use anyway. So, while the game may be guilty of power creep, it doesn't hit everyone at the same speed.

[Oravis]

I wonder how good 2x TT with Zyrus rod would be? That's what I'm gonna try. Although I need 8 more tech giancryst and 1m more gil before she's ready to go.


I also just realized that with Ayaka and 2B now I'm almost certainly capable of taking down Aigaion. at least I would hope so...

[Yuri-G]

LOL


I do have 3x TT actually. Although nowhere near enough gil and mats to pull that off... yet

[Alkar]

And probably not even the gear lol We're talking about full BiS here I think reading the comment section.

[6souls]

Dragon Quest Monsters x FF:BE

[Yuri-G]

And probably not even the gear lol We're talking about full BiS here I think reading the comment section.

I don't even have 1 Silvia, let alone Freyvia LOL

[Aelfinn]

Managed to OHKO bahamut today, ridiculous team to do so... Was definitely overkill but since I had issues chaining& finishing with my Fry's i decided to try to stack the deck as much as my units would allow...

A2 - Dragon Killer, Dragon Killer Spear, Dragon Killer from Odin
A2 - Dragon Killer, Dragon Killer Spear
Zarga - to use archadian light, fucked up tho due to exploration farming LB & summon eating up my mp i ended up using Hero's Crest on Zyrus
WoL - Armor Breaker
Zyrus - LB Finisher
friend Garnet - Bahamut Finisher

was funny to watch the HP bar, went down by single percentages for a second or two then BAM 0%. Done.

[Prothescar]

Hnnnnnngh

[Alkar]

I'm both excited and scared. I really hope Gumi has a better solution in mind for GL, this could end up badly if 7* become a requirement for content.

[Malithar]

Hnnnnnngh

Pretty cool. That CD skill seemed a bit too spaced to easily fit into a chain but it certainly hit plenty hard by itself. It still feels so strange wanting dupes, it feels like the Twilight Zone or something. So far, I've got the units needed for Lightning and Luneth 7*. Can't really find any reports on Luneth. He gets a good bit of passive buffs and some serious boosts to his LB, but his new CD attack sounds really strange with 8x 180% RT 3 Hit Physical Attack. I'm just envisioning a barrage that attacks 16 times (w/ DW).

[Prothescar]

I've got dupes of Lightning and Gilgamesh, waiting with bated breath to see if they make Gilgamesh good outside of his TM

[Zealot]

Incoming STM Genji Glove allowing Quadra Wield.

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[Malithar]

So I've been lazy with the Skeleton King. Tried to knock it out 3 more times today. I feel like I'm seriously just derping on something and making this entirely more difficult than it should be post nerf. Shits fine until after 40%. Even with perfect chaining, my own TG Cid, DV, and friendlandeu just aren't enough to push it, then he goes beast mode regardless of buffs and my upkeep of draining his MP and an Orlandeau or two are always down, if not Nichol too. The main issue that keeps wiping me is MP drain/gain followed by 2x Hailfire. That shit just wrecks people.

What did you guys do for this fight? My patience is quickly hitting a wall for this fight.

Edit: Nevermind. 4th attempt the two Cids dropped getting him to 14%ish, but the others survived and the King behaved himself. I wasn't able to get the Cids up and make them survive, but I was able to hold off until he self healed back to 40% into his tame state. Got everyone up, rebuffed, and without the threshold attack at 40%, he was easy. May be a good strat for those having issues, bump him below 40%, eat the threshold, survive til he's back above 40%, rebuff, and whittle him back down. Then again, maybe it was just largely RNG in my favor that he didn't line his shit up. Glad that's over with.

Editedit: Fuck my desire to Libra and fill the monster journal. Byebye 3x summon tickets. -_-

[Dook]

As soon as he's below 40% he'll use the move if it's in the RNG. Ive yet to beat him as Everytime I get him below 40% he'll use his move, hailfire, soul siphon, hail fire. Drives me insane.

[Hioki]

As soon as he's below 40% he'll use the move if it's in the RNG. Ive yet to beat him as Everytime I get him below 40% he'll use his move, hailfire, soul siphon, hail fire. Drives me insane.

If you see an RNG that you won't survive; close and reopen the app. It will start him with a new RNG set. Realistically you can cheese out the last 40% through this method as you can keep him in a "controlled" state until he gives you a good round. I reset his RNG a few times since he would eternal torment as first move then spam hailfire.