FF:BE - Let Them Eat Mogcake

[Karbuncle]

Its not his bonuses (if by that you mean passives), I can get his Magic to just about 1,000 with his attack in the 400~500's as easily as I can do vice versa, its just Warp Strike and PB-Warp Strike both are purely physical, and his only Hybrid skills are the "Flask" abilities, which while are 4.0 mods, are quite pathetic compared to other Hybrid skills (compare to Fryevia, who is a chainer, and hers is an 8.0 mod).

Basically his Hybrid skills are garbage lol.

As far as VoL, Magic all the way.

[Bladen Ansgar]

Its not his bonuses (if by that you mean passives), I can get his Magic to just about 1,000 with his attack in the 400~500's as easily as I can do vice versa, its just Warp Strike and PB-Warp Strike both are purely physical, and his only Hybrid skills are the "Flask" abilities, which while are 4.0 mods, are quite pathetic compared to other Hybrid skills (compare to Fryevia, who is a chainer, and hers is an 8.0 mod).

Basically his Hybrid skills are garbage lol.

As far as VoL, Magic all the way.

That explains it, I only have 1 Noctis in my Flist and he's there because he was an early whale who took pity on me who I'm pretty sure no longer plays but I still bring him for elemental cover when I would otherwise not have it for some reason with the party I planned on bringing. So, I can't give much advice on Noctis as try as I might on his banner, I cannot get one.

[DFJS]

Thanks for the info. Not sure when I'll use my VoL but I was curious.

[Alkar]

Next event is FFXII KM! Balthier is finally introduced (with GL buffs) alongside Basch. Gabranth is gone for now but Basch is the real star here anyway.

[Starby]

To Basch, or not to Basch. I'm probably going to Basch.

Also, Olive enhancements next month!

[Byrthnoth]

OLIVE THE ENHANCEMENTS NEXT MONTH!

(fryevia whar?)

[Ayn]

I would laugh if they trolled us by changing Vaan's summon message to "Don't Believe Ondore's lies."

Or had some glitch where you could summon Vaan as a 5*.

[Dook]

I couldn't be more excited to possibly get my Olive off the bench and possibly Yun since Feb enhancements should have Lunar New Year units also? Please let me get these bench warmers into the main rotation

Also is Basch and Balthier worth chasing? I have Mystea (3, actually. I chased so hard now it rains) and Wilhelm/WoL so I can't figure out their places?

[Alkar]

I couldn't be more excited to possibly get my Olive off the bench and possibly Yun since Feb enhancements should have Lunar New Year units also? Please let me get these bench warmers into the main rotation

Also is Basch and Balthier worth chasing? I have Mystea (3, actually. I chased so hard now it rains) and Wilhelm/WoL so I can't figure out their places?

Basch is the ultimate Cover tank, he's basically WoL+Mystea on roids. So yes, he's worth chasing even if you have Mystea but don't chase too hard anyway. Balthier is a finisher so his value is questionable. His JP counterpart would be considered ok in today's GL but he is receiving buffs so there's no way to know just yet. The rest of the banner is just filler though.
I don't have Mystea so I'll try my luck here

[DFJS]

Might use a few tickets just for bonus then go back to saving. Never did play 12 but they all look cool.

[Karbuncle]

Never played 12 but did play the RTSgameboy game “Revenant Wings” and regardless Balthier and Gabranth are awesome.

[Bladen Ansgar]

I have a question for those that play JP version about 7 stars as I am just a little confused about it. I know if you use a unit with 100% TMR to make the crystal you get a 50% STMR on the 7 star unit. If I were to again pull another 2 of the same character and fuse them as before while just raising the one TMR to focus on STMR would I lose out on getting a fourth copy of the TMR when I fused the 2nd 7 star into the first one for the STMR? Or would it just be better to wait for STMR moogles and have two 7 star for chaining?

It seems to me from what I've seen, they are using 7 star forms to make chaining families (for lack of a better term) to make it more useful to have a couple 7 star from a specific family rather than try and get dupes.

[Alkar]

Here's how the 7* awakening works:

-You need a base unit fully awakened and levelled at 6*,
-Get a dupe and turn it into a crystal. By doing this you also get a moogle container with whatever Trust % that unit had so you can keep feeding moogles to it to get the TMR. You cannot take this container on the field to farm trust. The crystal is used to awaken your main to 7*,
-Your new 7* unit can now go to lvl 120, levels do not reset with this awakening but these 20 levels require a lot more EXP.
-For the STMR you need two more units to fuse into your 7*. These can be of any rarity and you get a 50% TMR moogle after fusion but you do lose the units and their TMRs by doing this unless you have already farmed them up to 100%.
-In the 7* era there's no need for dupes, characters can now chain with others quite easily so the best course of action seems to be :go for the STMR.

[Malithar]

TMR and STMRs are completely separate and have nothing to do with each other. If you combine a 6* maxed unit with another copy (fresh or maxxed, doesn't matter), you'll get a 7*. If the fused copy had a maxxed TMR, you won't get a TMR Moogle for it. If it was anything but max, you'll receive a container Moogle with it's TMR % that you can continue to fuse TMR Moogles into.

As far as STMRs go, you'll need to fuse copies of the unit (again, fresh, 6*, doesn't matter, though I don't know how it'd work fusing a 7* into it - I honestly don't know if anyone has tried) into the 7*. You'll gain 50% towards the STMR, thus fuse two and you'll unlock the STMR.

As far as if it's better to have two 7*s or an STMR, that's up to the player and depends heavily on the units they have. While you can't have duplicates for 10 mans, dups can often be huge for trials, specially chainers. If they're not a chainer, I'd vote pretty much universally full steam ahead to STMR. Chainers though, it heavily depends on who else you have that could join in and take their place. Many of the STMR weapons are far and away the best available, but losing your ability to chain, or spark chain if that's your thing, could be a major loss that isn't made up for by the STMR. I think they struck a decent enough balance with it all. I was worried pre-STMRs that they'd be so incredibly powerful to justify giving up 2x 7* chainers, but in the end, most of them are just a nice bonus. Some of the support ones are pretty outlandish though, providing stats and effects that are far far beyond anything else. Queen's comes to mind with more or less an endless last stand effect as long as you're above 1% HP.

[Bladen Ansgar]

That is more or less what I thought, just nice to get it confirmed. Doing TMR farming this week while I wait for next event. Just planning out who and when. I am planning full steam ahead on STMR. As you guys said, it seems they are forming chaining families. Right now my dupes are 2B, Ace and Reberta, not sure what I'd do with 4 Crimson Bloods anyhow.

[DFJS]

Had my first blue > gold > rainbow. Was happy until it popped into a 2nd rem. At least I hear her 7* is pretty sweet.

[Alkar]

Had my first blue > gold > rainbow. Was happy until it popped into a 2nd rem. At least I hear her 7* is pretty sweet.

Curaja, Tornado, Quake, AoE Reraise+ 100%DEF/SPR and 20% damage mitigation skill, 180 MP mana battery at the cost of LB gauge (which is useless for her anyway), chaining skill with 60% SPR break built in and with the same properties of her GL dagger Boomerang (takes weapon elements, physical passives, etc). Yeah, she's really good.

[Coren]

After my exceptional luck on new years day I've had the daily blues every single day. Hopeful that stops for the banner this Fri!

[Karbuncle]

I haven’t seen a rainbow in well over 50 pulls. Not as bad as many folk but it’s about half as bad as should be statistically lol. Saving all my luck for Balthier I guess.

[Zealot]

For me it's been almost 2 weeks now; every daily pull and available ticket, plus I did an 11-pull at one point. No rainbows.

It did rain and pour during the Cloud/Christmas banner and I ended up with something like 8 or 9 of them, but only Christine was on-banner.