Final Fantasy Record Keeper - Magicite Dungeons - Summon Crusader! Annihilated

[hyoton]

What do you have? Ive noted before I don’t like ysh for magicites; but I don’t have a LD whm so it might make up for it. Yeah not meaning to seriously nitpick enrage just that you have the pleasure of having final stage of enrage to look forward to....

[synistar]

My setup for Kary. Btw, thx for reminding me I have Edge's SSB. Actually made a difference for the clear. Blinked the final attack to boot.

Bartz LD - Lifesiphon | R4 Engulfing Quadstrike - LMR/LM2 - +30% phys RM - Water BSB
Edge LD - R3 Reflection | R4 Raging Waters - LM1/2 - +40% Ninja damage RM - SSB|BSB|USB
OK LD - R5 Wrath | R3 Entrust - Mako Might - pUSB
Ramza LD - R5 Wrath | R2 Entrust - Dr. Mogs - USB
Ysh LD - R3 Curada | Shellga - TG Mode RM - BSB|Proshellga SSB
Magicite - Enki | Bottomswell, Living Flame, Mom Bomb, and something with Res+

I was entrusting both Edge and Ysh. Start of the fight is rough. Ramza entrusts Ysh to get pulse off on turn 2 (she casts wall for her turn 1) and pray to god no one dies in the first 10 seconds. I think I entrust her another part of a bar so she can get off an early asylum to stabilize. I saved Enki when I got 2 stacks of imperil fire. it won't refresh for phase 3 if you pop it at 10 sec, then you have to drag out phase 2 for the full length it appears.

Hitting phase 3 at 30 sec means you have good DPS. You can kinda slow down if you're only aiming for sub-1 min. Hones become an issue though. I resisted honing Raging Waters and Engulfing quadstrike for the longest time. RIP power orbs.

Same can be said for R3 Burning snipe killing my Fire Orbs (again)

[Robertfb]

Managed to clear Isgebind with my Sealion team (swapped Bartz for Refia though).

Setup
99 LD Yda: R2 Burning Crush / R3 Fires Within / USB / Weakness DMG +30% RM / fire armor
99 LD Edge: R3 Fire Veil / R3 Smouldering Fire / SSB / Ninja DMG +40% RM / fire armor
99 LD Ramza: R2/R3 Wrath and Entrust / Shout / Mako Might
99 partial LD Refia: R5 Lifesiphon / R3 Ruby Spark / BSB + LMR / Chakram +30% DMG / Fire + Chakram (Lann BSB)
99 LD Y'shtola: R2 Protectga / R4 Ultra Cure / BSB / Dr. Mogs Teachings

RW: Fabula Guardian
Magicite: 99 Mom Bomb / 99 thunder Enki (ATK+), 65 Maralith, 81 Salamander, 65 Sealion.

Had Edge time SSB shadows to block paralyze move and had Yda use Fires Within for flying mode.

[IceSylph]

Managed to take 13 seconds off my Kraken times today. Changed up party setup and went more offensive focused, instead of double healer:
:42.15


Lightning: USB/BSB2/LMR/LM2 - Thundering Quadstrike R3 + Lifesiphon - RM: Truthseeker
Kain: CSB - Lightning Dive R2 + BotW R2 - RM: Mako Might
OK: BSB - Ultra Cure + Protectga - RM: Dr. Mog
Shelke: BSB - Entrust + Wrath - RM: Ace Striker (Not Dived)
Y'shtola: BSB/SSB/LM1/LM2 - Curada R3 + Shellga - RM: Gathering Storm
** Kain and Lightning both have Lightning+40% in gear.

Magicites:
Main: Hydra
Subs: Enlil, Enlil, Bismarck, Bismarck

Bismarck offers dampen water as a passive, and also resistance boost. I tried to put Enlil as main magicite a few times, but the required healing was the about the same, and didn't mitigate the water damage enough to warrant it. Lightning casts the initial wall ~5s before he gets off his second attack, that way there's some leeway for OK to put wall back up later in the fight. Chain usually goes up around ~15s I think? Kain's damage is pitiful with only a 30% boostga. One day I'll be able to pull better >.>

[Robertfb]

Managed to take 13 seconds off my Kraken times today. Changed up party setup and went more offensive focused, instead of double healer:
:42.15


Lightning: USB/BSB2/LMR/LM2 - Thundering Quadstrike R3 + Lifesiphon - RM: Truthseeker
Kain: CSB - Lightning Dive R2 + BotW R2 - RM: Mako Might
OK: BSB - Ultra Cure + Protectga - RM: Dr. Mog
Shelke: BSB - Entrust + Wrath - RM: Ace Striker (Not Dived)
Y'shtola: BSB/SSB/LM1/LM2 - Curada R3 + Shellga - RM: Gathering Storm
** Kain and Lightning both have Lightning+40% in gear.

Magicites:
Main: Hydra
Subs: Enlil, Enlil, Bismarck, Bismarck

Bismarck offers dampen water as a passive, and also resistance boost. I tried to put Enlil as main magicite a few times, but the required healing was the about the same, and didn't mitigate the water damage enough to warrant it. Lightning casts the initial wall ~5s before he gets off his second attack, that way there's some leeway for OK to put wall back up later in the fight. Chain usually goes up around ~15s I think? Kain's damage is pitiful with only a 30% boostga. One day I'll be able to pull better >.>

It was pointed out a while ago on Reddit, but if you full LD Kain, his LM2 gives +2% ATK per jump hit and his chain counts as 22 jump hits, so he gains +44% ATK after using Chain. Of course this only becomes worthwhile with his CSB alone.

[Moridam]

is that a special property specific to the CSB? or does his USB function similarly? obviously not quite as good since it's far fewer hits at 10?, but it'd still be a nice bump, especially paired with the enthunder effect.

[synistar]

Funny, all of Kain's SBs (except unique Lancet) are coded as jumps according to MisterP's pdf.

[Robertfb]

is that a special property specific to the CSB? or does his USB function similarly? obviously not quite as good since it's far fewer hits at 10?, but it'd still be a nice bump, especially paired with the enthunder effect.

Far fewer hits, his USB would work on it alongside his other SBs.

[Moridam]

oh sick, i dunno why i never thought of that before. i scoffed at his LD since it seemed constrained by hones/using lesser BSB command but that makes it a lot more attractive; i have everything for him sans CSB and probably some old uniques that never recurred.

as for kary, the setup i've been running was pretty similar in makeup to my LF team with some adjustments. on LF i run selphie for USB, but she gets flattened too easily so i subbed in ysh for the added durability + raw healing output. last iteration was something like:

bartz - R3 quadstrike/LS, LM2/LMR/2xSPB, BSB2/USB
tidus - R3 sshot/LS, water+40%, BSB/CSB
edge - R2 pool/R4 raging, LM2/LMR/nin+40%, USB
ramza - entrust/wrath, LM2/LMR/Mako, USB/BSB2
yshtola - R3 curada/shellga, LM1/LM2/TGC, everything sans USB

against better judgment i decided to throw a desperation pull at OK for a shot at pUSB and nailed it (along with another dupe refia LMR) so i could replicate most of syn's dual entrust setup. just unfortunate i'd have to dump tidus since he really doesn't contribute much outside the chain, but that jacks edge/bartz' damage to such obscene levels. that'd at least be partially offset by the buff upgrade from OK i suppose

[JeanClaudVanDamme]

Per TF Murphy in the reddit AI thread, apparently the 40% damage bonus for 4 star magicites isn't yet implemented. Is Dena feeling all right?

What does this mean? Like, our 40% element boost from equipment hasn't been implemented yet? o_O

[JeanClaudVanDamme]

Anyway, Kraken, Marilith, Isgebind all down under 60seconds.

Just gonna farm Kraken first, and do hardcore rotation. 3 Gizmaluke and 2 Kraken so far, planning 8 of each before I move on.

[Alkar]

What does this mean? Like, our 40% element boost from equipment hasn't been implemented yet? o_O

No, it means that while the strategy menu in-game indicates that these bosses should have a 40% damage boost to their element that is actually not the case so their damage is calculated as normal with no boost.

[JeanClaudVanDamme]

No, it means that while the strategy menu in-game indicates that these bosses should have a 40% damage boost to their element that is actually not the case so their damage is calculated as normal with no boost.

Ah ok, so uh, that's still good.

[kuronosan]

No boost? Shit, I'd hate to see Ixion WITH a boost.

[synistar]

An attempt was made:

[Kirin]

So with everyone tackling 4* magicites, I am finally done farming the original 6 and onto Light/Dark.

I can't seem to find the reddit post, but someone detailed how to pace out the 120k damage needed to avoid Black Fang's auto death.

Tools to work with:
Dived Agrias, USB, OSB
Cid Raines: OSB, BSB
Marche: USB
Relm: USB, BSB

Do I have enough time to have Agrias start with MM, USB herself for En-holy, entrust Agrias, and fire off her OSB? How else would I approach that?

[synistar]

Just use an entruster and sacrifice them to black fang. Did sub 30 with this setup

Agrias LD - R3 Divine Cross | R3 Guardbringer - OSB (don't use BSB, USB, SSB) - +Sword Damage RM
Raines LD - Momento Mori | <Blank> - BSB/OSB - +30% damage vs weakness RM
OK - Entruster - BSB - Dr. Mogs
Minfilia - Entrust | Protectga - Mako Might
Ysh LD - R3 Curada | Shellga - TGC Mode - BSB (sometimes not even used)

Turn 1 - Momento Mori, Divine Cross (after MM of course), Minfilia Entrust Raines; OK BSB, Ysh casts wall RW
Turn 2 - Protectga, Cure, Raines BSB, Spam Guardbringer, make sure Minfilia is the lowest hp by smacking her or topping everyone else off.


There's another version that uses Relm with USB, but I think that uses Fabula Raider RW and feeding bars to Relm for lots of instant cast turns.

[hyoton]

800k gil to limit break a 4 star magicite to 99 baby!!

[hyoton]

4 man isn't too bad especially with marche. I'd let the 5th man die.
EDIT: I messed up the reply to kirin

[Sumy]

800k gil to limit break a 4 star magicite to 99 baby!!

Oh, that's where my gil went... didn't even notice. 99'd Marilith x2 and King Bomb.