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

[Ratatapa]

Wrong place

[Kirin]

Isgebind down, and worked it to a reliable sub 30 with minimal need for doublecast. Only sticking point is if Krile gets paralyzed before she uses chain on Turn 3. If not, clear sailing.

Also had to put a bow on Bartz, as the DPS loss from not using a +fire weapon was worth doing no damage at all at points. May switch it up with another fire caster at some point but if i'm sub 30'ing reliably then there isnt a point.

Now to farm and inevitably get 30 Krysta's before i get the last Isgebind I need.

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[Pirian]

With Maria's USB I was able to finally take down Ixion, and that finishes everything except light/dark. 38 seconds on Ixion and idk if I can get that any lower. Maria caps out dmg fast, but Bartz never gets close to capping and that's even with USB stacked with his BSB3. My tremoring QS is only 3/5 and I was running out of hones using it from the start, so I switched to using LS to get him to the initial USB, then TQS from there. I think if I hone TQS one more time and give bartz steal power then I will maybe push the dmg up some, but with his USB + BSB + OK BSB, I should be well beyond the soft cap by this point.

[hyoton]

How fast does she cap out damage? If she's really doing 2x4x10k per cast, she can probably solo ix with allegro on her own.

[Pirian]

As soon as I get her USB up, which is on the 4th turn. if I focused upon her then I could get that down to the 3rd turn, but Eiko is my only healer and I'm feeding her bars for USB haste. I would definitely run out of meltdown hones (currently 4/5 but can't upgrade), and I'm pretty sure chain stonega is going to max out at only 6-7k per hit, so making up the non-inconsequential dmg from Bartz (probably ~150-200k) in a timely manner might be tough. I did also pull Emperor's BSB2, so with OK's mUSB I might be able to make it a bit faster if Emperor's BSB2 commands aren't too low, or if I make a 2nd chain stonega. I'm not hurting for major dark/black orbs as much as I am for MPOs, so that might be doable. Or I could just try the allegro route. I have Sarah's BSB and that would provide a good benefit along with allegro

[hyoton]

Yeah, I doubt you actually want to solo it but if you’re capping out, running someone who doesn’t need two bars to be useful would be a good idea.

EDIT: basically bartz is good in a vacuum but two bars is a lot to pay considering maria only needs one, and she isnt even capped on value (because you can add allegro). someone who only nukes and maybe enearths or gives some support like allegro (like tyro even although his offense is horrible) later in the fight is 2 bars more to give to eiko, or reduce the entrusting needed

[Moridam]

i am definitely on board the allegro train, swapping iris for deuce on my isgebind team allowed me to slot ACM and shave like 8 seconds off my kill time (which was previously just a hair over 30s). its definitely worth fitting in if you can make it work!

[Pirian]

Just can't figure out how to fit allegro in the Ixion team without going down to 1 DD. I opted to bring in Emperor with his BSB2, and I actually happen to have his quickcast LMR that triggers at low HP (it works out that Ixion's 2nd AoE at the start consistently triggers it, which is nice). Dove both emp and maria to LDM because I hate myself, and with that I'm able to just about cap out chain stonega on Maria which allows me to throw Meltdown on Emp. Overall, Emp is probably only doing as much damage as Bartz was doing, but he does it quicker and an all-mage team allows me to use OK's mUSB for quickcast. My time is presently sitting at 31.86 so I'm playing around with the order of the party, the sequence of the start of the fight, etc. trying to figure out how to shave off those last few seconds. I'm much more efficient with juggling haste/last stand/healing with Eiko now that I've gotten accustomed to that style of play and therefore she's requiring fewer bars, so I'm thinking of putting a chain stonega on OK instead of wrath and maybe he'll be able to put up ~50k or so and shave a couple seconds while still entrusting a quarter bar to Maria at the start pushing her to USB a turn early.

[hyoton]

Wait you have sage usb? yeah no need for allegro. i missed that but i see it now. yeah OK is a good third option to nuke and you can still entrust. maybe try and sneak in a sage recast for damage and more quickcast.

EDIT: damn phone and typos

[Pirian]

Got him under 30 seconds, cheers (28.87). It is still pretty close and is reliant on him not staying in res+ mode for more than 1 round of damage. I think I may be able to push it a little lower so it's not so close through getting Emp's bsb up a little quicker by giving him a dmg-only entrust from what's built up over the two AoEs at the start on OK. I don't think the damage from OK using chain stonega is going to be worth it over the extra fast-cast on his recasting of mUSB. May still try it anyways, meh

[hyoton]

Just about done with the 6 basic elements' resist elements by taking them to level 80 for resist level 8 (missing a second sylph). Empowers going to do the same I think; stack a second empower on one of the magicites that already have an empower, but only to level 12. That leaves holy / dark to finish up...ugh.

[Moridam]

iirc resists you can just inherit once your second copy reaches 65, should be the same bonus as inheriting a level 80 since it'll round up after cutting the 7% in half.

[Robertfb]

King's USB just wrecks Kraken so hard with Kain Chain. Ended up doing 90k - 120k per turn. Been close to sub 30, but usually fail due to Kraken either stopping Lightning or blinding King as he uses Tempest Snipe. Can definitely sub 30 if I finish my Lightning Deck (game keeps tossing me Ixion magicite and he is the most annoying to farm).

[synistar]

Funny, Cinque USB pushed me to sub 30 Ixion. And all I have been getting are Ixion drops. Just need 1 more mimic queen

[hyoton]

See if you can run drawfire or sentinel rm on entruster. They will eat counter blind till it runs out at 25s

[hyoton]

iirc resists you can just inherit once your second copy reaches 65, should be the same bonus as inheriting a level 80 since it'll round up after cutting the 7% in half.

That makes sense now that i think about it. I guess for a third empower thats NOT true if you have two 15s already (15/2+ 7 or 8/4) (EDIT3: I forgot that level 80 empowers are 12, so yeah may as well go to 80 there...)


EDIT: math fail by me (7/4 won’t round up unlike 8/4)

EDIT2: wait I think emp 7 will round up with two emp 15s? 24.25 vs 24.5 this is what I get for trying to do math while walking.

[Robertfb]

See if you can run drawfire or sentinel rm on entruster. They will eat counter blind till it runs out at 25s

Not using an entrusted, my team is: Kain (CSB), Lightning (USB), OK (pUSB), King (USB), Selphie (USB).

Kain has T.G. Cid RM and lifesiphon to throw Chain up by the time Lightning/King have their USBs ready, then Lightning spams thundering quads while King does Tempest Snipe. OK backup heals for Selphie.

[Alkar]

Phew, last minute Siren/Hades clears! Siren wasn't that bad honestly, managed to clear with Seymour (BSB+LMR) and Alphinaud (USB+SSB... why did I not remember his USB has dark I'll never know lol) as my main DPSes, Larsa+ Mog on healing duty and Shelke. Hades was more of a pain, cleared with 1 second to spare on the Doom timer XD Marche+WoL on damage, Cait+Ramza as buffers, larsa on main heal/Astra duty. Hopefully I get decent pulls to augment my teams a little bit so I can farm him reliably.

[Moridam]

got a fluke last minute win on siren with my raines/kuja DPS combo after a couple dozen resets, decided to go for hades and got absolutely stomped lol. double healer/wall/proshellga + WoL chain HP stock + incredible RNG can occasionally get through the early fight, but i can't survive dispel + back to back to back damage before i can get any buffs back up let alone heal.

[Pirian]

Having gotten OK's pUSB/LMR, as expected I was able to sub-30 my last 3 elemental 4* magicite; tiamat, midgar, and kraken. Now to try and work on my initial wins for 4* light/dark :\ From my initial attempts it looks like Raines' BSB is finally starting to show it's age, but maybe that simply means I open/buff with it and then stick to the 5* abilities as I do with basically every other BSB that has a worth-while opening. I do have a fair amount of farming of tiamat/midgar/kraken to do that I was putting off until I could sub-30, so perhaps I'll just do that and hold off on light/dark since the 1 mithril cid mission isn't pressing anymore.