Final Fantasy Record Keeper: Zero Magicite Thirty - A 2018 RNG-dyssey

[Robertfb]

Glints on anni and really all future banners are the exact same as the KH ones, its only a few (Yuffie, Noctis, Bartz come to mind) that have different, useful effects.

[hyoton]

Sora usb is fine on its own because it's a chase and chases are historically agnostic to doublecast. It hits two of the eles bartz doesn't so it doesn't need to compete with bartz - I think the non ele on bartz's chase is usually going to be irrelevant (except for snowspell striking tiamat and things like that). It benefits more from quickcast and less from crit - I think that's a push.

Sora burst is fine with dualcast LMR and only okay (compared to USBs) without IMO. Don't need the glints due to record dive. But it's plenty usable for someone who doesn't have ice/lightning/fire - certainly more usable than most bursts nowadays.

Riku USB is fine on its own since all his relics do the same thing, which reflects badly on the non ultras but eh. Wants a source of quickcast like sora. His biggest problem is really that physical darkness school is terrible. But any non ninja ultra is going to have that, and someone has to do darkness (I mean, they can't all be TG cid). I can't imagine it's a good idea but 172 mag is...plausible I guess, for nuking if you can give him a mixed buff and magic sword. Yeah okay maybe not.

Cloud burst is interesting due to the quickcast command (I can't imagine command 2 is useful but who knows). If you cycle it with two actions that's 1.5 powerchainswhich is okay for a burst.

Glints are bad but most glints are going to be bad. LMRs are a crapshoot. But that's the nature of the game; even looking at say 3rd anni banner 1, which I think is a great banner, I want the ultras and don't care about pretty much any of the bursts, and two of the LMRs (ramza wouldn't be bad but eh). The fact that bursts on this banner that are even interesting is good.

[Alkar]

En-element at the start is way better than Dualcast unless you're using Chains (and get lucky procs). Bartz requires 2 SB bars to get En-element and USB up, Sora only needs his Dive. That said they only compete with Fire, Bartz is never gonna win on Ice and Thunder against Sora while Sora is unable to get better DPS on Wind/Water/Earth.

[kuronosan]

Basically.

[Alkar]

FFVII & X banner coming tomorrow for GL lol. Yeah, nothing really special here other than Cloud's USB and Tidus CSB (again). Also Apocalypse++ making its debut on GL just in time to disappear for a few more events.

[Alkar]

Well... Sephiroth's new USB2 in JP is pretty similar to Cloud's USB1 as during Ex-mode (and after using two dark attacks) his damage can break the cap! And it's on the same banner with Cloud's first USB and Vincent's new magical fire chain... looks like a banner worth saving for indeed (and Angeal is no longer forgotten lol).

[Kirin]

Well... Sephiroth's new USB2 in JP is pretty similar to Cloud's USB1 as during Ex-mode (and after using two dark attacks) his damage can break the cap! And it's on the same banner with Cloud's first USB and Vincent's new magical fire chain... looks like a banner worth saving for indeed (and Angeal is no longer forgotten lol).

Angeal Flash SB: Instantly grant the party Protect, High Regen, and High Regen stacking effect.

Kind of weird they tagged Sephiroth's BDL behind using 2 dark attacks. Almost wonder if its a bad JP translate and the 2 attacks are a sort of chase trigger that allows his next attack to BDL and then it reverts to normal.

[Alkar]

Sephiroth's Ex-mode lasts 25 seconds (like Terra) and it's not a chase effect. I'm guessing they're simply trying to balance it out but with that Glint it gets pretty crazy anyway.

[Robertfb]

Angeal Flash SB: Instantly grant the party Protect, High Regen, and High Regen stacking effect.

Kind of weird they tagged Sephiroth's BDL behind using 2 dark attacks. Almost wonder if its a bad JP translate and the 2 attacks are a sort of chase trigger that allows his next attack to BDL and then it reverts to normal.

They didn't want to pull another cloud USB fiasco, so they gave it a gating of 2 darkness uses to activate it, thus his EX mode time is lowered. Imagine how much more broken Cloud USB would be with Enwind, that's the scenario they're trying to avoid.

Edit: Didn't notice it was 25 seconds, then yeah the gating makes it endark cloud USB with a 50% crit fixer as an exchange.

[hyoton]

Overflow dark physical damage only is pretty limiting. Looks good but darkness physicals automatically lag behind nin so they need something to keep up.

[Alkar]

Both have pros and cons, Sephiroth will be on a timer to push that damage up as high as possible. But now Cloud and Seph can be bros on holy magicite teams

[hyoton]

lol I didn't even think about that...
The thing is that the holy magicites so far have been mostly magic users right? So it's trivial to put blinks up, then you do more damage at half cast time, without taking damage unlike the stronger physical dark skills (and honestly having to use a blink on a physical hit isn't the worst possible thing...)

[Alkar]

I think Siren has some physical attacks? Don't remember honestly. Not saying Ninjas aren't strong but only Shadow can actually push those dark skills to the limit while the other dualcast ninjas will usually do half the damage. Sephiroth here has Endark and crit on top of extra darkness damage. And he also has a Trance with reduced casting time and ATK buff on top of extra reduced casting time with his Glint. I'd say the competition here is fierce but Seph can come out of top with the right setup. Of course Shadow only really requires his USB to get pretty far.... and a bit of proc luck.

[Vandalhart]

Not sure what what happened, but I believe I got double the rewards from the Realm Dungeon update. Were they rolling out a base amount and then additional rewards depending on the number of dungeons?

[Robertfb]

Not sure what what happened, but I believe I got double the rewards from the Realm Dungeon update. Were they rolling out a base amount and then additional rewards depending on the number of dungeons?

We got 2 separate rewards for Realm Dungeon overhaul. First reward was 10 mythril to celebrate it, second reward is a set of "gifts" to compensate those who already completed the dungeons before the revamp.

Also I noticed my full gifts were split in 2 sets, probably to avoid some arbitrary cap in gift box.

Also be aware Dena has stated that not everyone is immediately getting the gifts, they are slowly rolling this out to avoid extra gift shenanigans (like G11 compensation).

[Vandalhart]

All I know is a I logged in to be greeted by 44 items in my delivery box. om nom nom.

[Gokulo]

The announcement did mention that you might not get everything in one go and instead in parts

[Kirin]

Yeah, the rewards have technically come in 3 waves.

10 mythril for the initial celebration of dungeon revamp. (Last Week)
Revamp Tier Part 1: 2 Mythril + various rewards. (This AM)
Revamp Tier Part 2: Additional rewards for 801+ dungeons. Distributing now.

You're probably confusing the initial 10 mythril reward because I believe it came with the KH event minigame rewards as well.

[Vandalhart]

Yeah, I remember seeing that reward float in thinking it was something different at the time. I wasn't in the 801+ tier when they applied the update so I think I've gotten everything I was supposed to get.

[Athas]

How many items is the 801+ total? We're they already sent out?