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

[synistar]

My haul:

Grand Prizes: Lightning AOSB, Yuffie USB2 + BSB2 (though got a 1/11 dupe on a 2nd pull), OK mUSB, Papalymo BSB (Festival), Lulu USB, Eiko LMR (doublecast), Lenna USB, Rinoa SSB armor (+earth damage), FFX selection (Tidus OSB + BSB)
This is fine: Strago BSB, Snow BSB Dupe (Fucked up and combined it instead of keeping 2 +ice armors), Noctis USB, Tifa OSB, Beatrix +holy shield SSB, Curilla BSB, PALADIN FORCE, Echo meh BSB, Dupe Locke USB
Meh: Dupe Rikku LMR and Balthier LMRs from parade. Edea, Lelia, D. Cecil and Gabranth (+atk at least) SSBs. I probably forgot what other dupes I have combined.

Honorable Mention: Ricard BSB. DRAGOON POWER BOYS!

Now if you excuse me, RIP all my dark orbs once again.

[Alkar]

Healer LD dropping tomorrow featuring Curaga level SSBs or higher and the cut off is March 13th which excludes... only Larsa's USB releasing tomorrow really. Such a weird date honestly, don't really get it as no healer stuff has been released this Fest.
Pool should be pretty good if I remeber the JP version correctly but it does include SSBs.

[Deathbringer]

My haul has been good

AO: Yuffie, Lightning
OSB: Gladio
USB: Tyro, Rosa, Yuffie, OK physical, Orlandeau, Bartz(only cause I tried to chase after Tifa's BSB), Vivi
BSB: Mog, Gladio, Tidus2, Rinoa2, Aphmau, Gordon
LMR: Ingus, Yuffia, Tifa, Gladio
CSB: Rinoa, Krile, Ingus
Glint: Squall, Yuffie

Looks like I gotta work on NIN moves + and spellblades and now 6/8 CSBs- missing Lightning and Dark.

Bolded the ones that I failed to get on their main banners.

Edit: Forgot some other stuff I didn't post

[Alkar]

JP:
-Two new characters confirmed for the WoFF Meli-Melo collab: Tama and Enna Kros;
-Kain and Golbez event; Yang and Cid get Legend Dives;
-New BRA BRA collab featuring FFVII;
-Lightning, Snow, Vanille event. New lightning Celebrity ability (better late than never I guess?);
-tons of free mythril.
-5* Water Magicites: Geosgaeno for physical, Famfrit for magical. Guess who's getting those new Brave USBs!

[hyoton]

Finally! Cid (IV) legend dive!

[Gokulo]

Geezus, the damage Minotaur dishes out in the tower... Can't keep up

[Robertfb]

Lann gets a Noctis fire USB and Reynn gets a beyond shit ice imperil USB They waited so long for new shit just to get dicked by Dena.

[hyoton]

That's pretty bad but I'm not sure it's actually that bad for 5 star magis - they're only 20% vuln to start so imperils are almost good for them.

[Robertfb]

That's pretty bad but I'm not sure it's actually that bad for 5 star magis - they're only 20% vuln to start so imperils are almost good for them.

Its still pretty bad, her USB is 10 hit water/ice SMN with imperil ice and chase being every 2nd blm cast being minor imperil ice, no DMG. So its essentially a SSB imperil with a 100% minor imperil every 2nd blm cast with a SMN entry......

This is almost Ysh'tola USB bad, even for 5* magicite.

Edit: Someone on Reddit described Reynn's USB as disappointing as Squall USB1, which is about accurate.

Also Lann's USB is pretty bad too since he is a physical DD whose only fire ability is Valigarmanda..... Unless you combine it with his BSB or they give him Spellblade 5*.....

[Alkar]

The worst part is that one of the new characters is now the best earth mage JP has lol. Considering we're unlikely to get this collab that's... depressing really

[Kirin]

Went ahead and cheesed the MP Ozma fight and Nemesis. Felt good.

Now to tackle normal Ozma.

[Alkar]

Well here's a bit of interesting news from the JP side. It's been discovered that there are unused icons for Normal and Record dungeons in the game files and... well... there are some surprises!



As you can see we have all the currently available realms but there are some (expected) new ones as well:
-LR FFXIII;
-FFTA;
-FFTA2.
However we also have other realms included here that aren't as obvious:
-BC FFVII (mobile game exclusive to Japan focusing on the Turks);
-DFF and DDFF (the PSP titles).
And then others that are quite surprising:
-FF Dimensions;
-Beyond.

I'm not entirely sure why Dimensions is its own realm considering its sequel (Dimensions 2 in GL, these are called FF Legend in JP thus the FFL) is Beyond sinergy in JP but whatever.
These aren't obviously confirmed yet but they were all added at the same time in September so I suppose there are plans for them.

[Robertfb]

Most of those realms make sense, aside from 11, 14, and 15, all main FF are complete for DU, so all they got left is the side games. That said, very disappointed they STILL have 0 plans for Crystal Chronicles. At least DFFOO didn't forget they exist...

[Melena]

Went ahead and cheesed the MP Ozma fight and Nemesis. Felt good.

Now to tackle normal Ozma.

What's the Ozma MP cheese?

[Kirin]

Same setup as Nemesis Boundless.

Cloud USB RW (Preferably)
Native Zack Chain (but really, any 50% boostga)
T.G. Cid w/Demonsblood and Omega Drive (RM3 helps a lot for setup)
Armor Break(down) and Full Break (Luneth or Lightning, Tyro or Shelke or Ramza or OK...etc)
Thundering Quadstrike on 1+characters
Double Hit on everyone else (via materia or ability)
A decent amount of fast or instant cast (especially on someone like Tyro, OK, Ramza, or Shelke)

Reta meta using TG Cid and battle speed manipulation. Having a hastega helps a decent amount, but isn't completely necessary.

Cid doesn't even need anything natively in terms of LMR, full dive, or OSB.

If youre manipulating battle speed properly, you'll phase shift it fast enough that you really only take 2 hits. Edge SSB means everyone would survive and even gives you RNG safety nets with Last Stand allowing as many as 2 people to die.

[hyoton]

Its still pretty bad, her USB is 10 hit water/ice SMN with imperil ice and chase being every 2nd blm cast being minor imperil ice, no DMG. So its essentially a SSB imperil with a 100% minor imperil every 2nd blm cast with a SMN entry......

This is almost Ysh'tola USB bad, even for 5* magicite.

Edit: Someone on Reddit described Reynn's USB as disappointing as Squall USB1, which is about accurate.

Also Lann's USB is pretty bad too since he is a physical DD whose only fire ability is Valigarmanda..... Unless you combine it with his BSB or they give him Spellblade 5*.....

Yeah unless lann's getting spellblade his USB is REALLY bad. Stacking imperils for doing something I want to do anyway is narrow but consistent (it's like a variant of zidane's USB1 ex mode which is underpowered but not useless) which is good for imperils because they need to go on early to get full value, and reynn just gets ice or vuln materia. Lann's chase is impossible to trigger unless he's using burst commands or something.

EDIT: The other thing is that reynn gets whm 4 which gives her an ability slot for a support spell. Reynn does nothing but strike, so if he can't fulfill that part of his job he has no place on a team.

[Moridam]

for anyone doing retaliate cheese for the above fights, prishe has a triple-hit RM3 if you have MC3s to burn that's quite useful. i stick mine on shelke for two instant 3-hit rounds after applying ABD (i put FBD on OK and give him northern cross + TGC RM for his retaliate trigger).

does anyone know if the new celerity ability allows self-targeting?

[hyoton]

for anyone doing retaliate cheese for the above fights, prishe has a triple-hit RM3 if you have MC3s to burn that's quite useful. i stick mine on shelke for two instant 3-hit rounds after applying ABD (i put FBD on OK and give him northern cross + TGC RM for his retaliate trigger).

does anyone know if the new celerity ability allows self-targeting?

They almost never do nowadays. Thundering quad was still bugged to allow you last I heard as an exception but I haven't checked myself.

[Kirin]

Thundering Quad still works. Powerchain does as well, which let Zack basically have a 2 hit CT0 action.

[Robertfb]

Yeah unless lann's getting spellblade his USB is REALLY bad. Stacking imperils for doing something I want to do anyway is narrow but consistent (it's like a variant of zidane's USB1 ex mode which is underpowered but not useless) which is good for imperils because they need to go on early to get full value, and reynn just gets ice or vuln materia. Lann's chase is impossible to trigger unless he's using burst commands or something.

EDIT: The other thing is that reynn gets whm 4 which gives her an ability slot for a support spell. Reynn does nothing but strike, so if he can't fulfill that part of his job he has no place on a team.

It got mined that Lann is getting 5* Monk, so he'll have some physical fire moves.