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

[Alkar]

FFI banner (1) details are out and it includes:

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-Garland USB;
-Sarah USB;
-Wol USB (Mobius guy);
-Meia OSB;
-Garland BSB1 (yes, they swapped his BSB2 out for this one);
-Meia BSB;
-Sarah BSB;
-Wol BSB;
-Echo BSB2;
-Meia LMR;
-Echo LMR;
-Sarah LMR;
-Garland LMR;
-Meia SSB.

[mistmonster]

Not sure if anyone is interested in the MVP letter but here it is:

Dear FINAL FANTASY Record Keeper MVP,

Greetings from the FFRK team!

Thank you very much for your continued loyalty to our game!
Please check out the special gifts below.

・10 Major Orbs
・10 Major Growth Eggs
・1,000,000 Gil
・10 Giant Adamantite
・10 Giant Scarletite
・10 Rosetta Stones

These items will be distributed starting 4/25 PST directly to your Item Chest!
Please note that the type of Major Orbs may vary in the final sending, and that all gifts will be deleted from your account if you do not load the game within 30 days of receiving it.

In addition, we would like to say a big thanks to everyone who took part in our 3rd anniversary MVP survey. We really appreciate your honest answers, and we want to keep a dialogue going with you as we move forward with FFRK's development. In that spirit, we wanted to answer a few specific things that came up in the survey.

■Differences With the Japanese Version

A lot of people brought up the content differences in the Japanese and worldwide versions of the game. We want to assure everyone that the worldwide version is NOT just an afterthought to the dev team. Our first priority in developing the worldwide version is to make sure everyone playing is having fun.

We all know that the Japanese version that the worldwide version is based on is released six months earlier. When we take that material and bring it to the worldwide version, we do everything we can to make it content we think you'll enjoy. For a variety of reasons, we may not be able to bring over everything we'd like to, and other things may take time to bring over properly. In the past we've also misjudged what things we think our worldwide players want to see.

There were also a lot of comments about the Daily Missions. This was something the dev team went back and forth over quite a lot, and though it took some time, the changes we decided on are finally live in the game!

Another concern many of you raised was the status of unreleased collaboration event heroes. We want to keep you updated as much as possible about heroes we have concrete plans for...starting with Meia, who'll be available from 5:00 PM 4/19 (PST) as part of the MOBIUS collaboration event! We also expect to bring you Morrow in the near future.

Everyone on the dev team is working hard to bring our worldwide players the best possible FFRK experience possible.

■Relic Draws

We received many comments about the transparency of the relic draws, and we'll be considering them in future development decisions. We've already started working on a new feature exclusive to the worldwide version! These won't be a total departure from the existing relic draw system, so while they may seem like rather small steps, we hope they're in the right direction, and that they'll make the game more enjoyable for our worldwide players.

■The MVP Program

Lots of you weighed in on contents of the Monthly Anniversary Gift. This is something we plan to address sooner, rather than later. There were also many requests regarding the entrance requirements for the program, and the ranking system. We'll be considering these elements as we decide what to do with the overall program.

The MVP program is an extremely important way for us to communicate with our most loyal players, so we want to make it the best we possibly can.

■Upcoming Events and Gifts

・Elemental Boost Relic Draws start at 5:00 PM 4/22 (PST)!
These are special worldwide original relic draws for various elements (ice, holy, earth, water, wind, fire, and lightning), with all draws except holy including Chain Soul Breaks! And of course the Dark Boost Relic Draw from the Japanese version will be making an appearance too. We'll be making more announcements about the schedule, so keep an eye on the in-game announcements for more info.

・10 Days of Mythril!
Between 5/1 and 5/10 PST, get a daily login bonus of 5 Mythril! Log in each day for a grand total of 50 Mythril!

・The Fal'Cie Puppets FF XIII Event Starts at 5:00 PM 4/29 (PST)!
This event includes new Ultra Soul Breaks for Cid Raines and Vanille! Cid's True Miracle Soul Break afflicts him with Doom, but in exchange it temporarily causes his Dark and Holy abilities to trigger the follow-up ability Seraph-Wing Buffet! Seraph-Wing Buffet deals four magic holy and dark attacks, so it's a great ability for bosses Vulnerable to holy or dark damage.
Vanille's Bonds of Awakening Soul Break not only instantly restores a moderate amount of HP to all allies and grants them Last Stand, it also temporarily lowers the holy damage of all enemies a small amount. The holy damage reduction can stack, so use this Soul Break consecutively to reduce incoming holy damage even further.

・Thundering Quadstrike Gift!
The most popular ability in the 3rd anniversary survey was Thundering Quadstrike, so we're giving it out to everyone in early May! Check out the in-game announcements for more info.


Your answers to the survey provided the dev team with a tremendously valuable insight into your thoughts and concerns about the game. We plan to do similar surveys on a regular basis in the future, and we hope you'll take the time to participate in those as well.

We're also thrilled at the overwhelmingly positive feedback we received about the KINGDOM HEARTS collaboration. The entire dev team is delighted you enjoyed it so much.

We look forward to keeping an open dialogue with all of you as we move forward. We truly think that together we can make the game even better. Thanks so much for being a part of FINAL FANTASY Record Keeper!

* Changes may be made without notice.
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We sincerely hope that you will continue to enjoy playing FINAL FANTASY Record Keeper.

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Please take a moment to reply to our questions:
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[Ratatapa]

Is there alot of new characters otw?

[Kirin]

Well, they at least understand our ire on global vs JP.

Question is will they do something about it?

My biggest thing is collabs. KH was a nice change and a big dynamic shift for global, but easy stuff like a very old Mana collab (for Mana remake) and the SaGa events should have been easy transitions to global. Either their revenue has taken a dip and theres data to support this Global/JP differential is to blame or DeNa's heart grew three sizes during the 3rd Anniversary.

[Robertfb]

Is there alot of new characters otw?

Not really, unreleased so far is: Thief, Barbarricia, Ultimecia, Ignis, King, Cinque, Sice, Seven, Morrow, Wrieg, Aemo, and the 2 new WoFF collab characters.

[Alkar]

Is this the death of "GL and JP are different games" finally? Glad to see them actually responding to our concerns for once, hopefully this is just the beginning though.

[Ratatapa]

Is this the death of "GL and JP are different games" finally? Glad to see them actually responding to our concerns for once, hopefully this is just the beginning though.

Time for Our Free Blizzaja?

[Alkar]

Well we get free Thundering Quadstrike, I'll take that

[Kirin]

Im convinced Rata just wants to shatter the Blizzaja to have the orbs to shatter for his Snowball Flurry hones.

[Ratatapa]

Im convinced Rata just wants to shatter the Blizzaja to have the orbs to shatter for his Snowstorm hones.

dont see why i should have it higher then R3 lol

[Teryu]

They didn't acknowledge how they fucked us out of over 100 mythril from not giving us daily missions.

[Kirin]

I think it was closer to 70 or 80. And the 50 mythril login does remedy that a little bit.

[Alkar]

Sucks that those are coming AFTER the anniversary banners but they're dropping inbetween FFII and Type-0 so it works for me.

[hyoton]

I can't complain too much about 50 free mythril.

[Alkar]

I'm also curious to see what they're planning for relic draws in GL. Maybe a step-up system increasing odds on certain relics for multiple pulls?

[Robertfb]

Don't forget the elemental banners hit this Sun. So that 50 login mythril will help if you decide to pull on one (I'll pull on fire if they stack it with Krile CSB and Terra AOSB, USB, Glint, BSB2, and LMR).

Edit: Actually I'll pull for sure if top end is Terra AOSB/USB, Krile CSB, and Vivi USB.

[Alkar]

We'll see how good these are. The only banner I'd care about is the ice themed one, hopefully I'll be set with earth after my FFII/Type-0 pulls.
Looking at the banner images I'd say dark is a huge skip for me (CoD OSB and Seph USB means that they'll be heavily featured... too many dupes here), holy is a maybe due to Orlandeau and Pecil (then again no chain kills it imo), earth looks like a no with II and Type-0 around the corner, water looks great but I have enough of that honestly, wind is likely dupe city so nope, fire probably the same, ditto thunder, ice looking good with Snow's Chain and Rinoa's USB.

[Pirian]

Downed Midgarsormr yesterday. Strat was absolutely terrible and almost didn't even come in under 60 seconds.
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Zack - r3 powerchain/r3 ripping blast ; CSB ; no dive ; Ace Striker ; wind weapon/armor
Bartz - r2 SSS/r3 SSS ; USB ; LDM ; 40% Wind materia ; wind weapon
Tyro - entrust bot ; wall ; LDM ; mogs
Eiko - protect song / r2 warrior hymn ; BSB; LMR ; Mako Might
Relm - shell / r4 Curada ; USB ; LDM ; Gathering Storm

RW is FR

My wind magicite are really terrible and are probably my easiest point of improvement right now. Using Unicorn for Astra

This was my first real attempt so I think I would change a lot here. I learned that Bartz is basically the only DPS because ripping blast, while good for building the chain, was still only doing between 12k-30k per charge. While Bartz caps out SSS eventually, it does take a while and his chase will never cap out. If I put a DPS materia on Zack then it might be worth it, but that first chain gets up just so slowly.

With the prolonged fight I unfortunately need 2 healers. Eiko fixes crit at 50% and heals after the opening AoE, which is nice, and then plays support mostly. I honestly don't know how much warrior hymn helped, if at all but because I'm using Unicorn I don't need Angel Song and I don't really know what else to put there.

Even though right now it's being wasted in the last 20+ seconds of the fight, I think I'll keep Gathering Storm on Relm because the goal is to get as close to 30 seconds as possible if not beat it. I may end up throwing Mako on her for the initial cure and GS on Eiko, but I'm sure I benefit more in the early part of the fight by fixing the crit rate at 50% while my raw dmg is low than I will from a single round of instant action.

Not having a good haste means I can't give Zack mako to jump-start the chain because I either need to run tyro for wall and use Fabula Raider, or run Fabula Guardian and switch Tyro out for a hastega/physical+ SB. All my hastega/physical SBs are pretty bad/standard (shout or OK BSB are basically my only options, though I have a few niche ones that don't work here), but since I have Tyro LDM I may as well take advantage of the extended wall time. I don't have OK or Ramza LMRs or that would be a no-brainer.


I'm also thinking of just scrapping the strat altogether and trying from scratch. I have Zidane's LDM/USB and a wind dagger to take advantage of D&S. I also have Cloud's LDM+USB (also the quick act after wind LMR), and once that 5* wind spellblade hits then this+bartz will probably 30-second it. If I can figure out a way to feed Cloud 2 bars in under 15 seconds then I can probably make this work with just his BSB2+USB. If I used Cloud then I would also want to drop Eiko for obvious reasons, so maybe I could bring Shelk as a super-entruster and use her to get Clouds initial bars going. Also something to consider is that I have Estinien's USB, which actually seems pretty decent if I want to kill my MPO supply by r3/4'ing Cyclone Bolt. His USB reduces time for action (initial + after jump), and Cyclone Bolt takes away delay in jump landing, so he would hit hard and fast. His LDM isn't double attack though so I think that's a deal breaker. I don't know, I just feel like I have a lot of very strong tools here but can't quite figure out how to get them to merge because they are all so awkward together.

But in other good news, I got my TGC OSB Kraken strategy to work. Although it was still 45~ seconds with no hope of going much lower, it is very stable. Only one left is Ixion but earth is by far my weakest element. As far as SBs go, I really only have Bartz's BSB3/USB and Gladiolus's OSB, which actually got me 27~ seconds on Hydra, but I don't really expect that to work here. It was a hard and fast strategy and at the end of the fight I really didn't have much steam left and Ixion has much more HP. I don't know, maybe I can get it work well enough to at least get me a win. I can try and drop an entruster and add Eiko to crit-fix and heal, which has worked pretty well so far for other 4*'s

Good news is the elemental draw is coming up, so I'm definitely drawing on Earth unless it's really worth waiting until the FFII banner, and probably I'll probably draw on Lightning as well.

[hyoton]

Ixions basically a slightly souped up 3 star, his defense and stuff really suck. The problem is it randomly swaps into a high eva mode (bad for phys) high def mode both of which dont last a long time, and does a lot of aoe dispel along with ST. If you can handle the dispels bartz can basically sub 45 or so it on his own with usb/burst and probably sub 30 with a ninja doing earth skills (no need for a soulbreak)...OK's physical usb helps but honestly with enearth on the usb will just be melting ix.

[synistar]

Also you can do well with breaks while leaving pro/shell at home. Jitterbug + Full Break + MBD/PBD (and in my case, Meliadoul BSB ATK/DEF) down makes the incoming damage very manageable.