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

[hyoton]

So it turns out I need a mind bogglingly high number of black crystals for all the new 6 star black magics. Like 586 black crystals.

as someone who can barely muster the will to put parties together for the current crop of content i am very interested in whatever this is

Get 4 last standers and a radiant shielder (any non shield damage they do is going to be pitiful except for like piercing skills so it doesn't really matter who you take). Take dark resist and health boons so you aren't getting 1 shotted by drain - it's fine to recast last stand for multiple people but it's a waste if only one person needs it, especially if everyone else is at high hp. Bring hastega because you do want haste and if you mess up the orbs it'll go away. Feel free to let yourself get big banged in phase 2 by taking the timer to 0 or 60, but I found having some time leftover in phase 3 was good because zeromus will aoe you down with multi hit attacks and that feeds you more meter. Your win condition in phase 3 though is taking the timer to 0 and letting him obliterate your HP every few seconds while you refill it with shield up.

Curajas, curagas, memento of prayer and bursts are good to keep meter up for phase 2 but they're going to be osmosed away in phase 3, so go hog wild in phase 2 with your hones (except maybe save a hastega charge for dispel in phase 3).

Aside from that just get punched in the face and heal up and you eventually win. Zeromus's AI is predictable until about turn 58 (check reddit for the AI) and then it just goes weirdly random for some reason. Both phase 2 and phase 3.

[Kirin]

Onion Knight, Agrias, or TG Cid LMR?

Cid USB, both OK USB, Agrias waifu completion.

[synistar]

You're probably going to be using OK in a whole lot more team comps. But pew pew pew holy dps. Can't argue with that.

[Moridam]

would the OK LMR push you to sub-30 anything you currently can't? it's nice to have for sure, but i think i sub-30'ed all of the 4* magicite without it.

i vote for TGC, cranking out 150k a turn with sabers is just immensely satisfying.

[hyoton]

God my tactics synergy is bad. And the upcoming tactics banner for the torment doesn't look great.

[synistar]

It's an all-round decent fill for both banners. Banner 1 is Ovelia with DPS Ramza and Agrias. Banner 2 is Alma with Marche USB, Melidoul BSB for breaks. Solid fills. Just no TGC USB to break the game.

[hyoton]

That's the one I want though, TGC USB; the other stuff is.............okay. Except marche USB, that's good (but I really don't like that second banner).

[Alkar]

I've pulled on every Cid banner to date and got shit all the time, maybe I can get a decent tactics pull this time XD I still only have his SSB

Edit: Also Montblanc's kit from Banner 1 is really solid if you grab that USB and LMR. That's 4 layers of mitigation on one character with IC3+Haste LM2 with added Protect and Shell on top.

[Kirin]

I have not started the Earth/Lighting/Water half of 4* magicite yet, but I do have Relm USB to supply me with CT0...so I doubt casting OK USB at 3 or 5 seconds would make a difference.

Went with Cid LMR over Agrias. I'll grab Agrias at some point, but "finishing" Cid now with USB and LMR just made more sense. Got Edgar USB in the pull anyways, so now I have a full complement on Machinist imperils too between Laguna and Edgar.

Tactics for me has become a chase Meliadoul/Agrias Waifu realm. Had to pick a healing BSB because it's always eluded me on pulls, but I have Ramza/Agrias/Marche/Cid with relevant tech now and my reason to pull there again is just diminishing returns. It helps that the next Tactics banners aren't too hot though.

[Aerin]

Yeah healing is where I feel I’m lacking the most for FFT. I have Ovelia’s BSB but not sure that’ll be enough. Will probably need to use Ramza as a bit of an entrust battery for her on the highest difficulty torment.

[Athas]

Been putting off the dissidia fights and now I just have a day left to finish apoc++ and raid; but they seem way harder then any 220 fight has a right to be.

Advice?

[synistar]

Dancer, blow up one person 3 times in a row. Fin.

[Aerin]

I focus fired cloud because he always hit like a truck after using his limit break

[Alkar]

For the Apoc++ go crazy with AoE and it'll be over soon. For the raid simply focus fire one of them and don't touch the other two.

[Ayn]

Ok, I generally shy away from gem-only pulls (and dropping $29 for gems).

But the LMR pull has me wondering if Orlandeau's LMR would be worth it -- a lot of signs are pointing to yes. I have his OSB, USB, and BSB, but I'm also wondering if I'm hedging my bets too heavily on one character.

[IceSylph]

Ok, I generally shy away from gem-only pulls (and dropping $29 for gems).

But the LMR pull has me wondering if Orlandeau's LMR would be worth it -- a lot of signs are pointing to yes. I have his OSB, USB, and BSB, but I'm also wondering if I'm hedging my bets too heavily on one character.

You have his USB, it's definitely worth it. Triple casts are beautiful and pretty common. And anything that let's you get more damage out of limited hones, since past r3, it gets quite expensive.

[Ayn]

Thanks for the advice! I have one R3 Assault Saber at the moment, so yeah.

[Gokulo]

So, which of the upcoming banners are worth looking out for now after the fest?
I'm thinking about the FFV event because I want to go after Chicken Knife, but is there any other important stuff coming up?

[kuronosan]

Not really. I think this was the stream of bad banners for JP.

[Alkar]

Banners with chains: FFV gets a physical earth chain, FFVII has a magical fire chain (also Seph's new USB and Cloud USB1), etc.