FF:BE - A Skinner box with plot

[arus2001]

Estark attempt #3... get to 3%, insta-kill move wipes out half my party. gg fucker.

[Delain]

Had a blue to gold to rainbow remix today as well. Tidus number...it doesn’t matter any more. Gonna just make a full Tidus party.

[arus2001]

As long as you find a way to mod the battle music into a loop of the Tidus laugh.

[Jiyo]

Got Hyoh from one of the tickets off of story missions! Still got step 4/5 on 11k to go too

[Patriarch]

That bonus stage is no joke. I'm getting really pissed over jow much stamin i've wasted losing to them.

it's just funny to me how simple bonus stages have always been, and suddenly the difficulty is literally intensified tenfold.

first attempt I went in without a magic tank thinking I could zerg through. learned my lesson and took in A.rain and got to I tangir just to get thoroughly insta-raped

[Teryu]

Yeah they're all bullshit in their own way and almost require an individual party each.

[Azat]

Finally cleared it, had to make room in my party setup for Xon with doublecast raise to cheese the last boss

[Yuri-G]

got my second Hyoh off of the tickets you win from beating Hyoh, how fitting. not looking forward to the bonus stage lol

[dasva]

it's just funny to me how simple bonus stages have always been, and suddenly the difficulty is literally intensified tenfold.

first attempt I went in without a magic tank thinking I could zerg through. learned my lesson and took in A.rain and got to I tangir just to get thoroughly insta-raped

That's crazy up until now I've still used a mostly TMR farming pt + all element Xon for these with maybe 1 or 2 serious real units with some level of gear

[Kainos]

11k stepup and 50 tickets only got me 1 rainbow ... Duke

Admittedly I screwed myself pulling on the dues ex step up banner but oh well. After spending thousands of dollars on this game since launch I refuse to give them anymore money. Goomi is a shit company which I realized when i went 8 paid 11 pulls in a row with no rainbow before I stopped.

They will only get me again if xenogears collab is ever released but I swear thats it

[DFJS]

Had a fun stage run with a hyou equipped with dkc's tmr. Was the last stage where you had to kill hyou with an esper while summoning 2 espers and had a few no magic stages too. Was a little interesting but thankfully Ayaka has a good mp regen and Garnett has a heal ability as well. So I think next time before I do the harder stages I'll check for dkc's tmr.

[Jiyo]

Did the bonus stage with A.Rain (6*), Wilhelm (7*), CG Nichol, CG Fina, Orlandeau (7*), Friendlandeu (7*). Definitely took a lot of turns doing all the missions, but it was a relatively 'safe' party. Just need to make sure everyone has ribbons or all ailment resist.

[Bladen Ansgar]

All this summoning means its time to look at inventory cleanup again. Are Slime and Kelsus and other units that started as purchase/summonable excluded from the 100% TMR turn in? I imagine they are, just don't want to toss them until I know for sure.

[Byrthnoth]

Supposedly yes. Taking Kelsus to 100 makes him worth 450k Gil, though, and his awakening mats are just his shards.

[Zealot]

Did the Bonus Stage with Orlandeau, Ayaka, Basch, Wilhelm, Zargabaath, and friend Hyoh. Everyone had as much status immunity as possible and Basch had 130% resistance to all elements (100% to dark because there's no dark resist on rainbow robe).

Status resists make the first fight a snap, Basch being element-immune makes all the damage from fight 2 irrelevant. Fight 3, as it turns out, has a rotation you can exploit that I saw on reddit. Basch can 100% magic cover all of Intangir's retaliations. So recover from the pre-emptive attack, and then rotate using your healer to Raise Basch (and cure whomever if needed, I occasionally needed Esunaga for my friend Hyoh), and then the next turn Dualcast Dispel + Reraise on Basch, Basch magic covers, everyone else does their thing. If you have Wilhelm he can throw out D Rod Crusher too to help Basch not get triple-killed on thresholds. Would've used MS Nichol for this but he was on an expedition, but with Zarg I barely noticed he was gone.

[Cyn]

My main MS Nichol would have to leave my party to go on an expedition. He's definitely never been one.

[Alkar]

All trash from the 5+1 as expected.

[Delain]

All trash from the 5+1 as expected.

Best unit I got from it was Lani. Felt about what I expected

[Oravis]

Got my first Rem (finally) from the 5+1. Now to try and fit her into my arena team with that unique materia she has.

[Patriarch]

1 useless gold, and 4 four-star max blues lol