FF:BE - A Skinner box with plot

[Coren]

Set up olive with 2315ATK, 100% fire, 200% machine killer.

[Robertfb]

hmmmm I could come out of retirement for that. it's the sort of challenge I enjoy. let me check my gears and I'll post in a bit if I can do it.


edit: nope, I'm too far behind on story and don't have phoenix or access to kappa village. sorry bro

Get to "Road to Whyt Village" (S2, Chapter 3 finale) ASAP if you aren't there by Sept. 1, you'll get a free 50% trust moogle. Minute I saw that when I came back, I grinded end of S1 (just unlocked isle after Gronoa) and just caught up a few weeks ago.

[Alkar]

Finally some much needed luck shift! CG Nichol from 5% daily, Aileen from the normal one.

[DFJS]

First ever lighting from daily 250. One from rookie doesn't count since we didn't actually pull it.

[Cyn]

Viktor's stats and abilities are pretty much what I'd imagine it would look like if they made the Juggernaut a playable character in FFBE.

[Byrthnoth]

If anyone is interested in this strategy, I shared a suitable Cedona.

[Patriarch]

got x2 shadow today from half price and free 5%

if it weren't for 7* pull coins I wouldn't even log in, this shit is incredible

[Coren]

Started with 5% pull: Emperor Shera (1st one!!).
Downhill from there is an understatement. Did a few tickets I had held onto, plus the first 2 steps on the step-up. Got not just shit, but jack-fucking-shit. Like, a pile of original 4* max units worth of shit. Why are they still available?
Rydia, Kain, Kain, Aiden, Kain, Vaan, Gilbert, Rakshahasha, Shadow, Black Waltz, Shadow, Kuja, Shadow. Only pulled 1 3* on-banner. Bah.

[Robertfb]

Finally some much needed luck shift! CG Nichol from 5% daily, Aileen from the normal one.

Grats! Nichol is such a game changer.

[Hioki]

5% pull turned in Cloud #4. Happy to have his STMR
Decided to do a run of the step up, Squall #1 & Victor.
Burned 34 tickets. Adam around ticket 16. Sitting on a solid 100 tickets left for Hyoh.
Would have liked a 2nd Victor since I could see some use for him.

[Zealot]

I see some people doing the step up, is it worth it? What's the final verdict here.

[Alkar]

I see some people doing the step up, is it worth it? What's the final verdict here.

It's the worst step-up offer we've had so far. Up to you really but the units themselves are not game changers in any way. Jensen's TMR is ok but TDW will never be on top (or even on par with TDH) until they raise the 100% cap on it and do other changes.

[Malithar]

I see some people doing the step up, is it worth it? What's the final verdict here.

The step up itself is pretty trashy. I can appreciate them trying different things and in general, giving us more step ups than JP had. That said, this one doesn't really offer as much value as other models they've used. Cutting the 2nd 5* (even if it's an all units pull) really hurts the value. I'm looking at it as they cut the price by 5k lapis, but removed a 5* unit and 10% 5* ticket. If you want the units, it's still your best bet though.

Unit wise, I think 7* Victor might be a sleeper unit. Lunera and his 30 chain frame moves get some more units in the future, and his true DW defense of 40% is going to give him ridiculous defense numbers to scale off of while using the abilities twice due to DW. Claic mentioned something about the abilities not using weapon scaling though. I dunno if that's true, just looking at the abilities, idk why they wouldn't. They're still a physical attack, just using defense instead of attack. Regardless of the scaling, 2x 650% 30 hit attacks a turn with high stat mod on a unit that is a very capable provoke tank is nothing to scoff at. Plus he's plenty capable of acting as a strong finisher as well, though using DW instead of TDH and taking advantage of weapon variance will give lower results.

My biggest issue with him is a provoke tank just isn't that valuable anymore. Between evade shenanigans, iNichol, Rain acting as both voke and magic AoE tank, Wilhelm acting as both voke and physical AoE tank, etc, there's just too many answers to needing a voke tank. And as much as I'd like to get him to mess around with the defense scaling moves and see what could really be made of him, I'm just not confident he'd function well outside of that. I need units doing more to fit others in, not less, and typically another tank or unit is already filling that voke niche, if it's needed at all.

Adam, I'm less convinced he'll pan out. That said, it'd definitely be just like Gumi to make changes to make TDW the defacto go to in GL. We've been drip fed TDH stuff just fine, even getting that lovely step up banner with Cloud and Elfreeda. They knew people would be prepping for TDH. What if they spun that on it's head and made TDW the way to go? Suddenly, Adam is in a far better position.

There's a lot of changes that'd need to be done to make that happen, and I just don't see em coming through though. Adam as a unit is kinda meh. He's not bad, just not stellar and worth going for. TMR and STMR wise, other units would love them (Lightning for now, Olive for now, CG Jake in the future, Vincent in the future, prolly other's I'm forgetting), but not worth chasing on a 2x 5* banner IMO.

[Zealot]

That's all I needed to see. I'll do dailies but holding on to tickets and lapis.

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[Karbuncle]

Two rainbow in 6 tickets plus daily and step 1. Incredibly lucky.

Lightning and Cloud.

Not a single banner unit.

This game is a fucking scam, I got that stupid cunt ice headband dancer THREE GODDAMN TIMES. THE SAME FUCKIJG OFF BANNER BLUE THREE TIMES

[Zealot]

Hey the Ice Headband's actually not a bad TM.

[Karbuncle]

I’d be more excited if I didn’t already own one . But not much more.

I’m more livid at no banner 5* in two rainbow. What world has Gumi created where I’m angry enough to not even want to log in to do the raid after two 5* in only a few pulls? That was Lightning #4 too. I have her STMR now technically. But I don’t care about her STMR, I never asked for this. Still angry.

In two years of exclusive units I have ONE exclusive 5*. I can’t even convince myself limited units are rigged anymore

[Zealot]

I got Raegen #4 today, I hope his STMR is good.

[Yuri-G]

dat machine killer accessory tho. might need to dive back into the game for a minute for that one

Finally some much needed luck shift! CG Nichol from 5% daily, Aileen from the normal one.

grats! amazing pulls

[Dook]

When I get home I'll throw up a cheese Cedona for y'all if you want. I can also full evade Basch or Noctis if someone needed that?