Final Fantasy Record Keeper 2019: Doomtrain Chugging Along

[kuronosan]

I do have his awakening.

[synistar]

Too bad you can't take advantage of it using Ripper Bolt. And Swift bolt is meh for obvious reasons. Maybe if you had his LMR2 but even that's a stretch.

[Kirin]

Fire, Ice, and Water weak downed. Debating on whether to do Wind, Earth, or Thunder next.

Working on Ice now. What was your setup?

Trying to decide if I should bring a USB/ASB Rinoa or Awakening Shantotto in place of Tyro.

Was running Laguna/Squall/Bartz/Aerith otherwise. Wondering how well a magic user will do without a magic boost.

I'm slowly getting to the final countdown without needing Fabula Healer and just Aerith USB2/Awakening, so my "last push" options are Squall AOSB and Fabula Mage. If I add Rinoa, that brings her ASB and if I bring Shantotto, that should get me through the middle stages more quickly where she and Bartz can still have a turn or two of Awakening left.

[synistar]

My ice setup

Sora USB+Awakening
Snow BSB(Last Stand)+Ice Radiant USB+ Glint+(6 ice hits + last stand)+Arcane
Elarra
Laguna USB
Celes CSB+USB Mystic Blade(en-ice front row melee cast)+Arcane

edit: added a few things and wrote water instead of ice derp.

[kuronosan]

I ran Laguna (USB, Chain), Aerith (USB), Squall (BSB, AASB, AOSB), Snow (Glint+, BSB2, AASB), and Elarra (full) for crit boosting.

[Kirin]

Common thread I see is multiple Awakenings or ASB's. Only have Squall ASB and Celes USB2/Chain if I wanted to go that route.

[synistar]

It's doable without awakenings. Thus guy on Reddit did them all without them. https://old.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKee...ments_no_aasb/

Notable is the ice team:

Ice Weak

Ysayle USB/LMR (chance to imperil)

Rinoa bUSB/LMR (increase magic)

Serah Chain/BSB (imperil ice) LMR (doublecast)

Deuce USB3

Sarah bUSB

[Sumy]

my ice team is stacked, so Ice was the first Odin I finished;

Squall - AWSB
Laguna - CSB
Snow - reflect-USB, AWSB
Elarra - USB, AWSB
Celes - AWSB

...Snow's awakening '-damage taken' made everything much easier.
Ultimately though, damage relied heavily on Laguna's imperil procs.

[hyoton]

Wow, that is an insane ice tea.m

[Sumy]

Wow, that is an insane ice tea.m

subsequent runs I've learned that taking more than one Awakening usually ends up accidentally putting Odin into "Rage level 3 Zantetsuken" and instant deaths... for my Fire team, even though I had access to Noctis, Terra, Axel, and Lockes awakenings, I found it was more manageable to only use Nocti' awakening, and use Lockes USB2 to imperil instead.

My holy attempts with TGCid, Rem, and Agrias Awakenings tends to go down the "Rage Level 3" path too... >.<

[synistar]

Wind weak Odin is so THICC

[kuronosan]

It's doable without awakenings. Thus guy on Reddit did them all without them. https://old.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKee...ments_no_aasb/

Notable is the ice team:

My Dark has the best chance, but I dunno what to do with Cloud.

Seifer - Complete
Cloud - Complete
Seph - USB2 plus both BSBs and his LMR
Riku - everything but Glint

[Moridam]

aaaand ark down. fitting that my last 5* kill was my only one that i didn't manage a sub30 on. did a kinda turtlish setup with hope's holy RS, arc's offensive USB, raines BSB, edward chain and elarra providing entirely too much healing. doubt i'll bother refining this one much since i just need to slog thru 3 more.

not sure which odin to go after first, my stacked elements are:

dark: seifer, sephiroth, riku & vayne AASBs w/ access to both gabranth or seifer chain
lightning: lightning, seven & sora AASBs + prompto chain
wind: cloud USB/AOSB stuff, zidane & vaan AASBs, no gen2 chain however, i've only got zack's.
fire: auron, sora & terra AASBs, with vincent & locke chain

though from the sound of it, stacking too many AASBs at once can be detrimental? those will probably be my first handful, i think sora's my only ice AASB coverage and i don't have his glint so that's probably a non-starter.

[Sumy]

I think I "get" Odin now. After work I knocked out Thunder, Earth and Holy -- which gives me 5 accessories. not sure I want to bother with the rest, but I suppose I should knock them out while the strategies are still fresh.

[Kirin]

Moved to earth after hitting my head against a wall with ice. Still looking for an initial win.

Bartz and Tifa, both with Awakenings and ASB's. This should be easy.

*different rage mechanic
*stupidly high damage reduction
*soul dies after Bartz dishes out 7k/hit Awakening Tremor Assault with an imperil up.

Fuck your couch too, asshole. Is a heavy user required for stone press on earth weak?

Maybe I'm trying to have Red (Chain, USB Astra, USB Radiant Shield) and Tyro (USB1 Astra, USB4) do too much. Maybe Aerith isn't the best healer here and I should go with Elarra. But then there goes Last Stand because I don't have Elarra's BSB.

[synistar]

Wind weak is the same. Zidane with Awakening + USB2 was only hitting for 5k Storm Assaults at 99x Zack chain. Also has huge "FUCK YOUR DAMAGE" Def/Res boost. Even Cloud with USB1+2 only hit 14k at high chain + 4 stacks of imperil.

[Sumy]

Moved to earth after hitting my head against a wall with ice. Still looking for an initial win.

My earth team was physical, imperil and crit were musts... also went with dual healers because phase 3/rage mode
Ellara - spam crit song, AWSB, USB
Galuf - the new heavy ability has imperil earth with 2 stacks of heavy, otherwise CSB
Ingus - the new Earth Knight ability AWSB
Bartz - Earth spellblades, AWSB USB
Aerith - AWSB, USB2

didn't even pop the chain until the first imperil was up 13~15 secs in - then activated chain, and both AWSBs. Soon Galuf was ready to BSB with an additional earth imperil, but went back to heavy rotation..

[hyoton]

aaaand ark down. fitting that my last 5* kill was my only one that i didn't manage a sub30 on. did a kinda turtlish setup with hope's holy RS, arc's offensive USB, raines BSB, edward chain and elarra providing entirely too much healing. doubt i'll bother refining this one much since i just need to slog thru 3 more.

not sure which odin to go after first, my stacked elements are:

dark: seifer, sephiroth, riku & vayne AASBs w/ access to both gabranth or seifer chain
lightning: lightning, seven & sora AASBs + prompto chain
wind: cloud USB/AOSB stuff, zidane & vaan AASBs, no gen2 chain however, i've only got zack's.
fire: auron, sora & terra AASBs, with vincent & locke chain

though from the sound of it, stacking too many AASBs at once can be detrimental? those will probably be my first handful, i think sora's my only ice AASB coverage and i don't have his glint so that's probably a non-starter.

I did it without the glint. Something strong to back him up will help a ton though.

Start with lightning weak; take edge for ssb2 or some other way to survive chain watergas. It does pretty much nothing weird after the initial statuses.

[hyoton]

Moved to earth after hitting my head against a wall with ice. Still looking for an initial win.

Bartz and Tifa, both with Awakenings and ASB's. This should be easy.

*different rage mechanic
*stupidly high damage reduction
*soul dies after Bartz dishes out 7k/hit Awakening Tremor Assault with an imperil up.

Fuck your couch too, asshole. Is a heavy user required for stone press on earth weak?

Maybe I'm trying to have Red (Chain, USB Astra, USB Radiant Shield) and Tyro (USB1 Astra, USB4) do too much. Maybe Aerith isn't the best healer here and I should go with Elarra. But then there goes Last Stand because I don't have Elarra's BSB.

I found earth weak actually pretty hard even though on paper it doesn't do anything that weird. I did it with tifa aasb and imperil burst with bartz usb1 and aosb.

I found elarra almost always the right choice except wind weak because of attack song. You need buffs to break savage modes unless you're using charges of fab mage on it and bard song is a big damage bump.

Aerith catdog tyro bartz tifa is a decent party if you can get imperils out of tifa via burst 2. It's in lenses.

[kuronosan]

Hmmm. I could bring Tyro, Galuf, Tifa, Bartz, and Aerith or Elarra.