Not totally useless but in the harder/est missions, a 4*is probably as low as you want to go. Even a high-ish level 4* can be a bit weak, though you can still probably finish quests, but not get good points.So basically characters are more or less useless without their 5* weapons, is that correct?
So i should focus on leveling characters whos weapons i have?
If you have duplicates you can otherwise yeah you will need to wait until they release the armour equivalent to power stones. I want it now so that i can LB Squall for more cp.Can you get your armor upgraded to 5* somehow? Or will there be gacha updates in the future with 5* armor drops?
Congrats, Zera! Know you wanted hers. Now can you resist the temptation to pull more to limit break it?
Oh also if anyone has followed me but I haven't followed back it is mostly due to forgetting to check. Make sure ERA is in your name!.
Especially because cp15 weaons are on the cp35 banners. Best to pull for one of something that's useful now and dupes then.LOL I've no choice now, I'm out of gems and knowing the 35 CP weapons are coming "soon" it makes no sense to LB hers.
She is in the game! I believe she is in chapter 4. Also nice pull!So are we getting new banners ever 2-3 days or what ? I did a multi on the new Terra one and got all 3 featured weapons...i thinks. Def. my best pull so far.
Is Terra already in the game ? I havent unlocked her so far.
But im only in the second world right now.
Seriously. I'm always expecting a notifcation and then realize that I have to manually check. :( Made that mistake with my friend support character until ASF told me.Agreed on this!
I wish the game would let you know when someone follows you. Outside checking everytime, I have no idea.
That's dirty. So basically they can guarantee a 5-star and still have it be meaningless. Great.
So are we getting new banners ever 2-3 days or what ? I did a multi on the new Terra one and got all 3 featured weapons...i thinks. Def. my best pull so far.
Is Terra already in the game ? I havent unlocked her so far.
But im only in the second world right now.
Thanks a lot - this will take a bit then i just arrived in Chapter 3 and the second world had more stages overall than i expected.She is in the game! I believe she is in chapter 4. Also nice pull!
Where are you grinding? 50 just seems out of reach.Got WoL/Terra/Squall/Vaan to 50. Yshtola and Cloud are next up around 32.
Did one pull on each banner and only grabbed one 5* from each (Squall/Rem). Thankfully I already had the Terra and Zidane one. I had great luck in getting the 5*s that I wanted, but hell if I'm ever gonna get multiples for a MLB one.
I run 5-5 Hard up til around 30 or so, then just bring along one of them with my initial party (that leveled up naturally over the story) for crystal runs, events, etc.
XP fodder. What you do is you feed low tier gems and other weapons to 2* weapons (without limit breaking them, important) till they are level 5. And then use those weapons as XP fodder.
3* weapons can be reasonbly just used directly.
Sorry to come back to that but I think I might be missing something here. From what I tried, upgrading a 2* weapon takes 10 2* gems to get to level 5 but the XP from fusing this weapon to a 5* is less than what the 10 2* gems would be. What am I missing here?
Do people have a preference on what they want to see in a summoned friend? I've had my Cloud set (weapon and armor at LB1, STR45), and I personally use other peoples' Clouds more than anything else, but I do have a Zidane with a fully upgraded weapon, and Squall or WoL are both decently equipped if people want something different than a bunch of Clouds.
It ends up being cheaper in Gil from what everyone is saying. ANd I mean like every youtuber, including JPN veterans. There are vids that show exact math, so you can check those.
Yeah once you have all of the hard mode completed you just knock out the bells and crystal daily runs and then it's just the occasional 30sp run after that. I go through good stretches where I can just macro TM farming for BE but the last month did indeed have a lot of NRG grind events. This new event coming will be a quick one so reprieve is on the way! As for this game, I'm curious how often we get story chapters but am assuming it's one a month. Hard to imagine they'll give us a new character every week but maybe they do for a stretch and I assume it's otherwise an event for an existing character to get their 5* armor piece like Squall's does and to help hype/promote a banner with that character's weapon coinciding with the event. We shall see!I seriously just love how easy going this game is. I'm so burnt out from stamina based games where they make you feel like you need to spend every moment playing so as not to waste energy. I still play BE and RK but those games are constant grinds that never end. My focus is still BE to prepare for VIII event in the future. I'm assuming we will see that in July or August
I'm excited to see how they plan to release events and chapters for us. They seem to be going at a great pace and hopefully it stays that way
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The quickest way I was able to max him was to finish most of the hard quests containing purple crystals(just specifically complete those ones) before the event released, play Co-Op which gives around 20 crystals per run and then finally when purple crystal event releases I used the Relic Of All Knowledge item from the item shop(250 gems) to increase exp, item drops and gil amount. It boosts everything quite a bit and makes crystal farming really fast! If you haven't completed Hard Mode stuff yet it really is one of the best areas to collect items.
My Squall's weapon and belt are maxed out at 35 and 25! I wish we could LB the belt but I guess that will only happen when item LB is released. Your Squall is already great and will be even greater when you're finally able to max him. I can't believe how good he is for BRV damage.
My biggest reason for Seifer(other than the fact he is one of my favourite characters) is that he is ultimately a good character that is manipulated into fighting on the wrong side and continuing down that road until he thinks he can no longer back out. I would have loved to see him join the rest of the cast at the end to have a redemption arc that makes the ending even more powerful.
Yeah VIII is extremely popular but receives a lot of vocal hate. I feel like over the years, much like IX, It's started to gain attention in a positive way which is always nice to see.
LOL I've no choice now, I'm out of gems and knowing the 35 CP weapons are coming "soon" it makes no sense to LB hers. The only completed weapon I have is clouds.
Sorry to come back to that but I think I might be missing something here. From what I tried, upgrading a 2* weapon takes 10 2* gems to get to level 5 but the XP from fusing this weapon to a 5* is less than what the 10 2* gems would be. What am I missing here?
Hoo boy, apparently the synergy characters for the next event (the Vanille one) are Vanille, Hope and Yuna.
I don't have a 5* for either Yuna or Hope so I may do a pull on that one, especially since Yuna's weapon will be especially useful and it is recommended to level both Vanille and Hope to crystal level 20 for their second ability (Vanille's is dispel which hard counters the bosses Berserk and super move)
I like the way the events work and how well the selected characters synergize together and with the boss, like Zidane slowing the Gaia Behemoth, Tifa reducing its attack and Squall having conditional extra attacks when below certain bravery and the Gaia Behemoth conveniently having an attack that's lowers bravery to below said percentage.
And it's neat that it encourages you to use characters you normally wouldn't
I like games that make all the characters useful at some point. It's boring just plowing through with 2 super powered characters.
Apparently it was just an introduction to the game I think, and there was a raffle to win the dissidia NT sword for CloudDid any news come out of yesterday's stream? I can never watch live.
I find it kinda refreshing to be able to play a game like this relatively well without having to spend hours each day to min/max your 5 different stamina bars. As long as they continue to add content to it, I'll keep coming back.Finally, my Cecil is almost level 50.
I have to admit I'm losing interest in the game, just as I've said before release that if it was English only, I couldn't see myself playing very long. 2 same skill per character quickly become boring, with all fights being samey.
Anyway I'll still play a bit more and at worst, login daily to hoard gems.
Yeah I think we will get an idea of pacing once maintenance ends. They've already done wonderful with how much they've given and how progressive the game is with rates and characters. We will patiently(not at all)wait for more VIII content. :]Yeah once you have all of the hard mode completed you just knock out the bells and crystal daily runs and then it's just the occasional 30sp run after that. I go through good stretches where I can just macro TM farming for BE but the last month did indeed have a lot of NRG grind events. This new event coming will be a quick one so reprieve is on the way! As for this game, I'm curious how often we get story chapters but am assuming it's one a month. Hard to imagine they'll give us a new character every week but maybe they do for a stretch and I assume it's otherwise an event for an existing character to get their 5* armor piece like Squall's does and to help hype/promote a banner with that character's weapon coinciding with the event. We shall see!
I just love how interesting of a character Seifer is! Both him and Squall seek approval in different ways with Squall being anti-social but always overthinking what others feel about him and Seifer being loud and arrogant hoping to be respected. I do however think it's not just about seeking her approval but that he begins to believe he has no back out option and that fuels his desperation. That and he definitely was manipulated in some form hence him going with Edea in the first place.Seifer has the problem that many young males have, arrogance. To me, the difference between arrogance and confidence is that arrogance is false bravado that requires external validation to bolster the individual's self-esteem. Confidence comes from within and is literally believing in yourself whether from high self-esteem alone or from the knowledge and experience of having success in what you're doing. Seifer is hell-bent on coming off strong in the beginning and then desperately seeks Ultimecia's approval further in. The sad part is that he has two friends that accept him for who he is and should have shown him that he didn't need to act out. Fortunately, in the end, he's finally able to realize this and he gets the perfect closure to his character arc even if part of it is conveyed in a cutscene with no dialogue. He's genuine smile and laughter while fishing with his buddies is worth a thousand words nonetheless. I like to think that over time he and Squall were able to become bros but for now, a mutual respect will suffice ;p
This is a great write up of features that we got early in Global and things we are still yet to get
It all sounds pretty exciting, especially alt costumes!
Do we have something similar but with characters?This is a great write up of features that we got early in Global and things we are still yet to get
It all sounds pretty exciting, especially alt costumes!
So nice QoL changes in there! Cool that we had a few of them implemented right off the bad. Whoever is running the global version seems more competent than Gummi. Artifacts will be cool and will help diversify builds and of course, EX attacks will be welcome! Squall better get Lionheart for his! Apparently, Cloud and Shantotto are the first two to get them so if Cloud's is Omnislash I'll feel good about Squall's being LionHeart. I don't normally care much about alt costumes but I look forward to getting Vaan out of his weird getup from XII. The totally need to do a crossdresser Cloud hehe Oh, and looking forward to getting more types of events. Sounds like the Raid works similarly to how it runs in FFBE and they will be implementing an event that functions like Mog King farming events in FFBE to incentivize repeat runs.This is a great write up of features that we got early in Global and things we are still yet to get
It all sounds pretty exciting, especially alt costumes!
Don't forget Vaan since I think you got one of his 5*. He's god tier eventually with Squall and is already the strongest magic attacker in the game at present. His abilities are pretty fun to use, especially when it chains into a second volley.I'm so excited for costumes in the future. Give me SeeD Squall or original, please! I also would love to see them add costumes to characters we haven't seen yet.
I'm going to take it easy on the grind now that I have pretty much everything completed. I will mostly crystal farm for future characters and maxing out Cloud and WoL.
Yeah, I think we will get an idea of pacing once maintenance ends. They've already done wonderful with how much they've given and how progressive the game is with rates and characters. We will patiently(not at all)wait for more VIII content. :]
I just love how interesting of a character Seifer is! Both him and Squall seek approval in different ways with Squall being anti-social but always overthinking what others feel about him and Seifer being loud and arrogant hoping to be respected. I do however think it's not just about seeking her approval but that he begins to believe he has no back out option and that fuels his desperation. That and he definitely was manipulated in some form hence him going with Edea in the first place.
Just give me playable Seifer <3
Oh right! I've got Vaan almost at level 30 and 20 crystal STR so I'll slowly get him there xD His combo with whiteout is fantastic.Don't forget Vaan since I think you got one of his 5*. He's god tier eventually with Squall and is already the strongest magic attacker in the game at present. His abilities are pretty fun to use, especially when it chains into a second volley.
Oh yeah this game is much nicer to us than BE. At the very least(and if they take this away I will RIOT) VIII will have the step up so we more than likely should get our Squall and Rinoa <3The rates certainly seem friendlier than BE but maybe I was just lucky. Although I wish the battles system was more varied with more options, I like that this game plays pretty differently than BE, a nice companion game. It will help us endure our Squall withdraw in BE a little too hehe Even more than his weapon, I want to know when Squall's level will break to 60! It will be a long ass time I imagine so strap in. I'd have to check again but going off memory from the one time I read Japan's release list, I believe Zell is two updates from Squall, Irvine five, and the Seifer, Raijin, Fuijin trio eight . I'm curious to see how many updates we get a month to determine the timeframe there but shouldn't be too bad. The long wait for more VIII goodness begins but Squall will keep me pacified :D
Oh that last one is cruel. Definitely that one.Yeah, Squall is very insecure and the reason he's my favorite game character is that he experiences more personal growth than any other character I've seen in the medium. From an introverted loner too afraid to connect with people lest he gets hurt to becoming a leader who can rely on friends and even more dramatic for him, opening up fully to Rinoa. Anyway, don't want to get too into it here because it's off-topic and we've already been guilty of that as is hehe I will say Seifer did indeed double down due to feeling he was stuck in a corner, poor guy. For this game, do I have Rinoa at Squall's side when she releases (yes) or put Zell next to Seifer to torment him ;p
I think he comes with Raijn and Fujin around chapter 10 it's just I'm impatient and whining. xDFigured alt costumes would be a thing. Cool to see that Vaan one since that's the one I use in NT too!
Also Wazzy, Seifer is playable in the Japanese version by the looks of it so just have to wait for whenever he makes his way here.
Excellent! Yes both Whiteout and Luminescence are so satisfying when they are triggered. I'm not even sure what triggers them exactly. It's either the World of Illusions or the color crystal event where they only seem to trigger in the third round.Oh right! I've got Vaan almost at level 30 and 20 crystal STR so I'll slowly get him there xD His combo with whiteout is fantastic.
Oh yeah, this game is much nicer to us than BE. At the very least(and if they take this away I will RIOT) VIII will have the step up so we more than likely should get our Squall and Rinoa <3
Oh, that last one is cruel. Definitely that one.
Yeah, Squall is my favorite protagonist. He is such a well developed and interesting character that is so lovely to watch grow throughout the game.
I think he comes with Raijin and Fujin around chapter 10 it's just I'm impatient and whining. xD
Excellent! Yes both Whiteout and Luminescence are so satisfying when they are triggered. I'm not even sure what triggers them exactly. It's either the World of Illusions or the color crystal event where they only seem to trigger in the third round.
They will be ours, believe that!
Hehe, cruel indeed but if this takes place post VIII then maybe he won't look at Zell as chicken-wuss anymore...maybe?
We are kindred souls, you and I! and yeah no worries, everyone is impatient for their favorite characters or the powerhouses that sit at the top of the list in Japan. I figured I'd mention it just in case you hadn't looked at Japan's schedule. I'm assuming we'll get one Chapter a month like BE does.