Hey fam, it's been a while since I posted but hope everyone is doing well!
I've almost made it back up to the most lapis I've held at one time which was before I mega splurged on the FFVIII banner (and then some more on Hyoh). I'm not going to get there right now though because Sieghard is the first of the units I was waiting for so time to pull again at last! I can't for the life of me beat Odin and after checking out EvilLaughter's video I'm pretty sure WoL is what's holding me back as even with evasion, he's obliterated by Odin's magic attacks and whatever else isn't dodge-able. Hopefully I can scoop up Sieg and finally take that fucker down!
Kourizan, you and I have swapped places with currencies collected, I used to have a decent amount more lapis than you but you had far more tickets and now it's the other way around haha Well, really it's only the 4* that I have a lot more in. I'm currently sitting at:
Nearly 132k lapis
2 30% 5* summon tickets
10 10% 5* summon tickets
121 4* Guaranteed tickets
492 Rare summon tickets
7 10+1 Summon tickets
5 5* Guaranteed EX tickets
6 4* Guaranteed EX tickets
24 Ex Summon tickets
I wish Sieg had the 25k guaranteed step up. As is, it's going to be tough to get him from his step up and after that there's no sense in using lapis, that should be saved for step ups (just speaking for my strategy, not hating on those of you that spend it freely) which means tickets. I was planning on saving my tickets for Elly though with Nier, apparently they'll start incorporating step ups with limited now? That'd be great if Xenogears had a step up. In any case, I'll have to decide on how much of my resources I'm willing to spend on Sieg. I have a great need of him as I don't have a 5* base physical tank (although I have a single merc ramza). I think Sieg will make the trials I'm struggling with and future trials far easier. At least I hope! The good news is I don't need to save anything for Yuraisha anymore as I finally managed to pull a CG Nichol! The one diamond amidst a sea of blues from all the free pulls of late. I'm quite possibly going to use the UoC tickets to get a dupe Nichol and a dupe Sieg or Awakened Rain if I'm not lucky enough to get two Sieg's. Part of me wants to save them for future crazy units but the aforementioned units are future proof enough and meta enough to be worth spending those tickets on so I shouldn't feel regret if I spend them that way.
It used to be that Xeno should come out this month and the Jecht/Auron banner next month but now with some surprises, who knows? It's funny that Xenogears came out in this game because I've always disliked having crossovers in this game, wanting a pure FF experience but I haven't wished them away because they make many other people happy. At one point I thought about if there was a Square IP that I'd dig seeing and the one I thought of was Xenogears and lo and behold, a few months later it came out in Japan ha All the more crazy because I had started a new play session with a couple friends that hadn't played it before in that time frame (alas, I've moved to another city so we may never finish it together). The Xeno characters being so powerful is pretty sweet though wtf at putting Maria in over Rico? There were a bunch of characters with larger roles than her haha
I continue to dig the story and what an interesting place to end the last story chapter. Looking forward to this month's chapter! I'm all the more interested to see Akstar's story event now ;)
Has anyone else had to create multiple 7* units just to burn some gil after hitting the cap? Haha It happened to me last Raid and I'm going to have to do it again when I cash in the coins from the current one to sell all the gil turtles...
Also, it's pretty frustrating that all 5* based units, leveled and most geared some even at 7*, can't succeed every time at supercite explorations! B grade missions my ass! What's more ridiculous is that I can get a Great or Amazing with the exact same group that fails at times...wtf??? I'd understand if I wasn't addressing the right stat categories but how can I get different results with such high units on B grade missions? Complete BS. Shouldn't be RNG for something like this.
So, those splurging for Sieg, are you going to start going ham right at reset? Or are your superstitious enough to wait for a particular time of day?