I decided to finally start using tickets instead of lapis despite the good step up opportunities. With the increase to the rainbow pull rate, it was time to finally use EX tickets, 10+1 and 5+1s again. I pretty much killed my Thursday night with all the pulling and massive unit resource management between fusing and selling them from all the pulls. I had around 600 EX tickets with somewhere between 36-39 of them being 5* guarantee EX tickets. I decided to use those to see if I could luck into any Rains since my goal was to get two of him (and then four) without using any lapis. As you can imagine, I got a ton of rainbows by the time I used all those EX tickets. I had a little over a dozen rainbows I believe from around 456-ish 3* EX tickets and multiple more from the 4* EX's before using the guaranteed rainbows. I then got several more between the 5+1 and 10+1 tickets.
Of the spoils of all these non-banner usable tickets, while many were old worthless rainbows and some only useful for their TMR, I had some gems in there. One of the guaranteed rainbows was a Rain! Woot! But also, my second most desired unit after Rain was Lenna so I could finally upgrade from CG Fina and Japan hasn't had a single healer come out that can beat Lenna so at this point, she's super valuable in my eyes as we'd have to wait who knows how long for another GLEX healer. Anyway, got two of her!!!! So 7* Lenna, I'm set at healer for a looooong time! Wohoo! I also got a dupe Summer Fid and two of Sabin which I wanted thinking I'd go for the Aeigon arms but I've changed my mind as to flat out beat his STMR, you'd need two of Sabin's STMR. I ended up getting two CG Lightnings, one CG Bartz, one CG Firion two of the 5* Hopes, two of the 5* Leons, two of the 5* Kefkas and one 5* Shadow as far as recent banner units go. Guess I didn't need to farm so hard on those MK events to get moogles for their TMRs haha I don't intend on using TDW units but good to have them for their TMRs just in case. I would much rather have had a dupe Elena but I might consider UoCing her since her LB can apparently chain with Rain's. Dark Knight Luneth's was nice for the TMR and a good way to get the last 50% TDH for Rain if you have his STMR covering the other 50%. It was nice finally getting a Prishe for her tmr as well.
I was able to get some STMRs after finally getting my fourth Queen and both third and fourth Luneth as well as a fourth Roberta. I didn't have much STMR prior so that was neat. I had some units that stood out for slight comedy such as finally getting my first Orlandeu haha and a dupe Noctis after pulling so hard for him in the past and finally an Ayaka, the unit that killed my soul on her first banner. Others would normally be useful like a Myra and dupe Yuraisha but as I have Lenna and Sylvie as well as Fid all at 7*, probably no use for them.I got plenty of other dupes and unique rainbows but not going to bore you further with the full list, my post is already getting long enough ha
So, I now had one Rain, time to pull on the banner. I probably should have used up my 3* tickets first of which I have over 900 of but I decided to start with 4* tickets hoping they'd reign in some quick rainbows and I had over 200 of them so I felt confident I could get him this way. I was lucky with my second Rain coming within a handful of 4* tickets or so. The third too came within using 20 or so of those tickets. Emboldened by getting those two quickly I kept going longer than I should have before switching to 3* tickets, burning somewhere around 30 4* tickets without a further rainbow. I then switched to 3* tickets and miraculously got the fourth Rain within 10 tickets I believe. So pretty damn lucky and I still have all my lapis which is about to hit 200k and well over 1k on- banner tickets :D I still haven't used a single UoC ticket yet either. My EX stash and other non-banner tickets are flushed out though and I shouldn't have much reason to hoard those type of tickets going forward besides maybe guaranteed rainbows. All in all, I'm very pleased with my haul! Good lord was it time consuming to sort out all the units though and that's motivation alone to not hoard EX tickets again haha
Phew, what a weekend of FFBE! I think I have my Rain pretty well balanced at having 2860 ATK despite focusing largely on LB damage with my head armor, both accessory slots and a materia slot all being dedicated to LB damage besides his own TMR of course. Man I'd like to just gear all ATK stuff and get his ATK over 3k but I will resist the temptation! Now the question is who to pair him with amongst my team? I have Esther and a unit she chains with while Rain chains with friend Rain but that's obviously not efficient... I haven't seen if enhanced Hyoh is worth putting back in over what I'm doing and I'm especially curious how viable Elena is for changing with Rain. Is it a little fluke-y and only works on some turns? Maybe I just have Rain in with friend Rain for ATK and swap the other two attackers out for a support unit and breaker or magic tank as situations call for it.... What do you guys think?
Is CG Rain a good pickup as far as meta DPS going forward or is there anybody close to look for instead? Haven't pulled any DPS since Esther and managed to pick up Xeno and whatever else along the way (like a single CG lightning). I'm seeing a few Rain's on the friend list but I'm not seeing the overwhelming flood of them the way I did with Esther or Elena. Feels like there have been too many good DPS units lately so I see a lot of different ones as opposed to any one dominant one
Yes, he's now #1 and is good enough to last you half a month plus. The first unit to do more damage is CG Onion Knight I think and don't believe it's that significant an increase. Then you more or less get lots of chainers being in the same ball park until Madam comes with there being a huge stretch of time between Madam and the next stronger attackers, the units paired with espers that hit for the 4 year anniversary. King Rain even pairs well with Rain+Ifrit. There could naturally and likely will be stronger GLEX units that come out but who knows when and what they'll be like? So you can pull for him with confidence. He's the first I've pulled for since Esther too and is essentially Esther 2.0 being a simple to use unit who's bread and butter is his LB attack. Another attacker of note if you use finishers is CG Noctis who's essentially Regina 2.0 based on how his kit works. Otherwise, largely attackers will be pulled for liking the character since they are all around similar power level. I myself will be content on Phys attacker for a while now and will focus on upgrading my tanks in the near future now that I have Lenna covering me at healer.
I'm suprised you haven't seen much Rain yet on your FL, is this still the case? Mine is flooded with him.
Current Party
7* Tidus - Main damage dealer for single and groups
7* Auron - Secondary damage dealer and breaker
7* Sephiroth - Octoslash
7* Dark Fina - Dual cast Ultima
7* Ayaka - healing and boost attack and defence.
Units waiting on to be converted to 7* units
Machina
Mercenary Ramza
Aerith
Red XIII
Dark Knight Luneth
Blossom Sage Satura
Vagrant Knight rain
Warrior of light Krile
Is there any one on that list I should be using? Thinking of swapping Ayaka with Aerith.
Yes, Aerith is an upgrade over Ayaka and BS Sakura while old now too, better than Dark Fina. I'd assume Red XIII and DK Luneth and maybe Machina are better options than Tidus at this point but I haven't looked hard at them. Just realistically any decent ATK unit at this point in time will be better than ancient Tidus who doesn't chain with any of the modern ATK units well. I'd look up reviews on them to see who you want in and check what their chain families are to see if you can chain with the strong units your friends are sharing and you can use Mercenary Ramza as a magic tank if you don't already have a good one filling that role.
The game really, REALLY does not want me to pull a single Rain.
/sigh
I need a physical DPS ridiculously bad at this point. But, nope, 100 tickets in (half of my stash for Terra this week)
OK Refia (3)
Beryl (5)
Sakura (2)
Seaside Nichol (3)
OK Refia (4) <-- At least this is a decent DW sword, so that's something.
Edgar (2)
Six consecutive off-banner rainbows. I give up on this. Really makes me want to UoC another Elena or Bartz; so frustrating.
And no IW rares for me this week so far, either.
Damn, sorry to hear that, buddy :( I guess the good news is that phys attackers will flood the pool going forward, seems like that's damn near all Japan has made for the past several months. Also, how's your gear for Elena or Bartz? Those units are plenty strong to have you covered for a long time. Which of the two more friends are sharing a consideration on which of the two would be worth grabbing as well.
