Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

BARELY won against Greater Daemon. Wizard Rod GET!

I think I'm just about done with Candy Corn farming, going to pick up the rarer consumables and the Kitchen Knife (no idea if it'll ever come in handy for me); already have the other high-priority stuff. I'll probably skip the 70k Trust Moogle in favor of actual TMR farming (the energy cost favors Earth Shrine party overall, it only favors the Trust Moogle when it comes to one unit). And then beating Pumpking Reaper for the Death Scythe of course.

I've also finished Colosseum ADV. Just doing the repeat runs of the highest three tiers to get the materials to make Blood Sword (a perfect sword for Cecil, by the way, if only for the fact that it has a SPR boost). Finished with the 2 Antlions and the 3 Frost Dragons, just 3 Europas left to beat, and the sword is mine.

Okay, Final Fantasy III event & summon banner the next two weeks. Crystal Tower will be just like Giant of Babel: an Exploration Challenge event, unique items up to PRO difficulty, ELT difficulty awarding a 5* Trust Moogle.

The summon banner may just be the best one to come for a long time in terms of overall quality.

Luneth, 5-6*. Innate Dual Wield at max rank/level. Stronger than Lightning, but without the elemental utility she has. Celestial Gloves TMR, +30 to all four main stats (That, and Gaffgarion's Bracer, PERFECT for Garland, especially later on).
Refia, 4-6*. First 6* capable healer. Has a better version of Cheer (still not as good as Cecil's Sacred Guard LB, but if you don't have LB gauge filled...) and Arise, which revives a downed party member to 100% health. TMR is a passive ability that increases MP and SPR.
Arc, 3-5*. I believe he is able to compete for best 5* mage, has innate Dual Black Magic. Omnirod TMR is still the second best rod in Japan to this day, the only thing better is from a 5* base character.
Ingus, 3-5*. Full Break. Not sure what else I can really say. TMR increases MAG for one wielding a Sword, not sure how efficiently that can be used. I'm wondering if he can be considered a better use than Vaan if I have Focus on someone else (Cecil).

Cloud of Darkness gets 6* upgrade, but she's not included in the drop rate increase for the banner. Her Man Eater skill gets upgraded to 125% damage boost. Next Trial boss has a PERFECT weapon for her, Thorn Mace. In fact, CoD 6* with Thorn Mace and Diabolos 2* w/ Man Eater can utilize a 225% damage bonus against Human enemies (That's over TRIPLE the damage she'd do based on stats alone!).

Now then, personal stats. Zidane should be around 90% TMR when the event starts, so I'll probably take him out of my TMR party tomorrow and give him the Trust Moogle (if I can get it easily enough), getting me Dual Wield. Cecil is already at 30%, my two Almas are around 70% combined

UPDATE: Crystal Tower ELT is MUCH MUCH MUUUCH easier than Giant of Babel ELT!! Xande is the only required fight, so you can just Escape your way to the final floor and fight him. With a Lightning friend, 600+ ATK, Excalibur, Diabolos Esper; I nearly took him down in two rounds! Though because I didn't defend the second round, I lost all of my own attackers the second round, Meteor one-shot them all, leaving me with just Cecil, Lenna, and Lightning friend.
Trust Moogle went straight to Zidane, bringing him to 99.2% Trust!

New event starting this weekend: Brave Frontier collaboration. It'll be a Mog King shop event, but this time, characters from the event banner will give you bonuses to the event currency you receive if you have them in your party. Also, rare monster types that will appear from time to time as well, that also drop large amounts of the currency.

The banner has four characters. Karl, Seria, Tilith, and Elza.

Karl, Seria, and Tilith are all 4* base. Karl and Seria have good TMRs, and that's about all I know. Tilith will eventually get a 6* form (it'll happen during another BF event that has Vargas and Maxwell), where she'll become the #1 healer for the game. She cannot equip weapons, but she doesn't need to stock up on SPR- all her healing abilities seem to be based on percentages. And being healing ABILITIES, Dualcast will not work for her. All three of them will yield a 75% bonus to Karma (the event currency) if you can get one of them in your party.

Elza is 5* base, and is Global exclusive. Her specialty appears to be her Limit Burst- High AOE Physical Darkness damage. Why is that her specialty? Because she has multiple abilities and a unique materia that boost her Limit Gauge. She's pretty much screwed when it comes to single target and dark-resisting opponents though. Her TMR is a 120 ATK dark elemental spear. If you can run the event with her in your party, she'll add a 100% bonus to Karma.

Yes, Rosssi, I'm watching what character you have. Goddammit, how do you get so lucky? I spent all of the tickets I had just trying to get one copy of Arc from the III banner (and he's currently taking the spot of main caster due to natural Dualcast as a 5*), but most of my other summons have been crap lately.

But seriously, Elza, the Brave Frontier 5* base? Goddamn, man, congrats. Just be sure you get that Tablet of Ruin for her, because that's not coming back when it's over. And get her maxed out quickly, she's AWESOME. If you need to put AOE on her, give her the Death Scythe, unless you have Bladeblitz materia from Russell. But you really need her skill at level 100. Highest overall single/random target damage skill I've seen thus far, and it buffs her Limit Gauge. The (maxed) Elzas I've been taking into the event are devastating to everyone, especially since they all seem to be Human (she has Man-eater trait).

I wish I could get a decent 4* base (only have Gaffgarion and Rosa so far, not very good minus their TMRs) or a 5* base. Man, I just wish we could get through the next month and a half quickly. And it'll still be longer than that before I get to realize the awesomeness of Firion and Garland.

Sorry... I was doing half price pulls and getting junk (Lani, Sabin, etc,) so I decided to use a ticket after my friend at work pulled lightning... and got a gothic goddess.

I've gotten tablet of ruin and I'all be maxing her out just as soon as I can. I didn't get a lot of time to run the haloween event so no death scythe
trying to find metal gods to get more karma to get cactuses & awakening materials...

Hope you pull something awesome soon. Your dual wielding Kain with 2 Gugnirs is pretty damn awesome, but hope you get something even better soon.

Huh... I guess that leaves you with Karl's ice spear from the rewards (Lad Mirazh)?

And yeah, Kain can get some awesome output in the right places. I'm pretty sure I was able to get him to do 200k damage to Holy Flame Vargas (Full Break on Vargas, Kain buffed with Sacred Guard L11) using Dragon Dive; still requires two turns though, and now lots of people are getting characters doing more damage than that in one turn. Especially the Elzas right now. Seriously. Madness Rush. You have to get her to level 100, but my god, that move will rip through human opponents.

Did my daily pull... gold crystal...
4 star Penelo... guess I used up all my luck already;)

Have the Lad Mirazh and got all the awakening materials.
Eliza is coming along nicely now. Just need a few dozen trust moogles...
Now just starting the mad rush for madness rush.

Good call on Maxxing Elza quickly, she'll be great against Maxwell.
(I don't think I'll win based on the video of the japan version, but at least I'll be less humiliated.)
She's also awesome in the arena, madness rush and man eater slaughter the opposition.
Put Kain back in my TM team, 37.8 % ... gonna be a while.
Also beat brachiosaurus with Elza and the lad Mirazh so the killer bow will be useful too.

Rosssi wrote:Good call on Maxxing Elza quickly, she'll be great against Maxwell.
(I don't think I'll win based on the video of the japan version, but at least I'll be less humiliated.)
She's also awesome in the arena, madness rush and man eater slaughter the opposition.
Put Kain back in my TM team, 37.8 % ... gonna be a while.
Also beat brachiosaurus with Elza and the lad Mirazh so the killer bow will be useful too.

She already has a higher ATK than my Dual-Gungnir Kain. *sigh* You just wait for when Firion gets his 6*!

And you know, since you have her, you better be focusing on that Scythe instead, since that's +30 ATK more than Gungnir.

As far as Maxwell goes, I'm looking at getting Rydia to 5* soon, so I can put her in the group I use (NEED her LB to get the Diabolos objective done). And then if I can take one of those 560-ATK Cloud of Darkness friends along, I want to think I'll be good for damage and elemental resistance. But remember, the Maxwell trial came along much earlier here than it did in JP. People are saying there's little chance of us being able to beat her without her being nerfed.

Since today was the last day BF would be the Featured Banner (for 1/2 price daily), I threw my tickets at it.

Got myself another Terra, another Arc, and TILITH!! That alone gives me a huge reason to bump up the priority on TMR for the three Tellahs I have, and likely having them all max out individually rather than fuse, because she NEEDS a lot of MP for her setup to reach its maximum potential.

Oh my god, Maxwell is driving me INSANE!!! I can't believe how much energy and items I've used against her at this point!

And you know what? I've beaten her! But that's not good enough! Simply beating her doesn't get you the Maxwell unit, you have to beat her while having summoned Diabolos in the fight, and of course that's the hardest part of all. I'm lucky enough to have people with whom I can beat her, and I've managed to a point to get Diabolos summoned, but each time I have, things turn catastrophic for me. I'm guessing it's Rune which annihilates me, as it dispels my buffs as well as debuffing my characters, and she's set to do it every 4 rounds. I think on the fight I ended up winning, I got around that by getting her to below 40% health on the fourth round, where her script will change to one that doesn't use Rune (though will continue using Rune every 4 rounds afterward). The real problem is, my healers can't take the punishment. I can't put Diabolos on one of my characters or else they'll die really easily and I need Golem on Cecil for Provoke. I want to believe I've figured out what I need to to get Rydia her Limit gauge and get enough Summoning energy for an evocation. If I get hit with Rune though, Lenna is sure to go down (my most important source of healing), and I can't get enough healing from Cecil and Tilith together, and they need to be buffing rather than healing. Kain wasn't doing anything decent, so I've given my good weapons and skills to Vaan for the time being, so he can Full Break and do a Dual Wielding Barrage.

The friend character I'm using is a powerful Lightning with Deathbringer (Dark Knight Cecil's sword). Unfortunately, it looks like Crushing Blow is the only major attack I can use, Barrage would be much more helpful right now for Limit/Summon crystals. Hoping I can get a hold of a Luneth user with Deathbringer & Barrage and give that a go.

EDIT: DONE!!! The God of Creation is mine! And now I'm probably going to start running Grand Gaia Chronicles again with my new characters, as I now have a +175% Karma bonus, plus another 100% from friendly Elzas. A run with 3 Metal Gods, which usually yields around 3200 Karma, now gave me well over 11,000 Karma!

Wow. Congrats on Tilith and super congratulations on getting Maxwell.
I've tried a couple of times, but no good so far.

Best of luck with the Karma farming you should be in a good positionin now.

OLDERION PART 2 UPDATE THIS THURSDAY!

Spoiler:

Also, based on the new Awakening notice for Bartz, Exdeath, Krile, and Galuf, I'm assuming this weekend will be the V-themed event (Battle on the Big Bridge, I would assume it's Exploration Challenge style), with the the Faris (3-5*), Mercedes (FFBE original, 4-6*), and GILGAMESH (5-6*) banner. Don't hear much about Faris; Mercedes is a very high ATK power axe wielder (50% ATK bonus for axe wielding), with a 130-ATK Axe as her TMR; GILGAMESH will have the NEW BEST TMR upon arrival- Genji Gloves, which has the same ATK/MAG boost as Hero Ring, but also grants DUAL WIELD at the same time.

Correction: No Mercedes, just Faris and Gilgamesh, with Bartz and Exdeath on the same banner.
Also: Just got Cloud of Darkness. Probably won't be upgrading her until the next Mog King event though. But with the Antenora trial coming this week, I'll finally be getting a weapon making her a viable attacker! Will probably end up with her dual wielding the Thorned Mace with Lunar Pestle, as I don't have a Locke to get Rising Sun from... Though I could try to get Garland's Equip Long Sword and give her the Excalibur I'm REALLY CLOSE to getting!

Whooo! Time to 6* my Bartz!
Also looking forward to Faris (Just to have the whole FF5 team.)
Have managed to get 2 stars against Maxwell but the stingy so and so just won't drop those sweet sweet summoning orbs.
Good fortune on CoD she's pretty awesome with Your dual wield materia.
Unfortunately I bought 97 metal cactuses to max out Elza so I can't get her up to awaken her to 6 star just yet.
But in a week or two I should have a team of Cecil, Elza,Bartz, CoD and.. someone else
I've been pretty lucky with my pulls, so maybe Gilgamesh .

I've fed Elsa my trust Nigel's from Xande,Maxwell and the arena , so if events continue she may have her death scythe before too long, but in the meantime the two lance looks pretty cool.

Rosssi wrote:Whooo! Time to 6* my Bartz!
Also looking forward to Faris (Just to have the whole FF5 team.)
Have managed to get 2 stars against Maxwell but the stingy so and so just won't drop those sweet sweet summoning orbs.
Good fortune on CoD she's pretty awesome with Your dual wield materia.
Unfortunately I bought 97 metal cactuses to max out Elza so I can't get her up to awaken her to 6 star just yet.
But in a week or two I should have a team of Cecil, Elza,Bartz, CoD and.. someone else
I've been pretty lucky with my pulls, so maybe Gilgamesh .

I've fed Elsa my trust Nigel's from Xande,Maxwell and the arena , so if events continue she may have her death scythe before too long, but in the meantime the two lance looks pretty cool.

Don't get your hopes up on that lance. The Double Attack only applies to normal attack, not abilities. So unfortunately, the equipment does not interest me at all this event, but I'm still going to run it for everything else (like the ELT Trust Moogle).

Well, balls I should have realised. I really must start looking at these banners more thorougly.. guess I'll just keep feeding moogles to Elza to get the Deathscythe.

Strategy wise against Maxwell, clearing people my house and screaming profanity at my phone seems to increase the drop rate of summon orbs. Can anyone else confirm that this works?

Finally got that last star for the mission and the Maxwell unit. Now to put her in my inventory and never use her.

Congrats on Maxwell!

I think Cloud of Darkness just took backseat for a bit. I hear Antenora might just be harder than Maxwell. It won't be a problem at all if I manage to draw Bartz, Exdeath, or GREG during the FFV banner.

Also, "Fina" has actually been quite different than I expected so far. That's not a spoiler anymore. >_>

Though what might be spoilers-

Spoiler:

Anyways, I should have Carbuncle by the end of the night.

I beat Antonella. Definitely not something to be underestimated. If it weren't for the person on my friend list with a 687-ATK Gilgamesh... you get the idea. So that now gives me the Thorned Mace, awesome for Cloud of Darkness. Now honestly... I could try to get Garland's TMR for Longsword wielding and put it on her at 6*, having her Dual Wield Excalibur and Thorned Mace. Pretty much the top option for anti-human opponents (and I know there's one coming up soon that is weak to Light), only thing better is getting Deathbringer from Dark Knight Cecil, but good luck with that.

So I think at this point, I'll be putting the next batch of Metal Gigantuars (another 100 in the next Mog King event I'd assume) into getting CoD to 6* level 100. Hopefully getting the materials won't be too hard either, I know I already have all the 6* awakening materials I need.
EDIT: Nope, now it's going to be going to EXDEATH. After a week of daily pulls, I only got 3 Faris units, used three tickets yesterday to no avail. Went for just one more ticket pull today, and boom. And with all the magic equipment and ability gathering I've been doing, it's nice to know that if my luck is THAT BAD when the time comes, it won't be a total waste, because I'll have Exdeath. Now I just need some of the melee units I have to start getting their 6* upgrades (Firion, Garland).

Rainbow Crystal today.

... 0/3 on 5*-base characters ever since their introduction. But I guess there is an upside to this.

It was Chizuru. And her TMR is very important in attack builds going forward. Also, she's likely to get her 6* form along with Rain very soon (if not next week, then 3 weeks after that). Too bad there's not so many high ATK Katanas, best option being the TMR from her daughter, Miyuki; until Vortex Trial: Gilgamesh comes around.

It's unfortunate that I'm probably considering her more TMR fodder than a decent character right now. Probably what happens when it takes so long for me to get a character. But seriously, a great TMR for me to put on Firion. And then I'm thinking of working on Mustadio's Romandan Pistol to complement the katana. It won't be Excalibur pairing with a katana, since Katanas and Greatswords fall in the same weapon category for Firion's 6* boosts. But with Blade Mastery, a katana, and a gun, Firion will get a 95% ATK boost from just his equipment. 100% if I go with a spear instead of a gun (but Romandan Pistol has quite a bit more ATK than Gungnir, more than enough to cover the 5% boost). And in the meantime, Garland should have his 6* by the time Firion gets his, and Garland can then take Excalibur, and get all the Greatsword and Doublehand bonuses.

Well, after that long-ass update, The Hanging Edge is now a very decent event to run. I just spent today gathering enough gears to get all of the Metal Gigantuars, got Exdeath to level 100. Still not enough though, I need to get Cloud of Darkness there too, she's at 5* level 40's now, and there is the Cactuar Dunes to go through this weekend, but that'll only leave me with five days to grab some more gears for the rest of those tickets and other things.

Also, just spent a summoning ticket on a whim. Got the FFBE monk, Xiao! TMR fodder for sure, but Prishe is someone I'm really hoping to have in the future, and Kaiser Knuckles are something for her. Would be better if I could also get a pair of Snows to get a pair of Champion Belts (REALLY BROKEN for knuckle users!).

Okay, unexpected turn. Chizuru gets her 6* awakening this week!
In general, Chizuru should be considered more powerful than Cloud of Darkness, unless the opponent is Human. The question will be- do you have Sakurafubuki? Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Chirijiraden and Murasame for the time being, but that's pretty much the same sort of attack power as Thorned Mace + Lunar Pestle. It's looking like there won't be a unique event this weekend, instead giving us a week of the Farplane Labyrinth. An excellent place to level up units via Metal Gigantuars, gather Mini Burst Pots, and acquire awakening materials.

There's been talk that the Summoning banner during the Labyrinth will be Chizuru, Mercedes (who was left out of Big Bridge banner, the banner she was in for JP), and Noctis. No idea what kind of power Noctis has yet, but it can be assumed he's 5* base. I'll probably keep daily drawing during this, even if I get another Chizuru (Blade Mastery is excellent for multiple characters! Mostly going to note Firion, Gilgamesh, and Orlandeau here. So what if I can only give Genji Blade to one if I get it? Chirijiraden can still have a real purpose, as long as there's no fire-resistant enemies)

With this next week being decided on, I'm making a final prediction-

"Memories of the Aquapolis" Exploration Event, Rain's 6* Awakening (Bench Vaan!), Luka, Elle, and DARK FINA will be coming three weeks from Friday.

Okay, haven't been playing much of late except to send friend gift thingies.

Got back into things today, 20 summon tickets... guess who I pulled?

....

Terra! (Finally)... What you didn't think I was going to say Noctis did you?

Saw that I was only 5 pris horns shy of awakening Chizuryu to 6*, so fought some FF13 peeps and snapped up a few..
6* Chiz!
Then I realised I had been saving those for CoD...
After I'd already skipped her for Bartz
Oh well, Guess she'll be my "Using the dragonballs to bring King Kai back to life"

Well, now I'm kinda worried that I just lost all my luck.

I just got Noctis. In three draws. And Dark Fina is just around the goddamn corner just about. Noctis looks to be pretty damn good (not highest tier), and I am very curious about how well a Dark Fina could use his TMR, with its two spells and passive magic counter.

Still not getting FFXV right now.

Congrats on getting Noctis, I noticed you had him on my friends list this morning!
About time you got a base 5* unit

Just keep praying for sabins and bediles to help reset you RNG luck for the next few weeks before M Fina arrives

From what I've seen of Noctis he's pretty amazing in the arena.
Haven't really had a chance to try him as a friend unit against anything too challenging yet.

I haven't picked up FFXV yet either, but I have heard good things.. maybe next year

Rosssi wrote:Congrats on getting Noctis, I noticed you had him on my friends list this morning!
About time you got a base 5* unit

Just keep praying for sabins and bediles to help reset you RNG luck for the next few weeks before M Fina arrives

From what I've seen of Noctis he's pretty amazing in the arena.
Haven't really had a chance to try him as a friend unit against anything too challenging yet.

I haven't picked up FFXV yet either, but I have heard good things.. maybe next year

I wish I could say I've heard good things. Or maybe it's just that for the amount of time and money spent on it, it should've been much better than it turned out. I will admit that the Power of Kings, in theory, seems really badass. But I've played the demos. Gameplay does not do it justice, not even close. Not sure how people are taking the story, but I was more interested when Lunafreya was Stella, and Stella, while being in what looked to be the same sort of position as Lunafreya, was also a wielder of the Power of Kings (though likely from a different crystal). And it looked like some sort of Romeo versus Juliet setup.

Noctis in Arena is goddamn awesome. His Flask abilities are too expensive to be worthy in main game due to hybrid damage calculations, but they truly shine in Arena due to their other effects. Blizzard Flask has Stop chance, Fire Flask has random ailments chance, and Thunder Flask has MAG/SPR break. And it turns out Hybrid Damage attacks can't be covered by tanks like Cecil. Despite what I say about their damage, I'm still getting good numbers while having him linked to Diabolos for Man Eater, and as always, damage is capped at 999 unless you chain. And he's still only level 80-ish.

Once I get Power of Creation and Blade Mastery (and maybe a possible ATK +30% during a New Years bundle?), his ATK is going to be SKYROCKETING. If I can get all three of those abilities and enough Power Pots, he'll be going above 800 ATK with the equipment I have and linked to Ifrit (though I think we'll have Odin by then). And you know what really sucks?
Ring of the Lucii, along with what it already has, also has ATK&MAG+30% in Japan. But that got taken out of ours apparently.