Final Fantasy: Record Keeper - Mobile Gaming Cash Grab

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Well I decided to try the harder set of elites today; did the first one (abandoned mineshaft) in FVI and got it down. If anyone is doing that, get Gravity it helps a shit ton on the leader. Also sleep is almost a must. Finally all my hardwork paid off getting Cecil too; I used Sentinel early on which focused the attacks on him so my healer/mage didn't get bombed. I had to run with just 1 heal ability to get all the debuffs in so it was abit rough due to the trash....this is the first elite where there is 3 mobs for each round in trash and the shit hits super hard so be warned.

Also if you have to prioritize, I'd work on upgrading FVI6 gear, that is where there are no current realm synergy bonuses for your characters and also has most the top end elite missions. Stats help a shit ton, better then 5*.

Waiting on the 4th round on south fiagaro castle for stam to try and do that one (I think its 2 magitek armors).
 
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Hard XP dungeon daily getting 30k xp for 10 stamina? lololol awesome sauce, already gained about 5 levels for each member of my core group and still going.
 
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Have you guys put any money into this? I am debating it to go for the 11x pull of relics.
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Nah, I started yesterday and I'm already done with it minus just logging in for bonuses. I love grindy games, but if ever there was a dubious alliance of game design it'd be limited energy + frenetic grinding.
 
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I would probably only IAP to use for stamina refills and only for days like today to max my characters. I've seen a lot of salty tears on reddit for 11 3* pulls and it isn't pretty. Let's face it, you want those 5* items and if you don't get them, you're gonna be salty.
 
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Anyone coming to this game, especially from another mobile app like this, needs to realize this is EXTREMELY content light. You can clear everything including the current events in about 2 days. There is a ton of stuff to come but feels like the US version was released a little too early.
 
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Intrinsic_sl said:
Anyone coming to this game, especially from another mobile app like this, needs to realize this is EXTREMELY content light. You can clear everything including the current events in about 2 days. There is a ton of stuff to come but feels like the US version was released a little too early.
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I've been just trying to max level gear before even thinking of getting into elites. I guess I'm sort of trying to stretch out content.
 
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Intrinsic_sl said:
Anyone coming to this game, especially from another mobile app like this, needs to realize this is EXTREMELY content light. You can clear everything including the current events in about 2 days. There is a ton of stuff to come but feels like the US version was released a little too early.
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Sorry but that's bullshit. I don't believe for a second anyone can clear in 2 days, I've been going fairly hardcore for 1 week now and spent some cash to get a few good items and I still have 2 elites to beat yet and 1 other to master. That includes spending probably 15-20 mithril on stamina on certain events etc. I'm really short on hone abilities to and my team is lvl 38-43 at the moment. Average player won't be near this in 1 week.
 
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Sorry didn't mean to sound snippy but yes in general content will be running out a few weeks in for people that play semi decent amounts but they also have already had 2 major events and the next is hitting shortly. I think they will feed it fairly fast since its already developed from JP, biggest thing is they are probably soaking up the cash from all the people with low stam and no gear trying to "beat" the game early on. Compared to BF you are definitely right, they had a lot more variety of things to do.
 
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I haven't touched a single Elite, and am still three areas away from clearing Cecil dungeon. I did some reading before this came out and heard that it would be fairly content light so I'm taking my time.

BTW, Normal orb dungeon didn't get me a single Lesser orb. Not sure if that's normal, but I think I'll stick with the story dungeons for those.
 
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moontayle_sl said:
I haven't touched a single Elite, and am still three areas away from clearing Cecil dungeon. I did some reading before this came out and heard that it would be fairly content light so I'm taking my time.

BTW, Normal orb dungeon didn't get me a single Lesser orb. Not sure if that's normal, but I think I'll stick with the story dungeons for those.
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Yeah it's weird. Hard dungeon RAINS lesser orbs though.
 
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moontayle_sl said:
I haven't touched a single Elite, and am still three areas away from clearing Cecil dungeon. I did some reading before this came out and heard that it would be fairly content light so I'm taking my time.

BTW, Normal orb dungeon didn't get me a single Lesser orb. Not sure if that's normal, but I think I'll stick with the story dungeons for those.
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I'm fucking pissed about this! Doing normal for lessers and all I'm getting is minors. The grind is real!


Seriously though, this is sort of bullshit. Why bother with normal if I can spam easy for the same thing? The drop rate doesn't seem to be that much better to make up for the change in stam/effort.


How hard are the hard dungeons? I just got cloud to 30, tidus/wakka/tyro/rydia/dark cecil/kain are all 24-27, seph is 20. Can I clear hard dailies?
 
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Yeah, I'm not sure if that's a bug or what, but it's pretty stupid.

The hard dungeons seem to be slightly more difficult than the VII elites (trash) to me. Maybe on par with IV elites.

The armor/weapon hard's are by far the easiest though, and I think the exp one is probably the hardest.

Edit: If we get FF I sometime soon, that might help. I just ran the 2nd quest of it, and in 2 "zones" (not sure what to call them?) I think I got like 8 lesser orbs. It probably helps that they were 4 and 5 rounds each though (and starting to get more 3 and 4 mob battles).
 
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Turbo_sl said:
Sorry didn't mean to sound snippy but yes in general content will be running out a few weeks in for people that play semi decent amounts but they also have already had 2 major events and the next is hitting shortly. I think they will feed it fairly fast since its already developed from JP, biggest thing is they are probably soaking up the cash from all the people with low stam and no gear trying to "beat" the game early on. Compared to BF you are definitely right, they had a lot more variety of things to do.
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No you're right, I went back and read it and think I overstated my position. I have not finished all the elites, just the two events, story mode, and a couple of the hard dailies. Not 100% sure on the elites, I think I'm through FFVII and FFIV?

The post should have more focused on what is available now vs. a Brave Frontier or PAD (and at the point where it first showed up on the board, not current content). People just seemed to be dismissive of the lack of content and was kind of trying to agree while saying it's got to get better.

Also have a hard time considering the elites and dailies as 'content' per se, since they fall more on the side of long term grind dungeons that you'd be doing consistently for mats. The two events were cool but being able to beat them so quickly was scary (can argue the op'ness on thundara / blind contributing to that). Don't think I could have done Zeus or Hera my first week of PAD.
 
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You have to keep in mind this thing is only like 3 weeks old. Brave Frontier I don't believe had much content worth a crap in the first month. I doubt PAD did either.

Apparently this morning they lowered the difficulty on elites a bit. So far I'm done with VII, 2/3 of X, and a couple of IV. Finishing up my farm for Gravity and then I should be able to knock out another 3-4 of them (Antlion, Mom Bomb, Dragoon, Wing Raptor). Might be able to do the first few VI ones too if their difficulty has been lowered enough, but I probably need to farm more gear.

My main units (Sephiroth, Kain, Tyro, Rydia) are all mid-30's (except Cloud who's 38 for some reason). Also have Dk Cecil and Tifa at 29, and Lt Cecil at 23 (currently leveling him up to be in main group).
 
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Elites are A LOT easier now. And one look at the JPN version will tell you how much content is yet to be rolled out. Current content can be 90% done in a week if you're paying to play otherwise pics or it didn't happen.
 
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Is it the bosses, trash, or both, that are now easier?

I'm getting ready to do Wind Raptor, although it requires a retarded amount of stamina (71 total). It should be cake since I apparently have a TON of FFV gear, so I'm not sure if my experience with it will be representative of how the elites are now.
 
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Both bosses and trash are easier. Just destroyed Khimari (was Silver, now Gold) but SS Liki is still difficult although not as rape as before (I think I can beat it with reload trick and blind).
 
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Apparently using the Mist Dragon to take out the adds makes that fight a lot easier. I'll be attempting it in the next day or so. So use Dragon to take out adds, and blind the main boss and it's cake.

Mist Dragon is also really good for taking out the Mom Bomb adds after it explodes.

Edit: That nostalgia. Area before it was Zozo. Had the rain and everything (I'm assuming it probably had the music too? But I play this on mute).

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Edit2: Fuck, this does have all the music. Gonna have to carry headphones with me all the time for this stupid game. And go back and play all the areas I've cleared. I even remember the original FF music clearly (only have 2 unlocked though).
 
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