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6* Magicite killed the game for me.

3* was super fun.

4* was challenging.

5* was starting to go maybe too far, but patience and powercreep allowed hope to stay alive.

6* is just stupid. Have barely logged in since it debuted in JP.

Like I said, it's more about the direction of the game and how Vanessa has expressed things. Even on a complete min-max team, you're fighting with no error room against a script and need to memorize your DDR style plan and execute.

Being on the edge of difficulty was fun years ago. Breaking into these difficult fights, then putting them onto farm mode, was incredibly satisfying. But the core boss design was slowly moving in a way that was unfun for me, and now it's at its natural end and I'm not going to bash my head against the wall for a decidedly unfun game. I know some find this content to be great; it's just no longer my style.

I haven't uninstalled, but I'm not collecting any mithil or doing even daily summons.

I'm saving for 5th Anniversary now in 2 months.

I think there's some mithril pulls which let you choose Awakenings and maybe Glints?

I think the problem with 6* Magicite is that you need Syncs for them, I don't mind bosses releasing early and you work towards them, but there needed to be some content in between. Like they should have been 7*.

Odin is probably the inbetween content but there's no need to farm it.

The other thing is needing the 6* Magicite to beat 6* Magicite.

It's not the difficulty wall, it's the shift in style of gameplay. Mega-scripted superboss was never fun for me.

yamikazo said:

It's not the difficulty wall, it's the shift in style of gameplay. Mega-scripted superboss was never fun for me.

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Agree entirely.

It's funny, because in the old days of 3* and 4* magicite, I'd get annoyed at mechanics like Ixion where it was up to pure RNG whether or not he dispelled your team, and stuff like that.

Oh if I only knew. How I wish for that style of boss design to return.

Punko said:

I unlocked magicites and hit a brick wall.

Guess my FF7 earth and fire teams aren't carrying me past this. I'm pretty happy they got me this far though.

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You can search the boss name and "FFRK Reddit Mastery" for a thread with sample teams and a link to the boss AI. Most Magicite have a gimmick to play around.

Generally you want 2 ways to boost the attack of your team to deal damage:

What we call "Gen 2 Chains" give a 50% attack or magic boost AND a flat boost to the element increaded by the number of hits on the chain upto 150. That'll do everything you want in one Soul Break.

"Gen 1 Chains" only go up to 99 and don't usually have the 50% Attack/Magic boost. You'll want to pair it with either a Soul Break which gives a 50% boost (Onion Knight has the best ones in the Anima Lens shop) or a Soul Break/Ability which casts Imperil on the boss in the element you are using.

If you don't have a chain, a max Imperil stack (6) and the 50% boosts can do the job. I cleared the 5* Ice bosses without a chain for example.

You also want your characters to have a weapon and armour that boosts the element they are using. It may take time to get these as a new player, but most of us didn't have a full set on the early Magicite bosses. Artifacts can be bought which have these boosts, get the element artifacts and not the realm artifacts.

For defences, Magicite have an auto Wall cast by Dr Mog, so you just need to bring two things:

Protega and/or Shellga if the boss uses physical and/or magic damage, though many attacks on the harder bosses can ignore your defences.

Medium elemental resist accessories on every fight. Your healer can use the Large resists you get from the Nightmare bosses before Magicite, the others come from events and some are in the Gyshal Greens shop, this may also take time.

3* Magicite you should be able to beat missing quite a few of the damage things I mentioned above, I beat them all with Cloud, his damage cap breaking USB and a non elemental ability. It's probably possible to power creep them with 6* abilities.

4* Magicite you need a solid team with Ultra Soul Breaks at least, most of the above and knowledge of the boss AI for the gimmicks.

5* Magicite you also need damage cap breaking Soul Breaks/Abilities, and a seperate physical and magical team for each element.

6* Magicite I can't beat yet, you need a perfect team with a gen 2 chain, multiple Awakening Soul Breaks/Glint Soul Breaks or a Sync Soul Break.

At this point I advise playing something else and not investing any significant amount of time into this game.

Vanessa said:

Anyone crunched numbers around the new RM "Subject of Adoration"?

It's only [significantly] and not [much more] which in FFRK speak is less potent than Battleforged or Ace Striker RMs I know but it also has all three triggers of attack/abilities/taking damage.

Wondering if this is an upgrade to entrust batteries like Shelke over Battleforged & Ace Striker?

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Three triggers? Are attacking and abilities not the same thing?

The Knight's Charge RM triggers off both abilities and taking damage, so it's likely just a second version of that.

It's situational which is better, generally if I'm using Lifesiphon/Wrath I'll use the using abilities one, if the boss has an unusual number of hits on attacks I'll use the taking damage one. Maybe the hybrid one if both are true but that's rare?

Vanessa said:

Three triggers in text only, but yes, only two in practice Chris. You have Battleforged & Ace Striker for attack/abilities and Lionheart for damage received at the % of "much more" vs. "significantly" for all 3 (or 2 however you say define it) for Knight's Charge and Subject of Adoration.

I'm sorry, I thought Subject of Adoration was brand new in its effect but it's just a clone of Knight's charge, you're right.

So between all of those, which is the best RM for entrust batteries?

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Depends on how many attacks the boss does.

9 Loyalty Draw Tickets
4 Lightning Elemental Draw Tickets
3 Prompto Banner pulls with the 100+ Mithril from the Loyalty Rewards.

Oh and the 2 Prompto Banner pulls last week and most of my Draw Tickets since they came out.

Now I have a Gen 2 Physical Lightning Chain :/

Just missing a Gen 2 Physical Dark Chain and I'm happy with my chain situation. I don't have all of the rest but I've got the one in each element that matches up with the best characters.