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Ruinga is incredibly strong but it takes a lot more to get it to work than Retaliate strategies.

Retaliate basically comes down to having one high level melee with retaliate, one good weapon and a bunch of double cuts. That's pretty easy to put together since most of the skills are two and three star abilities.

However, in order to get the most out of your Black Mages you need a substantial amount of gear and honed abilities. Ruinga is extremely powerful as a board sweeper but in order to make it work you need a high level black mage with the Mana Spring II Record Materia, solid gear to boost your MAG and you need to hone Ruinga to rank 3ish. Getting Ruinga to rank 3 is also not the best use of your Greater Orbs right away either. There are other skills that take priority over Ruinga in my opinion. Ja level Black Mage spells for one. Ideally you want to get one Ja to rank 4 so you can start to transition away from AGA spells. Waterja is the best first rank 4 spell in my opinion because very few things resist water, the orb requirements aren't that bad compared to other spells and, for some reason, Waterja has a slightly faster cast time than other spells. However once you start to assemble all of the pieces than Ruinga it becomes a really good board sweeper and if you run out of your rank 4 Ja spells on the boss you can fire off any remaining Ruinga charges for respectable damage too.

Chris and I have very different playstyles based on our relic pulls and preferences. He uses Retaliate and Advance strategies extensively. Because of my relic pulls my Mage team is extremely strong and I'm really hurting for physical damage. My best physical weapon is a 6 star Zantetsuken with several augments thrown on from junk (all of my 5* Shields...). For whatever reason I just cannot pull good physical damage relics. By comparison my Mage team is rocking multiple 5 star weapons and armor. So it makes sense to me to go with a Mage Meta (or Mega Meta if you read reddit).

This is my generic setup. Sephiroth is actually a swing character. I've been using Paladin Cecil a lot these days because he has a fantastic set of skills. But this is my "go to" setup that can clear most content and just gets tweaked as needed:

Heads up.

I assume most of you live in the U.S. but just in case... This Friday is Black Friday. Huge sales and is the busiest shopping day of the year. To cash in on the day, DeNA is offering another, one day only, Lucky Draw on Black Friday. So try and get up to 25 Mythril beforehand. Should be possible for most people since there will be one more event (10 Mythril), 6 Mythril from daily logins and upwards of 16 Mythril from the Dungeon event released last night.

What are they giving us? Relic draw for only 25 mithril?

Eyashusa_sl said:

What are they giving us? Relic draw for only 25 mithril?

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See the banner in the post above:

The way the last Lucky Draws worked was like this. You can only roll on the banner once. But that roll was at a discount. You pulled 11 Relics for 25 Mythril (half off since it's normally 50) or if you're spending real money it's also half the number of gems needed for an 11x pull. Each Relic has drawn has a 12% chance of being a 5 star. The nice thing is that they've removed all of the generic 5 stars and shared soul break 5 stars from the pool. If you pull a 5 star relic it is guaranteed to be a character specific soulbreak relic.

You, definitely, want to pull on this banner. Results can vary wildly but between the discount and the fact that if you do pull a 5 star it's guaranteed to be a character specific it's pretty much impossible to pass up the chance. This is also the only way to get some relics that have only been featured once and aren't likely to ever be featured again like Luneth's Tyfring. Of course you can't count on it but it's worth mentioning. A few weeks back when we had a series of 5 Lucky Draws I ended up with 5 relics. The best of those were "meh" and two of them were outright junk. But it's still worth pulling.

Personally I've received zero 5 stars in my last 32 pulls. There was a 1.67% chance of that happening.

Statistically I have the same 75.5% chance as everyone else to pull a single 5 star from this Lucky Draw. Gambler's fallacy puts my chances at 100% since "I'm due." The pessimist in me has a feeling I'm going to go zero for 43 on 5 stars.

Bahamut (XIII) Elite down with 10 seconds left on the clock. That was an extremely tense fight.

XIII is another realm where I don't have a good physical weapon for (like most realms because RNG is RNG). So I went Mage Heavy with Cloud, Yuna, Sazh, Vivi and Rydia. Yuna has Hymn of the Fayth as a big group heal + Heavy Regen and Sazh has Boon for Shellga + Hastega. My primary goal for the trash was to escape it without losing too much health and get the soulbreak gauge built up for Yuna and Sazh. Hastega is mandatory for this fight. Vivi and Rydia were my primary trash sweepers though once Yuna and Sazh got their hits in. Vivi was loaded with Ruinga R3 and Waterja R4. Rydia had Meteor R2 and Thundaja R4. This was my first experiment bringing Meteor to a dungeon outside of the Daily and I was very happy with the results. I was gambling a bit using Mana Spring 1 on her and she got 2 out of 4 refreshes which was enough to get her into the Bahamut fight with full Thundajas and 2 Meteors. But why Rydia? Access to 5 star BLM and she can uses whips. Sleipnir's Tail is my highest MAG item but only Quistis and Rydia can use it.

As for Bahamut getting up Mitigation is the key to this fight (like most others). It took about 3 tries to get Boon and SSII (from a RW) off before any attacks and got very lucky that Tempo Storm hit on the first try on my successful run. Used my Witch's Hat from Halloween to boost Vivi and Rydia and then just started to blast away. Fully buffed and with a resisted Mental break both of my BLMs were hitting for about 8,500. Yuna was only hitting for about 5,000 (Diaga scales with Mind and the Witch Hat buff doesn't help). About halfway through the fight I refreshed Boon, SSII and hit Hymn of the Fayth. As I mentioned above I finished him off with 10 seconds on the clock.

1 more Elite to finish off (IX Soulcage which doesn't give a Stamina Shard) and I'm at max 146 max stamina.

I wish you could convert orbs. Or buy them. I would blow someone for greater earth orbs at this point as they are holding me back from getting Protectga and something else that I can't remember now.

It's still a few months down the road but there is a feature for Orb Conversion in Japan. You can either trade 10 lesser orbs to go up a level or you can trade 1 higher orb to go down a level. So you can trade 10 normal orbs for 1 Greater or you could trade 1 Major orb for 10 Greater. There's a Gil cost as well but that's manageable.

It's tied to User Interface overhaul so we're likely to get it sooner or later. But it's likely to be 2 or 3 months out yet.

Eyashusa_sl said:

I wish you could convert orbs. Or buy them. I would blow someone for greater earth orbs at this point as they are holding me back from getting Protectga and something else that I can't remember now.

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Yeah, I was in your same boat for awhile and then I got 4 from a dungeon towards the end of the recent ff8 event. Also like the 3rd elite dungeon in XII the boss battle, its the 3 ratmen looking things, its the first battle and it drops greater earth orbs.

So happy Eiko mc came out, now I'll be able to get a decent white mage to 65.

I'd been getting pretty bummed about my relic draws lately, so this was a very nice change of pace for me: