Final Fantasy: Record Keeper - Mobile Gaming Cash Grab

Games been pretty slow lately. Tried farming FFX Torment for a few rounds and got bored quickly of it so back to dailies. I'm planning on small pulls for a bit - aiming for FFVIII Banner 2 (Good Ice Stuff), FFIV Banner 1 (Rosa/Edge) and FF XI Banner 2, depending on what lucky draws come out.

I'm not really sure where I plan to spend next. I'm sitting on 130 Mythril right now so I can afford a pull or two. My V synergy isn't bad but it's dated. VI is actually pretty bad all things considered so that might be likely. II is a final option says well.

My other option is to just sit tight and wait for fests. The next one should be amazing.

The upcoming magicite dungeons look both exciting and intimidating. Did a simple break down my relics and 5* Abilities @ R3 / 6* @ R2, doesn't look good:

Fire: Papalymo BSB, Yda BSB (meh), Braska SSB (meh), Vivi OSB | Meltdown, Chain Firaga, Valiagarmanda, Fire's Within
Ice: Serah BSB | Chain Blizzaga, Valliagarmanda, Icicle Shot, Hail Storm, Abyssal Shards
Wind: Zidane BSB, Zack BSB, Lunneth BSB, Alphanaud BSB | Dash & Slash, Meltdown, Tiamat, Sky High, Ninja 5*
Water: Tidus BSB | Chain Waterga, Sapphire Shot, 5* Spell blade
Lightning: Kain BSB, Fran SSB, Ashe OSB | Chain Thundaga, Valiagarmanda, Tempest Snipe, 5* Spell blade, Hell Thunder, Lightning Dive
Earth: Maria BSB, OSB | Chain Stonega, Meteor Crush, Gaia's Cross
Dark: Gafgarion BSB, Sepiroth SSB, Edea SSB, Rufus SSB, Kuja SB (lul) | Dark Zone + All the darkness abilities to be honed.
Holy: Firion BSB, Vanille BSB (?) | Saint Cross, Guardbringer, Aegis Strike

-Bastard Child-
Poison: Laila BSB

Wind and likely Earth / Fire (because Maria BSB / Papalymo BSB is that good apparently) team looks semi set, with Dark and maybe Lightning having a fighting chance... but I have low confidence of holy, water and ice. I've got Larsa, Vanille, Relm, Eiko and Y'shtola's BSB so I think my healing should be fine - running Relm for last stand and Eiko for Crit if needed. Not having a RW may be painful since no Cloud USB shennanigans, but having wall for free is a huge boon so I can mote Y'shtola/Vanille for healing.

Supposedly most magicite dungeons can be cleared without much trouble with an OSB + entrust battery setup, but to do the under 30 second clears, that's where having a very solid elemental team is important. I should have no problems at all with Fire, Lightning, Holy, and maybe Wind. Ice and Earth I have only one relic each, but amusingly it's Squall and Rinoa's OSB, so I can entrust setup those dungeons. Dark and Water need work, but I'm hoping to fix Water with Bartz equipment in FFV event. Dark I have Shadow's BSB and Edea's imperil SSB, which may be enough... but not sure on that one.

Probably possible for clear, though their stats are monstrous so if you want to go the non-element route it'll probably definitely be just as tough. I don't think it'll be easy using an off-element team though, since most of them do resist other elements to various degrees - even with stacked imperil and en-element I'd assume that the damage would be greatly reduced (though if you have those crazy maxed relics it may be possible). Wind Magicite apparently has stupidly high physical resistance and it was recommended to use a mage team.

Definitely sounds pretty interesting though! Should be coming in the next months or 2.

There's no poison Magicite to date so all good on that . Also want Ice relics or any BSB? Here take 2 Rinoa SSB (EARTH) and Fujin SSB without her BSB.... Thanks game.

This tonberry multiplayer fight seems kind of dumb. First run on the D160 version, the boss one shot both of my units almost right away (think I was in a party with Angelwatch), but we won anyway. Next up for the D220 I gave the team last stand immediately as Yuna's first action, and we managed to clear it, but it was still a totally bullshit encounter. Nothing but instant deaths the whole time, and the only reason we won was because 2x Yuna USB rotating AoE raise/last stand, along with the brokenness of multiple Squall BSB2 and Cloud USB.

Including the prevented deaths from last stand, I think my party had something like 20 or more deaths before the fight was finished.


Worst MP boss yet!

Yep. That was with me.

It's a dumb boss. For the tougher version I went in with Minfillia and Selphie for two sources of Last Stand. Someone else brought Gordon who gives physical blink and that helps a ton. The trick is to just keep spamming Last Stand. Pretty stupid fight really.

I don't think I'll be able to do the 3x CM for this FF2 jump start torment, but I was able to master the 1x CM D300 with Leila (-atk/res SSB), Alphinaud (BSB), Tyro (Wall), Onion (BSB), Yshtola (BSB), with a Sephiroth BSB2 roaming warrior.

The Sephiroth roaming warrior was honestly just a whatever pick, but after 15+ minutes refreshing the list trying to find an Ingus BSB, I said screw it and just went with the first generic physical BSB RW I found (Leila needed something to do since she had no native BSB).

Let me also rant about how irritating it is to have zero Gigas Armlets even though I've been playing for more than a year.

Have pretty stellar FF2 gear (Laila BSB, Firion BSB, Maria BSB + OSB) so it was a breeze. Maria alone was doing 9999x2 to all or 9999x6 to a single unit, since for some reason they are all weak to earth. Add Faris for Dances + Y'shtola for Wall / Heal and it was over pretty quickly - Rikku USB is an amazing RW for these JS missions.

Back to cracking my skull on MP Tonberry King, what an ass of a fight.

Edit: Finally got it! I realized I have both Galuf SB and SSB with the invulnerability - man that shit is so good for him (barring healers who just love to top everyone up...)

I cleared the II Torment with 3 character CM. I have Leila's BSB, Minwu's instant heal SSB and Maria's OSB (KERPLODE!). I also slotted in Tyro for dances and his SG and Rydia since everything is slightly weak to Earth and I have her BSB. Rikku USB was my RW.

I burst down the Ice Gigas first since he's the most dangerous. He counters everything with AOE Ice so getting rid of him fast is the way to go. Maria just blasted him with two OSB hits, and the AOE damage from Rydia and Leila's BSBs was enough to take him very low. Finished him off shortly after that making sure to hit him with Fire for the condition. After that I killed the Thunder since it's the next most dangerous and finished with the Fire one. I had no real issues after I wiped the first time (my first attempt I saved the Ice until last and couldn't keep up so I changed my strat to kill him first).

The 30 Wisdom motes didn't last long at all. I still don't have a complete Vanille but they helped unlock her first Legend Sphere. Once I get more Wisdom motes I should be able to unlock Double Cast White. I went with Vanille over Y'Shtola because I had Vanille's BSB at the time but didn't have Y'Shtola's at that point. Personally I think Vanille's is better so hindsight wouldn't have changed anything.

I should decide who I want to commit to for diving someday. I've never spent a single 5* mote yet, and only like two or three of my units have any 4* dives, and even on those few it's only partial 4* dives for ability school unlocks.

I am mostly loose about 3* diving though (but still have over 2200 of each 3* mote in reserve....)

Yeah, my issue is I don't really have any futureproof DPS with a meta relic. I tried for Terra's USB, and she was going to be the person I build teams around, but I didn't get it. My next best unit is probably Vaan, but his legend dive only gives him some more dps, and since his BSB commands are single hit, they already cap at 9999 damage almost always, so legend dive won't help him.

Yshtola and Ramza are likely targets for me to dive, but I just haven't yet... I keep telling myself when I run into a boss I can't beat, it's time to pull the trigger, but I'm still clearing content so far. I suspect magicite dungeons in a few weeks are when I'm going to dump all my motes and finalize a new A team.