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Hate-Senpai posted:I am. One day water will be great, and that day will not be today.
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is water not good now? I was planning on making an alt water grid because soloing Leviathan is pretty easy for my team now. I also happen to have Katalina, lily, and Xmas arulu :V
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Feb 18, 2017 10:11
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Water is the weakest element right now but the game has been rapidly moving into penalizing you for not bringing the advantageous element to a fight so if you can farm him easy go for it, you'll find a use for a water grid after this event anyway because fire guild wars is likely to be after the next one in March.
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Feb 18, 2017 10:16
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Also, the relative strength of elements is more important for MVP damage racing than it is for solo content. A good water grid will still do just fine in letting you farm event bosses and magnas.
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Happiness posted:I guess I should get around to asking for an invite then. ID: 10700104 I FOUND YOU.
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Feb 18, 2017 15:46
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JTDistortion posted:Also, the relative strength of elements is more important for MVP damage racing than it is for solo content. A good water grid will still do just fine in letting you farm event bosses and magnas. Waterlord here. Confirming that even though people consider it bottom of the meta, water can still do pretty much everything in the game. The Altair 5* giving easy access to water ATK up and water RES down helped a bit. Also nobody is laughing right now. Even with a strong water grid this event is such a dumb grind.
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The weirdest thing about the event for me is the suggestion you're supposed to build against the elemental square, not with it. You'd normally expect that a fire player's first concentrated effort towards a second element would either be wind - because it's an easier grind - or earth - to cover their weakness to water. If you wanna finish that grid off, though, time to get cracking on water instead. (hello I am super salty that I'm in that sweet spot where I've just finished an SL10 magna fire grid but have gently caress all in other elements. I got one scythe through dumb luck and that's it for me)
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Feb 19, 2017 04:39
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the true enemy isn't the elemental grid, its the rng
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Feb 19, 2017 04:57
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Blhue posted:the true enemy isn't the elemental grid, its the rng This. I can beat EX and 70NM Ifrit with my water grid that is literally a 0* Slvl 1 Levi dagger and 9 statsticks but it took me 21 runs of EX to get the nightmare to spawn.
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Feb 19, 2017 12:22
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I can beat EX and NM easily enough with my Dark grid, but the reduced damage just tires me out.
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Hate-Senpai posted:I can beat EX and NM easily enough with my Dark grid, but the reduced damage just tires me out. Yeah - the difficulty of the event is in the tedium. Even with a wind grid the extreme and 70 nm aren't hard in the sense of "can't beat without elixir". It's more that I need to actually press buttons and pay attention or i get killed. It would be a very different story if I had a skilled up water grid that could blow up the extreme in 2 minutes with auto attack, even if in the end it would cost me about the same number of pots/berries. The big mistake cygames made was not warning the players that the GW element resist was coming to this event. I would have used my magnafest fodder supply very differently had I known this was coming in advance.
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Stelas posted:The weirdest thing about the event for me is the suggestion you're supposed to build against the elemental square, not with it. You'd normally expect that a fire player's first concentrated effort towards a second element would either be wind - because it's an easier grind - or earth - to cover their weakness to water. If you wanna finish that grid off, though, time to get cracking on water instead. This contradiction has been around for awhile, and I twigged onto it when I was first breaking into Omega fights - I had started water, but the same-element penalty was giving me loads of grief when I tried to solo mvp Levi because I couldn't land any debuffs. I couldn't really handle Ygg either because all I had was a water grid! So if I wanted to take advantage of elemental advantage for building my grid I basically had to go backwards across the elements. Or go Light/Dark, which is what I ended up doing. This wasn't so bad before this point, because you had other options for progressing your grid (pendants, leeching raids, guaranteed host chests). With this Xeno it's Element Advantage Or gently caress Right Off. Frankly the easiest fix for this would have been to remove the 50% cut for Fire in this event and leave everything else in place. That'd still piss a bunch of people off, but it would be a happy medium between encouraging multiple elements and supporting the one element this event is technically supposed to be for in the first place. Hopefully that is what they'll do for subsequent Xenos. NJ Deac posted:Yeah - the difficulty of the event is in the tedium. Even with a wind grid the extreme and 70 nm aren't hard in the sense of "can't beat without elixir". It's more that I need to actually press buttons and pay attention or i get killed. It would be a very different story if I had a skilled up water grid that could blow up the extreme in 2 minutes with auto attack, even if in the end it would cost me about the same number of pots/berries. One of the reasons I decided to not seriously pursue this event is remembering how long it took to farm drops from other Extreme level fights in other events, when in those fights I could blitz my way through in like 30 seconds yet Extremes take 2-3 minutes each here. I will say that the actually fights themselves aren't that bad and I had a decent time figuring out where to push damage, and eat attacks, and how to build a party that could hit the trigger points safely. That was fun. Unfortunately with GBF what is fun the first time maybe isn't as fun the 100th time and you just want to hit buttons and collect your reward at that point.
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yeah, I can't say i have a problem with the content itself since I've never been a grindbig fan myself so I'm not really judging. There's probably plenty of high-level players who want the game to continue challenging them and you could say this is for them, especially considering the reward value of that crazy new 4th-level skill. the main criticism I can think of is that content with this restrictive of a power floor, does not need an event period—Xeno primals should be rotational showdowns like their counterparts. even speaking as a fire main who's had the time to build usable grids for every element, I don't think I have it in me for this one. Compared to Pinya Axe farming, with reliable drop rates, Extremes you could just auto if you had a good earth grid, and the nightmare mats only being used for uncap mats, this one is insane. It expects a density of attention per hour that I can't give to a mobage. GW is an exception because it's social/competitive. Space Flower fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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Feb 19, 2017 17:24
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they went a bit too far when they started designing content for you to spend ALL of your free time playing GBF
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So based on the great advice from this thread, I'm going to hold off on starting my account until that Legfest starts, but sure enough, got a few more questions! I've been looking at the Wind SSRs, and as far as teams go, is the idea to shoot for something like Korwa - Leica - Arriet and then whatever for an attacker (I was thinking Yuicis, since, if I understand correctly, she could tank in defensive stance until all my buffs are up and running then switch to offensive and just murder everything)? Also, would it make sense to try and shoot for Korwa and the other support characters first and use something like the starting character? There's currently no way to get Andira at the moment, even with a start-dash ticket right? I'd need to wait for an event where she's available again to be able to get her from a ticket? Also I made a throwaway account to mess around with a bit since it would be silly to do all this and find out I don't like the game. Somebody had mentioned that new players get something that gives them a choice of SSRs from a small pool, but I haven't seen anything like that, just a free premium draw. Am I missing something? Thanks again for all the help!
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ilifinicus posted:they went a bit too far when they started designing content for you to spend ALL of your free time playing GBF More time on granblue is less time on fire emblem.
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Silvergun1000 posted:I've been looking at the Wind SSRs, and as far as teams go, is the idea to shoot for something like Korwa - Leica - Arriet and then whatever for an attacker (I was thinking Yuicis, since, if I understand correctly, she could tank in defensive stance until all my buffs are up and running then switch to offensive and just murder everything)? Also, would it make sense to try and shoot for Korwa and the other support characters first and use something like the starting character? Doesn't sound bad. You've got the right idea—you don't really have to 'shoot' for wind attackers since the best one is the Guild War character you can farm for, so if you want to use tickets for wind characters, buffers would be your best choice. Petra is a good option after Korwa if you decide you like wind and you're going to try and recruit Siete, the guild-war char. Andira will most likely be gone this year and show up during next year's legfests, but the devs change their gacha rules all the time to make limited stuff more accessible. Like how we're currently in a swimsuit draw period, lol. So who knows! Somewhere in your pinboard rewards is a ticket for a random SSR from a pool of non-limited chars.
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Silvergun1000 posted:Thanks again for all the help! to elaborate a bit, the pinboard missions are are the main page under gameplay extras. Once you complete all the missions on it you get a second, then third, board to clear. The third one rewards a random SSR ticket. actually choosing a character you want requires buying the start dash promotion, which is $$$. _jink fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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free to play
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Siete is really strong but he does have his drawbacks, Emblems take a few seconds to build up and can get erased easily so in a MVP race it can come up too late to be useful. Double ougis with a huge passive boost to them stacked with buffs and debuffs is pretty ludicrous though. Feena was a workable attacker for me in the meantime, her dodge lets her survive even the most stupid of ougis and defense down is pretty hard to get in wind. Not someone anyone would ticket though, but i imagine sooner or later they'll stick a rework / 5* on her to make her more better. More... more better. nftyw fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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feena's a super good non-siete attacker because her dodge can handle whatever mirror image can't, so she can spend a super long time in low HP. glad i scam gacha'd her right before the last guild war.
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What's the best use of prestige when done with distinctions? Urns?
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I spent four days grinding this thing for two awakened axes but spent less than 200 pots on it so I feel like they could stand to speed the grind up a little in terms of time. It's still better than the Cerb or Fenrir events but I guess because unknowns are usable for everyone you're not selecting for people who may be willing to hellgrind (primal summon havers).
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LIMBO KING posted:What's the best use of prestige when done with distinctions? Urns? I guess if you're Dark you could go for the Cortana?
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LIMBO KING posted:What's the best use of prestige when done with distinctions? Urns? ive just been buying urns now and then, yeah. Its not a great value but what else am i gonna spend prestige on?
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I mean, if you're still running HLs for Urns and Baha and poo poo, you're getting Prestige whether you need it or not, and if that's the case you might as well spend that Prestige on Urns too so you can lesson the grind for Urns.
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Hate-Senpai posted:I guess if you're Dark you could go for the Cortana? Ecke Sachs is also usable if you're building a fire grid, especially if you mostly plan to use that grid against wind. It has awful stats, but its skills are rock solid. Thuryl fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Irisize posted:You could just... not bother farming prestige? i don't, but i'll get some now and then from helping with Baha HL, doing HL magnas for colored centrums, and doing 6mans for urns
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I've been playing the game for a little under 2 weeks, and I finally have 3000 crystals. Is the legfest tomorrow?
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Possibly, but I've been told to hold off until the anniversary later this week.
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Legfest starts in 10h30 or so.MohShuvuu posted:Possibly, but I've been told to hold off until the anniversary later this week. That's mostly for decisions like making a GW character, or buying weapons with prestige or renown. For a new player who has to rely on whatever character they have, there's no reason to delay rolling for one month just because some players are fantasising about an 9% SSR gacha.
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More like 27% gacha with Dark Kat and +1s on all draws. That's the Stop Guarantee.
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Whelp its happening, finally getting Lyria as a party character. Gonna odd since event characters usually have favorable element vs boss(light boss?).
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escape mechanism posted:
Honestly, as another new player (started around a week and a half ago or so), should we just try to mostly save up stuff for a month or two, so we can actually maybe get enough sparks during some event that looks interesting? The story SRs seem relatively decent and can carry you at least for a bit. I managed to luck into a mediocre SSR with my free 10-roll (Zeta), and have since finished off the pinboard to get the guaranteed SSR ticket - out of which I got a great one (Sara) - but even discounting that I seem to be doing at least okay with what I've been automatically given. None of the SRs/Rs I've actually rolled have been particularly good at least, so it's mostly the story ones supplemented by the two SSRs that I'm using. Summons have been my main weak point, as I've yet to get a single one out of a draw, though I did find out about, and proceed to get, the SSR available just for spamming the right summon off the support list a bunch of times (Ranko). There's apparently another Idolmaster one as well you can get through the same method, but her summon seems to pop up on the support list a lot less than Brunnhilde.
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Sparking means saving up for 300 pulls, which lets you trade in Cerulean Sparks (you get 1 per draw) for a guaranteed featured SSR. The sparks become stones once the draw even has ended, so you have to do those 300 pulls within a specific time frame. It requires saving up the equivalent of 90,000 Crystals (10-pull tickets = 3,000 Crystals, 1-pull tickets = 300 Crystals) and is probably not doable in your first few months unless you spend mad cash (like $900).
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