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Nice! Who'd you use? You can poison it once to shave off an extra 20-30% HP if you didn't try that already.

Thx. Faisy, LM Fina, Gilgamesh, Faris, friend (half-naked BS :-/) Faris. OG Xon for the "likely not needed but can't be f'ed to worry about it" cheese. Didn't bring poison, and not sure it'd quite have saved me from the s*** friend gearing, lol, and don't think would've needed otherwise.

Iirc, I _did_ poison it on my first clear back when, and still didn't come close to the turn mission, 'cause I'm spectacular at this s***, lol.

Lol. :-)

This is the way...

No lie, though I regret not grabbing a Rank 1 a while ago when it was technically possible. :-(

Nice! Congrats :-)

Amazing!!

Thanks. :-) Turns out, now having the chance to use the builder, that I had actually made Lunafreya's gear _slightly_ worse. </rolls eyes> Well, still got the clear....

Yep, of course it is. :-/ Though the free Aerith is apparently able to as well, thus my sigh- once more aboard the "content for new units" carousel (or hamster wheel).
My best existing damage dealer for it is afaik Lunafreya but mine can't quite get there; closest so far on turn 2 is 8%, which was at least enough to get me the turn 5 lapis. An EX+3 Lunafreya (+/or Sora STMR) might be able to squeeze it out.

No, we can't do anything with the crystal yet; when we can, it's apparently going to be used to let a 7* use a VC (thus ushering in the return of the return of the return of Esther) or multiples (10?) will allow leveling a unit to 130.

Working on a 2 turn strat right now. NVA Tifa, Ardyn, Red XIII, mmXon, and NVA Reno...we'll see how it goes xD

That's pretty nice, especially with the True Purple Lightning upgrade not long ago. I still have one of them both and I got NV Selena from the free pulls lol. Still happy with free red pearl though.

Yeah, I've got to fuse for TPL and run it through Steel Castle (no point to doing so previously). I got the #1 of each unit very recently as randoms. Gratz on the red pearl, lol. I've actually only ever fragged one NVB unit (Terra #2, after using the only all STMR moogle I believe I've ever used, haha).

Cool. :-) Why'd you'd leave that one for last?

Damn, you beat my Esther turn count by 27 turns!! xD Going in with a 6 man team should make the 8 turn clear a little easier, but I had to use 2 decked out Ardyns to get that one. If you happen to get an NV Tifa next week then she'll OTKO the bastid on Turn 4.

Lol, poor Esther, so underpowered and mistreated, lol. /s
Yeah... like I said on the other post, I intend to go back, hopefully w/ your Ardyn, and see if I can't bring down the 5 unit turn count a bit for s&g, but it's pretty clearly still going to be > 8 turns, by which I mean >> 8 turns, even w/ a 6th unit ;-)

Yikes! Thanks for that, I certainly didn't expect it. I was talking about trying to improve my ability choices per turn. Your Ardyn hasn't actually come up for me yet, and since my post I've been in-game running it back (w/ worse results, lol), and then checking and double-checking all the end-of-week stuff.

Honestly, it has given me something to do and I enjoy lending a hand :-) hope he pops up for you soon! 2nd Ultima Blade at +3 but going from +3 to +4 is gonna take a while xD

I really appreciate it. Your Ardyn *still* hasn't come up. Bah.
I just cleared, as posted separately, but it was a one-last-run-while-watching-tv where I realized that I'd misplayed a few times (but I did take better care of Lucas), so I intend to go back, hopefully w/ your Ardyn, and see if I can't bring down the 5 unit turn count a bit for s&g (it's pretty clearly still going to be > 8 turns.)

So I gave him anti-decay amulet in NF so he starts with 3 turns of break immunity. After that you can switch back into NF to regain that buff but otherwise it wears off. Doesn't need confuse resist that I know of, but he's innately immune to petrify. You'll use his NF LB on Turn 1 and then go from there on out in BS form jumping every other turn.

Unless you have some way to buff his reaper killer you might not be able to get it in 8 turns, tho. I used NV Onion Knight as my breaker and 150% killer buffer, with mmXon stealing and spreading it to Ardyn. OK also comes with a nice 80% elem resist to all of Amon's elements :-)

All ready for you in Nem 1. 5.1k ATK, 300% killer, 750% jump damage. Hope it's enough!

Also, I recently moved to mostly playing on a device on which I can reliably chain (sorta handy for a core mechanic, haha) and that isn't prone to frequent semi-random s*** -taking (particularly relevant to actually prepping/gearing parties rather than just quitting in frustration and going back to grinding).

Between those two things and no longer losing friend units on losses or quit/retries, I loosened the withdrawal policy on my hoard. Much more enjoyable to use resources planfully when you can iterate through results. The other big consideration is that legend has it we're basically done getting trials and you don't need most things for DV/CoW.

Lastly, we're closing in on what JP has already delivered, I'm not especially confident in the IRL game planning and management, you can't do anything with any of the stuff when the game shuts down... and I've collected *a whole lot* of stuff.

The tail-flicking counter heal is also LOL in its own way.

Hells yeah, congrats, mate! How'd ya do it?

Thanks. :-) 2 Lunafreyas. Terra for Ramuh field/chaining/disease. Relm for Reflect (new to Carby)/buffs/imperil/element damage buff/disease. Faisy I finally +1'd w/ a Green magic buff on BS. Provoke/evade/death immune HA Charlotte p.cover/counter healing.
AKA, I watched a f***ing video. :-/ That said, as was typical in the past, I didn't replicate it exactly, but this time that was partially by choice.

Up and running! BS form - 4.6k ATK, 300% beast/dragon killer and 300% LB damage with Baha esper for the extra 50% break damage boost.

NF- dragon brush and Call of the Wild for start-up LB fill plus lots of LB fill materia. 250% beast/dragon killer in case you still want to do some damage, but I assume once you use his NF LB you'll stay in Brave Shift the rest of the fight?

Completed, all missions, 6 turns. Thanks much for the monster Gilgas! Also, yes, NF only turn 1 LB.
Yuraisha finally got her +1 and some abilities enhanced.
DoD Vanille also got some abilities enhanced.

Nicely done! Dunno how I missed this earlier, but glad you took it down, and 6 turns is impressive! Didn't realize Greg had it in him xD

least ya seen 2 rares. I havent seen 1 rare yet and i've used orbs~

I've been using orbs too, for lack of anything else to do and a pile of things to run.
I'd rather not see the rares if they're bad for the weapon. :-(

...and last night a *3rd* rare on a magic gun. G*******t....

note- Trained Ramuh for Deshell in order to have two sources (60 SP) to decrease dead turns.
While there, unrelatedly, picked up Thundaga (110 SP) for the upgraded CWA chain capability.

Yup, just missed the 10k mark... :)

I'm in the middle of those situations. Got bumped from 2962 to 3049. Oh well.

@KylarHaern "dmg capped at 12 Ex levels on CoW.....guess I could play around with 15 Ex levels..." big baller!

Lol, yeah, I noticed that. :-) Was surprised re-looking at your score, 'cause I thought you'd done 99 w/ full buffs, but I guess it was full for the number of EX levels you could bring. I got further (lvl and score) yesterday, but haven't had time to look back at what each aspect of progress cost me.

No it meant i did not get full scores for damage done. I turtled mine. I was studying her patterns since I was bored.

Lol, I *never* get full scores for damage dealt.
Looking back, I re-cleared lvl 95 w/ some available challenge buffs.
Then I yoloed lvl 99 for s&g and got KOed, awakened Lunafreya from +1 to +2 to clear it, and re-cleared with some available challenge buffs.
*Then* I awakened Gilgamesh from +1 to +2 and Faisy from +0 to +1 in order to add more challenge buffs.
Resource drain bit by bit, lol....

Oh, I could open a g*****n chain of dark side training centers and resorts re: FFBE. I've *been* there since back when force energy was unregulated and space was largely uncharted, and have since then only kept expanding.

Still at "cleared lvl 85, have access to lvl 93, but can't quite FTKO lvl 90. Closest has been 8%. Not applying HP/DEF/SPR/resist buffs to boss." except having given up on the FTKO, and thus discovering all her other GLEX-typical everything-and-the-kitchen-sink nonsense. Yay.

Aaaawwwwooooo!!!

lol same. I don't see how anyone can ever run out of pots, cactuars, or NRG items

Wait, you can fuse pots??!?

@Vosler ikr? Soooo many stacked up in inventory, reserves, mailbox....
@Backosteel - yep. All types, from ~35 into 1 for the mini burst pots down to only 1 into 1 for the king A/D/M/S pots (which at 8 taps/fuse are annoying af).