Lurker > Horith

Damn, can't quite get away. Not playing nearly as much, but still jump in every so often. I was bored at work today, so I took another shot at Aigaion and won. Only thing I forgot to do was use a limit burst, and I think I'll live without the 10% moogle.

Used a team of Lunera, WoL, Rem, Tilith, and 2X GLS. Even with the dark resistance, Grim - Eldritch Flames does about 8-10% on the Arms when using Repeat, so killing Lefty wasn't too bad. For some reason I thought that Ramuh would trigger bad stuff if used on Aigaion, not Lefty, so I kept Right Arm alive while I whittled down Aigaion with the plan of using Ramuh on Righty. So that took longer than it should have. And outside of a couple of scares where I didn't have an auto-revive on Tilith or she was the only one left alive, things went incredibly smoothly.

And I pulled Roy a few days ago, so y'know, that's something. No LB pots since I haven't been playing though, so he's languishing away.
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10+1 was a complete swing and a miss for me. One gold, Sozhe, another Zidane, and the rest utter garbage. Bedile, Xiao, two Frans, it was just a mess.
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Daily: Terra
3* EX Ticket: Iris
4* EX Ticket: Meliadoul
5* EX Ticket: Lunera

I finally have a good MP Battery! Woot!
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Nothing new on the 10+1, just a dupe Mystea and Crowe.
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Seabreeze Fina for mine. This ticket seems to really, really love giving people Fina for some reason. Maybe they're hinting that we should've saved them for CG Fina. :P

I think I'm gonna sit out the game for the next week or so, just logging in to roll. Motivation to play is down lately, since so much of the content is just constant grinding. Worst-case if I do leave for a long while I'll probably just leave GL Sakura up for people who want her.
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NNID/PSN: Servillo
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Right, GL Sakura is awful against Aigaion without a solid MP Battery. I forgot that they have a constant Reflect up, so have to DC a black magic spell and then Osmose, and even then the two I have only just do enough damage to keep up with the healing. Losing a turn every so often to Osmose will seriously cripple me. Looks like I need to pick a couple of physical chainers then, that way Tilith can keep up with Prism Heal for the MP.
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I was wondering if I could get away with that too, I'd just have to either not use GL Sakura (which I know may not work anyway given his 100% Dark Resist and having to use Grim - Eldritch Flame), or make sure my duo has access to Osmose.

Really, I'll have the energy to burn since I'm getting bored stiff with farming events and am just not doing them too much, nor am I TMR farming. It's just going to waste, so I might as well take some time to experiment.
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Fiyun posted...

Who is your mana battery for Aigaion?

Dammit, I knew I was forgetting something. That makes things a bit more complicated. Maybe I should just bring up and enhance King for his innate reraise instead of using Rem in order to free up a slot. Or if I decide to go the GL Sakura route, I might be able to get away with her using Osmose a crapton of times, since I assume the arms respawn with full MP. Doesn't help the rest of the team, but it's a start of an idea. I may also swap out WoL for Zarg, see if I can make him the target to be Re-raised, and let him and Tilith keep me covered.
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NNID/PSN: Servillo
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Until today, I never really understood the feeling of watching your gil count shrink due to enhancements. Nothing I've enhanced before, bar Soleil, was all that expensive, and she was done in bursts. But after everything for Rem except Raise and +2 Undying Wish, and everything for WoL, I blew 4.5 million. And I only didn't enhance Raise because I actually did run out of White Crysts.

With next week off, I may actually take the time to give Aigaion a shot. Just need to decide who my damage dealers should be, use Rem for Re-raise, Tilith for heals, Rikku because duh, and likely WoL for a tank. Should be fun! At this point it's between Firelandeau or GL Sakura for damage.

I also just took down Glacial with Fire Tidus, Mystea, Tilith, and Marie. Marie and Tilith died rather quickly, but I got really lucky with Mystea taking two of the ST attacks for Tilith and still surviving, letting my Tidus pair Spark Chain that birdie down, get healed with a scroll from Mystea, and survive the next round thanks to her taking the damage for one of them and Energy Rain the trash mobs down. Got everything except the Ifrit Summon reward, and I don't have the paralysis resist gear or the ice resist gear to do that.

It's also time to select another TMR to moogle. I'll be waiting until we get the 5* EX Ticket and whatever I may or may not get from the 10+1, but at the moment I'm still leaning towards defensive stuff. Either Crowe's TMR, a Rainbow Robe, or a second Jake's Pirate Ring.
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Yup, that makes enhancing Orlandeau a lot less tempting. Once again relegated to easy farming use, and that's it.
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That is...a lot of characters I have to enhance. WoL and Rem for sure, maybe one Orlandeau? I'd honestly rather save the crysts for Tidus, but Orlandeau's just been so much more useful to me. Which has nothing at all to do with the fact that I have two. Nope, not at all.

>_>

<_<
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Rainbow off the free daily today, it was my third Noctis.

Methinks the game is telling me to make a Ring of the Lucii soon. Just need one more for that Super TMR too!
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So on the one hand I'm loving this raid, because I'm finally using the Pilfer/Double Gold thingie to get a crapton of Gil for future enhancements. It's also easy, which is a plus. But goddamn is sorting through five different raid units annoying! I'm fusing them for now for random TMRs to equip to Expedition teams, but eesh.

On the upside, I now have two Prodigy's Goggles. Sadly I joined just late enough to only have two Kelsus in total, so that's it for me. Might fuse up another 100% just in case he ever returns, but I don't think he will.
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crazygamer999 posted...

I guess Role compression is a really good thing, however, so he might be on my main team unless I need to slot in my specialized people.

That's pretty much it. A lot of times I struggle to bring specialized support units because they don't cover a role I need, or their kit covers one thing I need but their other main role is pretty useless. Or I just can't afford to bring a specialized unit either because they're too frail, or I need the flexibility and they can't provide. Soleil is a great example; she's my best stat buffer, but that's literally all she can do.

Zarg slots in so easily because while he does nothing perfectly, he does everything just well enough that it makes bringing him worth it. And if you do bring a second support unit, it frees Zarg up to do even more things, which is why I usually slap a Pod on him. 20% all damage mitigation plus a 40% physical shield? Hell yes.

And given that I don't have any battery other than Zarg+Tilith, I will at least attest that it is a great mana battery to use. Tilith can't heal herself with Prism Heal, but that gets handled by Zarg while she's constantly refreshing the party. Unless you have a super mana hungry unit, you'll be covered for a huge chunk of the fight. In fact, they're what I use for events where I can click repeat, and my best units are super MP hungry. 2x GLS spamming a single cast of Grim -Soul Barrage, Zarg and Tilith healing/refreshing, and Xon for the drop rates is how I spent the last two weeks farming the story event.
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Fiyun posted...

Or Righteous Sword for dispel

Oh yeah, I forgot he can dispel. And MP Drain as well, for the few fights that need it. And if all that wasn't enough, I just remembered he has a halfway decent counter rate, which is pretty much free LB Crystals. No one should argue with free LB crystals.

Anyone else remember when GL was convinced this guy was going to suck when they first saw his kit? People were so wowed by Rikku and Ramza Enhancements (lol) that any other support unit just seemed so bad in comparison.
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crazygamer999 posted...

So... How do I use Ace and Zarglebargle?

Can't comment much on Ace, but he's basically mana battery and Tri-beam Laser spam. Great if you need to imperil fire for, say Flame Veritas.

Zargabaath is pretty much the support unit you throw in when you need more than one thing in a single unit. He provides elemental resistance that while not as powerful as Marie's, are still good enough. He has a 20% damage mitigation for the party that will stack with Pod 153's physical mitigation (side note: he's a great Pod user in my experience). He can do partywide 60% buffs that also provide status immunities for paralysis, blind, confuse, and disease, three of those being very handy immunities to have. There's a 100% All Stat ST buff on a 4 turn counter, meaning you can easily apply it to a couple party members and still have room to do other things. And lastly, he provides a 100% HP heal and 50% MP heal for a single target, which works amazingly with any mana-hungry unit with high MP, or as a budget healer. And all of this is wrapped into a single unit. Bring him, and he should always have something to do.

He can't work as well as a bard like Roy, and his damage mitigation isn't as strong as Rikku's. But the sheer versatility of his kit makes him exceedingly good to slot in as a general support unit if you don't desperately need a specific one, and he's been able to get my party through more than a few of the difficult trials.
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I know it's a Mog Event, but I feel like I'm going to be passing a lot on this one. I know TDH is a thing, but it just doesn't interest me as much. I tend to like seeing high combo counts over high damage, even if it won't be as efficient.
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Ahhhh, I didn't notice that other 300; I thought they were ones I had saved from before.
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How are people getting more Shards of Kelsus? I only got the 60 from the raid rewards, and that's it.
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NNID/PSN: Servillo
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Made one last daily roll for Roy. Got Gilbert instead.

That's a special kind of fuck you, isn't it?
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Awww shoot, forgot that too. Oh well, so much for that possibility of being sub 10k. I've been somewhat skirting around 11k off and on all day.
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GANON1025 posted...

Only used a few tickets but got Zargglebath, not bad

I cannot sing this guy's praises enough. It's very impressive just how good his kit can be, and how easily he can slot into any team. His support options are good enough that unless you need one very, very specific unit, he's just so much better than a lot of them because he can do anything in an emergency. I usually bring him for one purpose, and I wind up using at least one or two of his other skills just because he's available.
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Well, 11/12 of my tickets were crap, and I pretty much pulled the last one to get it over with.

Then it cracked into a Mystea.

Edit: And free daily was a Noctis dupe. Welp, that's two rings and 7* right there. Sweet.
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NNID/PSN: Servillo
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Since I have neither Roy nor Ramza, I figure I might as well pull. Soleil is only going to last me so long, and as far as I know both Roy and Ramza are good for MP Refresh as well, which is a sub-class of support I desperately need.
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Fiyun posted...

Raid units you really only care about if you got Rem(Ashteroze)

Right, now I know the raid pulls are going to completely screw me. Good to know.
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NNID/PSN: Servillo
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Agreed. She's more of a long-term project though, since she requires a lot of TMR investment. I still only have one VoH too, so farming all of this up is either going to take months of Earth Shrine or months-worth of Moogles. I figure I'll wait until her Enhancements come out to make some of these a priority, since I don't want to give up on GLS too quickly.

Really though, I think I'd rather have Mystea. She's the only banner unit I don't have, and I have plenty of offensive options. Not gonna argue, but also not gonna lie.
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And I now have two Dukes.

Well if nothing else, Aileen will be an absolute killing machine when I get all the TMRs for her up. Or I can run both of my Rebertas without as much trouble.
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Am I missing something, or are those as bad as I think they are?
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Of the three Ive gotten since the rate up, two have been new and one was a dupe of a character I already had a dupe of. And sadly, I doubt Ill use either of them because one was Onion Knight, and Ive got better chainers, and the other was Duke.
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Still working on Aileen, Rassler, Rassler, Ignus, Ignus. So nothing that's getting finished soon because they're all solo farms. At least one Ignus is at 75%, so one of them will be done soon. Not even sure why I'm doing them now; I was going for them to make Ashe a solid mage, but I just don't use her outside the Arena now. Maybe there's potential for her chaining with GLS for 10-mans? Not likely since she can't DC her abilities.
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RaidenZeroX posted...

I want Dukes TMR so bad, even though I dont see myself ever really using Reberta or Aileen.

If I could, I'd be almost willing to give you mine. He's terrible, but his sprite is so badass I'm not sure how much I care.
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I got one. Forgot about that. I have four more Eve sitting in my box, but they didn't seem as high a priority.

And I forgot that the ring is 25%. Yeah, that seems like a pretty good winner.
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Alright, that's kind of what I figured. I would like to point out, I have absolutely no 30% HP materia whatsoever. That's the main reason I'm looking at Love and Thirst for Survival, as those are both huge boons to my tanks.
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It's TMR Advice time again! I've got 100% in moogles saved up, and it's time to figure out what to use them on. Right now the name of the game is Defensive TMRs, as I'm in very bad shape on those.

Of my 5* options I have

Love
Ring of Lucii
Japa Mala

Japa Mala seems more like a hybrid TMR that's great for units in general, but not strictly necessary. Same with Ring of the Lucii. Love is my clear favorite, as HP/MP are desperately needed for tanks, but I don't know if it's outdated at this point.

4* options that I'll either never farm or are still really good are

Patriotic Recall
Thirst for Survival
Jake's Pirate Ring

I'm actually farming up two Patriotic Recall right now (not sure if combining is a good idea), but I have a third Rassler, and they seem pretty popular. It's also going to be a long while before I farm those two up. I've only got one Crowe, so again, farming that would be difficult. I've got two Pirate Jake, but it's such a good TMR that there's no way I'm combining them.

At this point, I'm thinking Love, Thirst for Survival, and the Pirate Ring are the biggest contenders, with Love and Thirst tied for my first choice. It really comes down to if SPR or MP is more useful, and while I know everyone leans SPR, my tanks constantly struggle with MP costs unless I have a battery.
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RaidenZeroX posted...

She'd have it a lot easier if she would given her other unit choices though, since A2s aren't common anymore.

That's why I'm really worried about GLSakura, even though I absolutely adore her. I know she's going to drop off in usage no matter what I do, and unlike any of my other chainers I won't get another chance until next year, and even then she'll be horribly outdated. I doubt enhancements are going to bring her up to 7* level. So I'll enjoy her as long as I can, and since I seem to have a lot of luck getting units that are going to be very popular post enhancement, I'll just enjoy the trends as they show up on my friend list.

And probably still keep goth loli up for as long as I can because I seriously doubt anyone needs any of the units I have to offer. Half the reason I didn't slap my Noctis up was because everyone and their mother had one; I'd rather make sure people had a GLS available, especially since people are still running Bloody Moon. I'd like to imagine that mine helped someone out there, makes me feel better about not yet beating it myself. Need to see if I can get Charlotte up to a reasonable HP level.
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crazygamer999 posted...

Trade you my Glad for an orlandeau

If it wasn't for the 7* and super TMRs, I probably would.

It's kind of weird, I was so excited to pull the first one, but he just got boring so quickly. He's not nearly as much fun to use as GLSakura, and outside of chaining, is actually a pretty dull and useless unit. No utility outside of breaks that don't go as far as they used to.

Oh well. Three of him is still better than this Duke that's going to be rotting away in my box. Most he'll ever get is a 100% moogle shoved down his throat for Aileen.
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So with a 10+1, a 4* Ex, a 4*, and 39 regular tickets, I got

Olif X2
Orlandeau #3
Duke

And of course a ton of golds I won't use.

Edit: And actually, I just realized I got every on-banner unit except Mystea. I am somehow not surprised.
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Yeah, not sure how I feel about the rest of this banner. They units look really cool for the most part, but two 4* and two 3*? Sounds like a recipe for a lot of junk pulls.
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Does your setup use everyone to attack? Mine only has two people attacking at all, and so I can make sure that they're the ones on the team with the fastest attack animations.

And 10+1 was a bust for me as well. Gaffgarion and Seven dupes for golds, and a whole lotta blue.
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RaidenZeroX posted...

That makes people trying to make "arena cancer" teams even more puzzling.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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RaidenZeroX posted...

How far along are they? With an average of 2.5% per day that's 40 days per TMR (without combining units)

Less than 1% each. I mean it when I said I just started them. Without refreshing, I'm not guaranteed that 2.5% a day. I'm not always able to sit there and tap my phone for farming, and I don't have a good enough computer to run an emulator for Macroing. Hell I've had a couple of L&A in my TMR party for the last several months and they're still not close to done.
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RaidenZeroX posted...

Just finished Patriotic Recall #5, and I had to convince myself not to start on number 6. Too many other TMRs to finish. I think I'm going overboard on support now after neglecting it for so long.

Trade you. The only support TMR I have at this point is Rikku's Pouch. I'm only just now starting on a couple of Patriotic Recalls, and it's going to take me a few weeks to farm them up with Switch controls since I don't refresh.
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I have no idea. EV isn't potted, but my WoL usually runs with around that and he is potted. I honestly have no idea how people get such high HP stats without gimping everything else.

Well I just raised up a Charlotte and enhanced everything except Immortal Spirit. Maybe her plus another tank will be able to get me through. I'm not frustrated because the trial itself is difficult; I know it is. What pisses me off is how so many people are claiming "It's easy if you have these units." Bullshit people, if it was easy then it wouldn't be a trial.
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So all that talk I had about EV possibly making Bloody Moon easier? Load of bollocks. 7.4k HP, 431 Def, 367 Spr, and he falls like paper compared to WoL. Tried two runs with 2X GLS, EV, Tilith, Zarg, one run with Soleil and one with Rikku.

The run with Soleil was better thanks to the buffs, but EV almost died in the first two rounds. He survived the Meteor Moon phase just barely, but the next set of normal attacks were doing over 700 per hit and he just couldn't take it. The second go around was worse; without Soleil buffing he got wrecked on the first turn, and I couldn't piece myself together after that.

Man, what the hell am I doing wrong?
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13 Ex Tickets, about 7 regulars (couldn't help it), and a 10+1, and my haul was an Onion Knight. Ah well, can't all have Raiden's luck. :D
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NNID/PSN: Servillo
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Seven EX tickets used so far and I got two golds, dupe VoE and a Cagnazzo. Saving everything else for after work. Probably just use my EX tickets and the bundle 10+1, not gonna use regular tickets since I really don't want anything from the current banner.
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Yup, did really good the second time around with Soleil instead of Zarg. MP is still a slight issue, but the first phase is survivable enough that I can use Grim Siphon to top off before I hit Phase 2. I was pretty stupid though and tripped a threshold on the same turn as the AoE hit, and the threshold was very mean and hit Rikku with a Snort. Which, y'know, if I had decided to play it safe and stall might've been survivable. Instead I decide to use my ST Dualcast Grim skill, tripped another threshold, and got Tilith Snorted. I lasted a lot longer than I thought I would have, but I still died.

Just need to be more careful with those thresholds, find a way to sustain MP a bit if needed in Phase 2 and I'm golden.

On an unrelated note, I just noticed that Dragon Killer+ requires two Dragon Killer materia. I'm currently at about 30% on my first one. Yeah, no longer in a rush to get all those rat tails farmed up.
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Well that went horribly. It took forever just to get through the first phase, and I got down to 62% in the second phase. Problems I had:

-Immediately upon hitting Phase 2, 2/3 of my party got killed thanks to the AoE Death, which immediately removed the debuff protection, which means most everyone got hit with a Spr Debuff.
-Zargabaath can just barely function as an MP battery, and can pretty much do nothing else. Unfortunately, he's literally the best MP battery I have.
-GLS has a hard time swapping between support and offense. If one has to use Sacrificial Barrier, the other is useless for that turn.
-WoL's breaks are hard to maintain when he keeps running out of MP, which again, Zarg can't really keep up with all that well.
-Tilith is spending so much time healing that I doubt I'll be able to use her to protect against status debuffs.
-Rikku exists solely for Hyper Mighty G, AoE Raise, and that's it. Taking two turns for Synthesis+Hyper Null All doesn't seem worth the effort. It's hard to know what to do with her.
-I am horrible at keeping track of turns that I need to be doing something.

Considering swapping out WoL for VoE so that he can provide some damage mitigation. Not sure what to do about how MP hungry GLS is, and my crappy MP regen in general. Not at all sure what to do about damage mitigation if I can't consistently apply it with Rikku and Zarg.

I still think it's doable, but I haven't actually had to struggle with a trial until now. I either had cheese friend units, or went into them so overpowered that the trial was a joke. My one attempt at Sheratan doesn't count because I was pretty damn certain I was going to lose badly, and I did even worse than I expected.
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I'd have preferred him over Pirate Jake. Jake is just another TMR to farm, and a unit I'll never use. I already have too many TMRs to farm, and I'll likely never get to him. iNichol would have been an amazing unit to have.
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