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I uninstalled the game on the day of EoS.
As much as it had been a daily routine for more than 2700 days, I'm not really having any withdrawal syndroms.

I guess that last month of complete content drought allowed me to slowly get used to not playing anymore. So when DeNA pulled the plug, I had already gotten used to a life without FFRK.

Congrats. Those are some serious achievements.

After 200 mythril I got Barret's AASB2. I guess that means I now at least have a theoretical chance.

I will mostly pull on banner 2 for that Barret AASB2. I think any remaining mythril will go to banner 1, to hopefully get Aerith AASB2 or her DAASB.

Congrats on the sub-30's

I got Laguna's CSB in today's daily draw. Feels weird to just get a relic for free that I chased, without success, across multiple banners over the course of the game.

I know I could have lensed it, but I didn't really need it anymore, after getting Fran's CSB.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/8/1/AAKf6UAADirh.jpg

Final lab boss done. It's nice that they gave use Wait mode 2 for it right away.

The more of his souls you can destroy before his Teraflare, the higher the Pain level inflicted on BZ, and the lower the pain on your party. Every 4% of damage removes 1 soul, so if you can get him down from 50% to 30% before Teraflare, you get the full 10 pain on Bahamut (and 0 pain on yourself)

Phase 3 really is a major dps-check.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/0/AAKf6UAADglw.jpg

Magic BZ done. Strago with the DAASB+Sync combo is insane.

Did 2 pulls on the water banner:
3/11: Wakka LBC, Meia LBC, Tidus DAASB
2/11: Meia LBC (dupe), Strago DAASB

Great haul, though this really makes me wish I had that Tidus Sync 2.

Congrats on the BZ win and the Salamander sub-30.

Kaxon posted...

What do people think about the new Record's End focused draw vs the summer splash draw? I only did one summer splash pull... 33 relics and 2 guaranteed syncs is nice, but maybe the possibility of getting dual awakenings is better? But on the other hand you could just get 2 USBs.

I got Ingus's sync with today's ticket. Might have to think about using him for earth labyrinth fight.

You're not getting any USBs on the Record's End focused draw. They are typical 12-relic banners, and the 6*s are all AASBs. You can obviously still get dupes or relics that won't help you, though.

1/10 Aria USB (dupe)
2/10 Rinoa LMR (dupe), Gladio AOSB (dupe 3/10)
1/10 Serafie DAASB
4/10 Quina USB (dupe), Shantotto CSB (dupe), Cecil Sync1 (dupe 3/5), Yuffie Dyad
1/10 Garnet G+, Vaan Sync2

I also did 2 draws on the XIII-Core banner, mostly because Lightning DAASB seems like a relic I'd love to play with some before EoS:
3/11: Y'shtola AASB (dupe 3/15), Ramza Sync, Y'shtola Dyad
2/11: Tyro AASB2, Ramza AASB

It's funny how my Yuffie went from meh (only AASB) a month ago, to ridiculously stacked now, since I've pulled her DAASB, Sync and her Dyad from free draws in that time.

I just love that Choco/Mog. It never fails to make me smile.

As a little EoS-special, Record Sapphires (and other, lesser stuff) have been stealth-added to Fat Chocobo's Gysahl Shop. 10,000 Greens for 100 Sapphires.

Yes, best GTA protagonist.

Congrats on the Anima win.

No harm in honing Agrias AASB for the 2 uses, if you don't have her Sync, honestly. For FFT Bahamut she will also do very well, since the realm is so heavily focused on holy.

Agrias is amazing for imperils. Her AASB is lenseable, so she's certainly an option.

Agrias, Ceodore and "insert Holy dps with 2 bdl relics" should get the job done.

Congrats.

I haven't really found the motivation to even give Ultimecia a proper attempt.

Did 3 pulls on this banner:

1/11: Shantotto AASB2
2/11: Ayame G+, Shantotto LMR
4/11: Sephiroth LMR2, Ayame G+ (dupe), Shantotto DAASB

I really wanted to strengthen my Sephiroth for the final battle, but I think I'm gonna stop here. 7 relics total and only one of them has been a 7* relic; at least it's a pretty good one.

10 mythril from the fortune ticket.

Fest tickets:
1/10: Luneth AASB (dupe, 5/15)
2/10: Strago LBO, Yuffie DAASB

That second ticket was way better than I expected. Plus, fire B0 will actually be coming, so water relics have some value for the remaining few months.

2/11 - Serah LMR, Serah AASB
1/11 - Serah LMR (dupe)

Man, as lucky as I was during LotR, my fest pulls have been complete ass.

Fest ticket
1/10 Kelger AOSB (dupe, 7/10)

Daily - meme'd
3/10 - no SB relic (dupe), Josef self-KO SB, OK LMR (dupe)

Realm ticket on VII
2/11 - Rufus AASB (dupe, 3/15), Reno LBO

I've had the AASB1 for ages, and got the G+ last fest, so Quina is only missing AASB2.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/5/AAKf6UAADaDP.jpg

And another sub-30. Part of it is certainly the lack of that annoying 5 second wall, but that new Quina Sync really is a game-changing relic for my physical teams.

Thanks

I got a sub-30 win against magic Silver Dragon on my very first attempt. Makes me wish we got ice-weak Bahamut ZERO.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/6/1/AAKf6UAADZ0B.jpg

And best of all, after spending a total of roughly 40 tickets on the FFIX realm banner, with this ticket I finally picked up that damn elusive Quina Sync.

I got Fang's Dyad and Auron's Dyad. The latter hurts, because Auron's HA1 is Overstrike and we'll never get his 6-hit HA2.

I got an easy sub-30 against the D600 fight, despite not having enough gauge with Mog to counter the second FB.

I don't think I have quite enough to handle the D700 fight, but I want to give it a serious try regardless.

I appreciate the 10 daily draw until EoS. Those were always fun, even if largely pointless (even more so, now).

Under normal circumstances, I'd also be excited about the increased drop rate of perfect passives in labs, but I doubt I'll do any manual runs anymore.

Seems like we are getting Ultimecia tomorrow after maintenance. Can't say I expected that.

The last few LotR pulls have all been bad, but that really doesn't matter anymore.

Man, it really sucks they are shutting down the gloabal servers. The game had a fun run over 7 years.

I agree that the game was currently very much on autopilot, since Nexus bosses are too uncommon and not hard enough for current relics, but I was actually looking forward to Bahamut Zero and the final bosses in the Crystal dungeon.

I don't know where I'll go from here. Starting a JP account seems like such a tall task, I don't think I want to do that. I'm also playing Dokkan Battle, but that has its own problems of lacking meaningful content right now.

The en-element boost should be the same as the element they infuse with. If Vivi's says earth, that's probably a typo.

That said, I'm not sure I fully understand them either. They give w-cast without consuming hones... which is apparently completely different from AASB which give w-cast and infinite uses. They don't seem all that great in a vacuum, but should be very strong when combo'd with DAASB or AASBs, since their w-cast apparently stacks with awakening modes.

Yeah, that's what I thought when I read its description. Up to 6 imperil Dark is definitely nice.

Man, sucks getting that many dupes on LotR.

Since my last LotR post, I got:
XIII: Vanille Sync2
XII: Ashe LMR (dupe)
XI: Shantotto CSB2.5 (dupe)
X: Seymour Sync

Heracross

Heracross
Mewtwo

Y'shtola with her BUSB is perfectly fine for healing against XIV Bahamut. Her with the usual Mog for support works great. Use Holyja for more SB gauge building.

If possible, run a mage team to take full advantage of the magic quick cast 3. It helps that there's no shortage of mages in that realm, between Papalymo, Alphinaud, Ysayle and Alisaie

Speaking of XIV, my LotR pulls are absolute fire this time:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/5/AAKf6UAADW3p.jpg

Cyndaquil
Cubone

Krokorok
Megazard

Congrats

I pulled on the Turks banner because of the 25 mythril discount:
3/11: Reno LMR+, Reno Glint+, Elena DAASB

Considering I didn't have a single BDL relic for the Turks prior to this, I really should have skipped, but this isn't a bad outcome

I had 0 Trey relics before this pull, so he's not going to be immediately useful, but knowing his AASB comes to the lens shop, he can certainly be useful in the future.

LordoftheMorons posted...

Congrats! Crazy that the arguably easiest one was your final sub-30...!

Anyway, decided to pull on T-0 LotR even though I dont actually need T-0 tech, and

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/5/AAC7eiAADWHX.jpg

Congrats on the Trey jackpot.

*pulls on T-0*
Ok, what the fuck are the odds?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/2/8/AAKf6UAADWJI.jpg

Maybe I could have done C/B Bahamut earlier with a different party, but I'm using Dr Mog and Tyro as dps... that should tell you something about the quality of my offensive C/B relics.

Heracross
Scyther

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/4/AAKf6UAADWDc.jpg
As expected, Wedge Sync allowed me to get the final sub-30 Bahamut.

Picked up Wedge's Sync from the Core/Beyond LotR. That's probably going to allow me my final sub-30 Bahamut, so that was great.

LotR has been datamined, this fest just seems to be significantly later than usual.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/6/AAKf6UAADU1C.jpg

Got the win on my very first attempt.
I lensed Vivi's AASB and got his Fire HA, but I had been wanting to do that for a while anyway.
The IX lab just gave me a good reason to finalky do it.
I mistimed Vivi's nuke-turn with the Sync (boss was in defensive stance), so that one did a very sad 8000 damage per hit.

My free Sync from the book was a dupe Kain Sync 2. I think I've actually duped all 3 of the recent books. I know the mage AASB was a dupe OK AASB, but I don't quite remember what I got from the physical draw.

I think when we get the harder job dungeons, SBs do count towards the chain bonus.

However, they come with a whole array of new BS, notably:
- a penalty for using more than 1 off-job character
- a much worse RW chain
- a new unique debuff on phase change
- damage penalty for en-element lvl.1 and 0. (Not sure off-hand if they have elemental diffusion)

My first Zelda game was Link's Awakening. Does that count? I can't think of anything else that even remotely qualifies.

I did a pull on the FFX because the non-Kimahri characters on this banner are all great for me.

3/11: Yuna AASB, Rikku Sync, Kimahri DAASB
Very happy with that. It's literally the only DAASB I didn't really want, but the other 2 relics will be useful, and if I had to get a Kimahri relic, I'm glad it's the best one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/4/6/AAKf6UAADRb2.jpg

Pretty easy win after I figured out the opening survival. To be fair, my Bio is probably way more stacked than most:
Marcus USB2+AASB
Kefka Dyad+Sync+AASB2
Quistis AASB1+AASB2+CSB+Doomtrain
That's 6 BDLs, which is kinda ridiculous for an element that's as rare as bio.

My two proudest moments were
1) Using Doomtrain to avoid the first elemental diffusion to keep damage high
and
2) Mog's Sync cmd1 followed by Kefka's Dyad finisher for 2039,999 + 99,999