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If your Lightning teams are strong enough, why not. But it's absolutely not necessary to go in order against WOdin.

You have an additional empower Lightning for that fight compared to other elements, but that's not nearly as important as it was on previous magicites.

7/10

Better than most Zelda games, but that's really not high praise. Story is not that series strength.

The much stronger damage on Odin more than makes up for the loss in stats.

I'm really not sure why, but Tidus was doing absolutely awful damage, to the point where I thought I had the wrong RM equipped.
Sure, Rikku had her Hero Artifact, but when friggin Rikku does more damage than Tidus, something's fishy.

Paine Sync as the lone cap break to get through phase 1, while everyone else just builds gauge.

Paine AASB, Yuna AASB1, Tidus AASB1 and Rikku AASB got me through phase 2 and around 5% HP left when the second chain ran out.
So I cast the final chain and finished him off.

Paine AASB for guaranteed w-cast HA and the overstrike chase on Tidus AASB made sure even 7 hits to break King's Rage wasn't a problem.

I'm kinda tempted by the FFIX banner.

Kuja would be a big miss, but most other relic could potentially be useful for elemental content.

What's mostly stopping me is that I already sub-30'd IX Bahamut, so it kinda feels like a waste to pull on IX. Feels like there have to be better upcoming banners to help my weaker elements.

Congrats!

Where are you guys getting harder difficulty levels for labyrinths from? The only thing I know of, are actually lower difficulty fights

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/114492-final-fantasy-record-keeper/79652436
(Post 2)

Says they're adding D580, while the current fights are D650. D580 is Dreambreaker-level btw.

1/10 Snow Sync - a nice end to these free draws

Total haul:

"Useful" 6*s (being pretty generous with the word useful)
Balthier Realm CSB
CoD AOSB
Vivi AASB2
Ignis AASB1

7*s
Shadow Sync dupe
Firion LBO
Snow Sync1

Not a great haul, but considering it's free, I can't complain.

2/10: Ignis AASB and Firion LBO
Nice, finally a good pull after so many days.

Got Locke Glint and Gabranth CSB dupe
This mini fest has been such a disappointment

1st draw: 6/10!!! : Ovelia LMR, Tifa USB (dupe), Thancred BUSB, Vivi AASB2, Aphmau AASB dupe (3/15), Aerith AASB dupe (3/15)
2nd draw: Krile LMR, Balthier Realm CSB
3rd draw: Genesis Glint, Curilla USB dupe, Arc realm CSB dupe
4th draw: Noel LMR, Morrow USB, CoD AOSB
5th draw: Dr Mog Glint+
6th draw: Snow Glint dupe, Rubicante Glint+

Not much that will be all that useful.

Nice pull. Alphi with Sync and AASB is a very competent wind mage.

I keep pulling garbage on this banner. Desch AASB is still my only non-lenseable new relic.

Magicite passives stack multiplicatively with everything else.

Empower 15
3 empowers = +27%
4 empowers = +29%

If 1 Empower 18 is possible (right now only Water and Fire)
3 empowers = +30%
4 empowers = +32%

If 2 Empower 18 are possible (sometime in the future)
3 empowers = +30%
4 empowers = +33%

The 4th empower really doesn't do much, but the question is what else you want to put there. Not to mention, that 2% can be the difference between breaking savage mode or not breaking it, which snowballs your damage output.

The issue with magicite decks is that nobody agrees about what's best anymore.

I currently have
- double Wards on Odin
- double empower on offensive 6*
- HP Boon and Healing boon on defensive 6*

I like it, but I think double empower might be a bit of a waste with Odin Seals and 6* blessings also around.

I also just do crystal dungeons, but I agree that it feels like a waste with a stockpile of 2000+ per crystal.

Get his HA and his chain.
There, your magic water team is now 50% better.

2/10 Both BSB dupes, at least it's some lvl. 2 lenses

I also did a pull because it's a great banner.

3/11: Meia Glint+, Meia AASB2, Meia Dyad
I would have liked her Sync or Tidus Sync more, but I can't complain about that.

Got all the fest missions done.
The only new, non-lenseable relic I got from my tickets, including the login and realm ticket, was a Desch AASB, and I had none of his useable relics before.
Maybe the remaing daily logins will be something more useful.

1/10 Noctis AOSB1 - new, but basically worthless

I figured it was easier to redo a Bahamut I already vleared, than trying to beat a new one. So I wwnt back to FFVII Bahamut and got a fairly easy sub-30.

3/10 all dupes Rufus LMR, Vincent CSB, Wol AOSB (3/10)
I used my ticket on Core and got Tyro's Sync

Free Sync was Fujin, so that's great. It has extra BDL on its cmd 2, I love those kinds of syncs.

Too bad that I've already beaten VIII Bahamut and Sandworm, but I think there's already another wind-weak lab boss in JP, so there's something to look forward to.

I won't try for a day 1 clear, but I feel like both should be doable.

Magic
Strago - Sync+AASB
Onion Knight - Sync, AASB, Dyad
Gogo - I will lens his AASB and Chain if I don't randomly pick them up somewhere
Cait Sith
Mog

Physical
Lion - Dyad, Sync, AASB
Paine - Sync, AASB, Chain
Rikku - CSB, AASB
Tyro (Dyad, AASB) or Orran (AASB, Sync)
Elarra

I don't really like Rikku there, since her damage is underwhelming, Lion should already provide sufficient imperil, and even chain duty could be covered by Paine. However, I think Paine would rather be a dps than chain, so I don't really see an alternative.
Besides, my next best character is Tidus with AASB+Dyad, which isn't enough power for fights like this. Or possibly Bartz with a bunch of stuff, but without dedicated water SBs.

Congrats on the Ifrit kill.

Ramuh was really bad on release, because his damage output was through the roof, and he punished you hard if you didn't have empowered infusion at a time where Syncs really weren't common. Powercreep probably caught up to him more than any other 6* magicite.

Absolutely agree on physical supports just not being on the same level as mage supports. I think the best is probably Quina with its Sync and preferably AASB for 30 seconds of QC, and Elarra with USB2/Sync2. I don't have Quina Sync, so I can't really test it, but that seems like it should work best

Omg, finally! After a full weekend of suffering, this bastard is done. Burn in hell, you fucking asshole.

The first difficulty was figuring out how to survive until the dispel without using an Elarra SB, so I could counter the dispel with her AASB. The solution was actually having Elarra defend on her turn 2. I still needed either a heal chase on Lili's turn 3 dance or a w-cast of Elarra's HA on turn 3, but that wasn't too unreasonable.

I used Lion Dyad and Prishe AASB to get through phase 1. This got me out of phase 1 just before the end. Lilisette AASB at around 20 seconds so it would last through phase 2.

Phase 2, I unleashed everything else I had:
- Lion Sync and AASB for the double cap-break, which also allowed breaking King's Rage in phase 3.
- Elarra Sync2 for the crit damage and USB1 when I needed it to remove some souls
- Lili cast the chain, sped everyone up thanks to her AASB, USB to remove 2 souls before Sphere Ray. She countered the phase 3 Fullbreak with her Sync.
- Prishe used her Sync, then spammed C1 until phase 3, where she used C2 instead
- Ayame went Glint into AASB, used Hailstorm once, then switched to Frost-touched Blade spam

I had ungodly w-cast luck this time, so I got him to ~1% on that second chain. He died shortly after, without needing a 3rd chain.

100 mythril:
4/11: Lili AASB dupe (5/15), Lion Sync dupe (3/5), Lili LBS, Lion Dyad
2/11: Prishe Sync, Lili Sync

That went very well. I actually feel this might be good enough for a Bahamut win now:

Prishe AASB, Sync, AOSB
Lion AASB, Sync, Dyad
Lilisette AASB, Sync, LBS
Ayame AASB, AOSB (clearly the weak link)
Elarra AASB, Sync1 or 2

Any other Bahamut, it wouldn't even be a question if that's good enough, but IX is so damn tanky.
I probably want to get Lilisette's and Prishe's HA, but I'm swimming in Sapphires anyway.

I might. I see little hope of beating XI Bahamut with my current tech (believe me, I tried), but I have 3 dupes on banner 1, which is a littly risky.

Unfortunately, banner 1 doesn't really help with the realm's biggest issue, which is Aphmau being dogshit. Crit-fix? Buffs? Last Stand? What are those?

You can try using an off-realm healer, but Lilisette is no Mog, as far as supports go.

I actually got a free AASB from today's daily draw. It was only Shelke, so I doubt this will be very useful any time soon, but that was still a nice surprise.

Physicap AASB: Ignis AASB2 (fullbreak counter)
Magic AASB: Barbariccia AASB

2 more tickets on IV
Ursula LMR, Rydia AASB2
2 different Porom LMRs (one of them s dupe), Ursula USB2 (looks like good utility), Pecil AOSB dupe (3/10)

3 new AASBs is very nice. That Rydia AASB2 might be just what I needed to finally take down that stupid IV Bahamut, as I should now finally have a reliable way of breaking King's Rage if I combine AASB1+AASB2.

All 3 tickets on IV, yet again
1/11 Ceodore AASB
1/11 Ursula AASB (that shit's already 5/15 just from realm tickets)
1/11 Cecil LMR (not a good one)

Well, at least Ceodore AASB is nice, since I have his holy chain, and he's now unquestionably the better pick over Ramza for the upcoming physical holy lab.

Faris BUSB has an Aegis counter on it, or you can just try to power through it. Your dps takes a hit during those 24 seconds, but if your wind team is good enough, you can still pull it off.

I just ignored the Aegis buff on all physical Odins. Physical wind sucks for having 2 of them, but even that can be overcome.

Pretty much garanteed the Bio labyrinth drops with a bio banner

Edit: Unless you mean the elemental ticket banners. No idea if the plan on adding bio to those, but I could see it.