Board 8 > Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 36: The Thunder God Returns...

(+) Yeah! (+)

I doubt they'll do that, but if they did it would be an amazing banner. I'd have to pull even though water is my best element and fire isn't too bad.
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FF7's up

1/3 Zack Burst dupe, ugh trash.

6 more banners and I still haven't gotten a disco from one of these.
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1/3 Tifa LMR
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MWC won't like this...

2/3

Zack LM
Cloud Ultima Blade BSB

Holy shit, man. Almost 3 years since launch and I FINALLY got my first Cloud relic!
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1/3 Organics. Literally the oldest item in the Realms on Parade pool in any realm. (Dupe)
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1/3 Tifa Legend Materia

Not a great Legend Materia but at least it's new and for a character I don't mind using once in a while (though only having her Dolphin Blow SSB doesn't help her use rate you gotta start somewhere)
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1/3 Vincent USB

figures, i finally get a USB from this and it's for like my least favorite character

also fire went from my easily my worst element to possibly one of my best in a hurry <_<
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1/3

Yuffie Legend Materia
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Boundless Nemesis rematch beaten, not too bad now thanks to the speed meta with Shelke, OK, Vaan and Selhpie USB. His speed and omni resistance is still a problem so Vaan's the man here.
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1/3

Yuffie BSB (dupe)
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I got a Cait Sith SSB. Apparently it's damage and a Critga... I didn't even know he had such a relic. Either way, It's complete garbage.
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1/3 Stardust Rod (dupe).
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FF6 is up.

1/3 Locke LM.

Not bad I guess, wish I had something better for him than his OSB but this is probably my best draw so far on these.
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BTW you can cheese Boundless Nemesis easily with Retaliate now. No SBs needed but it helps if you have some dives that give instant cast (Shelke, Lightning, Luneth, Zack, etc) and a dive is pretty much required for Orlandu.

Basically you just need to use Demonsblood with Orlandu, then use RW Cloud USB on his second turn. Other characters should start with Zack Chain if you have it,otherwise a shout clone is fine, and Armor Breakdown / Full Break. Then have your other characters Orlandu him with multi-hit attacks (Thundering Quadstrike and Northern Cross are the two best one). It's pretty easy and gives half a million gil.
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1/3

Shadow USB

That's pretty good.
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1/3 Sabin BSB
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Ultimates mastered

Siren was tedious but easy, I used a fire mage team, though her resistance to fire was pretty high at first when goes undead she ate a flurry of 9999 multihit fire spells. Just remember to bring Ultra Cure in case she lands one of her status effects.

Bahamut CM wasn't too bad, but it was probably because I can bring Faris and have her USB2 and dances to mitigate his damage, as well as give him a wind weakness. Bartz tore him up with Snowspell strikes and chases, Dorgann had to use Assault Saber since Bahamut's immune to earth but Dorgann's chases are wind element so they hit him pretty good as well.

Primal Exdeath, bad memories of this guy when he was an U++ (but I was still relatively new, and this was the first U++ I aimed to beat) Thankfully he doesn't dispel counter physical attacks this time so I was free to use a physical team. Faris isn't much of a help here since when Exdeath dies he resurrects himself fresh from breaks. Bartz and Dorgann were the DPS, OK and Shelke were batteries and Relm was the healer. Entrusted Bartz right away to get him into his USB mode, then some to Dorgann to get him to do chases (he still hits two of the phases for weakness, especially the last one.) But I also had him bring Banishing Strike because the last phase used Protect+Shell+haste on himself, so I was a hit short on earthbringer. After that I started entrusting Relm to keep my party safe from all the aoe spells. Also when he dies in one phase he attacks when he revives, even between Bartz' multihit spellblades and chases. This is probably the hardest Apoc+ since Proudclad in that FFXIII event.
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1/3 Locke BSB (the imperil one)
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1/3 Celes BSB (Dupe)

Overall barring some change in fortunes in the last 5 I'd call these a waste of mythril on the whole-- but I've had pretty bad luck.
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1/3 Sabin SSB. Meh, it's new and it's a stat bracer, so there's that.
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After a bad draw on VII, I return to being ridiculously lucky on these with my next 6*: Strago OSB
A nice Water+ armor, even if my water team is physical and would prefer one that's focused on Atk.
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Lopen posted...
Overall barring some change in fortunes in the last 5 I'd call these a waste of mythril on the whole-- but I've had pretty bad luck.

My first 25 mythril was a good value, but my second 25 (X-VI) was pretty much a waste. I got 3 dupes, one terrible LMR, and the only thing that wasn't a total waste is a stat boost for Tidus.
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1/3

Krile's Legend Materia, not bad, better mage armor with fire boost. Though Papalymo and Ace probably aren't going to be happy wearing a little girl's dress.
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2/3

Faris USB
Bartz OSB

Far and away my best day on these banners so far.
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1/3 Dorgan SSB

+wind sword at least. it's my first one, though i have a wind spear and two wind daggers.
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1/3

Gilgamesh USB

Well damn, 2nd USB in a row!
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1/3 - Krile BSB. Not a dupe, so that's a lot better than the last few, but still not super useful.
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1/3

Faris SSB

Oh well, something I didn't have for her. And another stat bracer.
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2/3
Lenna BSB and Krile SSB (dupe)
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1/3 Bartz Woken Water BSB

Maybe the best draw so far in terms of usefulness combined with actually liking the character.
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Catching up from IX to V

Freya BSB (dupe)
Kiros BSB
Zack BSB (dupe)
Sephiroth LM
Sabin LM
Faris USB

Faris making strong case to be my main dancer now
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X-Death BSB - meh
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Gathering all my Realms on Parade pulls in one post

Rapha BSB
Yda SSB
Sazh BSB
Basch OSB
Zeid SSB
Jecht BSB
Vivi SSB
Fujin OSB
Tifa LMR
Strago LMR
Faris USB
Bartz OSB

Mostly meh. Faris USB is probably the best thing there.
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Is it Pirate Princess or the other one?
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Girugamesh posted...

Faris USB
Bartz OSB

Two 6* in one pull? Nice!
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Fest banners are out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/85s7k1/fest_banners_via_enlir/
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Darn was really hoping Rikku USB would replace something on banner 1, or that they'd mix the pairings up a bit and Yuffie would not be paired with Terra but one of the other elements.

Oh well.
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Banner 2 replaces Snow's chain with Rinoa's which is huge. I need ice help and Rinoa is way better since she actually has ice abilities.
Definitely going to have to pull there.

Banner 3 is improved over JP for most people since it has Orlandu USB replacing Machina USB. That's a dupe for me though. I still can't beat Ixion and I really would like Chicken Knife so I'd like to pull here, but banner 4 and 5 also look awesome. Banner 5 probably won't get any of my mythril because my water is already great and my fire is good enough to beat Isgebind.
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Lopen posted...

Darn was really hoping Rikku USB would replace something on banner 1, or that they'd mix the pairings up a bit and Yuffie would not be paired with Terra but one of the other elements.

Oh well.

KH relics are never coming back unless they do another collab event (KH3). Seems like it's a contractual issue.

Edit: oops, I'm dumb. I want Rikku's USB too heh
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Drop the k and back away.
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man that kinda makes me regret most of my recent pulls even though i actually got what i wanted from them. literally my only dupe on banner 3 is Orlandu's USB, so that would have been a better place to be searching for it. and banner 1 with two much-needed healing USBs, but now it has a bunch of dupes for me and i have no mythril.

no Vivi as expected so i don't regret that at least
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Anyway yeah fest is mostly skip for me with all that in mind. The reps for the elements are kinda zzz to me so I'll just hold for realm banners that better suit my purposes. I will probably give banner 5 a draw or two because Yuffie doesn't get a banner for a really long time but man I really don't want to with all those Terra landmines there. I'll have to think about it.
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I will probably go for the ICE USB because I am weak in that range but I am ticked because what I really need is some healing BSBs and there are none.
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Kaxon posted...

Banner 2 replaces Snow's chain with Rinoa's which is huge. I need ice help and Rinoa is way better since she actually has ice abilities.

We're getting an ice monk ability as a login bonus soon so Snow can finally contribute without a BSB. Banner 2 is worse for me since I have Rinoa's chain and BSB2 already. Still probably the one I'll pull on since I still don't have Lightning's USB or Squall's BSB2.

I didn't get any ice boost relics from the FFV banner so getting Squall AOSB or LM would be dandy.
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Lopen posted...

Is it Pirate Princess or the other one?

Unfortunately it's the other one, which I'm guessing is the inferior one.
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SSJSephirothGokuX123 posted...

I didn't get any ice boost relics from the FFV banner so getting Squall AOSB or LM would be dandy.

Squall LM isn't an ice boost. i think the glint is.
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Personally these banners seem pretty amazing to me, especially 2, 4, and 5.

I guess I'm probably skipping 3 because only two of the top prizes appeal to me - the OSB isn't at the same level as all the other 6*, Orlandu USB is a dupe for me, and I'm already invested in Ramza so Onion pUSB doesn't help much. I would love to have Chicken Knife or the earth chain but the odds are too low compared to the other banners. I'm skipping 1 too because I already have a complete Ramza so I don't want to chase other support relics.

I'll definitely be pulling on 2 and 4, and if I have any mythril left (I probably won't), 5. I wish I had a lot more mythril than I do right now.
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Faris USB1 is still decent till you hit magicite and other bosses that are 80% resistant to breaks, though at that point Faris is really only viable as an entrust bot (and other characters do it a lot better) The USB2 is better because of the wind imperil, but not by that much.

Xuxon posted...

Squall LM isn't an ice boost. i think the glint is.

My bad, at least the glint is still an ice boosting armor. Pondering about it I think Banner 2 is the only one I'll be doing 11 pulls on since my ice and lightning stuff isn't close enough to sub30 Kraken and Tiamat, too many dupes on 1 (I do want those LM though), 3 is hit and miss and I already have Bartz and OK USB, only want Zack's USB and Lunneth's stuff on 4 and I think I'm close enough to sub30ing Midgarsomer anyway, Yuffie's USB, Terra's AOSB and Krile's chain would be nice but I already have 6 relics on this banner. I think I'd rather do another pull on FFV1 than most of these banners.
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Half off realm dungeons? Time to finally catch up a bit, and get some mythril too! Will look at those banners when I get home from work.
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1/3 FINALLY A DISCO

Edge USB! Not too bad!
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