Board 8 > Tales of Crestoria Topic 3 - Grinding for Hemp

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So looks like Phillia is the only SR I'm still missing.

Which...is a real shame, because I really want her for lightning offense and the infinite poison loop.

I'm pulling twice on tomorrow's banner, so fingers crossed!

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I have 0 Gleamstones. Its very sad

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joins VH+ Pyro at 5/20 participants kinda early

... by the time boss at 50% I'm 2nd place with ~20k contrib.... 17 participants now...... this can't be good

not much later I bounce to 30k, take the 1st place spot, 19/10 participants oh no this boss ain't dying

now 21/20 participants, boss left broken at ~8% health.... I don't think anyone can fight anymore sigh

Grim: 40k
#2: 29k
#3: 18k
#4: 17k
#5-14: <15k
#15-20: <10k

dammit jerks retire and let people who can actually fight this join augh

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If it opens back up I'll try, lol. It's not showing because it's full, I assume.

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by the time I left it was also 3 minutes left so :|

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is it recommended to try and get 3 of each stone? I feel like I'll be lucky if I get one of the SSRs, let alone 3

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_stingers_ posted...

is it recommended to try and get 3 of each stone? I feel like I'll be lucky if I get one of the SSRs, let alone 3

Optimally you'll want 5, but you want as many dupes as you can manage to get over the next few days, yes.

Remember that everything event related you do will give you points towards the two copies of each from the event rewards, too.

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Zigzagoon posted...

I have 0 Gleamstones. Its very sad

Yeah every time I get 2500 I spend them. I should probably stockpile for an event but I really want more than 3 SSRs so I'll probably be poor for awhile

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I think their servers are taking a beating. I've had an absurd number of disconnects and crashes tonight.

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Pulling that coveted "100,000 gold" from the friend point summon for the first time was very satisfying.

the 100,000 or the truly coveted 1,000,000 tho

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Sup whoever Grimlyn is. Just joined your raid and sent out a wide request for help. Gondor calls for aid.

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Update: My aid might not have been worth much because the game recently crashed and I forgot that when starting the game it resets to Team 1 instead of the last team you chose, so I picked a suboptimal one. Still did as much as I could before getting blasted!

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_stingers_ posted...

Yeah every time I get 2500 I spend them. I should probably stockpile for an event but I really want more than 3 SSRs so I'll probably be poor for awhile

Well depends on how you look at it. Right now is the easiest point in the game it will ever be to get dupes. The pool will continue to grow.

The issue is whether this falls into the Dokkan Battle trap of making older units obsolete by making new units way stronger and scalling the PVE content to match.

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sig hint!

another request sent, but phew looks like the first batch is averaging around 20k, and then a 75ker

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Well depends on how you look at it. Right now is the easiest point in the game it will ever be to get dupes. The pool will continue to grow.

The issue is whether this falls into the Dokkan Battle trap of making older units obsolete by making new units way stronger and scalling the PVE content to match.

Isn't this basically what every gacha does? I'm expecting this to happen, and also expecting to bow out the moment using Velvet and Lloyd without whaling becomes unworkable. Take your bets on whether that or the English version getting canned happens first.

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Woo beat Floor 25 on 2nd try. Using Sorey's Wildfire to take out the other ghost friend before moving onto the boss was def the better strat.

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Man does this group really have to be all Earth? My fire squad is so underleveled and not ready =/

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Okay yeah there's no way I'm beating this without at least 2 good fire units -_-

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Zigzagoon posted...

Man does this group really have to be all Earth? My fire squad is so underleveled and not ready =/

In case you missed it before, good tip is that Misella ONLY heals Kanata, and she does so every chance she gets, even if he's full health.

Focus down Vicious and Aegis entirely, then deal with Misella, then Kanata.

If you're hurting for fire types, Arche and Presea are def the best SRs.

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It's not that I'm hurting for fire types. In fact I have 4 SSR fires.

None of them are trained though because none of them interest me :S

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I should probably be diversifying my character portfolio but that would involve using characters I don't care about or like. You couldn't pay me to build up a Sorey when grinding out materials for my core cast already takes a million years.

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Does burn just not work on units in the tower? I've tried to burn them with a 30% chance about 20 times now and haven't had it happen once.

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Zigzagoon posted...

Does burn just not work on units in the tower? I've tried to burn them with a 30% chance about 20 times now and haven't had it happen once.

Correct. If you hold over their portrait it will list their immunities.

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I don't like that

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bye pyro

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Managed to finish one last raid (that I created, no less) in the last 30 seconds of the time limit. Cool stuff.

I've been afk raiding pretty much all day so I'm set for a while on crystals. Getting ascension materials for each character's element type is going to be the next step...although I should probably work on ascending my Level 80s first.

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Wonder if I'll stay up long enough to pull the banner.

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woop I entered that raid but with like 2 minutes left I didn't think it'd make it so I didn't check back

oh wait maybe it'll still be waiting for me to check after maintenance, results always did say 2 days

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I was in the middle of attempting Floor 26

:S

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Forest Raid has been extended to the 18th, so no rush Stingers!

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The other summer units are in the pool like they are normal units. So at a glance it looks like they are not limited.

Did 1 pull. Got Summer Yuri. Should have stopped there. Did 3 more pulls and got no more SSRs including a 1 SR pull

I do have enough QQ's to full awaken her now. Not sure whether to do that or to get the Memoria unlocked to 80 instead.

Didn't pull anything of note :/

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Holy shit I just beat Floor 27 with literally 1 HP on Sorey and everyone else dead. What a finish.

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Two pulls got Summer Yuri and my first Velvet.

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ShatteredElysium posted...

Did 1 pull. Got Summer Yuri. Should have stopped there. Did 3 more pulls and got no more SSRs including a 1 SR pull

I do have enough QQ's to full awaken her now. Not sure whether to do that or to get the Memoria unlocked to 80 instead.

Tripling down on this was probably not the smartest idea. Did 3 more pulls. First 2 were 1 SR pulls and last one got me Summer Rutee.

So 7 pulls total for 2 SSRs but they were at least the summer units.

Also big oof. I ascended the R Saleh to 80 and leveled it up to max which cost like 170k. I go to put it on Velvet and... it's not as good as her SSR 50 Memoria. It has slightly more attack but is a huge loss of defense and a slight loss of HP. Velvet's having adornments into is probably a large factor in this. Ugh.

So it's hit and miss whether a fully ascended R outdoes an SSR 50. I guess at least it's a wind longsword Memoria so slots easily into the grid for wind focus

Edit: Not a complete loss. I can put the 90 SR Reid on Velvet now and the Saleh on the subgrid without decimating the rest of the teams stats. Previously I would have had to replace it with a really bad Memoria to maintain 9

1st pull: Summer Rutee and a fair batch of SRs including two much welcomed sword-type dupes
2nd pull: .... 9 Rs and 1 guaranteed SR... Bruiser augh
3rd pull: Philia, Ruca, Lailah SRs...
4th pull: Caius, Ruca SRs...
5th pull: Caius, Arche, Elize SRs, Stahn dupe SSR

... I think I'll stop here... argh really want yuri but yeah boosted chances aren't even that great

btw yes indeed the previous Summer batch seems to remain in the pull contents, just no longer the boosted rate

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Forest Raid has been extended to the 18th, so no rush Stingers!

Life is good

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Oh hey I pulled Summer Rutee with my other half of the savings. Cool. Also got dupes of Asbel and Ludger.

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Half AP for power ups is here.

Time to finally get this Substone grid set! Gonna level up every single SR Memoria to 40 then go from there.

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I'm still looking for my first water or earth SSR. I have at least two of everything else now. Rutee is a little tempting to fulfill the role, but I think I'll hold off on spending more on the banner for now.

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Decided not to pull anynore on this banner, since once Yuna comes out that's gonna be a rate up for an Earth SSR.

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How do we know that Yuna is earth?

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Character Trailer shows her as Wind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3znCd7LrRc

1:15 gameplay

(opening is pretty spoilery i guess for her chapter)

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stingers im using your lloyd

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GuessMyUserName posted...

Character Trailer shows her as Wind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3znCd7LrRc

1:15 gameplay

(opening is pretty spoilery i guess for her chapter)

Oh, damn, I just assumed since everyone else was so color coded...

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What day is the weekly reset?

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Zigzagoon posted...

stingers im using your lloyd

:3 im glad he is useful for someone. i maxed him out early lol (lvl 60 only have pulled one dupe for an ascend), my ludger and jade are only 30, my cress is like 52 i think cuz I got an amazing success on 3 Large rainbow vials which was pretty damn lucky, he was like level 25 or some shit before lol

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