Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius

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oooh go you with Shine's TMR!

Story missions are also half NRG so if you haven't completed the story so far nows a good time to go for it.

X and XII are both highly sought banners from what I hear. Rikku seems to be the character to go for, she has an auto revive limit burst aparrently and is supposed to be a brilliant support unit, Ashe is supposed to be a really good unit too, got 10,000 lapis myself saved I've pretty much given up on the notion I'm going to pull Tilith at this point.

The story trials were quite a nice little addition, it would have been cool if they'd added some dialog into them. The expeditions are quite fun, I agree they're definitely a good way to use characters that have fallen by the wayside.

Haha I told you it was easy enough to save Lapis, when you think about it, 50 a day for doing dailies, then 100 each time you complete a new story mission and then 100 every time you rank up and the lapis we get when it gets to a log in day, it's quite a good game for giving out lapis on a regular basis.


I don't think I'll be falling for the EX tickets either, if things are similar to the JP version of the game eventually we'll get summon banners just to pull 5* units on but for me, I prefer to stick with the normal banners.

 

[Sprites]

What do you think of the anniversary stuff?

I have to admit I bought the anniversary bundle, I think it was too good to pass up.

I think the raid summons aren't great in comparison to other raids but the rewards are nice and I'm really enjoying the vault of hidden treasures and my free pull every day, I finally got Rikku today, I think I wanted her more than Tidus, I have enough DPS chain units but Rikku is an amazing support unit so it's nice to finally pull her. and WOL got his 6* finally!!

 

[Ghost X]

I got Rikku... two of her actually :p. Shame one can't trade with friends, etc. Used up my 15,000 lapis in the hope of getting something good. Have yet to max her out so am curious how she can be used and is so highly ranked.

The anniversary thing is good, given the daily free stuff and vortex thing, yes. Did you discover the secret battle with King Mog? That battle is too hard for me. I also find the strange 1,000 max multi summon limit frustrating. Takes me over 6 minutes to open 26,000 points worth of chests. I timed it :p.

Got my first Shine TM and am over 2 thirds the way to getting the second. The adventurer ability of the expeditions you can craft gets you 40%+ for all stats iirc, so might look at TMing a unit that rewards me with powerful stat bonus armour next.

 

[Sprites]

That secret battle is way too hard for me too, they're fixing the raid points back to 5000, after this weeks maintenance, don't do any more summons until after.

OK let me fill you in why Rikku is so good, She's the top support unit in the game

She's able to revive all your units to 100% Hp.

Her limit burst also gives your entire party at max LB level a 74% DEF and SPR increase and around 50% if you don't max it and puts an auto revive on the team for 3 turns and they'll recover 80% of their HP. That mixed with having a 100% Limit burst increase passive means by the time it runs out you'll probably be ready to go again, so basically your team won't die.

She has an ability that gives her a 20% evasion and 30% chance to avoid being attacked so imagine putting Yda's TMR on her and Shines to boost her evasion even more.

She can chain elements with another character.

Her synthesis ability gives you 3 different abilities that give you the chance to to decrease all elemental damage by 40% and inflict status effects on enemies and do damage

She is able to also heal the team for 1000 HP plus cure poision silence and petrify, if you pop a dual wield on her she'll be able to do it twice as it's an ability.

She's a major must have for trials especially the ones that require strategy and not just a wipe out with high attack characters., she's a fantastic unit for support, once I level her I'm going to see if I can take down some of the trials I've had bother with, I've run out of cactuars right now to level her.

I got Shine's myself I had a ton of trust moogles saved so I gave them to her. I've got Leon's to 76% his gives you +30% ATK if you equip a sword and +20% ATK if you put on heavy armour so that gives you a 50% increase in ATK together and Sozhe's gives you +20% ATK and HP and MP refresh so they're next on my hit list.

The Adventure V ability is going to take a while to get BUT it's way more obtainable than that stupid Ring of Dominion. The explorations are a lot of fun to do, really enjoy them.

 

[Ghost X]

Got my second Shine TM, and am two 10%+ trust moogles away from Leon's TM. Tempted to do Maxwell's TM next or another Zidane, but I think I might instead save up, and think about it.

The thing about expeditions is they're quite expensive. Glad some of these recent events have been quite monetarily rewarding because I think I'm burning through quite a bit of cash. I probably got enough relics to get the first Adventurer ability (haven't checked recently). Gonna take a ton of money (+ items for increased success rates) to eventually get the Adventurer V one though .

 

[Sprites]

Adventure takes I think 3600 relics in total to make one if you include having to go through the crafting process for the rest of them. I'm on about 900 relics right now so I couild craft 1 and 2 if I wanted but I'll get more satisfaction doing them one after the other I think, I've noticed the explorations do burn a hole in the gil wallet.

The banners seemed a bit crammed right now, I'd love some of the Veritas but two 5* base characters on the banner...thats tough going,

 

[Ghost X]

Don't quite remember what my last 5* unit was that I got, but my very long 5* drought ends today! Just got Veritas of the Light from a mere summon ticket. Not sure if it is a particularly brilliant 5* (think I may have preferred getting the Nier banner's one), but I'll take it . Move set descriptions look exciting to me. I've also read that VotL becomes a lot better, if the Japanese version's enhancements make it to the global version in future. Took a few seconds for it to sink in that it was a rainbow coloured gem on my screen, and I got quite excited . Got three Veritas now: Earth, Light, and Heavens.

Haven't defeated any more vortex super bosses on their most difficult setting. Last success was Gilgamesh a few weeks back. Doesn't appear that I reported on this victory . The first three quarters of his life, he was piss easy, but always got stumped on the last quarter, but killed him now, so all is right in the world again . Seems a lot of planning and memorising move sets is required for the super bosses thereafter. I ain't got no time for that D:. Still lacking a strong chainer too.

A long way off Trust Mastering anything decent.

Ability awakening is ridiculously expensive. Have to wait like a month or however long it is for that weekend to come around where you kill the gil turtles to get a shit ton of money to try and survive off until the next such event . I think I can manage to rake upwards of 3,000,000 gil during said event. Good skills are like 1,000,000 to upgrade once. One must also factor in the expensive Expeditions. Argh, budgeting .

 

[Sprites]

Well, well lucky you!!! Veritas of Light is the best Hybrid unit after Fryevia, Hybrid damage is very underestimated, so a fab pull.

Did you get anything good on the Nier banner, there was a lot of controversy over that banner, I stuck to dailies only on it and got the raid rewards, I got a couple of 9s from daily pulls apparently the TM is supposed to be really useful

My next TM I'm going for is Blade Mastery, I've got Chizuru to 80%

congrats on your gilgamesh defeat, I recently managed to defeat the Dark Esper trial, Marie with her awakened abilities clinched it for me,

Awakening abilites are VERY expensive and it's hard to get all the crysts, I've not done many of them, I awoke my Marie's abilites to +1 she's one of my favourite units in the game as well. I'm tempted to awaken Soleil's abilites though, shes got some amazing buffs.

 

[Shademp]

Some FFVII event involving Sephiroth and the Shinra Manor is apparently happening from September 1 - 8.

- Source

 

[Joker]

I've never played or tried this game, butnhave be n wondering if I should give it a go. Can an yomr give a brief summary of what it's like?

 

[Ghost X]

@Sprites: I wanted 2B and A2 from the Nier banner, but got neither. Got a 9S though, and I wonder if those item bonus abilities (as is included with Pod 153) also work in the vortex levels (re: gems, and so on). Got 210 and Adam too, but they're pretty crap, I think .

Really want Onion Knight on the current banner as he apparently has the best sword and is a chainer, and is still one of the best in the Japanese version, apparently. The banner is average besides him though. I have 5000+ lapis, but not sure if I should waste, argh. Decisions .

@Omega: A time sink, if you wanna get anywhere with it. Might be ideal for playing on public transport if you use such often, or maybe play during a lunch break at work .

It's a freemium game, basically. You get a certain amount of energy (which increases as you level up), and in story mode you go from island to island doing a bunch of missions, and usually fetch and kill quests for people in towns. Story is fairly average in itself, but engaging enough, imo. There's other things to do in the game as well, like fighting teams from other players in an arena, there's also a weekly event with rare abilities and materials, and you basically try to level up your characters (there's generally new characters that come out every single week) so they can do the harder quests, and so on.

I wonder what joining the game would even be like now. If you do, I probably would save up every lapis you get, so you can try and pull good units with the 5,000 10+1 lapis thing. Might help you catch up faster. There's only so much you can do at the beginning, as you don't start with much energy (unless that 50+ energy bonus also applies to new people).

I don't have a frame of reference to really compare it to other mobile games accurately, since this is the only mobile game I have got, but I dare say it is one of the better ones out there?

 

[Sprites]

I saw that Sephiroth was making an appearance, although it'll be months and months away before we get him. I see you've got Ashe on the go right now, she chains nicely with my Ashe when I use her

I've enough chainers, so as much as I'd love Onion Knight to add to the collection, I've no desire to waste my Lapis on him, I'm saving it for a while, I heard the next banner to come up is going to be FFXV and that there's some decent units on it so I may go for that banner instead.

I've managed to catch the story up to Pharm, now. The story is really enjoyable now and

Spoiler

=if you haven't done all of Gronoa yet] as much as I want to hate the Veritas, I can't, Raegan showing up as the Frostlord when he was supposed to be Darklord was unexpected. I loved the character showdowns too that fight between Lasswell and Rain was fab!

Love the new MK event right now, it's a really nice chance to break out the mages for a while, they don't get as much use as they should, I got Dark Fina in my last 10+1 pull, so excited to have her, enhancements really ate into my gil but that Ultima+2 is totally worth it for this event to take Hein out quickly.

@Omega: yeah it's a freemuim gacha game. it's a brilliant time killer, there's a lot to do in it, it's story is decent, and as you go further into the story there's good character progression. Once you get used to the mechanics as well, it's really easy to understand who is a good damage dealer, mage, healer, tank, support unit etc.

I'd say not to worry about starting now especially with the amount of units available and you'd probably have a few good bonuses in there for joining the game and I imagine you'd have better luck at getting some good ones!

 

[Joker]

If I regret downloading this, I'm sending you two a bill.

 

[Sprites]

it's quite easy to play without having to spend anything I did spend a bit the first few months of playing but I realised that you don't need to spend I'm a free to play player now and I've had some really good luck with units, the Main story units will get you through the main story too!

The story and missions are quiet generous with Lapis (the main game currency) and the tickets during events and log ons are good too, every time you rank up you also get 100 Lapis and if you complete the dailies which are very easy to do you get 50 lapis a day.
Do yourself a favour though and don't get fooled by the bundles the game gives, they're not worth it, there's only been a couple that have actually been worth buying in the past.

The game is pretty generous in what it gives out though, On the last set of story run I had to catch up with two chapters, I gained the best part of 5K lapis from just doing the story missions so you do get a lot from them.

when you start playing let us know what your team is I'm pretty sure Ghost and I can give you some pointers.

 

[Joker]

Mkay so I literally just started last night. I burned through my 5 summon tickets because fuck it and I got huh huh

Bart
Refia
Abel
Cyan
Helena

and someone called Ludmille, who I can only assume is scripted.

 

[Ghost X]

- Bartz is probably pretty good as a starter. Has DoubleHand TM also, which I guess is good for powerful units who have weapons that can't be used in both hands?
- Refia is a pretty good healer, iirc, not the best in the game currently though. She'll come in handy for you at the beginning, although doesn't have a revive spell until you level her up all the way. Has a TM with a decent 30% SPR boost, but I haven't needed anything like that yet.
- I don't have much of an opinion of Abel. Got him, but don't use him. Has Bowie Knife as a TM, which allows Dual wield. Might wanna save up moogles for it, but wouldn't spend them. You might get a Zidane who has dual wield ability without a weapon attached after all .
- Cyan is one of the shittiest characters in this game, but probably doesn't matter much in the early game . Has evade for TM, which is pretty shit .
- Not familiar with Helena, probably not too fantastic. Her TM ain't anything special.
- I have Ludmille, but don't use them. Probably average, but they have dualcast as a TM, though if your magic units don't have that by default, I probably wouldn't be wasting moogles getting that TM.

 

[Joker]

...what's a tm?

 

[Ghost X]

Trust Master. Googling it would be quicker for both of us .

 

[Joker]

cba

 

[Sprites]

so trust masters are abilities or weapons you get as you use once you get them to 100% your characters you have a 0.1% chance of their TM increasing as you use them in battle. There are also Trust Moogles that give your % a boost, which you can collect over events and during log ins they show up too.

Bart - A really good starter, he specialises in a lot of Hybrid attacks I would focus on keeping his attack boosted.

Refia-That is a fantastic healer to have She's my main Healer right now, get her levelled ASAP, she has an ability which raises your Attack, and defence for like 5 turns and it really helps, shes a fantastic healer, you'll go a long way with her

Abel-Decent Trust Master ability and he has some good status attacks but

Cyan-Not great if I'm honest

Helena: good support unit for a starter, can help with healing status effects and reviving party members which would leave you with a Free turn for Refia to cure in battle.

Ludmille she's a red mage so learns black and white magic, however as you have refia, I would focus on building Ludmille's magic stats she learns, Fira, Thundara and Stonga so focus on using her as your main mage.

I would suggest you build a party using Rain as your main tank, Lasswell and Bartz as your main attackers, Refia as your healer, Helena as a support unit. Also take part in the Mog King event it's only on for still today and tomorrow but you will be able to gather some items to get your characters awakened to their next level.

Also add me, I've currently Dark Fina as a leader and also use Orlandeau, D.fina is one of the best mages and Orlandeau is one of the best attackers in the current game, they'll help carry you through a lot of the story and Dark Fina should be able to one shot the Mog King event for you up to Pro if you use Ultima or Dual cast it.
My friend Code is 5932,912,124
Friend usage refreshes every three hours.

There's a raid happening in the next couple of days that's really going to help with getting some characters and items.

Set your system to friend points to receive gifts, every time you go to battle you'll get 5-10 friend points and build them up you can summon a few other characters that aren't very good in battle but you can send to help you on expeditions to gather up some items and relics and get some helpful starter TMs.

I would suggest once you've banked about 6000 Lapis to do a 10+1 pull, don't do them all the time but you'll more than likely get some more new units which will help as a beginner.

Some hints and tips:
Save up your Lapis towards summoning, don't use them to refill energy or continue if you lose.
Log in daily to get the daily log in reward and complete the daily quests to get 50 lapis a day.
Not all banners are good. The FF3 one is good at the moment, the developer choice one not so much, don't bother with the Rare summon banner.

Awaken your units once they hit max level, if you go to the vortex, you can access the chamber of awakening which will give you some materials if you need, but the main story drops quite a lot.

Gil is only useful for buying equipment in the beginning, but I would save as much as possibly for enhancing and awakening your units and going on expeditions later in the game.

DO NOT merge different units together, you can merge the same units to build their Trust up I would always keep one of each unit but don;t merge different ones together just for experience.

 

[Ghost X]

Took me a while, but I finally worked out how to consistently kill the Shadow Lord on ELT in this week's event. I block while Shadow Lord's DEF is high, and then kick his ass in a matter of turns when in it is low.

Ling: prioritising ATK/MAG debuff, then AOE esuna, and DEF/SPR debuff.
Minfilia: Dark element DEF/SPR buffing, esuna-ing essential characters, and her uber-strong ATK buff.
Y'shtola: Double cast Curaga, esuna-ing essential characters, Raise if necessary.
Veritas of the Light: Demolition and Saint Buster, chained with the characters below. Diabolos's relevant ATK bonuses. Demon-killer ability equipped. ATK: 570, MAG: 359 <-- VotL surprisingly does most of the damage with what seems to be puny stats .
Agrias: Using full break if Ling is out unable to debuff, and chaining DW. Man-eater ability equipped. ATK: 584.
Orlandeau (companion): Using Crush Weapon if no one else can debuff, and DW. ATK: 800-1000+. Diabolos esper preferred, as it would make the job much easier, but who knows what my companions' logic / intentions are .

Too much effort I reckon, even if the win gives you about double the coins than PRO difficulty. Want that 10%+ TM moogle so bad though D:. So damn time consuming compared to other Event bosses.

 

[Sprites]

haha I know!

I can clear ELT no problem, but it's more troublesome Pro is so much quicker so I do prefer it.

LV is doing the most damage because she's a Hybrid unit, it takes into account both attack and magic stats so if the DEF is high her mag stat is able to help cover the damage because of the SPR debuff.

 

[Sprites]

Two things, one I can't believe the system got hacked, awful thing to happen and fair play to the developers they handled it well and they gave us some really nice compensation for it.

Ghost did you receive that 5000 extra lapis too?

Second, my free daily pull gave me Dark Veritas and the crystal went form Blue, to gold to then Rainbow I am so excited to have him, he will chain so well with my Orlandeau. The only Weritas I'm actually missing now Flame Veritas

 

[Ghost X]

I got 5000 lapis, yeah. I think that was the hackers' doing.

Nice work with the Dark Veritas. I got Luneth the other day. Really want a chainer though :p.

 

[Sprites]

Definitely the hackers, the developers said they weren't going to revert it back, I'm not going to touch it until I see a good banner though, the FFXI banner hasn't really gripped me that much, I got Werei for that really nice TMR but that's about it. Shantotto awakened with that tornado spell dual casted is a beast though.

Luneth enhanced is a fab finisher though, one of the strongest and you have Ashe, she's a great magic and Physical chainer and apparently, there's a Trial called Bloody Moon in the future and it's immune to physical attacks and element attacks are a no no, Ashe is apparently the one to have for that.