Thyndd

Hellll nooo I'm not spending my precious sunstones and goldbars on a silly skin That would only happen... if I had nothing else to stone or bar. Which will happen... never. Or, if I won the lottery, I guess.

Hi, I'm still alive Let's see, my last post was before light GW. Well, nothing much has changed really since then, aside from the preparation I did for water favored GW that has just ended like 3 days ago. I'll spare you the details and just show you some recordings I made for said GW, y'know, because of that of an image, or video, being worth more than a thousand words. NM95: NM150: Things to notice: -I annitixed xmas gozaru. Yeah I don't know. I'm quite deep into water ougi, and she's cute. She didn't sound like a bad option. Now, of course I'll be regretting for a long time not having xmas Nemone or H.Vazeta, but it is what it is. I wish they stopped for a second with the continuous releasing of broken superlimiteds -I went back to magna for nm150 which might look like nonsense, but I think it's justified. The times I got with my ougi setup were not too far from magna (ougi being faster during ST, and slightly slower otherwise) but this magna setup was just so much more comfortable and braindead to use. Ironically enough, since ougi is usually THE braindead setup, but yeah. At any rate, GW was cool. I suffered less than I expected to considering water was never my strong ele, even given the absurd scores that were reached this time (over 1 billion for top 70k! we finally got there!), and the fact that I couldn't be arsed to ULB Quatre nor to farm the new shiny Columba bow shit. To be honest, I was a little burnt out at the time so I was just taking a break. In the end it didn't come back to bite my ass too hard. My times I think were mostly fine for my lame european ping, and I will take anything under 1:30 for nm95 and 3:30 for nm150 anyway. Heck, I was doing 4:15 in light GW's nm150 Also, this GW was the third in a row we got 4-0! So no complains there either, the guys did a wonderful job. Look at this under your own risk @SakashimA, your tier C slack soul might leave your body I have to say, things wouldn't probably have worked out so nicely for me if I hadn't lucked into S.Kolulu during my anni spark. My target was Mahira, and really, S.Kolulu was the only other worthwhile thing I got, but damn was she worth it. On that note, I'm extra glad I ended up sparking Mahira since now we know the next GW will be earth favored. Makes no sense, it really should've been wind or at least fire, but alright KMR. Soooo happy to not have to go another earth GW without Mahira... last time it was hell. And as far as earth GW preparation is concerned, well, I don't really think I have much to work on for now. Obviously I'll have to ULB at least Okto and see what I can do with Sarasa (given that we only can possibly have one blue cert at this point), but aside from that my earth can't really receive much improvement. If I had a Naginata and maybe an AK I would consider going Titan, but meh... Anyway, my NM95 setup should be looking something like this, with Ygg x Kirin (the second summon call is Uriel): I might consider suptixing earth Bea and using her over Pengy, though really I think for nm95 that would only cut like 1 or at most 2 buttons, so it's not THAT big a deal. But maybe she'll also be useful for nm150, so she's certainly a consideration. As for the grid, well, nothing really very original, just the usual lucha thingy The only possible improvement is getting a decent AX skill for my Ygg Sword. Aside from that, it's either suptixing and stoning a Gorilla or just sticking with what I have. Now, as for my ex+ OTK setup, thankfully I managed to roll V.Monika during my valentine spark (I sparked V.Grim), and she makes OTK extremely comfy: This is Huanglong x Huanglong. Just 1 button, but in reality, it's just queue FA and press the big orange button (the reason why I'm using monk, along with the fact that the astral mainhand gives a partywide stamina buff). It really doesn't get more comfy than that, so I think I'm set in this department too. As for the grid: You might notice that the opus has an auto cap key. Yeah. I don't even need the ougi cap up key. Nor plus marks. Nor S.Silva backline, so I'm using just Caim and Esser for the droprate up. That's how stupidly strong this is, even after the 22m EX+ hp increase. Now, some might argue that I should go for a 3-chain ougi setup or a lucha setup because ougi lockout and yada yada. Well, honestly, at 300ms ping ougi lockout in between EX+ means absolutely nothing for me. Never noticed it, and never will. So... that's the silver lining of being European... I guess....???? Anyway, after I'm done with Okto and Sarasa ULB or whatever, I'll really have nothing else to do until GW besides doing my daily goldbar raids. Which is good, cause long periods of gbf grind really do wear you out. Peace out and see you in some months! I'm not even one to care about skins, but damn, she's so cute. I'm just a little bit jealous

So, it's that time again. GW is around the corner... But first of all, how was your roulette experience? Did Santa bring in the goods? Over here, I honestly can't complain. I got 200 hundred free rolls during Grand Sandalphon rate up, and took advantage of that to spark. The spark itself was pretty bad, with nothing worth mentioning, but since I had 240 rolls I only had to spend 60 more rolls of my own, so 60 rolls for Sandalphon, being as broken as he is, is a pretty good deal if you ask me. As for Shatora's (Catura? I like Shatora better ) banner, again, I can't complain: I luckshitted her with the free rolls. How good or necessary is she is debatable, but nevertheless I would've had to spark her some time during 2021 before she rotates out if I hadn't rolled her, so that's one less thing on my mind. I also got Metatron from these rolls, just in time for GW, so that's awesome. Alright, now for GW preparation. Last light GW (the crab dance one ) was pure suffering. I hope thing are better this time... even though I am still a magna pleb, and I don't like light nearly enough to consider heavy investment into it, much less nowadays when said investment needs to be insane to outperform magna. Let's start simple: my OTK setup. To be fair I didn't feel like working on this too much. Last GW I got 10k meat and only got to spend around 7k, and my dark is way better than my light, so I should expect to spend even less than that. So, I just wanted a setup that was comfy and fast enough for 7k meat. It doesn't need to be the most optimal thing in the world. This is Chev x Huanglong. Huanglong call + attack button is enough for 21m. Or at least it is enough if you switch the opus' key to CB cap. I didn't bother just for this screenshot Before you panik, no, farming 4 pillars is not required for this to work. I farmed those for versatility in my NM95 lucha comps. This OTK setup worked even with regular sword grid, though this is certainly more damage, so since I have it, I might as well use it. Ironically, my NM95 team is probably not going to use the Pillar of Flame (PoF from now on) grid. The reasons are slightly complicated and required some experimentation. But first of all, this is what I'll probably be using, and since I've recorded it, I might as well share the video: Ok, things to notice. Rage III is being used in lieu of the light ship buff. I didn't want to bother my danchou to put it up just for the sake of one video. In any case, and this is something a lot of people seem to not be aware of, the elemental atk from the crew buff is not really considered elemental. If you check the damage formula you can see how it's actually multiplicative with everything else. Therefore I think it should be a stronger buff than Rage III, which is just 30% normal atk up diluted among all the normal mod provided by the chev swords. That's to say that if this works with Rage III, it should also work without it once the light ship is up. Another thing you might notice is that I only apply 25% defense down with G.Jeanne's S1, not pressing Miserable Mist for a full 50% capped defense down. This is because NM95 bosses usually have a defense value of around 14, compared to the 10 defense value of the dummy target. Therefore, NM95 with 50% defense down should be at Def7, while the dummy target with 25% def down is at Def7.5. Very close, and that 0.5 difference also gives me a margin to make sure I have enough damage for the actual boss fight. Last but not least, Gawain applied a 10% defense down on ougi, which certainly interferes with what I previously stated. I could've waited for the debuff to expire, but honestly I thought aforementioned tiny advantages made up for the 10% def debuff and to be fair, I didn't feel like editing the video to fastforward the 2minutes wait But I have tried waiting on my own, and the damage is consistently around 135m (remember, NM95 is 131.25m) so it should be ok. So, TL;DR: For the actual NM95 fight once the light ship is up, you just need to press Miserable Mist instead of Rage III. Now, the reason why this oldschool sword grid seems to be better than the PoF grid for this specific comp is... Gawain. PoF grid has terrible damage at low HP, and since Gawain will get at <20% by the big burst turn and he is the main damage dealer with his double strike and echos, that alone seems to be enough to make the sword grid outperform PoF. Of course I've tried other alternatives to Gawain using PoF, like Lucio. The Gawain comp seems to be the most solid one, though. Alright, so that's it for NM95. NM100/150 are always nearly impossible to plan for ahead, being highly dependent on the boss in question, so I won't really bother: you just improvise along the way. I did, however, thought about a Full Auto comp, which might come in handy this time considering my crew is going through some hard times, having suddenly lost a bunch of really strong players... and it's not likely we'll find suitable replacements for this GW. So it's probably time to take a break and FA throughout the day instead of going crazy during MR. This seems to have very decent damage even against high defense, and good survivability. 2 Artemis bows might be 1 bow too many depending on the damage distribution in the actual fight: 2 bows are great if you take even damage across all party members over time to the extent that you can't outheal it and you drop to ~50% hp. If the boss, however, is one of those that deals a shit ton of single target damage, the extra HP from the second chev sword might be needed. In any case, at least 1 artemis bow seems to be a staple. Changing the MH to the seraphic harp, and then swapping the Lu Woh Horn for the second chev sword might also be a good idea. It will all depend on how hard the fight is. So... yeah! That's my GW preparation. If I learnt something about GW in these... 2 something years I've been playing the game is that you are never prepared for GW. No matter how strong your grid and characters feel, once the actual fights come along you will inexorably feel like the weakest scrub out there. But hey, at least you gotta try I don't know if anyone besides SakashimA hangs around this thread anymore, but yeah... if you do and feel like sharing your GW prep, I'd be happy to read it and y'know, share ideas among us. And SakashimA too, I know you are pretty casual and laidback in GW, but if you have done any sort of preparation or have any ideas on what you might be using, I'd be happy to read them

The issue seems to go deeper than I ever imagined I apologize if I was inconsiderate, I wouldn't want to pester you into playing the game in a way you really don't want to play it. It's just that, talking from my personal experience, even though GBF doesn't appear to have a big social component, I've found that if it weren't for my crew and all the wholesome people I've met playing the game I probably would've got bored and quit a long time ago. Sure, there's also some toxicity, but as far as online gaming communities go, I think GBF's is not that bad I honestly believe, or want to believe, that if you were around a bunch of clowns that memed 24/7 and didn't care about nothing but having fun you might change your perspective about interacting with others in the game and that might make the game much more fun for you too. There's no pride or fear to be had when all people care about is the laughs and memes Anyway, I will stop being a headache. It's not my place to tell you how you ought to play the game or live your life! But! I will let my discord and gbf ID down below so that you can add me if you feel like it. I promise I don't bite Of course, don't feel pressured to do it if you really don't want to. I won't feel offended or anything at all if you so choose. I just want to give you the option, that's all. Discord: Thyndd#7183 GBF ID: 23050943

Why not join a casual crew? You will be asked to do literally nothing (maybe log in once every week or two to show that you are still alive, if that's not much of a bother ) and even if people barely play, it should still be much easier to reach tier C than all by yourself. I don't know if you are already on the Gaijins discord server, but if not, that's a good place to look for recruitment (and only for that, cause the community is quite toxic ). Look, I understand. I was the same. I was putting LuciHL off, always finding excuses of "I will get this done first" only to then move onto another step that "I really should do before trying faa-san". It's a very intimidating raid for beginners in general, not to mention to people with a certain type of personality. It was actually my danchou at the time that kept insisting me to try faa-san out. And you would think that the fact that I was doing the raid with my crewmates who I knew well and wouldn't trash me if I made a mistake would be reassuring, but for me it's exactly the opposite I didn't want to ruin the raid for people I was acquainted with and was bound to keep interacting with in the future. In the end I obviously understand rationally that this is a fucking game and I shouldn't really take it so seriously. Who cares if I sabo a run? We're having fun and learning the raid! But yeah, it's a matter of personality type, and you can't try to rationalize it. The only thing you can do is to suck it up and step out of your comfort zone. And I realize this turnt into a rant about life itself at this point, but hey, you can learn some life lessons even through a mobile game Anyway, it's a fun raid, at least until you get bored of it, and you eventually will, believe me. And at that point you won't fucking care if you make a mistake and get wiped out. I suggest that you try joining random coop rooms. Mind you, most of those runs will fail. But isn't that a relief? They will fail with or without your help so take them as opportunities to learn the raid. People are well aware that they will most likely fail and you won't get any hate if you mess up. The cost of hosting the raid is also pretty much negligible since the host mat is so cheap, so you're good on that front too. That's what I did for Bubs by the way, before doing runs with my crew. Though Bubs is a much easier raid to get used to than Faa, and you'll most likely need just a couple runs to get the hang of it! And thanks goodness, cause Bubs, if you go with Tormentor (which you should, makes it 200% easier) really does take a toll on your quartz

Alright, less than one week for the worst GW of the decade. How is your prep going? I have done my homework over here. Finally finished my second Fediel Spine and got a 1 button OTK setup working: It's especially comfy because you can just queue FA and the first skill to be used will be splitting spirit, so you just need to press the big orange button. As for nm95, well, my setup is hardly the most original invention ever crafted. Just the typical Akasha farming composition: Now, my worst fear is that the boss has a bunch of plain damage triggers that make playing enmity completely unviable. If that were to happen, well, RIP enmity players, and also magna players in general. I guess you could still try building some ougi based team, but it should be slower. We'll see how it goes. I personally don't have the bars to invest in stamina hades at the moment, so all I can do is sit and wait. I feel like this thread is dead af. Come on, share what your plans for GW are. If you are slacking and taking it easy, let us see the FA setup that you're planning to use Anyway, I wish you guys good luck for GW. We're all gonna need it

Congrats on Justits! I see you are making fast progress in the evoker department. Meanwhile here, I haven't got a new one since uh... Caim. Only have Alanaan, Nier and Caim so far I'm mostly sunstone gated. There's just so much shit I need to stone... So. I sparked this Halloween banner. And it was actually a pretty good spark for a change: I got all the new halloween characters, though it's not like I care too much about those, I'd rather have gotten some of the old ones like Vazeta or Halle, but hey, I'm not complaining. I also got some grand weapons dupes like another Grim spear and a Fallen Sword. And I finally got BK for comfy FA in GW. Spark target was Shalem. Aaand... well... I made a questionable decision and I ended up sierotixing Hades... Don't judge me ok, I know it's technically not worth it in terms of investment, but I'm also allowed to have a bit of fun in this hellish game And so, I've been having a blast these last couple days trying to "speedrun" LuciHL. Yesterday I managed to get to 40M DPM, which is not a lot in this day an age where people are getting close to 80 or maybe they already even surpassed that, but it's still my personal best. And this will also serve to illustrate my point about this raid in the present time. @SakashimA you can host LuciHL in coop and just get carried. In most pubs I join the host doesn't do anything. You can just AFK for all intents and purposes. All you need nowadays is a wind guy to apply debuffs and a couple of dark players. Ideally one with Nier to clear the 8th labor (though it's not like dark players even need it clear, but it will help the wind guy a ton if they are not zeph). So yeah, there's no point in wasting your valor badges when you can literally get it for free. If today's run fails, no biggie, try tomorrow. In less than a month you should have all your opus uncapped

Now that I've think about it, it's actually been a really long time since I last updated my grids and teams. The reason is mainly that progression is extremely slow for me at this point, and also that I'm at sort of a weird point where I can't decide what I want to do with pretty much all my eles. Anyway, let's see how things are coming along for me. Next GW is dark, so that's what I'll be showing. Once you get to the endgame it's kinda hard to just show a team and grid and call it a day. Different fights need different approaches, so let's divide this exposition in 3 categories: OTK, nm95/burst comp and LuciHL/Bubs/tough endgame fights. I guess a full auto comp could also be interesting but I won't be bothering for now. OTK There's a lot to say about this. Maybe you noticed that there is no opus in there. Why you might ask? Well, because my opus has an enmity key on it, and I refuse to keep changing keys cause farming faa is a pain, since most coop room pubs I'm allowed to join (rank 223 atm) still fail most of the time. So, my intention is to make a 2 button OTK team that works without having opus in the grid at all. It's worth mentioning that enmity at 100% hp provides 0% atk modifier, so it's completely useless I still need to get 2 more drops to finish my fediel spine, and then tweak everything to make sure it works consistently. So yeah, a work in progress, but should be easy to get it done in time. Oh, and I guess I'll also ULB that qilin sword. I don't think it's needed but might as well do it in case I want to use it for nm150 or something. In case you are skeptical about whether it is really possible to achieve a 2 button OTK without opus, yeah, I made sure it is. There's some showcases of people doing it with the same grid and characters on YT. nm95/Akasha Fairly standard I would say. This is what I use to farm Akasha and it's what I'll also most likely use for nm95, unless the boss has a dozen of plain damage triggers to screw over Zoi strats. Wouldn't it be funny. Yeah, I ringed Zoi and Predator. Don't @ me. The 5% cap up is useful. Anyway, about the grid, you might think a 4th claw might be better than either the akasha weapon or the zwei. Turns out it's not. You have enough enmity to easily cap at 1 hp provided you have the defense debuff from deathing Nier. The grid seems to be optimal. The only consideration is that it might be worth to go magna highlander at least for nm95 (not Akasha, cause that bitch skips turns and removes Nier debuffs). LuciHL, I guess? Honestly I don't really play dark for LuciHL but this is what I used to use. Nowadays I have Vikala, Rei, and am planning to spark Shalem, so my team would definitely change a lot. And that's it for my dark. BUT. Months ago I stated that it was a dream of mine to finally be able to ditch magna and go for hades. It's truly sad being magna in what is the most broken element in the game. Well. Unfortunately I still don't have Hades. I was hoping they would perhaps give another demi-primal pick option for anni, but nope, they didn't... What I do have though, is this: Yeah those palmtrees are at MLB. Amazing what doing daily hosts for a full year can do And those 2 gislas, I bought them with my suptixes whenever I didn't really have anything else I wanted to get. Of course that is not all, I also have pretty much every weapon and grand weapon I'd want to have. And enough bars to make that grid a reality. It's just a matter of getting a fucking Hades. And about that... Yeah yeah. I know. It's a terrible idea. Nothing in this game is worth spending a sierotix. I KNOW! But damn I am tempted. I will spark next flash gala during halloween banner. I don't know if there will be dark chars/summons rate up or something, probably not cause it's likely to be just halloween characters rate up. But anyway, I will wait until then, and if after my spark I still don't have a hades... honestly, I don't know if I will be able to hold myself back from sierotixing it. Don't do it boys. Do like I say, not like I do. A sierotix is worth 7.5 chocobars. That's like half an optimal primal grid. Buying that hinders your progression immensely Anyway, see you guys in a month!

I have to say, I am quite shocked about the fact that someone managed to overthrow Kanbe Kotori as Ange's #1

After my terrible summer legfest spark, in the end I decided not to spark again last flash cause it didn't look like a good banner for me (I already have S.Alex and that was its main appeal). It's very likely that we're getting a new dark limited character before GW (dark apostol maybe? ) so that's probably the banner I will spark on. Best of luck for your next spark too whenever it might be! I also don't really grind for bars, but you'd be surprised what 2 years of hosting ubhl and pbhl daily can do! Really! It's really rare the month you don't get at least one drop, and on lucky months you might get 2 or 3. As for the scratcher, it wasn't bad for me either. I got a bunch of crystals and an Uriel which helped me a ton in GW. Speaking of which, I did better than I expected considering I don't have chicken. Once I got the hang of it I was pulling off 4min 30s nm150 clears, which you know, it's nothing to brag about either in a GW where people were managing sub 3min clears, but for me, I consider anything under 5min good enough My crew also managed to place top 100 in morning rush speed 3/4 days! And day 3 even top 50! Proud of these guys Now gotta get ready for dark GW. I'm scared. Dark is the OP element, there's that, but also precisely because of this people also invest a lot more into it, so the average powerlevel is way higher. We already had 700m+ top70k cutoffs this earth GW and I don't even want to think how high the scores will be next GW

Omg I'm sorry! I didn't mean to bring down your accomplishment. It's just that I'm more of a pragmatical player and only go after stuff I have an immediate use for, and I can't see myself using the likes of say, Uno, at the current time. But for completionists it's definitely a great milestone, so congrats my guy! Sigh I also sparked on this banner and it was fucking awful. The SSR rate was... well, not even worth calculating, lest I start crying. The only consolation prize is S.Anthuria who came home with the last 10 draws of the spark. She should be useful for FAing next dark GW, at least! I ended up picking Vikala since I didn't manage to get her after sparking 3 times during legfest this year (2 sparks while she had her rate up at that) and I really wanted to get it out of my way before new year. I'll be sparking again next flashfest for the new shiny summer characters. If I don't get them though, I'll probably end up sparking Shalem instead. Just preparation for dark GW. Alright, so that's it for today. See you after flashfest, maybe

Uuh maybe Sanoba Witch, Nene's route? It is kinda core but not really... You know, realistic like it could be in katawa. It's caused by fantasy reasons.

It's been a while since I updated my progress, but there really isn't much to speak of for most elements. I do want to share my progress in earth though, since it's actually a substantial improvement and we're getting an earth favored GW in August. I finally got my Caim, and I was lucky enough to roll an Ichigo during its rate up a few days ago. Now my grid looks like this: It's still magna, but at least it's the strongest magna available. Much better than my old M2, that's for sure. As for my OTK setup, I'll leave a clip I recorded here I still need to work on my Astral. Honestly I've just been slacking on Bubs very hard. But It's also very hard for me to find good coop rooms considering I'm still just rank 212, and my crew doesn't really run much Bubs either. Oh well, I'll at least get it done by GW, that's for sure, I'm only 3 blades away. Another thing you might notice is that my Sarasa is only MLB Honestly I'm kinda unmotivated to FLB her, along with Uno, Quatre and Song, which are the eternals I still have at MLB. I have the 10 revenant weapons farmed for everyone already, and as you can see bars are not a problem either. But... I just don't see the need to have them at FLB, and it's annoying to farm white scales!

Wow those were 2 fucking good sparks. Maybe it's true that the more you slack, the more this game rewards you I should try that.

Corona wars is over!! Damn this was rough. Results: First day was basically a free win for us. Opponent really didn't have much speed and it was over in MR already. Second day we were match up against the crew that placed #9 in the top speed MR crews. Yeah They did over 1 billion in the first hour (and this is with nm95, mind you). We got absolutely demolished and there was no way in hell we could win that. Even if all 30 of us went nuts, our average power level is significantly lower (plus we don't have OP japanese ping). Oh well. Third day was... well, I want to say it was winnable, but honestly, that fight could've gone into the 8bil or more if both crews were autistic enough. My crew kinda surrendered halfway through. Close call, I don't know how to feel about that, but eh. Fourth day was a pretty fair match up. It was basically a mirror match. In the practice, they had a slower MR than us, who did almost 500m in the first hour, but they kept a steady pace all the way and came pretty close to overtaking us towards the end. In the end though they weren't able to bridge the gap and we took the win. All in all, 2-2. Very mediocre, but I guess It's ok for what's been the most retarded GW in the history of the game. As for individuals, well, getting top 70k was enough for me, it's not like there's any point in doing more, but I ended up overdoing it due to helping my crewmates fight for the wins. Well, that's it for this GW. Now I get to rest since the next one, which is supposed to be fire advantage if I'm not mistaken. The good thing is that at least I already have my OTK setup ready: So yeah, I guess I'll take it easy in the next two months and just host my daily goldbar raids and stuff Let me know how was this GW for you guys. I don't think there's anyone who's gonna say that it was fantastic, but yeah

GW starting in 10h and the whole world is in quarantine. Oh boy, this is gonna be fun Anyway, figured I'd share the current state of things for me atm, since there's been some progression since the last time I updated. WATER Let's start by addressing the big elephant in the room. My water. My worst element historically. Have I been able to make it at least decent for this upcoming GW? Sure did. For starters, I finally sparked Vajra, so now at least I have what once was the standard ougi build throughout 2018 and 2019. Also as you can see I finally found the motivation to get my ass carried get a clear for the ulb opus. I didn't want to spend 3 stones for my Varuna, so I had to figure a way to get to 30k hp using Fish x Varuna Nothing worth mentioning. Besides this kinda outdated ougi build, last roulette also blessed me with summer Cagliostro, so even though I do not have pholia bow and europa spear to go for a whale crit varuna grid, I tried to make it work: Honestly, it's not great, but it's not bad either. I think it can work for nm95 and nm100 better than the ougi team. Well, all this is good and all, but let's be honest, doing GW manually in 2020? You must be kidding me. It's the full auto era, and I'll only ever go manual if there's the need to push for a win during ER, or the first couple hours of MR. So having a FA is rather important I would say. This is what I came up with: Some adjustments need to be made depending on the fight. For example, if this were good enough to survive nm150, then I'll probably want to replace the rotb mace for a fimbul for extra hp cause it's not like I'll be capping anyway. Anyway, I think that team has a decent enough survivability and covers just about everything that can be covered, from atk/def down, dispel cancel, healing, delay, clears... And that's it for water. I won't even bother sharing OTK setups cause no shit I'll be able to easily get to 21m with 3 balls and Vajra. Alright, moving on. I'm pretty excited to share my dark. Not because it's my best element, but because it received a huge upgrade since my last update. DARK That's 3 new toys I didn't have last time. I got emo catboi FLB and holy shit, he's no doubt the monster people said he was. I also finally managed to get Nier just last week, and again, holy cojones, this bitch might even outdps Six if we count the ougi reactivation. As for Ferry... I'm a little ashamed to say that I sparked her during Christmas. It was objectively a bad choice, since there are much better targets for me in 2020 (like Shalem, who didn't want to come home during my flash spark in her rate up ) but Ferry was kind of a dickpick for me. I love her art and I always wanted to have her with Nier, so yeah. As for my grid, there are actually 2 that I often use. This is my go-to grid when I don't feel like using a enmity team with S.Zoi. It caps perfectly fine in most content, especially with Ferry and Nier buffs. I wish I had Parazonium, but oh well. And this is what I use with Zoi: Pretty standard enmity magna dark, I would say. I would love to make the transition to Hades, and I actually have the gold moons needed to do it. The problem is, well, I have no fucking Hades Nor baha Moooving on. My light. LIGHT Grid-wise there's honestly nothing worth mentioning, as you can see: Same old boring mango light. I honestly hate this grid. You know what I don't hate though? My characters. I really wanted Hal&Mal to go along with G.Jeanne, and roulette blessed me with them. Now I pretty much have the dream team. If I was a zeus lord I'd probably want to have H.Halle, but for the time being I don't think that as a general purpose team it can get any better. So yeah, overall I'm really happy with my light, if it wasn't for that grid. And so, I have made plans for a transition into Zeus, since I happen to own the primal and these two things right here: Unfortunately 2 edens is really not enough to warrant the transition to primal, so I'm also farming these fuckers But it's a work in progress and one that will take some time probably. It's not like I'm in any hurry anyway, since light GW won't be coming back any time soon. FIRE Another huge improvement goes to my fire. Party-wise I'm still using the same old thing, cause it's old but gold and there's no reason to change However, see that Agni right there? Last time I updated I was using a scuffed highlander primal grid, which kinda got the job done, but it's was pretty underwhelming. Welp, no more of that. Behold. Isn't it beautiful? It took a while but I finally got it done. Just in time for the next fire GW too! Fortunately I finished farming it even before they announced next GW after water would be fire. Thank goodness, cause Prometheus mines must be a literal hell now. Anyway, the grid is pretty amazing. Obviously 4 or 5 ixabas will still beat the shit out of CoC grid in most situations, but for a f2p primal grid it's pretty competitive. The DoT from the prom stick can be a little hard to manage in hard fights like a nm150 boss in GW, but nothing you cannot fix by bringing the right class and characters with enough sustain. WIND Well, honestly, I think not much changed for my wind, if anything. It was ok before and it's ok now. Good old and reliable magna wind. I barred the reunion for GW and also cause I had this project in mind: I wasn't able to get it done by GW and so it was left unfinished. I need to farm the other 2 unius but honestly I don't have much motivation, cause it's not like it provides much more damage than magna for most content. It'd be very handy to have for FaaHL and other off ele fights though (like ubhl, but since they nerfed the gb drop rate who cares anymore right ). EARTH At this point earth is probably my worst element. M2 is just not good enough anymore for earth I feel like. I annitixed xmas Naru, and she definitely hits like a truck, even outdpsing Okto. That's good and all, but I really need to figure out what I want to do with my grid. I'm working on Caim, but the problem is that even after sparking 3 times in legfest I had not got even a single Ichigo, so I don't know how viable a Caim grid would be without that damn katana. I'm glad we won't be having earth GW in a while so I get some time to try and fix this ele. Anyway, perhaps you noticed that weird skill dmg cap key on the opus. That's cause I enjoy playing earth in FaaHL, for what I'm using this team and grid: You certainly don't do a ton of damage, but it's very comfy to play and you are not dead weight either And that's it for now I guess. To sum up my "plans" (if you can call them that, cause there's some luck involved...) for the future: -Finish my Hector grid and say bye to that stinky magna light forever. No luck involved, just a ton of grinding to do. -Finish my Morrigna grid. Not a pressing matter but it'd be good to have nonetheless. -Build a caim grid for my earth. Probably need to draw an ichigo, and honestly I don't feel like sparking it, so we'll see. -My wet dream: build a enmity hades grid with 3-4 Gislas and a couple Majestas and feel like a god soloing FaaHL. Ironically, Hades is the only primal summon I'm lacking. Fuck you game T_T So yeah, see you guys next time, when some of these projects are made a reality!

Sharing my progress really motivates me when I look back at my early updates, and makes me really excited for the future. Maybe it can do the same for you too, so go ahead and give it a try if you feel like it! Damn son, lucksacc detected Gratz on the spark. Was it a good one to top it off?

Congrats on Siete and Nier! Nier I'm still working on, but I also managed to get Siete FLB last GW and his really, really nice to use after his rebalance. I thought he'd be weaker cause he lost his crit ability, but the fact that they gave him a unique atk mod instead kinda makes up for it, at least if your grid is developed enough. Kinda sad you can't use him for off ele otk anymore, though! ------ Happy new year everyone! I hope you are having fun these holidays. It's been a couple months since my last update, and there's some fairly good progression I'm very excited to share with you all. I'm currently at rank 193, which you know, it's not very relevant anymore, but I guess it's good to have as reference. The party HP nodes I got at 185 really helped with faa though! I can't wait to get the rank 200 ones. Well, time to show (off? not really ) my teams and grids. Since I don't want to spoil the excitement, I will do it in what I consider a worse-to-best order. Also I won't be sharing all my setups because it'd get too long, so I'll just limit myself to my general purpose teams, leaning slightly towards those I'd use for fairly high defense like GW nm100, but not so extreme as nm150. That means I won't be sharing OTK, faa-san teams and the like, unless anyone is interested, ofc. The exception will be my OTK light, since it's relevant for the upcoming GW. Alright, enough blabbering, let's get started! WATER Yeah... fuck you, water. I've given up using my kengo for any fights other than OTK stuff, cause it just doesn't work without Vajra, and I don't have either the characters or the appropiate grid to make a crit oriented staff team either. To make things worse, as a newbie I decided to stone the fish instead of my varuna, cause at the time I thought it'd be really convenient to have it to use off else (also wind GW was coming and I couldn't possibly get Huang Long, so that allowed me to build an OTK setup), and I naively thought I could just use varuna friends cause for ougi builds with 3 balls like mine, fish x varuna was the optimal anyway. So yeah, no double varuna either. Stuck with a 300k autos grid till who knows when. Sadder story than my life. Definitely my worst team, and my worst mistake to this day in this game. Give me my 9 bars back. DARK Second worst team. When you see the grid you might think it's quite alright, at least for magna standards. Yeah sure, a parazonium mh would be nice, but otherwise is a fairly optimized grid (the opus' key is up for debate, but let's leave that aside). The main problem lies within my characters. This ain't 2017 GBF. DJeanne and Zoi will no longer carry your dark. The first is rather useless, while the second is only a conjunction bot that people tend to kill with Death's call when she has done her work nowadays. Next GW I'm FLBing Six, and I hope that greatly improves my situation. I'm also slowly working on Nier, as I said. I already have FLB Death, so just lacking a lot of dark astras atm, that I've not been getting cause I decided to spend my points on sunstones first. But I'll get there, eventually. Aside from that, it's pretty much the same grid I used for GW. The only differences are that I got my akasha blade, and FLB'd the seraphic. FIRE OOOH YEAH BABY. Running away from magna fire like one would from the plague! And this is, ladies and gentlemen, my first attempt at doing so. A very scuffed highlander grid that is already at this point several times better than any magna fire grid I've ever had. Yes, I know, that seraphic and that opus need to be fully skill leveled, and that cane ULBd. Don't judge me, this grid is really new, and I'm lacking a lot of skill fodder after ULBing my opus weapons and other shit you will see in the future. My plans for the future are 2. More or less short term, there's this: Yup, slowly working my way towards a prom grid. Long term, I'd like to get my hands on 2 more ixabas (or even 3 more, but that only if the gacha decides to bless me, I ain't sparking/annitixing that many). Fire has become really fun to play after getting FLB sun, Esser, Alanaan... The burst is really enjoyable, so I want to give the ele some love. EARTH Not much changed for my earth grid aside from the seraphic FLB and opus ULB, which you know, it's a pretty huge change in its own right, but the grid still looks the same. Honestly, it's a quite alright team. Does very decent damage, has high hp, some good utility in S.Vira and Alex. I'm pretty happy about it. BUT! I do have some big plans for the future as well. I'm not so far from FLB The Hanged Man, and I happened to roll a Titan. If I somehow manage to get an Ichigo, I will probably go for a Caim grid. That might take a while, though, but the idea is on my mind. WIND I'll be honest, I love my wind. It's my go-to ele for ubhl and faa-san. I managed to get Grimnir while sparking this roulette, so I built an ultima staff and that allows me to use 3 harps and Tia x Tia again (after ULBing my opus I was using Tia x Grim with 2 harps, cause without a way to give you consistent wind atk up that setup is better), which is great against higher defense content due to the crits. Not for ubhl though, since you keep getting dispeled, so for that I'm still using Tia x Grim, with 2 harps, and Siete instead of Grimnir. I also have big plans for wind in the future. I managed to roll a Zeph and I have 2 Love Eternals and obviously the Vortex from Grimnir. Morrigna is literally unfarmable now with my pleb EU ping, but once it slows down, maybe after magfest, maybe when wind GW ends, I do plan to build a Unius Zeph Grid. That's some really good shit! For now, I got my few unius just from daily hosts ever since the first day epic weapons were released. LIGHT Oh boy, we're finally here. Next GW element. ULBing all those swords took all my skill fodder and some years of my lifespan for sure. Magna light is pretty bad, at least according to what everyone says. Well, while I don't think it's great by any stretch, it kinda works for me due to having pretty damn good characters. Yes, I know, I am not capping on nm150. It sucks. It's a big middle finger to all f2p players. 25 fucking defense, wtf. Gotta validate the whales, I guess. Fuck you KMR. But well, ranting aside, I got lucky and got my hands on Grand Jeanne, which solved my big problem with Piggy, which is her poor MA rate in my sword comp. Now I can actually keep her reckless abandon up all day. The cosmos sword FLB was also a nice addition. It's better than a mitt bow in that grid for any HP mark, so that's nice and makes me a little less reliant on stamina. Oh, also Lucio's rebalance. What a fucking GOD! He literally does half of my damage. As for OTK, well, I think I still need to polish it a little bit more, but the general idea is something like this, with HuangLong as support: Probably I need to change my opus key to skill cap up, and put an ultima sword with ougi cap up there, but you get the gist of it. I am lucky to have pretty good characters for light OTK, which is fairly difficult otherwise, so I'll make it work somehow. Alright, that's it I guess! I hope I didn't bore you excessively with my unsolicited rambling. To finish this off, as always, I'll show you my spark progress atm. It's worth mentioning that as I said I sparked this last flash during roulette. My rates were pretty trash, but I value quality over quantity, and since I got Grimnir and G.Jeanne and got to spark an Ixaba, I'm pretty satisfied. It's not spectacular, but it works for me. Much better than my last spark, anyway. Anyway, here's what I have right now: So that's 223 rolls even after having sparked! I really, really hope I can get to 300 in 2 months when Doggo is most likely gonna make a comeback. We'll see. That's it for now. I'll update my progression once there is something worth sharing, though by the looks of it, from now on it should be progressing pretty slowly, since my magna grids are pretty much finished. I wish you all a fantastic new year and see you guys around!

I mean if you don't mind feeling bad for being useless, you only really need 30k hp and have a proper understanding of the raid to not mess up (or rather, in order to know what you did wrong when you inevitably mess up) Then let the whales and people that already have ULB opus carry you. Yes, it feels terrible, but hey, you can pay back the karma by some day in the future helping new players get into faasan I'd also really want to have Pholia and Monika. And Lecia, who is best girl (fite me). But you know... it's not like I really need them, and as a mostly f2p player I've already kind of accepted that I won't never be able to catch'em all as if they were pokemons; so I just try to get what I need the most

Since my last post was like 3 months ago and dark GW is starting today, I guess a little update is due. First of all I got to rank 175 (currently rank 180), so I unlocked Lucilius Hard. Took me a while to get bare minimum to even attempt the raid, but finally got it just a mere week before GW and fortunately some strong friends from my crew were able to carry me and my 50k autos hard and got my first ULB opus done in time. This is the grid I'm going with for GW. Unfortunately during my last spark I wasn't able to get my hands on Grand Ferry (or any particularly good stuff for that matter, which is why I didn't bother to post my results) so I'm still stuck in Zoi hell. Anyway, I think it's a pretty good improvement compared to last time. Don't @ me for that MLB seraphic. I have the qilin&longdong animas but just no quartz after FLBing 3 avatar staves. Another thing I wasn't able to get in time is my FLB Death. But at least I was able to get her to SSR. As for my OTK setup, this is it: It's nothing special and it relies on conjunction, but at least it's 3 buttons which I guess is ok-ish... (dual arts+conjunction+longdong call). Aside from that, I don't think I've made much improvement in other elements. Not anything worth mentioning, at least. I finally got my FLB water opus, got 4 MLB AES done (and won't bother farming the 5th one), and oh yeah, I guess my light has also seen a bit of an upgrade. It had to be done in order to properly farm Avatar. A fun little story is that I farmed the 5 lumi swords just before KMR felt like giving us a MLB one a couple weeks ago. Oh well, having 6 will be good for Faa-san anyway. As for new characters, I got my first evoker, the e-sports old man. So now my team is looking good, if not for the fact that I'm still a magna pleb. Now I'm working on my Nier (as you can infer from my SSR Death) and I think after that I'll go for Caim. Hopefully I'm able to get him before earth GW. Gacha-wise, I'm once again getting close to a spark. I'm sparking doggo as soon as she comes back next year. I'll pray to kamisama to bless me with at least either Ferry or Cain. I don't want to spark on legfest anymore!! And that's it I guess. See you in my next spark if my results are worth sharing, or if not, probably I'll update my progress when light GW is close anyway. Mata!

OMFG That is so crazy!! Not in a million years would have I expected a sequel and much less an anime adaptation of such an old VN. I'm so hyped but also very scared about how it will turn out. If they are reviving the saga they better have something worth to tell!

Yeah... I'll admit that I'm pretty curious on how bad it could possibly be. But not so much to actually buy it and much less invest so many hours into it I'll stick to my boring, wholesome vanilla shit.

That they are... 3.6k atk stat, massive ark mod and medium stamina. It's singlehandedly the most retarded weapon in the game. I'm so not looking forward to this GW. I'm in a fairly competitive crew and we actually do MR and push for wins so yeah...

When you get to lower HP values it gets higher... like maybe 500-600k at 75-50% HP, so long as you have sun flb and auto cap up in ultima or opus... but considering agni grids are doing like 800-900k on pretty high defense content like TiaMal... yeah, it just feels so discouraging. This is a disparity that you just don't see in other elements. Not to mention that if you don't have Anila, like me atm (though not for long ), magna is literally unplayable. For the time being I'm also working on e-sports old man Alanaan. I doubt I'll get him before GW, but oh well. He should help a little, I hope! Algo congrats on your ixabas. Now it's time to go full agni lord for GW

It's been so long since I updated my GBF progress. I haven't quitted the game. Well, for the most part at least. During busy times or just times of burnt out I did put it aside, but then picked it back up for short, intensive periods. I'm currently at rank 169. And that wouldn't matter that much if not for the fact that I practically didn't slime (the only exceptions being the very few cases where I was in a hurry for leveling a character to 100), so I guess it's a reasonable way to measure my efficiency. Well, without further ado, here are my grids and teams. WIND Your average M2 grid I guess. I'm using Nio/Scath/Monkey, so probably it'd be a good idea to get an ultima fist or something. EARTH This grid was a bitch to farm at the beginning. In the end I gave up, went to work on wind, and came back to Alex mines once it was decent. I'm using a Sieg/Alex/Okto team. How nice it'd be to have Cain and go ultima katana meta, but for the time being, I guess Sieg works... WATER Yes, I lucksacked 3 balls. Which is only more painful considering I don't have Doggo. I will have a spark ready for her by the time she comes back though. Until then... well, water doesn't exist for me. I need to work on my 3rd harp for full ougi memes. I should also go grab the Opus, but I don't have the quartz nor the fodder to level it up atm, so who cares. As I said, water doesn't exist. FIRE Semi spear team with Shiva/Esser/Athena. 3 of those AES are MLB, the 4th one is at 1*. I plan to get one more drop and then grab the other copy from the shop next month. I won't bother to farm the 5th AES considering I'm probably going ULB canes in the future, when I spark Anila, which I'll talk about later. This is the grid I'm currently working on, you know, for GW and stuff. I remember @SakashimA saying that fire was his favorite element and that when I came to appreciate it I got back to him. Well, I'm sorry, but I still hate fire as much as the first day. This is the element of 4+ ixabas or go home. The fact that I've spent more time farming those AES than any M2 grid and I'm still doing 300k autos makes me wanna kill myself. DARK Sad times for my dark. And I started GBF as a dark main to boot! I don't have any of the meta characters so I'm stuck in 2017 meta with sword team DJeanne/Zoi/Olivia. So, why do I not have even one avatar stick? Well... LIGHT Because my light sucks even more. Probably. I don't know, they both suck, so since light sucks I can't farm dark, and since dark sucks I can't farm light. Such is life. Well, that's obviously not exactly true. I could and should farm at least my 4th chev sword. Yes, I should. As for the team I'm using, it's Seruel/Potato/Lucio. I'll probably switch Lucio for Jeanne once I get her to lvl 100. And that's it I guess. Another important thing I want to share is that... Yes, indeed. My spark is ready, and my target is Anila so that my plebian magna fire can suck a little less for GW. As everybody I guess I would've liked to spark on flash gala, but I guess it's not too bad, considering there's plenty of characters from premium gala I'd really want to have. Cain, Ferry, Lecia, Pholia. Wouldn't mind Eugen or Rackam either since they are getting their FLBs soonish (I already have Katalina). And that's about it. I guess I'll post the results of my spark next premium gala! May the salt be with you.