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Agreed. There were some people with ruffled feathers on Mangolord’s server. Although Jayce Highwind seems to have retained his place as the PVE king (he was #1 on all previous AB bosses IIRC).

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I have been on vacation (congrats on SSS btw @peacedog!) but still managed to do dailies, thanks to sweeps. The merge is a surprise but probably necessary. AB is going to be much harder now, damn.

The guild I’m in is headed by Jayce is very active and very friendly.

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Haven’t tried yet this week but I will remain confident even though last week was supposed to be easy. It felt good though! My creeping power improvements + what I could manage from AB runing really helped.

In terms of my next joystick shop purchase (with Lana’s armor done), I assume Jugler’s hat is the priority over Elwin’s sword and the Alte/Lanford items (which impact auraus/buffs in some way that’s relevant in both cases iirc). Elwin’s sword seems interesting but then I’d have to switch to clock I assume and I can’t bear to think about how long it will take to get him enchanted properly, especially since I have mages I’m still working on (and Sakura).

In team building news, I have gotten Varna, Bernie, and Angelina close to being properly usable in AB. Olivier isn’t too far bheind. Jugler, sadly, has farther to go although I only need 2 more runestones to cap him (+ some leveling on the current class). Listell is looking pretty good. I’ve improved several healers and I’m working on Iris.

I pulled, uh, the lady mage from the Greek set (can’t recall if she’s Lambda or Sigma). And after some thought I rolled a little on the Lana/Whoever/Tiaris banner because I figtured shards on Lana/whoever would be very valuable. But I got Tiaris shards and will save fvor the crossover banner. At least I can afford another runestone now if I sell those (the Event was worth like 1200 shards by itself or something, since I was lucky to have maxxed Chris already).

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Very possible to use Elwin’s sword without ‘doubling up’ on Clock! In fact I’d guess that it’s pretty uncommon, with most PvP types going breeze and most PvE doing full moon or rough seas.

This week’s SSS is a bit harder but still pretty fair. It’s actually against a very similar team; the biggest difference is that they’re aggro and you don’t have time to set up, but you also start a lot closer. If nothing else, debuff luck on the initial Bozel/Lana AoEs should get to a win eventually. The hardest one for me was SSS3, which is fixed damage only and has split initial positions.

Your Tiaris luck was entirely off-banner, for what it’s worth! Her banner is coming up in another few weeks. My progress in AB over the next several months will be pretty well determined by whether I get her or Clarett as my guaranteed-new-hero. No pressure or anything.

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For some reason I thought she was on it, despite (correctly) typing Liana up there (I meant Tiaris haha). Doh, would really have preferred Lana/Liana shards in any case.

I am definitely rolling for Clarett. I can still roll for Clarette and the next two Crossover banners but then it’ll be a dry spell until the EQ banner next feb.

1646

I’m not sure I have the time and desire to push through to SSS final this week. I got a Holy Grail from SS final (alas), and I want to play some other stuff. And I’m tired and going to bed early after not sleeping last night.

I think my Landius is close to being good enough for some PVP. I was using the + attack/def SR emblem (that gives +%mdef as it’s power)but switched to a 30 Holy Ark (there’s a 40 on Listell). In doing this, I lost some defense because I rolled a 9%/13 atack roll on the Ark where as I had some flat def + a def enchant on the emblem. So Landius is at 368 on the paper doll (and 744 attack on the same), and when fully buffed at like 607 or something (where as he was at like 650+ I think). And that’s with mediocre AB rolls because I just didn’t have anymore (no attack, +26 def, +230 hp, +2 mdef). It makes me sad. I need to eek out some defense but don’t have many places to do it or means to do it with (ooooooooh EQ shop SR scrolls I need you so badly). But like I used the double passive healing method (tiaris + Sophia) to have him pretty easily face tank a couple of SS trials with annoying laws that didn’t matter because everyone attacked Landius repeatedly and then just sort of died in 1-3 turns. Onwards and upwards and is an Overlord Badge for him too much to ask for?

I will cap Listell’s Heart Bond this week leaving only the Attack bond (def at 9). If I want to use her in PVP I’ll want some of the attack bond for skill of course. I stuck her on my def team to see how it went and won a defense battle for the first time in like for ever. So yay. Ledin is no longer in my top 5 by power rating (for what little that’s worth), it’s Leon, Elwin (just over 6k), Listell (just under), Landius (5900+) and Lana (5800+). I’ll get the latter’s last Strength bond as soon as I can get 8 keys for it. Oh shit we get keys from SSS final. Hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I don’t have a good squad for H&M but managed to hit D only to roll completely shit for the types of scrolls I got from the achievement roll so Ledin barely got any upgrades and there was no int for healers.

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Yeah, sounds like your Landius is getting there! There’s a pretty strong Landius on the merc roster this week though that you can use instead (along with a decent looking Sakura that I might play around with)

Sad that the collab is delayed at least a month, from the looks of it. Should have summoned more on the Gizarof/Sigma/Lambda banner. At least this increases my chance of getting both Yusuke and Hiei.

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I would have rolled more on the G/S/L banner too if I had known (granted, nobody did know, it happens).

I got an Uller today! Right now it’s on Alustriel because I’m trying to get her ready for an H&M attempt.
I will not succeed, but I’ve beefed up Narm some (up to 730 attack; where as she was <630 my first attempt iirc) and may have another go at it, and Alustriel’s spot wasn’t occupied by anyone doing actual work the last time anyway. Hoping for just a little production between all the attack buffs and bonus damage to fliers.

1649

“Hey this guy isn’t using a tank. . . oh wait I guess I have to pick between Sakura, LEonhardt, Listell, and Joshua to one shot on turn one. Uh. . . shit”.

Don’t mind me, Leonhardt with 100 hp just killed 4 people on my team.

So this one guy fielded 4 trash characters (level 60, but like 320 or so for main stat for all characters) and a Listell with 15k hp and 450 pre-deploy magic defense (couldn’t tell if she was 4* or 5* though)? He was a bot, and I beat him. How does that happen?

1650

Leonhardts are scary these days. Finally living up to the hype.

I think when you get matched with a bot, sometimes the computer picks random characters from that player. Or so it seems.

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I got put in a bad situation, or rather I put myself there. It was obviously he was waiting to Again someone. I think what I should have done after turn 2 was immediately move Elwin out to Ledin and fbuff. I didn’t. People took some damage (Leonh didn’t 1 shot the 4) from I can’t rmeember waht. Oh, steroid Bozel. So Elwin was now debuffed and no fbuff yet (but move available) when the other guy aggressive moved his Leonhardt.

The DEbuffs prevented a sword soul kill, just barely. Whereas if I had gone ahead and moved Elwin, I could have immediately agained and left the other play in a quandry. Of course I was fortunate that Elwin didn’t get sealed by Bozel, or else I was screwed either way.

1652

Got the Xmas Yggdrasil (my 2nd). Kind of exhausting. I did it with Alte-Leon-Luna-Liana-Tiaris.

And it came down to just Liana/Leon left, and Leon killed the bozel using Smash (and having like 5 squares of movement before attacking). without it he left him at like 5k health.

I had tried using Bernhardt, Leon, Elwin, the healres but I couldn’t keep Bernie alive long enough. With that method, you smash Bozel down closer to Elwin from above. Several other strategies didn’t work either. But here, I got attacks in with all 3 dps. I probably got too aggressive early in the fight when I should have broken off to kill adds a few extra times. I did stick with smashing the bozel down (twice, it turned out). Probably also a mistake.

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Update is out. Level cap is. . . 61 (at least I leveled Leon to 61 and it says 61/61). A nice bonus is that we appear to have been swapped to the CN daily reward schedule, which is much better than the old one. Enjoy your red ores at the end of the month.

You can glimpse the level 70 awakened stuff, although the mats aren’t even in the game for it (and you have to be level 70 to do it besides).

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It’s 62 but you have to level your account, and the hero level cap is account level + 1, same as for the climb to 60. I’m sure there are more than a few (even non-whales) who saved up a hundred burgers and are going to have a 1 level advantage on us in PvP today… and for sure this weekend in Apex.

1655

I totally forgot about that LOL.

1656

I wish I didn’t do all my dailies before I went to bed last night. At least I haven’t started grinding for the Christmas event yet.

Anyone try to new Anikis yet?

1657

No, because I needed R books from something today so I ran 3 low level ones. But I can resume full speed ahead. Will probably start trying them.

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I did both of today’s at 70. Different (bigger) maps! Both were significantly more challenging than 65, but not so much so that it took multiple tries. (I did lose a character or two on each.) I also got 2 SSR material drops from the daily bonus portion of 2/3 tries; will be curious to see how that drop rate evens out, especially with all of the new training categories, but it’s nice to see.

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Doing the 65 JB now… also a much different map. I see all sorts of ways for this to get screwed up with bad teammates!

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Let us know if the rewards are worth it (beyond fulfilling the condition for the achievements!)