Granblue Fantasy

[Mcjon01]

Maybe faster if I'm building a dank yugu wand grid

[Laith]

yeah 5k renown swords somehow harder than 9k renown axes

[Mcjon01]

I'm just going to spend it on claws though.

[Cruor]

Titan Grids are kinda meh because they win over yugu by very little it's just not worth.

"But what about Ayer and Sarasa" You should be capping with Ayer already and yeah I guess it helps Sarasa if Mahira didn't exist or something

the difference between a titan grid and a yugu grid is about 150k-250k dmg per aa though?

[Laith]

Well considering that cap is 440k/500k on autos and you can safely reach that with 2 dirt units now with yugu, I have no idea where the difference comes

E: actually you can reach almost cap with yugu so

[Mcjon01]

Cool, I'll be sure to buy the chicken with my six month subscription ticket from LinksMate so I can do that

[FlameStrike]

Whoa July rebalance is out! It's AMAZING! Significant buffs to a ton of underperforming characters that brings them up a serious notch in power. Although I mainly care about Cagliostro being good again. I can use her in teams!!!!!!!!!!!

[Draconic]

Zeta is now Fire Jamil. One unit off on the tier list. God damn you Agielba!
As for Dragliostro, are her cooldowns being shortened?

[Mcjon01]

Zeta is now Fire Jamil. One unit off on the tier list. God damn you Agielba!
As for Dragliostro, are her cooldowns being shortened?

Only Phantasmagoria's cooldown was shortened, from ten turns to seven. But they also changed it so that instead of 20% ATK/DEF/DATA for the whole party at level 100, it gives 30% ATK/DEF 35% DA 15% TA as a special buff (so it stacks with normal buffs instead of getting overwritten) as well as crit up. On top of the debuff removal. And they slapped a refresh on her heal, too.

[FlameStrike]

If you're talking about Earth Cagliostro, her Phantasmagoria was buffed on across the board. It went from a 3/10 buff of 20% atk, 20% def, 10% da, and 5% ta, to a 3/7 buff of 30% atk, 30% def, 35% da, 15% ta, and chance to deal 30% crits.

Zeta is pretty godlike now too. An anytime Assassin that has her own DATA is just great. The only issue I guess is that unlike Jamil, her hitmark can miss.

[Mcjon01]

Which is great because my only other earth buffer is DLF and she's not super great with Halle because inherent enmity down means Halle gets tapped more often.

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If you're talking about Earth Cagliostro, her Phantasmagoria was buffed on across the board. It went from a 3/10 buff of 20% atk, 20% def, 10% da, and 5% ta, to a 3/7 buff of 30% atk, 30% def, 35% da, 15% ta, and chance to deal 30% crits.

Zeta is pretty godlike now too. An anytime Assassin that has her own DATA is just great. The only issue I guess is that unlike Jamil, her hitmark can miss.

Man I didn't realize the old DATA buff was that shitty.

[Draconic]

Only Phantasmagoria's cooldown was shortened, from ten turns to seven. But they also changed it so that instead of 20% ATK/DEF/DATA for the whole party at level 100, it gives 30% ATK/DEF 35% DA 15% TA as a special buff (so it stacks with normal buffs instead of getting overwritten) as well as crit up. On top of the debuff removal. And they slapped a refresh on her heal, too.

That is excellent. I guess I'll keep her in my back rows for now. I guess Jasmine will have to back out eventually after all… though maybe if I go on a berserk EMP grinding rampage I'll be able to EMP the hell ou of her and keep her relevant by giving her an insane amount of health, upping her C.A. Damage, maxing out all her healing nodes… oh god that'll take a while, but still probably not as long as getting Cagliostro to 100. On the other hand, I think I've got two Gold Spellbooks in reserve and one Gold Moon left. After getting to 99, I could theoretically overclock Cagliostro almost all the way to the third digit. And that's only if I got her to 80 this month. I think that I'd still rather focus on EMPing Eugen and Izmir though. Almost all of Grand Eugen's nodes are useful, and Izmir has gotten exponentially more useful with each star I've added to her defense. One more and they'll be tempered glass. it still scares me that glass bones was a step up from where she started. You've probably heard my schtick about Saltene crackers, string and a glue stick?

My Earth and Fire parties are getting very hard to manage solely on account of the fact that I have so many characters from those elements who I want to use. It's killing me that I can't seem to make Therese better than Abby, and Gayne is only useful now if I don't clock in as Weapon Master, but with Razia and Eugen both having auto-charge abilities, it'd be silly to play as anything else. If only I could get Jamil to use his second ability twice in a row. But I don't have Qilin yet…

Oh, right, this month's support skills are the last ones, and thank god, because those were huge disappointments. We can actually hold out some hope that a few characters will actually be getting activatable skills by September, or even next month if we're lucky, though I'm keeping my expectations low.

[Mcjon01]

I'm a big fan of these new Baha Horn drop rates.

[Draconic]

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not because I can't remember whether you already had all of those.

[Mcjon01]

I didn't make the glove until yesterday, because I didn't want to spend the thirty half pots for the last three raw gemstones until I had everything else in order and the dozens of proto bahas I leeched last magnafest had refused to give up any horns. But with the new drop rates I got two in five.

[Draconic]

I got four in like two days during magnafest, made Sword and Wand over the next three days due to Supreme Merit crafting limits, and then no more dropped until two days ago. I just farmed the last one I needed, and then I've got plenty of time before Earth, but I was told somewhere that a Tia Bolt can still be more useful than a SkL1 Ring, so I'm holding out on that.
I just mined my materials out of the GW boxes though. I take it you didn't get a particularly good haul last time? I was actually pretty surprised at how well I did this time. My light grid didn't seem all that great, but it really pulled through for me. Not that I could solo a NM yet…

[Paitouch]

[Five_X]

Picking Granblue, for enjoyment...

[Mcjon01]

My current hobby: skill leveling Bahamut weapons by single-feeding them rares

So far I've got my Baha Sword from 1 to 5, and the chance of a skill-up has gotten so low the UI doesn't even display it anymore.

[Draconic]

Picking Granblue, for enjoyment...

Actually… that is exactly what I did. I've since learned my lesson.
incidentally, what's that screenshot from, Paitouch?

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Maybe faster if I'm building a dank yugu wand grid

Well, I mean, with all party slots now freely available, that's a perfectly reasonable pet project. Nothing to focus on, of course.

I'm starting to think everyone's crazy for saying taking Defense nodes is stupid, because hot damn, my characters surviving things that just seemed implausible before. Here's my one problem: Defense nodes for Razia is smart. That's just a fact. But she has too many channels to run, not the least of which is to make her C.A. As powerful as Ausbruch.

At least she's not nearly as bad as Izmir with her two Defense nodes, a C.A. boost, and FOUR FREAKING CRITICAL NODES! Pushing ahead with those Crits now that I have four stars in Defense. Every hit's a crit! When that's done. Hopefully.