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Ok that would be preferable. At least studies aren't weaker.

I'm thinking of replacing Yuffie with Vaan with Steal Power and Life Siphon equipped for Windthrust spam if I can get him high enough.

Only drawback I can see with him is fights where physical attacks can't reach the mob. But, can easily sub Yuffie in for those rare times.

If you got Kogarasumaru, Vaan is definitivelly a regular in your party.

Very few mobs are actually out of reach of melees so that isnt really a problem. Also, Windurst is long ranged.

Read the funniest comment on Facebooks FFRK page about someone complaining about Yuna's accessory saying they was gonna sell it...

Reposting from reddit:

"Lucky draw on Valentine"

Yeah I agree. Having a Thief relic is basically a step up of any other melee relic because of how strong Steal Power is generally. Vaan/Locke/Bartz are one of those few characters that are so strong you can take them as a physical DPS and still do good damage without a relic. All they really need is Steal Power + Tempo Flurry, not that you can't use Breakdowns, Dismissal, etc.

Heck Vaan is essentially a DPS and support rolled into one when he takes Steal Power + a 4* Breakdown.

Oh, Bartz is getting re-released tonight at 8 PM EST! Now I get to see what all the hype is about! :P

Wow, 22 hour maintenance in a couple of days lol.

Mmmmm FF5 event...

Holy ***at Exdeath and Faris weapons...

***. YES.

Wtf, where is Bartz hero record this event? That is straight up, ***, lol. I feel cheated.

Bartz is pretty *** awesome, especially when he gets his Burst SSB later on

it's so *** good

I am so freakin happy to have another part of the Trinity, not to mention an attack buff which is like honorary trinity status. Going to make ultimates so much easier!

Now I can pull hard on SG/SS2 during the SSB without worrying about saving mythril for Scream.

what is this trinity thing? is it attack buff/hastega/stoneskin or smoething?

Medica, Hastega, and Wall. Considered the 3 big groups of relics you want.

Medica is AoE heal? that's a good one to have
hastega is great
but I don't get the wall hype, isn't that just non-stack protega+shellga?

honestly I think AoE attack up is way more useful for a soul break than wall, since I usually carry around max honed protega + shellga anyway

It does stack. Breakdowns(HH) + Pro/Shell + Wall mitigation makes almost every attack in the game (only real exceptions being Throat Stabs/Gravities and Holy) deal ***damage

thaaat makes sense

Wall is insanely good, having an extra level of mitigation beyond Prot/Shell is a big deal. Many Ultimate fights nearly require wall, and it's always recommended to take Wall as an RM for Ultimate fights before thinking about Hastega or anything else. It's also 200% Res/Def up while Prot/Shell are 100% and require you to take extra abilities.

Generally speaking Medica (Assuming you don't have one) > Wall > Haste is considered the priority for trinity relics you want. Medica is just much much much easier to get than any of hastega or wall relics

Same idea as other types of SBs, if the status id is different than a similar buff, the two will stack. For example, Wall, Shell, and Rikku's targe SB all stack the RES buff. Faris's second SB, breakdown, and fullbreak all stack, etc.

I don't think I've ever seen a Wall SB, what characters/relics use it?

Sentinels Grimoire (Tyro) and Stoneskin II (Y'shtola) are the only two wall SBs. They are probably the most common RW for me, don't know how RWs are picked though.

I've never seen either of those pop up on RW before. :/

You can manually add friends to your friend list so those will appear in your RW list. Check this link:

http://ffrk.logicaltrinkets.com

Ideally, you want to follow around 30 friends. Personally i would recomend searching for:

Priority:

- Boon (Sazh) - shellga + hastega
- Lunatic High (RedXIII) - protectga + hastega
- Planet Protector (Aeris) - boostga 50%
- Stoneskin II (Y'Shtola) or Sentinels Grimoire (Tyro) - defense + resistance +100%
- Advance (Luneth) - +150% attack - Combo with retaliate

Situational:

- Heroic Harmony (Mog) or Shatterheart (Fran) - mob attack + magic -50%
- Emerald Light (Eiko) - AoE Cura + hastega
- Flame of War (Lenna) - boostga 30% + hastega
- Hands of Emperor (Leon) - AoE attack and defense +30%
- Hymn of faith (Yuna) or Princess Favor (Lenna) - AoE cure + high regen
- Focus (Lulu) - AoE magic +20% and resistance +50%
- Mighty Guard (Quina) - shellga + protectga

Damage (not recomended as RW dont use buffs and normally the RW isnt using a RS weapon unless hes from the fight realm):

- Blade Beam (Cloud) - 3x AoE multiplier 2
- Black Materia (Sephiroth) - 4x mulitplier 2 + Sap
- Crushing Blow (Lightning) - 5x multipier 1.3

So.. No Bartz at all this event? not even a quest? Woo Krile only.. thanks SE.

So, breaking down my PT setup I'm using atm, until I find better characters/SB's to work with.

Fran: More than likely permanent for quite awhile since she has Whip Kick now. The only one I see that could compete with her right now is Faris on fight that require you to fight more than 1 enemy on the boss fight.

Garnet: Unless I can find another 5* Magic/Mind healer that also has access to at least 3* Black Magic, I think she's permanent as well. I tried replacing her with Beatrix, and it worked out fine until she actually needed to hand out heavy cures. Her 3* Mind holds her back alot as a main healer, I think. I hate the fact that my only 2 5* Magic/Mind healers are both restricted to Summoning Magic as their only means of DPS outside of Holy Element.

Lightning: I think atm will be permanent as well. I have no SB's for her, but she has very good versatility for a Spellblader. If I wanted to go full attack on fights where elements aren't really needed I could replace her with Sabin who is now sporting a 6* Dragon's Claw.

Kefka: I like that fact that he can heavy nuke and also buff for Garnet so she can focus on healing, or when she doesn't need to heal, help DPS. I could replace him with Beatrix in fights that have no strict elemental requirements. She can essentially do the same thing as Kefka, but from a physical point of view with Armor Strike and either Protectga or Shellga.

Vaan: More than likely permanent, as he is kicking *** and taking names right now. Kogarasumaru is OP as ***on him.

With all the characters I've been trying to swap to Growth Eggs are getting tight. >< I need a Growth Egg event lol.

Gilgamesh, Balthier, Bartz are all good characters. If you have them you should look into 'em.
Bartz is a power house.

If I don't get Gilga's relic in the next banner I'm going to be really sad. I refuse to spend real money. ;;

For your healer, you may consider not caring about that Black Magic. Dia does a ***load of damage, sometimes even surpassing nukes because of how easy MND is to stack. So for easy fights using Diaga+Curaga or something works well. For harder fights you want to use something like Shellga, Protga, or buffs/debuffs anyways for that slot.

Healers usually just come down to getting a SB for one of them because their SBs tend to be Medicas and Medicas are extremely important.

I wouldn't say Garnet is perfect, but for now she has a good balance of everything except access to Black Magic(only really care on fights that have elemental weaknesses). Most of the time she does stay with Diara.

She doesn't have a Unique SB to herself. But she does start with an AoE attack buff, and I have a Tungsten Bangle on her so she can Salvation for AoE cure as needed as well. Not perfect, obviously, but it's a start.

EDIT: Also, I thought Dia spells used magic stat for damage even though they are White Magic, they actually use Mind?