Hi guys, I am new to the game (literally started a couple hours ago) I was wondering if it is worth participating in the event and what rewards should I aim for if I do?
I have just managed to manually defeat easy, doubt I will have much luck on normal.
Posted Apr 23, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC
Listen up, because this is VERY important. You can farm the event by carefully timing your Stamina usage. Basically, you have a stamina bar that recharges at rate of 1 per 3 minutes. You gain another stamina permanently plus a free refresh of all your stamina when you get 5 Stamina shards, gotten by completing normal dungeons. If you simply do all the dungeons right now, you WILL WASTE STAMINA, thereby losing out on farming the event. Time it so you farm the event a bit, then, before your stamina runs out, do a dungeon or two to get 5 shards and then refill your stamina instantly due to getting another stamina, then go back and farm the event. Aeris is only like 4K shards, so she's super cheap. Get her + mythril and then start farming the hell out of the small orbs.
As the others as have said, you still have a decent chance of getting Aerith. I would ignore any of the high shard items and instead prioritized Aerith first, the Mythril next, and finally the protect vests/ staff for some super cheap but handy gear. Gear can be upgraded and combined twice so even though it seems like a waste to get 3 copies of a staff you're actually just buying a single staff and adding 2 stars to its ranking later.
In the upper right corner of your screen, you have five orange gem slots, some of them are probably lit. This is for stamina advance. You earn more stamina gems by playing story dungeons. When you gather five gems, your total stamina is increased by one, your entire stamina refills, and any extra gems you just earned past the five get slotted toward the next stamina boost.
What you want to do is keep increasing your stamina and keep refilling it. But while you're doing this, you can use the extra stamina you'll get for the event. To do that, you'll want to check two things: The Rewards for a story dungeon, and the total amount of stamina it takes to complete the dungeon. (You can check the latter by entering the dungeon, counting up how much stamina it charges, and then going to the Camp and retreating without fighting any battles.)
If the rewards for a story dungeon say you'll get a stamina increase/refill if you get all of the stamina rewards, and the amount of stamina it costs to run the dungeon is less than what you currently have, then you should spend the extra stamina on the event. Otherwise, the leftover stamina you have banked would just be wasted. Of course, part of the stamina rewards for a story dungeon are usually mastery awards, so you might want to look up the special requirements for the dungeon, to make sure you get mastery.
This technique seems story battle intensive, but if you have some time to work on this game, this way will actually maximize the amount of stamina you get to spend in the event.
Quick example:
You are sitting at 3/5 stamina shards. You are sitting at 30/30 stamina.
Go to the realm, check the rewards for the next dungeon. It says you will get 1 shard for master and 1 shard for first time.
Now you know you will refresh you stamina when you finish that dungeon, assuming you master.
Go into the dungeon. Make note of the stamina cost for each level. Let's say it's 3, 3, and 4 for the boss. It will cost you 10 stamina to beat the dungeon.
If you do that, you're essentially wasting 20 of your stamina. So go spend 20 stamina (or as close as you can) on he event. When you're sitting at 10 stamina, go beat that dungeon and you'll refresh.
No waiting around for stamina refill as long as you can time the dungeons right.
Yeah what people said manage stamina. Do regular dungeons get aerith at the very least.
Manage your equipment I sold tons of stuff willy nilly not realizing how important record synergy is. You need daggers from every realm and decent armors.
while not the sexiest way to spend mythril expanding your inventory has help tremendously letting me keep a variety of armors amd weapons and a.decent stock of upgrade ores. 100 slots don't go very far if you wanna keep ores on hand
You still have the chance to get Aerith, who is currently the best White Mage/Red Mage and also has the ability to summon.
you should do the normal dungeons; they go pretty quick and will restore your stamina and level up your characters, you should be able to get strong enough from that to finish normal mode in the event before it ends, you should get Aerith before the event ends and if you can grab the two mithril as well
I started a few days ago, and I've completed it on easy maybe 2-3 times, however normal's still a bit out of my depth (I think I -can- do it if I don't get bad rng, but not reliably).
I think if you play a lot you should be able to level up enough from the regular dungeons complete the normal difficulty event dungeon in time for the huge mastery and completion bonus, and get enough shards for Aeris - but if you're still struggling by the 27th or 28th then maybe just spam the easy mode dungeon for a while til you get 3.6k (3k for Aeris, 600 for the two mithril redemptions).
One huge tip I can give is that when you get 5 stamina shards (you can see how many you have below your stamina bar) you get +1 max stamina, and your stamina gets restored to max - so if you're on 3/5 or 4/5 with max stamina, do a couple of easy runs of the event dungeon before completing your next regular dungeon (as they give 1-4 stamina shards per dungeon I believe).
Thanks for all the advise guys, I half expected this would be the answer but the stamina management tips are all very helpful and always nice to be re-assured I am doing the right thing!
Even though it might seem counter intuitive to farming Aerith, make sure you buy those protect vests early. The RS on them for this event will make your fighters live longer.
You have 1 week to finish that event, if you are too weak for normal you can just spam Easy, will be longer to unlock but Aeris cost is pretty cheap
When your next Classic dungeon will refresh your stamina, run the event on Easy first. You'll want to get Aerith, at least. (Normal is really hard -- especially compared to the daily dungeons. I've mastered it, but I'm still regularly losing characters on the first stage of it, so I haven't actually repeated it all that often.)