Did yours change at all after 3 LDs and a free 30 relic draw?
I was going for banner 2 and 4 originally, but now I'm probably only pulling on banner 4. I already have 3 dupes there plus the infamous tiny bee. Now I'm not even sure if I should pull at all. Basically for each fest banners I have between 3 to 5 potential dupes already :(
Any future relics you are saving mythril for?
Posted Sep 25, 2017, 6:15 AM UTC · edited
Original plan: 2/2/0/2/2
After 3 LDs and 30x: 2/2/0/2/0
After B1: 1/2/0/2/0
Got Firion USB and Ingus/Maria BSB on first pull. Happy with the result. Not doing second pull. I'll save that for future FFI event.
Pull Iris BSB and Noctis OSB from LD and 30x. I got good synergy gear for FFXIV. Plan to draw on FFXV banner on 10/12. I can pick Raines BSB and Vanille BSB from gem-only and crystal tower selection for FFXIII.
I got so many dark stuff the last 3 days it's pretty nuts. Sephiroth SSB, Gabranth BSB, Vayne BSB, Leon BSB, and Basch OSB. Not that this changed any of my pull plans though.
Pulled Ceodores's bsb on free relic draw. Now have 4 dupes on banner 2 so will skip.
My original plan was doing all 3 LDs + 30 relic pull + banner 1 + banner 5 + Crystal tower selection banner
My plans have not yet changed. I got what i wanted (Luneth USB) from my 1st pull on banner 1, but decided to do a 2nd pull, which technicaly gave me the 2nd thing i wanted the most ( A FFI relic, sadly it was Garlands :(, also got Emperor BSB on the 2nd pull). Regardless now i'm saving for banner 5 and then crystal tower selection.
Originally was going to pull once on every banner. Ended up getting 2 relics from the first banner with the lucky draws and 30 pull, and managed to get Warrior of Light BSB in a 100 gem pull. Instead of having only 2 dupes in banner 1 I now have 5, so hard pass on that. The plan stays the same for the rest of the banners though.
Sadly, my plans have not changed.
I originally planned on at least one draw on banners 2 and 3, with a second on one of them, and then Crystal Tower draw as well.
I had hoped to get ice or earth stuff to help me with magicites, but no dice. I did get a number of good relics, including WoL holy chain and Rapha USB. Rapha's was the biggest get, since it's my first non-610 faithga, so I can properly run mage teams now.
I just wish I knew how much more mythril we can expect before the CT draw ends, so I know what I can afford on these banners for sure.
It hasn't changed. Planning to pull on fest 4 as many of the relic in that banner completes combo sets for relics I already have. Pulling also on crystal banner for lulu +ice armor. Depending on what relic I get from the banners I may not pull on gem only.
I see a lot of people saying they won't pull on the fest banners because they have a few dupes but are the dupes actually much worse than getting an SSB on an event banner? Consider the 5% SSB rate on current event banners (goes to 4% in a few months and then SSBs dissapear though ). IMO it's better to add up the percentage of relics you want and then compare to coming event banners.
Getting a mediocre/bad BSB can sometimes be comparable to certain SSBs in my opinion. Not all BSBs are made to be superior to SSBs. For me it is actually just fine to pull SSB as long as you lack synergy relic in that realm or that SSB happens to be good/premium quality (like shout/pentabreaks/medica) or it has a good elemental bonus that you need(+element damage). Furthermore if that banner actually has a super kickass relic of a comparable quality to Cloud's USB, I'd say it's worth a shot to pull on that non-fest banner.
Right, which is why I said to add up the percentage of relics you want. However, since most ssbs are twice as likely as bsbs some people will consider pulling on a banner with "only 1 or 2 dupe ssbs" when that is the same as 2 or 4 dupe bsbs. My point is that having a few dupes on a banner where everything is a 1% relic is not a big deal.
Also, most of the fest banners have multiple kick ass relics comparable to clouds USB including the banner that literally has cloud's USB.
I think everyone wants different relics really, so each person values relics differently. Plus they have different set of rule of thumb that they go by alongside with their spending habits. My gut tells me that I shouldn't be doing more than one pull on all of the fest banners combined. Yes there are a few top relics I don't have, but it's not a that big upgrade to my party power compared to the risk I have to take with my mythril.
I think you are completely missing my point. I have no idea what relics you have (except Chicken Knife that you mention lower below, congrats and I can see why you aren't pulling on banner 2 now) and I'm not telling you to pull on the festival banners.
My point is simply that people tend to look at just the number of dupes to decide when to pull when they should instead (or at least in addition) look at the percentage of relics they want. In other words, what is the chance of being happy rather than what is the chance of getting nothing.
The festival banners have no SSBs and so have more relics than regular banners. Thus it's expected for there to be more dupes but this isn't necessarily bad. For example, if a festival banner has 6 items you want and 5 dupes then I argue that it is a much better pull than a regular event which has 4 items you want and no dupes. The specific tradeoff is up to each person of course. There are plenty of event banners where you do indeed want the SSBs and in that case they should be counted as relics you want. For example, I did two pulls on the FF5 banner because I wanted a wind+ sword and a wind imperil.
I initially planned on 2 pulls on Banner 1, 1 pull on Banner 2, and one draw on Crystal Selection. Since my 30 Draw was underwhelming the plan is still the same.
I’m tempted on another Banner 1 Draw since I didn’t get Maria or OK BSB but maybe a second pull on Banner 2 would be better so I can have a decent shot at Terra and Bartz USB, maybe Bartz BSB and Gogo BSB since I’m severely lacking in water relics.
Nope. The only relic from the fest banners I pulled was Ceodore BSB and his is on a low scoring banner for me. I'm definitely pulling on banner 3 and right now banner 4 and 5 are tied for the next most appealing using my scoring system. I can only afford 2 pulls if I plan on doing the crystal tower pull too. Really have to reevaluate banners 4 and 5 with respect to the crystal tower and free selection.
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Tyro USB2, Marche USB, Ramza BSB2, Tidus Chain are all things I would like in the future. Plenty of other good things are coming, those are just the ones off the top of my head. Onion Knights new stuff is pretty cool also; USBs for physical and magic.
Tyro USB 2
Do you mean USB 3? Because the USB 2 is on this fest
Yep, that's the one. The SG w/ haste, protectga, shellga. The freebie is nice for newbies but not terribly useful aside from that.
I'm with you on Tyro's, Tidus's and OK's stuff. They're really something!
I came into the fest expecting to have 500 Mythril to Spend.
After the Updates I was possibly going 2/2/3/2/1
But I pulled Terra's USB and Locke's THF Knife, 2 of the 6 items I wanted from Banner 2, so now I may go 2/1/4/2/1 or even just hold Mythril for a later date, and not pull on Banner 2 or 5 (which have 1 & 2 relics, respectively, that I'd really want, and 4 & 5 which I'd be content with.)
My obvious goal was Chicken Knife in Banner 2, and as of right now we don't have any planned FF5 events, so I'm either risking dupes here or risking not having it come up again for 6+ months (It was on Super fest Banner 2, but lol at getting Super Fest 2)
That's alot of mythril! I only have like 200ish right now.
Be careful with chicken knife, it's good, but it's dosed heavy in RNG. I'm not too happy about it personally after testing it out on magicite dungeons.
I've been saving since the last fest, which I didn't find to appealing to pull on more than 1-2 times. Since then I've maybe did 1-2 banner pulls and all the LDs. I've been able to clear everything except Magicites, so I didn't feel a big need to pull. But having only cleared Water and Ice Magicites, It's time I get a few new toys.
As for Butz, I've seen that in MP fights, how sometimes you may get 2 hits, which don't add up to much, and sometimes 8.
I think since these LDs and 30 pull, I'm more looking to go with the 3rd banner, for some Ice coverage and that shot at Cloud's USB.
Yea banner 3 is solid if you don't have those two relics yet. Too bad they removed Zack's USB.
I would love the 3rd banner for clouds usb or ice coverage. Sadly, everything else on that banner is a dupe for me. 6 dupes is way too many. Damnit. Guess Fenrir will have to wait until... Hell freezes over? Lol.
Do you have an en-element for him and appropriate buffs? I use him to utterly destroy Liquid Flame consistently, need to test him on others still.
Yea i have his water and earth BSBs. I was expecting a little more damage to be honest. I haven't gone full offense yet so maybe I need to bring in more buffs/ imperils.
Got mostly shit. I don't have plan to begin with so probably 1 or 2 11x for 2, 3, 4. It will be shit anyway.
That's what I usually tell myself so it's hard to get disappointed when I actually get shit
Was gonna pull on fest4, but after duping lucky1-3, realized hell, I can 45s all Magicites, might as well wait. Only doing gem and maybe Crystal tower for Lulu's armor...
I was actually excited for the fest banners, but after realizing how many dupes I have already, it suddenly turned into mediocre banners to me.