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Danpace

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I really loved this tower event, lots of strategy, weapon and deck considerations. Also I saw a lot of none supreme decks up there in the higher levels.

What I also came across was a lot of people on this sub up there is the top 500, special shout out to Lord topping the table and also the unwanted for getting that top 10 spot.

I believe that the best players in the game are the ones that are active on this sub (I am sure there are a few that are not so active but still take notes from here!) and with that in mind thought this would be a great place to let people know how you got on, where you got to in the tower if there are any cards you used that surprised you. By all means share your decks if you like and let us know your achievements.

For me I finished in 30th place with 173 kills and I actually ended up dropping Aeirth from my main deck in favor of a force card on one set up and dusted of prompto for 2 of the nodes.

Let me know your finishing positions and your achievements in this tower

Posted Oct 2, 2017, 8:05 AM UTC · edited

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mthucs•

2nd. The best part was the final 3 hours when Hikaru was right on my heels. I woke up early just to fight back. :D

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DanpaceOP•

I do this as well, pick someone and see if I can finish above them even if they don't know I am in a competition with them!!

So the top 10 are looking more and more like people from this sub.

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TheLordKimbo•

Well done.

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mthucs•

Thanks. You too.

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cx777•

Hi Danpace. Thanks for the shoutout, and same to you for finishing strong.

I definitely feel that there's a lot to benefit in every aspect by participating in this sub, or as you have mentioned to at least take notes from posts and discussions. Our back and forth for example helped me think outside the box to overcome some of the floors, admittedly something I'm not the best at.

I enjoyed this tower myself as well. It was a fresh perspective with the paradigm system that propogated a different thinking. It invited new and unique deck ideas that could actively compete against the supreme cookie cutter decks, which placed many supreme owners on a back foot. Good job to SE as well for a much better awareness and effective tower hacker management.

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DanpaceOP•

No worries, like you said in your post on here getting to the top ten was a big achievement so worth a mention.

There is always a deck combo you would throw away as it doesn't suit your own style of play but when you see it in action or read about the benefits you can start to look at things differently with your own set ups. That's what keeps me engaged in the game using what you have in different ways to get that little bit more out of it.

Grats on the finish, top 5 next time?!

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Ketchary•

Rank 379 with 133 kills. It was a massive challenge with very little playstyle freedom but intense requirement of creativity.

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DanpaceOP•

This is without supreme cards/skin as well I take it?

As far as creativity in this game goes I think you are the one to take notes from! I know I have looked at breaking in more detail with this tower and looked at some of the things you have suggested in order to push higher. I normally go for the all out nuke no break strategy so I must thank you sir!

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Ketchary•

Indeed, no Supremes or Lightning skin. It's awesome that I could help you. Thanks for the words!

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TheLordKimbo•

Thanks for the shout out. I have to agree that the best players are typically ones that use this sub. Very grateful to all the players who contribute to this sub testing new abilities, working out the effects of certain features and who do content look aheads from the JP version and most of all for being a positive community.

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Fouace•

Finished around 450 something (can't remember exactly and maintenance won't let me check it) with 131 kills.

I felt safe going to bed while being around 360th but the last hours have been apparently very busy for some!

Decks were nothing original, although it was the first time I used a supreme (Minwu) and it made clearing the first two bosses much easier than without. Then Sazh did the trick for Lightning, helped with a good Sargatanas and Flameforce on my Rogue (whose ultimate is still one of the best for towers).

What I liked in this tower was the absence of tanking strat I used before to reach top 500, which get quite boring after a while (looking at my Paladin/Tonberry set of last tower) and since I did not have a lot of time last week due to work, it was a welcome 'change'. I never played FFXIII, so I discovered the paradigm system and the characters (to some extent). Made me tempted to dig the game a little bit (which is why I would not understand GL not getting Dragon Quest collab since it is a very good way of promoting a game).

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DanpaceOP•

I loved the no tank way of this tower, makes you consider what you are doing in order to not take a hit!

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Ariito•

178 kills I saw you while I was climbing. Anyway here's a playlist of my videos for this [tower] (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhaytszDz_x1ut8YdktEhZA50VBpTiTLr)

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DanpaceOP•

thanks for the video's hopefully this can help people when it comes to there own tactics.

I can still see you on the rankings at 26, I will have to keep an eye out on the next tower and push a few extra out!

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Gidan-•

I finished 485th-ish with 130 kills. I am not super active on this reddit but I have been checking it daily for a few months and I drastically improved since I started (never made top 500 before and struggled to stay in the top 1000) as this is my second straight top tier reward. So I agree with you, this page helps a lot, although in my case I don’t think I’ll ever reach top 50.

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DanpaceOP•

Grats on the top 500, just!

You never know what the next pull will give you so maybe you can push to the top 50.

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MobiusPotato•

Ended at Rank 24 with 181 kills.

I was really impressed by the versatility of Tactician in this tower. Aside from his incredible magic stat, he stands out from the rest of his batch in terms of tankiness - unusual for a mage! The prismatic shift ulti also offers great utility and gives him an edge over Hope's Guide. IMO, he was definitely the MVP for this tower.

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DanpaceOP•

I saw you a few times climbing but you always seemed to stay a few kills ahead!

Good work I never really used tactician in this tower but We does become massively useful with certain deck set ups for me.

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RevanK•

Rank 132, 146 kills. First time reaching top 500, pretty happy. Used Hope/Occ pretty much all the way. Not sure if I'll tryhard again next time though, so time/resource consuming.

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DanpaceOP•

I think the next one might scale a little quicker as this one did take elixir to get up there quickly, but we will see.

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celegus•

Top 500 is too tall an order for me, I was pleased with sneaking in at rank 983!

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NinjaDave84•

Finished the highest I have ever achieved in a tower ranking event. Rank 239ish with 137 kills with one supreme (Duncan) - used grappler with occultist.

Enjoyed the depth of the paradigm system in this tower.

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DervoTheReaper•

I ended at rank 211 with 140 kills. Could probably have pushed further, but I was happy with that assured top 500 placement, and really needed crystals so I went to the Gigantaur Battlefield. I'm back down to ten already... don't ask. Ok, go ahead, but be prepared to laugh at my wastefulness. Edit: changed six to ten during this post because Gigantaur Battlefield is awesome.

Anyway, at this point I should probably just state my in game name because I'm sure people saw me. I certainly saw a lot of redditors anyway. It's simply "Dan". Pretty sure I saw you once Danpace, but it was only once and for a very limited time. Think it was when I hit 122 before Mobius day. I spent a lot more of my time around darewin, JojoBizarro, and JojoScraggins.

I learned a bit during the tower, mostly about breaking. Like, how annoying flash break can be to use well, but that it's a gamechanger when used appropriately. How quick break is really nice against the kraken, but only if you tap attack immediately after the ult, instead of going for the yellow bar. That still activates kraken's break immunity.

Other than that, I was re-familiarized with the need to break as the last or nearly last action of your turn in order to lower cooldown of cards... and now that I'm using orichalcum, to recharge ults. It's a simple thing to know, but it can be daunting using several actions to tap attack when you're not sure that your ult will lower their yellow bar enough for a quick break.

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Wazzupmadafaka•

Is there a situation where force card is better than aerith?

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zio_shi•

When the fight lasts 2 or more rounds and all you need to do is cast 1 spell.

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DanpaceOP•

This, for orb management and ult charging I dropped her for force. I needed to keep my fire orbs and found areith was making orb management more difficult.

My tactic at the higher levels was to break at the end of the second turn so I nuke on the 3rd turn

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Wazzupmadafaka•

That's good since I don't have her. Force will have to do for now.

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DanpaceOP•

Bear in mind this is a very situational set up and I cant see it happening without the unique set ups this tower required

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marayasu•

Grats!

Finished at rank 43 with 165 kills.

(If I recall we both stopped at around 150 for a couple days.)

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DanpaceOP•

Good work, yeah I stopped as I needed seeds badly!

The thing with this tower is it had that "just one more" feel about it. tweak your set up and see if it works and go round again.

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marayasu•

Definitely! It was a lot of fun!

I really enjoyed the paradigms, gave each deck a lot of depth. With good management and timing, even high level floors were easy, yet with bad management, you died instantly, a very nice addition! Sad to see it go.

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brawlbull•

just barely made top 500 in a looooooong time at 462 (last time was before egg and supreme cards got introduced). Classic hope and Occultist ULT spamming with my trismagistus. Actually dusted off Minwoo after a while, but as far as I'm concerned I have two of him (hope card).

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DanpaceOP•

Grats on the top 500, cutting it fine there though!

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brawlbull•

Lol thanks. If only I had Aerith I could have gotten an easy 15-20 more kills without much effort. Need that weakness weapon and prismatic.

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Fsmaior•

I finished close to 1000. I don't know if I made to top 1000 because 35 minutes before the end of the event I went to sleep but I was at 927 then. Best ranking ever for me. First time on top 1000 with Hope/Berserk deck. I climbed with grappler most of the time due to his ultimate break power and using snow card for damage. But after 60 or something o floors snow card was not enough anymore so I changed to hope. Made very good use of force cards and on the last kill(85) I was lucky on the lightning fight because I had low hp(10%) and she did not drive my orbs so it was easier than I thought.

Overall this always a nice and fun tower!

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DanpaceOP•

Lets hope you managed to stay in that top 1000!

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Fsmaior•

I will inform when maintenance is done.

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Fsmaior•

Good news! Final rank 940! I am really happy for my accomplishment and for that I am very grateful to this sub and to the wonderful guys that put a lot of effort into nice useful guides!

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DanpaceOP•

Grats you can enjoy the fruits now with your filled up present box.

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Fsmaior•

Yes, 25 crystals made me happy since I was low on them for coming HoF.

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toomuchburst•

I finished at 17 with 195 kills! :)

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DanpaceOP•

Another high roller in the tower, you can never tell who is who when climbing as most have different names. What I am noticing is there seems to be a high percentage of people in the top ranks that use this sub.

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toomuchburst•

While that might be true, i didn’t get strats from the sub. I was aiming for 200 kills though, but fell short because of strict orb management, and the preference to use my stamina somewhere else, lol

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DanpaceOP•

Yeah stamina was a big part for me as well I stopped the climb to farm more seeds!

Fair point on the strats I think bar the top 10 I saw a wide range of different set ups which I love to see.

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toomuchburst•

Yes true! I dropped to 3mil seeds during the tower :(

Furthermore, on the strats, I was actually reliant on a tank on floor 160 onwards, while i know its not the common consensus in the sub, but hell it worked for me :)

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WinteringGoose•

I ended up at 343 with 134 kills. For the majority of the tower, my decks were Hope w/ Minwu (such a lucky free summon last month, thank you SE ;-;), Neo Bahamut, Serah, and APT, with Moogle packing Undying, Regalia, Mandragora, and 3* Stolas (I wish I had augmented it, but it didn’t have GS priority). The final loop from Kraken onward saw Stolas and Serah swapping decks (orb management was getting too rough in the beginning), and Orphan took over for Mandragora. Early stages (around 30-40 or so) had Humbaba on the tank to help recharge the ultimate gauge, until I found it was unnecessary and replaced it with more Duration Boost instead. I used the same setup for all four nodes, with just slight tweaks to strategy.

I don’t want to bore with my full strategy, but the main feature of it was the Moogle Suit. With a somewhat modded Eisenfaust I had 12 (!) defense stars, and having access to light (with nothing to do with it but drive!) made tanking four rounds of buffed Lightning very survivable, even after dropping Trance from the moveset.

This was my first time in the top 500, after finishing the last four towers in 1000-3000 range. Overall it was very tense, frustrating, and in the end fun! I may try to do it again next time. Btw, first reddit post, signed up after reading for months just so I could post here! xD

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DanpaceOP•

Good work and welcome to the community! With Minwu and Hope you will be able to go far in many towers so very lucky pull.

This has been a very different tower from previous so letting others know your strategy can only help people that didn't do so well, don't worry about boring peolpe they will either read it or not!!

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Mobius1337•

151 kills rank 98 if I'm not mistaken, 1 supreme setup, Rogue with Ragnarok or Hermit with Yiazmat + Snow as the other job in both decks.

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SanjiLYH•

Close to your ranking... 152 kills rank 92.

Snow - Iceshock, darkshock, double Aerith

Squall - Fang, UB, Aerith, Sleep

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savage_starlight•

With luck, I finished rank 379 with 133 boss kills. Last Hunter with Sazh got me most of the way, with Highwind permanently in sub-deck. Both jobs from free GAS along with Aerith (Orphan in sub-deck.) Had to use event map tickets to buy Centaur. Hit a wall, then dropped a $20 expecting blue lasers, but got Knight of Etro instead! Used all of my tablets to get that maxed. The ultimate made all the difference, especially if hitting broken Lightning, taking about %70 of her HP in one move, plus the quicken effect. Tanky too.

I mainly learned to time my breaks right to cycle my Aeriths forward, and that sometimes my BDD skill would take huge chunks out of the orange bar, but sometimes not, even with faith buff on. (?) Overall, I feel like I really got the most out of my jobs (tried many, even old jobs for fun.) https://i.imgur.com/xPl6e7k.jpg

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DanpaceOP•

Grats, on the yellow gauge front depending on the cards you use hitting a crit makes a massive difference to the damage to the yellow bar. If you are not running a force card I recommend you try to get as many crits as you can

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