FFBE Podcast
By Miniado and Wilmgaard
Come hang out with us as we talk about everything FFBE (Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius) from the good old days to what we're looking forward to in the future. Our struggles with hard trials, our joys at seeing rainbows come down from free summons, and even our salt as our 30% five star tickets turn out to be Russel.
FFBE PodcastApr 06, 2019
Final Episode
Hey guys.
So this is our final episode of the FFBE Podcast. It's been an awesome and amazing ride creating this podcast and playing FFBE.
We are not done making content in general, but we're going to have to step away from FFBE.
So this episode is an assortment of various topics, but mainly we reminisce about the podcast and our favourite moments of FFBE over the last 2-3 years.
We hope you've enjoyed the podcast as much as we've enjoyed making it and sharing it with all of you.
Thank you for listening! It would not have been the same without you listeners interacting and listening to our show. So really, thank you so much!
Stay healthy and stay safe out there during these difficult times.
Episode 81: Madam Edel, the Mole, the Best Adventurer, our most sought after unit!
This is literally an episode entirely dedicated to talking about Madam Edel and all aspects of her as a unit. TL;DR she's the best unit in the game in every way imaginable.
Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy the show!
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Episode 80: Awakened Onion Knight, Hein wins the Spoopy Award, Our Dreams for a Villain CG
In this episode we discuss the latest evolution in the Onion: Awakened Onion Knight.
He's pretty strong overall, especially with his ability to essentially puree an onion (and your enemies). He basically just does more damage than his previous form, is able to now imperil as well as buff your team, and he has a crap load of innate elemental resistance to Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. Oh, and did we mention that both is TMR and STMR are amazing for dual wielding units
Hein is ... well ... OK. He's insanely good if you need resistance to fire, ice, or lightning. He's the only unit so far to give 150% resistance to those elements as an ability! In this case he is awesome. If you don't need that, he's just OK as a mage. We gave him an overall score of 10 spoopy skelingtons /10.
Xande is great because he is free, has a decent TMR/STMR, and he can solo carry you through the event missions once you get him.
Next, the continuation of the Valentines Day event has a nifty little Materia to pick up.
Finally Mini and Wilm dream about villains getting CG movies, making specific reference to the old bully of the arena: Cloud of Darkness.
Thank you for listening, we hope you enjoy the show!
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Episode 79: One of the BEST TMRs, Valentines Day Event with not 1, but 4 AMAZING Units
In this episode we discuss both the continuation of last weeks King Mog event and latest valentines day event featuring 4 new 5 star units.
The continuation of the King Mog event comes in with the standard exploration and ... MORE FARMING!? why do you hate us Gumi?! In order to craft the equipment, we have to farm out the materials from a newly added mission tacked onto the explorations. More farming in an already heavy week... it's going to be a tough one.
We have the lovely and beautiful Sieghard & Ignacio, the Master and student Sakura and Ayaka, Sweet Nichol (he's O.K I guess), and Sweet Luka.
Now all the units are amazing in their own right, but Sweet Luka is bringing us one of the most insane TMRs they've released! Those Chocolate earrings pack so much into one TMR that both of us are willing to spend a Prism Moogle to get them.
Hope you all enjoy the episode! Thanks for listening
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Episode 78: Paladin Cecil breaks the Tank meta, White Mage Rosa is pretty sweet, and Steel Castle Returns!
In this episode we discuss the new units of the week.
Paladin Cecil literally breaks the tank meta with his multicast-able tank abilities. He's no longer tied down to choosing what he wants to do on a turn... he can literally do it all! Plus he's insanely strong with an absolutely fantastic TMR/STMR Combo. He will be among the best for a very long time!
And did we mention that amazing CG LB? Damn they crushed it. It's super true to his character, super cool, and even makes perfect sense with his existing kit. An amazing job by the creators of that animation.
Rosa is an amazing free white mage for those that don't have one yet. She does everything you need from a white mage: heal, remove status, AoE revive and AoE reraise. She's amazing for anyone who needs a AoE Raise/Reraise white mage.
Cid is useless. Even his TMR is useless.
Finally, Steel Castle makes it's return! Don't know about you guys, but we have a lot of equipment to enhance.
Hope you all enjoy the episode! Thanks for listening
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Episode 77: Hark! Ye of Fair Eyes! 2 star Bahamut, Blue Mage Fina and Mini's Arena Rant
In this episode, we talk about the new 2 star Bahamut and how awesome he is!
We also go over our preliminary thoughts on Blue Mage Fina and the high hopes for the blue mage class. We also discuss our early feelings on Season 3 of FFBE (why is Fina in a bad porn?).
Finally, Mini gives us a rant on arena limitations ... why must you make us suffer gumi!?
Thanks for listening! Hope you enjoy the show.
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Episode 76: Emperor Foo is the New Best Support | Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year Event
In this episode we discuss the Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year Event.
This event comes with some great limited units! Xuan Wu/Qing Long (1 unit, 2 names) is a fantastic DPS unit which focuses mainly on SPR based physical damage. Their Magnus ability has INSANE damage modifiers, but can only be used once. But let's be serious, what the hell is gonna survive 60x modifier? Overall the units functions to max out SPR damage and can do elemental chaining. The unit also kicks off a new chaining family: Avalanche Kick!
Emperor Foo is the new best support overall! His capabilities to both buff and break are awesome. When you put some of the biggest on demand buffs in the game and pair it with some of the best breaks in the game, you're going to get a good unit. But this guy takes in even further. He also has great damage mitigation, fantastic (but limited by cooldowns) elemental buffs, LB gauge filling, mana sustain, evo gauge filling, and evo mag. He literally does everything you could want you support unit to do. He even heals a little bit. He has to have a downside ... it's his LB. Its literally useless AND ridiculous expensive. There's no point where you would realistically choose to use his LB instead of double or triple casting his other abilities. But who cares about that, he's fantastic!
There's lots of goodies coming our way from this event so be sure to login and take advantage of those freebies!
Hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
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Episode 75: FFBE has gotten much better!? Our thoughts on the game right now
In this episode we talk about our thoughts on the current state of FFBE.
Mini has felt a surge of motivation thanks to all the farming event improvements. Making it quicker to farm, providing some free units to help players in King Mog events, and adding in more worthwhile rewards at times has made it feel much better to play all the farming events. There have been some drawbacks; however, with useless 3 star and 4 star units being added with useless (in today's meta) really takes away from the game.
With the addition of the 2 units recently which were given to use for free (Sister & Scartio) both of which add nothing to the meta, nothing to helping new players, and even their TMRs (which are free if you finish the HK Lasswell story) are useless. Both of us agree that using existing characters in the story not only helps reduce the amount of useless 3 and 4 star units, but also creates continuity in the backstory and would allow us to get to know some of the side characters even more ... which would also make us care for them more.
Wilmgaard misses long side-quest lines with detailed stories. The types of quests like Madams Manor, or the Vault story line (Legendary Raven is the final quest) are the types of quests we would like to see. Even if there were less quests in the game which would basically take away the "kill 5 giants" and "bring me a phoenix down" quests, this would allow for a more focused effort on making quests that culminate together to tell a greater story about the world of FFBE.
Do you have comments about the game or ideas of how to improve the game? Let's talk about it on social!
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Episode 74: Hess King Lasswell is here and he goes even FURTHER BEYOND!
Hess King Lasswell is here and his mirror of equity has ascended even further beyond! ... Basically he does more damage than before. His TMR is ridiculously strong, his STMR is perfect for anyone using Mirror of Equity abilities (and it's a strong as hell katana), and Lasswell's CG animation has us excited!
This is the first unit in a long while that's made Mini expend his deep pool of tickets, all for his boy Lasspoop.
We also go over the free units which are being released and their free TMR we are being given and why they are trash tier and shouldn't even be in the game.
Finally, the newest additions to the Defiance of Fate trials are here with an amazing ring, that is, if you're strong enough to win.
Hope you enjoy!
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Final Thoughts on The Witcher (Live Action) Season 1
We discuss the Witcher series as as a whole. Was it amazing? Did it suck (definitely not). Who were our favourite characters and favourite episodes. It's all in here.
Hope you enjoy!
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Episode 73: Regis, Ardyn, and another Raid event.
In this episode we talk about Regis and Ardyn.
Regis is a fantastic support if you don't already have one. He's able to turn your entire party into light based elemental chainers to easily stack for your main DPS unit. On top of that, he's able to provide lots of buffs, resistance to some crucial status ailments, and even mitigate damage by 50%. If you don't have a great support yet, this guy definitely fills that slot.
Ardyn is a DPS unit (Stardust Ray family) who primarily wants to double cast Warp-Strike Pain. He does have a limit burst that imperils and does an OK amount of damage, but it might be more worth while to continue chaining his Warp-Strike Pain.. it will just flat out do more damage. He also has a pretty fantastic emergency break which starts from 60-65% and scales up to 74% full break to one enemy. This is great to have on your DPS as a backup break in dire situations.
Overall both units are pretty good, and they're coming with a Raid event. This means tons of gil, cactuars, and Ability Awakening Materials (love it!)
Hope you guys enjoy the show!
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Episode 72: Undisputed BEST TANK in the game - Awakened Warrior of Light
In this episode we discuss the newest tank in the game: CG Warrior of light.
He has everything, support, tank, attack, massive stats. He's pretty much unkillable honestly.
This event adds to the theme of no 3-4* units on the banner which is amazing. They give you free bonus units including the OG Warrior of Light, OG Garland, and A FREE 7* Immortal Knight Garland. Its actually amazing how they've turned around King Mog events to be a streamlined event from the NRG Expenditure, the number of battles, less 3-4* units, and even things worth farming for.
Immortal Knight Garland is a have decent unit who, with the right equipment, can solo the entire event for you. Awesome!
We're both loving this new era of King Mog missions.
Hope you guys enjoy the episode!
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Our thoughts on the Witcher (Netflix Live Action Series)
Mini and Wilm got together and discussed The Witcher. We give our initial thoughts from what we love (Geralt's voice is spot on!) and what we didn't (What the heck happened to Triss's hair!?).
Overall we both agree it gets a glowing initial review from the both of us with a few minor issues (very minor). The fight scenes, the shoutouts to the games, the overall FEEL of Geralt and his interactions with the world as a Witcher are fantastic.
We can't wait to see what else this series has in store for us. We'll give our final thoughts pretty soon once we're both done binge watching it.
Watching as well? What do you guys think?
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Episode 71: New Fixed-Party Trials and White Lily Dark Fina (CG Dark Fina)
In this episode we discuss the new type of mission: Fixed-Party Trials.
We absolutely love these missions for multiple reasons: the accessibility, the exposure for new units, the exposure for new team compositions, and especially the showcasing of featured units. This is a significantly better way to put new units on display for the world because it shows you both how they can fit into a team as well as allowing you to fully access their kit in an end-game content type trial.
We both find these missions super fun and hope they will continue to make them regularly.
We also give a quick review of CG Dark Fina (White Lily Dark Fina) and how poorly named her abilities are in english...
Brown Demise ... seriously guys?
Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy the show!
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Episode 70: Nostalgia with Amelia, Holly Jolly Bundles, Snacking, and hitting the gym
In this weeks episode we appreciate the nostalgia of the 7 star Amelia unit and her abilities. We also try to figure out what the definition of an axe vs. a mace is... I think Mini has his definition down quite well. We then go on to pretty much ignore the other holiday units because they aren't that interesting.
The holly jolly bundles are crazy good value, and both Mini and Wilm have picked up there bundles, Wilm even got King Rain from his! Hope you guys have amazing luck if you choose to get them!
Finally, Mini goes off about his peanut butter pretzel pillows, Wilm talks about the struggles of the night shift, and we both remember how much free time there is during your college years!
Hope you guys enjoy this episode!
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Episode 69: FFXV and CG Noctis, Who Gets our Popularity Vote, Scorn of Machina of Destruction
In this weeks episode we talk about Scorn of the Machina of Destruction, or Aigaion as most people know it. We're both going blind, and Mini hasn't given it an honest attempt yet. Wilm has tried a few times and only gained a small amount of knowledge. This thing is fricken hard, probably the hardest trial we have so far!
We'll be updating on our attempts at this thing as the weeks go on until we clear it (get ready for a really long fight).
We also discuss the new FFXV King Mog event featuring CG Noctis. Although he's amazing, we were most surprised and amazed with Gentiana. A free unit you get for farming out the event. She's a great little ice mage, and if you farm hard enough, you can get her to 7 star and unlock her TMR and her STMR all for free. They've put everything you need in the King Mog shop! Honestly amazing.
Finally we ponder who's getting our Popularity contest vote. Who are you guys voting for?
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Episode 68: Physalis Event, Story Rant, and Scorn of the Legendary Stag
We also go on a bit of a rant about the story, specifically, how ridiculous season 2 was. Why are the Veritas alive? Why is everyone Rain? How did they take the best part of season 2 and ruin it with 1 moment? And finally, WHY ARE THERE 700 CHARACTERS!?
Last, we discuss the refreshing nature of the Scorn of the Legendary Stag. After the hell of the Bloody Moon, everyone needs a break, and that break is this trial. The stag is a big race against time. You have 10 turns to win, one of the missions wants you to win in 5, so really your main focus is putting out as much DPS as possible before you insta-die on turn 10, and pray its enough. Pro-tip: make sure to apply disease to do extra damage!
With every trial there was a focus: tanks, survivable dps, high spr, high elemental resistances. This trial, is high DPS. Thankfully that's pretty much everyone's favourite thing to do. Pump out high numbers and mentally masturbate to it.
Hope you guys enjoy this episode!
Next week: Scorn of the Machina of Destruction (Aigaion).
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Episode 67: Scorn of the Wicked Moon
Scorn of the Wicked Moon... the bane of both of our existances.
If there was one trial we both hated immensely, we think it would be this one. A trial where surviving is the difficult part, but to survive you need to be both tanky and do lots of DPS at the same time. Oh, and you can't do any physical damage, everything is immune to physical damage.
Queue Mages, the squishiest of all unit types!
That is honestly what made this fight so difficult, creating a mage that can AoE chain to kill all the adds as they spawn, plus survive the onslaught of the Bloody Moon turn after turn. It takes mitigation, stacked with more mitigation, barriers, tanks, oh and your DPS has to have over 900 SPR and 10K HP. Good luck!
Tune in for a more detailed breakdown of our difficulties and how we overcome the trial.
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Episode 66: Black Friday Event | New Secret Agent Units Are Awesome | New OP Magnus Abilities
This Black Friday FFBE brings more than bundles: A new theme of units with an all new type of ability!
Seems like Black Friday will be a new event type in FFBE, and I for one am excited. Not only are we getting an amazing bundle (4k Lapis for a ton of amazing goodies - Mini is excited) but these new units are really breathing life into some old 4 stars from years ago.
Doctor Aiden (contending for best healer), Operative Zyrus (a pretty strong mage), Mastermind Xon (best thief now and forever), and Agent Olive (... we're not that excited lol).
Aiden, Zyrus, and Xon got updates that stayed true to their identities as units and just made them even better, stronger, and usable in the current meta. Olive, on the other hand, is now a chainer? How the hell do you a chain with a massive effing canon!? It really went over our heads. Although she is very strong and fits with the chainer meta, we wish she stayed true to her finisher type character. If only her magnus ability could be all of her abilities.
Speaking of magnus abilities: all the new units for this Black Friday event got Magnus abilities. These are a new ability which can only be used a limited number of times in a fight, and then you can't use it anymore during that battle; however, these abilities are crazy strong! Each of them fits extremely well with the units kit and we think you guys are gonna love them!
Hope you enjoy this episode!
Stay tuned tomorrow for our Scorn of the Bloody Moon episode!
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Episode 65: Magitek Warrior Terra and Adventurer Locke | Scorn of the Fallen Ice Bird
In this episode we go over Magitek Warrior Terra and Adventurer Locke. The new Terra CG has Mini captivated and Wilmgaard can't figure out who the hell Locke is! Terra is ushering in the next level of mages, however Locke does nothing for the thieving class? The STMR he brings though is absolutely disgusting. It gives so much more versatility to full dodge builds on top of already being an awesome STMR.
We also cover the Scorn of the Fallen Ice Bird trial. Wilm is upset at this trial for being a huge elemental equipment check ... a massive wall put up to just survive each and every turn, and that wall is made up of the crazy amounts of equipment you need to even play the trial. Funny enough, if you have the correct equipment, the trial is easy after that, there's no other tricks to it!
Listen in for the full breakdown of numbers and units we used!
We hope you enjoy this episode!
Next week is Scorn of the Wicked Moon
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Episode 64: FFBE NYC Livestream Event News | FFBE War of the Visions Opinions
In this episode we review and discuss the announcements from the NYC livestream event over the weekend! A lot of very exciting things going on! From season 3 to free pulls, from blue Mages to community units! A ton of new stuff and even some new events types coming our way! We also discuss FFBE War of the Visions (WotV). The game has its ups and downs, but the biggest concern for us is that it’s released in JP before global, rather than releasing together in both regions ... will this be enough to drive us away though? Find out in this episode!
Hope you all enjoy!
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Episode 63: FFBE FIXES SUMMONS!? Huge changes to all summons! | Scorn of the Lich discussion
In this episode we give our thoughts on the recent changes to rare summons, UoC tickets, and so much more!
The changes make summons so much better and give us confidence for the future. They have gone ahead and updated the summon rate of rainbows up to 5% (was 3%), updated the on banner rate to 1.5% (was 1%), and THINNING OUT THE SUMMONING POOL!
Thinning the pool of 5 star units you can get when doing rare summons or banner summons is such a massive change. Now when you see a rainbow, you will feel excited again rather than worried. No more Delita trolling your rainbow crystals, no more worrying which form of Lightning is going to appear. Plus, if you do see a rainbow, there's a much higher chance of getting a unit you want, a unit that will be amazing in today's meta, or a unit you can actually use.
Finally, they've increased the value of UoC tickets and how you can use them. Starting with Aldore King Rain, new 5 star unit Prisms will be UoC-able immediately once the banner is available. So if you get one unit, you can UoC a prism to make it 7 star RIGHT AWAY, and it's less expensive: only costs 8 UoC tickets for 1 Prism. No more waiting 2 weeks to use your new unit.
The last change to UoCs is that you can trade them in for lapis: 1 UoC = 1500 Lapis. This further makes summoning current units accessible, and can get you to that last step of a step up. To celebrate, the first 5 UoCs you trade for lapis right now will be worth 2000 lapis each. That's massive value!
All of these changes compound together to essentially fix many of the issues with summoning units. Higher rates, smaller pools, better ways to use UoC tickets; so many fantastic changes!
We also cover Aldore King Rain and how to use him (its very easy), and Scorn of the Lich, but it's such a straight forward fight there wasn't much to mention. BE CAREFUL OF HIS UNRESISTABLE DEATH. Everything else is exactly what you would expect. Basch with his awakenings does really well in the fight, and Pheonix as an esper is an awesome addition whether its for extra DPS or for the ability to use revive with off units. Finally, units like LM Fina or Rem are amazing as they have great reraise capabilities which can really help against that unresistable death you have to deal with.
We hope you guys enjoy the episode! Thanks for listening!
Next episode: Scorn of the Fallen Ice Bird
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Episode 62: Scorn of the Octopus and the Teacher
In this episode we discuss the Scorn of Octopus and the Teacher trial as we experienced it.
At it's core, this trial boils down to 2 things: can you beat the octopus, and can you burst the teacher? The fight comes in 2 phases, wave 1 is just a fight vs Orthros, who comes with his own challenges. Wave 2 is both Orthros and Typhon.
To beat Orthrus it's important to come prepared with a Physical Cover tank with very high DEF as it's impossible to dodge their attacks. BIG NOTE: DO NOT TAKE A BREAKER. They can't be broken, so use that unit slot to help your survivability or increase your DPS Also, the key elemental damage to worry about are Earth, Water, Wind, and Lightning as he will do some pretty strong attacks using each of the elements. Finally, he alternates between resisting physical damage and resisting magic damage, and also alternates which elements he's susceptible to (fire and lightning together, wind and light together). So just switch back and forth, or use hybrid DPS units for unit slot efficiency.
This is actually where we both agreed that the game needs to do a much better job of clarity. There's no way to tell what elements you're getting hit by in any given fight. Normally, the animation would indicate to you whether it's water or fire or ice or whatever element. That's not the case, and colours don't matter either. For example, in this fight, there's a tornado animation doing lightning damage... why? If there's going to be multiple elements at least help us by giving us accurate animations, or as Wilmgaard suggested, put the elemental indicators beside the attack.
Normally in any RPG there's a way to figure out what element it is, beyond just guessing what resistance to bring until it works. Monster Compendiums are a staple, but FFBE does not give us any way to collect this info within the confines of the game, and any game should be able to give you all the information you need, or give you a way to figure it out within the game itself. We don't need detailed information about every aspect of the fight like the Wiki provides, but at least tell us what the hell we're being hit with!!
Anyways, after beating Orthros on round 1, he's the same in round 2. The trick to round 2 is Typhon, we brings a whole new set of abilities, damage, and annoyance. The main thing he does that can really wreck you is Snort. He has a temporary snort, and then he permanently snorts a unit after a specific threshold. We avoid this by Nuking him down ASAP in the fight. Then it boils back down to Orthros by himself and you've already beaten that in round 1!
We hope this helps you guys clear the fight! Some awesome units include Sieghard, Folka, Sylvie, Elena. You can supplement them with other units as you need, or substitute them with similar but "weaker" units as well (ex. Use Wilhelm instead of Sieghard).
Hope you all enjoyed the episode! Thanks for listening!
Next episode will be Scorn of the Lich
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Episode 61: Scorn of the Beasts of the Dark, FFBE farming missions just got BETTER!?, the Lantern gives Mini nightmares
In this episode we cover our clears and strategies for Scorn of the Beasts of the Dark (Dark Ifrit/Dark Siren).
First we discuss the update to the most recent farming event. There's only 1 round on LGD tier which is amazing is it takes significantly less time. Yes, it is a bit harder to do, but if you can get your team down, it makes it easier going forward and saves you tons of time killing pointless enemies. This change has the Miniado seal of approval!
The Scorn of the Beasts trial can be quite tricky. Although you may be able to AoE Burst them (pretty hard if you ask me) to get the full clear, it takes some DPS management as well as the right selection of tanks and healers. It's more than just "tank everything for me." It requires that you choose the right tank for the job.
Although they do a lot of elemental magic damage, it turns out that covering your team from the physical damage is way more important. Keeping track of things like the enemy buffs, dispelling them when they appear, and reapplying your own breaks is essential. If you have to choose, break Dark Siren as she is susceptible to ATK/MAG breaks (Dark Ifrit is not).
The route we took was to deal with Dark Siren first, kill her, then turn our attention to Dark Ifrit.
With Dark Ifrit alone, you just have to manage his buffs, breaks, and focus on not dealing too much damage all at once, unless its going to kill him. If you do too much damage and he's alive... get ready to be wiped!
Hope this helps you guys clear the trial and gives you some more info on the benefits of getting these STMR level equipments offered in these trials!
Next episode will be the Scorn of the Octopus and the Teacher!
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Episode 60: Scorn of Gilgamesh discussion and Chocobo Fina hits us with True Spirit Wield
In this episode we talk about Chocobo Fina and what it means to have increases in equipment spirit. She hits hard, is quite tanky due to high SPR. Plus she heals when she beats you ... reminds me of Betty a little honestly.
We cover the Scorn of Gilgamesh trial in more detail discussing our difficulties with it and the strategies we used to overcome the difficult parts of the trial. Mini also gives us some good weapon ideas for elemental coverage. But if you have a meta DPS unit and some decent equipment ... you can skip most of the trial actually!
Hopefully this gives you guys some more insight into the trail, we'll be covering all the trials until we are up to date.
We've decided to cover this content rather than units because any new units being released are not essential to beating all the content in the game. In fact, you can clear all the content with the units available up to Esther! So we'll be covering the trial we do week to week and touching on new in-game news as we go.
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Episode 59: New BEST TANK in the game!? FF5 looks promising, Return of Farmville, Story discussion,
In this episode we go over all the new units and events as per usual.
Galuf looks amazing! 50% damage mitigation is crazy, and he's a great tank overall. Why do we have to farm all these new units out though? Why is this looking like DLC: get a brand new unit, JK you gotta unlock him fully. This is true for all 3 of this weeks units, plus the previous few weeks as well. This needs to stop... just give us the full units.
Exdeath is looking like a fantastic mage (as EXpected). He pumps out damage and never drops his quad cast.
Krile is hard to decipher. Due to the unique mechanics of evoke damage, its sometimes difficult to stack these types of units up against other more straight forwards DPS. That being said, she looks good overall, just difficult to make a real comparison because the place where you would use a unit like her is very different.
Finally, we discuss the current state of the tank meta, the story so far and what we love/hate about it. Plus we have some good laughs about the Emporer and Aldore.
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Episode 58: FFBE or Farming Simulator? Double King Mogs, New CG unit from FF2: Firion
In this episode we talk about FFFS... Final Fantasy: Farming simulator. With back to back king mog events, it feels like the farming never ends!
We continue our discussions to cover the ability awakening batch which has some awesome units... but how many awakenings can you do? These will be extremely expensive before they’re good. Only Livid Shantotto and Shadow Lord will drain your stores of money, crysts, and your life.
The new units are somewhat interesting, but nothing new we haven’t seen before. The units are good but don’t bring much new.
Firion is cliche and too cool to look at explosions. This CG just feels overdone. He has the ability to give the Team killer passives, which is cool though! We cover the rest of the units as well as the event that came out. Hope you guys enjoy!
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Episode 57: Dragon Quest XI Collab, Kingdom Hearts Trial, lots of Nostalgia, a bit of Anime, and lots of stupidity
In this episode we reminisce of times past. We talk a bit about RPGs in general, other Dragon Quest games, Dragon Warrior 3 specifically, Final Fantasy 1, and many other things.
We discuss some anime, and perhaps why one of us stopped watching.
Finally, we ACTUALLY talk about FFBE content. Kingdom Hearts Collab trial rewards literally suck. The real rewards are locked in the raid. Who knows why they would bother with the rewards in the trial this week.
Dragon Quest XI S is here with 4 new 7 stars, and a dragon who is also a boxer. Lots of TMRs and STMRs, lots of new units, and Eleven... Who came up with this name and why did it make it to Live ...
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Episode 56: Katy Perry, the Kingdom Hearts Collab, who we're pulling for next!
In this episode we go over how amazing the free Lovely Katy is! She's surprisingly good for a free unit and makes us happy.
AI Katy is the nano machine from the future who can literally do everything. No seriously, she will make you breakfast if you need it.
Sora and Khloud are getting their stats reverted to their JP levels, plus some global upgrades (thanks Gumi!).
Riku and KH Sephiroth are finally here and they're looking good. Riku is a cookie cutter DPS, but Sephy comes with a juicy new ability that can really come in handy: AoE reraise on command!
Finally, we discuss what units we are waiting to pull for next: things get a little sexy when Wilmgaard has to make a tough decision...
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BONUS: WE'RE BACK! FFBE Podcast Comeback: A Rant on our current feelings
Hey everyone!
We had to take a short and abrupt break for just over a month. Wilmgaard had a baby back in early August and the life adjustment has been tough up until now. That being said, we've figured out a good time that we can continue to record our show on a regular basis. Look forward to FFBE Podcast every week again!
In this episode we talk about FFBE Burnout. The current issues with the content structure of Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius and why it can leave people feeling exhausted. We also offer some praise to the game regarding the highlights that they enjoy.
We go over some of our favourite aspects of the game currently and what we enjoy about them. The story is pushing us both forward and is extremely compelling.
Hopefully you guys can relate to our experiences that we express in this episode. Let us know what you think and maybe share your exprience with FFBE burnout and what you do to reset, refresh, and continue to enjoy the game.
Let us know what you think on social. Hope you enjoy!
PS. There is a full episode ft Katy Perry and the Kingdom Hearts Collab coming tomorrow! This episode is a bit of a special comeback episode and a rant. We may do more of these in the future.
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Episode 55: Radiant Lightning and Neverending Hope | Are they worth pulling? | Secret Strat to get Dual Form Revealed
In this episode we give our Radiant Lightning Review and our Neverending Hope review. Are they worth pulling? How good are they? We go over this and more! Miniado reveals his 200 IQ Strategy to getting Dual Form - Radiant Lightnings TMR (which by the way is insanely good). We discuss in further detail if Neverending Hope brings new life into Supports with his Kit. Where are you going to use your STMR Tickets when the time comes? We also talk a little bit about a potential future episode to give you the detailed information you need to pick the perfect STMR. Hope you enjoy the show! Ps. We want to make the podcast something special in it's own right. So from now on, look forward to getting the episode of the week fast via Podcast! Thanks for listening!
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Episode 54: Rivera, the Conductor | Are supports still worth it?
In this episode, Miniado and I talk about the newest addition to the Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius: Rivera. She is a conductor, and kind of a musician as well? She does both. We discuss how she fares in this meta, what she can do to bolster your team, and even lightly discuss the viability of support units as a whole. We find that support buffer type units are losing favor in the meta overall, but why is that? It's because many units who have off support abilities such as tanks, healers, sometimes even DPS units or Breakers, give MORE than the buffs of a support unit. Take for example Zeno's passive: buffs him by 200% ATK every turn. Some of the top tier buffers don't even break 170%! That being said, there is still some room for play with supports who can mitigate damage, have green mage type abilities (buff elemental resistances) or who are able to significantly buff all Stats (defensive stats can still be handy :D) Enjoy the episode!
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Episode 53: Elena and Morgana push the (chair) meta, too many abilities to talk about, Wilm eats the hot sauce (Finally)
Elena and Morgana are here!
On this episode: our thoughts on Elena's CG limit burst followed by Morgana and Elena unit reviews.
Wilmgaard finally takes his punishment: hot sauce to the mouth!
Elena, the global exclusive CG unit, is here and she is beautiful, strong, amazing, and full of back story. But how does her plot compare to others?
She reminds us of a traditional comic book hero and we’re excited to see where FFBE takes her in the future.
Morgana is her arch nemesis... turns out she’s pretty simple, and a strong friend Elena can help you clear the LGD stage quickly.
If you can’t clear it in one turn then bring a good magic cover tank, dodge tank, and breaker and it makes the battle a simple tank and spank! Hope that helps you guys clear the runs.
Morgana, Harbinger of the Chair Meta, pushes evoke mages to new heights and it’s the damage, elemental coverage, and versatility she has. Plus she’s great against bosses with damage mitigation, such as the first few turns of the FF7 trial boss on now: the Will of the Planet.
Elena, the Warrior of the (blue) Crystal, is a hybrid DPS and the best in her class! FFBE global really loves their hybrids, especially when they’re global exclusive, and it shows in Elena. At her best, she does similar damage to Zeno which is absolutely insane. Definitely worth it if you love those hybrids, or if you need a DPS on your team.
Oh, and both units chain with some of the best chaining families.
Time stamps below.
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Time Stamps
2:12 - Elena CG LB
3:50 - Fundamental Forces
9:30 - Morgana Unit Review
15:30 - Elena Unit Review
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Episode 52: Zack and Yuffie
On this episode: player's choice part 2, Armageddon global exclusive content, and the Zack and Yuffie unit review. Time stamps below. First is the news! We discuss the new character episode quests and the abilities you get for completing them. Player's choice part 2 is here! Mini and Wilm debate which is better: 10+1s or lapis summon? Events: Global exclusive Armageddon trial coming in with some nice rewards. This one has received a lot of praise! Also, we've got another FFVII event, but the event exclusive equipment isn't so hot this time around. Finally we've got the Zack (Brunet Cloud) and Yuffie unit reviews. Both are nice mid-range damage dealing units. Zack is the more straight-forward of the two. Yuffie, on the other hand is more interesting, but comes with some drawbacks as well. Hope you all enjoy the show!
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Time Stamps
3:38 - Aileen
4:28 - Roy
6:14 - Silvia
7:04 - Charlotte
Story 9:00 -
Player's Voice Part 2
16:40 - Armeggedon
21:40 - FFVII Raid
23:24 - Curse Ring
25:12 - Standard Issue Sword
28:03 - Peace Ring
30:00 - Zack Unit Review
37:30 - Yuffie Unit Review
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Episode 51: Item World Sucks, CG Charlotte Banner, and other FFBE News
On this episode we play with the format a little, splitting the show into sections.
First is the news! We discuss some issues and bugs along with some changes to the coin shop and which of players choice options are we voting for? Wilm also has somto say about those Steel Castle rates!
In the events section, we briefly cover the events released this week as well as some key items. Chocobo Rider's Dagger isn't what it appears to be while Chocobo Reins and Silver Knight's Gauntlet are actually pretty good!
During the last section, we discuss the TMRs of Shepard and Friese as well as do a quick unit review of the knight we've all been waiting for: Sacred Shield Charlotte! She's beefy like you'd expect from a tank, but also comes with some nice chain support and an insane limit burst!
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Episode 50: Kimono Ayaka, Dressy Aileen, New App, 3rd Anniversary Rewards, and so much more!
In this episode we talk about the new app version and the issues that come with it. This update brings so many new and much anticipated quality that we really need for the health of game. However, Google enforces new app compliance with 64-bit devices. Gumi has come out with this a little earlier than anticipated, so some people are affected. Hopefully you guys can get a device or another way to play!
Mini's coffee maker makes an appearance on the show. His hair attacks with a vengeance.
The FFBE Global edition 3rd anniversary is here and so many rewards are coming our way! So many free summons, tons of chances at amazing rewards, and an exchange shop which holds 3rd Anniversary summon tickets which give you a chance for UoC tickets, 5* guaranteed tickets, Prism Moogles, and a bunch of other goodies. Take advantage of these tickets by logging in every day and using the 3rd anniversary coins to exchange for them in the exchange shop... and good luck! Mini and Wilm get a few nice pulls from their 3rd Anniversary Ticket summons so far. Hope you guys make it even better!
Finally, Chocobo Rain comes in hot with all the elements, esper filling, and LB gauge filling. He is an amazing unit for clearing Missions. Dressy Aileen is decent, but is more difficult to use and doesn't push the meta forward. However, she is the most usable Aileen form which is a plus! "Kayaka" is an amazing unit and can be used to clear some tricky trials, scales with SPR, and chains extremely well. She can take advantage of imbuing elements on herself in order to elemental chain! This alone makes her an awesome unit. If you're pulling, good luck! Hope you guys enjoy this episode!
PS. Our video file for this episode corrupted and was lost very unfortunately. I wish we could salvage it and post a YouTube video but we can't. The YouTube show will be back next week for episode 3 and will continue moving forward. Sorry and thanks for your patience with us as we figure out these technical difficulties.
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Episode 49: FFBE Podcast turns into FFBE Talk! New YouTube show, Secret of Mana Collab Review, Squall/Rinoa/Mediena Awakenings
Your boys from the FFBE Podcast switching gears and bringing it to you in video format!
The podcast is still ongoing, we just wanted to give you guys more.
In this episode, Mini and I really just sat and brainstormed different names for the new show. After a lot of monkeying around, we settled on one right at the end of the show. Welcome to FFBE Talk!
There was a lot of good awakenings going on this week but Mini and I really wanted to focus on the units we were most excited about. As FF8 Fanboys, we had to give a lot of time to our boy Squall. He's coming in hot with some amazing (and expensive) awakenings which allows him to do some pretty awesome damage.
We also go over the Secret of Mana event feature Flammie and a new and improved Randi. These 2 bring some greatness with them, and Randi does some bonkers level damage. Flammie brings crazy buffs, crazy mitigation, and is just an all around fantastic support. Between these 2, your party is set!
Oh, I almost forgot to mention, this is now a weekly show. Expect a new episode every week going forward.
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Episode 48: Temple of the Ancients event with Aerith, Red XIII review, Immortal Flame Katy Review, Henne Mines
Immortal Flame Katy brings the end of an Era: finally the Katy Perry event has an end in sight! Better yet, Immortal Flame Katy has great chaining potential! Finally a half decent free unit.
Aerith and Red XIII join us as well! The newest addition of everyone’s favourite FF7. Red XIII races to the top 5 DPS currently available, and a focuses on a newer chaining family: Stardust Ray. Aerith brings literally everything a healer could want. She takes Lotus Mage Fina and Ayaka and puts them together, adds some chemical X, and creates the perfect little healer! Easily the current best healer in the game.
We also touch on a few limited time events, some new items, and some old reruns that might be worth looking into.
We hope you enjoy this podcast!
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Episode 47: Regina and friends review, New story event, and more FFBE discussion
Regina is finally here with the story event, Memories of an Automaton.
Join us as we discuss Krowa, Vesvia, Amber, and Regina. How amazing is Regina? Is it worth pulling? All this and more on this weeks episode!
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Episode 46: Summer Lid/Fina & Folka/Citra are here! Who has more plot? New trials, and some amazing QoL!
This week we’ve got some hot new quality of life updates, including expanded friend roster allowing you to share up to five different units, STMRs triggering unit passives, buff timer duration bubbles, and more. As far as trials go, The Scorn of the Octopus and the Teacher is live and damn, that rod is looking juicy. It is loaded with stats and is definitely a nice pickup for any players that can clear the mission. We’re also in the closing week of the Figaro Castle event, this time it’s an exploration mission giving you a chance to pick up the nice Soul Sabre. The highlight of this week: summer is around the corner. And what better way to bring in summer than the vast amounts of backstory and plot FFBE is known for. Summer Fina & Lid and Summer Folka & Citra are coming in with spicy CG Limit Burst animations, interesting and useful kits, and a standard 15k step-up. We talk about everything we like about these two new units. Who’s better in the meta? Who has the better CG movie? Find out here!
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Episode 45: King Edgar and Monk Sabin Opinions, New King Mog Event Points, Magitek Ruins Trial, and Many Ability Enhancements including Sephiroth
This week, we talk a little about the Magitek Ruins – Central Area and the nice little Malboro Doll you can pick up. Along with that, some much awaited ability enhancements coming, Sephiroth’s being one of the most anticipated. Are his buffs good? Or are they too little too late with the giants Esther and Zeno already around and UoCable? This week we’re also getting a King Mog event, Figaro Castle, with a bit of a change. You can now accumulate event points and receive rewards as a result. Figaro Castle also comes with a couple new 5* units: King Edgar of Figaro and Monk Sabin of Kolts. We dive in and give our thoughts on these two units, they’re bringing some interesting new stuff with them!
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Episode 44: Nagi and Yego Review, New Raid, New items, but not story? Where is the meta going from here?
On this week's episode it's the week of many orbs! Between farming, farming, and more farming, hopefully you have time to play FFBE.
What's up with the recent raids being devoid of all story content? Are lines of text explaining the reason we are fighting too difficult to add in?
That being said, we discuss the new FFBE Raid featuring our first full banner of Orders: Galas, Zolulu & Delulu, Yego, and Nagi. How do they stack up to the current meta of Zeno, Akstar, and Esther?
The 12K Step-up banners are more new-player friendly by giving free Equipment, and Mini finally steps up and gives us some real content at the end of the episode!
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Episode 43: Akstar is Finally Here! Zeno of the Beta Star ... a new Global exclusive!? Plus a new story event ft. Akstar
We start this week’s show talking about the Dwarven Castle battle where you fight Golbez and his Shadow Dragon. This is a re-run of an old fight, so it’s not too tough. Shadow Dragon will deal lethal fixed damage to one unit every turn, so keep an eye out for that. The rewards aren’t anything special, but some players might still find Shadow Dragon scale’s +30 MAG to be useful.
Moving onto Akstar’s (Tomoe’s really) story event: Out for Vengeance. First, make sure to do the Akstar unit intro quest for the free goodies and to have a look at Akstar’s CG movie, it’s pretty cool! Following a brief discussion about the story and the items you can get from completing it, we discuss the units on the banner: Majora, Gravey, Tomoe, Akstar, and Zeno of the Beta Star. Gravey has an amazing TMR, Akstar comes out unchanged from his JP counterpart, and Zeno, the new global exclusive unit surprises everyone by being a true dial wield monster.
Tune in to hear us discuss the similarities and differences between Akstar and Zeno of the Beta Star!
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Episode 42: Black Mage Golbez is actually decent! Plus, Xenogears Trial Boss is surprisingly easy
Crimson Gear coming at us this week. It’s not too difficult, just remember to dodge. Sadly the War Blade is nothing special, but still a decent pickup for newer players. The main event this week is a rerun of a restocked Tower of Zot, featuring Black Mage Golbez and his archfiends. The other FFIV units also get some bonus for this round of the King Mog event. Remember to pick up those Unit of Choice and the Guaranteed 5* summon tickets. And stick around to hear us discuss the ups and downs of Black Mage Golbez and his wi-fi disrupting powers.
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Episode 41: Thoughts on the Official Info Facebook Announcement, Xenogears Collab 2 ft. Citan & Maria, Armeggeddon trial with great rewards, Parameter Missions, and more freebies!
We start off this week by talking about our thoughts on the livestream, including the Facebook announcement regarding the last-minute changes to Esther and Sylvie. The Eggstermination event turned out to be pretty easy with a friend Esther, enjoy your Asterisk, it’s pretty good! We also touch on parameter missions and give our thoughts on some of the rewards you can get for clearing them. The main event this week is another Xenogears raid “First and Last”. You can fight Deus for points and rewards. We’re also getting three new units. We discuss Billy, the gunner priest. Maria, the goggle wielding ball of destruction. And Citan, the doctor that failed medical school.
Time Stamps:
Our take on Gumi/FFBE's Official Information Message - 3:12
FFBE Easter Stream updates - 14:30
Armeggeddon - 16:12
Story Update, Free Lapis Summon - 19:29
Parameter Missions - 21:00
Xenogears Collab 2 - 27:45
Unit Review:
Billy - 31:19
Maria - 33:16
Citan - 41:06
Final Remarks: 51:05
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Episode 40: Esther and Sylvie changes?! Unit review and our Hot Take, ability awakenings review, and events!
The spring summon festival, aka summoning heaven, continues. We’ve also got some ability awakenings for Shylt, Ozetta, Kilian, and Emilia. The four stars are getting some nice buffs this round. Not to be outdone, Lulu, Yuna, Prompto, and Aranea get some nice ability enhancements of their own. The main event this week: A literal Eggstinction eggstravagaza featuring the Eggsterminator in a series of wave battles. We’re getting some nice new earth resistance gear in the form of the Tectonic set (Tectonic Crown, Tectonic Bracer, and Tectonic Vest). This boss is a little tougher than we’re used to when it comes to events, so be prepared. And finally, we give our thoughts on the last-minute changes to the new units Esther the bunny girl and Sylvie the paladin, along with our usual unit review. These ladies are eggselent.
Time Stamps:
End of Intro - 02:36
Free Summon Banner and Rerun Event - 03:45
Steel Castle Melfikya - 04:50
Ability Awakening Batch 27
Shylt - 06:45
Ozetta - 08:14
Killian - 09:38
Emilia - 11:10
Lulu - 13:00
Yuna - 15:43
Prompto - 17:27
Aranea - 20:36
Elemental Battle Eggstinction (Easter Event) - 23:02
New Unit Controversy: Our Hot Take - 30:35
Esther Review - 43:25
Sylvie Review - 55:39
Final Remarks - 1:08:06
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Episode 39: Crimson Banner! Is he worth it though? Akstar delayed, new story event, tons of free spring event stuff! How we feel about FFBE GL and its "power creep" pacing
Spring is upon us, we got the Vault of Hidden Treasures coming in, along with some free summons, spring summon tickets and a new, highly difficult trial: Scorn of the Beasts of the Dark. You know it’s going to be hard because of the double “of the” in the title. Marching right along, march on Tiamat is here. You can get some decent stuff for beating it, but don’t be too rough, Tiamat is sensitive. If Marching isn’t your thing, we’ve also got a wilderness survival guide coming in this week. It’s called “The Day the Spark was Lit”. As I’m sure you know, one of the most important things for survival is fire. We’re excited to learn how to light sparks of our own.
The first instructor is Mirfas, the baker’s daughter. Once you’ve got a fire, you need something to use it on. That’s where Mirfas comes in with some fresh bread. A warning: if you’re going to use it as an accessory instead of a food item, avoid large bodies of water.
Next up, we talk a little about Kyanos, the seasoned warrior. If you just can’t seem to get the spark right and all your bread comes out bad, you’re gonna be pissed. You might even say you hate this wilderness survival stuff. But that’s where the next lesson comes in, Kyanos will teach you how overcoming your hatred makes your limit bursts stronger. You don’t think it would work like that, but it does.
And if all else fails, there’s Crimson. He’s got a massive, flaming sword. Really. It’s massive. It can also freeze things. Check it out.
Time Stamps:
End of Intro – 5:40
Spring Summons and Vault of Hidden Treasures – 6:00
Scorn of the Beasts of the Dark – 8:45
March on Tiamat – 11:05
The Day the Spark Was Lit – 13:50
Step up Summon/Banner – 17:50
Mirfas Unit Review – 19:50
Kyanos Unit Review – 23:20
Our Thoughts on Akstar Delayed – 27:20
Crimson Unit Review – 33:25
Takeaways of the Episode – 50:00
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Epsidoe 38: Final Fantasy Tactics Event Ft. High Seraph Ultima and Beowulf, New Dark Esper Trials: Shiva & Golem, and Desert Despair - the Xenogears Trials
Last week was the week of trials. Both Wilm and Mini cleared the chamber of arms and talk a little about some of the battles, rewards, and experiences. Speaking of battles, Dark Golem and Dark Shiva are here and they are HARD. But they do come with some nice rewards if you can clear them (looking at you Shiva’s Tiara). If that’s a little too tough for you right now, we also got “Desert Despair”, the difficult battle for the Xenogears colab where you get to fight Weltall-ID. And by fight I mean you get to flick it with your finger and knock it out, this one is easy. Now that we’ve over come the trials, we can talk about the new Final Fantasy Tactics event Nelveska Temple. King Mog is sending us back to Ivalice to farm some Blue Orbs in exchange for some goodies. But I think most people are excited because we’re getting four new Final Fantasy Tactics units: Construct 8 - the adorable killing machine, Reis, the adorable and sparkly Holy Dragon, Beowulf, the Dragon fu—.. ahem, Dragon lover… AND finally High Seraph Ultima – the MP devouring, enemy murdering, head-wing having killing machine (imagine how scary she’d be if she wasn’t high). Hope you enjoy!
Time Stamps:
End of Intro/ Start Dark Beasts II - 9:08
Desert Despair (XG Trial) - 13:38
Final Fantasy Tactics Event: Nelvaska Temple - 17:16
Construct 8 - 26:38
Reis - 28:30
Beowulf - 30:31
High Seraph Ultima - 36:51
Closing Remarks - 50:35
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Episode 37: Xenogears Collab!! Tons of Quality of Life updates, and the esper Asura joins FFBE Global!
On this episode, we get real hyped about the latest quality of life updates including team saving and loading, buff and debuff turn counters, an extra “all” tab for units and many more! We also touch on a bit of the story so far and finally cover the much awaited and anticipated Xenogears banner. The banner comes along with a raid event called Elements’ Formation, where we get to fight a fun looking mech. Meanwhile, the banner is everything we’ve been asking for: Xenogears Limited Exchange Tickets, On-banner rainbows, and a stepup to tie it all together. And of course, a quick overview of the limited time Xenogears (including Fei, Bart, and Elly) units you can summon.
Time Stamps:
End of the Intro – 4:32
Minor Story Spoilers – 5:15
End of Story Spoilers – 7:34
Asura – 7:35
Arena Participation Rewards – 8:50
Quality of Life Updates – 9:52
Elements’ Formation – 15:26
Xenogears Banner – 19:30
Chu-Chu – 21:00 Rico – 23:08
Emeralda – 25:08 Bart – 25:53
Fei – 30:14
Elly – 40:22
Closing comments – 47:00
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Episode 36: Xenogears next week?! Karlette and Yuraisha join us, 2 new trials, ability awakenings batch 26
Trust Moogle friend point summon is here! But it’s a little more tedious to fuse them than it used to be. If you have a convenient way to fuse them all, please give us your secret strats! We also got a couple new trials this week, Scorn of Gilgamesh, coming in hot with Muramasa and a Select Summon Ticket. And the prophesied circley wing thing, Warden Welter, makes an appearance. Balthier got some much needed love in his ability enhancements this week. Joining him with some great enhancements are Basch and Kunshira as well. And finally, the Grandma of Hess: Yuraisha is here. She’s joined by Karlette, the wonderful red mage. We talk about both of their kits and what we think of them. Soilers: Xenogears banner confirmed for next week!
Time Stamps:
What's up from last week? - 0:08
Trust Moogle Summon - 4:37
Scorn of Gilgamesh - 6:28
10-man Warden Welter - 9:10
FFT Rerun - 11:44
Ability Awakening Batch 26 - 12:19
Balthier - 12:32
Basch - 17:20
Kunshira - 22:38
Seymour - 24:45
Drace - 25:30
Vayne - 27:08
Wakka - 30:14
Camille - 30:58
New Banner - 32:40
New Unit Review - 34:20 (Ishil starts)
Franis - 35:34
Karlette - 38:12
Yuraisha - 43:40
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