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My intention here is just to show a very standard build and to show teams that are able to compete up against it. I'm not trying to show different variations of the meta, those are always evolving.

Nice! Maybe You could work Veritas of the Water in there over OG Elsi since Veritas works on several of the Great Sword VCs also, might be a more valuable overall team contributor, even if the cards don't perfectly align for her specifically.

@@JB79 thanks for the tip! I’m saving my mats for fft rerun. I’ll look forward to some videos on how we might get them to work 😉

It's a bit tough for ice at the moment; but with Shrek and soon Garoussa I think Ice will rise again.

@@JB79 Ice has always been the most balanced element in my opinion. I’ve had some meta dark teams as well but always preferred the versatility I got with ice. Just need a great sword vision card with curse resist and an esper and I’ll be solid

If grabbing Jeume cleared you out, you would've had several months now to grab another coupls of units? She came out beginning of April, we average ~20-25k free vis a month, and potentially more depending on Arena and Event placements. For comparison, my F2P account got Jeume (pity), then Gilgamesh (25k), then Resnick (12k), then Shrek (free tickets) and is back up to nearly 30k. Cards Pulled were both FF7 Cloud VCs, Orochi, and Chariot. I had a bit of luck on a couple banners, but it doesn't really make sense to have nothing but Jeume unless you're just not actively playing the game.

@@JB79 I quit during AshKmont release and just got back and oh boy most units are useless now.

@@chesster423ag, ok, makes sense then - I guess there wasn’t a ton in the permanent pool to choose from then for a returning player reward?

@@JB79 Yeah the comeback banners I received were Jeume and Dark Siren as latest permanent pool. I'm trying to play again to experience 5v5 pvp since I wanted it for so long.

Evasion is not viable vs the builds I'm showcasing in the video; especially Mont and Seifer who cannot build the same level of Evasion as a pure evasion unit. Picking on teams in arena where you can see there build is a different story.

@@JB79 Then again, without alex rings on enemy side, it doesn't matter, Seifer got enough evasion to dodge barrier break LB of Shrek, Lucio she can't hit even with her high accuracy attack, Mont is bulky enough to take some hits here and there. And nowdays almost nobody using alex rings on def, cause most ppl attack with recent op heroes and you need to worry to counter them, not some evasion.

She just came out in JP, a few more weeks and we can start accruing shards for her, takes awhile though

Tough meta as a come back player! Hopefully you have at least some of the pieces I show in the video, if not, don't worry there is plenty coming that can handle this meta such as Exia.

@@JB79 Got my WJeume to max rein before took a break and got Fina from the combeback selector, still missing a piece. Hopefully I can hit Exia!

@@vietlinhnguyen8387 Should be a solid team, make sure you're hitting Arena every week to get those Veritas of the Water Medals and work towards the accessory, she'll be nice in that team as well.

All the units seen in the video are at a high reincarnation level 70+, including Sephiroth and Shrek who are maxxed. The exceptions are the support units who are between 0-15, and Lilyth who I have at 25.

Glad it was helpful!

The Battle music Medley is from the Distant Worlds live orchestral recordings, there are quite a number of them now, but this one is from 'The Journey of 100' edition, highly recommend checking them out.

Glad you enjoyed it!

You're welcome - enjoy!

I had a long time off from making them

Noted! As i watched it back I think I couldve done a better job explaining why i made the build choices I did in terms of VCs and equipment - it goes back to what is talked about in the initial slides, but there is a little bit of a disconnect there. Will work on that for the next one!

Thanks for sharing!

I use a wide variety of units here, I think at least 1-2 of the teams I showcase should be accessible to just about anyone in the player base who actively plays whether they spend or not. Your overall point though is well taken and I agree with you, the game is too expensive right now for the rapid release schedule they're implementing.

Thanks! 😁

Glad you enjoyed it

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much for this; you didnt have to, but I really do appreciate it. Glad this was helpful for you.

Ramada has low key been an excellent unit, not quite on Seph/Shrek level, but she's not far off, she's pretty well rounded.

Sometimes that's what you have to do depending on the competition, or if you have folks not tending to their team, hopefully this video gives people more ideas that they don't have to just throw their hands up at a difficult meta.

Absolutely, Summer Resnick is a game changing unit right now, I tried to show that there are at least other options that can be competitive though which was the ultimate goal.

Digging back into units prior to the 4th anniversary is very difficult to do at the moment; so I did focus on more recent units for the most part since they will be the most competitive. Hopefully for 5th anniversary the Dev's do something to make the older units a bit more viable.

@@JB79 that definitely makes sense. honestly, as much as I like a lot of the colorful cast of characters we have in this game, it's mostly about working with what you have til something else pulls. And that's fine. I am 100% looking forward to potential upgrades or retrains and I hope the devs give a lot of our original characters a new lease on life! Just saw Adelnard's new drip in part of the story and i'm hoping this means he gets a UR upgrade like Ramada did. Nitor Lad has earned it.

I love the Battle Medley, I agree its very nostalgic, it is part of the Distant Worlds orchestral recordings, highly recommended they're fantastic.

I have someone in a similar position to you in regards to resnick, they were on vacation and were unable to complete building her. Times are tough right now if you don't have her, but that's why I challenged myself in this video to not use her as much as I could, and you can see I was able to still have some successful bouts; so it is still possible.

I made a new account while s resnick and shrek was up and got all the vc like summer and orochi and not sure but it seems to be performing better lol coz I got gilg from newbie selector and his shards from previous 26mil events. Im not sure which one should I keep 😆

Thanks dude, glad to have you here as always.

@@JB79 shoutout to the shrek tmr! Testing it tonight 🙌

It's been nice to see Greatsword have a bit of a resurgence after falling out of favor, try working in Lightning Astrius TMR for the Immob/Berserk resist if you have it.

Glad this was helpful!

It's because Summer Resnick is what the meta revolves around, she is actually the best unit on the field right now in my opinion - the triple DPS can win, but the problem is Resnick takes away their follow up damage and their curse, the team becomes less of an issue. If you don't have Resnick, then I can see the triple dps team being much more of a problem, but still winnable.

Bowtie is used for two different reasons - 1) to restrict movement - lowering the movement of the unit can sometimes allow you to get off an additional buff, or to stay out of range of the enemy in the early turns OR 2) to create hate on a unit - hate can be used to alter your own buffing sequence and change the directions the unit go to buff as they will always go to the target with hate if available, hate will also effect how the enemy will path across the map which can be very important

​@@JB79got it! Thanks again.

Thanks, will do!

I Hope so! Give some of those teams a try and let me know how you do!

It's been one of my most fun teams to play because Lilyth has always been a favorite character of mine

Glad you like them! I will make more in the future!

You'll notice that the majority of the teams I take are physical in nature, so that Resnick can't snowball the fight against me with her constant magic barriers

I think an important takeaway too is that a win is a win, and i did try to showcase some battles where the margins were slim, or where I received bad RNG but still was able to overcome, even if it was by a hair.

@@JB79 Agreed!

Thanks for being here!

The fine tuning is the fun part, at least for me! Hearing you were inspired by the video is the highest praise. Thanks for watching!

I'm glad it was helpful, thank you for watching!

Greatsword+Warrior, definitely. Seifer has been probably one of the most impactful pulls I've had since coming back to the game.

GS + Support 🥰

Spear and mono wind but there was a lot of good teams very well done cheers, JB

mono spear and mono lightning