[Lost Ark | NAW] Fortunespire Floor 50 Clear - Bard - 1580 ilvl

Bard is one of my only two characters, the other one being Artist at 1540, with no DPS option, I was forced to do Fortunespire on a DPS Bard, the build itself is relatively cheap, swift/crit gear doesn't cost a lot and cobbled together a crappy 5x3 build from it. Accessories were pretty low quality, went with 50/50 split on swift/crit and 6pc Hallu. The build is not even remotely close to optimal, but fortunately Fortunespire isn't a tight DPS check, low DPS just means the floor is prolonged and you have to do more mechs, which can be learned.
49 was the real final boss.
Phases 1 and 2 were honestly quite ugly, misclicked Prelude during phase 2 as well and wasted a timestop due to lack of counter.
But it doesn't really matter, Floor 50 overall is stupidly easy. Floor 49 was the real final boss, took me over an hour and a half.

[@embrcelica]

This game progressable with only two characters? I quit about half a year ago because I was under the impression I had to maintain like 6 characters.

[@GaleStream]

I personally hated that sentiment. My personal belief is too many people bought into streamers telling them to maintain a wide roster or fall behind, ignoring the fact that they're streamers who play this game like it's their job.
With two characters, I earn less gold, but I also don't really need it, I spend way less than most players since I have to hone and push less. I am swimming in an endless supply of shards, have functionally infinite pheons, all the silver I could need, and the biggest roadblock are just honing mats, which is a much better issue than just running out of shards/gold.
Never had any problems keeping up to content. I am deliberately not pushing to 1600 for Akkan hard though, the return-on-value isn't worth it to me, would rather get my Artist to 1580 too, instead, and save for Aeromancer, which I plan to add into my roster as my third and final char.

[@embrcelica]

@@GaleStream Yeah that definitely seems like a healthy mentality to have. Had I known that sooner maybe I would have stuck with the game, although it doesn't seem like the greatest time to be getting back to the game right now either.
Will you be playing Trails into Reverie by the way?

[@GaleStream]

@KyleEum I waited almost a decade for Reverie, so you bet.
I am currently working on a large scale Falcom video project for this channel atm, however, and it is swallowing my free time whole. So I imagine I'll be a few months late to play Reverie.
I will get there though!

[@embrcelica]

@@GaleStream Awesome, looking forward to it all.

[@pssa3215]

lol i play this game with 1 character or 2 if there is an express ongoing without issues. Don't listen to all those bozos saying alts are mandatory. They aren't.

[@Priestermius]

And im atm at stage 49 sadly without DPS build for my bard and im about go lose my sanity. IDK why you get so fucked if you go in with a supporter.

[@GaleStream]

49 is the true final boss for sure.
Even on the scuffed DPS build I had to do the fight for over 2 - 3 hours before the clear, just because Bard takes extra long to clear than a DPS even if built that way.
Essentially came down to constantly looking out for the four clones trying to punch you and prioritizing dodging that, and in Phase 2 looking out for the aerial punch from the main boss, as well as clearing both wipe mechs for each phase. Phase 1 just needs to move far, phase 2 just timestop.

[@Priestermius]

@@GaleStream I did it with my suport build and betraly set activ was pritty funny i could spam my 3 heals sometimes 2 times and ignore all :D AND finally i got Floor 50 also done FUCK yes :D took only 3 hours

[@GaleStream]

@@Priestermius Congrats! Enjoy that GSP.